JOURNAL
OF THE
House of Representatives
OF THE
STATE OF GEORGIA
AT THE
REGULAR SESSION
OF THE
GENERAL ASSEMBLY
At Atlanta, Wednesday, June 28, 1922
1922 BYRD PRINTING CO., STATE PRINTERS
ATLANTA, GA.

JOURNAL

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

WEDNESDAY, JuNE 28, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to law this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, Hon. W. Cecil Neill of Muscogee, and opened with prayer by the Rev. J. Sprole Lyons of Atlanta.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch

Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel ,Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of \Vebster Clifton Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel, of Troup Davis of Floyd

Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson J)ixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant

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Gresham

Lankford of Toombs Riley

Griffin

Lewis

Robinson

Griffith

Logan

Russell

Greene

Luke

Rutherford

Grovenstein

McClelland

Salmon

Guess

McClure

Sapp

Gunnels

McDonald of Mitchell Shettlesworth

Haddock

McDonald of

Sibley

Hamilton

Richmond Singletary

Harris

McGarity

Smiley

Hatcher of Burke

Macintyre

Smith of Bryan

.Hatcher of Muscogee McMichael

Smith of Carroll

Hawkins

Maddox

Smith of Haralson

Henderson

Malone

Smith of Meriwether

Herring

Mann

Steele

Hillhouse

Manning

Stone

Hines of Decatur

Mason

Stovall

Hines of Sumter

Mayo

Strickland

Hodges

Miles

Sumner of Johnson

Holland

Mixon

Sumner of Wheeler

Holloway

Moore of Appling

Swift

Horne

Moore of Fulton

Swindle

Houser

Moye

Tatum

Houston

Mundy

Thompson of Coweta

Howard of Forsyth Neal of Union

Thompson of Dodge

Howard of Screven Nichols

Trippe

Hufstetler

Owen

Turner

Hullender

Parks

Tyson

Hunter

Parrish

Valentino

Hyman

Patten

Van Landingham

Jackson

Penland

VanZant

Jones of Coweta

Perkins

Voeelle

Jones of Thomas

Perryman

Walker

Jones of Walker

Peterson

Wall

Johnson of Bartow Phillips of Jasper

Watkins

Johnson of

Phillips of Telfair Way

Chattahoochee Pickren

Webb

Johnson of Pickens Pi~cher

\Veston

Keith

Price

Whitley

Kennedy

Pruett

Whitaker of Lowndes

King of Jefferson

Quincey

Whltaker of Rockdale

King of Wilcox

Ramsey

Whitworth

Kittrell

Reagan

Williams of Harris

Knight

Reville

Williams of Miller

Langford of Hall

Ricketson

Williams of Walton

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Wimberly Winship Wood

Woodard Worthy Wyatt

Wynne Mr. Speaker

The follow.ing message was received from the Senate through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:
Mr. Speaker:
I am directed by the Senate to inform the House of Representatives that the Senate has met in regular session and is ready for the transaction of business.
The following resolution was read and adopted: By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Resolution No. 112. Resolved, by the House of Representatives, that the Clerk of the House notify the Senate that the House of Representatives is now in regular session and ready for the transaction of business.
The folloWing resolution of the House was read and adopted:
By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Resolution No. 113. Be it resolved by the House, the Senate concurring, that a committee consisting of three from the House and two from the Senate be appointed to notify the Governor that the

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General Assembly is now in regular session ready for the transaction of business and for the reception of such messages and communications as His Excellency, The Governor, may see proper to make.

The Speaker appointed the following members on
. the part of the House: Messrs. M:undv of Polk'
Ennis of Baldwin, and Adams of Newton.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:
By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-

House Resolution No. 114. TVhereas, some of the members of the House have passed to the Great Beyond since our last session, and TVhereas, it is fit and proper 'that the House should take some proper action in reference to the memory of such deceased members,

Now therefore be it resolved by the House that the speaker do appoint a committee of three members to draft proper resolutions and recommend to the House such action as may be deemed proper in the premises.

The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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klr. Speaker:

The Senate has adopted the following resolution of the Senate to-wit:

A resolution providing for a joint committee of two from the Senate and three from the House of Representatives to wait upon His Excellency, the Governor, and inform him that the General Assembly has convened in regular session and is ready for the transaction of business.

The committee on part of the Senate under the above resolution are Messrs. Nix of 51st, Jones of 37th.

The following resolution of the Senate was read and concurred in:
By Mr. Nix of the 51st-
A resolution providing for a joint committee of two from the Senate and three from the House of Representatives to wait upon His Excellency, the Governor, and inform him that the General Assembly has convened in regular session and is ready for the transaction of business.
The committee on the part of the House under the above resolution was as follows: Messrs. Mundy of Polk, Ennis of Baldwin, and Adams of Newton.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

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By Mr. Webb of Lowndes-

House Resolution No. 115. Whereas. Hon G. A. Whitaker, a member of this House, representative from the County of Lowndes, has had to undergo a surgical operation, which prevents his attendance upon this body at this time; Therefore, be it resolved, by the House of Representatives, now assembled, that we sympathize with Representative whitaker in his illness, and trust that in the Providence of God he Will, shortly be fully restored to health, and enabled to take his accustomed place with us.

Be it further resolved, That leave of absence is hereby granted to Representative Whitaker during the time he may be detained on account of said operation and illness.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-

House Resolution No. 116. Resolved by the House, the Senate concurring, that the General Assembly convene in joint session on Thursday, June 29th, 1922, at eleven o'clock A. M., to receive such communication as the Governor may have to make.

The following resolution of the House was read: By Mr. McMichael of Marion-

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House Resolution No.117. A resolution relative to the Majority and Minority Reports of committee investigating the Highway Department.

By unanimous consent the above resolution was tabled.

By unanimous consent 300 copies of the above reso-

lution and the Minority and Majority Reports of the

Investigating Committee of the State Highway Com-

mission were ordered to be printed.



The committee appointed to notify His Excellency, the Governor, that the General Assembly had convened and was ready for the transaction of business reported that the Governor had been so notified.

The following message from His Excellency, the Governor, was read:
June 29, 1922. Ron. Cecil Neill, Speaker, House of Representatives, Capitol.

My dear Mr. Speaker:

I beg to hand you herewith certified copi.es of election returns for Representatives from the counties

JouRNAL OF THE HousE, of Fannin, Worth, Wilcox, and. Whitfield, as traumitted to me by the Secretary of State.
Very respectfully,
THOS. W. HARDWICK,
Governor.
March 3rd, 1922.
Hon. Thos. W. Hardwick, Governor,
State Capitol.
Dear Sir: I have the honor to report to you the results of an
election held in Wilcox County, Georgia, March 1st, 1922, for the purpose of electing a representative in the Georgia Legislature to fill the unexpired term of Ron. J. R. Monroe, decea~ed. Following is the result thereof:
R. 0. Holton received 368 votes.
John N. King received 572 votes.
Respectfully, S. G. McLendon,
Secretary of State.

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March 27th, 1922.

Hon. Thos. W. Hardwick, Governor,

State Capitol.

Dear Sir:

I have the honor to report to you the results of an election held in and for the County of Whitfield, State of Georgia, March 24th, 1922, for the purpose of electing a representative from said county to fill the unexpired term of ~. A. Bradford, deceased. Following is the result thereof:

Dennis Barret received 614 votes.

W. ~L Sapp received 786 votes (elected).

Respectfully,

S. G. McLENDON,

Secretary of State.

June 5th, 1922.
Hon. Thos. W. Hardwick, Governor,
State Capitol. Dear Sir:
I have the honor to report to you and hereby certify that an election was held in Worth County,

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Georgia, May 31st, 1922, for the purpose of electing two (2) members of the General Assembly in and for said county, to fill the unexpired terms of G. R~ Nottingham, resigned, and Hon. Mark Tison, deceased. Following is the result thereof:

W. 0. Bozeman, received 954 votes (elected).

C. W. Hillhouse received 823 votes (elected).

W. S. Hufstetler received 460 votes.

R. T. Sizemore received 328 votes.

0. M. Thomason received 445 votes.

Respectfully,

S. G~ McLENDON,

Secretary of State.

June 20th, 1922.

Hon. Thos. W. Hardwick, Governor,

State Capitol. Dear Sir:

I have the honor to report to you and hereby certify that an election. was held in Fannin County, Georgia, June 14th, 1922, for the purpose of electing

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a representative in and for said county, to fill the unexpired term of Ben S. West, resigned. Following is the result thereof:

Blaine VanZant received 845 votes (elected).

J. B. Chastain received 829 votes.

Respectfully,

S. G. McLENDON,

Secretary of State.

The following members-elect came forward to the Clerk's desk and took the oath of office, the oath being administered by the Hon. Alexander W. Stephens, Associate Justice of the Court of Appeals:
Mr. W. M. Sapp of Whitfield.
'Mr. John N. King of Wilcox.
Mr. W. 0. Bozeman of Worth.
Mr. C. W. Hillhouse of Worth.
Mr. Blaine VanZant of Fannin.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:
By Mr. Dykes of DoolyHouse Resolution No. 118. Whereas, Providence

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in its divine wisdom has, since we last assembled, called from our hall our honored and loved Chaplain, Rev. H. J. Ellis, and

Whereas, he was held in affectionate regard by all the members of the House, each and every one of whom miss him and deplore his untimely taking off;

Therefote, Be it resolved by the House of Representatives that the sincere sympathy of its members and officers be extended his bereaved family and a copy of this Resolution be by the Clerk furnished them.

Be it Further Resolved that the Speaker of the House be authorized to name a successor to our late esteemed and lamented Chaplain.
Under the authority of the above resolution the Speaker appointed the Rev. John H. Little of Fulton County, a member of the North Georgia Methodist Conference, as Chaplain of the House of Representatives.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

Ry Mr. Mundy of Polk-

House Resolution No. 119. Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that a committee consisting of three from the House

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and two from the Senate be appointed to meet His Excellency, the Governor, at 11 o'clock, Thursday, June 29th, 1922, and escort him to the House of Representatives for the purpose of delivering his annual message to the General Assembly.
The Speaker appointed the following committee on the part of the House under the above resolution: Messrs. Carswell of Wilkinson, Corbitt of Atkinson, and Langford of Hall.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Guess of Dekalb-
House Resolution No. 126. A resolution providing for the emloyees of the House of Representativ.es.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has concurred in the following resolution of the House to-wit:
Resolved that the General Assembly convene in Joint Session on Thursday, June 29th, 1922, at 11 o'clock, to receive such communication as the Governor may have to make.

By unanimous consent the following bills and reso-

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lutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Perryman of Talbot-

House Bill No. 551. A bill to regulate certain practices before the Prison Commission and the Governor in clemency cases, and for other purposes.

Referred to Committee on Penitentiary.

By Mr. King of Wilcox-

House Bill No. 552. A bill vesting in the Railroad Commission authority to regulate the operation of Motor Vehicles used in the transportation of passengers, freight, etc.

Referred to Committee on Railroads.

By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of Fulton-

House Bill No. 553. A bill to provide for Temperance day in the public schools, and for other purposes.

Referred to Committee on Temperance. By Messrs. Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-

House Bill No. 554. A bill to authorize and empower the Trustees of the Georgia School of Technology to charge and collect reasonable tuition.

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Referred to Committee on University of Georgia and its Branches.

By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson:

House Bill No. 1555. A bill to amend Article 8, Section 4, paragraph 1 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.

Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Messrs. Bobo and Ficklen of Wilkes-

House Bill No. 556. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Washington, Georgia, etc.

Referred to Committee on Municipal Governm~nt.
By Messrs. Bobo and Ficklen of WilkesHouse Bill No. 557. A bill to provide that the li~
of mortgages on crops given to secure the payment of debts, etc., shall be good from the date of execution.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
By Mr. Gu,ess of Dekalb-
House Bill No. 558. A bill concerning and regu- . lating the guardianship of children, etc.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

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By Messrs. Boatwright and Brown of Emanuel-

House Bill No. 559. A bill to change the terms of the city court of Swainsboro and for other purposes.

Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Haddock of Early-

House Bill No. 560. A bill to amend Sec. 1225 of the Code as amended by Act approved Aug. 14, 1915, relative to counties of certain populations.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
By Mr. DuBose of Clark-

House Bill No. 561. A bill to amend an Act enti-
tled ''An Act to create a department of Insurance,
and for other purposes.''

Referred to Committee on Insurance. By Mr. Foy of Taylor-

House Bill No. 562. A bill to repeal an Act to prevent the shipment of tick infested cattle in the state of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

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By Mr. Cowart of Calhoun-

House Bill No. 563. A bill to change the county site for the county of Calhoun from Morgan to Arlington, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on County and County Matters.

By Mr. Perkins of Muscogee-

House Bill No. 564. A bill to provide for the electrocution of persons sentenced to punishment o~ death, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Herring of Schley-
House Bill No. 565. A bill to provide for the terms of opening and closing polls in certain counties of the state in school bond elections and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections.

By Mr. Beck of Carroll-

House Resolution No. 120. A resolution requesting the State Highway Commission to submit a re-

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port to the House of Representatives relative to State and National roads in each county.

Lie on table one day.

By Mr. Moye of Randolph-
House Resolution No. 121. A resolution memoralizing Congress for the repeal of the Bankruptcy Law.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.
By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-

House Resolution No. 122. A resolution relative to the payment of Confederate pensions and for other purposes.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
By Messrs. Hunter of Chatham and Parks of Terrell-
House Resoluti-on No. 124. A resolution relative to expenses incurred by Committee considering changes in tax system.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
By Messrs. Ricketson of Warren and Stovall of McDuffie-

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House Resolution No. 125. A resolution to pay pensions of Christopher Shelton in Warren County, and for other purposes.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

The following resolution of the House was read for the nrst time:

By Mr. McMichael of Marion-

House Resolution No.123. A resolution relative to the State Highway Commission spending money on a rock quarry in Elbert County.

Mr. McMichael of Marion moved that the above resolution be referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to be reported on not later than July 6th, and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Vocelle of Camden moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The following invitation was read and accepted:
Atlanta, Ga., June 24, 1922.
Speaker and Members of the House of Representatives,
State Capitol,

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Atlanta, Georgia.

Gentlemen:

The Georgia State Sheriff's Association extends a cordial invitation to you and each of you to attend an 'old fashioned' barbecue to be given at Lakewood Park at 1 o'clock on June 28th next.

We feel that on this auspicious occasion this Barbecue and this Association could not be more highly honored than by having you present.

Very respectfully yours,

0. B. JORMAN,

President.

H. G. BRADLEY,

Secretary.

The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

THURSDAY, JUNE 29, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened wi'th prayer by the Chaplain.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collier Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Dads of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis E\ans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee llawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

:Mayo

Houser

~Iiles

Houston

)lixon

Howard of Forsyth )loore of Appling

Howard of Screven ::\Ioore of Fulton

Hufstetler

Moye

Hullender

)Iundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of VValker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of VVilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

McClelland

Riley

McClure

Robinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

:McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

McGarity

Sapp

)laclntyre

Shettlesworth

McMichael

Sibley

Maddox

Singletary

Malone

Smiley

Mann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of \Vheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall \Vatkins \Vay Webb Weston Whitiey Whitaker of Lowndes Wltitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris \Villiams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy VVyatt VVynne )lr. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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By unanimous consent House Bill No. 327 was recommitted to the Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.

By unanimous consent House Bill No. 203 and House Bill No. 204 were recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
By unanimous consent the following report of the Joint Committee on Bills to Establish Board of Regents for University of Georgia and its Branches was submitted and read.

To the Senate and House of Representatives:

The joint committee appointed under Senate Resolution No. 44 to investigate and report on measures pending in both branches of the General Assembly relating to the creation of a Board of Regents for the University of Georgia and its branches, as well as the eleemosynary institutions of the State, submit the following as their report:

This committee has been called together twice between sessions, and has had assembled for its study the laws of various states having laws similar to those now proposed for this state. A study has also been made of the higher institutions of learning in this State, with a view of recommending corrective measures as needed. In addition, considerable information has been obtained from those interested in education in Georgia.

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This committee has deemed it advisable to restrict its efforts to those institutions of the State constituting the University and its br~nches, including every institution that under the laws of this State is designated as a department of the University, includ-
ing the twelve A. & M. Schools. vVe believe that the
government of the other institutions of the State, including the eleemosynary and penal institutions, if changes are needed, should not be placed under that Board whose duties relate entirely to matters of higher education.
We conclude that the system of higher education in Georgia has grown up without the proper unity or co-ordination. The Constitutional limitation as to appropriations for this class of education has made it advisable or necessary to create in various localities, as branches of the University, such schools as normal schools and even district agricultural schools, all of which exist with little, if any, unity or central direction. We have reached the conclusion that because of the lack of unity and co-ordination the Legislature of this State is under a constantly increasing pressure from year to year either to make all appropriations the same for each institution of a particular class, independent of its particular needs, or else to favor unduly one institution over another because of political influence and prestige on the part of those who have charge of such institutions. One result of this is that there has grown up more or less friction between the friends of education in this State. An-

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other result is th~t there is an increasing reluctance on the part of well qualified and self-respecting educators to assume responsibility for the State's educational institutions.

\Ve believe that there should be no cause of conflict between the branches of the State's University. We are thoroughly convinced also that there should be no -conflict or cause of conflict between the higher institutioi1s of learning on the one hand, and the schools of the State under the jurisdiction of the State Board of Education on the other. We are convinced that the prosperity of the public schools is more largely dependent upon the welfare of the institutions of higher learning than is currently supposed.

\Ve d.esire to say that our recommendations, if enacted into laws, would only serve as a first step in the direction of unifying and co-ordinating the institutions of the State.
\Ve recommend that the following laws be enacted:

1. That there be established a Board of Control to consist of five (5) members to be appointed by the Governor with the advice and consent of the Senate, and whose compensation shall be the same as that of members of the General Assembly and actual expenses, in addition, and whose terms of office shall be for a period of 6 years, with over-lapping terms.

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That this Board of Control shall have authority over the Trustees of the University of Georgia and its every department, with power to appoint and with power to remove for cause. The number of Trustees for the University proper and each of its branches shall be fixed in the discretion of the Board of Control at not less than five nor more than nine for any one institution.

The Board of Control shall make reports to the General Assembly at the beginning of each regular sessiOn.
2. That one-tenth of all the State's income shall be set apart annually and appropriated by law for the support -~nd maintenance of the University of Georgia and its branches and departments, which sum shall be apportioned by the Board of Control annually according to the requirements of said institutions.
Respectfully submitted,

Howell Cone, Chmn. Wm. W. Mundy, Sec. W. 0. Fleming E. W. Childs J. H. Evins Robert L. Moyer W. J. Macintyre.

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The following resolution of the House was read for the first time and ordered to lie on the table one day:

By Mr. Arnold of ClayHouse Resolution No. 127. A resolution requiring
certain information from the Department of Agriculture.

By unanimous consent the following report of the Joint Tax Committee was submitted and read:

We, the Joint Tax Committee of the House and Senate make the following report:

The Committee, after much inquiry and careful cuiisideration, is of the opinion, and so reports to the General Assembly, that an income tax as a substitute for the ad valorem tax, or in conjunction . with an ad valorem tax, would be inopportune, inexpedient and unsatisfactory, and would only result in added burdens to the people of the State.

The Committee is of the further opinion, and so recommends to the General Assembly, that any changes proposed at this time in the law on the subject of taxation should be to enact provisions for a reasonable classification of property for purposes of taxation, it being the belief of the committee that such a system would result in the voluntary dis-

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closure of large amounts of intangible property not now on the books for taxation.

Our construction of the Resolution under which we act is that we have nothing to do with the bill now pending looking to the repear of the present Tax Equalization law.

Carswell of Wilkinson, Chairman.
To the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House:

\Ve, the undersigned members of the Tax Committee appointed by Yirtue of a Joint Resolution approved August 13th, 1921, beg leave to submit the following minority report:
Under the present Constitution, it has been clearly demonstrated that it is impossible for the General Assembly to enact into law, a fair, just and equitable Tax bill. Invisible property escapes taxation, and the burdens of taxation fall most heavily upon that class of citizens and tax payers who are least able to bear the same. The tax payer with his home or little farm, and small dealers who can barely make a living are taxed far and beyond their ability to pay, while the real wealthy, and citizens with large incomes, escape taxation. With the demands on the State to support its schools, eleemosynary institutions, pensions, and its civiil establishments, and with the decreased value on property, a condi-

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tion confronts us that is almost critical. The people and property that now pay the taxes, can pay no more. They deserve and demand relief. State, county, school, and municipal taxes are too high for the present tax payer to carry the burden. A limited income tax with proper exemptions would reach a class of citizens who enjoy the benefits of government without contributing to its support. Our present system of taxation is the most perfect method of protecting the tax dodger that this class could desire, and they fight every effort made to p~r fect the laws that would give relief to those now carrying the unjust taxes imposed by the State. We, therefore, recommend

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1st. An income tax, not to exceed three per cent.

with proper exemptions.

2nd. That the Constitutional limit of five mills be reduced to four mills.

3rd. That an amendment restricting the county rate be earnestly considered.

4th. That a Committee composed of three tax experts, three members of the House, two from the Senate, and ten others representing the different interests, agricultural and otherwise, be appointed by the Governor to draw a bill or bills to be submitted to the next General Assembly covering the question of taxation in ,Georgia.

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5th. That if the present system of taxation continues, arid the present class must pay the same, that all appropriations be reduced twenty-five per cent, and that all salaries of State Officials be reduced likewise.

G. H. Carswell J. W. Culpepper 0. A. Nix A. G. Dudley G. W. Lansford.

The Speaker made the following committee assignments:

Mr. Bozeman of Worth-

Military Affairs Municipal Corporations Special Judiciary University of Georgia and its Branches.

Mr. Hillhouse of Worth-
Appropriations and Ways and Memts Education General Agriculture No. 2 Pensions.

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Mr. King of Wilcox-

Banks and Banking
Education General Agriculture No. 1 Railroads

Mr. Sapp of Whitfield-

Education General Judiciary No. 2 Georgia State Sanitarium Pensions

Mr. VanZant of Fannin-

Counties and County Matters General Agriculture No. 2 Georgia State Sanitarium Penitentiary

r.,.

Mr. Kittrell of Laurens was appointed on the Com-

mittee of Amendments to the Constitution in place of

Mr. Nottingham of Worth, resigned.

The speaker appointed the following committee to
draft resolutions on deceased members: Messrs. Da-
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vis of Oglethorpe, :Malone of Bibb, and Beckham of Dougherty.

The following message was received'rom the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Ji r. Speaker:
The Senate has read and adopted the following resolution of the Senate, to-wit:

A resolution extending an invitation to Senator Tomas E. Watson to address the General Assembly in joint session.

The following resolution of the Senate was read :mrl concurred in:
By :Messrs. Boykin of the 29th, Walker of the 18th, and Jackson of the 21st-

A resolution inviting Hon. Thomas E. Watson to address the Georgia Legislature.

The hour of 11 o'clock A. M. having arrived, the Senate appeared upon the floor of the House, and the joint session, called for the purpose of hearing the address of His Excellency, the Governor, Hon. Thomas \V. Hardwick, was called to order by the President of the Senate.
By order of the President, the resolution calling

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for the joint session of the General Assembly was read by the Secretary of the Senate.

The President appointed the following committee to wait upon His Excellency, the Governor: Messrs. G:olucke of the 19th, :Manson of the 35th, Thomas of the 3rd, Bowden of Ware, Dixon of Jenkins, and Penland of Gilmer.

His Excellency the Governor, Thomas W. Hardwick, delivered the following address:

TO THE GEN'ERAL ASSEMBLY OF GEORGIA:

In obedience to the Constitutional mandate, I again appear before you "to give information on the State of the Commonwealth" and to recommend for your consideration such measures as may seem necessary or expedient.

It is my purpose in this message to deal only with matters of the highest and most general importance consequently, I shall, from time to time, transmit in writing for your consideration other messages dealing with other matters, as the session progresses and as these matters may be properly brought to your attention.
FISCAL AFFAIRS.

I beg to invite your attention, first of all, to the fiscal affairs of our State. They are of the utmost im-

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portance and demand your :first and most careful attention.

Taken as a whole, the State has undergone, and is undergoing, one of the periods of most profound depression in its entire history, and the condition of its people of all classes and of all sections is such as to imperatively demand of us the application of the soundest principles to our fiscal affairs a?-d the practice of rigid economy and drastic retrenchment in the expenditure of public money, to the end that the credit of the State may be preserved, the efficiency of its government may remain unimpaired, and at the same time, is possible, the tax burdens of its people may be lessened.
When this General Assembly began its work on the fourth Wednesday of June of last year, and I became your Governor on the Saturday following, we were confronted by a most difficult and embarrassing situation. According to the last Annual Message of Governor Dorsey, of date June 25, 1921, he estimated the deficit, or the amount not on hand necessary to complete the payment of "undrawn balances," as of date January 1, 1921, to be $3,186,687.85. In my message to you of date June 26th, 192;1, I estimated that the deficit would reach the total :figure of $3,547,421.38 by the end of the year 1921 unless some relief was afforded. Both of these estimates were slightly in excess of the real :figures, for the reason that the State Tax Commissioner had estimated that there

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would be a fall in property values of $200,000,000 in 1921 below 1920, which meant the loss of $1,000,000 in revenue, when figured at ,the constitutional rate of 5 mills. Later in the year it developed that the shrinkage in values was only about $80,000,000, instead of $200,000,000, as had b~en estimated, consequently the loss in revenues was only about $400,000, instead of $1,000,000, as estimated in the figures given by Governor Dorsey and myself. It is thus apparent that the real deficit was substantially $2,500,000, on January 1, 1921, and but for the measures we adopted to prevent irt, would have reached the sum of practically $3,000,000 by December 31, 19m.

Last Summer we were confronted by this situation. It was not of our creation. Neither the present General Assembly nor the present Governor caused it or contributed to it, but the responsibility was upon us to meet it and to remedy it, if possible. Confronted by this situation, what courses were open to us~ The answer is simple. It was our duty ta reduce the appropriations for the year 1921 so far as the same were undrawn, or else increase the revenues for that year so as to strike a. balance and make the one equal to the other; or, to accomplish that result, partly by reducing appropriations already made and partly by increasing the revenues; or, if it should prove impossible, for reasons hereafter referred to, to accomplish this result in either of the above ways, then to raise the money in some other way so as to enable the treasury to meet the demand upon it, so as to save

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the credit of the State. It naturally suggested itself to you at first, as it did to me, that the best way to accomplish the result was to reduce the appropriaions for 1921, particularly in a time of hardship and depression. But it must be remembered that we were dealing with approprjations already made by previous legislatures, a great part of which had already been spent, and when we came to the effort to reduce the unspent part of those appropriations we found it was practically impossible to do so, because in almost every case, the rights of third persons had intervened, moral or contractual obligations entered into on the faith of the appropriations already made to school teachers, pensioners and other creditors of the State were so strong that we could not, without great injustice and great hardship, reduce the appropriations already expended in part, on the faith of which these engagements had been entered into.

Unable, for this reason, to make any considerable reduction in the. appropriations for 1921, the Legislature next endeavored to raise additional revenue for the year 1921, in order to meet these appropriations, but when you came to the consideration of this question, you found yourselves confornted by two great practical difficulties. First, the money was needed for the year 1921; two-thirds of that year had already passed and it was difficult, under the Constitutional limitations under which the Legislature operated, to materially increase the revenues in the short part of the year that was left; second,

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business conditions of the State were so bad generally that it was practically impossible to raise additional revenue for the year 1921 in any great amount, without working a hardship, if not confiscation, on such classes of business as in ordinary times might have been taxed in an emergency of this character.

Consequently, the General assembly was forced, in order to preserve the credit of the State and to pay the appropriations made by the preceding General Assembly, to provide for the discount of the rental of the "\Vestern & Atlantic railroad for a period of five years in the future. I unhesitatingly recommended that course to the Legislature as a last and desperate remedy for a situation which it did not create and which I did not create, but which we found confronting us and menacing us 'vhen we assumed the responsibility of office. No citizen of Georgia could have been more reluctant than I was to advise such a course. No man is more keenly aware than I am of the dangerous precedent it set, but it was a condition, not a theory, that confronted us, and it was absolutely indispensable to adopt some remedy to preserve the credit of the State and to save her obligations from dishonor. Yielding to that imperative necessity, the General Assembly passed this legislation with only a very few dissenting votes against it in either House.

After the adjournment of the General Assembly, the Constitutionality of this legislation was publicly

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assailed. So much doubt was cast upon its legality that it was impossible for me to discount theW. & A. rentals at any reasonable rate of interest, in a time of financial unrest and depression, without having that question finally settled by our Supreme Court. Consequently, I brought Mandamus Proceedings in the Sueprior Court of Fulton County to compel the Comptroller General to sign these warrants, upon his refusal to do so. The question thus raised was finally adjudicated on the 7th day of December, 1921, by the Supreme Court of Georgia, in the ca-se of Wright, Comptroller vs. Hardwick, Governor, in favor of the Constitutionality of theW. & A. Rental Funding Act. After the decision was rendered and after due advertisement thereof, and competitive bidding therefor, the rental above referred to was sold to the Citizens & Couthern Bank, of this State, and the National Park Bank, of New York City, at a discount rate of 5.95%, netting $2,297,586.21 to the State, after the discount had been deducted from the principal sum of 2,700,000, which is the aggregate of five years' rental on the W. & A. Railroad, at $540,000 per annum.

The proceeds of the rental were used entirely for two purposes. First, the larger part of the same, $1,960,408, for the payment of all past due pensions to the Confederate veterans in the discharge of all arrears due them, of every class, up to and including December 31, 1921. Second, the remainder of same, $337,178.21, was appropriated to the payment of teachers in the common schools of the State, for

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arrears due them during the year 1921. As a necessary part of the fiscal policy of last year adopted by your body and recommended by myself, a tax of one cent per gallon, imposed at the source, was levied on all gasoline consumed in the State, it being the intention of the Legislature and myself that this tax should make up the loss in revenues occasioned by the discount of theW. & A. rental, for the purposes above recited. This tax will, I am confident, produce fully $800,000 per annum, fully 50% more than the W. & A. rental. The returns by quarters up to date are as follows:
From August 10, 1921, to October 1, 1921, (1 month and 20 days)------------$113,662.87
For quarter ending December 31, 192L_ 188,884.32 For quarter ending March 31, 1922______ 151,305.65

For period of 7 months and 20 days total sum 9f _______ _: __________$453,812.84
The quarters not embraced in the above figures are the summer quarters, in which the consumption of gas is largest.
I submit that this tax, borne in large part by those best able to stand it, is the most just and equitable tax that could be imposed in order to replace the W. & A. rentals, and that it more than accomplishes that purpose. By this fiscal policy, which was the only one that could be suggested by any thoughtful person in the Legislature, or out of it, we were enabled to "pull the ox out of the ditch" and to restore the finances of the State to a sound and stable basis.

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We come next to deal with the question of revenues and appropriations for the years 1922 and 1923. The total appropriations for these years were greatly reduced below the total of those made for the year 1921. The appropriations made for the year 1921 at the session of the General Assembly in 1919 totaled $9,845,000. The deficiency appropriations for 1921, authorized by law and made at the last session of the General Assembly, amounted to $1,141,884.61, making a grand total of appropriations for the year 1921 of $10,886,884.61, whereas the total appropriations made by you last Summer for the year 1922 amount to $9,452,317.15, a reduction in appropriations for 1922 under appropriations for 1921 of $1,434,567.37. This figure is within the revenues of the State and can be met and defrayed by them, unless at the present session deficiency appropriations should be passed by your body to destroy the balance and create a deficit. I am sure that you will heartily agree with me that that" is impossible and impracticable, unless additional revenue should be provided by you to meet such appropriations.
Because of the necessity for making this drastic cut in appropriations, your body was not able to deal as generously as you would liked, or as their merits justify, and in some cases demand, with many of the institutions of the State and many of the different objects for which appropriations were made, because you were unable to get a single inch away from the proposition, ll;PPlicable alike to sound finances and good, common sense, that income and outgo must be carefully and accurately balanced

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against each other. However worthy the appropria-

tion may be, it cannot and must not be made unless

we have the money to pay it with. ''Pay as you

go'' is the only safe motto for either an individual or

the State, and that the present Legislature for the

first time in many years has had the courage to

apply this doctrine to our State's affairs and to live

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up to it, should be, as I believe it is, a source of real

encouragement and of profound gratification to all

of the sensible people of this State. The application

of the doctrine ''Live within your means'' to the

affairs of either an individual or a government, is

never a pleasant operation; mutterings and growl-

ings, many of them low and deep, nearly always

result from it, but as certain as we live, it is the

only plan by which permanent safety and enduring happiness can come either to an indiviudal or to a

State. In obedience to this great principle of sound

business and of common sense, we have been com-

pelled, whatever our desires and wishes, to "fashion

our garment according to the cloth," to appropriate

whatever our revenues would pay, and no more; and

if the financial affairs of this State are to be placed

and kept on a sound and stable basis, this great

principle must be vigilantly adhered to in the

future, and you may rest assured that so long as I

am Governor of Georgia, it will be adhered to; and I

earnestly hope arrd sincerely believe that in the

effort to maintain it, I shall have your hearty co-

operation and your undivided support. No appro-

priation greater than can be paid by th.e revenues of

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the State should be made by you, or can be approved by me.
Let me next invite your attention to the condition of our budget at the present time. We owe on undrawn balances on 1921 appropriations the sum of $63,740.81. We have not failed to pay this amount because of any inability of the treasury to pay it, but because requisitions therefor have not yet been duly and properly presented to the Governor. In due course these undrawn balances will be paid on proper requisitions and warrants. We also owe certain State Depositories in Atlanta the. sum of $500,000 borrowed by the Governor on February 27, 1922, under authority of law, to supply casual deficiencies in revenue, and used to__pay 1921 common school appropriations. The interest up to September 9, 1922, on this loan will amount to $13,472, the rate of interest being 5%. This makes a total of $577,212.81 due on 1921 obligations. To meet these obligations, we have the following revenue from 1921 not yet collected.
Ad valorem taxes for 1921 uncollected on June 10, 1922_____________________$572,504,51
1919, 1920 and 1921 railroad taxes uncollected on June 10, 1922____________ 66,268.53

Total ------------------------$638,863.04
This amount, if collected, will over-pay our past due obligations by the sum of $61,6!50.23, and it is fair to assume that even in hard times like the pres-

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ent, we will collect at least enough past due revenue to pay these undrawn balances of 1921.
We come next to the budget for the year 1922. The appropriations, exclusive of automobile license taxes, appropriated to highway construction, made for 1922 total $9,438,845.15. In this connection, I submit to you a table marked Table A, from the Treasurer's office, showing these appropriations in detail, showing those of them already paid, and showing those that are not yet paid. We have so far collected of the revenues for 1922, from all sources
except ad valorem taxes, $1,248,049.03. ..t\. close and
accurate estimate of the amount of revenues for the year 1922 yet uncollected, from sources other than ad valorem taxes, shows a total of $3,784,140.13, making a total of revenue for the year 1922, from all sources except ad valorem taxes, of $5,032,189.16 (See statement in detail from Comptroller's office, marked Table B, hereto attached).
In addition to the above, it is estimated by the State Tax Commissioner (See Exhibit D) that the net revenue from ad valorem taxes of this year will be $4,600,000, consequently the total revenue, exclusive of license taxes appropriated to highway board, for the State for the year 1922 will be $9,632,189.15. This must be compared with the total appropriations of $9,452,317.52, and when so compared it will be seen that the revenues for the year will exceed its appropriations by a comparatively small sum of $179,872. This, I submit, is only a reasonable margin when the difficulty of collecting taxes up to the last dollar in times like these is considered.

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In this connection, I feel it my imperative duty to call your attention to the following language of the General Appropriation Act of August 15, 1921,

(Ad of 1921, Page 10, Sub-section C):
''For the support and maintenance of the Common or Public Schools of the State, Four Million Two Hundred and Fifty Thousand Dollars ($4,250,000) for each of the years 1922 and 1923, and should the revenue of the State exceed the sum of Eight Million Five Hundred Thousand Dollars ($8,500,000), then one-half of the excess of each year to be applied to said Common or Public Schools.''
As I said to you last year: ''I yield to no man in this State in my devotion to the Common Schools of this State; at a later and more happy period when readjustment comes, it is my earnest hope and mr confident belief that we will be able to further increase the efficiency of our common schools in this State. The education of the masses means much to me. I long to see the day when we can pay the Georgia school teacher a living wage, pay it in cash every month, without resorting. to discount processes. But until that day comes, until the State is provided with a revenue system that will meet its growing demands in this direction, it is useless, worse than useless, to make appropriations even for the common schools which the treasury cannot pay.'' One-half of the revenue of the State for 1922 will amount to $4,800,000, in round figures. This will

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involve an increased appropriation for the common schools of $550,000, over the sum fixed in the General Appropriation Act, if the second clause thereof is to remain in force. If we could collect every cent of taxes due the State from every possible source, we would not have one-third enough money to pay this additional amount to the common schools, consequently it seems to me to be an absolute necessity to repeal the concluding paragraph of the Section of the Appropriation Act to which I refer, unless the Legislature can provide, and can provide at once, t:b.e funds with which to meet this great increase. In concluding this discussion of our fiscal affairs, I cannot too strongly impress upon you the necessity for economy and retrenchment. The condition of our people in every walk of life and every section of the State demands it. Agriculture is practically prostrate; business languishes; commerce is halted; the people everywhere, in city, in town and in the rural sections, are forced to apply the most rigid economy to their personal affairs. Certainly they have the right to expect of their governments, both national and State, the appilcation of the same principle in the expenditure of public money.

RETREN"CHMENT AND ECONOMIES IN ADMINISTRATION.
I repeat my recommendation of last year regarding Bureaus, Boards, and Commissions, and urge upon the Legislature a thorough and careful examination into the affairs and operations of every department of our State government, of every

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Board, Bureau and Commission that exists by virtue of State law: or State authority, with a view to determine, first, whether such agency of the government performs any essential function for the State or not; if not, it ought to be abolished and the expense of its maintenance saved; second, even if such agency of the government performs a useful and necessary function, then its operations ought to be examined into with a view to determine what reduction can be made, in so critical a time as this, in the expense of such department or commission; and what economies can be effected in the administration of its affairs.
It is not my purpose to impair useful public service in any line of legitimate and proper governmental activity. I do not intend to be so understood either by the members of the General Assembly or by the public; but I insist in times like these that it is imperatively necessary that we abolish every useless place, purge the pay roll of every useless . official, and cut out extravagance and waste wherever we find it. I urge upon the Legislature, and especially upon the appropriation committees of the two houses, a careful and exhaustive examination into the matters herein suggested, with a view to carrying out the will of the people of this State, and of ridding the State and the treasury of all unnecessary encumbrances upon both.
In my opinion, the Department of Archives and History should be abolished. It performs no necessary function to the State and its records can be well kept in the State Library. If the work of in-

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dexing is to be completed, it can be just as wc;ll per-
formed there by a clerk at $1,500 per annum.
I unhesitatingly recommend the reduction of the
number of the Railroad Commissioners from five to
. three. The Railroad Commission has very little to
do with the fixing of railroad rates within the State, since recent federal statutes as construed by the Supreme Court of the United States have deprived it of that power. The federal statute in question is in plain derogation of the right of the States to control their local affairs, and so far as it confers upon the Interstate Commerce Commission the right to fix rates wholly within a state, it should be repealed. Until it is, however, there is no necessity for the present commission of five members on the theory that they are needed to perform any considerable amount of work in fixing railroad rates. Besides, it will be remembered this Commission for many years functioned with three members, and it was only after the conclusion of a political campaign that it was necessary to increase its number to carry out the policy of a new administration and to carry into eff~ct the will of the people of Georgia, as expressed at the ballot box in that campaign. No such situation now exists, and it seems to me, in a time like this, the people of Georgia can well dispense with the two railroad commissioners that were then added to that body and can well reduce its number from five to three, thus effecting a saving of $7,200 per annum. In this connection, it is worthy of note that thirty-eight of the States of the Union hav:e

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only three Railroad Commissioners. No Southern State, except Georgia, has more than three.
I recommend to the General Assembly of Georgia the repeal of the law providing for an attorney for the Highway Commission of Georgia. In my opinion, the duties performed by the attorney for the Highway Commission can be well attended to by the Attorney-General of the State, with the aid of the various county attorneys handling road matters; and thus a saving of the salary and expense of the legal department of the Highway Commission can be effected.
I repeat my statement to you of last year, to the effect that we are board-ridden, commission-ridden and trustee-ridden in this State. It can probably be said with truth that no one of these boards or commissions represents an activity that is wholly bad or for which some good things cannot be said. Yet, I think it can be said with even more truth that many of them represent activities more or less paternalistic, which are not really essential to the proper conduct of our State Government, and with which we can well dispense, especially in hard times like these.
As far back as June 25, 1919, Governor Dorsey, heading a board called the Budget Investigation Commission reported that Georgia was trustee-ridden. This Board pointed out that the University system alone had 277 trustees and it made the following recommendation:

"We are decidely of the opinion that it would be for the best interest of our higher institu-

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tions if a small board of control or State Board of Regents should replace the army of trustees now appointed largely by reason of political support. Either an ex-officio or a separate board of three to five, whose duty it should be to become familiar with the needs and operations of these higher institutions, present fully to the Legislature, to direet the purchase of supplies, give active supervision to the work generally, to so avoid the present rivalry and friction of the different boards, would be a great improvement oYer the present plan. The per diem and expenses now paid to these hundreds of trustees would pay for the services of a small board of regents that could become familiar with all the needs of our higher educational institutions and aid them effectively as well as help the Legislature to see accurately as to the appropriations needed each year."
This recommendation I heartily endorse and approve. Indeed, I am of the opinion that a board of regents for the entire higher educational system of our State might be well provided to take the place of the presen.t boards of trustees of the University of Georgia, and of all of its branches, and of every other institution of leaming supported by the State. In my judgment, economy in the administration of the affairs of these institutions, economy in the purchase of supplies needed by them, and a systematic correllation of the work of each one of them with the other, would be obtained by the adoption of such a

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plan, and as a result we would have a systematized, coherent and comprehensive educational system, beginning with the common schools and ending with the University and our various normal and technical schools.
I unhesitatingly urge opon you a careful consideration of this plan, not only in the interest of real economy, not only for the purpose of riding the State of a number of unnecessary office-holders, not only to relieve the Legislature of political importunities from these trustees, who annually come seeking money at your hands, but also to broaden and deepen and strengthen our educational system itself.
This step is not a new one in this country. Many of our more important and progressive States have adopted it. Not one that has ever adopted the regency system for education, in whole or in part, has ever been willing to abandon it or to return to the antiquated, disjointed and expensive system we maintain.
At the last session of the General Assembly a joint committee from the two houses was appointed . to consider this question. I understand that committee will report to you during the present Session, and I earnestly bespeak for its report that careful consideration and wise action to which the Importance of this subject entitles it.

AUDITING SYSTEM FOR THE STATE OF GEORGIA
I strongly urge upon you the establishment for

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the State of Georgia of a complete, modern and upto-date business system in the operation of its :fiscal affairs. I am anxious to apply to the business of our State the same sound business methods which are applied to the affairs of great corporations and large businesses, whenever they are successful, throughout the country. It must be understood that in making this recommendation, I have no intent to reflect, and do not in fact reflect, upon the integrity and ability, the high character and splendid services, of our distinguished Treasurer, the Hon. Wm. J. Speer, and of our distinguished ComptrollerGeneral, the Hon. Wm. A. Wright. Two better, purer and truer men never served Georgia at any period of her history, and if the State were searched from end to end, with the purpose of :finding faithful and efficient servants to :fill the places occupied by these gentlemen, it is not probable that the equal of either of them, in either efficiency or :fidelity, could be found. My association with them has been in every way pleasant, and to them I am indebted for many acts of personal courtesy, for strong and wise advice in the conduct of the State's affairs, and unfailing aid in the administration of those affairs. What I have to recommend in regard to these matters no more reflects upon them or upon the conduct of their officers than it does upon the present Governor or upon the conduct of his office. Nor is it my purpose to change the structural base of the State's :fiscal administration, except insofar as it be necessary to bring our present machinery up to date and to provide modern business methods and necessary

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safeguards for the conduct of the State's fiscal affairs.
In my opinion, the State of Georgia unnecessarily spends hundreds of thousand of dollars annuttlly, because of the lack of planning by departmental and institutional heads, because of poor appropriating methods, and because of an inadequate system of auditing collections and expenditures.
The present system has been continued without material change from the elate when appropriations were small and when the appropriating authorities were personally acquainted with almost all State officers and had first hand knowledge of practically all State acth'ities. As the State government has grown in size and complexity and as the amounts of money collected and spent every year have increased, the old system, which was sufficient in simpler days, has not been changed and extended to meet the new con(litions. The State's financial affairs are in theory centered largley in the operations of the office of the Governor, the Comptroller-General and the Treasurer, whereas, in p1actice most of them center in the offices of the large outside expending and collecting agencies, such as the State Sanitarium, the State Highway Department, and the Department of Agriculture. The only effective way to work the necessary reforms and to apply to our present system modern business methods, so that responsible central officers will again be able to exercise a controlling influence upon the collecting and spending of moneys, is to change the appropriating machinery of the Legislature, so as to force careful

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planning on the part of departmental and institutional heads, and to require that the appropriation acts shall be drawn in such form that no expenditures can be made unless authorized by the act and to provide that an auditing staff shall enforce the intent of the General Assembly. The work being done by the Comptroller-General, the additional auditing now done through the Governor's office under the provision of the last Appropriation Bill, providing that ''That the Governor shall require of the Superintendent or official having charge of the finances of any institution or department a monthly statement of all expenses, itemized and sworn to, before issuing any warrants," has been effective in making some saving and preventing some extravagance. It is to be noted, however, that the law does not give to the Governor, or to the Comptroller, or to any officer of the State any authority to pass upon the correctness or reasonableness of the !terns, or to reject any item because the same appears unnecessary or extravagant. Besides, a clerical force much larger than that of the Governor's office or the Comptroller's office would be required to exercise any such supervision; a central auditing staff is necessary. I urge and recommend the establishment of an auditing staff for the State, with a State Auditor and Accountant at its head. The expense of such an office, with all the necessary assistants, will not exceed the sum of $30,000 per annum; and government experts, who have carefully investigated the situation estimate that such an office would easily effect a saving of from two hundred to

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three hundred thousand dollars per annum, the amount of the saving depending upon the provisions of the law establishing the office, the promptness with which the work is begun, and the thoroughness with which it is done. As an offset to the expense, it is pointed out that perhaps $15,000 a year is now paid for the annual audit of a few institutions and departments; and when a State Department of Auditing is established these payments will be no longer necessary and can be saved. Consequently, the net expense to the State for the establishment of this department, will not exceed $15,000 per annum over the amount already spent in a desultory and haphazard manneJ.~ for auditing some departments and institutions of the State, and will, in my judgment, effect a saving in expenditure amounting to hundreds of thousands of dollars annually.
The first large expense to the State under the present fiscal system results from the failure of the departments and institutions to plan their work. In the reports made to me by expert investigators of several agencies examples are given of large expenditures made without any definite plan on the part of the responsible officers. To remed~, this condition, it is recommended that one of the duties of the State Auditor and Accountant shall be to secure both plans and estimates of cost, and these plans and estimates shall be reviewed by the Governor and then submitted to the General Assembly with his recommendation thereon.
The largest single source of loss, according to the investigation I have made, results from failure to

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audit expenses before payments are made. The futility of audits made at the e;nd of the year or at irregular times when there is no system of current control is perfectly apparent. After the money is sperit, it is impossible to take any effective action with regard to such matters as irregular attendance of employees, excessive salaries, high prices paid for supplies and equipment, or expenditures for goods or services which have not been received. The only way to prevent this kind of losses is to hold up payment until the expending officers can show that the services or goods are needed, that authority for the purchase has been granted, that money for the payment has been appropriated, that the goods or services have been received, and that the prices it is proposed to pay are reasonable.
In my judgment, the auditing of collections by the State agencies outside of the Capitol is even looser than the auditing of expenditures. The treasury is practically compelled to accept without question whatever money is turned over to it by many of the collecting agencies. It has no means whatever of knowing whether all the money due the State has been collected, whether all the amount colle~cted has been turned into the State treasury, or whether all measures have been taken to protect the State's interests.
It is known that in many cases the methods used by these collecting agencies are lax. Some of them admit that money which ought to be paid to the State is never collected. Few State agencies outside of the Treasury Department receive any inter-

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est on large deposits they make in the loeal banks. In some cases, departments and institutions collect and expend considerable sums without taking the trouble to report the facts to the State's central financial officers. This action on their part is sometime authorized by law, and is sometimes taken without express legal sanction. The Treasurer and Comptroller are largely helpless in the matter, and only in exceptional cases can the Governor take effective action.
The practice of making continuous statutory appropriatiOiis year after year without bi-ennial review by the General Assembly is a pernicious one, which encourages administrative officers not to plan their work and which leads to extravagance and loss. Most of the appropriations made in this manner are not so important or for such worthy causes that they should take precedence over others, and the review of every proposal should be made annually or biennially. Such a review, annually or bi-ennially, coupled with the turning into the State Treasury of every dollar collected by any State agency or received from outside sources (such as the Federal Government) is a prerequisite to any serious attempt to effect economies in the fiscal matters of this State.
The po\vers and duties that ought to be conferred upon the State Auditor and Accountant, would make this office one of the most important in the State government. Subject to the approval of the Governor, he would install in the various departments and institutions such forms and procedure as might be

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necessary to safeguard the collection and handling ofmoney, and take all proper steps to insure the proper use and protection of stores, equipment and other property. He would review currently all the financial transactions of the departments and institutions and if he found them in accordance with the law and regulations, approve them for payment.. Without such approval, it would be unlawful for any disbursing officer to pay any claim for goods or services. He would also assist the Governor and General Assembly, as required in securing estimates and plans for State agencies, in reviewing such estimates and plans, and in gathering data as to operating, efficiency, and costs. He would report to the Governor and General Assembly such facts and conditions as he might consider significant, and particularly all irregularities and excessive costs which ought to be prevented. In my judgment, the creation by the General Assembly of an auditing committee to review the report of the State auditor and accountant and to direct special investigations and .audits, whenever the same are de.emed necessary, is also of considerable importance.
In connection with the work of the proposed auditing department, I unhesitatingly recommend a change in our system of making general appropriation bills and some modification of the existing law in relation to the Budget Commission. I do not believe that an executive budget commission can ever be practicable or effective. l\Iy opinion is that the real Budget Commission must be the appropriating committees of the two houses of the General As~

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sembly. There are two systems of making appropriations, especially where large amounts and ma:tly interests are involved. For instance, the Federal Government appropriates thousands of millions of dollars annually on the plan of requiring, as a rule, itemizations of all appropriations, by every department of the government. On the other hand, the State of Georgia follows the plan .of making lump sum appropriations. There are some difficulties inherent in both systems. Under the system of appropriating by item, there is not enough elasticity to secure the best practical results in the operation of governmental service. At the same time, it tends towards economy and keeps down extravagance, and is, on the whole, preferable to the lump sum system of appropriating money. The latter system allows too much latitude to the administrative departments and agencies of the government and tends to encourage both extravagance and graft. If we should establish an auditing system of the kind that I have recommended to you, I should also recommend that in the law. establishing the department of State auditing, provision should be made for a change in our system of making appropriations, particularly with reference to our general appropriations bills.
The auditing department should require of the head of each department and institution of the State government, a statement, item by item, of each appropriation, and wliat funds are desired by such department or institution. The auditing department should then, in turn, submit such plans and

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estimates of the department or institution to the Governor who, in turn, would submit them to the General Assembly for reference to the appropriate committees, and for final action by the two houses themselves upon each item of appropriation. The judgment of the General Assembly would be final, both upon the total amount of the appropriation to be made and the various items thereof. After the appropriations are once made by item, there should be no transfers between different items, except by the express approval of the Q-overnor, whenever unforseen conditions have made such transfers necessary or desirable, and whenever such transfers are made, the -Governor should be required to report them to the Legislature on the first day of the next session thereafter. It seems to me that a budget and auditing plan along this line, which will be laid before you with more explicitness and clearness in a report made to me by an expert government engineer employed for that purpose, will combine the strong points of the federal system of making appropriations with the strong points of our present State system of making them, will make for economy and honesty in the expenditure of public money, will provide against extravagance and dishonesty i:q expenditure, and, finally, will give sufficient elasticity to the operation of institutions and departments so as not to unduly hamper them when unforseen contingencies shall require the transfer of funds from one item of appropriation to another.
It is my keenest ambition to have you install a thorough and up to date business system for the

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transaction of the State's fiscal affairs and in the collection and expenditure of its moneys. I wish above all things to see the establishment of an auditing system which shall check up in detail every item of expenditure before the money therefor is drawn out of the State treasury, so far as practicable, and which shall, in its "follow-up check," show with absolute and unerring accuracy, how each and every penny of the tax money of the people is spent, for what it was spent, and whether it was wisely spent or foolishly spe~t. I believe we can install such a system, and by doing it save hundreds of thousands of dollars for the tax payers of Georgia, besides giving them better service in ever~ direction. I earnestly hope that you may co-operate with me in this endeavor, and feel sure that you will do so.
In pursuance of my purpose to give the State a business administration and in an endeavor to investiga,te as carefully and accurately as I could into the operations of its various departments and institutions, with a view to effecting economy and improvement in the service, wherever practicable, on April 10, 1922, I employed the firm of Griffenhagen and Associates of Chicago, who are, in my opinion, the greatest governmental engineering experts in this country, to make a preliminary survey of the various departments and institutions of the State government and particularly of the fiscal machinery of the State Government with a view to determine what economies could be effected and what service improved, and what kind of an adequate and up-todate fiscal machinery could be provided for the State.

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The reputation of the finn employed is high. They sent me two of their strongest men, ~Iessrs. Fred Telford and Hugh J. Reber, the former being a member of the finn. This firm has done a great deal of good \Vork in the way of making surveys as to governmental departments and activities for the Congress of the United States, for the government of the Dominion of Canada, for the States of Illinois, Maryland and South Carolina, and for the great {lities of Chicago, Philadelphia, Baltimore and Montreal. :Jiy attention was particularly attracted to their work by the ver~' satisfactory results they have accomplished in South Carolina for the government of that St~te. They have prepared and submitted to me thirteen separate reports as follows:
1-Auditing and Fiscal System of the State. 2-Department of Agriculture. 3-Department of Printing. 4-Department of Public Health. 5-Department of Public welfare. 6-Training School for Boys. 7-Confederate Soldiers Home. 8-Confederate Roster Commission. 9-Department of Archives and History. 10-Academy for the Blind. 11-State Library. 12-Starte Library Commission. 13-Report on office space in the Capitol Buildmg.
These reports, in my opinion, contain invaluable information for the use of the General Assembly

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and all of them will be transmitted to the General Assembly, by special message, for its information and consideration. ,All of these r~ports except the latter relate to matters concerning which the Legislature is clothed with both responsibility and power.
The last report relates to office space in the Capitol Building and indicates that by a proper adjustment of offices in the Capitol Building ample provision can be made for all of the officers of the State and their clerical forces, without the necessity of building a Capitol Annex and without the necessity of renting outside quarters for any department of the State, which is now being done at an expense of $3,000 per annum.
These reports show that in the Department of Agriculture alon~ one hundred to two hundred thousand dollars per year can be saved by cutting off useless and unnecessary officeholders and by other economies. They indicate that from three to four thousand dollars per annum can be saved at the Academy for the Blind, where 30 employees are required to look after 65 white inmates. They indicate that $6,000 per year can be saved by transferring the records of the Department of Archives and History to the State Library and that from $20,000 to $25,000 per annum can be saved by reforms and economies in the Department of Public Printing. These reports show that $1,500 per annum can be saved in the State Lib'rary by avoiding the unnecessary purchase of duplicate law books.
I shall submit these reports to you with the utmost oonfidence that, in the main, the facts stated are true

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and the conclusions drawn therefrom are correct, and the reforms advocated and the retrenchments planned are wise, and in the interest of honesty and economy. These investigators were instructed by me to go into each of these matters as much as they could in a preliminary report, showing neither favor nor hostility to any official or to any department, but to report the facts truly and without favor, and to fearlessly recommend whatever changes and improvements they thought desirable or necessary. It is quite probable that neither your body nor I will agree to all of their recommendations, but the investigations have been honestly made and are en~ titled to your very serious consideration. Undoubtedly many intrenchments and many improvements in service are suggested in these reports and I submit to you for your careful consideration the que~ tion as to whether or not it would not be wise for this State to follow the example of South Carolina in this matter and have a full and comprehensive survey of the State government, all of. its departments, all of its institutions and all of its agencies made on a larger and more comprehensive scale, for the use of the General Assembly at its next Session.

AuSTRALlAX BALLOT LA"\V AXD BI-ENNIAL SESSIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY.
I again urge the enactment of a real and rigid Australian Ballot Law, to be applicable to primary and general elections alike and to be installed at every precinct in Georgia, to the end that every voter in the State, however poor and humble, may
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have the opportunity to cast a free and untrammeled ballot, and to the end that vote-buying in our elections shall be rendered difficult and impracticable.
I again urge you to submit an amendment to the Constitution of Georgia to provide for Bi-ennial sessions, instead of Annual Sessions, of the General Assembly. I make this recommendation for the following reasons :
1st: I do so in the interest of economy. If we should have bi-ennial, instead of annuai, sessions of the General Assembly, the expense would be cut in two and a saving to the State of from $55,000 to $60,000 per annum would be effected. In times like these it behooves us to effect every reasonable economy in the spending of the money of the people.
2nd: Bi-ennial sessions of the General Assembly would be an improvement over annual meetings for another and, if possible, even stronger reason; under the annual system we have too many unnecessary changes in the laws and too many amendments to the laws. In other words, too much legislation. If we had bi-ennial, instead of annual sessions, the tendency would be to have fewer changes in the law and the disturbances of both business and the people incident to the annual tinkering with the laws would be avoided.
A great majority of the States of the Union have bi-ennial sessions of the General Assembly, and the experience of the several States, on the whole, seems to establish the proposition that bi-ennial sessions of the General Assembly are preferable to annual sessions, or to sessions every four years.

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TAXATION.
In presenting to you my views on the difficult and eomplicated subject of taxation, I wish to assure you that I do so without either pride or obstinacy of opinion. I do so because my sense of duty to the State and to its people impels me to give you my views on this question, and I do so with the utmost deference to those of you, and to those of my fellow citizens elsewhere who do not agree with me about it, and who may entertain different views on the subject; I do so in the earnest hope that this body, on whom rests the responsibility for action, may approach the consideration of this most important and most difficult question in the spirit of mutual tolerance and of common counsel, out of which may come wise and conservative action. I am afraid that the average man does not reaEze how small a percentage of the taxes that he pays is imposed or collected by the State for State purposes. To say nothing of Federal taxes, the proportion of the tax burdens occasioned by expenditures of the State is relatively small and is comparatively negligible. In Georgia the total bonded debt of the State is only $5,486,202. On the other hand, the total bonded indebtedness of all Georgia counties is $12,714,000, and the total floating indebtedness of all counties is $779,000, and the total bonded debt of Georgia towns and cities is $37,940,000 and the total floating debts of such towns and cities are $1,181,200. When these figures are consolidated, it will be seen that Georgia counties and cities have a total

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bonded indebtedness of $50,654,000, and a total floating indebtedness of $1,960,200, or a total debt of $52,614,200 against a total bonded debt of the State of $5,486,202.
In addition to the above, it is worth while to remember and consider that the average rate of the Georgia county (including local school tax) is 18.3 mills, against a State rate of 5 mills; in other words, the State only gets 21.1% of the amount of State and County taxes that the taxpayer pays to the Tax Collector each year. Next, let us take the case of the Georgia taxpayer who lives in a city, or in an incorporated town, however small; first, he must pay 5 mills to the State; next, 10 mills, on the average, for city taxes; next, 18.3 mills, on the average; for the county tax. So the taxpayer living in a city or town pays on the average 33.3 mills, of which only 5 mills, or 15% goes to the State of Georgia.
The figures above cited are taken from the Financial Chronicle of December, 1921. Annexed to this address is Table C, showing by the details of these fig11res, by counties and by cities.
They are presented for the purpose of showing to you and to the public how relatively small a part of the tax burden is really occasioned by State expenditures and how comparatively negligible a portion of our total taxes is really paid for State purposes. The figures prove that we can never get a satisfactory distribution of the burden of taxation and a satisfactory system of taxation which will give a correct and a proper distribution of the burden, until we apply the correct fundamental prin-

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ciples to County and City taxation, as well as to State taxation.
The Constitution of 1877, in establishing the present tax system of Georgia (Paragraph 1, Sec. 2, Art. 7), provided :
"All taxation shall be uniform upon the same classes of subjects, and ad valorem on all property subject to be taxed within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax.''
It will be observed that no limit upon the tax rate was contained in the Constitution. One of the greatest of American jurists has stated, with great terseness and truth: ''The power to tax is the power to destroy." The framers of our Constitution of 1877 evidently believed, so far as the government is concerned, that the power to tax is the power to live. In support of that doctrine, it can be cited that even up to the present day, the power to tax (except as to a few special taxes) is not limited, so far as the rate or amount of the tax to be levied is concerned, in any of the forty-eight states of the Republic or in the United States Government itself, or in the government of any civilized country on earth, except in Georgia.
The doctrine that the legislative body of the State is not to be limited, generally speaking, in the tax rate it may impose, stood unchallenged in Georgia, as well as in the rest of the world, up to the year 1902. It stood unchalleng-ed in this State enn when the Constitution of 1877 was adopted, at the close of the reconstruction era. . In 1902, Governor Terrell, in the contest for elec-

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tion as Governor, advocated an amendment of the Constitution of the State, imposing a limit of five mills upon ad valorem taxes. After his election in 1902, the General Assembly, at its 1903 session, submitted such an amendment to the electorate of the State and the same was ratified by it at the general election of 1904 .
It is not my purpose, in calling attention to these historical facts, to challenge the wisdom of the decision the people then made. It is a departure in the science of government, and while the State stands practically alone in making it, I am not prepared to declare that the decision was an unwise one, and I do not seek to re-open the question. It is necessary, however, to keep the historical facts in mind in order to understand the reasons for the present situation and to intelligently consider proposed remedies.
Prior to the adpotion of the amendment of 1904, the tax rate on property was fixed under the law by the Governor and the Comptroller-General, after the Legislature had made its appropriations and after the digests were made up in the several counties, at whatever figure was necessary in order to meet the appropriations and to discharge the obligations of the State. Consequently under this system there could be no treasury deficit. It was merely a matter of mathematics. The Legislature and the Governor were responsible for the rate, whether high or low, because of their action in passing and approving appropriation measures. The system established direct responsibility and strict accountability to the peoplf', and if the Legislature

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or the Governor spent too much money or spent it for purposes of which the people did not approve, the remedy was in the hands of the people themselves.
After the adoption of the amendment of 1904, however, the situation completely changed. The Constitutional limit of taxation, 5 mills, was soon reached and a great tendency developed among members of the General Assembly to make liberal appropriations, since the tax rate could not exceed 5 mills, in any event, and the General Assembly could not be charged with increasing taxes. In such a situation, how easy and pleasant it was for memebrs of the General Assembly to vote for appropriations urged With so much eloquence and zeal and persistence, year after year, by beneficiaries who urgently pressed their claims, particularly so when in most cases where the objects for which the appropriation were sought were just and meritorious!
The inevitable result of such a system was that appropriations should gradually exceed the revenue. On January 1, 1913, according to the table presented by Governor Dorsey in his message of last year (page 4) the "Deficit or amount not on hand to complete payment of 'Undrawn Balances,' amounted to $979,277.48."
It then became apparent that something must be done to secure more revenue for the State, in order to meet its increasing 1?-eeds, to pay its growing appropriations.
In such a situation, two plans and only two plans were feasible. One was to devise other and addi-



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tional methods of taxation, to force classes of property then notoriously escaping taxation, to bear their just proportion of the tax burden; the other was to provide additional machinery by which the property then on the digest could be raised in value, so that, while the tax rate remained unaltered, the increased valuation would produce greater revenues for the State to pay increasing appropriations.
The latter plan was followed by the Legislature in 1913, and the result was our present so-called Tax Equalization or Tax Assessment law, whichever you choose to term it.
I have always thought that the former plan shouldhave been followed. I thought so then, and made the first public attack on the Equalization Law. I think so yet, strongly and unalterably. I contend that if additional revenue was a necessity, as it appeared to be, that such additional revenue should have been raised from classes of property then wholly or practically untaxed, instead of simply increasing the burden of the holders of visible and tangible property, by forcing up the values on their property, and forcing them to bear practically all of the burden of taxation.
I still maintain that position, and maintain it as strongly and earnestly as possible.
Never in my life, however, have I advocated the destruction of one piece of necessary goven1mental machinery, unless and until I was prepared to submit a plan to provide another and more efficient or equally efficient piece of machinery in place of it. Charged with solemn responsibility, in this cns1s,

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of our affairs, I am not now prepared to advocate the destruction of our present tax machinery, without proposing a reasonable and efficient substitute for it. That, however, I am prepared to do.
For your part, Gentlemen of the General Assembly, charged as you are with the primary responsibility in this matter, you cannot afford, as men of honor, true to your oaths of office, faithful to the trust imposed in you by the people, to throw away our present tax machinery, unless and until you are prepared to adopt a reasonable and effieient substitute therefor. I hope that you are so prepared, that you may be able to agree upon such a substitute for our present tax system; but unless you are and until you are, you cannot afford to destroy the present assessment systems, in the present critical condition of the State's finances and in the present distressii1g financial condition of the people themselves. If you destroy it without providing an adequate substitute for it, or if you destroy it, and simply return, in times like these, to the old system of voluntary tax returns, without providing machinery for collecting an adequate amount of revenue from corporations, individuals and classes of property now practically untaxed by the State, you will lock the wheels of Government in this State. If you permit every corporation and individual in this State, in times like these, to pay jhst as much and only just as much as he or it elects to pay, then the State cannot operate, it cannot meet its obligations already assumed, it cannot pay its appropriations already made, it cannot educate its children, it can-

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not open and maintain its schools, it cannot give even a meager support to its higher institutions of learning. In short, it simply cannot function, and must and will be set back more than fifty years.
These consequences are so unavoidable, so inescapable and so terrible to contemplate, that I cannot believe that the General Assembly of Georgia could -possibly contemplate such a procedure. Even if irresponsible persons, upon whom, fortunately, responsibility in this matter does not rest, suggest the repeal of the tax laws and oppose every substitute therefor that is suggested and offer none themselves, surely there can be no serious excuse for the chosoo representativs of the people of Georgia to entertain so demagogical_ a proposition. It is easy for self-seeking politicians to oppose all taxes, since all taxes are more or less unpopular, and to advocate all appropriations, since all appropriations are more or less popular, but the General Assembly of this State can never seriously contemplate such a program. The common sense of the people of Georgia may be relied upon to deal effectively with those of its public men who take such an absurd position.
I now wish to present to you what I think is a reasonable and efficient substitute for our present system, and whart I recommend to you as such. Let me repeat to you, as I said last year: "I realize that a sudden change of system at a moment like the present, when business is so heavily burdened, might prove disastrous; but it must be recalled that the proposal I make cannot be put in effect unless

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the people of the State amend the Constitution of Georgia, and that the proposition to do so cannot be submitted to them prior to the general election of 1922, and consequently the Legislature could not put a new system in operation, in all probability, before the calendar year of 1924. By that time, even the pessimist may reasonably expect a return to normal conditions.''
In the next place, let me say that at the present moment, and especially in the present hard times, I am not so much concerned about raising more revenue as I am concerned to secure a just and equal distribution of the present burdens of taxation. In hard times, like these, by rigid economy and by drastic retrenchment, the General Assembly can, as you demonstrated last year, make the absolutely necessary appropriations within the revenues as at present provided. But when average times and normal prosperity return, the present revenue system is inadequate to produce sufficient revenue, u:riless we are prepared to starve our schools ~nd to permanently deny to the Confederate Veterans pensions that the people of this State, at the ballot box, have already given us authority to make as soon as the finances of this State will permit. The old system has broken down, unless we are prepared to take backward steps in almost every direction in the administration of our State government, and in providing for those institutions and objects which have been t~e subjects of our care and attention in the past and at the present time.
The great fundamental trouble, outside of its in-

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adequacy, about our present tax system as applied to State, County and City Taxes alike, is that there is neither justice nor fairness in the manner in which the burden is distributed. It bears hardest, and especially in times like these, upon the shoulders that are weakest, and lightest upon the shoulders that are strongest.
Under the Act of August 20, 1918, the last Special Tax Commission for Georgia was organized. It began its labors in September, 1918, and ended them in June, 1919. It was composed of many able and upright men; it made a careful and exhaustive investigation into tax matters, and made an able and comprehensive report. I agree with many but not all of its conclusions. I take pleasure in saying to you, for the second time within the year, that its report is a most valuable one, and one well worthy of the most serious consideration. Its report condemns our present tax system and it denounces it, for three reasons:
1st. Because it does not bring to the digest a reasonable part of the actual value of property of the State.
2nd. Because the property returns are not equitably apportioned between the various classes of property.
3rd. Because it does not provide adequate support and proper maintenance, on a reasonable basis for the States various departments a_nd activities.
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in my opinion, the most vital of the objections urged by the Commission:
In 1920, according to .the reports bf the Comptroller-General, real estate (including city property) was assessed for taxation at a valuation of $714,151,382, while money and solvent debts were valued at only $81,500,073, merchandise at $77,515,231, stocks and bonds at $4,807,964. According to that same report, household and kitchen furniture, practically all of it except that of the very rich being without any real cash value, paid taxes on a valuation of $41,435,377, as against a $4,807,964 valuation of stocks and bonds. Horses, mules and cattle in this State were assessed at $63,427,932, against a little over $4,800,000 for stocks and bonds.
Plantation and mechanical tools, implements with which the poor and lowly make their daily bread, were valued at $15,480,349, or more than three times as much as all of the stocks and bonds of this State.
Again, under our present delightful tax system, while the value of all property was increasing from $261,000,000 (round figures) in 1875, to $1,347,000,000 in 1920, about 416 per cent, the taxable value of money, notes, accounts and solvent debts only increased in the same period from $37,000,000 to $81,000,000, or about 119 per cent; in other words, money, notes, accounts and solvent debts increased for taxation purposes only one-third of the general increase of all property in the State. Let me quote you, next, from the report of our State Tax Commission of 1919 ~
''Again, we are unable to form any well grounded

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conclusion as to the value of money, .notes and accounts, bonds, and taxable stocks of the State. It appears, however, that there was $322,000.00 on deposit in the banks of the State in September, 1918, according to the Bankers' Encyclopedia. \Ve know from the tax digest that there was returned last year, in round numbers, in money, notes, mortgages, accounts, bonds and taxable stocks, $65,000,000. This condition would be ludicrous if it was not absolutely distressing to all fair-minded citizens.''
Again: ''Money, notes, accounts and solvent debts" were returned for taxation for the year 1920 at $81,500,073.
The report of our State Bank Examiner as of date December 2, 1921, showed at that time on deposit in the State Banks of Georgia alone $261,653,393.00.
As a rule, in this State the deposits in our National Banks located in Georgia amount to a little more than half of those in our State banks, so that in 1920 the deposits in all our banks was approximately $400,000,000. When it is recalled that the item of $81,500,000 covered the returns not only on money, but on notes, accounts and solvent debts, and .that according to the best estimates that are obtainable; the aggregate of these notes, accounts and debts is greater than the amount of money on hand, it is perfectly evident that not ten per cent of the actual money on hand in the State was returned for taxation in the year 1920.
But why multiply instances of these glaring in- justices and inequalities 1 It could be done almost indefinitely, but I shall not tax your patience with

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further detail. Yes, there is just one more I shall cite, because it is particularly significant. In the face of the deflation in values that is now upon us, property returns, on the whole, shrunk seven per cent in Georgia between 1920 and 1921, and yet in this same period money, notes and accounts shrunk from $81,500,000 in 1920, to $64,906,000 in 1921, or more than twenty per cent.
In the light of these facts, I submit a substantive, concrete proposal. I propose that the State shall abandon the field of property taxation on the ad valorem basis, leaving that field to the exclusive possession of the local authorities, county and city, subject to such limitations as may be placed by law on the exercise of that power by them. In lie~ of the property tax for State purposes and as a substitute for it, I propose a graduated income tax, and I urge the General Assembly to submit to the people in the election this Fall a constitutional amendment to that effect.
If the people should authorize such a change in our taxing system, then the tax machinery of the Federal Government could be largely utilized, if not entirely utilized, for State purposes. Thus we would effect a saving of the expense involved in the creatron.and maintenance of an extensive and expensive tax machinery of our own and would avoid the necessity for burdening the taxpayer with a double set of returns, one to the Federal and ano,ther to the State government.
For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, the Federal government collected from Georgia, in income

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tax, $25,062,149.50. For the fiscal year ending Julie 30, 1920, $33,731,768.04. For the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, $32,000,000.00. This average for these three years is slightly in excess of $30,000,000.00 per annum, and when it is recalled that the greatest amount of revenue that we can hope to obtain for the present year from all ad valorem taxes, including property on the digest and public corporation taxes, will be only about $5,500,000, it is perfectly apparent that a very reasonable percentage of the tax now collected by the Federal GoYernment in Georgia would produce revenu~ equal to the amount produced by our present system, and with a very slight increase of that percentage, we will be enabled to raise sufficient revenue to supply all the necessities of the State.
I repeat my recommendation to you of last year in favor of an income tax. It should be a tax on net incomes, in the same sense that such a tax is levied and collected by the Federal Government. It should not contain a tax on the gross output of manufacturing and industrial concerns. Georgia needs too much development along this line to permit of such a drastic tax; besides, such a tax is inherently unjust and unfair. "Cnder a proper income t-ax, we could give adequate support to our common schools, and continue with even greater success our present campaign for the eradication of illiteracy in Georgia. We could give to our Confederate pensioners and to our great institutions of learning, to our great humanitarian and charitable institutions, to our common schools, and to other departments of

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the State government that adequate and just support to which they are entitled, after the principles of real economy and scrupulous honesty are applied to their operation.
If the people will make the change I have suggested, it will secure many advantages. Let meendeavor to enumerate some of them:

1st. We will be able to do away with our present



tax assessment system.

2nd. We will be able to collect our revenue quarterly and in that way to pay as we go and to meet our appropriations as they come due.

3rd. In that way it will put upon the intangible and invisible property of this State that fair and . just proportion of the burden of the government which it ought to bear and which it now almost wholly escapes. If the question be raised as to how an income tax will do more towards forcing intangible and invisible property to bear some proportion of the burdens of the State Government than our present system of taxation, then the reply is three-fold:

a. We will eventually be able to utilize the tremendous machinery of the Federal Government, with its thousands of inspectors and agents who are constantly examining into tax matters and forcing the return on a great percentage of all incomes.

b. The question of value is one of opinion, and one about which there may be honest differences of opinion. The question of income is one of fact,

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about which there can be no honest difference of opinion. It is only necessary to ascertain the facts.

c. The income tax law applies only to the incoll\e

on such intangible and invisible property, and not

j;o its principal value.

This is the principle that has induced many of

our leading States to adopt the income tax plan of

reaching this property, rather than rely upon

clumsy and impractical n:;tachinery under an ad



valorem system. Since most of the larger States

have adopted the income tax plan of reaching these

classes of property, it is a safe plan for Georgia

to follow, since we do not wish to tighten credits in

this State or to drive this class of property, that can

.easily be removed, into other States. Besides, it

must be remembered that whatever amount of in-

come tax is paid by the corporation or individual to

the State can be deducted from his or its income

tax return to the Federal Government.

4th. It will distribute the burden more equally and more equitably, and will place it upon the shoulders of those who are strongest and best able to bear it. Agriculture is practically prostrate in this State. For two years a vast number of our people who follow this means of livelihood have made nothing and have sustained frightful losses. For the second year now they have been practically unable to pay their taxes. Tens of thousands of tax fi fas against farmers have been taken up by relatives, friends or creditors, and are awaiting payment if that ever becomes possible. Thousands of

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farms have been legally advertised and other thousands sold for taxes in Georgia. The same thing is true as to homes held by the masses of people, in cities, towns and villages. These people are entitled to some relief, to some lessening, if possible, of the burdens of taxation upon them. So long as agriculture languishes, every other industry and business in the State languishes. When it revives, every other business and every other industry will revive with it.
The State Tax Commissioner informs me that the property returns this year will fall to practically $1,000,000,000, and this reduction is from the highwater mark of 1920, when the property returns woce $1,346,882,000. Of the $1,000,000,000 tax values in Georgia for the present year, substantially $600,000,000 represents land and real estate. When to this great class of property is added every other class of tangible and visible property, the demonstration is complete that more than 90 per cent of the burdens of State taxation are borne and carried by the holders and owners of tangible and visible property. These men cannot bear the burden any longer, and are entitled to relief. If you will adopt the proposition I present to you, and the people shall ratify it, every single one of them will get relief from the whole of the five mills of State tax, and while this by no means is the larger part of the burdens of taxation which they must carry, for they will still be left to bear the expense of county and city governments, it is some relief and is most necessary and important in the present crisis.

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For the above reasons, and for other reasons fully elaborated in my message to you last summer, I reiterate the recommendation I then made to you, which is that we substitute a State income tax for our present system of ad valorem taxation for State purposes.
As I stated in the outset of my discussion of this subject, I have no pride of opinion about this matter, and merely give you my views upon it because of the duty imposed upon me by law to do so, because of my honest, earnest and unshakable convictions upon the subject.
Since, however, the subject is acute and every possible angle of it ought to be considered, it is my duty to call to your attention certain alternative proposals on this question that are entitled to serious consideration at your hands.
In the first place, I deem it my duty to invite your attention to the report and recommendation of the Tax Commission of 1919. That body as a substitute for Paragraph 1, Section 2, Article 7 of the Constitution of 1877, recommended the following:
''All taxes shall be levied and collected under general laws and for public purposes only. The General Assembly shall have the power to classify property for taxation and to adopt different rates and methods for different classes of property and to segregate different cases of property for State and local taxation. But all taxation shall be uniform upon the same classes of subjects within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax. Taxes may be levied ad valorem upon any given class of

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property without regard to the method used in levying taxes on any other class of property. Taxes may be imposed upon incomes, inheritances, privileges and occupations, which classes of taxes may be graduated, and when levied may contain provisions for reasonable exemptions."
Another proposal which deserves serious consideration at your hands is as follows:
Substitute for Paragraph 1, Section 2, Article 7 of the Constitution of 1877 the following language:
''All taxes shall be uniform upon the same classes of subjects, and when ad valorem, assessed on all property within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws, and for the purposes only, authorized by this Constitution. The General Assembly may impose taxes not to exceed 6 per centum upon incomes, also tax upon inheritances, privileges and occupations, all of which taxes may be graduated and the laws under which they are levied may contain provisions for reasonable exemptions. The General Assembly shall exempt all property, real and personal, except that of public service corporations, from ad valorem taxes for State purposes in each year in which the revenues from other sources are sufficient to meet the legal obligations of the State maturing during the year and to pay the appropriations made by the General Assembly for that year. In the event, however, such revenues are insufficient for those purposes, then an ad valorem tax not to exceed 21-2 mills upon each dollar of the value of all property, real and personal, may be levied."

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In support of this proposition many strong arguments can be advanced. It has many merits, many checks and counter-checks. In the first place, it guarantees some affirmative relief by remitting at least 50 per cent of the amount of State taxes now paid on the ad valorem basis by property holders of this State. I:n addition to that, if the times are normally prosperous, it means, in all probability, there will be no necessity for levying a State property tax in Georgia, provided the Legislature is reasonably economical in its appropriations. In the next place, by the imposition of a limit upon the income tax rat.e, it guarantees the corporation and individuals who will pay the income tax against excessive burden; and in the next place, it gives to the Legislature strong reasons for economy in its expenditures, because otherwise the collection of a general property tax will be necessary throughout the State, and that would be quite likely to prove unpopular. Then, again, it leaves the great masses of the citizens and taxpayers of Georgia in a position where they are the guardians of economical appropriations and expenditures. If the appropriations are too large to be met b~ the limited income tax, they must foot the bill. It is only fair to mention that under a system very much like this, no State property tax has been levied for two years past in the State of North Carolina.
In presenting to you not only my own views on this great question, but the various views and plans that have been suggested and considered, I feel that I am only discharging my Constitutional duty to you

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and to the public. Taxation is the most complex and complicated of all questions that 'legislative bodies are called upon to consider, and I know that at your hands it will have the thoughtful and careful consideration that is imperatively demanded. If the present taxing.system of Georgia is to be abolished, then it is your duty to provide an efficient and adequate substitute therefor, and one that will distribute the burden of taxation justly and equitably among all citizens and among all classes of property.
If we are to educate our children, improve our highways, maintain our charitable and humanitarian institutions, and sustain the proud position of Georgia as the Empire State of the South, the wealth of the State must foot the bill, and not its poverty. The taxing system of the State should be revised with wisdom and with justice to all persons and to all classes of property.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS W. HARDWICK,
Governor.

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TABLE A.

Undrawn appropriations of 1921

brought forward to 1922, unpaid __$4,261,446.54

Last quarter of 1921 Civil Establish-

ment

109,825.00

Total ____________ ----------------$4,371,271.54
By amount paid on same to June lOth -------------$4,197,705.73
By amount paid on Civil Establishment for last quarter of 1921 ________ 109,825.00 -----*4,307,530. 73

Total 1921 appropriations unpaid on June 10 ________________________$ 63,740.81
Appropriations for 1922______________ 9,438,845.15 Less 1922 appropriations paid by war-
rants to June 10, 1922_____________ * 2,469,650.86

Total unpaid 1922 appropriations
June 10, 1922 ------------------$6,969,194.29 Paid on 1921 appropriations _________ 4,197,705.73 Paid of Civil Establishment 4th quarter
of 1921 -------------------------- 109,825.00 Paid on 1922 appropriations ________ 2,469,650.86

Total _______________ -------------$6,777,181.59 Amount of 1921 appropriations yet un-
paid as above --------------------- 63,740.81

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Amount of 1922 appropriations yet unpaid, as above ------------------ ** 6,969,194.29

Aggregate unpaid June 10, 1922____$7,032,935.10

*Summary of disbursements by warrants since January 1, 1922, exclusive of Highway funds and refunds of W. & A. rental warrants.
**Note-The amount of unpaid 1922 appropriations does not include Temporary Loan of $500,000.00 and interest of $13,472.00, due September 9, 1922, borrowed on February 27, 1922, and used to pay 1921 school appropriation. This is an obligation to become due and not an appropriation.
Schedule of 1922 appropriations and estimates a t t a c h e d ..

APPROPRIATIONS AND ESTIMATES 1922.

By Academy for Blind ---------------$ 36,000.00 " Aricultural Schools _____________ _ 180,000.00

" Albany Normal School (for Colored) 15,000.00

'' Binding Journals ----------------

550.00

" Board of Health ________________ _ 91,431.00

" Board of Public Welfare ________ _ 15,000.00

" Bowdon State N. and I. College___ _ 15,000.00 " Civil Establishment ____________ _ 439,300.00

'' Coastal Plains Experiment Station 22,500.00

" College for Colored _____________ _ 10,000.00 " Contingent Fund _______________ _ 25,000.00

'' Contingent Fund Commerce and

Labor ------------------------ 1,800.00

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'' Contingent Fund Railroad Commis-
sion -------------------------'' Contingent Fund, Supreme Court__ '' Contingent Fund, Court of Appeals " Department of Agriculture :
(a) Maintenance --------------(b) Pure Food _______________ _
(c) Chemicals ----------------(d) Contagious Diseases _______ _ (e) Hog Cholera Serum _______ _ (f) Inspectors' Salary, etc. ____ E (g) Tick Eradication _________ _ (h) Veterinarian Expenses ____ E '' Department of Archives and His-
tory -------------------------'' Dept. of Commerce and Labor,
Salaries ---------------------'' Department of Public Printing,
Salaries ---------------------" Experiment Station _____________ _ " Furniture and Replacement (H. &
s.) --------------------------
'' Game Protection Fund, Salary___ _
" Geological Fund ----------------'' Georgia Normal and Industrial
College ----------------------" Horticultural Fund -------------'' Incidental Expense General As-
sembly ----------------------" Indexing House and Senate Jour-
nal --------------------------" Indian Spring Fund -------------

3,000.00 3,000.00 3,000.00
18,000.00 10,000.00 15,500.00
5,000.00 10,000.00
~9,999.13
25,000.00 1,618.00
6,000.00
8,100.00
3,000.00 8,000.00
700.00 3,600.00 15,000.00
102,500.00 63,000.00
250.00
250.00 105.00

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" Inspection of Fertilizers ________ E 41,941.03

'' Inspection of OilsSalaries ____$5,100.50

Expenses __ . 1,000.50

6,101.00

" Insurance Public Building, etc.___ _ 105,000.00

" Insurance Department Fund ___ _ " Land Script Fund Interest_ ______ _ " Legislative Committees _________ _ " Legislative Pay Roll ___________ E " Library Commission ___________ _

9,200.00 6,314.14 7,500.00 117,174.56 6,000.00

" Library Fund --------"----------" Library Fund Reference Bureau__

4,250.00 1,400.00

" Library Fund Court of Appeals __ 1,000.00

" Market Bureau ------------------ 103,000.00 " Military Fund __.________________ _ 25,000.00
" North Georgia A. & l\L College___ _ 27,000.00

" Overpayment Taxes Refunded ___ E 8,448.54 " Pension Fund ____ _______ __ 1,250,000.00

" Printing Fund------------------- 40,000.00 " Printing F'und, Railroad Commis-

sion -------------------------" Prison Fund -------------------" Public Buildings and Grounds ___ _
" Publishing Georgia Reports _____ _

2,000.00 107,500.00 35,000.00 10,000.00

" Public Debt: (a) Interest ________$226,030.00

Interest at 4% per cent ______ 4,108.75-
(b) Sinking Fund _:_ _____________ _
(c) Refunding Bonds ___________ _

230,138.75 100,000.00 207,000.00

" Rate Expert Fund --------------- 4,000.00

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" Reward Fund __________________ _ 3,000.00

" Roster Fund -------------------- 3,600.00 " School for the Deaf ____________ _ 70,000.00

'' School Fund -------------------- 4,250,000.00 " Sehool for Mental Defectives ____ _ 25,000.00 " School of Technology ___________ _ 112,500.00 " Soldiers' Home _________________ _ 45,000.00

" Solicitors Generals' Fees _______ E 9,825.00

'' South Georgia A. & M. College,

Val. -------------------------- 31,500.00

" Special Appropriation, Legislative Comm. ______________________ _
" State Medical College ___________ _

7,500.00 49,500.00

" State Normal School ______ . _____ _ 63,000.00 " State Sanitarium _______________ _ 800,00.0.00

" State University, Support Fund__ 93,000.00

'' State University, for Agri. College 117,250.00

" State University, for Summer

School -----------------------" Summer School Colored Teachers __

6,000.00 2,500.00

" Training School for Boys________ _ 27,000.00

" Training School for Girls ________ _ 31,500.00

" Tuberculosis Sanitarium ________ _ 50,000.00

$9,438,845.15

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TABLE B.
As OF DATE JUNE 10, 1922.
Estimated revenue from all sources except ad valorem taxes :

Railroad and other public service cor-
porations ---------'----------------$ 828,508.16 Rental of State's property located at
Chattanooga, Tenn. --------------- 8,340.00 Income tax from railroads ___________ _ 2,044.00 Insurance tax and insurance fees _____ _ 700,000.00.
Inheritance tax --------------------- 330,000.00 Interest from depositories ___________ _ 15,000.00 Fertilizer fees ----------------------- 200,000.00 Pure food fees ---------------------- 30,000.00 Oil fees --------------------------. __ 400,000.00 Oil fees due from United States Court 275,597.00 Game protection fees _______________ _ 5,000.00
Office fees -------------------------- 8,000.00 Fuel oil tax -----------------------. _ 800,000.00 Occupation tax --------------------- 250,000.00 Carbonic Acid Gas _________________ _ 20,000.00 All other special or occupation taxes __ 550,000.00
Sale of Acts, Codes and Court of App. Reports -------------------------- 5,000.00
Poll tax ---------------------------- 392,000.00 Professional tax ___________________ _ 62,700.00 Taxes collected not on digest _______ _ 100,000.00
Miscellaneous (back taxes, etc.)------- 50,000.00

Total ________ --------------------$5,032,189.16

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Revenue collected, see list attached____ 1,248,049.03

Balance --------------------------$3,784,140.13 1921 ad valorem taxes uncollected June
10, 1922 -------------------------- 572,594.51 1919, 1920' and 1921 railroad taxes un-
collected June lOth ---------------- 66,268.53

Total ----------------------------$ 638,863.04

This estimate of revenue due and revenue collected does not contain and receipts from Motor Vehicle Fees, Rental of W. & A. Railroad or borrowed money.

1922 TAXES COLLECTED IN 1922 THROUGH JUNE 10, 1922.

To Abstract Companies Tax ---------~ " Adding .Machine Companies _____ _ " Advertising Agents _____________ _
" Agencies -----------------------" Auto Accessories ---------------" Artists ------------------------. " Athletic Clubs ------------------" Auctioneers --------------------" Automobile Agents _____________ _ " Auto Assembling Plants _________ _ " Awning and Tent Makers _______ _
" Adjustment Bureaus ------------" Back Taxes --------------------" Bill Distributors----------------" Barbers' Shops-----------------" Barbers' Supplies ----------~----

45.00 1,080.00
792.00 1,597.50 3,150.00
414.00 90.00
810.00 14,377.05
270.00 135.00 45.00 12,953.77
22.50 8,325.63
180.00

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" Beauty Parlors -----------------

216.0(:)

" Bee License Tax ----------------

375.00

" Bicycles -------------------------

513.00

" Billards and Pool ---------------- 18,630.00

" Bill Posters ---------------------

540.90

" Book Agents --------------. ____ _

4.50

" Bond Makers --------------------

180.00

" Bottlers -----------------------~' Brokers (S. & B.) _______________ _

405.00 3,150.00

" Cafes and Restaurants _________ _ 1,552.50

" Carbonic Acid Gas _____________ _ 5,704.92

" Cars for Hire ------------------- 2,394.00

" Cash Registers ------------------

540.00

" Cemetery Agents ---------------" Cigar Dealers (W. & R.) _________ _

198.00 1,777.50

" Cigarette Dealers ---------------- 68,672.30 " Coal and Wood Dealers _________ _ 2,322.00

" Gold Storage Tax -------------- 8,370.00

" Construction Companies _______ _:___

209.14

" Contractors --------------------- 1,250.68

" Cost on Fi Fas ------------------

8.00

" Detective Agents ---------------" Directory Tax ----------~-------" Dividends from Stocks __________ _

585.00 112.50 1,391.00

" Dry Cleaners ---------.-----------

450.00

'' Electrical Contractors and Electricians _______________________ _

144.00

" Electric Shows -----------------" Electric Shows Supplies _________ _
" Employment Agencies ___________ _

3,205.64 1,350.00
495.00

" Fees from Fertilizers ___________ _ 159,000.00

" Fees from Pure Food ___________ _ 14,000.00

" Forest Reserve Fund ------------

6.10

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" Fuel Oil Tax ___________________ _
'' Garnes -------------------------" Game Protection Fees ___________ _
" Garages ------------------------'' Hotels -------------------------" Ice Cream Dealers, wholesale _____ _ " Inheritance Tax ________________ _ " Insolvent General Tax __________ _ " Insolvent Poll Tax ______________ _ " Insurance Agents _______________ _
'' Insurance Fees -----------------" Insurance Tax by Companies_____ _ '' Implement and Machinery Mfrs.
and Agents __________________ _
" Interest from Depositories _______ _
" Junk Dealers -------------------" Land Title Registration Fees____ _
'' Laundries ---------------------" Lease Indian Spring ____________ _ " Lenders on Wages ______________ _ " Lighting Plants _____________ . __ _ " Live Stock Dealers ______________ _ " Loan Agents ---~---------------" Lumber Dealers ________________ _
" Manufacturers Soft Drinks ______ _ " Merchandise Brokers -----------" Money Refunded ---------------" l\Ionurnent Dealers --------------" Motorcycle Dealers _____________ _ " Musical Dealers ________________ _ " Occupation Tax (Capital) _______ _
" Office Fees ---------------------

151,137.21 112.50
5,000.00 3,165.75 4,027.95
274.50 147,321.73
19,210.34 416.23
22,423.50 52,186.00 106,485.97
430.00 695.59 918.00
80.97 562.50 110.00 3,510.00
67.50 1,165.50
693.00 193.50 1,495.39 1,957.50 1,794.26 468.00 112.50 3,924.00 208,180.04 150.25

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'' Oil Fees

26,426.02

" Oyster and Shrimp Packers -------

315.00

" Palmists -----------------------" Pawnbrokers ____ _: ______________ .

810.00 5,490.00

'' Peddlers ------------.----------- 4,590.00

" Pensions Refunded -------------- 83,782.03

'' Picture Frame Dealers -----------

9.00

" Pistols and Cartridges ---------- 7,600.50

" Playing Card Dealers ------------ 2,079.00

" Patented Articles ----------------

22.50

" Pumping Systems --------------" Railroad News Companies ______ _

90.00 1,3150.00

'' Real Estate Agents ---~--------- 3,393.00

" Rental Public Property ---------- 8,475.00

" Safes and Vaults ----------------

360.00

" Sale of Public Property ---------- 1,049.07

" Sale of Acts --------------------

213.58

" Sale of Codes ------------------.

391.64

'' Sale of Court of Appeal Reports__ _

698.70

" Sale of Supreme Court Reports ___ _ 1,076.87

" Sanitariums --------------------- 1,057.50

'' Sewing Machine Agl:lnts ---------" Sewing Machine Companies _____ _

870.00 400.00

" Show Tax ----------------------

776.71

" Slot Machines -------------------

859.50

" Soda Fount Tax ----------------- 3,424.50

'' Stevedores ----------------------

270.00

" Steamboat Companies -----------

90.00

'' Teachers' Agencies --------------

135.00

" Traders ------------------------

22.50

" Trucks (G. & 0.) ---------------- 3,699.00

" Typewriter Agents

1,440.00

Sig. 4

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" Undertakers -------------------" Used Car Dealers -------------. _
'' VVarehouses --------------------" VVeighing Scales -----------------

3,460.50 270.00
2,380.50 367.20

Total receipts during January 1stJune lOth, 1922______________$1,248,049.03



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TABLE "C".

TAX RATE OF CITIES 1921.

Abbeville _.:. ______20 Acworth _________120

BBiibshboCp it:y. __-_-_-_-_-_-_-_- 50

Adel ____________ 25 Blackshear ______ 20

Adairsville _______15 Blakely __________15

Adrian __________ 70 Blue Ridge ______ 220

Ailey ____________ 0 Alapaha --------- 90 Albany __________19 Alma ____________170

Bogart ---------- 70
Boston __________15 BBoowwemrsavnil_le___~_-_-_-_-_-1870

Alto _____________ 3 Braswell _________ 0

Americus ________20 Bremen _________15

Apalachee _______ 3 Brewton ____ . ____ 0
Arabi ___________ 60 Bristol __________ 0

Arlington ________170 Bronwood _______10

Ashburn _________17 Brooklet _________ 5

Athens __________17 Atlanta __________15

Broxton ---------~5 Brunswick ______ 20

Auburn __________ 3 Buchanan -------- 0 Augusta _________190 Buena Vista _____ 21

AAuvsetreall _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_1510

Buford __________ 20 Bullochville ------ 20

Aberdeen ________ 1 Butler ----------- 0

Alamo ___________12 Byromville ______ 5

Arcade __________ 5 Avalon __________ 2

BByorwodnen---__-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-103%.

Argyle __________ 3 Bridgeboro ______ 0

Baconton ________15 Box Springs _____ 0

Bainbridge _______15 Bostwick ________ 0

Baldwin _________ 5 Ball Ground ______ 5 Barnesville ______10

Brooks --------- 5 BCraidnwsoelnl _-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-154

Bartow __________10 Cairo ___________15

Baxley __________170 Calhoun ______ . __ 20

BBeelnmtoonnt--_-_-__-_-_-_-_-_- 36

Camak __________10 Camilla __________15

Berlin ___________ 5 Bethlehem _______ 20

CCaannotonn -_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-1120

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Carlton ---------- 8 Carrollton _______170

Danville --------- 5 Dawson _________18

Cartersville ______18 Decatur _________15

Cave Springs ____ 9 Douglas --- ____180

Cecil ------------ 5 Cedartown _______170

Douglasville _____120 Dublin __________15

Chalybeate Springs 5 Chauncey ________ 5
Chatsworth ______ 5 Chester __________ 5
Chickamauga _____120 Chipley _,_ ________10.1 Clarkesville ______10 Claxton _________ 8 Clayton __________15 Climax __________10

Dahlonega ------- 8.3 Eastman ________15 Eatonton ________15 Elberton ________150 Ellaville _________10 Ellijay __________ 9 Fairburn ________ 20
Fayetteville ______ 5 Fitzgerald _______15.7 Forsyth _________ 9

Cobbtown ________ 5
Cochran _________160 Colbert __________ 3 Cole1nan _________ 5

College Park _____ 20

Collins ----------Colquitt _________

8 9

Fort Gaines ______15 Fort Valley ______15
Franklin -------- 20 Gainesville _______170 Garfield _________ 5 Gay _____________ 5 Geneva __________ 0

Columbus ________18 Georgetown ______ 0

Comer ----------- 5 Commerce _______15

Gibson __________ 5 Gillsville ________ 2

Concord --------- 70 Glennville _______15 Conyers _________180 Glenwood ________ 5

Cooledge __.______10 Godfrey _________ 5

Cordele _________16.6 Gordon __________10

Cornelia _________170 Grantville _______10

Covington _______15% Grayson _________ 20
Crawfordville ____n Greensboro ______15

Crossland ________10 Greenville _______10

Culloden _________ 4 Griffin __________180

Cusseta __________ 4 Guysie __________ 0

Cuthbert ________220 Guyton __________10

Center ----------- 2 Clarkston ________ 3.7

Graham _________ 0 Gray ____________ 0



Dallas ---------- 80 Graysville _______ 0 Dalton __________15 Hag~an ---------- 20

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Hahira __________20~ Hamilton ________ 5
Hampton -------- 8~ Hapeville ________15 Haralson ________ 0
HHaarrtrwiseolnl -_-__-_-_-_-_-_-200 Hawkinsville _____ 20 Hazlehurst ______17~ Helena __________10~ Higgstown _______ 0
HHiilrlasmboro___-_-_-_-_-_-_-- 00 Hogansville ______15 Homeland _______ 5 Homerville ______ 5 Hoschton ________ 12~ Holly Springs ____ 2 Hickox __________ 0 Hilltonia ________ 0
HHoelbeonke-n--_-_-_-__-_-_-_-_- 84 Ideal ____________11
Iron City ________10 Inman ___________ 0
Jackson ________ 16 Jasper __________ 3~ Jefferson ________17 Jenkinsburg _____ 5 Jesup ___________15
Jonesboro _______10
Junction City ---- 5 Jakin ----------- 5 Keysville ________ 5 Kingsland _______ 4 Kingston ________ 2~ Kirkwood _______ 17~ Kite -----~------ 8 LaFayette _______12 Lawson __________ 3 LaGrange _______ 12~

Lake Park _______ 5 Lavonia _________ 17~ Lawrenceville ____19
LLeeeasrbyur-g---_-__-_-_-_-_-_-105
Lenox ----------- 5 Leslie ----------- 5 Lexington _______ 0 Lilburn __________ 5 Lithia Springs ___ 3 Lithonia _________ 25
Locust Grove ____ 3~ Logansville ______10 Louisville ________16 Lovejoy _________ 2
LLuodvoewtt ic-i---__-_-_-_-_-_-_- 55 Lula ____________ 6 Lumber City _____ 12~ Lumpkin ________ 22 Luthersville ______ 4 Lyerly __________ 4 Lyons ___________ 16~ Lily _____________ 20 Linwood _________ 5 *Lincolnton ______15 ~aeon ___________ 15 ~adison _________ 18 1Ianchester ______10 1fansfield ________15 ~apleton ________ 0 ~arietta ________ 14 ~arshallville _____ 0 ~artin __________ 5~ ~1aysville ________ 15 *~eigs __________ 10
1Ienlo ----------- 4 ~errillville ______ 0 ~etcalf ---------- 5 ~etter __________ 23 Midville _________15

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*Milan __________ 5
Milledgeville _____120 Millen ___________10
Milner ----------- 70
Mineral Bluff ____ 5
Mitchell --------- 20
Molena ---------- 40
Monroe __________120 Montezuma ______15 Monticello _______ 6 Moreland ________ 5 *Morven ________ 8 Moultrie _________ 21 Mountville _______ 1 Mountain City ____ 5 Mount Airy ______10
*My:stic ---------- 5
Modoc ----------- 0 Middleton _______ 0 Mauk ____________ 5

Morgan ---------- 0 Mount Vernon ___ 0 *Milltown ________30

Meansville _______ 5 ~1ontrose ________ 0
~1anassas ________ 5

McCaysville _____ 25 McDonough ______ 10

McRae Nashville

--------________

2870

*Naylor _________ 5

Newborn ________12

Newnan _________120

*Nicholls ________ 20

Nicholson ________ 1

Norcross -------- 9
Nonnan Park ____ 70

NNuewneizng-to-n---_-__-_-_-_-_- 55 Oakfield --------- 5 Ocilla __ :._ ________ 22

Ochlocknee _______ 0 Odessadale ______ 5
Odum ----------- 70
*Oglethorpe ______ 21 Oliver ___________ 5

Omega ---------- 5 Oxford ---------- 0 Palmetto ________15

Parrott ---------- 8 Patterson ________ 0 Pavo ____________12

Pearson _________120 Pelham __________15
Pembroke _______10 Pepperton _______ 4 Perry ___________18

Pinehurst ________20 Pine Park _______ 7
Pineview ________ 5

PP liat tisn s - -_-_-_-__- _-_-_-_-_-_- 190
Plainville ________ 30

Pooler ----------- 5
Poulan ---------- 80
Powder Springs __ 5 Primrose ________ 6

Pendergrass ----Preston _________

2700

Plainfield ________ 20

Quitman _________ 19

Ray City ________ 5

Rebecca _________10

Reidsville ________10 Rentz ___________ 20

Reynolds ________ 5

Rhine ----------- 5 Richland _________20 Ringgold ________ 20 Roberta _________ 5 Rochelle _________15
Rockmart ________120

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Rocky Ford ______ 5 Rome ____________15 Rossville _________ 5 Roswell __________10.6 Royston _________170 Ranger __________10 Riverdale ________ 0 Rockledge _______10 Reno ____________ 0
Sale City ________10
Sandersville _____170 Sasser ___________ 5
Savannah ________16.6 Scott ____________ 5
Screven ---------- 5 Senoia ___________130 *Seville __________ 5 Shady Dale ______ 6 Sharon __________ 5
Sharpsburg ______ 5 Shellman ________15 Smithville _______ 5 Smyrna _________ 70 Social Circle _____16 Soperton ________10 Sparks __________ 20
Sparta __________12 *Stapleton _______10 Springfield _______ 3 Statesboro _______19 Statham _________10
Stillmore ________12 Stockbridge ______ 8~ Stone Mountain __14 St. Charles ______ 5 St. George _______ 5 *Summertown ____ 6 Summerville _____15 *Sumner _________ 5 Sunny Side ______ 0 Suwanee _________ 4

Swainsboro ______10 Sylvania _________10
Sycamore -------- 70 Sylvester ________18 Scotland _________14 Stonewall ________ 0 Sugar Valley _____ 5 Shingler _________ 3 Talbotton ________10 Tallapoosa _______14 Tullulah Falls ____. 4
Tarrytown -------.20
Temple ----0---- 5
Tennille _________170 Thomaston ______17 Thomasville _____14 Thomson ________15 Tifton ___________18 Tiger ____________ 5
Toccoa __________ 16.7 Toomsboro _______ 5 Trenton _________ 0
TTuyrbiene --_-__-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-_-120 0
*Ty-Ty __________10 Tyrone __________ 3 Tennga __________ 0
Talking Rock __ __ 4 Tignall __________ 8 Twin City ________ 20 Unadilla _________ 20 Union City _______ 20
*Union Point ----- 60 Uvalda ---------- 3 Uptonville _______ 0 Valdosta _________16.7 Vidalia __________15 Vienna ___________16
Villa Rica ------- 70
Vanna ----------- 0
*Vidette --------- 5

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WWaacdoley-_-_-_-_~_-_-_-_-_-_-107~
Waresboro ------- 4 *Warrenton ______15 Warsaw _________ 3 Warwick ________ 5 Washington ______13
Watkinsville ----- 5 Waycross ________18
Waynesboro ----- 6 West Point ______ 17~ Whigham ________ 8 White Plains _____ 0 Whitesburg ______ 5 *Willacoochee ____17~ Winder __________15 Winokur ________ 0 Woodbury _______ 7

Woodland ------- 3~ Woodstock ------- 2~ Worth----------- 0 W*Wrernigsh-ts-v-i-l-le---__-_-_-108 Woolsey --------- 0 Weston __________, 7~ Woodbine ------- 5 Wesley ---------- 2~ Waverly Hall ---- 2 Yatesville ________ 4 White ----------- 3~ Zebulon --------- 7~ Average rate 10.1 mills.
*Denotes tax rate levied in 1920.

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COUNTY

Bonded Debt

Total Tax State's

Floating Rate Proportion

Debt

(Mills) (Per Cent)

Appling ---------$ 40,000 $ 20,000 20 25

Atkinson -------Bacon ----------Baker ----------Baldwin _________
Banks ----------Barrow ----------
Barlow ---------
Ben Hill _________

72,500. 100,000
------
-----------
250,000
------
42,500

20,000 32% 15.5
150,000 30 16.6
------ 31 16.1 ------ 240 20.4
------ 23 21.7
------ 230 21.2 ------ 25 20
20,000 220 22.2

Berrien --------- ------

Bibb ------------ 1,440,000

Bleckley -------- 65,000

Brantley -------- ------

Brooks ----1------ 125,000

Bryan ---------- ------

Bulloch --------Burke ----------
Butts ----------Calhoun _________

---------------------

Camden --------- -----Candler --------- ------
Campbell ________ ------

Carroll ---------- ------

Catoosa --------- -~----
Charlton -------- 50,000

Chatham -------- 2,583,000

Chattahoochee --- ------

Chattooga ------- 33,000

Clarke ---------- 510,000

Cherokee -------- ------

------ 22 22.7 ------ 19 26.3 ------ 240 20.4
------ 16 31.2
------ 21 23.8 ------ 24 20.8 ------ 22 22.7
------ 16 31.2
------ 27 18.5 ------ 40 12.5 ------ 18% 26.6
------ 35 14.3
------ 220 22.2
------. 220 22.4
------ 210 23.2 ------ 22.8 21.9 ------ 220 22.4
------ 20 25 25,000 23 21.7
------ 17 29.4 ------ 20 25

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COUNTY

Bonded Debt

Clay -----------Cla~rton ---------
Clinch ----------Cobb ----------.--
Coffee ---- --- ----
Colquitt --------Columbia --------
Cook ----------Coweta ---------Crawford ________
Crisp ----------Dade_ - ---------

-----L-----
------
------
------
500,000 -----240,000 500,000
------
40,000 60,000

Dawson --------Decatur --------DeKalb --------Dodge ---------Dooly ----------Dougherty ------

-----------
500,000 94,000
------
460,000

Douglas --------Early ----------Echols ---------Effingham -------

----------------
------

Elbert -------- -- ------

Emanuel -------- ------

EYans - ----- ---- ------

Fannin --------Fayette --------Floyd ----------Forsyth --------Franklin --------

------
------
704,000
------
30,000

Total Tax State's

Floating Rate Proportion

Debt

(Mills) (Per Cent)

------
-----------------------------------------------------------------------
30,000
-------------------------------------------------------------
-----------

22Yz 210 170 220 230 22 20 25 220 25 20 19.3 24 25 220 220 23 18 27.8 27 27 24 190 30 37 30 250 19 260 25

22.2 23.2 28.5 22.2 21.2 22.7 25 20 22.2 20 25 25.9 20.8 20 22.2 22.2 21.7 27.7 18 18.5 18.5 20.8 25.5 16.6 13.8 16.6 19.5 26.3 18.8 20

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'COUNTY

Bonded Debt

Fulton ---------- ------

Gilmer ---------- ------

Glascock --------- ------

Glynn --------- 310,000

Gordon ---------
Grady ----------

_-_-_-_-_-_-,

Greene ---------- ------

Gwinnett -------- ------

Habersham ------ ------

Hall ------------ 60,000

Hancock -------- 44,000

Haralson -------- ------

Harris ---------- 35,000

Hart ------------ ------

Heard Henry

-__-_-_-_-_--._-_-__-

------
------

Houston -------- ------

Irwin ----------- ------

Jackson --------- 100,000

Jasper ---------- ------

Jeff Davis ------- ------

Jefferson -------- 50,000

Jenkins --------Johnson --------Jones ----------Lamar ---------Lanier - ----- ----
Laurens --------Lee ------------Liberty ---------

------
------
------
-----------
500,000 80,000
------

Total Tax State's

Floating Rate Proportion

Debt

(Mills) (Per Cent)

------
------
------
-----------
----------------
------
-__-_-_-,-__-

22~ 17~
27 23 23 27 21
22~
18
22~
20

22.2 28.5 18.5 21.7 21.7 18.5 23.8 22.2 27.7 22.2 25

------ 18 ------ 23~ ------ 25 ------ 30 ------ 30 ------ 24
------ 24~
------ 20
------ _22
------ 26
100,000 20

27.7 21.2 20 16.7 16.7 20.R 20.4 25 22.7 19.2 25

------ 28~ 17.5 ------ 18 27.7 ------ 24 20.8
------ 20 25
------ 20~ 24.4 15,000 22 22.7

------ 21 ------ 18

23.8 27.7

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COUNTY

Bonded Debt

Total Tax State's

Floating Rate Proportion

Debt

(Mills) (Per Cen~

Lincoln ---------- 30,000 ------ 27 18.5

Long ------------ ------ ------ 19 26.3

Lowndes -------- 100,000 88,000 200 24.4

Lumpkin -------- 76,000 ------ 20 25

Macon ---------- 190,000 ------ 30 16.7

Madison -------- ------ ------ 18 27.7

Marion ---------- ------ ------ . 24 20.8

McDuffie -------- ------ ------ 18 27.7

Mcintosh ------- 76,000 ------ 27 18.5

Meriwether ------ ------ ------ 22 22.7

Miller ----------- ------ ------ 280 17.5

Milton ---------- ------ ------ 28 17.8

Mitchell --------- ------ ------ 25 20

Monroe --------- ------ ------ 20 25

Montgomery ----- ------ ------ 30 16.7

Morgan ---------- ------

170 28.5

Murray --------- ------ ------ 23 21.7

Muscogee ------- ------ ------ 150 32.2

Newton --------- ------ ------ 18 27.7

Oconee ---------- ------ ------ 23 21.7

Oglethorpe ------- ------ ------ 17 29.4

Paulding -------- ------ ------ 18 27.7

Pickens --------- ------ ------ 180 27

Pierce ------------ 45,000 ------ 26 19.2

Pike ------------- ------

24 20.8

Polk ------------ 200,000 ------ 19 26.3

Pulaski --------- ------ ------ 30 16.6

Putnam --------- 2,000 ------ 22 22.7

Quitman -------- ------ ------ 25.4 19.7

Rabun ---------- ------ ------ 250 19.6

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COUNTY

Bonded Debt

Total Tax State's

Floating Rate Proportion

Debt

(Mills) (Per Cent)

Randolph ------- ------ ------ 20 25

Richmond ------- 62,000 136,000 220 22.2

Rockdale -------- ------ ------ 26 19.2

Schley ---------- ------ ------ 16 31.2

Screven --------- ------ ------ 40 12.5

Seminole ---------- ------ ------ 30 16.6

Spalding _____

406,000 ------ 230 21.2

Stephens -------- . ------ ------ 26 19.2

Stewart --------- ------ ------ 23 21.7

Sumter --------- 224,000 ------ 20 25

Talbot Taliafe

r-ro------------.-.---

46,000
------

------ 220 22.2 ------ 23 21.7

Tattnall ------- ------ ------ 220 22.2

Taylor ---------- ------ ------ 20 25
Telfair ---------- ------ ------ 22 22..7

Terrell ---------- ------ ------ 25 20

Thomas ---------- 76,000 24,000 18 27.7

Tift -------.----- 346,000 ------ 28 17.8

Toombs --------Towns ----------
Treutlen --------
Troup --------:----

----------------
615,000

------ 24 20.8
------ 19 26.3
------ 35 14.3
50,000 230 21.2

Turner ----------
Twiggs ---------
lJnion -----------
lJpson -----------
Walker ---------
Walton --------Ware -----------
Warren ---------

70,000
-----------
150,000 400,000 200,000 500,000
------

------ 24 20.8
------ 18
------ 20 25 ------ 170 28.5 ------ 18 27.7 ------ 20 25 ------ 23 21.7 ------ 25 20

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COUNTY
Washington
1Nayne ----------
Webster _________ Wheeler _________
White ----------Whitfield -------Wilcox ---------wilkes ---------Wilkerson ------Worth ----------

Bonded Debt
------
200,000
---------------------
140,000 125,000
------
400,000

Total Tax State's

Floating Rate Proportion

Debt

(Mills) (Per Cent)

-----------
------
-----------
---------------------
------

25 20 20 25 23.32 21.4 40 12.5 19 26.3 20 25 27 18.5 19 26.3 30 16.7 33 115.1

$12,714,000 $779;000 3715.32 21.1

THURSDAY JUNE 29, 1922.

CITY

Debt Bonded

Adel --------------------$ 57,500

Albany ----------------- 447,000 . lunericus ______________ _ 289,000

Ashburn ---------------- 67,000 Athens ________________ _ 669,000

*Atlanta ---------------- 14,400,000 Augusta _______________ _ 3,175,000
Bainbridge ____________ _ 172,000
Barnesville ____________ _ 130,500 Blackshear ____________ _ 56,000 Blakely ________________ _ 80,000

Boston ----------------Brunswick _____________ _
Buford ________________ _

34,500 242,000 35,000

Oairo -----------------Calhoun _______________ _

69,000 53,000

Canton ----------------- 59,500 Carrollton _____________ _ 288,000

Cartersville ____________ _ 172,000

Cedartown -------------- 275,500

College Park ------------ 48,000 Coluinbus ______________ _ 1,628,000

Coininerce -------------- 70,000

Cordele ----------------- 227,000 Covington __________ .:. __ _ 70,000

Dalton ------------------ 115,000

Dawson ---------------- 114,000

Decatur ---------------- 182,000

Doerun ----------------- 34,000 Douglas ---------------- 120,000

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Debt Floating
46,000 55,000
7,000
200,000 11,000
127,000 1,000
12,000 17,400 3,100
12,000 19,921 25,500 14,000
600 3,000

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.CITY

Debt Bonded

Douglasville ___________ _
Dublin -----------------East Lake -------------East Point -------------Eatonton ---------------Fitzgerald ___________ _

48,000 382,000
65,000 116,000
65,000 224,000

Forsyth ---------------Fort Gaines ___________ _

38,600 46,000

Fort Valley -------------
Gainesville ------------Grantville _____________ _

77,000 235,500 500,000

Griffin ------------------- 286,000

Hapeville --------------- 40,000

Hartwell --------- _____ _ 106,500

Hawkinsville ------------- 105,000

Hogansville ------------- 43,500

Jesup ------------------ 62,000

Kirkwood ---------------- 140,000

LaFayette --------------- 59,000

LaGrange --------------- 915,000

Lawrenceville ------------ 51,100

Lithonia ---------------- 35,000

Louisville ---------------- 42,000

McDonough ------------- 40,500

McRae ----------------- 73,000

Macon -----------------~Iadison ----------------
Manchester ------------Marietta ---------------

1,993,000 135,000 85,000 165,000

Milledgeville ------------ 172,000

Debt Floating
6,000
130,000 500
8,500
2,800
4,000 4,000 1,000 1,100 15,000 5,000
3,000
15,600
10,000

THURSJ)AY JUNE 29, 1922.

CITY

Debt Bonded

:Millen

51,000

~Ionroe ----------------- 130,000

Montezuma ------------- 31,000

Monticello -------------- 47,000

Moultrie ---------------- 143,000

Nashville --------------- 47,000

Nevv-nan ----------------- 204,000 Ocilla _________________ _ 56,000

Pelham ----------------- 110,000 Quitman ---------------- 22,000

Reynolds --------------- 50,000

Rockmart -------------- 50,000

Rome -------------------- 500,000

Royston ---------------- 70,000 Sandersville ___________ _ 75,000
Savannah ______________ _ 3,524,000

Sparta ----------------- 66,500

Statesboro --------------- 19:5,000

Svvainsboro -------------- 125,000

, Sylvania ---------------- 35,000

Sylvester --------------- 100,000

Tallapoosa ------------- 67,000

Tennille ---------------- 53,000

Thomaston ------------- 96,000

Thomasville ------------ 285,000

Tifton ------------------ 123,000 Toccoa ----------------- 152,000

Unadilla ---------------- 49,000

Valdosta---------------- 471,000

Vidalia ----------------- 129,000

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Debt Floating
29,000
12,000 17,000
5,000 220,000 23,000.
15,000 5,000

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CITY
Vienna -----------------\Vashington ____________ _ \Vaycross ______________ _ \Vaynesboro ___________ _ \Vest Point ____________ _ \Vinder ________________ _
\Voodbury _____________ _

Debt Bonded
52,000 116,000 368,000
71,1500 77,500 116,000 35,000

Debt Floating
71,000 50,000

$37,940,000 $1,181,200
*Atlanta's authorized bond issue of $8,900,000 included.

THURSDAY JUNE 29, 1922.

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EXHIBIT D.

OFFICE STATE TAx CoMMISSIONER
Atlanta, Georgia, June 14, 1922.
Hon. Thomas W. Hardwick, Governor,
State Capitol, Atlanta.
Dear Sir:
As requested by you on yesterday, I am furnishing you an estimate of the revenues for the present year from ad valorem taxes.
During the early part of the year I held tax conferences throughout the State and from the information furnished me in these conferences by tax officials, there will be a reduction in the value of country .real estate of about ten per cent average for the whole State. There will be practically no reduction in city property, while there will be in live stock and other personal property a reduction of possibly twenty per cent. This will mean an average loss of the total digest values of about ten per cent.
This will mean an aggregate return from all of the counties of about One Billion Dollars, and the net revenues after expense of collection, will run about Four Million, Six Hundred Thousand ($4,600,000) Dollars. The inheritance taxes for the year will probably run about the same as last year, or, around Three Hundred and Twenty-five Thousand ($325,000) Dollars.

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These being the only two classes of taxes which come immediately under the supervision of this office, I am not in position to make you an estimate of the probable revenues arising from the special taxes, fees, and taxes on fuel oils. The ComptrollerGeneral's office could furnish you an estimate of these revenues.
Very truly yours~
H. J. FuLLBRIGHT,
State Tax Commissioner.
HJF/A

Mr. Jackson of the 21st moved that the General assembly, in joint session convened, do now dissolve, and the motion prevailed.

The Senate withdrew.
Mr. Moore of Appling moved that the House do now adjourn, and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

FRIDAY, JuNE 30, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters, have had under consideration the following bills of the House, and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

House Bill No. 563, Calhoun County. House Bill No. 565, Schley County.
Respectfully submitted, RoBERT L. MoYE, Chairman.

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By unanimous consent the following report of the Mansion Leasing Committee was submitted and read:

STATE CAPITOL, ATLANTA, GA.

To The General Assembly of Georgia:

In compliance with an Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, 1921, creating a Commission to be known as the Mansion Leasing Commission, to receive proposals for, and affect the lease of the property at the corner of Peachtree and Cain streets in Atlanta, known as the Governor's Mansion, to report its acts and doings thereon to the General Assembly and for other purposes.
I have the honor as Secretary of said Commission to make the following report to-wit:
The Commission as aforesaid met in the office of the Governor on the morning of August 31st, 1921, for the purpose of perfecting an organization of said Commission and on motion, Honorable Thomas W. Hardwick Governor, was elected chairman, and Carl N. Guess Representative from DeKalb, was elected secretary.
In perfecting the organization of said commission a sub-committee was appointed therefrom consisting of the following gentlemen: Hon. Thomas \V. Hardwick Governor, S. G. McLendon Secretary of State, George M. Napier Attorney General, Thomas J. Carling of Macon, Bibb County, and Carl N. Guess secretary of said Commission. The sub-committee

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being given authority by the Commission as a whole, to furnish on request any and all data and particulars pertaining to the lease of said property to the newspapers of Atlanta, the State of Georgia, and out of the State should demand be made for the same, and in addition the sub-committee in their discression were to advertise for bids through any of the newspapers of this State and out of the State, as they might deem proper, said advertisement to be on a fifty year lease of said property, and thereafter report their acts and doings to the Corr,:tmission as a whole, at a meeting to be held in the office of the Governor September 8th, 1921.
During the period of time from perfecting the organization of said Commission as heretofore referred to, up to and including the date the lease of said property was awarded to the Massell Realty Company of Atlanta, the Commission met on seven (7) different occasions in the office of the Governor trying in every manner possible to get the very best results for the State.
All meetings of said Commission were held in the open for any discussion pertaining to the leasing of said property, and any other points relating thereto which would be to the interest of the State, by authority yested in the sub-committee advBrtisements on a fifty year lease were placed with the three daily papers of Atlanta, the New York Herald, and the Chicago Tribune, and on the final meeting of the sub-committee February 1st, 1922, The Massell Realty Company of Atlanta Georgia, having submitted the best biq, and one in which the subcommittee considered to be for the best interest

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for the State was accepted, and a report of said committee to that affect was immediately made to the Commission as a whole, which report was unanimously approved.
In awarding the lease of said Mansion property to the Massell Realty Company, a bond of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000) dollars, as security bond was required to be filed in the office of the Governor, which has been complied with, and other stipulations of the contract relating to the leasing of said property is hereto attached marked exhibit ''A'' and made a part of this report.
Respectfully submitted,
THos. W. HARDWICK, Governor.
Chairman Mansion Leasing Commission.
CARL N. GuEss,
Secretary Mansion Leasing Commission.

EXHIBIT "A"
State of Georgia, Fulton County.
This agreement and contract made and entered into this the first day of February, 1922, by and between the State of Georgia, party of the first part, acting through THE MANSION LEASE COMMISSION, created by Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, and duly empowered to execute this lease contract, as shown by Bill numbered 224, approved August 15th, 1921, (see Georgia Laws, 1921, pages 194, and 195) and Massell Realty Im-

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provement Company, a corporation, party of the second part.
WITNESSETH, That said party of the first part, hereinafter called the Lessor, has leased to, and does hereby lease to the party of the second part, hereinafter called the Lessee, and that Lessee has leased from, and does hereby lease from Lessor, the property called and known as the GOVERNOR'S MANSION PROPERY, in the City of Atlanta, said State and County, the same having the following metes and bounds: Fronting East on the West side of Peachtree Street, one hundred and forty three (143) feet; running back West along and parallel with Cain Street three hundred eighty-one and seven tenths (381.7) feet on the North side of this tract, and four hundred, and eight, and one ienth (408.1) feet on the South side thereof to Spring Street; and having a West frontage of one hundred and forty six (146) feet along the East side of said Spring Street; the .same constituting the entire area in said GOVERNOR'S MANSION PROPERTY, whether containing more or less than the exact measurements just above set out, for a period of Fifty (50) years, beginning on June 1st, 1922, and expiring on May 31, 1972.

AMOUNT AND TIME OF RENTAL pAYMENTS
Lessor accepts the lease of the property as above stated and agrees to pay therefor the following amounts as annual rental, in twelve equal installments, payable monthly in advance, to the Treasurer

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of the State of Georgia, on or before twelve o'clock noon, on the tenth of each and every month during the period of this lease, time being of the essence of the contract, to-wit: from June 1, 1922 to May 31, 1932, the sum of Twenty Thousand ($20,000.00) Dollars per annum; from June 1, 1932, to May 31, 1942, the sum of Twenty-five Thousand ($25,000.00) Dollars per annum: From June 1, 1942 to May 31, 1952, the sum of Thirty Thousand ($30,000.00) Dollars per annum; from June 1, 1952, to May 31, 1962, the sum of Thirty-five Thousand ($35,000.00) Dollars per annum : From June 1, 1962 to May 31, 1972, the sum of Forty-three Thousand, Five Hundred ($43,500.00) Dollars per annum.

FIRST QuARTER's RENT PAm IN ADvANCE.
Lessor hereby acknowledges the receipt of the sum of Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars cash in hand paid, which covers the first three months rental herein named, that is to say, for the months of June, July and August, 1922. And, in addition to the amounts which lessor shall receive for said property lessee agrees to pay during the entire term of this lease all taxes both on the lot and the improvements as they now are, or may hereafter be made, which may be lawfully assessed against said property, and all street and sidewalk improvements, curbing, white lights, sewers or any other kind of assessments which may be lawfully assessed against said property.

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ALL TAxEs, INsURANCE, ETc., To BE PAID BY LESSEE.
All taxes and cha:rges herein named shall be paid by the Lessee to the Lawful Tax Collectors, within the time required by law, in ordinary course, and without penalty thereof, except in such cases as the Lessee may contest the legality, or amount thereof, in which event, payment shall be made before levy of execution on final judgment. For all payments made by the lessee herein required to be paid to the lawful Tax, or like Collecting Officers, lessee shall at once furnish to the lessor duplicate receipts, or other satisfactory evidence of such payments. Lessee also agrees to pay the fire insurance premiums on not less than seventy-five (75) percent of the value of the buildings to be erected on said property, and to pay the premiums on a reasonable amount of liability insurance. Lessee shall at once furnish duplicate receipts, or satisfactory evidence of such payments.

AMoUNT To BE ExPENDED FoR BuiLDINGS.
Lessee is bound to expend at least the sum of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars in the erection of a permanent building on said property, within the first twelve months of this lease period; and is likewise bound to expend not less than the additional sum of Two Hundred and Fifty ($250,000.00) Dollars, within the next five years of the lease period: so that by the end of the first six years of the lease period the amount expended for a permanent building, or buildings, on said property shall

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amount to not less than Three Hundred and Fifty Thousand ($350,000.00) Dollars.

FniE-PROOF BuiLDINGs.
All buildings on said property, whether permanent or temporary, shall be of fire proof construction, in accordance with the accepted meaning of the term "fire proof" in this State, at the time of the erection of the respective buildings, and such buildings shall be in keeping with the surroundings at the time of the erection of such buildings, and in accordance with the building requirements of the City of Atlanta, and to determine if these provisions are being complied with, the plans and specifications shall be submitted to the Governor, or other duly constituted authority.

RIGHT To CANCEL LEASE.
Upon the failure of lessee, or of its successors or assigns to comply with the terms and stipulations contained in the two paragraphs next hereinbefore written, lessor shall have the right to cancel this lease, and take possession of the property upon thirty days written notice. Also lessor shall have the right to verify the amounts expended for said permanent improvements.

BoND FoR ONE HUNDRED THousAND DoLLARS.
Lessee shall give a bond, of even date herewith, satisfactory to lessor, guaranteeing the expenditure of One Hundred Thousand ($100,000.00) Dollars

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during the first twelve months of this lease, as aforesaid.

ALL DAMAGES AssuMED BY LEssEE.
Any and all damages to persons or property which may be suffered by lessee, its tenants, or its laborers, or by any person, or persons whomsoever, by reason of anything that may be done, or which may occur about the buildings, improvements, premises, sidewalks, or premises adjoining at any time during the lease period, shall be borne by the lessee, and all suits for any claims or damage arising in any manner whatsoever in connection therewith shall be defended, and judgment thereon, if any, paid by the lessee.
N0 ENCUMBRANCE EFFECTIVE AGAINST LESSOR.
No mortgage or incumbrance shall be placed on any of the buildings, or improvements, to be erected on this property, except with the express understanding that the same shall be inferior to all of lessor's rights under this lease, and that such buildings and improvements shall -vest unincumbered in lessor upon any breach or default under the conditions and stipulations herein, as well as upon the expiration of the lease.
No RECEIVER OR TRusTEE SHALL AcQUIRE INTEREST.
It is agreed that no Receiver or Trustee, in legal proceedings with which the lesse may be concerned, nor of any persons to whom lessee may transfer this

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lease, shall ever have any interest or claim in or to the leased premises, or in or to this lease, or to the rents arising thereunder, unless such Receiver or Trustee is appointed at the instance of lessor to protect its interests. It is also agreed that the rights given to lessor under this lease oontract are optional to it, and are cumulative to any right it may have now, or hereafter, to enforce this lease contract.

LEssEE's RIGHT To TAKE PossESSION
Upon the execution of this lease contract, together with the payment of the aforesaid Five Thousand ($5,000.00) Dollars, to cover the rental for the first three months, and upon the execution and delivery to lessor of the bond guaranteeing the erection of permanent buildings during the first twelve months of this lease, as aforesaid, lessee or his assigns, shall have the right to take possession of the property, and to demolish, remove and dispose of the buildings and improvements thereon, and also to grade and excavate the ground in preparation for the erection of permanent building, or buildings to be erected thereon.

LEssoR's RIGHT To RE-ENTER. UPoN DEFAULT.
It is hereby expressly provided that, in the event lessee defaults in the payment of rents, taxes, or other assessments against said property, time being of the essence of the contract, lessor may, at its option, and upon thirty-days written notice cimcel this lease without claim or liability for damages, and re-enter and take possession of said property.

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ALL BUILDINGs To BE KEPT IN REPAIR.
Lessee shall keep all buildings and improvements erected on this property in fair and reasonable repair at all times without cost to lessor, and is to keep such buildings and improvements insured, with loss payable to lessor and lessee jointly as their interests may appear in an amount equal to seventyfive percent of the value of such buildings and improvements. Lessee is to pay premiums on all insurance, and to deliver all policies to lessor. In the event of any <>f the buildings or improvements erected upon the premises herein leased shall be injured or destroyed by fire, or any other agency or cause, lessee shall begin their repair, restoration and replacement within ninety days, and the proceeds from any and all policies of insurance on said buildings shall be utilized and applied to the repair, restoration or replacement of such buildings or improvements.

ALL BuiLDINGs AND IMPROVEMENTS REVERT TO L~o~ssoR.
All buildings and improvements upon the premises, including elevators and all appurtances thereto, and all engines, dynamos, boilers, furnaces, heating apparatus, and all such appliances used in connection with any buildings that may be erected, and any and all essential parts of any building or improvement that may be placed on the leased premises which shall be deemed and considered a part of the realty, at the expiration of the lease period, or at the time of any default which may operate to cause a

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termination of the lease, as herein provided, immediately shall become the property of, and title thereto vest in lessor free from any claim of lessee, its assigns, or any person whomsoever. It is expressly agreed that any and all sub-lessees and transferees under this lease contract, shall be bound .by the terms, stipulations and conditions contained herein.
In witness whereof, lessor has hereunto, by the aforesaid duly empowered MANSION LEASE COMMISSION, duly constituted according to the provisions of said Act as aforesaid, executed this lease contract, and has duly obligated the STATE OF GEORGIA, the owner of said property: And the lessee, through its proper officers, duly authorized to do so, has signed this instrument, and caused its seal to be attached thereto, the same being done in duplicate, on the day and year first above written.
Executed in presence of, who witnesss as to all of the Commissioners except Senator Pat Haralson, Julian B. McCurry and Senator Frank Mauston.

R. 0. HuiE, ALBERT CoLLIER,
N. P. State at Large. As to Pat Haralson,
JOHN HARALSON' B. B. FITE,
N. P. Union Co. Ga.

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As to Julian B. McCurry,

HENRY McCuRRY,

J. D. BRADWELL,

Judge City Court of Athens.

Executed in the presence of

R. 0. HuiE,



ALBERT CoLLIER.

Witnesses as to signature of Frank S. Manson: T. R. GRESS, N. P. State at Large,. Residence, Atlanta, Ga. SEwARD M. SMITH.
THOS. w. HARDWICK,
Governor.

Sig. 5

S. G. McLENDON, Secretary of State.
GEo. M. NAPIER, Attorney General.
PAT HARALSON,
FRANK c. MANSON,
THos. M. SwiFT, SR., J. B. DANIEL, THOS. J. CARLING, CARL N. GuEss, JULIAN B. McCURRY, C. M. MrrLAM,
Constituting the MANSION LEASE COMMISSION. MAssELL REALTY IMPROVEMENT Co. BY BEN. J. MASSELL,
President.

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The following bills of the House, favorably reported, were read the second time :

.By Mr. Cowart of Calhoun-
House Bill No. 163. A bill to change the county site from Morgan to Arlington.

By Mr. Herring of Schley-
House Bill No. 563. A bill to change the county for the Treasurer of the County of Schley, and for other purposes.

Mr. McMichael of Marion moved that House Resolution No. 117 be taken from the table and placed upon the Calendar, and the motion prevailed.

1Ir. McMichael of Marion moved that House Resolution No. 117 be referred to the Committee of the Whole House, to be reported back to the House not later than July 7th, and the motion prevailed.

The following Resolution of the House was taken from the table, read and adopted:

By Mr. Beck of Carroll-
House Resplution No. 120. A resolution requesting certain information from the Highway Commission.

The following resolution of the House was taken from the table and read:

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By Mr. Arnold of Clay-

House Resolution No. 127. A resolution requesting certain information from the Department of Agriculture.
By unanimous consent further consideration of the above resolution was postponed until next Wednesday Morning, July 5th, immediately following the order of unanimous consents.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referrd to the Committees:

By Messrs. Steele, Guess and McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 567. A bill to be entitled an act to create a new Judicial circuit, known as DeKalb Circuit, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Steele, Guess and McClelland of DeKalb:
House Bill Ne. 568. A bill to repeal an act, approved August 13, 1914, entitled "An Act to regulate the business of Investment Companies."
Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

By Messrs. Valentino of Chatham and Moore of Fulton:

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House Bill No. 569. A bill to amend the tax act of 1921, as to Billboards, and for other purposes.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Camp of Campbell-
House Bill No. 570. A bill to establish a county depository in Campbell County, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Camp of Campbell-
House Bill No. 571. A bill to abolish the office of County Treasurer of Campbell County and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill. No. 572. A bill to amend an act creating a municipal court of Atlanta, by permitting clerks to administer oaths.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of FultonHouse Bill No. 573. A bill to authori~e tlte

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various counties to prescribe the fiscal year to cover a definite period, and for other purposes.

Referred to Committee on Counties and Oounty Matters.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 574. A bill to amend Article 13, Section 1, Paragraph 1, of the Constitution as to publication of amendments to the Constittution, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Messrs. Whitaker of Lowndes and Woodard of Cook-
House Bill No. 575. A bill to change the name of the South Georgia State Normal College at Valdosta.
Referred to Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches.

By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-
House Bill No. 576. A bill to amend Section 5849 ~f the Code pertaining to the subpoenaing of witnesses resident in a county, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-

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House Bill No. 577. A bill to require non-residents of Camden County Georgia, to procure licenses to fish in said county.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Messrs. DuBose and Dudley of Clark-
House Bill No. 578. A bill to authorize the collection of tuition by the University of Georgia and its branches.
Referred to Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches.

By Messrs. DuBose and Dudley of Clarke, and Way of Liberty-
House Bill No. 1579. A bill to supply a deficiency in the school funds caused by misappropriation of R. N. Berrien.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Mann of Glynn-
House Bill No. 580. , A bill to build and construct certain roads in Glynn County, and for othe.r purposes.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Mann of Glynn-
House Bill No. 581. A bill to grant to Glynn County certain marsh lands, and for other purposes.

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Referred to Committee on Public Property.

By Mr. Hodges of Evans-
House Bill No. 582. A bill to amend an act approved August 16, 1915, relative to Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in Evans Co.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Rutherford of Monroe-
House Bill No. 583. A bill to provide for the establishment of a school of Agriculture in the State, and for other purposes.
Referred to Gommittee on University of Georgia and Its Branches.

By 'Mr. Hodges of Evans-
House Bill No. 584. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Claxton.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Brown of Emanuel-
House Bill No. 585. A bill to amend an act to define the age of female consent to sexual intercourse in the State.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.



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By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher 3:nd Pekins of Muscogee-

House Bill No. 568. A bill to amend an act to abolish Justice Courts and J. P.'s in the State of Geogia.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary . No.2.

By Mr. Singletary of Grady-
House Bill No. 587. A bill to prohibit the levying and collection by taxing authorities in counties of certain population.
Refered to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Boswell of Greene-
House Bill No. 588. A bill to amend Section 38 of the Civil Code of 1910, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Privileges and Elections.

By Mr. Beck of Carroll-
House Bill No. 589. A bill to provide for establishing a printing plant and commission for the State of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Public Printing.

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as the act regulating the signing of criminal bonds in this State.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Messrs. Camp of Campbell, Russell of Barrow, Reagan of Henry and Baldwin of Morgan-
House Bill No. 591. A bill to amend an act approved August 9, 1920, relative to protection of furbearing animals.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.
By Mess:cs. Bentley, Holloway & ~Ioore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 592. A bill to amend the constitution to authorize various branches to abolish fees in certain counties.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Mr. McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 593. A bill to amend Section 870 of the Code of Georgia of 1910, relative to charters in cities of certain population.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Moore of Fulton and DeLaPerriere of Jackson-
House Bill No. 594. A bill to provide for credit unions, to define their power, and for other purposes.

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Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Messrs. Bobo and Fielden of Wilkes-
House Bill No. 1595. A bill to amend and change Section 3306 of the Code of Georgia of 1910, relative to bonds for title to personal property.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 596. A bill to abolish an act entitled ''An Act to establish the City Courf of Hazlehurst.''
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 597. A bill to repeal an act approved August 18, 1919, entitled an act to make tax colleclors in cetain counties ex-Officio Sheriffs.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr.Hatcher of ~urke-
House Bill No. 598. A bill to amend Section 1249, Vol. I, of the Code of Georgia,- relative to the selection of banks.
Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

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By Mr. Steele of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 599. A bill to prohibit pool and billiard rooms and like places in the State and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Messrs. Pilcher and McDonald of RichmondHouse Bill K o. 600. A bill to amend the act ap-
proved J ul~, 25, 1921, relative to the fire department of city of Augusta.
Referred to Committee on }Iunicipal Government.
By Messrs. Macintyre and Jones of ThomasHouse Bill Ko. 601. A bill to amm1d an act creat-
ing the City Court of Thomasville. Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.
By Mr. Ricketson of WarenHause Bill No. 602. A bill to amend an act to
establish the public schools for the Town of Warrenton, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Messrs. Hines and Griffin of Decatur-
House Bill No. 603. A bill to amend Section 5(a) of Article 5, and Section 3 of Art. 6, etc., of Constitution relative to State Highway of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Public Highway.

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By Messrs. Swin"dle & DeLaPerriere of Jackson-
House Bill No. 604. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Nicholson, in Jackson County.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 605 A bill to authorize consolidation of the Independent school system, by special act.
Referred to Committee on Education.

Bv Mr. Reagan of Henry and Russell of Barrow-
House Bill No. 606. A bill to amend an act approved August 9th, 1920, relative to fur-bearing animals in the State of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Mr. Moore of Appling-
House Bill No. 607. A bill to provide for the control of veneral diseases, examination, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation.

By Mr. Byrd of Crisp-
House Resolution No. 128. 606A. A resolution to appropriate money to widow ofT. P. Powell, and for other purposes.

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Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Henderson of White-
House Resolution No. 129. 606B. A resolution to pay the old class pensioners $226,700.00, for 1922, and new pensioners $975,000.00.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
The following resolution of the House was read, referred to the Committee on the Privileges of the Floor, reported favorably, and adopted:
House Resolution No. 130. Resolved by the Legislature of (!eorgia that 'the privileges of the floor be extended to Mrs. Virginia Clay and Mrs. Margaret Jones, the beautiful and charming wives of the President of the Senate and the Senator from the 39th.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted-

By Mr. Hamilton of ~loyd-
House Resolution No. 131. Whereas, it having been communicated to the Georgia Legislature that Hon. Woodrow Wilson, former president of the United States, continues to improve in health followin,g his attack of three years ago, therefore be it
Resolved, That the said Georgia Legislature, in annual session assembled, express its gratification

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and its wish and xpectation that Mr. Wilson may be spared to see a full fruition of his efforts for international peace and good will.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Spealoer:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of the Senate:

A bill to enable electors of this State who are absent from the counties of their residence on election days be allowed to vote.

The following; message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Spealoer:
The Senate has adopted the following resolution of the Senate to-wit:
A resolution requesting that when the General Assembly adjourn today it stand adjourned until 11 o'clock Wednesday, July 5th, 1922.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 11 was withdrawn from the House.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 28 was tabled.

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The following resolution of the Senate was read:
Senate Resolution No. 66. A resolution requesting that when the General Assembly adjourn today it stand adjourned untilll o'clock Wednesday, July 5th, 1922.

Mr. Wyatt of Troupe moved that the above resolution be concurred in, and the motion prevailed.
The following bill of the House was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 39. A bill to promote the health
and welfare of females employed in any establishment, by limiting the hours of their employment, providing sanitary conditions of employment, and for other purposes.
Mr. Beckham of Dougherty moved that the House do now adjourn, the motion prevailed, and the bill went over as unfinished business.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Smiley of Long, Bowden of Ware, Cowart of Calhoun, and Beckham of Dougherty.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until Wednesday morning at 11 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 5, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 11 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham ,Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush

Byrd of Crisp Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel ;of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes

Ennis Evans Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee
Hawkin~
Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur

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Hines of Sumter

Mann

Smith of Carroll

Hodges

::\Ianning

Smith of Haralson

Holland

:Mason

Smith of Meriwether

Holloway

Mayo

Steele

Horne

Miles

Stone

Houser

::\Iixon

Stovall

Houston

Moore of Appling

Strickland

Howard of Forsyth Moore of Fulton

Sumner of Johnson



Howard of Screven Hufstetler

Moye :\Iundy

Sumner of Wheeler Swift

Hullender

Neal of Union

Swindle

Hunter

Nichols

Tatum

Hyman

Owen

Thompson of Coweta

Jackson

Parks

Thompson of Dodge

Jones of Coweta

Parrish

Trippe

Jones of Thomas

Patten

Turner

Jones of Walker

Penland

Tyson

Johnson of Bartow Perkins

Valentino

Johnson of

Perryman

' Van Landingham

Chattahoochee Peterson

VanZant

Johnson of Pickens Phillips of Jasper

Vocelle

Keith

Phillips of Telfair Walker

Kennedy

Pickren

Wall

King of Jefferson

Pilcher

\Vatkins

King of Wilcox

Price

Way

Kittrell

Pruett

Webb

Knight

Quincey

Weston

Langford of Hall

Ramsey

Whitley

Lankford of Toombs Reagan

Whitaker of Lowndes

Lewis

Reville

Whitaker of Rockdale

Logan

Ricketson

Whitworth

Luke

Riley

Williams of Harris

McClelland

Robinson

\Villiams of Miller

McClure

Russell

Williams of Walton

McDonald of Mitchell Rutherford

Wimberly

McDonald of

Salmon

Winship

Richmond Sapp

Wood

McGarity

Shettlesworth

\Voodard

Macintyre

Sibley

Worthy

McMichael

Singletary

Wyatt.

Maddox

Smiley

Wynne

Malone

Smith of Bryan

l\Ir. Speaker

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By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

By unanimous consent House Bill No. 127 was withdrawn from the House.

By unanimous consent the following resolution of



the House was taken up for consideration:

By Mr. Arnold of ClayHouse Resolution No. 127. A resolution re-
questing certain information from the Department of Agriculture.
The following substitute for the above resolution
was read:

By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
A resolution requesting certain information from the Commissioner of Agriculture and The President of the State College of Agriculture, and for .other purposes.
1Vhereas, for several years a large number of citizens of Georgia have desired certain information regarding the Department of Agriculture and the State College of Agriculture located at Athens, such as the number of employees, the services rendered by each and the sums paid each and whereas it has been' generally understood that there is a great deal of duplication in the work of the Department of Agriculture and the State College of Agriculture.

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Now therefore in order to give the people the information to which they are entitled and to correct any evils which may exist as to duplication of the work as aforesaid,
Be it resolved, by the House of Representatives:
That the Commissioner of Agriculture be and he is hereby requested to furnish to the House of Representatives of Georgia the following information towit:
1. The names and addre-sses of all employees of the Department of Agriculture, its branches, and sub-departments, including the department of Entomology, and all other sub-departments, who have drawn pay, from any public fund whether they were on the regular pay roll or not, or whether they devoted full or part time or not, or whether the pay came out of regular appropriations or not, together with the sum or sums drawn by each, and a statement of the duties of each, and the services performed by each. Also in addition to the salary or fees paid ea:ch a statement of the sums drawn by each as expenses whether for traveling expenses or otherwise. The above information to cover the period from June 1st, 1921, to June 1st, 1922.

2. A complete list of oil and fertilizer inspectors with their addresses the fees or salaries drawn by each for the saine period.
3. The amount of appropriations to each department together with a statement of other sums received by the Department or employees from

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other sources, such as fertilizer and oil inspection fees for same period.
4. A statement of the time devoted by each employee to their official duties.
15~ The disposition of cotton samples and other samples received by the Depart~I~<ent or its branches, together with statement of the disposition of the proceeds from the sale of cotton and other samples and the amount of money, if any, received from these sources.
6. Be it resolved further that the above information be submitted to the House of Representatives not later than July 8th, 1922.
Be it further resolved that three hundred copies of this resolution together with the information requested be printed for the use of the members of the General Assembly.
Be it further resolved that the President of the State College of Agriculture be requested to furnish not later than July 8th, 1922, to the House of Representatives, the names and addresses of all employees working for or under the direction of the State College of Agriculture, the duties or services performed by each, the time devoted by each to their official duties, the sums appropriated to the State College of Agriculture togethel" with a statement of other sums received by the State College . from other sources, including the sums received from the United States Government, also a statement showing the salaries or fees drawn by each

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employee and their expenses and from what fund paid. All of which information to cover the period from June 1st, 1921, to June 1st, 1922.
Mr. Knight of Berrien moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The substitute was adopted and the resolution was adopted by substitute.
The following communi,cation was received from Hon. Wm. A. Wright, Comptroller-General of the State of Georgia:

To the General Assembly of the State of Georgia:
I hand you herewith tabulation of all fee reports filed in the office of the Comptroller-General since my last report to the 1921 Session of the Legislature.
Respectfully,
WM. A. WRIGHT,
Comptroller-General.

EXHIBIT ''A.'' Fee Reports, State House Of11.cia.ls a.nd Employees.
Clerk Supreme Court.
Fee!!l Received
Second Quarter, 1921 ---------------------------------$ 431.45
Third Quarter, 1921 -------------------,.--------------- 83.50 Fourth Quarter, 1921 --------------------------------- 444.05 First Quarter, 1922 ------------------------------------ 313.50

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Clerk Court of Appea.ls.
Second Quarter, 1921 ----------------------------------$1,247.90 Third Quarter, 1921 ---------------------------------- 569.63 Fourth Quarter, 1921 ----- __ --------------------------- 977.20 First Quarter, 1922 ------------------------------------ 1,178.55
State Librarian.

Second Quarter, 1921 _-------------------------- __ ---$ 512.00 Third Quarter, 1921 ------------- _-------------------- 440.00 Fourth Quarter, 1921 -------------------------------- 434.00 First Quarter, 1922 ---------------------------------- 644.00

Assistant Bond Commissioner

Paid State

Second Quarter, 1921 ----------------------$ 25.50 $ .75

Third Quarter, 1921 _-----------------------

22.50

Fourth Quarter, 1921 ----------------------No report

First Quarter, 1922 ------------------------ 900.00

8.75

EXlOBIT ''B."
Fee Reports, Sheriffs of City Courts.
Second Quarter, 1921. City Court of Savannah:
Money received from all sources ___ ------ ___ $1,431.05 Expenses ------------------- _------- _-------- 395.75
Third Quarter, 1921.
City Court of Savannah: Received from all sources ___ ---- ___________$1,380.90 Expenses ------------------------------------ 377.15
Fourth Quarter, 1921.
City Court of Savannah: Received from all sources --------------------$1,410.75 Expenses ------------------------------------ 381.20 First Quarter, 1922.
City Court of Savannah: Received from all sources _______ ---------------$1,362.25 Expenses ------------------ __ ---------------- 376.60

WEDNESDAY, JuLY 5, 1922.

EXHIBIT "C."
Fee Reports, Court Reporters and Stenographers. No Reports Filed.

EXHIBIT ''D.''

Fee Reports, Judges City and County Courts.

No Reports Filed.

Second Quarter, 1921.

Third Quarter, 1921.
Judge, City Court of Columbus: No fees or compentoation except salary.

No Reports Filed.

Fourth Quarter, 1921.

First Quarter, 1922.
Judge, City Court of Columbus: No fe~:s or compensation except salary.

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EXHIBIT ''E.''
County Treasurers, Commissions. No Reports Filed.

EXHIBIT ''F.''
Fee Reports, Solicitors-General.
Second Quarter, 1921.
Atlanta Circuit: Income -------------------------------------$10,703.45 Expenfltls _--------- ------------------------~ 3,135.75
Eastern Circuit: Fees and compensation, including $62.50 salary$ 392.50 Expenses ------------------------------------ 549.60 As prosecuting officer of City Court of Savannah received ---------------------------- 3,003.00
Macon Circuit: Income ---------------------------------- __ .$ 1,163.58

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Toombs Circuit: Receipts ------------------------------------$ 1,814.50 Disbur!!lements ------------------------------- 62.50
Third Qua.rter, 1921.

Atlanta Circuit: Income -------------------------------------$ 3,134.31
Expenses ------------------------------------ 1,927.65 Eastern Circuit:
Fees and compensation, including $62.50 salary_$ 113.50
Expenses ----------------------------------- 545.23 As Prosecuting officer of City Court of Savan-
nah received------------------------------ 3,175.20 Macon Circuit:
Total ----------------------------------------$1,117.02 Tallapoo!!IR Circuit:
Total _--------------------------------------$ 1,655. 73

Fourth Quarter, 1921

Albany Circuit: Total ---------------------------------------$ 2,252.00
Atlanta Circuit: Income -------------------------------------$ 9,538.19 Expenses ----------------------------------- 4,188.73
Eastern Circuit: Fees and compensation, including $62.50 salary-$ 227.50
Expenses ----------------------------------- 590.75 As prosecuting officer of City Court of Savan-
nah received ---------------------------- 2,271.00 Macon Circuit:
Total _---------------------- ___ -------------$ 1,921.41 Tallapoosa Circuit:
Total ----------------------------------------$2,370.73
First Qua.rter, 1922.

Albany Circuit:
Total ---------------------------------------$ 1,881.20 Ea!!ltern Circuit:
Fees and compensation, including $62.50 salary_$ 696.50

Expenses ----------------------------------As prosecuting officer of City Court of Savan-
nah received _-------------------------- _ In addition to foregoing on first of January of

692.03 2,254.00

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each year Chatham County pays to SolicitorGeneral in advance the sum of $800.00 on account of insolvent costs in the City Court of Savannah, and the further sum of $800.00 on account of insolvent costs in the Superior Court of Chatham County. Pataula Circuit:
Total -------------------- -----------'- -------$ 1,298.24 Tallapoosa Circuit:
Total --------------------.-------------------$ 1,867.91

EXliiBIT ''G.'' Fee Reports, Clerks City and County Courts.

Second Quarter, 1921.

City Court of Savannah:

Insolvent costs earned ------------------------$ 1,591.95

Salary at $3.00 per diem -------------------- 231.00

Costs in civil cases _-------- __ --------------- 1,677.92

Costs in criminal cases ---------------------- 68.10

Received from registry of the Court on account

of insolvent costs _________ --------------- 1,182.50

Received from Chatham County account insol-

vent costs ------------------------------
Total receipts ---7 --------------------------Number of men employed ------------------

125.00 3,284.52
2

Cost clerk hire and expenses ---------------- 1,076.96

Third Quarter, 1921

City Court of Savannah:

Insolvent costs earned _---------------------$ 1,566.25

Salary at $3.00 per diem -------------------- 237.00

Col'ts in civil cases ------------------------- 1,352.75 Costs in criminal cases ---------------------- 76.45.

Received from registry of the court on account

of insolvent costs ---------------------- 1,285.50 Received from Chatham County account inEIOl-

vent costs ------------------------------ 125.00

Total receipts ------------------------------- 3,076.70

Number of men employed ------------------

2

Cost clerk hire and expenses ------------------ 1,154.80

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Fourth Quarter, 1921.

City Court of Savannah:

Insolvent costs earned ----------------------$ 1,315.50

Salary at $3.00 per diem -------------------- 237.00

Costs in civil case51 --------------- __ ------- 1,854.67

Costs in criminal cases ---------------------- 57.30

Received from registry of the court on account

of insolvent costs---------------_-------- 921.25

Received from Chatham County account of

insolvent co!Ots -------------------------- 125.00

Total receipts ------------------------------- 3,195.22

Xumber of men employed --------------------

2

Cost clerk hire and expenses ---------------- _ 1,152.73

First Quarter, 1922.

'

City Court of Savannah:

Insolvent costs earned ___ -------------------$ 1,174.80
Salary at $3.00 per diem _-------------- ____ _ 231.00

Co!'ts in civil cases -------------------------Costs in criminal cases ---------------------Received from registrv of the court on account
of insolvent costs --~------ __ -----------
Received from Chatham County account insol
vent costs ------------------------------
Total receipts ------------------------------Number of men employed -------------------Cost clerk hire and expenses -----------------

1,606.30 72.45
903.75
125.00 2,938.50
2 1,120.86

EXHIBIT ''H.'' Fee Reports, Solicitors City and county Courts.

Second Quarter, 1921.

Criminal Court of Atlanta:

Income -------------------------------------$ 9,150.05 Expenses ___ ----------------------------- ___ 3,720.10 Baldwin County:

Total ___ -----------------------------------City Court of Polk County:
Total ---------------------------------------

137.24 696.29

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Third Quarter, 1921.

Criminal Court of Atlanta:
Income -------------------------- ____ -------
Expenses ----------------------------------Baldwin County:
Total _________________ ----------------------

8,121.56 3,895.00
293.2-!

Fourth Quarter, 1921.

Criminal Court of Atlanta: Income ------------- _____ -------------------$13,504.56 Expenses ----------------------------------- 4,390.08
Baldwin County: Total, $291.10, including Jan., 1922, the last month of Mr. Erwin Sibley's term of office.

First Quarter, 1922.

Criminal Court of Atlanta:

Income __ -----------------------------------$12,787.31

Expenl'es ___ ------------- _------------------ 4,435.34 City Courts of Pelham and Camilla:

Total -------------------------------------- _ c:ty Court of Polk County:
Total ---------------------------------------

264.50 472.53

EXHIBIT ''I.''

Fee Reports-Ordinaries

Second Quaner, 1921.

Insolvent or

Total Uncollected

Counties

Commission~

Costs

Bibb --------------$1,751.70

Chatham ---------- 4,108.91
Dawson ----------- 98.72 Douglas ----------- 207.25
Fulton ------------ 8,165.28
Glynn ------------- 506.42 Haralson ---------- 296.75 Marion ------------ 230.65

42.85 10.00
130.49

Number Clerks Employed
1 4
1 7
1

Third Quarter, 1921.

Bibb _-------------$1,677.55

1

ExpenSf:l $ 400.00
1,933.00
--------
30.00 4,065.00
32.50 60.00
--------
$ 325.00

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Chatham ---------- 3,607.20

5

Dawson ----------- 57.75

133.25

Douglas ----------- 266.25

1

Fulton ------------ 7,149.85

7

Haralson ---------- 197.00

288.46

1

Marion

234.89

Fourth Qua.rter, 1921.

Bibb --------------$1,851.75

1

Chatham ---------- 3,701.27

4

Calhoun ----------- 353.98

Dawson ----------- 140.20

75.50

Douglas ----------- 322.50

1

Fulton ------------ 7,277.50

8

Haralson ---------- 317.50

198.80

1

Marion ------------ 370.25

First Quarter, 1922.

Bibb --- __ ---------$1,750.75

1

Chatham ---------- 4,079.07

4

Cobb -------------- 722.00

Dawson ----------- 148.00

20.00

Douglas ----------- 401.25

10.00

1

Fulton ------------ 8,638.24

8

Haralson ---------- 451.71

7.84

Marion _____ ------- 380.90

2,022.50
--------
30.00 3,765.00
60.00
--------
$ 650.00 1,798.00 5.00
-------30.00 5,045.00 20.00
--------
$ 500.00 1,417.56
240.00
--------
30.00 3,930.00
20.00
--------

EXHIBIT ''J."

Fee Report;s--Clerks Superior Court.

Second Quarter, 1921.

Total Fees

Bleckley County:

Number employes, one; expense --------------$ 180.00

Insolvent or uncollected fees ---------------- 173.00

No feel' in criminal cases.

Fees in civil cases --------------------------
Court work ---------------------------------Recording papers ----------------------------

415.30 12.40
209.29

Total fees ---------------------------------$ 809.99

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Chatham County:

Employes, eight; expenses --------------------$ 3,281.87

Insolvent costs uncollected _----------------- 22,834.43

Fees in criminal case!' ---------------------Fees in civil cases ----------- __ -------------
Court vvork ---------------------------------Recording papers _---------------------------

151.35 1,398.10
315.00 4,238.40

Total received _----------------------------$ 6,HJ2.85
Davvson County:
Fees for services, paid ------------------------$ 172.85
Fees for services, unpaid ____ _: _______________ _ 49.35

Total ------------------------------------$ 222.20
Decatur County:
Employe!', tvvo; expenses --------------------$ 466.00
Insolvent or uncollected fees ----------------- 742.75 Fees in Criminal cases --------- ___ - --------- 1,514.65 Fees in civil cases --------------------------- 474.21
Court VVork ----------------------------~---- 151.80
Recording papers ---------------------------- 587.55
Total Fees --------------------------------$ 2,728.21 Fulton County:
Employes, 32; expenses _---------------------$13,227.50 In!IOlvent or uncollected ---------------------- 4,597.75 Fees in criminal cases --------------------- _ 5,840.20 Fees in civil cases -------------------------- 5,418.79 Court VVork -------------------------------- 3,051.27 Recording papers --------------------------- _ 8,636.95

Total received ----------------------------$22,947.21

Gilmer County:

Expenses ____ - __ ----------------------------$ 5.00

Fees in criminal cases ---------------------- 16..90

Fees in civil ca.\'fes -------------------------- 11.00

Court vvork --------------------------------- 38.00

Recording papers

103.10

Total received ----------------------------$ Glynn County:
Employes, tvvo; expenses --------------------$ Insol~ent or uncollected _--------------- _____ Fees in criminal cases ----------------------

169.00
907.50 39.!5
157.35

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Fees in civil cases -------------------------Court 'Vork -------------------------------Recording papers ---------------------------

665.10 173.35 601.10

Total received ----------------------------$ 1,596.90

Jeffenon County:

Employes, three; expen:;oes --------------------$ 450.00

Insolvent or uncollected fees ----------------- 445.3:3

Fees in criminal case:;. ------------------------ 291.00

Fees in civil cases -------------------------- 469.95

Court work ---------------------------------Recording papers ----------------------------

73.20 628.55

Total received -----------------------------$ 1,462.70

Polk County:

Employes, one; expenses----------------------$ 431.08

Fees in criminal cases ----------------------- 503.98 Fees in civil cases _____ ----------------------- 97.70

County warrants ---------------------------Recording fee~ ------------------------------

56.40 664.16

Total -------------------------------------$ 1,303.24

Third Quarter, 1921.

Chatham County:

Employes eight; expenses --------------------$ 3,364.33 Insolvent costs uncollected ____ ----------- ___ 22,834.43

Fees in criminal cases ---------------------Fees in civil cases---------------------------Court work _----------------------------- __ _ Recording papers.----------------------------

272.70 1,185.15
237.00 4,210.15

Total __ - ----------------------------------$ 5,905.00

Decatur County:

Employes two; expenses ___ ------------------$ 450.00

Insolvent costs uncollected ------------------ 762.70

Fees in criminal case~ ----------------------- 1,369.52

Fees in civil cases _------------------------- 1,224.90

Court work --------------------------------Recording papers ---------------------------

23.10 465.70

Total receipts _____ ------------------------$ 3,083.22 Fulton County:
Employes, 38; expenses _---------------------$15,786.00 Amount insolvent or uncollected -------------- 2,940.76

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Fees in criminal cases ____________ _: __________ _ 7,217.00
Fees in civil cases -------------------------- 5,679.20 Court work --------------------------------- 2,198.70 Recording papers ---------------------------- 10,820.05

Total receipts -----------------------------$25,914.99 Gilmer County:
Feefl in criminal cases -------- _-------------$ 17.50
Fees in civil cases---------------------------- 23.50 Court work ------------"--------------------- . 32.60 ' Recording papers ---------------------------- 137.12

Total -------------------------------------$
Jefferson County:
Employes, two; expenses --------------------$
Insolvent or uncollected ___ ----------------Fees in criminal cases ------------------- ____ _ Fees in civil cafles _____ --------------------Court work ------------- ------~------------- Recording papers ----------------------------

210.72
360.00 384.20 118.65 438.85
9.90 383.75

Total Receipts -----------------------------$
Polk County: Deputy clerk, 1; expenses -------~------------$ Fees in criminal cases -----------------------Fees in civil cases -------------------------County warrants _-------- __ ----------------Recording papers __ --------------------------

951.15
400.00 353.07 122.68 130.00 250.72

Total receipt1< -----------------------------$ 790.80

Fourth Quarter, 1921.

Bibb County:

Employes, six; expenses ----------------------$ 1,995.00

Insolvent or uncollected, none.

Fees in criminal cases, none.

Fees in civil cases ------------------------ 1,216.53

Court work --------------------------------- 944.80

Recording papers

2,976.45

Total receipts ----------------------- _____ $ 5,137.78 Chatham County:
Employes, nine; expenses --------------------$ 3,425.46

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Insolvent cost uncollected -------------------- 25,575.88

Total receipts-----------------------------$ 6,827.96 Decatur County:
Employes, two; expenses --------------------$ 506.30 Insolvent or uncollected ---------------------- 924.90 Fees in criminal cattes ---------------------- 275.60 Fees in civil cases -------------------------- 1,286.60 Court work --------------------------------- 179.05 Recording papers --------------------------- 663.63

Total receipts -------------------------- ___$ 2,404.88 Fulton County:
Employes, 37; expenses ----------------------$16,388.00 Amount insolvent or uncollected -------------- 3,621.57 Fees in criminal cases ----------------------- 6,753.99 Feet~ in civil cases --------------------------- 6,358.80 Court work --------------------------------- 2,910.82 Recording papers ---------------------------- 11,373.55

Total received ----------------------------$27,397.06 Gilmer County:
Fees in criminal cases ------------------------$ 122.00 Fees in civil cases -------------------------- 99.90 Court work --------------------------------- 22.20 Recording papers ---------------------------- 97.80

Total ___ ---------- _____ -------------------$ Jefferson County:
Employes, two; expenttes --------------------$ Amount insolvent or uncollected ------------Fees in criminal cases
Fees in civil cases -----------------------Court work --------------------------------Recording papers

341.90
360.00 534.75 230.35 523.20
67.70 347.65

Total received ----------------------------$ 1,168.90

Polk County:

Deputy clerk, one; expenses ------------------$ 835.70

Criminal and civil costs ---------------------- 548.73

County warranttt

195.10

Recording papers

827.58

Total received ----------------------------$ 1,471.41

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First Quarter, 1922.

Bibb County: Employes, six; expenses ________________ .:: __ ---$ 1,920.00

Amount insolvent or uncollected ___ ----------Fees in criminal easel:' ------------------.:---Fees in civil cases __ :_ _______________________ _
Court lVork ---------------------------------Recording papers ___ ------------------------

820.90 197.87 1,346.74 409.30 2,650.15

Total received ----------------------------$ 5,424.96
Chatham County:
Employes, nine; expenses --------------------$ 3,430.71
Amount insolvent cost uncollected ------------ 25,575.88

Total receipt<' ----------------------------$ 5,702.01
Cobb County:
Clerk hire a,nd expenses ----------------------$ 1,360.00
Fees, criminal and civil cases ---------------- 1,261.00
Recording papers ---------------------------- 800.00

Total received ----------------------------$ 2,061.00

Decatur County:

Employes, tlVo; expenses ----------------------$ 541.05

Amount insolvent or uncollected -------------- 790.10

Fees criminal cases _------------------------- 1,391.00

Feel:' civil cases ------------------------------ 796.40

Court lVOrk ---------------------------------- 43.60

Recording papers

917.75

Total received ----------------------------$ 3,161.45
Fulton County:
Employes, 37; expenses ----------------------$17,181.93 Amount insolvent or uncollected -------------- 3,310.85 Fees in criminal cases ---------------------- 9,213.68 Fees in civil cases -------------------------- 6,606.85 Court lVOrk -------------------------------- 2,680.09 Recording papers __ ------------------------ _ 11,557.40

Total received ----------------------------$30,058.02
Jefferson County:
Employe<', tlVo; expenses ___ ----------------$ 400.00

Amount insolvent or uncollected fees -------- 256.25

Fees in criminal cases ---~--------------------

17.25

Sig. 6

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Fees in civil cases --------------------------Court work --------------------------------Recording papers ---------------------------

655.40 18.50
478.15

Total received -----------------------------$ 1,160.30 Polk County:
Deputy clerk, one; expenses ----------------$ 609.02 Fees in criminal and ciYil case" -------------- 829.80 Recording papers __ -------------------------- 292.25

Total receipts -----------------------------$ 1,122.05

EXHIBIT "K." Fee Reports-Sheriffs.

Second Quarter, 1921.

Total Insolvent or No. Men

Total

County

Fees Uncollected Employed Expent~es

Bibb _____$12,237.61

13 $ 8,942.85

Chatham -- 1,874.30

17,500

1

380.00

Fulton --- 30,164.08

28

26,311.51

Third Quarter, 1921.

Bibb _____ $12,126.84

13 $ 8,591.80

Chatham __ 1,022.20 $18,000

1

425.00

Polk _____ _ 1,133.37

Total Net $ 3,294.76 1,494.30 3,852.47
$' 3,535.04 1,499.20

Fourth Quarter, 1921

Bibb -----$13,330.74

13 $ 9,109.25

Chatham __ 1,711.10 $19,000

1

310.00

Polk ___ ___ 1,009.58

$ 4,221.49 1,401.10

First Quarter, 1922.

Bibb ____ -$15,481.49 Fulton ____ 29,702.73 Polk ___ ___ 1,491.67

13 $10,752.10

28

28,084.91

$ 4,729.39 1,617.82

EXHIBIT "L." Fee Reports, Tax Collectors.

Second Quarter, 1921.

Total

County

Receipts

Bibb _-------$ 1,608.29

No. Men Total

Employed Expenses

5

$ 2,280.73

Total Net *$ 672.44

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Chatham ____ _ 4,133.77

4

Fulton ------- 4,450.54

7

Polk --------

14.96

1

*Deficit.

3,198.51 5,827.50
7.48

Third Quarter, 1921.

Bibb --------$ 1,298.10

4

$ 2,299.14

Chatham ----- 5,018.37

4

3,216.51

Fulton ------- 2,402.98

12

7,750.54

Polk --------- 33.10

1

16.55

*Deficit.

935.26 *376.96
7.48
*$ 1,001.04 1,801.86
*5,347.56 16.55

Fourth Qua~, 1921

Bibb ________$ 9,735.84

5

$ 2,910.64

Chatham _____ 9,894.89

6

3,448.51

Fulton ------- 31,939.89

20

11,011.64

Polk --------- 2,624.04

1

1,312.02

$ 6,825.20 6,446.38
20,928.25
1,312.0~

First Quarter, 1922.

Bibb ------ __ $10,823.57

6

$ 3,031.45

Chatham ----- 7,292.40

5

4,078.51

Fulton ------- 10,682.18

13

8,974.98

Polk -------- 571.16

1

285.58

$ 7,792.1~ 3,213.89 1,707.20 28i5.58

EXHIBIT ''M.'' Fee Reports, Tax Receivers.
Second Quarter, 1921.

No R-eports.
Third Quarter, 1921. No Reports.
Fourth Quarter, 1921 Chatham County:
Commissions from public school fund --------$ 3,618.94 Commi~;~sions from Chatham County ----------- 9,326.55 Commissions from State of Georgia____________ 3,983.88

Total for 1921 ___ ------ _------- ~ _----------$16,929.37

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Polk County:
Commissions from Polk County ----------------------$ 1,329.30
Commissions from State of Georgia ---------- 779.93
Total for 19in ----------------------------$ 2,109.23
Expenses ---------------------------------- 400.00
~et --------------------------------------$ 1,709.23
First Quarter, 1922.
~o Reports.

EXHIBIT "N." Coroners, Fee Reports. ~o reportto for 2nd, 3rd and 4th quarters of 1921. :;s-o reports for 1st quarter 1922.

EXIDBI:r "0."
Fee Reports, County Surveyors. ~o reports for 1st, 2nd, or 3rd quarters of 1921. Oounty Surveyor of Dawson Cou:nty reports
no fees received for 1st quarter of 1922.

The following message was received from His Excellency, the Governor, through his Secretary, Mr. Blalock:
M'r. Speaker: I am directed by His Excellency, the Governor, to
deliver to the House Df Representatives a communication in writing to which he respectfully invites your attention.

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165

STATE OF GEORGIA: EXECUTIVE DEPARMENT, ATLANTA.

To the General Assembly of Georgia:
I beg to submit herewith for your consideration and for such action as you may deem appropriate in the premises, twelve reports, prepared by my direction and submitted to me by the firm of Griffenhagen and Associates, Governmental Engineers, upon the following subjects :

1. Auditing and Fiscal System of the State. 2. Department of Agriculture. 3. Department of Printing. 4. Department of Public Health. 5. Department of Public Welfare. 6. Training School for Boys. 7. Confederate Soldiers Home. 8. Confederate Roster Commission. 9. Department of Archives and History. 10. Academy for the Blind. 11. State Library. 12. State Library Commission.

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I commend each of these reports to you for your careful consideration and, after appropriate committee reference, for such action as seems proper in the premises.
They suggest many economies, retrenchments and reforms in the public service that merit your careful and serious consideration, especially in times like these when economies and retrenchments in the public service are a vital necessity.
The suggestion made in some quarters that these reports are not worthy of consideration because the investigators were Chicago ''Yankees'' is both absurd and puerile : in the first place, the residence or personality of the investigators is not the important thing, the important thing is whether what they say is true or not, and whether the reforms they suggest are worth while and can be accomplished, or not. In the next place, since they do not live in Georgia, they cannot be accused of any local political prejudice.
My attention was especially attracted to this firm of engineers by their work in South Carolina, and I am attaching to this communication a letter addressed to me, dated March 15, 1922, by Governor Robert A. Cooper of the State of South Carolina, attesting to their hig:h character and efficient service in that state. I also attach copy of letter, dated March 27, 1922, addressed to the Governor of Michigan, and furnished me, signed by Senator Christiansen of Buford, S. C., Chairman of the Joint Committee on Economy and Consolidation of

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the General Assembly of South Carolina, under whose direction a large part of this work was done in South Carolina.

It is quite likely true that certain departments of government in South Carolina were not pleased with the work of these business experts and it seems quite likely true that at least one of our departments in Georgia is similarly displeased; but that is not a question of any importance. The question is whether the reforms suggested are wise _and feasible and in the interest of economy and retrenchment, or not.

Respectfully submitted,

w. THOMAS

HARDWICK,

Governor.

July 5, 1922.
STATE OF GEORGIA:
EXECUTIVE DF~PARTMEN'T,
ATLANTA.
To the General Assembly of Georgia:
Section 17 of the Code of 1911 (Vol. 1) prescribes the boundary lines between the States of Georgia and South Carolina.
I hand you herewith certified copy of the decree of the Supreme Court of the United States in the case of Georgia vs. the State of South Carolina, No. 16 original October Term, 1921.

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I recommend that Section 17 of the Act above referred to be so amended as to conform to the decision of the Supreme Court of the United States in this matter.

Respectfully submitted,

w. THOMAS

HARDWICK,

Governor.

July 5, 1922.

Copy of Decree was referred to the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1.

STATE OF GEORGIA: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ATLANTA. To the General Assembly of' Georgia:

I herewith submit to you for your consideration and for such action as you deem appropriate in the premises, a report made tD me under date of June 27, 1922, by a Commission of five Superior Court Judges of the State of Georgia, appointed by me, to examine into and investigate conditions at the Prison Farm of the State at Milledgeville, Georgia.

This report is accompanied by a stenographic copy of the evidence taken by the Commission in connection with this investigation, which is also submitted for your consideration.

July 5, 1922.

Respectfully submitted,

w. THOMAS

HARDWICK,

Governor.



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The report and stenographic evidence was referred to the Committee on Penitentiary.
Under the order of unfinished business the following bill of the House was taken up for consideration.
By Mr. Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill .No. 39. A bill to promote the health and welfare of females employed in any establishment in this State.
Mr. Valentino of Chatham moved that the above bill be recommitted and the motion prevailed.
The following bills and resolutions were introduced, read the first time and referred to the Committees:
By Mr. Moore of Appling-
House Bill No. 608. A bill to create the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues for the County of Appling.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.
By Mr. Moore of Appling-
House Bill No. 609. A bill to amend an Act approved July 29, 1915, creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Appling.



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Referred to Committee on General Judiciary ~0. 1.

Br Mr. McGarity of Paulding-
House Bill No. 610. A bill to amend Par. 1, Section 13, Art. 6 of the Constitution of Georgia, relathe to salaries of Judges of the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals, and Judges of the Superior Courts.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

B~ Mr. Kittrell of Laurens-
House Bill No. 611. A bill to amend Section 1225 of the Code of Georgia of 1910 relative to making tax-collectors ex-officio sheriffs, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Horne of Dodge-
House Bill X o. 612. A bill to repeal an act"
created in 187R, recorded in Park's Code Section 31240, Vol. 1, relati,e to consolidation of offices of tax receiver and tax collector.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Horne of DodgeHouse Bill No. 613. A bill to change the manner

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and method of compensation of receiver and collector of tax returns.

Referred to Committee on No.2.
.
By Mr. Maddox of Spalding-

General

Judiciary

House Bill No. 614. A bill to provide for assisting counties in the employment of county police and provide their fees.

Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Fowler of Bibb-
House Bill No. 615. A bill to amend section 4381 of the Code of Georgia of 1910, relative to non-suits and. dismissals.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary Nv. 2.

By Mr. Singletary of Grady-
House Bill No. 616. A bill to amend an act and amendatory acts incorporating the town of Whigham in Grady county.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Guess of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 617. A bill to fix compensation of Jury Commissioners in counties of certain populations.

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Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-
House Bill No. 618. A bill to repeal Section 388 of Penal Code of 1910, relative to courts having jurisdiction in certain crimes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. Neill, Perkins and Hatcher of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 619. A bill to ratify and confirm a sale by the Commissioners of Commons of Columbus, Georgia, etc.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Way of Liberty-
House Bill No. 620. A bill to make it unlawful for any person to kill and butcher any cow, etc., except under certain circumstances.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
By Mr. Houston of Gwinnett-
House Bill No. 621. A bill to amend an act approved Aug. 17, 1908, amending the act incorporating the town of Norcross.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

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By Messrs. Bentley of Fulton, Fowler of Bibb,
Winship and Malone of Bibb-
House Bill No. 622. A bill to regulate the operation of Motor vehicles in towns and cities of certain population.
Referred to Committee on Railroads.

By Messrs. Bentley of Fulton and McClure of vValker-
House Bill No. 623. A bill to make appropriation for the University of Georgia and Georgia School of Technology.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 624. A bill to regulate boxing contests and exhibitions by establishing State Boxing Commission.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Reagan of HenryHouse Bill No. 625. A bill to provide for the
buying and selling of loose line cotton and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Agriculture.

By Mr. Reagan of Henry-
House Bill No. 626. A bill to amend an act en-

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titled an act to annually levy and collect an additional tax.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and "\Vays and Means.

By }lr. Hodges of Evans-
House Bill Xo. 627. A bill to amend an act to establish the City Court of Claxton and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Holloway and Moore of Fulton-
House Resolution No. 628. A bill to amend the general appropriation Act for 1922-1923 relative to appropriation for Georgia School of Technology.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and "\Vays and Means.

By l\Iessrs. }loore and Hollo,vay of Fulton-
.House Bill Xo. 629. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Atlanta and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on ~Iunicipal Government.

By Mr. Knight of Berrien-
House Bill No. 630. A bill to change the venue in investigation by Grand Juries in certain cases.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

.

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By Messrs. Malone and Winship of Bibb-
House Bill No. 631. A bill to repeal an act so far as it relates to the County of Bibb, in abolishing road commissioners.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

B~ l\Ir. Beck of Carroll-
House Bill Ko. 632. A bill to make appropriations for new and old pensions, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Williams of Miller and Walker of Baker-
House Bill Xo. 633. A bill to amend an act approved Aug. 17, 1920, entitled "An act to license and regulate business of making loans," and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary ~0. 2.

By Mr. \Valker of BakerHouse Bill No. 634. A bill to change the time of
holding the Superior Court of walker County.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Hamilton of FloydHouse Bill No. 635. A bill to amend Art. 3, Sec-

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tion 4, Par. 7, of the Constitution relative to appointments by the governor.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Mr. Fletcher of Irwin-
House Bill No. 636. A bill to rearrange the Tifton Judicial Circuit of the Superior Court, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. Culpepper of LaFayette and DuBose of Clarke-
House Bill No. 637. A bill to amend an Act entitled ''Au act known as the General Tax Act,'' app. August 15, 1921.
Referred to Committee :m Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Corbitt of AtkinsonHouse Bill No. 638. A bill to amend the charter
of the town of Pearsons in the county of Coffee. Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Griffith of Oconee-
House Bill No. 639. A bill to prescribe the rules of evidenc~ in certain criminal cases, and for other purposes.

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177

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Moore of Appling-
House Resolution No. 132. (607-A). A resolution requesting appointing of committee to investigate salaries of state officials.
Lie on Table 1 Day.

By Mr. Williams of Walton-
House Resolution No. 133. (607-B). A resolution requesting certain information from the State Sanitarium at Alto.
Lie on Table 1 Day.

By Mr. Watkins of Butts-
House Resolution No. 134. (607-C). A resolution relative to immediately taking up for consideration House Bill No. 6.
Referred to Committee on Rules.

By Messrs. Lewis and Clarke of Colquitt-
House Resolution No. 135. (607-D). A resolution providing for committee to investigate Department of Agriculture, and report to House.
Referred to Committee on General Agriculture No.1.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

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By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-

House Resolution No. 136. Resolved, that whereas there is now idle and magnificent property of the lJuited States Government at Muscle Shoals, and
Whereas, it would be for the best interest of the United States and for the South that Muscle Shoals should be fully developed, and

Whereas, there continues in the South a great army of unemployed, and
Whereas, the best offer for the Shoals has been made by Mr. Henry Ford,

!':on therefore, Be it resolved that the General Assembly of Georgia hereby urges the Congress of the United States to accept the offer for Muscle Shoals as made by Mr. Henry Ford, and we urge all members of Congress from Georgia to use their influence to this end.
Be it further Resolved, that a cop~- of this resolution be sent to each member of Congress from Gearg-ra.

The following bill of the Senate was read the third tim' and placed upon its passage.

By Mr. Jones of the 37th-
Senate Bill N" o. 7.-A bill to provide for a secret and private ballot at all elections held in Georgia.
).1r. Davis of Floyd moved that the House do now

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179

adjourn; the motion prevailed, and the above bill went over as unfinished business.
Leave of absence was granted Mr. Tatum of Dade.
The following communication from His Excellency, the Governor was read:

EXECUTIV~J DEPARTMENT,

Atlanta, July 5, 1922.

To the Members of the General Assembly of Georgia:

It affords me much pleasure to extend you an invitation, in behalf of the Better Films Committee of Atlanta, to attend a moving picture exhibition in the House of Representatives this evening at eight o'clock.
One of the films to be presented IS entitled, ''Dixie's l\[ountain Majesty,'' which is the first showing of the recent official government tour of the Xational Forest Reserve in northeast Georgia.
I sincerely hope a large attendance will be present.

THos. W. HARDWICK, Governor.

The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1922.
The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
By unanimous consent the call of the roJl was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the remaining period of unanimous consents :
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules of the House.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate Bills and Resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate Bills and uncontested general House and Senate Bills having a local application.
5. Reading Senate Bills and Resolutions the fb::st time.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read for the first time, and referred to the committees :

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181

By Mr. Sumner of Wheeler-
House Bill No. 640. A bill to change and fix the time for holding the Superior Court of Wheeler County.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Smith of Carroll-
House Bill No. 641. A bill to appropriate certain sums to the Prison Commissioner for installing water system.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 642. A bill to preserve the property of the Western & Atlantic Railroad and repeal Resolution No. 31.
Referred to CommiJttee on Western & Atlantic Railroad.

By Mr. Holland of Tattnall-
House Bill No. 643. A bill to amend an act approved Aug. 1915, providing for two terms of Superior Court of Tattnall Co.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary. By Mr. Guess of DeKalb--
House Bill No. 644. A bill to amend an act approved Aug. 17, 1920, relative to supply of Parks Annotated Code.

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Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Bill No. 64-5. A bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Elbert County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County
~ratters.
Mr. Moore of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Y:our Committee on Education have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and
have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same
back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

House Bill Xo. 602.
.MooRE OF FuLTON, Chairman.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.
Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of the Senate towit:

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183

A Bill to repeal Section 967 of Penal Code providing for criminal procedure.
The following bill of the House, favorably reported, was read for the second time:

By :\Ir. Ricketson of \VarrenHouse bill No. 602. A bill to amend an act to
establish Public Schools for the town of \Vanen. Referred to Committee on Education.

The following bill of the House was re,td the third time and placed upon its passage:

By ~Ir. Herring of Schley-
A bill to provide for the salary of the Treasurer of the County of Schley and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable
to the passage of the bill, was agreed to. On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 132, Nays
0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

The following bill of the 'Senate was read the firs. time and referred to Committee :

By :\Ir. Fleming of the 10~h-
Senate Bill No. 4. A bill relative to electors of this state voting in certain elections while absent

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from the county of their residence, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
By unanimous consent the following bills of the House were read the second time and recommitted:

By Mr. Moore of ApplingHouse Bill No. 608. A bill to create the Office of
Roads and Revenues for county of Appling.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Moore of Appling-

House Bill No. 609. A bill to amend an Aet approved July 29, 1915, Creating board of Commissioners for County of Appling.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary

No.1.



The following information was transmitted to the House by the State Highway Department in response to House Resolution No. 120:

STATE HIGHWAYDEPARTMENT OF GEORGIA Atlanta, Ga., July 6, 1922.
Subject-Resolution No. 120, June 30, 1922.

THURSDAY, JULY 6, 1922.

185

HoNORABLE W. CEciL NEILL, Speaker,

House of Representatives.

Mr. Speaker:

In accordance with House Resolution No. 120 adopted by the House of Representatives, June 30, 1922 which reads:
''Resolved by the House of Representartives that the Highway Commission be requested to furnish the House of Representatives how many miles of State Aid and Federal Aid Roads in each county, also the amount of money expended in each cqunty for the years 1920 and 1921. Whether of State Funds or Federal Funds.''

The State Highway hereby respectfully submits the information therein requested.

STATE HIGHWAY BOARD,

By JoHN N. HoLDER, Chairman,

RoBT. C. NEELY,
STANLEY s. BENNETT.

EXPENDITURES OF STATE AND FEDERAL FlJNDS.

County Mileage State

Appling __ 25.0 ----------
Bacon -- 29.4 21,196.39
Atkinson_ 17.3 $ 432.35

Baldwin - 45.6
Banks -- 26.9
Baker --- 14.0
Bartow -- 38.1
Barrow - 25.0
Berrien -- 44.2

31,252.65 3,077.39
140.21 9,034.36 33,157.10 1,346.28

1920
Federal
-~--------
14,264.96
----------------------------
1,171.86
----------------------------

1921

State

Federal

$ 13,985.79 ----------

54;,103.84

9:,285.80

140.36 ----------
6,236.86 Cr 35,900.01

3,717.72

9,802.68

112,07 19,792.53

15,188.66

5,866.63

31,359.40 Cr 69,906.94

2,007.40 ----------

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Ben Hill - 13.3
Bibb ---- 42.2
Brooks -- 45.6 Brantley _ 36.2
Bleckley - 16.6
Bryan --- 48.9
Bulloch - 51.5
Burke -- 39.7
Butts --- 29.0
Campbell_ 16.4
Camden - 34.:3
- Candler 24.2 - Calhoun 17.9
Carroll -- 65.9
Catoosa - 13.5
Chatham _ 38.4
Chatooga 31.5
Chtchee - 34.1
Cherokee_ 21.8
Charlton - 18.9 Clinch --- 28.5 Clayton -- 30.3 Clay ---- 33.3 Clarke -- 25.7
Cobb ---- 43.9
Columbia_ 26.6
Coffee --- 34.7 Cook ---- 16.9 colquitt - 43.5
Coweta -- 54.8
Crisp ---- 24.4
Crawford_ 43.9
Dade ---- 23.0
Dawson - 9.5
Decatur __ 56.5
DeKalb - 23.9
Dodge -- 34.4
Dooly --- 48.0
Dougherty 31.15
Douglas - 23.8 Early --- 27.4 Echols -- 18.4
Effingham 32.8
Elbert --- 48.1

51,124.80 ---------- 46,496.98 ----------
5,850.34 174,067.27 22,200.99 Cr 89,563.09

8,808.49 73,837.54

4,026.77 30,264.58

---------- ----------

563.88

5,628.02

1,640.68 ----------

337.55

1,034.60

491.41 ---------- 10,267.26 ----------

3,485.58 17,282.19

4,973.38 11,296.34

5,344.24 ---------896.33 ---------1,270.00 ----------
---------- ----------
163.11 11,940.65

~,(942.37
1,113.40 4,022.97 3,985.31 1,309.37

-------------------
----------
----------
9,375.91

1,222.98 ----------
1,149.00 14,162.58

7,234.79 1,649.84

23,399.48 52,049.00

219.86 ----------
1,217.46 144,865.15

4,892.96 4,516.86

18,973.09 89,131.50

1,510.71

5,986.85

1,601.43 19,406.90

920.10 ----------
69.15 Cr 26,329.39

388.75 ----------

1,068.00

4,563.03

41,815.00 12,204.07

1,859.89 98,841.73

4,045.43 ----------

16,690.51 ----------

1,191.88 ----------

3,189.96

6,035.73

5,037.21 12,358.94
1,413.69 2,578.79

----------
24,107.50
----------
109,839.33

3,259.50

6,927.80 33,037.71 18,236.56

1,589.22

4,007.92

1,602.77 Cr 10,938.24

871.40 271.48 10,193.11 36,763.78

---------30,582.62 6,792.50 2,075.78

7,851.61
----------
1,116.09 37,943.87

----------
72,417.38
---------
65,000.00

---------- ----------

1,961.32 ----------

4,129.43

4,052.46

2,244.27 ---------.45 ----------
1,073.07 72,605.56

3,347.79 ---------2,218.49 ---------2,551.49 ---------

450.68 3,039.91 23,900.52

24,443.00 16,734.30
5,000.00

671.02 ----------

7,315.84

2,757.00

5,692.53 ----------
4,955.07 34,694.01

5,029.59 5i,085.94 11,598.02 68,814.06

1,600.36 31,546.24

3,351.84

9,914.47

1,977.12 ---------1,173.23 ---------1,863.34 ---------- 4,750.31 ---------

1,723.84 782.54
5,039.32 4,220.15

20,065.35 3,342.10 7,883.31
36,640.43

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187

Emanuel - 52.3

733.07 62,339.58

Evans -- 11.3
Fannin -- 27.5 Fayette - 11.5
Floyd --- 47.8

6,446.75 18,895.56 1,034.65 27,3!16.14

1,577:98
-------------------
36,789.84

Forsyth - 27.6
Franklin - 35.7
Fulton -- 34.0 Gilmer ___ 26.0
Glascock _ 10.5
Glynn --- 53.1
Glordon - 56.1
Grady --- 28.4 Gr~en --- 46.6
Gwinnett 48.0

27.90 32,016.46
1,397.89 ---------2,197.03 ----------
31,865.15 ---------2,618.33 ----------
14,064.96 24,548.95
101.24 Cr --------
4,500.83 23,352.06
865.97 ----------
159,072.59 22,192.41

Habersham 26.0 ----------
Hall ---- 45.3 61,565.60

4,703.38 12,604.35

Hancock - 49.1

2,802.93

1,554.52

Haralson_ 30.2

6,423.50 20,161.94

Harris -- 20.1

808.88

8,079.29

Hart ---- 22.2
Henry --- 26.5

530.86 ----------

14,576.32

1,919.13

Heard -- 19.8
Houston - 71.6 Irwin --- 32.7
Jackson - 40.5

41,385.15 ---------1,294.69 ---------2,841.26 ----------
3,950.36 13,260.71

Jasper -- 41.3 1,545.34 ----------

Jefferson_ 54.6 1,673.56 ----------

. Jeff Davis 22.3

283.71 ----------

Jenkins - 35.1 7,634.54 ----------

Jones --- 45.2 1,467.42 ----------

Johnson __ 12.7 1,440.73 ----------

Lanier --- 17.2 ---------- ----------

Lamar --- 28.3 ---------- ----------

Laurens - 77.9

2,330.83

7,323.17

Lee ----- 17.!f 1,164.46

3,878.25

Liberty -- 42.4 1,524.20 ----------

Lincoln -- 20.0 1,204.57 ----------

Long --- 36.0 ---------- ----------

Lowndes_ 60.3

6,443.42 54,188.55

Lumpkin_ 31.2 106,010.88

8,856.02

Macon -- 42.3

5,027.25 34,118.07

Madison - 31.9
Meriwether 49.1

209.01 ----------

6,614.86

9,703.51

11,042.25 10,342.61

5,969.09 16,114.55

23,473.89 52,421.39

11,746.88

4,707.80

11,475.12 97,633.84

1,299.83- Cr 23,785.26

1,776.18

8,000.00

529.99 Cr 31,728.76

17,654.11 10,373.36

16,459.28 ----------
37,089.87 141,915.38

4,275.19 ----------
5,512.91 31,145.48

c, 6,529.01

4,500.23

24,423.54 117,393.19

8,863.91 ----------
32,348.20 Cr 71,061.73

15,420.65 17,705.68

1,044.20 22,076.78

17,910.01 35,857.08

5,664.99 13,165.71

8,702.54

787.83

-19,412.73 ,Or 35,452.17

436.80 Cr 20,196.91

106,831.53 ----------
3,030.36 43,719.04

52.11 ----------
9,544.02 16,024.53

293.24 ----------
2,574.48 CR 3,004.37

2,191.32 192.82
---------1,470.69 3,079.37

-------------------
----------
----------
128,800.30

1,024.75 17,394.34

9,113.42 ----------

623.14

6,391.67

1,842.11 ---------123.82 Cr 67,785.81

101,459.59 64,221.00

4,217.12 19,500.87

2,119.48 ----------
8,238.66 46,338.07

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Marion - 31.9
Milton -- 9.0
Miller --- 14.3
Mitchell - 47.2
Monroe -- 36.3
Morgan __ 32~4

---------6,374.87 712.67 3,580.46 4,401.41 16,565.33

---------1,096.68
---------18,753.94
---------56,378.61

972.11 ----------
3,607.41 21,482.17

1,932.56 21,661.90

1,413.46 Cr 72,955.86

13,026.61

1,655.45

31,513.69 64,62L39

Montgmry 19.1

3,920.96 14,618.23

3,955.49 58,034.81

Muscogee 35.2
Murray - 21.2
McDuffie_ 27.0

1,292.36 ----------

4,630.55 ----------

1,977.94

6,387.51

1,262.93 ----------
3,044.91 40,737.80 3,700.68 11,724.65

Mcintosh_ 38.4
Newton -- 23.9 Oglethorpe 17.2
Oconee -- 32.3
Paudling _ 21.9

9,390.21 2,096.12 3,562.38 15,040.40 7,209.81

----------
-------------------
9,107.21
5,008.31

42,369.12 45,000.00 4,381.02 29,564.8!
7,049.09 ----------
5,199.50 Cr 7,228.89 483.86 ll,527.19

Pickens __ 27.6
Pierce -- 20.4 Pike ---- 32.9
Polk ---- 29.7
Putnam __ 55.5
Pulaski -- 44.2

1,256.38 Cr --------
16,139.55 ---------6,373.69 ---------1,870.80 ------------------- ----------
15,942.33 31,096.43

22,983.75
46,~14.76
58,838.46 7,502.32 791.83
14,650.70

7,492.31 28,729.23 29,095.92 21,625.57
---------121,964.28

6A-;HOUSE JOURNAL

CROUCH

----------

Quitman - 35.0 1,552.69 ---------- 18,094.65 14,605.78

Rabun --- 41.7 12,426.47

7,487.78

3,208.71 16,912.90

Rockdale_ 7.2 ---------- ----------

Randolph_ 40.6

2,ll6.49

7,009.53

2,550.93 ----------
1,845.08 19,766.46

Richmond 54.0

4,798.10

2,408.90

2,508.65 30,726.22

Seminole_ 12.6 ---------- ---------- ---------- ----------

Schley --- 24.7

1,066.32

1,288.60

2,249.03

3,684.50

Screven - 27.2 1,087.20 ---------- 1,277.50 ----------

Spalding _ 39.8 37,895.47 89,659.54

84.54 76,021.86

Stephens_ 21.9

7,106.02 21,299.75

2,822.04 15,247.04

Stewart __ 61.4
Sumter -- 55.1

4,610.79 ----------
1,787.32 46,818.26

7,392.03 10,755.15 1,577.80 Cr 89,718.54

Talbot -- 39.7
Tattnall - 65.6 Taylor -- 31.2 Telfair -- 29.2
Taliferro_ 11.5
Terrell -- 33.5
Tift ----- 45.2
'.l1lomas - 65.5

279.26 ----------

950.49 ----------
8,708.59 ----------

3",562.99 ----------

1,053.76 ----------

1,629.70

7,810.32

487.58 ----------

4,756.14 61,450.93

1,497.08 1,370.35 6,681.43 3,883.49
4.00 1,714.96 4,795.00 3,541.15

----------
ll,378.94 24,592.31
8,381.43
----------
13,453.29 17,280.85 41,800.66

Towns --- 20.2 12,863.44 16,128.69 60,467.16 27,588.67

Toombs -- 15.4

11.04 ----------

14.49 ----------

...

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189

Treutlen - 14.2 Troup ,__ 52.1 Turner -- 14.6 Twiggs -- 26.9 Upson -- 26.7 Union --- 45.6 :Walker -- 33.6 Walton :.._ 36.3
Ware ---- 53.7 warren - 35.4 WtJhngton 55.9 Wayne -- 55.7 Webster - 21.0 White --- 25.1 W!heeler_ 43.6 Whitfield_ 24.8 Wilkes - 50.6 Wilkinson 37.7 Wilcox -- 36.6 Worth -- 52.3

17.94 4,&70.19
8.45 3,513.65 8,698.40 20,808.34 3,158.47 22,288.30
191.04 17,152.83
766.27 3,152.29
550.09 133.57 294.29 7,315.47
3,89~38
2,516.63 966.62
17,520.08

---------69,939.26
-------------------
----------
---------998.16 80,739.41
-------------------
10,448.61
----------
-------------------
20,395.42
---------73,506.28
-------------------
41,455.90

8.93 ----------
602.67 108,6~AO

2,244.27 ----------

7,613.66

7,444.31

~126.14 24,592.31

36,003.79 ---------315.33 13,646.68

3,100.21 Cr 37,199.42

2,307.46 56,341.81

13,600.56 19,150.55

9,087.59Cr 22,617.36

2,590.65

7,481.62

10,092.62

4,591.30

---------- ---------5,131.19 67,326.06

387.99 ----------
.55,079.28 5710916.12

5,109.14 Cr 7,469.18

180.62

8,304.91

24,458.15 27,396.86

By unanimous consent Senrute Bill No. 57 was withdrawn from the Committee on Public Highways and recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 566 was withdrawn from the Committee on Privileges and Elections and recommitted to the Committee on Education.
Mr. McMichael of Marion gave notice that on tomorrow he would move that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House for the purpose of taking up for consideration House Resolution No. 117.
Under the order of unfinished business, the follow-



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ing bill of the Senate was taken up for further consideration:

By Mr. Jones of the 37th-
Senate Bill No. 7. A bill to provide for a secret . and priva1te ballot at all elections held in this State.
The following Committee amendments were read and adopted :
By striking from line No. 7 of Section No. 1 of said bill the word "joint" and the words "Board of Registrars'' and insert in lieu of the words ''Board of Registrars'' the word ''Ordinary,'' so that after amending the line No. 7 of Section 1 shall read" duty of the Ordinary of each County at." And the said bill is further amended by striking from Sections 3, 7, 16 and 17 the words "Board of Registrars ''and the words ''members of the Board of Registrars,'' or by striking from any other section of this bill where these words appear, and insert in lieu thereof the word ''Ordinary.''
By striking from said bill the Sections No. 18 and X o. 19, and renumbering the following Sections accordingly.
By adding a new Section to be known as Section No. 19, as follows: ''Any Clerk of the Superior Court, or other officer into whose custody said ballot, and other election papers may thereafter be placed, who shall look into or inspect for the purpose of ascertaining how any elector voted, or who shall give out, tell, make known, or

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191

furnish any data, memorandum or other information concerning for whom any elector voted; or against whom any elector voted, except when required by legal_process, shall be guilty of a felony and on conviction, shall be punished by confinement and labor in the Penitentiary not less than one year noi longer than two years.''
By adding to said bill Section to be known as Section ~o. 20 as follows: "Be it further enacted that in primary elections the Executive Committees of
the several counties shall have the authority to fix
the time for the opening and closing of the polls in their respective counties; but the closing time must be uniform throughout the county."
By adding to Section 1, after the last line the following: ''No person or persons, other than the voter himself while occupying the booth or while in the immediate act of voting, shall come within ten feet of said booth or booths while said polls are open. . This Section shall not apply to any of the officers in charge of holding said election.''
The following amendmen~to the committee amendment was read and adopted:

By Mr. Neill of Muscogee-
By striking therefrom the word ''Felony'' and inserting in lieu thereof the word "Misdemeanor," and by striking therefrom the words ''By confinement and labor in the penetentiary not less than one year nor longer than two years," and inserting in

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lieu thereof the following: ''as prescribed in section 1065 of the Penal Code of 1910. ''
The following amendments to the original bill were read and adopted. By Mr. Neill of Muscogee-
By striking from Section 1 the figures 1922 and substituting in lieu thereof the figures 1924, so as to make such bill effective from and after January 1,1924.
By adding at the end of Section 2 thereof the following language: ''All candidates for nomination for State and County offices, including members of the General Assembly, in primary elections which are called and held by any political party, shall qualify as such candidates, in accordance with the rules of the party, calling the primary not later than thirty da~s previous to the holding of such primary, and the committee or other party authority of such party shall not fix any other or different time limit for qualification provided however that this provis- . ion shall not apply to special primary elections to fill vacancies.''

By adding after the word ''election'' in the twenty-second line of said section, fixing the time for the filing of names with the Secretary of State, the following language: "except in cases where a second Primary Election is necessary the names of such candidates shall be filed with the Secretary of State just as soon as possible after the determination of the result of said Second Primary.''

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By striking from Section 16 at the beginning thereof the words as follows: "Whereby the terms of this Act a joint duty is imposed upon the members of the Board of Registrars of the Counties of this State, said duty may be performed by a majority of said board of Registrars; and the.''

Mr. Macintyre of Thomas moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 129, Nays 13.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.
Mr. McClelland of DeKalb moved that the House do now adjourn, and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Walker of Baker and Fowler of Bibb.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA. FRIDAY, JuLY 7, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
Mr. Mundy of Polk moved that when the House adjourn today that it stand adjourned until Monday morning at 10 o'clock.
Mr. Brannen of Bullock moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The motion prevailed.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the 30 minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the rules of the House.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Second reading of House and Senate Bills and Resolutions which have been favorably reported.
4. Passage of Uncontested Local House and

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Senate Bills and General House and Senate Bills having a local application.
5. First Reading of Senate Bills and Resolutions.
By Unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Thomas of the 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 74. A bill to repeal Section 967 of Penal Code of 1910, relative to criminal procedure.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Williams of the 45th-
Senate Bill No. 162. A bill to fix the time of holding the Superior Courts in various counties of Cordele Judicial Circuit.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.
By Messrs. Branch of Turner and Coates of Pulaski-
House Resolution No. 137. (669-A). A resolution to restore T. D. Davis to the Pension Rolls of the State of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Pensions.

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By Mr. Mann of Glynn-

House Bill No. 138. (669-B). A resolution to prevent disbanding or junking of the A. B. & A. Railroad.
Referred to Committee on W. & A. Railroad.

By Mr. Whitley of Douglas-
House Resolution No. 139. (669-C). A resolution relative to who shall serve on Committees investigating State Departments.
Referred to Committee on Rules.

By Mr. Perryman of Talbot-
House Resolution No. 140. (669-D). A resolution requiring the Prison Commission to furnish certain information to the General Assembly.
Lie on Table 1 Day.

By Messrs. Harris and King of J e:fferson-
House Bill No. 646. A bill to abolish the local school system for the town of Stapleton (formerly Spread).
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Herring of Schley-
House Bill No. 647. A bill to amend an act approved July 23, 1920, relative to fees of Clerks of Superior Courts, etc.

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Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. Clarks and Lewis of Colquitt-
House Bill No. 648. A bill to amend an act establishing Board of Commissioners for Colquitt county.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Thompson of Dodge-
House Bill No. 649. A bill to amend Section 1, of an act relative to consolidated schools in certain counties.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 650. A bill relative to public sanitation in counties of certain populations.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 651. A bill to appropriate certain sums of money to Georgia School of Technology.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

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By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 652. A bill to authorize counties of certain populations to provide for the paupers of the county.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Gann and Dobbs of Cobb-
House Bill No. 653. A bill to amend an Act Entitled "An Act to regulate the use of motor vehicles in Georgia."
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Messrs. McClure of \Valker and Russell of Barrow
House Bill No. 654. A bill to appropriate $50,000 to the University of Georgia for Agriculture.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill ~o. 655. A bill to appropriate $150,000 for deficiency Georgia State Sanitarium for 1921.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

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By Mr. Adams of Walton-
House Bill No. 656. A bill to decrease the membership of the Railroad Commission of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By l\Ir. Horne of Dodge-
House Bill No. 657. A bill to amend Section 2613 of Code of 1910, relative to the railroad commission of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Branch of TurnerHouse Bill No. 658. A bill to repeal an act to
establish the City Court of Ashburn. .
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Atkinson of Chatham and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 659. A bill to provide for stenographic help for official reporters.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No2.

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 600. A bill to appropriate $30,000 to Agricultural and Industrial School at Albany.

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Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Bozeman of Worth-
House Bill No. 661. A bill to amend an act approved Aug. 18, 1919, establishing a charter for city of Sylvester.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Quincey of Co~ee-
House Bill No. 662. A bill to provide for the surrender of railroad franchises in Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Railroads.

By Messrs. Davis of Oglethorpe, Keith of Meri. wether, Brown of Emanuel, and McMichael of of Marion-
House Bill No. 663. A bill to make it unlawful for conspiring to hinder firms or corporations doing certain things.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Kittrell of Laurens-
House Bill No. 664. A bill to reduce the membership of the Railroad Commission of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

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By Mr. Webb of Lowndes-

House Bill No. 665. A bill to require the State

Veternarian to co-operate with State Bureau of

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Animal Industry in suppression of Bovine tuber-

culosis.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill .No. 666. A bill to require Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Baldwin County to pay certain fees.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Williams of Walton-
House Bill X o. 667. A bill to decrease the membership of the Railroad Commission of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
By Messrs. Ficklen and Bobo of Wilkes-
House Bill No. 668. A bill to amend Section 331 of Code of 1910, relative to meeting of General Assembly.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.
By Messrs. Whitley of Douglas, Malone of Bibb and Horne of Dodge-

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House Bill No. 669. A bill to amend prohibition law by providing specific punishment for violations thereof.
Referred to Committee on Temperance.
Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters, have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instrueted me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Bill No. 440. House Bill No. 587. House Bill No. 614. House Bill No. 573 (by substitute). House Bill No. 570. House Bill No. 571.
Respectfully subrilltted,
RoBERT L. MoYE, Chairman.

Mr. Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No.2 has submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on General Judiciary No.2 have

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had under consideration the following Bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairwan, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that following do not pass.
Senate Bill No. 119. House Bill No. 10. House Bill No. 92. House Bill?\o. 99. House Bill Xo. 174. House Bill No. 175. House Bill No. 176. House Bill No. 177. House Bill No. 231. House Bill No. 521. House Bill No. 576. That following do pass: House Bill No. 564 (as amended). House Bill No. 586. House Bill Xo. 618.

Respectfully submitted, J~o. CAMP DAvis, Chairman.

Mr. Williams of walton County, Chairman of the Committee on Reformatories submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Reforma,tories have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same

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back to the House with the recommendation that the .

same do pass by substitute.

House Bill No. 65.



Respectfully subm1tted, E. M. WILLIAMS OF WALTON, Chairman.

Mr. Moore of Appling County, Chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections have submitted .the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Privileges and Elections have had under consideration the following Senate Bill No. 110 of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do not pass.

Respectfully submitted, MooRE oF APPLING, Chairman.

Mr. Swift of Elbert County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Property submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Public Property have had under consideration the following Bill of the House

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and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the
same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended:
House Bill No. 581.

Respectfully submitted, SwrFT of Elbert, Chairman.

Mr. Dubose of Clarke County, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman; ,to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as follows:
House Bill No. 626. Do pass.
House Bill No. 204. Do pass as amended.
House Bill No. 203. Recommitted to this Committee is returned to the House with the same recommendation as formerly viz., that it do pass.

DuBosE, Chairman.

Mr. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Municipal Government have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Bill No. 584.
House Bill No. 580.
House Bill No, 600.
House Bill No. 604.

SMITH OF MERIWETHER, Chairman.

Mr. Guess of DaKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No.1 submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendat:Uon as follows:
Senate Bill No. 60, do pass by substitute.
House Bill No. 617, do pass.
House Bill No. 621, do pass.
House Bill No. 608, do pass.

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House Bill No. 609, ~o pass.

Respectfully submitted, GuEss OF DEKALB, Chairman.

Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
House Bill No. 619.

PICKREN,
Chairman.

The following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported, were read for the second time :
By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Bill No. 440. A bill to make it .the duty of certain officers to let contracts to lowest bidders in road work.

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By Mr. Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 564. A bill to provide for the electrocution of persons sentenced to death.

By Mr. Camp of Campbell-
House Bill No. 570. A bill to establish a county depository in Campbell County.

By Mr. Camp of Campbell-
House Bill No. 571. A bill to abolish the office of county Treasurer of Campbell oounty.

By Messrs. Moore & Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 573. A bill to authorize various counties to prescribe period of fiscal years

By Mr. Mann of GlynnHouse Bill No. 580. A bill to provide construction
of certain roads in the county of Glynn.
By Mr. Mann of GlynnHouse Bill No. 681. A bill to grant to Glynn
county certain marsh lands herein prescribed.
By Mr. Hodges of EvansHouse Bill No. !584. A bill to amend the charter
of the City of Claxton.
By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee-

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House Bill No. 586. A bill to amend an act to abolish Justice Courts in Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia.

By Mr. Singletary of Grady-
House Bill No. 587. A bill to prohibit the levying of taxes by authorities in counties of certain populations for certain county purposes.

By Messrs. Pilcher and McDonald of Richmond-
House Bill No. 600. A bill to amend an act approved July 25, 1921, relative to fire department of city of Augusta.

By Messrs. Swindle and DeLaPerriere of Jackson-
House Bill No. 604. A bill to amend the charter of the town of Nicholson in Jackson County1 Georgia.
By Mr. Maddox of SpaldwinHouse Bill No. 614. A bill to provide a fund for
employing county police in certain counties of the State.

By Mr. Guess of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 617. A bill to fix compensation of Jury Commissioners and for other purposes.

By Mr. Voeelle of CamdenHouse Bill No. 618. A bill to repeal Section 388

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of the Penal Code of 1910, relative to jurisdiction of certain courts over certain offenses.

By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 619. A bill to ratify and confirm a sale by the Commissioner of Commons of City of Columbus.

By Mr. Houston of Gwinnett-
House Bill No. 621. A bill to amend an act approved Aug. 17, 1908, amending an act incorporating the city of Norcross.

By :Mr. Reagan of Henry-
House Bill No. 626. A bill to amend an act entitled ''An Act known as the General Tax Act,'' and for other. purposes.

By Messrs. Wall of the 5th and David of the 43rd-
Senate Bill No. 60. A bill to amend an act entitled ''An act to establish the Securities Commission.''
'rhe following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Ricketson of Warren-
House Bill No. 602. A bill to amend an act to establish Public Schools for the town of Warrenton, so as to fix the terms of office of members of said Board of Education and to provide for their election

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by the qualified voters of said town and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 125, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Moore of Appling-
House Bill No. 608. A bill to create the office of Roads and Revenue of the county of Appling, provide for his election, recall and further purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Moore of Appling-
House Bill No. 607. A bill to amend an act approved July 29, 1915, crea,ting a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, for the county of Appling, amending same by Referendum and further purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 122, Nays 0.
The bill having received .the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

lJ1 r. Speaker:
The Senate has read and adopted the following resolution to-w1t:
A Resolution inviting Hon. Wm. J. Harris to address the General Assembly, at present session.
Mr. McMichael of Marion moved that the House do now resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House for the purpose of taking up for consideration House Resolution No. 117 and the motion prevailed.
The following resolution of the House was read:
By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
House Resolution No. 117. A resolut~on that the House approve the Minority Report of the State Highway Department Investigating Committee.
Under the above motion, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House, and the Speaker designated Mr. Mundy of Polk as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose and

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through their Chairman reported progress and begged leave to sit again.
Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House on next Tuesday morning immediately following the period of unanimous consents for the purpose of taking up the above resolution for further consideration and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Trippe and Johnson of Bartow.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until Monday morning at 10 o 1clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

:MoNDAY, JULY 10, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A.M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

Mayo

Houser

Miles

Houston

Mixon

Howard of Forsyth Moore of Appling

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Hufstetler

Moye

Hullender

Mundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman.

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of \Valker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

;Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

McClelland

Riley

McClure

Robinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

McGarity

Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

McMichael

Sibley

Maddox

Singletary

Malone

Smiley

Mann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb weston \Vhitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of ~iller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt \Vynne Mr. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the thirty minute period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading of Hous.e and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested Local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.
5. Reading Senate bills and resolutions the first time.
By unanimous consent the following bills and resolutions of the House, were introduced, read for the first time and referrd to the committees:

By Mr. V ocelle of Camden-
House Bill No. 670. A bill to amend Section 5997 of Civil Code of Georgia of 1910, relative to legal fees of sheriffs.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 671. A bill vesting in the Railroad Commission of Georgia, authority over motor vehicles.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

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By Mr. Wimberly of Laurens-
House Bill No. 672. A bill to amend Section 2823 of Code of 1910 relative to publication of petitions for incorporation of charters granted by Superior Courts.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Horne of Dodge-
House Bill No. 673. A bill to extend the power and authority of the Chairman of the State Highway Department.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 674. A bill to withdraw the priviledge of admission to the Georgia Bar by diploma alone.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 675. A bill to define the liability of hotel keepers for lost articles.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. Pilcher, McDonald and Reville of Richmond, and Hamilton of Floyd-

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House Bill No. 676. A bill to prohibit employ.ment of :firep1en in cities of certain population.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Munday of Polk-
House Bill No. 677. A bill relative to authority of officers who attest the executions of deeds, etc.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
By Messrs. DeLaPerriere and Swindle of JacksonHouse Bill No. 678. A bill to amend Section 1, of
the Act amending the Highway Department Act, approved Aug. 10, 1921.
Referred to Committee on Public Highway.

By Mr. Strickland of Brantley-
Honse Bill No. 679. A bill to require non-residents of Brantley county to secure licenses .to :fish in water thereof.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Mr. Steele of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 680. A bill to amend an Act known as the Georgia \Vorkmen Compensation Act, approved Aug. 17, 1920.
Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.



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By Messrs. Grannen and Parish of Bullock-
House Bill No. 681. A bill to amend Section 2 of an act approved Aug. 10, 1903, relative to city court of Statesboro.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Wall of Putnam-
House Resolution No. 141. (680-A) A resolution to investigate work of the State Board of Entomology.
Referred to Committee on General Agriculture No.1.

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-
House Resolution No. 142. (681-A). A resolution to provide for adjourned session of Appropriations and Ways and Means Committees.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
Mr. McDonald of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speake1:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration House Bill No. 601. To amend an Act creating "The City Court of Thomasville" and instructed me as their Chairman to report the
a same back to the House with recommendation that

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the same do pass. Also House Bill No. 658. To abolish City Court of Ashburn and direct me to report that the same do pass.

P. WALTER McDoNALD oF RICHMOND, Chairman.

The following bills of the House, favorably reported, were read the second time :

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 65. A bill relating to the placing out of children by persons other than parents or relatives.

By Messrs. Macintyre and Jones of Thomas-
House Bill No. 601. A bill to amend an act creating the City Court of Thomasville.

By Mr. Branch of Turner-
House Bill No. 658. A bill to repeal an act to establish the City Court of Ashburn, Turner county.
The Following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By ~fr. Camp of Campbell-
House Bill No. 570. A bill to establish a County Depository in Campbe1l County, and for other purposes.

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The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Camp of Campbell-
House Bill No. 571. A bill to abolish the office of County Treasurer of Campbell County and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 112, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Mann of Glynn-
House Bill No. 580. A bill relative to building and construction of certain roads in Glynn County outside corporate limits of Brunswick and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 111, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional.majority was passed.

By Mr. Hodges of Evans-
House Bill No. 584. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Claxton.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 109, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 586. A bill to amend an act to abolish Justice Courts and office of Justice of Peace and Notary Public Ex-officio J. P. and to create in lieu a :Municipal Court in and for Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, and regulation of cost bills, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, No.2.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Mr. Singletary of Grady-
House Bill No. 587. A bill to prohibit the levying or collection by the taxing authorities of any counties of this State having a certain population of any ad valorem tax in e'xcess of 10 mills in the aggregate for county purposes, except for certain purposes~ and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Swindle and DeLaPerriere of Jackson-
House Bill No. 604. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Nicholson, so as to enlarge the corporate limits and change the terms of the :M:ayor and Councilmen, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Neill, Perkins and Hatcher of Muscogee-



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House Bill Ko. 619. A bill to ratify and confirm a sale by the Commissioners of Commons of the City of Columbus to J. T. Cooper by deed dated October 6, 1910, of all of that tract of land designated in the survey of Commons of the City of Columbus, Georgia, as Block Number 42, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
. On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 106, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Houston of Gwinnett-
House Bill No. 621. A bill to amend an Act amending an act incorporating the town of Norcross so as to change the time of holding elections for Mayor and Councilmen and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 105, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constituttional majority was passed.
By Mr. Mann of Glynn-
House Bill No. 581. A bill to grant to Glynn County certain marsh land and for other purposes.

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The following committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend by adding to paragraph (1) one the following: ''Provided said grant herein created shall be used exclusively for highway purposes, and
Provided further that should said use herein designated be abandoned,_ then said property shall revert to the State."
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the ayes were 110, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.
The following resolution of the Senate was read and concurred in :

By Messrs. Thorpe of the 2nd, Foy of the 1st, Campbell of the 34th, and others :
Senate Resolution No. 70. A resolution by the 8enate, the House concurring, that Hon. Wm. J. Harris be invited to address the General Assembly.
By unanimous consent the following resolution of the House was read:

By Mr. Perryman of Talbot-
House Resolution No. 104. A resolution to require the Prison Commission of Georgia to furnish
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to the General Assembly certain needed information and for other purposes.
The follo\\ring amendment to the above resolution was read and adopted :

By Mr. Arnold of ClayAmend by striking July 11th and substituting July
15th as the time for submitting said information. The resolution was adopted as amended.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 64 was withdrawn from the House.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 12 was taken from the table and placed upon the calendar.
By unanimous consent the following bills of the Senate were placed upon the table:
Senate Bill No. 16. Senate Bill No. 17. Senate Bill No. 30.

By unanimous c;onsent the further reading of Senate Bills was dispensed with.

The following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage : By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-

House Bill No. 12. A bill to harmonize the State and Federal game laws where conflicts now exist by

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providing for a defense in the State Courts when the acts charged are legalized under Federal Law.

Mr. Duncan .of Hall movd that the bill with all amendments and substitutes be tabled and the motion prevailed.

By Mr. Whitley of Douglas-

House Bill No. 55. A bill to abolish the fees accruing to the office of Solicitor-General in criminal cases in the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, and in lieu thereof to prescribe a statutory salary for such office, and for other reasons.

The following substitute was read and adopted:

By Mr. Whitley of Douglas-
An Act to abolish the fee sy~;~tem now existing in the Superior Court of the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, as applied to the office of Solicitor-General and all fees now, heretofore or hereafter to the office of Solicitor-General, in said circuit, in so far as the same constitutes the compensation attached to said office; to provide for the payment of a salary to said Solicitor-General, in addition to the salary prescribed in Paragraph 1 of Section 13 of Article 6 of the Constitution of this State; to provide for the disposition of the fines, forfeitures and fees, including insolvent costs, accruing to the office of Solicitor-General in said judicial circuit; to impose certain duties upon the clerks of the Superior courts of the counties composing said circuit, and upon the

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Solicitor-General of said circuit, in reference to the ' collection, payment and disposition of all funds, moneys and emoluments accruing to the office of Solicitor-General; to provide for the levy and collection of a tax by the county authorities of the various counties composing said circuit for the purpose of paying the salary of the said SolicitorGeneral, and for other purposes.
Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, as follows:
SECTION 1. The fee system now existing in the Superior Courts of the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit, as applied to the office of solicitor-general, and all fees now or heretofore or hereafter accruing to the office of solicitor-general in said judicial circuit, be and the same are hereby abolished, in so far as the same constitutes the compensation of said solicitorgeneral; but the same schedule of fees and costs, prescribed under existing laws, shall remain for the purpose of ascertaining the sum or sums to be paid into the treasuries of the counties composing said . judicial circuits, as provided by Section 3 of this Act; and the solicitor-general of said judicial circuit shall hereafter be paid a salary, as hereinafter provided, in lieu of fees, as under the present system.

SEc. 2. The salary of the solicitor-general of the said Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit shall be the sum of $3,750.00 per annum, in addition to the salary of $250.00 per annum prescribed in Paragraph 1, Section 13 of Article 6 of the Constitution of this State;

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which said salary (additional to the constitutional
salary of $250.00 per annum) shall be paid pro rata out of the general treasuries of the various counties
composing said circuit; that is each county shall pay one-fourth (1;4) of said salary. It shall be and is hereby made the duty of the ordinary, county commissioners, or other authority having control of county matters, in each of said counties, to cause the part or portion of said salary, so assessed against each of said counties, to be paid to said solicitorgeneral quarterly, in each year, out of the funds of said counties; that is to say, on the first days of April, July, October, and January, and upon regular county warrants issued therefor; and it is further made the duty of said ordinaries, county commissioners, or other county authorities, having control of county mwtters, to make provisions annually, when levying taxes for expenses of courts, for the levying and collection of sufficient taxes in their respective counties, for the purpose of paying the portion of said salary chargeable against their respective counties, as hereinbefore set forth; and the power to levy taxes for such purpose is hereby delegated to said counties. Said salary of $3,750.00 and the constitutional salary of $250.00 shall be in full payment for all the services of said solicitorgeneral for all traveling and other expenses and for all sums paid out by said solicitor-general for clerical aid and legal assistants engaged or employed by him, except as provided in Section 5 of this Act.
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court of all costs, both in particular cases or matters and all insolvent costs, and all fines, forfeitures, and fees paid into the superior courts of the counties composing said judicial circuit or which may become due and payable therein, the said counties shall be subrogated to the rights and claims of the solicitor-general of said circuit, and any former solicitor-general, and shall stand in their places and stead, and shall be entitled to all funds, moneys and emoluments accruing to said office in said judicial circuit; and hereafter when orders on this insolvent fund or other judgment or finding are entered or approYed in behalf of other officers of court, instead of the same being entered and approved in the name of the solicitor-general, as under the present system, the same shall be entered and approved in the name of the solicitor-general, for use and benefit of the respective counties of said circuit. All costs, both in particular cases or matter, and all insolvent costs, and all fines, forfeitures and fees, and all funds, monies, and emoluments accruing to the office of solicitor-general in said judicial circuit, under any laws heretofore or now existing or which may hereinafter be enacted, shall be collected by the clerks of the superior courts of the various counties composing said judicial circuit, and shall be paid by said clerks into the treasuries of their respective counties ; all of which said sums shall be the property of said counties; that !s to say, all sums collected from any and all cases or matters arising in any particular county shall be paid by said clerk into the treasury of that county, and shall become the prop-

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erty of such county. Said clerks shall make written
reports, under oath, of the amounts so collected, and
make payment and remittance thereof to the treas-
urers or other custodians of county funds of said counties, within thirty days after the adjournment of each term of court held in their respective counties, and shall furnish a duplicate of said sworn statement to the ordinaries, county commissioners, or other county authorities of such counties, at the time of making such statement and remittance to said county treasurers. Said clerks of the superior courts of said counties shall keep an accurate, detailed and exact record of all fees and emoluments, including insolvent costs, earned by the said solicitor-general of said circuit, from any and all sources whatsoever, arising within their respective counties, and likewise keep a record of all sums collected by them, under the provisions of this Act, and paid by them into the treasuries of their respective counties; and their books, records and vouchers relating thereto shall be open to the inspection of the public, as other public records, and shall be the subject of investigation and inquiry by the grand juries of said counties; and shall also be audited whenever the books and records of other county officials are audited.

SEc. 4. The solicitor-general of said circuit is hereby made chargeable with the duty of justly and accurately accounting to said clerks for all fees earned and cost collected from any source whatsoever, in the various counties of said circuit; and, at

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the conclusion of each term of court, he shall reView and verify the books, records and vouchers of said clerks, as to all fees earned and costs collected; and it shall be his duty at all times, to exercise supervision over the collection of all said fines, fees and forfeitures, in all of the counties of said circuit, and to see that all sums of money due thereunder are faithfully collected and accurately accounted for and paid into the treasuries of said counties; and it shall be his duty to furnish his own services as attorney at law in the collection of all such sums, whenever it becomes necessary.
SEc. 5. Nothing in this Act shall be construed to
affect the fees now allowed by law to solicitorgeneral of this State for appearance in criminal cases in the Supreme Court and Court of Appeals of this State.
SEc. 6. This Act shall not go into effect until the first day of January, 1923.
SEc. 7. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.
The following amendments to the substitute were read and adopted :

By Mr. McGarity of Paulding-

Amend by adding to Section 2 of said bill the following: ''In no event shall said Solicit_or-General, at any one time, draw from or be paid as a salary out of the Treasury of any one of the counties in the Tallapoosa Judicial Circuit a greater sum or amount

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than his office, under this act, has caused to be paid into said treasury during the time for which said salary is being paid.''
Amend by striking from lines 4 and 5 on page 4 the following words: ''The adjournment of each term of court held in their respective counties''; and by placing in lieu thereof the following words: ''Same has come into his hands."
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute as amended.

By Mr. Pruett of Lumpkin-
House Bill No. 62. A bill to allow common carriers, operating and doing business in this State, to issue annual passes, to sheriffs and their lawful deputies and for other purp<;>ses.
The following Committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend by adding at the end of Section 1, the following words : ''Provided, that the term 'Sheriffs and their lawful deputies' as used in this Act shall mean one sheriff and one lawful deputy for each county of this state. Provided further, that when-

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ever any sheriff or deputy shall travel on such free pass, such sheriff or deputy shall have no right to charge or colleet, from any source, railroad fare covering such trip."
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 116, Nays 16.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Hunter of Chatham-
House Bill No. 70. A bill to authorize common carriers to dispose Df articles of freight or baggage which has been unclaimed or refused.
Mr. Duncan of Hall moved that the House do now adjourn; the motion prevailed, and the bill went over as unfinished business.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Langford of Hall, and Clark of Colquitt.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

TuESDAY JuLY 11, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the 30 minutes period of unanimous consents :

1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Second Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions which have been favorably reported.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and general House and Senate bills having a local application.

5. First. reading Senate Bills and Resolutions. 6. Report of Special Memorial Committee. By unanimous consent, the following bills and

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resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Munday of Polk-
House Bill No. 682. A bill to prohibit any person, firm or corporation from giving. anything to any person to secure State, City or County trade.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Phillips of Jasper-
House Bill No. 683. A bill to amend an act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads & Revenues for Jasper County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Carswell of Wilkinson & Chlpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 684. A bill relating to a special officer for protection of common carriers.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Collins of Cherokee-
House Bill No. 685. A bill to amend an :Act relative to public school system of Canton, Cherokee County.
Referred to Committee on Education.

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By Messrs. Williams and Adams of Walton-

House Bill No. 686. A bill to amend an act relative to changing time of holding Superior Court of Walton County.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Gresham & Hatcher of Burke.Hou.se Bill No. 687. A bill to amend the charter
of the City of Waynesboro.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. McGarity of Paulding
House Bill No. 688. A bill to amend Section 416 of the Penal Code of 1910, relative to certain callings.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Wimberly of Laurens-
House Bill No. 689. A bill to amend section 3176 of Code of 1910, relative to bonds to be given by surviving partners of a firm.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson-
House Bill No. 690. A bill to make it a misdemeanor to write a check with the intent to defraud.

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Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No 2.

By Mr. Clarke of WebsterHouse Bill No. 691. A bill regulating manner of
tax collectors settling with school authorities of school taxes.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 692. A bill regulating sale of drugs in state of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.

By

Messrs. Moye others-

of

Randolph,

Munday

of

Pork

and

House Bill No. 693. A bill to substitute a Board of Control for the different Boards of Trustees of the University of Georgia.

Referred to Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 694. A bill to fix the fees of coroners in the counties of the state.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

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By Mr. Riley of Sumter-
House Bill No. 695. A bill to amend Section 4126 of Code of 1910 relative to responsibility for purchasing shipped goods by mistake.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Messrs. Riley and Hines of Sumter-
House Bill No. 696. A bill to amend an act relative to granting corporate authority to City of Americus.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill-
House Bill No. 697. A bill to amend Section 33, 34 and 35 of Charter of the city of Fitzgerald.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Brown of Emanuel and Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 698. A bill to change fees for licenses of motor vehicles and motorcycles.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Lankford of Tooinbs-
House Bill No. 699. A bill to abolish . the independent school system of the city of Lyons.
Referred to Committee on Education.

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By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 700. A bill to abolish the office of Attorney for the Railroad Commission of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Fowler of Bibb-
House Bill No. 701. A bill empowering the Governor to appoint railroad policemen and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Williams of MillerHouse Bill No. 702. A bill to amend an act creat-
ing the charter of the city of Colquitt. Referred. to Committee on Corporations.
By Mr. Collins of Cherokee-
House Bill No. 703. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Canton.
Referred to Committee on Muncipal Government.
By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 704. A bill to pay veterans of worl.d war a State bonus.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

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11r. Dobbs of Cobb County, Chairman of the Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on University of Georgia and Its
Branches have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass to-wit:
House Bill No. 554.
House Bill No. '575.
DoBBS oF CoBB, Chairman.

Mr. Van Landingham of Seminole County, Chairman of the Committee on Banks and Banking submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Banks and Banking have had under consideration House Bills No. 598 and No. 568 and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

VAN LANDINGHAM of Seminole, Chairman.

Mr. Ficklen of Wilkes County, Chairman of the

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Committee on Insurance submitted the following report:

M 1. Speaker:
Your Committee on Insurance have had under consideration the following House Bill No. 561 and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

BoYcE FrcKLEN, Chairman.
Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations has submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bill of the House, House Bill No. 616, and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do not pass.

PICKREN OF CHARLTON, Chairman.

By unanimous consent, the following bills of the House, favorably reported by the Committees, were read for the second time:

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and B-entley of Fulton-

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House Bill No. 554. A bill to authorize and empower the Trustees of Georgia Sehool of Technology to collect tuition fees.
Referred to Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches.

By Mr. DuBose of ClarkeHouse Bill No. 561. A bill to amend an Act en-
titled ''An Act to create the Department of Insurance.''
Referred to Committee on Insurance.

By :Messrs. Guess, Steele & McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 568. A bill to repeal an Act, approved Aug. 13, 1914, entited ''An act to regulate the business of Investment Companies.''
Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

By Messrs. Whitaker of Lowndes and Woodard of Cook:
A bill to change the name of the South Georgia State Normal College at Valdosta.
Referred to Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches. By Mr. Hatcher of Burke-
House Bill No. 598. A bill to amend Section 1249 of Vol. 1 of Code of 1910, relative to the Governor selecting certain banks as State Depositories.
Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

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The following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Messrs. Macintyre and Jones of Thomas-
House Bill No. 601. A bill to amend an Act creating the City Court of Thomasville.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 109, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Guess of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 617. A bill to fix compensation of Jury Commissioners and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed. By Mr. Branch of Turner-

House Bill No. 658. A bill to repeal an Act to establish the City Court of Ashburn and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Pilcher and McDonald of Richmond-
House Bill No. 600. A bill to amend an Act to promote the efficiency and improve the condition
of the Fire Department of the City of Augusta and
for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following report of the Special Memorial . Committee was submitted and read:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Special Committee appointed to draft suitable resolutions concerning ithe death of certain members of this House since last session, respectfully submit the attached resolution and recommended its adoption.
We further. recommend that the members of this committee be allowed five minutes on the floor of the House to pay a fitting tribute to the memory of

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these men who have died, such tribute to be concluded by prayer by Malone of Bibb.

Respectfully submitted,

DAVIS OF OGLETHORPE, ~!ALONE OF BIBB,

BEcKHAM oF DouGHERTY.
The following resolution of the Special Memorial Committee was read and adopted by unanimous rising vote :
House Resolution No. 143:
lVhereas, an all wise providence has removed from the ranks of this house since our last session the spirits of J. R. Monroe of Wilcox, Mark Tison of Worth, and N. A. Bradford of Whitfield, all of whom were well beloved and active members of this House, and
TVhereas, in the passing of these excellent characters the House is inexpressibly grieved with a sense of deep loss,
Now Therefure be it Resolved by the House that we express our sympathy to the families of these departed ones and give assurance of the appreciation and high esteem in which these beloved members were held, and that a copy of these resolutions be spread upon the Journal of the House and a copy sent by the Clerk to the families of the deceased.

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In compliance with the report of the Special Memorial Committee the House was lead in prayer by the Hon. J. F. Malone, Representative from the County of Bibb.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 239 and House Bill No. 642 were withdrawn from the House
By unanimous consent Senate Bill No. 16 was taken from the table and recommitted to the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
Under the order of unfinished business the following bill of the House was taken up for further consideration:

By Mr. Hunter of ChathamHouse Bill No. 70. A bill to authorize common
carriers in this State to sell articles of freight or baggage which are unclaimed or refused, and for other purposes.
The following substitute was read and adopted:

By Mr. Hunter of Chatham-
A bill to be entitled" An ~J\.ct to authorize common carriers in this State to sell articles of freight or baggage which are unclaimed or refused or cannot be delivered for any reason and provide for the disposition of proceeds thereof, and repeal Sections 2757, 2758, 2759 and 2760 of the Code of the State of Georgia of 1910, which sections relate to the sale of unclaimed freight and disposition of the proceeds thereof, and for other purposes."

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that any common carrier having an office or place of business in this State, and which has had in its possession for a period of sixty days after arrival at destination any article of fr:eight, not live or perishable, or baggage which is unclaimed or refused or cannot be delivered for any reason, may after the expiration of the said sixty days, sell the same at public auction any point where in the opinion of the common carrier the best price can be obtained, provided, however, that written notice of such sale shall be mailed to the consignor or consignee not less than fifteen days before such sale shall be made, or notice of the sale shall be published once a week for two weeks in newspaper where sheriff's advertisements are published at the point of sale, and the said sale shall also be published as aforesaid at the Court House door in said County and also upon a bulletin board for that purpose in the station at said point.
SEc. 2. Be it further enacted that where such freight is live freight, the same niay be sold on five day's notice, the carrier to give the notice in such manner as the carrier in the exercise of good faith and with a view to making the best sale shall determine; personal notice to either consignor or consignee of such freight or notice advertised in newspaper in which sheriffs' advertisements are published, shall be deemed sufficient.
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freight is perishable freight, or freight subject to determination, the common carrier may sell the same in such manner and at such time as will best protect the interest of the carrier, the consignor and consignee, and wherever practical the consignor and consignee shall be notified of the proposed sale of such freight.
SEc. 4. Be it further enacted that a record shall be kept of the articles sold under the provisions of this Act, of the name and address of purchaser and of the prices obtained for same, and the carrier shall, after deducting all charges, and expense of the advertisement and sale, pay the balance to the owner of such articles.
SEc. 5. Be it further enacted, That Section 2757 of the Code of 1910 of the State of Georgia, providing for the sale of undelivered freight after six months, That Section 2758 of said Code, providing for the sale of undelivered live freight after five days notice and undelivered perishables after twenty-four hours notice, That Section 2759 of said Code, regulating the disposition of the net proceeds of any such sale, and That Section 2760 of said Code, providing that upon compliance with the foregoing sections carrier shall be relieved of liability for safekeeping of freight or proceeds, be and the same are, hereby repealed.

SEc. 6. .Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

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The following amendment to the substitute was read and adopted:

By Mr. Thompson of Coweta-
Amend by striking from line 12 of Section 1 the word "or" and substituting in lieu thereof the word "and", and by striking from line 5 of Section 2 the words "either" and "or consignee."
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 125, Nays 3.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute as amended.
By unanimous consent House Hill No. 244 was taken from the table and placed upon the calendar.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted :

By Mr. Brownlee of Elbert-
House Resolution No. 144. Be it resolved by the . House of Representatives that the privileges of the floor of the House be extended to the Hon. J. G. Childs during his stay in the city, or for the day.
Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House for the

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purpose of continuing the discussion of House Resolution No. 117 and the motion prevailed.

Under the above motion the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Mundy of Polk as the Chairman thereof.

The Committee of the Whole House arose, and through their Chairman, reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass by substitute.
The following message was received from His Excellency, the Governor, through his Secretary, Mr. Blalock:

Mr. Speaker:

I am directed by His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver to the House of Representatives, a communication in writing, to which he respectfully invites your attention.

STATE OF GEORGIA:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

ATLANTA.

To the General Assernbly of Georgia:
In February, 1922, the State Board of Entomology made a contract with The Sherwin-Williams Company, of Cleveland, Ohio, to furnish to the farmers

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of Georgia, through the State Board of Entomology, sufficient stocks of Calcium Arsenite to meet the demands and requirements of the farmers of Georgia, at and for the contract price of nine (9c) cents per pound, delivered in car load lots at any point in Georgia.
Since the execution of the aforesaid contract the price of Calcium Arsenite has advanced, and the State Department of Enotomology is having considerable trouble in securing the performance of the . contract by The Sherwin-Williams Company.
Under the distressing agricultural conditions in Georgia, this is a grave menace to our cotton crop, and it is most important that the General Assembly shall take immediate steps to give to the State Board of Entomology funds with which to secure the performance of the contract by said Sherwin-Williams Company, and to otherwise provide for Calcium Arsenite for the farmers of Georgia.
House Bill No. 377, by Mr. Williams, of Walton, has already been recommended by the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and ::\feans, and is now on the calendar of the House ready for passage.
I earnestly urge you to give immediate consideration to the above measure, as it is believed that its passage will greatly relieve the above situation.

Respectfully submitted, THOMAS \V. HARDWICK, Governor.

TuESDAY, JuLY 11, 1922.

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The following resolution of the House was read:

By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
House Resolution No. 117. A resolution that the House approve the Minority Report of the State Highway Department Investigating Committee.
The following Committee substitute was read and adopted:
Whereas, the members of the House have not read all of the evidence submitted to the Highway Committee, Therefore be it resolved, that both the majority and minority reports be filed for information of the House, and that the Committee be discharged.

On the adoption of the resolution the Ayes were 126, Nays 45, and the resolution was adopted by substitute.
Mr. Vocelle of Camden moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

"'WEDNESDAY, JULY 12, 1922.
The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. 1\L; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of \Valton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel. of Troup Da,is of Floyd Da,is of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Gn.nt Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hin~;s of Sumter Hodges Holland

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Holloway

Mayo

Horne

Miles

Houser

Mixon

Houston

~Ioore of Appling

Howard of Forsyth Moore of Fulton

Howard of Screven Moye

Hufstetler

:Mundy

Hullender

Neal of Union

Hunter

Nichols

Hyman

Owen

Jackson

Parks

Jones of Coweta

Parrish

Jones of Thomas

Patten

Jones of \Valker

Penland

Johnson of Bartow Perkins

Johnson of

Perryman

Chattahoochee Peterson

Johnson of Pickens Phillips of Jasper

Keith

Phillips of Telfair

Kennedy

Pickren

King of Jefferson

Pilcher

King of Wilcox

Price

Kittrell

Pruett

Knight

Quincey

Langford of Hall

Ramsey

Lankford of Toombs Reagan

Lewis

Reville

Logan

Ricketson

Luke

Riley

::\IcClelland

Robinson

McClure

Russell

::\IcDonald of Mitchell Rutherford

McDonald of

Salmon

Richmond Sapp

::\IcGarity

Shettlesworth

::\Iaclntyre

Sibley

McMichael

Singletary

Maddox

Smiley

Malone

Smith of Bryan

Mann

Smith of Carroll

:\Ianning

Smith of Haralson

Mason

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stomll Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall \Vatkins Way \Vebb Weston Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth 'Villiams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of 'Valton Wimberly \Yinship 'Yood \Yoodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne ::\Ir. Speaker

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By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:

1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate Bills having a local application.
5. Reading Senate bills and resolutions the first time.
The following resolutions of the House were read and adopted:

By Mr. Johnson of Bartow-
House Resolution No. 146. A resolution extending the priviledges of the floor of the House to Mrs. W. H. Felton.

By Mr. Johnson of Bartow-
House Resolution No. 145. A resolution extending ing the privileges of the floor of the House to Mrs. G. Veasey.

By Messrs. Rile~- of Sumter and Williams of Miller-

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House Resolution No. 150. A resolution extending the privileges of the floor of the House to Dr. 0. B. Bush and Judge Crawley of Waycross.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Horne of Dodge~
House Resolution No. 147. (705-A). A resolution to amend Article 6, Section 7, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution relative to jurisdiction of justice courts in civil cases.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Messrs. Brannen and Parrish of Bulloch-
Honse Resolution No. 148. (715-A). A resolution to authorize the sale of certain lands for benefit 1st. District A. & M. School.
Referred to Committee on Public Property.

By Messrs. Ficklen & Bobo of Wilkes-
House Resolution No. 151. (717-A). A resolution relative to the salaries of members of the General Assembly and other officials.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.
Sig. 9

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By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 705. A bill to control the placement of all revenues of the State of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Guess, McClelland and Steele of De-
Kal~
House Bill No. 706. A bill to carry into effect an amendment to the constitution relative to additional judge of Superior Court of Stone Mountain Circuit.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Munday of Polk and McGarity of Pauldmg-
House Bill No. 707. A bill to amend an act entitled ''An Act to protect fur-bearing animals ~n the State."
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Mr. Home of Dodge-

House Bill No. 708. A bill to amend Section 789 of Criminal Code relative to jurisdiction of Justice Courts.

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Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Mr. Collins of CherokeeHouse Bill No. 709. A bill to amend an act of

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Extra-Ordinary Session known as the Georgia Motor Vehicle Law.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Jones of WalkerHouse Bill No. 710. A bill to require drivers of
motor vehicles to stop before crossing any railroad.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Bill No. 711. A bill to prevent improper practice of mid-wives in certain cases.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 712. A bill to require State banks to become members of the Federal Reserve.
Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

By Mr. Griffith of Oconee-
House Bill No. 713. A bill to amend Section 1169 of Code of 1910 relative to redemption of property sold for taxes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. Brannen and Parrish of BullochHonse Bill No. 714. A bill to amend an act to
create the city Court of Statesboro. Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

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By Mr. Parks of Terrell-
House Bill No. 715. A bill to amend an act establishing the City Court of Dawson.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 716. A bill to make it unlawful for Secretary of State to grant charters including in name of corporation the word "Georgia."
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 717. A bill to appropriate $29,000.00 for erection of Cold Storage plant at State Sanitarium.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and \Vays and Means.
Mr. Culpepper of Fayette County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and ::\leans submitted the ~ollowing report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and .Means have had under consideration the following resolution of the House and have instructed me as Vice-Chairman, to report the same back to the

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House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
/
House Resolution No. 124 Appropriating $1,500.00 or so much thereof as may be necessary to pay expenses of Tax Commission.

CuLPEPPER OF FAYETTE, Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Municipal Government have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Bill No. 556.
House Bill No. 629.
House Bill No. 661.

Respectfully submitted, SMITH oF MERIWETHER, Chairman.

Mr. Tatum of Dade County, Chairman of the Committee on Railroads submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Railroads have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do not pass.

House Bill No. 214.

TATUM OF DADE, Chairman.

Mr. Moye, of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters, have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Bill No. 648. House Bill No. 650. House Bill No. 652. House Bill No. 666. House Bill No. 683, as amended. House Bill No. 597. House Bill No. 645, as amended.
Respectfully submitted,
RoBERT L. MoYE, Chairman.

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Mr. Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Com-

)

mittee on General Judiciary No.2 has submitted the

following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No.2 have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

House Bill No. 585. House Bill No. 675. House Bill No. 677.

Respectfully submitted, JoHN C. DAvis, Chairman.

Mr. Walter R. McDonald of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary submitted the follo\\<ing report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Bill No. 634. House Bill No. 640. House Bill No. 643.

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

House Bill No. 627 (Establish City Court Claxton).

House Bill No. 596.

',

WALTER R. MeDoNALD, Chairman Special Judiciary.

Mr. Gresham of Burke County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Education submitted the following report:

lJ;Jr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
Senate Bill No. 167. A Bill to establish Public School System for the town of Sparta.
House Bill No. 649. A Bill to amend Section No. 1 of an act entitled an act to aid in the establishment and maintenance of consolidated schools in each county of the State.
House Bill No. 646. A Bill to abolish the local school system in and for the town of Stapleton, formerly Spread, in said State and County, and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 638. A Bill to amend the charter of the town of Pearson in Atkinson County Georgia.
GRESHAM OF BuRKE, Vice-Chairman.

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The following resolution of the House was introduced and read:

By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
House Resolution No. 149. A resolution that a joint committee from the House and Senate be appointed to make an investigation of the records, deeds, activities and operations of the State Highway Department and for other purposes.

The Speaker ordered that this resolution lie on the table at least one day.

Mr. Hamilton of Floyd moved that the resolution be referred to the Committee on Public Highways.

Mr. McMichael of Marion moved that the resolution to be referred to the Committee of the Whole House with instructions that same be reported back to the House within two days.

Under the Rules of the House the motion to submit to the Committee of the Whole House has precedence over the other motion.

On the Motion to submit the resolution to the Committee of the Whole House Mr. McMichael of Marion called for the Ayes and Nays, and the call was sustained.
The roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

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Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Walton Anderson Beck Bleckley Boatwright Bobo Boyett Bozeman Braddy Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Carr Childs Clark of Webster Collier Corbitt Daniel of Heard Davis of Oglethorpe Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Evans Ficklen Foy Grant Griffith Harris Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Sumter

Hodges

Pickren

Holland

Price

Horne

Ramsey

Houston

Reagan

Howard of Forsyth Ricketson

Howard of Screven Riley

Hullender

Salmon

Hyman

Sapp

Jackson

Shettlesworth

Jones of Coweta

Singletary

Jones of Walker

Smiley

Johnson of

Smith of Bryan

Chattahoochee Steele

Keith

Stovall

Kennedy

Sumner of Johnson

King of Wilcox

Sumner of Wheeler

Knight

Swift

Langford of Hall

Swindle

Lankford of Toombs Tatum

Lewis

Thompson of Coweta

Logan

Thompson of Dodge

Luke

Turner

McClelland

Van Landingham

McClure

Walker

McMichael

Wall

Miles

Watkins

Mixon

Whitley

Moore of Appling

Wltitaker of Rockdale

Mundy

Williams of Harris

Parrish

Williams of Miller

Perryman

Wood

Peterson

Woodard

Phillips of Jasper

Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Arnold Atkinson Beckham Bentley Bloodworth

Boswell Branch Brantley Bush Camp Carswell

Coates Collins Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Troup DeFoor

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DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dobbs DuBose Dykes Gann Gresham Griffin .Grovenstein Haddock Hamilton Hatcher of Burke Hines of Decatur Holloway Hufstetler Hunter Jones of Thomas Johnson of Bartow King of Jefferson Kittrell

McDonald of Mitchell Rutherford

:McDonald of

Sibley

Richmond Smith of Carroll

McGarity

Smith of Haralson

Malone

Smith of Meriwether

Mann

Stone

.:\fanning

Strickland

Mason

Trippe

Mayo

Tyson

Moye

Valentino

Neal of l:nion

VanZant

Owen

Vocelle

Parks

Way

Penland

\Vebb

Phillips of Telfair \Veston

Pilcher

Williams of Walton

Pruett

Wimberly

Quincey

Winship

Reville

Worthy

Russell

Wyatt

Those not voting were Messrs:

Baldwin Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bowden Bowen Brannen Clark of Colquitt Clifton Davis of Floyd Dixon Dudley

Ennis Fletcher
Folsom Fowler Franks Greene Guess Gunnels Hatcher of Muscogee Houser Johnson of Pickens

~Iaclntyre
:Maddox Moore of Fulton Nichols Patten Perkins Robinson Whitaker of Lowndes Whitworth Mr. Speaker

The roll call was verified.
On the motion to refer the resolution to the Committee of the Whole House the Ayes were 98, Nays 77, and the motion prevailed.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the Honse and Senate, favorably re-

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ported by the Committees, were read for the second time :

By Messrs. Hunter of Chatham & Parks of Terrell-

House Resolution No. 124. (566E). A resolution providing for appropriation to pay expenses of Joint Committee to consider the tax system of Georgia.

By Mr. Hunt of the 20th-
Senate Bill No. 167. A bill to establish Public School System for Sparta.

By Messrs. Bobo & Ficklen of Wilkes-

House Bill No. 556. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Washington.
By Mr. Brown of Emanuel-

House Bill No. 585. A bill to amend an act to fix and define age of consent of females.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-

House Bill No. 596. A bill to abolish the city court of Hazelhurst.
By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 597. A bill to repeal an act to make tax collectors ex-officio Sheriffs.

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By Mr. Hodges of Evans-

House Bill No. 627. A bill to amend the city court of Claxton, and for other purposes.

By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of FultonHouse Bill No. 629. A bill to amend the charter
of the .city of Atlanta.
By Mr. vValker of Baker-
House Bill No. 634. A bill to change the time of holding superior court of Baker County.

By Mr. Corbitt of AtkinsonHouse Bill No. 638. A bill to amend the
charter of the town of Pearsons in Atkinson county.
By Mr. Sumner of WheelerHouse Bill No. 640. A bill to change the time of
holding the Superior Court of Wheeler County.

By Mr. Holland of Tattnall-
House Bill No. 643. A bill to provide for holding two terms a year of Superior court of Tattnall county.

By Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Bill No. 645. A bill to create a board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Elbert county.

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By Messrs. Harris and King of Jefferson-

House Bill No. 646. A bill to abolish the local school system for the town of Stapleton (formerly Spread).

By Messrs. Clarke and Lewis of Colquitt-
House Bill No. 648. A bill to amend an act establishing a Board of Commissioners for Colquitt county.

By Mr. Thompson of Dodge-
House Bill No. 649. A bill to amend Section 1 of an act relative to consolidated public .schools of the State.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 650. A bill to give authority to health authorities in cities of certain population.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 652. A bill to devise ways whereby counties of certain populations may provide for paupers.

By Mr. Bozeman of Worth-
House Bill No. 661. A bill to amend an act to create a charter for the city of Sylvester.

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By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 666. A bill to require commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Baldwin county to pay certain fees.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 675. A bill to define the liability of hotel keepers in certain instances.

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 677. A bill relative to the attesting of deeds and loans in this State.

By Mr. Phillips of Jasper-
House Bill No. 683. A bill to amend an act to create a Board of Commissioners for the county of Jasper.
The following bill of the House was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Hatcher of Burke-
House Bill No. 598. A bill to amend Sec. 1249 of Volume 1 of the Code of 1910 providing for the selection by the Governor of banks in certain cities and towns therein named as State Depositories, and the several acts amendatory thereof, so as to add the City of Waynesboro to the list of such cities.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137,

Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Messrs. DeLaPerriere and Swindle of Jackson, and others-
House Resolution No 152. A resolution to provide for a Joint Commission to obtain subscriptions to place memorials to A. H. Stephens and Crawford W. Long in the Hall of Fame in the ~ational Capitol._
The following resolution of the House was read and lost:

By Mr. Quincey of Coffee-
House Resolution No. 153. A resolution to adjourn sine die on July 27th, 1922.
The following report of the Committee on Rules was submitted and read:

Mr. Speaker:
The rules committee having had under consideration an order of business for today, have instructed me as their Vice-Chairman to report back as the special and continuing order of business to follow immediately after unfinished business, the followmg:

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House Bill No. 328. (Limited to five minutes debate to the side).

House Bill No. 563. (Limited to :fifteen minutes to the side).

House Resolution No. 4. For the purpose of a second reading and recommitted (suspension of rules for this purpose with the consent of the Fulton delegation being requested by Bibb delegation).

House Bill No. 233. (Debate limited to fifteen minutes to the side).

MUNDY oF PoLK, Vice-Chairman.

The report of the Committee on Rules was agreed to and the order of business was adopted.
Under the Orders of the Day the following resolution of the House, set as a special order by the committee on Rules, was read the second time and recommitted:

By Messrs. Fowler, Winship and Malone of Bibb-
House Resolution No. 4. A resolution proposing an amendment "to the Constitution of the State of Georgia by adding a new Article to be known as ''Article ]'ourteen, '' providing for the removal of the Capitol from Atlanta to Macon.
Under the Orders of the Day the following bills of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

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By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson-
House Bill No. 328. A bill to provide for the elections prescribed by Par. 1, Sec. 4, Article 8 of the Constitution.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 122, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Cowart of Calhoun-
House Bill No. 563. A bill to change the county site from Morgan to Arlington.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Speaker ordered the roll call, and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Andoerson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bloodworth Boatwright

Bobo Boswell Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp Carswell

Childs Clark of VVebster Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere

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Dickerson

Keith

Dixon

Kennedy

Dobbs

King of Jefferson

DuBose

King of Wilcox

Duncan of Dawson Kittrell

Duncan of Hall

Knight

Ennis

Langford of Hall

Evans

Lankford of Toombs

Fowler

Lewis

FI'llnks

Logan

Gann

Luke

Grant

l\IcClelland

!}resham

McClure

Griffin

:McDonald of Mitchell

Griffith

::\lcGarity

~rovenstein

McMichael

Guess

Maddox

Gunnels

Malone

.Hamilton

Mann

Harris

)Ianning

Hateher of Muscogee Mason

Hawkins

::\Iayo

Henderson

Miles

Herring

::\Iixon

Hillhouse

Moore of Appling

Hines of Decatur

Moore of Fulton

Hines of Sumter

Moye

Hodges

)Iundy

Holland

Neal of Union

Holloway

Parks

Houser

Parrish

Houston

Penland

Howard of Forsyth Perryman

Howard of Screven Peterson

Hufstetler

Phillips of Jasper

Hullender

Pickren

Hunter

Pilcher

Hyman

Price

Jackson

Pruett

Jones of Coweta

Quincey

Jones of Thomas

Ramsey

Jones of Walker

Reagan

Johnson of

Reville

Chattahoochee Ricketson

Riley Russell Rutherford Salmon Sapp Shettlesworth Singletary Smiley Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker \Vall Watkins \Vay Webb \Veston Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Miller \Villiams of Walton Wimberly Woodard Wyatt
Wynn~

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Those not voting were Messrs :

Bleck ley Bowden Bowen Boyett Camp Carr Clark of Colquitt Clifton Davis of Floyd Dudley Dykes Ficklen Fletcher

Folsom

Patten

}'oy

Perkins

Greene

Phillips of Telfair

Haddock

Robinson

Hatcher of Burke

Sibley

Horne

Smith of Bryan

Johnson of Bartow Tyson

Johnson of Pickens Whitley

1\IcDonald of

Whitaker of Lowndes

Richmond \Villiams of Harris

Macintyre

Winship

Nichols

Wood

Owen

Worthy

1\Ir. Speaker

Ayes 168, Nays 0.
By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 168, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite Constitutional majority was passed.
By Messrs. Whitaker and Webb of Lowndes and Woodard of Cook-
House Bill No. 233. A bill to appropriate $65,000.00 to the South Georgia State Normal College at Valdosta for finishing domitory on its campus and for other purposes.
The bill involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House, and the Speaker designated Mr. Lankford of Toombs as the Chairman thereof.

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The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman, reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup nioved that the bill be tabled.
On the tabling of the bill Mr. Davis of Oglethorpe called for the Ayes and Nays.
Mr. Culpepper of Fayette moved that the House do now adjourn; the motion prevailed, and the bill went over as unfinished business.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

THURSDAY, JULY 13, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 709 was withdrawn from the Committee on Public Highways and recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1.
By unanimous consent Senate Bill No. 32 was withdrawn from the House.
By unanimous consent the following bill of the House was withdrawn from the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, read the second time, and recommitted to the Committee on Game and Fish:

By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-
House Bill No. 577. A bill relative to non-residents of Camden County fishing in said county.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 451 was withdrawn fromthe House.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 636 was

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withdrawn from the Committee on General Judiciary No.2 and recommitted to the Committee on Special Judiciary.

By unanimous consent 300 copies of substitute and amendments to House Bill No. 260 were ordered to be printed for the use of the House and Senate.

By unanimous consent Mr. Davis of Oglethorpe was allowed to cast his vote at this time on House Bill No. 233 and House Resolution No. 149 and retire. He voted Aye on both the bill and the resolution.
By unanimous consent Mr. Williams of Harris was granted leave of absence.

By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the remaining part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of new matter under the rules.

2. Reports of standing committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.
5. Reading Senate bills and resolutions the first time.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and

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resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Messrs. :McDonald, Pilcher and Reville of Richmond-

House Bill ~o. 718. A bill to appropriate certain sums to Georgia Training School for Mental Defectives.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and ways and Means.

By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-

House Bill No. 719. A bill to provide for occupation tax on distributors of oils and greases.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-

House Bill Ko. 720. A bill to amend Section 3353 of Code of 1910, relative to the lien law of Georgia.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.

By l\Ir. Moore of Fulton-

House Bill No. 721. A bill to amend an Act relative to bonds to be given by employment agencies.
Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor
Statistics.



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By Messrs. McDonald, Pilcher and Reville of Rich mond-
House Bill No. 722. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Augusta.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Messrs. Woodard of Cook, Bowden of Tift, and others-
House Bill No. 723. A bill to make provisions for experimental work at Coastal Plain Experiment Station relative to diseases of fruits.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Jolinson l')f Chattahoochee-
House Bill No. 724, A bill to amend Article 11, Section 3, Paragra.~h 1, of the Constitution relative to consolidation of offices of Clerk and Orqinary.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Mr. Bowden of \Vare-
House Bill Ko. 725. A bill to create Bond Commissioners for Ware County.
Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.

By Mr. Guess of DeKalbHouse Bill No. 726. A bill to amend the Act known



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as the Georgia Workmen's Compensation Act, relative to subrogation.
Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.
By Mr. Grant of Habersham-
House Bill No. 727. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Clarkesville.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-

House Bill No. 728. A bill to provide for the re-

turn for taxation of mortages and other evidences of

indebtedness.

.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations and

Ways and Means.

By Mr. Atkinson of ChathamHouse Bill No. 729. A bill to regulate the practice
of professional engineering .:md surveying.
Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

By Mr. Strickland of Brantley-
Honse Bill No. 730. A bill to amend an Act establishing the Juvenile Court, and for other purposes:
Referred to Committee on Reformatories.

By Messrs. Riley and Hines of SumterHouse Bill No. 731. A bill to amend an Act entitled

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an Act to protect the fur-bearing animals of the State.

Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Messrs. Hines and Riley of Sumter-
House Bill No. 732. A bill to appropriate certain sums to Third District Agricultural School.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
By Mr. Swift of ElbertHouse Bill No. 733. A bill to amend an Act in-
corporating the City of Elbert in Elbert County. Referred to Committee on Corporations.
By Mr. Mason of Hart: House Bill No. 734. A bill to establish free libra-
. ries in all counties of the State, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Public Libraries.

By Mr. Fowler of BibbHouse Bill No. 735. A bill to place Elliott Hicks
on the pension roll. Referred to Committee on Pensions.

By Mr. Green of Jones-
House Bill No. 736. A bill to regulate arrests and fixing of bail in criminal cases.

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Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.

By Mr. Green of Jones-
House Bill No. 737. A bill to regulate the trials in criminal cases, and for other purposes.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.
By Mr. McMichael of Marion~
House Bill No. 738. A bill to amend Article 7, Section 12, Paragraph 1, of Constitution, relative to construction of grain elevators, etc.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Resolution No. 154. A resolution to appropriate certain sums to pay interest on the public debt.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
By Messrs. Hamilton of Floyd and others-
House Resolution No. 155 (737A). A resolution providing for sending delegation from Georgia to American Independence Exposition.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and \Vays and ~leans.

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By Mr. Phillips of Jasper-
House Resolution No. 156 (737B). A resolution to elect members of Board of Commissioners of Jasper County by popular vote.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Byrd of Taliaferro-
Honse Resolution No. 158 (737D). A resolution requesting appointment of committee to draft bill relative to luxury tax.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Collins of CherokeeHouse Bill No. 739. A bill to regulate motion pic-
ture films, and create a Board of Censors, etc. Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.

By Mr. Knight of Berrien-
House Resolution No. 159 (737E). A resolution providing for appointment of committee to suggest legislation for sale of inferior seed.
Referred to General Agricultural Committee No.2.

By Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Resolution No. 160 (7371!'). A resolution to make appropriation for defraying expenses of Mansion Leasing Committee.

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Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Beck of Carroll-
House Resolution Ko. 161 (737G). A resolution relative to investigating accounting system of State Highway Commission.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
Mr. De],oor of Clayton, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on General Agriculture No. 2, submitted the following report:

JJ1r. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Agriculture No.2 beg to recommend that House Bill No. 625 do pass

DEFooR of Clayton, Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Moye, of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:
JJfr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

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House Bill No. 582, as amended. House Bill No. 697. House Bill No. 715.

Respectfully submitted, RoBERT L. MoYE, Chairman.

Mr. W. E. Boatwright of Emanuel County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Printing, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:

Your Col?mittee on Public Printing have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 589.
MR. BoATWRIGHT, Chairman.

Mr. Lankford of Toombs County, Chairman of the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Amendments to the Constitution have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

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House Bill No. 213, to amend Paragraphs 1 and 2, Section 4, Article 3 of the Constitution of Georgia, to provide for the election of members of the General Assembly quadrennially, etc.
House Bill No. 572. To amend an Act creating a Municipal Court of Atlanta, etc.
House Bill No. 550. To amend Paragraph 1, Section 7, Article 6, of the Constitution.

LANKFORD of Toombs, Chairman.

Mr. Guess of DeKalb County, Chairman of the



Committee on General Judiciary No.1, submitted the

following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendation:
House Bill No. 630 do pass as amended.

GuEss of DeKalb, Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has read and adopted the following House resolution:

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A resolution urging members of Congress from Georgia to use theit influence to secure Muscle Shoals for Henry Ford.

By unanimous consent, the following bills of the House, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Messrs. Moye of Randolph and Quincey of Coffee-

House Bill No. 213: A bill to amend Paragraphs 1 and 2, Section 4, Article 3, of the Constitution, relative to quadrennial election of members of General Assembly.

By Mr. Mann of Glynn:
House Bill No. 550. A bill to amend Paragraph 1, Section 7, Article 6, of the Constitution, relative to cities of certain populatio.ns.

By Messrs. Holloway, Moore & Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 572. A bill t4l amend an Act creating a Municipal Court for the City of Atlanta.

By Mr. Hodges of Evans-
House Bill No. 582. A bill to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners for the County of Evans.
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By Mr. Beck of Carroll-

House Bill No. 589. A bill to provide for establishment of printing plant for the State.

By Mr. Reagan of Henry-
House Bill No. 625. A bill to provide for buying and selling of loose lint cotton in this State.

By Mr. Knight of Berrien-
House Bill No. 630. A bill to provide for the change of venue in certain cases, and for other purposes.

By Mr. Luke of Ben HillHouse Bill No. 697. A bill to amend Sections 33,
34 and 315 of the charter of the City of Fitzgerald.

By Mr. Parks of Terrell-
House Bill No. 715. A bill to amend the charter of the City Court of Dawson.
The following bills of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Messrs. Bobo and Ficklen of -Wilkes-
House Bill No. 556. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Washington, Ga., so as to extend the limits of said city.
The report of the committee, which was favorable
to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 597. A bill to repeal an Act making Tax Collectors of counties of certain population exofficio Sheriffs for said countiBs, and for other purposes.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 113, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Sumner of Wheeler-
House Bill No. 640. A bill to change and fix the time for holding the Superior Courts of Wheeler .County, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 118, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Mr. Holland of Tattnall-

House Bill No. 643. A bill to amend an Act to provide for holding two terms a year of Tattnall Superior Court, to prescribe the time for holding same, and changing term from the first Monday in January and July to third Monday in April and October, each year, and for other purposes.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 119, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Harris and King-
House Bill No. 646. A bill to abolish the local school system in and for the town of Stapleton (formerly Spread) in said State and county, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 121, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Clark and Lewis of ColquittHouse Bill No. 648. A bill to amend an Act estab-

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lishing a Board of Commissioners of Colquitt County, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, W!as agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 122, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 666. A bill to require Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Baldwin County to pay to the officers of court and to justices of peace and notaries public, ex-officio justices of peace, their fees, as provided by law, in criminal cases, where the defendants are sentenced to the chaingang in said county.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the pasS"age of the bill the Ayes were 125, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Bill No. 645. A bill to create a Board of
Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Elbert County, and for other purposes.

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The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were ~20, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Corbett of Atkinson-
House Bill No. 638. A bill to amend the charter of the town of Pearson, in Atkinson County.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Walker of Baker-
House Bill No. 634. A bill to change the time of holding the Superior Court of Baker County, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 116, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 596. A bill to abolish an Act to establish the City Court of Hazlehurst, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 114, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Bozeman of Worth-
House Bill No. 661. A bill to amend an Act creating a charter for the City of Sylvester, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 123, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Hodges of Evans-
House Bill No. 627. A bill to amend an Act to establish the City Court of Claxton, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the pass.age of the bill the Ayes were 112, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Phillips of Jasper-
House Bill No. 683. A bill to amend an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Jasper, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 124, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Hunt of 20th-
Senate Bill No. 167. A bill to establish Public School system for Spartll.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 126, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following resolution of Senate, to-wit:
A resolution relative to the Capitol Removal Bill.
Under the order of unfinished business the following bill of the House was taken up for further consideration:

By Messrs. Whitaker and Webb of Lowndes and "\Voodard of Cook-
House Bill No. 233. A bill to appropriate $65,000 to the South Georgia State Normal School at Valdosta, and for other purposes.
The call for the Ayes and Nays on the motion of yesterday to table the bill was not sustained.
The motion of yesterday that the bill be tabled was lost.
Mr. Vocelle of Qamden moved the previous question; the call was sustained, and the main question was ordered.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the bill be tabled and the motion was lost.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the Pl\Ssage of the bill, was agreed to.
The bill involving an appropriation, the roll call was ordered, and the vote was as follows:

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Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Arnold Atkinson Beck Bird of Taliaferro Bleck ley Boatwright Boswell Bowden Bowen Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Bush Camp Carr Carswell Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Corbitt Daniel of Heard Davis of Oglethorpe Dickerson DuBose Dykes Ennis Evans Fowler Franks Gresham Griffin Griffith

Guess

Owen

Hamilton

Parks

Harris

Parrish

Hatcher of Burke

Penland

Henderson

Perryman

Herring

Peterson

Hines of Sumter

Phillips of Jasper

Holloway

Pickren

Horne

Pilcher

Houser

Pruett

Howard of Screven Reville

Hufstetler

Riley

Hunter

Russell

Jackson

Sibley

Jones of Thomas

Singletary

Johnson of Bartow Smiley

Johnson of

Smith of Bryan

Chattahoochee Smith of Carroll

King of Jefferson

Smith of Haralson

King of Wilcox

Stone

Knight

Strickland

Lankford of Toombs Sumner of wheeler

Lewis

Trippe

Luke

Turner

McClure

Tyson

McDonald of Mitchell Valentino

McDonald of

Van Landingham

Richmond VanZant

Macintyre

Vocelle

McMichael

Wall

Malone

Way

Mason

Webb

Mayo

weston

Miles

Williams of Walton

Moore of Fulton

Winship

Mundy

Woodard

Neal of Union

Wynne

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Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Anderson Bobo Boyett Brownlee Childs Collier Collins Daniel of Troup DeFoor Duncan of, Dawson Duncan of Hall Ficklen Foy Gann Grant Greene Grovenstein Gunnels Haddock Hatcher of .:\Iuscogee Hawkins Hillhouse

Hines of Decatur Holland Houston Howard of Forsyth Hullender Hyman Jones of Coweta Jones of \Valker Keith Kt>nnedy Kittrell Langford of Hall Logan .\IcCielland .\IcGarity .\Iaddox. .\Janning .\Iixon }loore of Appling .\Ioye Price Quincey

Ramsey Reagan Ricketson Rutherford Salmon Sapp Shettlesworth Smith of Meriwether Stovall Sumner of Johnson Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge "'atkins "'hitaker of Rockdale \\'hitworth \Yilliams of Miller \Yimberly \Yood Wyatt

.Those not voting were :Messrs:

Baldwin Beckham Bentley Blalock Bloodworth Byrd of Crisp Clark of Colquitt Cowart Culpepper Davis of Floyd DeLaPerriere

Dixon Dobbs DudlPy Fletcher Folsom Hodges .JolmRon of Pickens .\Iann Nichols Patten Perkins

Phillips of Telfair Robinson Steele \Yalker Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes \Villiams of Harris Worthy .\Jr. Speaker

Ayes 110, Nays 66.

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 110, Nays 66.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
Mr. Williams of Walton moved that the House do now adjourn, and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Reville and McDonald of Richmond, Houser of Houston, Blalock of Ware, Ficklen of Wilkes, and Luke of Ben Hill.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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FRIDAY, JuLY 14, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 631 was withdrawn from the House.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills ~nd uncontested general House and Senatebills having a local application.
5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the :first time, and referred to the committees:

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By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of Fulton-:--
House Resolution No. 163. (748A).. A resolution for the relief of J. T. Jones as a surety on a bond.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. "\Vay of LibertyHouse Bill No. 740. A bill to authorize the Gov-
ernor to sell State lands. Referred to Committee on Public Property.

By Messrs. Gann and Dobbs of Cobb-
House Bill No. 741. A bill to appropriate certain sums to the Confederate Soldiers Cemetery at Marietta, Ga.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 742. A bill to amend Art. 7, Sec. 1, Par. 2 of the constitution relative to income taxes.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Messrs. Henderson of White, Knight of Berrien, and others-
House Bill No. 743. A bill to levy a special tax on all soft drinks and near beers.

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Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 744. A bill to make it a violation of the law to draw a check without sufficient funds to cover.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Messrs. Horne of Dodge and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 745. A bill to amend the several acts relating to government of Confederate Soldiers' Home.
Referred to Committee of the Whole House.

By Mr. Dixon of Jenkins-
House Bill No. 746. A bill to amend act esta,blishing a Board of Commissioners for Jenkins County.

Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. DeFoor of Clayton-
House Bill No. 747. A bill to repeal an act to incorporate the City of Rex in Clayton County.

Referred to Committee on Corporations.

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By ~~r. Neill of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 748. A bill to amend Par. 3, Sec. 1, Art. 2 of the Constitution relative to poll taxes in Georgia.

Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Messrs. Childs of Upson, Wimberly of Laurens, and Whitley of Douglas-
A bill to repeal a system of tax equalization now in force in Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
Mr. McDonald of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary submitted the following report:

1l{r. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recom:tnendation that the same do pass :
House Bill No. 559. House Bill No. 706. House bill No. 714. House Bill No. 681. House Bill No. 686.

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Senate Bill No. 151. Senate Bill No. 15~5.
WALTER R. McDoNALD, Chairman.

Mr. Williams of Walton County, Chairman of the Committee on Reformatories submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Reformatories have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
House Bill No. 730.

\VILLIAlVIS OF \VALTON, Chairman.

l\fr. Culpepper of Fayette County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following bill and resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Resolution No. 154. Do pass.
House Bill No. 655. Do pass.

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House Resolution No. 54. Do not pass.

CuLPEPPER oF FAYETTE,

Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Municipal Government have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 703. House Bill No. 696. House Bill No. 425. House Bill No. 676, as amended.

Respectfully submitted, SMITH oF MERIWETHER, Chairman.

Mr. Moore of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following bills of the House and

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have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 691. House Bill No. 699. House Bill No. 566. House Bill No. 685.

~IooRE of Fulton, Chairman.

Mr. Beck of Carroll County, Chairman of the Committee on Temperance submitted the following report:

lJ!lr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Temperance have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass by substitute:

House Bill No. 553.

BEcK of Carroll,

Chairman.

Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Resolution No. 156, (Jasper County).
Author of House Bill No. 631, requested return of bill back to House, for purpose of withdrawing same and is returned herewith for that purpose.

Respectfully submitted,

RoBERT L. MoYE,

Chairman.

Mr. Hatcher of Muscogee County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No.2 have had under consideration the followi~g bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairmim, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
Senate Bill No. 57. Do not pass. House Bill No. 620. Do not pass. House Bill No. 659. Do not pass.

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House Bill No. 647. Do pass by substitute.

Respectfully submitted, HATCHER of Muscogee, Vice-Chairman.

Mr: Vocelle of Camden County, Chairman of the Committee on Game and Fish submitted the following report :

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Game and Fish have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendations as follows:
House Bill No. 577. Do pass as amended. House Bill No. 679. Do pass. House Bill No. 707. Do not pass.

JAMES T. VocELLE, Chairman.

Mr. Gunnels of Franklin County, Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics have had under consideration the following bills of

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the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 726. House Bill No. 680.

GuNNELLs of Franklin,
Chairman.
Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations submitted the following report:

Mr Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended:
House Bill No. 687.
PICKREN of Charlton,
Chairman.

Mr. Kittrell of Laurens County, Chairman of the Committee on General Agriculture No. 1 submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Agriculture No. 1, have had under consideration the following Bill and

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Resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Resolution No. 141. Do pass.
House Bill No. 528. Do not pass.

Respectfully submitted,

KITTRELL of Laurens,

Chairman.



By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the Committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. West of Fannin-
House Bill No. 425. A bill to create a new charter for the Town of Fry, Fannin C.ounty.

By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 553. A bill to provide for Temperance Day in the public schools of the state.

By Messrs. Boatwright and Brown of Emanuel-
House Bill No. 559. A bill to change the terms of the City Court of Swainsboro.

By Mr. Moore of FultonHouse Bill No. 1566. A bill to provide for the

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opening and closing of polls in certain counties for School Bond Elections.

By Mr. Herring of Schley-
House Bill No. 647. A bill to amend an act to fix the fees of the Clerks of Superior Courts in certain counties.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-



House Bill No. 655. A bill to appropriate $150,000.00. to Georgia State Sanitarium.

By Messrs. Pilcher, Reville and McDonald of Richmond, and Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 676. A bill to prohibit the employment of firemen in towns of certain population.

By Mr. Strickland of Brantley-
Hause Bill No. 679. A bill to require non-residents of Brantley County to secure licenses to fish in said county.

By Mr. Steele of DeKalb--
House Bill No. 680. A bill to amend an act known as the Georgia Workmen's Compensation Act.

By Messrs. Brannen and Parrish of Bulloch-
Hause Bill No. 681. A bill to amend Sec. 2 of an Act creating a City Court for Statesboro.

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By Mr. Collins of Cherokee-
House Bill No. 685. A bill to amend an act entitied an act to amend an act amending the Act establishing public schools for the Town of Canton.

By Messrs. Williams and Adams of Walton-
House Bill No. 686. A bill to amend an act to change the time of holding the Superior Court of Walton County.

By Messrs. Gresham and Hatcher of Burke--
House Bill No. 687. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Waynesboro.

.1\y l\Ir. Clarke of Webster-
House Bill No. 691. A bill to regulate the manner of settling accounts of Tax Collectors in this State.

By Messrs. Riley & Hines of Sumter-
House Bill No. 696. A bill to amend an act amending an act incorporating the City of Americus.

By Mr. Langford of r.Doombs-
House Bill No. 699. A bill to abolish the independent school system for the City of Lyons in Toombs County.

By Mr. Collins of Cherokee-
House Bill No. 703. A bill to amend an act incorporating the Town of Canton in Cherokee County.

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By Messrs. Guess, McClelland and Steele of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 706. A bill to carry into effect an amendment to the constitution relative to the Stone Mountain Circuit.

By Messrs. Brannen and Parrish of Bulloch-
House Bill No. 714. A bill to amend the charter of the City Court of Statesboro.

By Mr. Guess of DeKalk-
House Bill No. 726. A bill to amend the Georgia Workmen's Compensation Law.

By Mr. Strickland of Brantley-



House Bill No. 730. A bill to amend an act

establishing the Juvenile Courts.

By Mr. vVall of Putnam-
House Resolution No. 141. (680A). A resolution to appoint a joint committee to investigate the State Board of Entomology.

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Resolution No. 154. (724A). A resolution appropriating money for payment of interests on the public debt.

By l\Ir. Phillips of JasperHouse Resolution No. 156. (737B) A resolution

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providing for election of member of Board of Commissioners of Jasper County.

By Mr. Johns of the 27th-
Senate Bill No. 151. A bill to amend Section 4775(g) of Par.ks Code relative to compensation of deputy clerks.

By Mr. Johns of the 27th-
Senate Bill No. 155. A bill to repeal Section 4775 of Parks Code relative to compensation of County Court Bailiffs.
The following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon th.eir passage: By Messrs. Holloway and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 572. A bill to amend an act creating a Municipal Court of Atlanta by permitting Clerks to administer oaths in criminal warrants.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 125, Nays 0.
The bill having receiv.ed the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Parker of Terrell-
House Bill No. 715. A bill to amend the Act establishing the City Court of Dawson.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable

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to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill-

House Bill No. 697. A bill to amend Sections 33, 34, and 35 of the Charter of Fitzgerald by providing for the permanent registration of all qualified voters and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-

House Bill No. 577. A bill requiring non-resi-

dents of Camden County to procure a license to fish

in any of the fresh waters of said county, and for

other purposes.



The following committee amendment was read and adopted:

Amend by adding the following proviso : ''Provided that this act shall not apply to owners of club houses in existence at the time of the passage of

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this act in said county or on streams forming the boundary of said county.''

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Hodges of Evans-
House Bill No. 582. A bill to amend an Act providing a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Evans.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted :
Amend by striking from line 6, Section 3 of said bill the following words "The Ordinary of said County shall be Clerk" and inserting in lieu of said stricken words the following words : ''And the said Commissioners shall elect a clerk,'' and by striking ''The Ordinary of said County shall be Clerk of said Board whose duty it shall be to," beginning line 17 in said six section and inserting in lieu thereof the following: "The duty- of Clerk of said Board shall be to."
The report of the Committee, wpich was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until Monday morning at 10 o'clock and the motion prevailed.

Mr. McMichael of Marion moved that the House do now resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House for the purpose of considering House Resolution No. 149 and that the Committee of the Whole House be instructed to report the same back to the House in thirty minutes, each side being allowed fifteen minutes for debate, and the motion prevailed.

Under the above motion the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House, and the Speaker designated Mr. Fowler of Bibb as Chairman ther.eof.
The Committee of the whole House arose and through their chairman reported the resolution back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
The following resolution of the House, favorably reported by the Committee, was read the second time:

By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
House Resolution No. 149. A resolution providing for appointment of committee to investigate Highway Commission.

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By unanimous consent Mr. Lankford of Toombs was allowed to cast his vote at this time on the Biennial Session Bill and the Income Tax Bill. He voted ''Aye'' on both bills.
By unanimous consent Mr. Mixon of Treutlen was allowed to cast his vote at this time on the Biennial Session Bill and the Income Tax Bill. He voted ''Aye'' on both bills.
By unanimous consent 300 copies of House Bill No. 589 were ordered printed for the use of the House and Senate.
The following report of the Committee on Rules was submitted and read: Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Rules having had under consideratioll an order of business for today, have instructed me as Vice-Chairman to report as a special and continuing order of business to be taken up immediately after the period of unfinished business, the following :
House Resolution No. 53. (Relief of bondsman). Debate 5 minutes.
House Resolution 124. (To reimburse expenses of Special Tax Committee).
House Bill No. 377.
House Bill No. 629. (Atlanta charter bill). Each side limited to 15 minutes debate.
MUNDY of Polk, Vice-Chairman.

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Mr. Macintyre of Thomas called for a division of the report.

1. Making House Resolution No. 53 a special order.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the adoption of that order of business, was agreed to.

House Resolution No. 53 was set as a special order.

2. Making House Resolution No. 124 a special order.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the adoption of that order of business, was agreed to.

House Resolution No. 124 was set as a special order.

3. Making House Bill No. 377 a special order.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the adoption of that order of business, was agreed to.

The vote on the establishment of this order was Ayes 96, Nays 16. This vote not being a majority of the House the order was note$tablished.

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Mr. Horne of Dodge moved that the House do now adjourn; the motion prevailed, and the report of the Committee on Rules went over as unfinished business.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Dobbs of Cobb, Johnson of Bartow, Johnson of Chattahoochee, Fowler of Bibb, Lankford of Toombs and Anderson of Chattooga.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until Monday morning at 10 o'clock.

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THE HousE,

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

MoNDAY, JuLY 17, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

Mayo

Houser

Miles

Houston

Mixon

Howard of Forsyth l\Ioore of Appling

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Hufstetler

::\Ioye

Hullender

Mundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones c.f Walker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

~ing of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

McClelland

Riley

McClure

Robinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

McGarity

Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

Mcl\Iichael

Sibley

Maddox

Singletary

Malone

. Smiley

Mann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of \Vheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb Weston Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne Mr. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By :Messrs. Neill of Muscogee and Beckham of Dougherty-
A RESOLUTION.
House Resolution No. 164. Resolved by the House, the Senate concur~ing, That the General Assembly of Georgia extends its most cordial greetings to the Georgia section of the American Legion assembled in annual State reunion and convention at "\Vaycross, Georgia, and expresses the earnest hope that the meeting will be a happy and profitable one for this patriotic organization.
Resolved further, That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House jointly communicate by telegraph the contents of this resolution to the proper official of said organization.
. By unanimous consent House Bill Xo. 518 was withdrawn from the Committee on State Sanitarium and re-committed to the Committee on Penitentiary.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of new matter under the rules.
2. Reports of standing committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.

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4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.

5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Hillhouse of Worth-
House Resolution No. 165 (762A). A resolution requesting the placing of S. L. Lesseur on the pension roll.
Referred to Committee on Pensions.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Resolution No. 166 (762B). A resolution for the relief of J. L. Adams as surety on bond.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee Ko. 2.

By Messrs. Boatwright and Brown of Emanuel-
House Resolution No. 167 (762C). A resolution for the relief of J. B. Hall as surety on bond.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Franks of TownsHouse Bill No. 750. A bill to prohibit the catching
of fish in certain waters in Towns County. Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

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By Messrs. Harris and King of J e:ffersonHouse Bill No. 751. A bill to amend an Act creat- ~
ing the City Court of Louisville, Jefferson County.
Referred to Special Judici"ary Committee.

By Mr. Horne of Dodge-
House Bill No. 752. A bill to authorize the State Treasurer to set aside appropriation relative to license tags.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 753. A bill to appropriate certain sums for welfare and hygiene of maternity and infancy.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 754. A bill to amend Section 2820 of Code of 1910 relative to capital stock of trust companies, etc.
Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

By Messrs. Steele, Guess and McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 755. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Chamblee, Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

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By Mr. Moore of FultonHouse Bill No. 756. A bill to repeal an Act incor-
porating the Town of Bolton, Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty -
House Bill No. 757. A bill to permit cities of certain populations to issue bonds for construction of schools.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.

By Messrs. Bentley, Moore and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 758. A bill to amend the charter of the City of College Park.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Brown of Emanuel-
House Bill No. 759. A bill to prohibit the growing of cotton on any of the lands of the State of Georgia for 1924.
Referred to General Agricuitural Committee No. 1.

By Mr. Smith of Bryan-
House Bill No. 760. A bill to appropriate $3,500.00 for repair of State Sanitarium at Alto.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

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-By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 761. A bill to vest title to certain lands in Columbus, Georgia, in Commons of said city.
R_eferred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 762. A bill to amend an Act creating the Municipal Court of Atlanta.
Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 763. A bill to provide a local Board of Trustees for the Georgia Military College.
Referred to Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches.
The report of the Prison Commission of Georgia, as called for in House Resolution No. 140, was submitted to the House and referred to the Committee on Penitentiary.
The following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. West of Fannin-
House Bill No. 425. A bill to create a new charter for the Town of Fry.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 134, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority waspassed.
By Mr. Phillips of Jasper-
House Resolution No. 156. A resolution to elect members of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues by popular vote of Jasper County, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 125, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Messrs. Boatwright and Brown of Emanuel-
House Bill Ko. 559. A bill to change the terms of the City Court of Swainsboro, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 133, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Moore of Fult9nHouse Bill No. 566. A bill to provide for the term

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of opening and closing polls in certain counties in school bond elections.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 121, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Gresham and Hatcher of Burke-
House Bill No. 687. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Waynesboro authorizing the Mayor and Council of said city to construct, grade, pave and otherwise improve the streets, etc.
The following committee amendments were read and adopted:
Amend caption by inserting in line four.( 4) before the word ''The'' and after the word ''assess'' the following words "not more than two-thirds (2/3) of" and striking out of line seven (7) the words "either wholly or in part.'' So that said caption when amended shall read as follows: ''An 4-ct to amend the charter of the City of Waynesboro, authorizing the Mayor and Council of said city to construct, grade, pave and otherwise improve the streets of the city of Waynesboro, and to assess not more than twothirds (2/3) of the cost for such construction, grading, paving and other improvements of said streets, out of the real estate abutting on the streets so im-

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proved, and also to provide for the issuance of bonds therefor, and for other purposes.''

Amend by striking out of Section 3, line 3, the words ''The entire'' and inserting in lieu thereof the words, "not more than (%) two-thirds of the."

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 128, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Strickland of Brantley-

House Bill No. 679. A bill requiring non-residents of Brantley County to procure a license to fish in any of the waters of said county, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 123, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Brannen and Parrish of Bulloch-

House Bill No. 681. A bill to amend Section 2 of an Act creating the City Court of Statesboro, and for other purposes.

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The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 132, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Collins of Cherokee-
House Bill No. 685. A bill to amend an Act amending an Act authorizing the establishment of a system of Public Schools in the Town of Canton, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 131, . Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Williams and Adams of Walton-
House Bill No. 686. A bill to amend an Act to change the time of holding May and November terms of Walton Superior Court, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 129, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Riley and Hines of Sumter-
House Bill No. 696. A bill to amend an Act to amend, revise and consolidate the several Acts granting corporate authority to the City of Americus.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 128, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Hause Bill No. 699. A bill to abolish the inde-
pendent school system for the City of Lyons, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 127, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Collins of Cherokee-
House Bill No. 703. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the Town of Canton.

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The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Brannen and Parrish of Bulloch-
Honse Bill No. 714. A bill to amend an Act to create the City Court of Statesboro.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 126, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By ~fr. Herring of Schley-
House Bill No. 647. A bill to amend an Act to fix the amount of the fees of Clerks of the Superior Courts of this State in counties of certain population.
The following committee substitute, the caption as follows, was read and adopted:
A bill to amend an Act to establish the City Court of Ellaville, in and for the County of Schley, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable

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to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 124, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:

By Mr. Clay of the 39th174. A bill to amend Section 958 of Penal Code,
to provide bail in misdemeanor cases.
By Mr. Bell of the 42nd191. A bill to be entitled an Act to repeal the Act
creating the County Court of Chattooga County.

By Mr. Manson of the 35th-
172. A bill to carry into effect in the City of Atlanta the amendment to the Constitution relative to abolition of justice courts and justice of the peace.
By Messrs. Neill of Muscogee and Beckham of Dougherty-
164. A resolution extending greeting to Americau Legion assembled at Waycross.

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Under the head of unfinished business the report of the Committee on Rules was taken up for further consideration.

Mr. Wall of Putnam moved that the House reconsider its action in disagreeing to the report of the Committee on Rules on House Bill No. 377.

l\fr. Hatcher of Muscogee moved the previous question; the call was sustained, and the main question was ordered.
The motion prevailed.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the adoption of House Bill Ko. 377 as a special order, was agreed to.
House Bill No. 377 was set as a special order.
4. Making House Bill No. 629 a special order.

.Mr. Bozeman of Worth moved the previous question; the call was sustained, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the adoption of that order of business, was agreed to.
House Bill No. 629 was set as a special order.
Under orders of the day the following bills and resolutions of the House, set as a special order on recommendation of the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

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By Mr. Moore of Appling-

House Resolution No. 53. A resolution to relieve the bondsmen of Perry Hendrix, convicted in the City Court of Baxley, and for other purposes.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.

On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 111, Nays 0.

The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Hunter of Chatham and Parks of Terrell-
House Resolution No. 124. A joint resolution relative to paying the expenses incurred by the committee considering changes in the tax system.
The resolution involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Beck of Carroll as Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose, and through their Chairman reported the resolution back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.
The resolution involving an appropriation, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

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Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton AdallLS of Walton Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bloodworth Bobo Bowen Boyett Braddy Branch Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brownlee Camp Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Collier Culpepper Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dixon Ennis Ficklen Franks Gann Grant Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Hamilton

Harris

Parrish

Hatcher of Burke

Patten

Hatcher of Muscogee Penland

Hawkins

Perkms

Herring

Peterson

Hines of Decatur

Phillips of Jasper

Hines of Sumter

Phillips of Telfair

Hodges

Pickren

Holland

Pilcher

Holloway

Price

Horne

Pruett

Houston

Ramsey

Hbward of Forsyth Reagan

Hullender

Riley

Hunter

Russell

Hyman

Salmon

Jackson

Sapp

Jones of Coweta

Shettlesworth

Jones of Thomas

Sibley

Jones of Walker

Singletary

Johnson of Pickens Smiley

Kittrell

Smith of Bryan

Knight

Smith of Meriwether

Lewis

Steele

Luke

Stovall

~cClelland

Sumner of Wheeler

McClure

Swift

McDonald of Mitchell Tatum

McDonald of

Thompson of Coweta

Richmond Thompson of Dodge

Macintyre

Turner

Malone

Tyson

Manning

Valentino

Mason

Van Landingham

Mayo

Vocelle

Miles

Walker

Moore of Fulton

Wall

Mundy

Way

Neal of Union

Weston

Nichols

Whitley

Owen

Whitaker of Rockdale

Parks

Whitworth

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Williams of Miller Wimberly Winship

Wood Woodard Worthy

Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:
Hillhouse

Those not V'oting were Messrs :

Anderson Arnold Bentley Bleckley Boatwright Boswell Bowden Bozeman Brannen Brown of Hancock Bush Byrd of Crisp Carr Carswell
Coatet~
Collins Corbitt Cowart Daniel of Heard Dickerson Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall

Dykes

Mann

Evans

Mixon

Fletcher

:Moore of Appling

Folsom

Moye

Fowler

Perryman

Foy

Quincey

Gresham

Reville

Haddock

Ricketson

Henderson

Robinson

Houser

Rutherford

Howard of Screven Smith of Carroll

Hufstetler

Smith of Haralson

Johnson of Bartow Stone

Johnson of

Strickland

Chattahoochee "Sumner of Johnson

Keith

.Swindle

Kennedy

Trippe

King of Jefferson

VanZant

King of Wilcox

\Vatkins

Langford of Hall

'Vebb

Lankford of Toombs Whitaker of Lowndes

Logan

Williams of Harris

l\IcGarity

Williams of Walton

McMichael

Wyatt

Maddox

~Ir. Speaker

Ayes 132; Nays 1.
By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was di<Spensed with.
On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 132, Nays 1.



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The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Williams of Walton-
House Bill No. 377. A bill to make an appropriation of $15,000.00 to the Georgia State Board of Entomology, and for other purposes.
The bill involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. DeLaPerriere of Jackson as Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported progress and asked leave to sit again.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Brannen of Bulloch-
A resolution extending the privileges of the floor to Hon. Z. V. Peacock.
Mr. Davis of Floyd moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Mr. Perryman of Talbot.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

TuESDAY, JuLY 18, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names:

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy .Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup ~avis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of 1Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris ~atcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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I fo r n e

)Jayo

Houser

)files

Houston

}lixon

Howard of Forsyth 1Ioore of Appling

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Hufstetler

l\Ioye

Hullender

Mundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of Walker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

McClelland

Riley

McClure

Robinson

McDonald of :Mitchell Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

}lcGarity

Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

McMichael

Sibley

Maddox

Singletary

Malone

Smiley

)!ann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of \Vheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb \Yeston Whitley \Vhitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth \Villiams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne l\Ir. Speaker

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The following message was rec~ived from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of House and Senate, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 94. A bill to provide for the
assessment giving an approval of the supersedea bonds.
Senate Bill No. 177. A bill to amend Act establishing one or more consolidated public schools in each county.
House Bill No. 601. A bill to amend Act creating City Court of Thomasville.
House Bill No. 580. A bill relative to building of certain roads in Glynn County.
House Bill No. 581. A bill to grant to Glynn County certain ma:r:sh lands.
Senate Bill No. 202. A bill to amend Civil Code relative to the non-suiting of plaintiffs.
Senate Bill No. 193. A bill to repeal Act incorporating Town of Crest.
Senate Bill No. 148. A bill to amend Act establishing charter for City of Calhoun.
By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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By unanimous consent House Bill No. 210 was recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2 for the purpose of reconsidering its action in reporting same unfavorably.

By unanimous consent House Bill No. 745 was withdrawn from the Committee of the Whole House and recommitted to the Committee on Pensions.
By unanimous consent the following bill of the House was withdrawn from the Committee on Game and Fish, read the second time, and recommitted:

By Mr. Franks of Towns-
House Bill No. 750. A bill to prohibit catching of fish in Brastown Creek and its tributaries in certain limits.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 616 was recommitted to the Committee on Corporations for the purpose of reconsidering its action in reporting same unfavorably.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the remaining part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate

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bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.
5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of House, to-wit:
Bouse Bill No. 609. A bill to amend Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Appling County.
The Senate has read and adopted the following resolution of the Senate:

A resolution accepting the invitation of the Woman's Club of Atlanta to a garden party.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Jones of Walker-
House Resolution No. 169 (779A). A resolution relative to fixing State line between Georgia and Tennessee.
Referred to General ,Judiciary Committee Ko. 2.

By Mr. Knight of Berrien:

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House Resolution No. 171 (779B). A resolution asking information from State Entomologist.

Lie on table one day.

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 764. A bill to require mortgages on stocks of goods to be recorded in ten days.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.
By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 765. A bill to carry into effect an amendment to the Constitution relative to Judge of Chattahoochee Circuit.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.
By Messrs. McDonald and Pilcher of RichmondHouse Bill No. 766. A bill to amend Paragraph 1,
Section 13, Article 6 of the Constitution relative to Superior Court of circuit in which Richmond County is located.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By :Mr. Trippe of Bartow-
House Bill No. 767. A bill to provide certain requirements in applications for chatters, and for other purposes.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.

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By Mr. Jones of Walker-

House Bill No. 768. A bill to prevent people who live in Militia Districts of no-fence law from voting in said County under certain circumstances.

Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Davis, H~milton and Salmon of Floyd-
House Bill No. 769. A bill to require the various counties to furnish certain blanks to Justices of the Peace and Notaries Public.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.

By Mr. Pruett of Lumpkin-
House Bill No. 770. A bill to authorize the Federal Government to establish rules for protection of game and fish.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Mr. Pruett of Lumpkin-
House Bill No. 771. A bill to appropriate money for use of North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. King of WilcoxHouse Bill No. 772. A bill to repeal an Act to

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establish a public School system in the Town of Abbeville.

Referred to Committee on Education.

By Messrs. Hines and Riley of Sumter-

House Bill No. 773. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Americus.
Referred to Committee on ~f.unicipal Government.

By Mr. Boyett of Stewart-

House Bill 1\o. 774. A bill to repeal an Act to establish a School System for the Town of Richland:
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Messrs. Pruett of Lumpkin, Swindle of Jackson, Valentino of Chatham, Moore of Fulton, and others-
House Bill No. 775. A bill to empower county authorities to keep in repair places of holding Justice Courts.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.

By Mr. McClelland of DeKalb-

House Bill No. 776. A bill to amend Section 5202 of the Code of 1910, relative to answer in certiorari cases.
Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

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By ~Ir: Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 777. A bill to appropriate $600.00 to Georgia Training School for Boys.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Robinson of Macon-
House Bill No. 778. A bill to amend an Act and Amendatory Acts establishing the City Court of Oglethorpe.
Referred to Committee on Uniform State Laws.

By Mr. Collier of Stephens-

House Bill No. 779. A bill to amend an Act rela-

tive to terms of Superior Court of Stephereg County.



Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

By Messrs. Blalock and Bowden of Ware-
House Bill Ko. 780. A bill to amend an Act to create the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues for Ware County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Moore of FultonHouse Resolution No. 172. A resolution thanking

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Hon. Jas. F. Malone of Bibb for compiling certain data as to education and ordering 300 copies of same to be published for the information of the House and Senate.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
House Resolution No. 173. A resolution extending the privileges of the floor to Messrs. W. F. Jones,. Worley Nall, Carter Arnold and George Gaines.
Mr. Kittrell of Laurens County, Chairman of the Committee on General Agriculture No. 1, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Agriculture No. 1 have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 562.

Respectfully submitted, KITTRELL of Laurens, Chairman.

Mr. Beck of Carroll County, Chairman of the Committee on Temperance, submitted the following re~ port:

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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Temperance have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended:

House Bill No. 669.

BEcK of Carroll~ Chairman.
Mr. Smith of Bryan County, Chairman of the Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation have had under consideration the following bills and resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:

House Bill No. 447 do pass. House Bill No. 512 do pass. House Bill No. 711 do pass as amended. House Bill No. 236 do pass by substitute. House Bill No. 338 do not pass. House Bill No. 457 do not pass. House Bill No. 541 do not pass. House Resolution No. 83 do not pass.

SMITH of Bryan, Chairman.

Mr. Pickren of Chatham County, Chairman of the

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Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report t4e same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 702.

PICKREN of Charlton, Chairman.

Mr. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Municipal Government have had" under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 727. House Bill No. 755. House Bill No. 761.

Sl\UTH of Meriwether, Chairman.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and

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resolutions of the House, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Messrs. Hamilton and Davis of Floyd-
House Bill No. 236. A bill to amend an Act regulating the practice of optometry in the State.

By Mr. Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 447. A bill to warrant the installation of sanitary plumbing in all public buildings.
By Mr. Swift of ElbertHouse Bill No. 512. A bill to amend an Act enti-
tled ''Medical Examiners, State Board of,'' etc.

By Mr. Foy of Taylor-
House Bill No. 562. A bill to repeal an Act to prevent the shipment of tick infested cattle into the State.

By Messrs. Whitley of Douglas, Malone of Bibb, and Horne of Dodge-

House Bill No. 669. A bill to amend the prohibi-

tion law so as to provide penalty for the violation

thereof.



By Mr. Williams of Miller-
House Bill No. 702. A bill to amend an Act creating the City of Colquitt, in Miller County.
Sig. 12.

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By Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Bill No. 711. A bill to prevent improper practices by mid-wives in certain cases.

By Mr. Grant of Habersham-
House Bill No. 727. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Clarksville.

By Messrs. Steele, Guess and McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 755. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Chamblee, Georgia.
By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 761. A hili to vest title to certain land in the Commissioner of Commons of Columbus.
The following bills of the Senate were read for the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Thomas of the 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 94. A bill to provide for the assessment giving an approval of the supersedeas bon'ds in this State.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.

By Mr. David of the 43rd-
Senate Bill No. 148. A bill to amend an Act establishing a charter for the City of Calhoun, and for other purposes.

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Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.
By Mr. Manson of the 35th-
Senate Bill No. 171. A bill to carry into effect in the City of Atlanta the amendment to the Constitution relative to abolition of Justice Courts and Justice of the Peace.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.

By Mr. Clay of the 39th-
Senate Bill No. 174. A bill to amend Section 958 of the Penal Code relative to bail in misdemeanor cases.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.

By Mr. Collum of the 13th-
Senate Bill No. 177. A bill to amend Section 1 of an Act relative to establishment of consolidated schools in each county of the State, and for other purposes.

Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Bell of the 42ndSenate Bill No. 191. A .bill to repeal the Act creat-
ing the County Court of Chattooga County.
Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

By Mr. Womble of the 25th-
Senate Bill No. 193. A bill to repeal an Act incorporating the Town of Crest.

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Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Golucke of the 19thSenate Bill No. 202. A bill to amend Section 4381
of the Civil Code of Georgia. Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of Senate, to-wit:
A bill to amend Penal Code relative to punishment for burglary.
The Senate has also passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate resolution, to-wit:
A resolution to appoint a committee to draft certain tax bills.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:
iVlr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of Senate, to-wit:
A bill to amend charter of Town of Statham.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the House, towit:
A bill to amend charter of City of Washington.
A bill to amend Act establishing City Court of Claxton.
A bill to repeal Act establishing City Court of Ashburn.
The following resolution of the Senate was read and adopted:

By Mr. David of the 43rd-
Senate Resolution No. 79. A resolution accepting the invitation of the Woman's Club of Atlanta to attend a garden party on Tuesday afternoon, July the 18th.
Under the order of unfinished business the following bill of the House was taken up for further consideration:

By Mr. Williams of Walton-
House Bill No. 377. A bill to make an appropriation of $15,000.00 to the Georgia State Board of Entomology, and for other purposes.
The Committee of the Whole House had had the above bill under consideration and had reported progress and asked leave to sit again.

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The House was again resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. DeLaPerriere of Jackson as the Chairman thereof.

The Committee of the Whole House arose and through its Chairman reported the bill back to the House with the request that the House instruct the committee that further de'bate on the bill be closed.

Mr. McMichael of Marion moved that the House resolve itself into the Committee of the Whole House with instructions that the committee rep.ort on said bill immediately and the motio~ prevailed.

Under the above motion the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. DeLaPerriere of Jackson as the Chairman therof.

The Committee of the Whole House arose and through its Chairman reported the bill back with the recommendation that the same do not pass.
On agreeing to the report of the committee, which was unfavorable to the passage of the bill, Mr. McMichael of Marion called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was sustained.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the bill, substitute, and all amendments be tabled and the motion prevailed.
By unanimous consent the following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

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By Messrs. Beckham of Dougherty and Robinson of Macon-

A RESOLUTION.

House Resolution No. 174. Whereas, through the Divine Pr()vidence of an all wise God, Mrs. Albert Kirven, beloved sister of B. J. Williams, Representa.tive from Harris County, has passed into the Great Beyond, through information just received in the House.
Now, therefore, be it resolved, by the members of this House, that we extend our heartfelt sympathy to our colleague in this bereavement and that the Clerk transmit a copy of this resolution to the Hon. B. J. Williams aforesaid.
Under the orders of the day the following bill of the House, set as a special order on the recommendation of the Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Messrs. Holloway and Moore of Fulton-

House Bill No. 629. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Atlanta, and for other purposes.
Mr. Moore of Fulton moved that the House do now adjourn; the motion prevailed, and the bill went over as unfinished business.

The following communication was read:

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Waycross, Ga., July 17, 1922.

Hon. Cecil Neill,

Speaker House of Representatives,

Atlanta, Ga.

The Georgia department the American Legion acknowledges with sincere appreciation the good wishes expressed by the House of Representatives in its joint resol'ution with the Senate. We reciprocate the spirit of your felicitations. May the present session of the General Assembly be replete with legislation for the welfare of our beloved State and her institutions.

JAMES A. FoRT,

Commander Department the Georgia American Legion.

The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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WEDNESDAY, JULY 19, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton

Camp

Ficklen

Adams of Walton

Carr

Fletcher

Anderson

Carswell

Folsom

Arnold

Childs

Fowler

Atkinson

Clark of Colquitt

Foy

Baldwin

Clark of Webster

Franks

Beck

Clifton

Gann

Beckham

Coate-s

Grant

Bentley

Collier

Gresham

Bird of Taliaferro

Collins

Griffin

Blalock

Corbitt

Griffith

Bleck ley

Cowart

Greene

Bloodworth

Culpepper

Gro,enstein

Jloatwright

Daniel of Heard

Guess

Bobo

Daniel of Troup

Gunnels

Boswell

DaYis of Floyd

Haddock

Bowden

DaYis of Oglethorpe Hamilton

Bowen

DeFoor

Harris

Boyett

DeLaPerriere

Hatcher of Burke

Bozeman

Dickerson

Hatcher of Muscogee

Braddy

Dixon

Hawkins

Branch

Dobbs

Henderson

Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel

DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson

Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur



Brown of Hancock Duncan of Hall

Hines of Sumter

Brownlee

Dykes

Hodges

Bush

Ennis

Holland

Byrd of Crisp

EYans

Holloway

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Horne

Mayo

Smith of Meriwether

Houser

Miles

Steele

Houston

Mixon

Stone

Howard of Forsyth Moore of Appling

Stovall

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Strickland

Hufstetler

Moye

Sumner of Johnson

Hullender

Mundy

Sumner of Wheeler

Hunter

Neal of Union

Swift

Hyman

Nichols

Swindle

Jackson

Owen

Tatum

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Thompson of Coweta

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Thompson of Dodge

Jones of Walker

Patten

Trippe

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Turner

Johnson of

Perkins

Tyson

Chattahoochee Perryman

Valentino

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Van Landingham

Keith

Phillips of Jasper VanZant

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair Vocelle

King of Jefferson

Pickren

Walker

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Wall

Kittrell

Price

Watkins

Knight

Pruett

Way

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Webb

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Weston

Lewis

Reagan

Whitley

Logan

Reville -

Whitaker of Lowndes

Luke

Ricketson

Whitaker of Rockdale

McClelland

Riley

Whitworth

McClure

Robinson

Williams of Harris

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

Williams of Miller

McDonald of

Rutherford

Williams of Walton

Richmond Salmon

Wimberly

McGarity

Sapp

Winship

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

Wood

McMichael

Sibley

Woodard

Maddox

Singletary

Worthy

Malone

Smiley

Wyatt

t

Mann

Smith of Bryan

Wynne

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mr. Speaker

Mason

Smith of Haralson

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal .of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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By unanimous consent the following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Messrs. Davis of Oglethorpe, Holloway of Fulton, and Beckham of Dougherty.

A RESOLUTION.
House Resolution No. 175. Whereas, the news of the death of Judge Benjamin H. Hill, Georgia's distinguished jurist and statesman, has just been made known to us, out of regard for the memory of this great Georgian, it is resolved that the House of Representatives adjourn today at 12:30.
Resolved further, That the Speaker appoint a Committee from this House, as an honorary escort, to attend the funeral of this beloved Georgian.
The Speaker appointed the following committee on the part of the House under the above resolution.=
Messrs. Davis of Oglethorpe, Holloway of Fulton, Beckham of Dougherty, Moore of Fulton.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-

A RESOLUTION.
House Resolution No. 176. Whereas, Hon. H. B. Folsom, a distinguished member of this House, has been forced to leave his legislative duties and return to his home at Mt. Vernon, on account of illness;

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Thetefore, Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, that the sympathy of the House be and the same is hereby extended to our colleague and that he has our best wishes for a speedy restoration to health.
Resolved further, That the Clerk of the House be and he is hereby instructed to .immediately transmit a copy of this resolution to Mr. Folsom at his home.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.

4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate Bills and General House and Senate Bills having a local application.

5. First Reading of Senate bills and resolutions.

By unanimous consent, the followjng bills of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the Committees:
By Mr. Phillips of Jasper-

House Bill No. 781. A bill to amend an Act and amendatory Acts relative to costs in courts in certain counties.

Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

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By Messrs. Langford and Duncan of HallHouse Bill No. 782. A bill to amend by substitu-
tion an Act incorporating the City of Gainesville.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Bleckley of Rabun-
House Bill No. 783. A bill for certain funds to be paid to Rabun County from sale of products of Nantahala Area.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Bleckley of Rabun and Grant of Habersham-
House Bill No. 784. A bill to appropriate money to Girl's Dormitory of Ninth District A. & M. School.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. McClure and Jones of Walker-
House Bill No. 785. A bill to amend an Act and amendatory Acts establishing Commissioner of Roads and Revenues for Walker County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Davis of Floyd, Smith of Haralson, Branch of Turner and Manning of Milton-

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House Bill No. 786. A bill to put in force amendment to Par. 1, Sec. 1, Art. 7, of the Constitution relative to pensions.
Referred to Committee on Appropriat~ons and "\Vays and Means.

By Mr. Houston of Gwinnett-
House Bill No. 787. A bill to regulate payment of entrance fees in certain State primaries.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Pruett of Lumpkin-
House Bill No. 788. A bill to appropriate certain sums to North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Collier of Stephens-
House Bill No. 789. A bill to provide for payment of fees and wages now exempted from garnishment" in certain cases.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Sumner of Wheeler-
House Bill No. 790. A bill to repeal an Act to establish a public school system for Town of Alm~.

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Referred to Committee on Education.

By Messrs. McMichael of Marion, Webb of Lowndes and others-

House Bill No. 791. A bill to provide for taxes for educational purposes, county agents, etc.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Jackson and Houser of Houston-

House Bill No. 792. A bill to amend an Act to establish the City Court of Houston County.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Wynne of Bleckley-
House Bill No. 793. A bill to make appropriation to the Twelfth District A. & M. School at Cochran.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
Mr. Vocelle of Camden County, Chairman of the Committee on Game and Fish submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Game and Fish have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the

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same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 591. Do not pass. House Bill No. 606. Do pass as amended. House Bill No. 731. Do not pass. House Bill No. 770. Do pass.
JAMEs T. VocELLE, of Camden,
Chairman.

Mr. McDonald of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary submitted the following report:

1llr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following bill of the House ~nd have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do not pass:
House Bill No. 593. Do not pass.

.MeDoNALD of Richmond, Chairman.

Mr. Quincey of Coffee County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Constitutional Amendments submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee m Constitutional .Amendments

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have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Vice-Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 766.

QuiNCEY of Coffee, Chairman.

Mr. Bird of Taliaferro County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Western and Atlantic Railroad submitted the following report:

M t. Speaker:
Your Committee on Western and Atlantic Railroad have had under consideration the following Resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Resolution No. 138.

Bmn of Taliaferro, Vice-Chairman.

Mr. John Camp Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No.2 have had under consideration the following bills and resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House

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with the recommendation that the same do pass, towit:
House Bill No. 674. House Bill_No. 769. House Bill No. 688. House Bill No. 713, as amended. House Bill No. 757. House Bill No. 210. House Bill No. 639, by substitute. House Resolution No. 169.

JoHN CAMP DAVIS of Floyd,

Chairman.

Mr. Boyett of Stewart County, Chairman of the Committee on Pensions submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Pensions have had under consideration the following bill and resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 745.
House Resolution No. 165. (762A).
BoYETT of Stewart, Chairman.
Mr. Pickren, of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations has submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

House Bill No. 733. Do pass by substitute. House Bill No. 616. Do pass by substitute. Senate Bill No. 193. Do pass.

PrcKREN of Charlton, Chairman..
Mr. Mason, of Hart County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Libraries submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Public Libraries have had
under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 734.

MASON of Hart, Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the House and Senate, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 189. A bill to create the City Court of Summerville.
House Bill No. 240. A bill to create and establish the State Investigating and Budget Commission.
The Senate has read and adopted the following resolution of the Senate, to-wit:
Senate Resolution No. 80. A resolution providing for a joint session of the General Assembly to hear an address by Senator Harris.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Smith of Meriwether-
Honse Bill No. 210. A hill to amend an Act ''To reorgamze the State Highway Department of Georgia.''

By Messrs. Reagan of Henry and Russell of Barrow-
House Bill No. 606. A bill to amend an Act entitled an Act "To protect the fur-bearing animals of the State.''

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By Mr. Singletary of Grady-
House Bill No. 616. A bill to amend the town . Charter of Whigam in Grady County.

By Mr. Griffith of Oconee-
House Bill No. 639. A bill to prescribe the rules of evidence in certain criminal cases.

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 674. A bill to withdraw the privilege of admission to the bar by diploma alone.

By Mr. McGarity of Paulding-
House Bill No. 688. A bill to amend Section 416 of Penal Code of 1910 relative to working on Sunday.

By Mr. Griffith of Oconee-
House Bill No. 713. A bill to amend Section 1169 of Code of 1910 relative to the redemption of property sold under tax execution.
By Mr. Swift of ElbertHouse Bill No. 733. A bill to amend an Act in-
corporating the City of Elberton, in Elbert County.

By Mr. Mason of Hart-
House Bill No. 734. A bill relative to the maintaining of free public libraries in all counties of State.

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By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 757. A bill to permit cities and towns to issue bonds for joint high schools.

By Messrs. McDonald and Pilcher of Richmond-
House Bill No. 766. A bill to amend Par. 1, Sec. 13, Art. 6 of the Constitution relative to Judge of Superior Court of Richmond. County.

By Messrs. Davis, Hamilton and Salmon of Floyd-

House Bill No. 769. A bill to require various counties to furnish certain blanks to J. P. 's and N. P.'s.

By Mr. Pruett of LumpkinHouse Bill No. 770. A bill to authorize Federal
authorities to establish rules of protection of game and fish.
By Mr. Hamilton of FloydHouse Resolution No. 158. (669B). A resolution
providing for commission to prevent junking of the W. & A. Railroad.
.By Mr. Hillhouse of Worth House Resolution No. 165. (762A). A resolution
to place S. L. Lesseur on the Pension Roll.
By Mr. Jones of WalkerHouse Resolution No. 169. (779A). A resolution

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relative to settling State line between the State of Georgia and Tennessee.

By Mr. Womble of the 25th-
Senate Bill No. 193. A bill to repeal an Act to incorporate the Town of Crest.

By Messrs. Horne of Dodge and Moore of Fulton-

House Bill No. 745. A bill to amend the several Acts relative to the Confederate Soldier's Home, so .as to make President of Daughters of Confederacy a member.
The following bills of the House was read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Williams of Miller-
House Bill No. 702. A bill to amend an Act creating the City of Colquitt.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Grant of Habersham-
House Bill No. 727. A bill to amend an Act creating a new Charter and Municipal Government for the City of Clarksville.

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The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 119, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.



By Messrs. Steele, Guess, and McClelland of De-

Kalb-

House Bill No. 755. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Chamblee.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 118, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher, and Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 761. A bill to vest the title of Lot Number Three in Block Sixty-six of the Commons of the City of Columbus, and to authorize said Free Kindergarten Association to sell said property and to execute a deed thereto without restrictions, and for other purposes.
The report of the. committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following bills of the Senate w.-e--re read the
first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Nix of the 51st-
Senate Bill No. 14. A bill to amend Section 147 of Penal Code of 1910 defining punishment of the crime of burglary.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Bellah of the 42nd-
Senate Bill No. 189. A bill to create the City Court of Summerville for the County of Chattooga.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Johns of the 27thSenate. Bill No. 213. A bill to amend the charter
of the Town of Statham. Referred to Committee on Corporations. The following resolutions of the Senate were read
and adopted:
By Messrs. Thorpe of the 2nd, Clay of the 39th and others-
A resolution for a joint sessiOn of the General

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Assembly to hear an address by Senator Harris.

By Mr. Golucke of the 19th-
A resolution to appoint a joint committee to draft a certain bill for the purpose of raising additional revenue.
The Speaker appointed the following committee on the part of the House under the above resolution:
Messrs. Bird of Taliaferro, Brantley of Pierce, Culpepper of FayettP
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Stovall of McDuffie-
Hause Resolution No. 177. Resolved by the House of Representatives that the thanks of this House be extended to the Atlanta Womans Club for the elegant and delightful entertainment given to the members of the General Assembly and their wives at the club rooms on Peachtree Street Tuesday P. M., July 18th.
A RESOLUTION
Resolved further that we commend the splendid work being done by this organization and pledge it our best wishes for its future usefulness.
Under the order of unfinished business the following bill of the House was taken up for further consideration:

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By Messrs. Holloway and Moore of Fulton-
A bill to amend the charter of the City of Atlanta and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 132, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the bill be immediately transmitted to the Senate and the motion prevailed.
The following report of the Committee on Rules was submitted and read:

Mr. Speaker:

The Committee on Rules having had under consideration an order of business for Wednesday, July 19th, have instructed me as their Vice-Chairman to report as a special and continuing order of business, to be taken up immediately after the period of unfinished business the following:
House Bill No. 212. (Biennial Sessions of Legislature).
House Bill No. 6. (For second reading and disagreement to report of Committee).
MUNDY of Polk, Vice-Chairman.

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Mr. Arnold of Clay called for a division of the report.
1. Making House Bill No. 212 a special order.
The report of the committee which was favorable to the adoption of that order of business, was agreed to.

House Bill No. 212 was set as a special order.

2. Making House Bill No. 6 a special order for disagreeing to the report of committee and for second reading.
Mr. Macintyre of Thomas moved the previous question; the call was sustained, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the establishment of that order of business, was agreed to.
House Bill No. 6 was set as a special order for disagreeing to the report of the committee and for second reading.
Mr. Williams of Walton moved that the House do now apjourn and the motion prevailed.

The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

Thursday, July 20, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names:

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr CarEwell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of 'Vebster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis E,ans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler :Foy
Frank~
Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Gro,enstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

~layo

Houser

.:\Iile,;

Houston

~lixon

Howard of Forsyth Moore of Appling

Howard of Screven .1\Ioore of Fulton

Hufstetler

}lo~<'

Hullender

Mund~

Hunter

1'\eal of l'nion

Hyman

Nichols

.Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta
;rones of Thomas

Parks Parrish

Jones of \Valker

Patten

,Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

,Jolmson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kt>rmedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of .Jefferson

Picknn

King of Wilcox

Pilelter

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quiucey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

LPwis

RPagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

McClelland

l\iley

McClure

Hobinson

McDonald of Mitchell Itussell

1\IeDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond f-lalmon

JicGarity

Sapp

Mac Intyre

Shettlesworth

::\Tci\Iichael

Sibley

Maddox

Hinglt>tary

Malone

Smiley

Mann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

:Mason

f-lmi th of Haralson

Hmith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson !Sumner of vVheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thornpwn of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Voce lie Walker \\'all Watkins \Yay vVehb \Veston Whitley \Vhitaker of Lowndes \Vhitaker of Rockdale Whitworth \Villiams of Harris Williams of Miller \Villiams of Walton \\'irnherly \Vinship \Yood \Voodard W0rthy Wyatt Wynne Mr. Speaker

The following message \vas received from the Senate, through l\Ir. ~IcClatchcy, the Secretary thereof:

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Jlr. Speaker:
r_t'he Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of House, to-wit:
House Bill l\o. 621. A bill to amend Act incorporating Town of Norcross.
House Bill No. 634. A bill to change time of holding the Superior Court of Baker County.

House Bill No. 596. A bill to abolish Act establishiHg City Court of Hazelhurst.
House Bill ~ o. 643. A bill to amend Act providing for holding two terms of Superior Court of Tatnall County.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Jlr. i-1peaker:
The Senate has read and adopted the following Senate resolutions, to-wit:
Senate Resolution K o. 81. A resolution accepting i1witation of people of Townsend, Ga., to a barheeue.
Senate Resolution )Jo. 82. A resolution expressing appreciation for invitation to \Voman 's Club recepticm.
Senate Resolution ~o. 26. A resolution relieving L. B. \Villiams as surety on bond.
'!'he following message was received from the Senatt', through l\Jr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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Mr. Speaker:

The Senate has read and adopted the following resolution of the House, to-wit:

House Resolution No. 152. A resolution providing for a joint committee to obtain subscriptions to place memorials of Alexander H. Stephens and Dr. Crawford M. Long in the Hall of Fame.
The President has appointed the following Senators as a committee on the part of the Senate to act under the above resolution:

Messrs. Johns and Golucke.

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 791 was withdrawn from the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means and recommitted to the Committee on Eduoation.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 583 was withdrawn from the Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches and recommitted to the Committee on General Agriculture No. 2.
By unanimous consent the following bill of the House was withdrawn from the committee, read the second time, and recommitted:

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By Mr. Robinson of Macon-
House Bill No. 778. A bill to amend an Act relative to establishing the City Court of Oglethorpe.

By unanimous consent House Bill No. 786 was withdrawn from the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means and recommitted to the Committee on Pensions.

By unanimous consent the following resolution of the House was introduced, read, and adopted:

By Mr. Pickren of Charlton-
House Resolution No. 780. A resolution extending the privileges of the floor to Hon. W. H. Burt. ,
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the remaining part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second. time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.
5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and
Sig. 13.

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resolutions of the House were introduced, read the :first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Sapp of Whitfield-

House Resolution No. 179 (806A). A resolution providing payment of pension to widow of Martin Arnold.

Referred to Committee on Pensions.

By Messrs. Johnson of Bartow and Bobo of Wilkes-
House Bill No. 794. A bill to amend Article 7, . Section 2, Paragraph 2 of the Constitution relative to exempt property.

Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

Biy Mr. Wyatt of Troup and Mr. McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 795. A bill to provide for the levy. ing of taxes other than ad valorem taxes.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Williams of Harris-
House Bill No. 796. A bill to amend an Act to reorganize the State Highway Department.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

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By Mr. Way of Liberty-

House Bill No. 797. A bill to make it unlawful to kill certain animals away from the premises of owner in Liberty County.

Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 798. A bill to amend an amended Act by substitution creating a new charter for City of Hazelhurst, in Jeff Davis County.

Referred to Committee on Corporations.
By Messrs. Beck and Smith of CarrollHouse Bill No. 799. A bill to amend the charter
of the Town of Bowden, in Carroll County.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Messrs. Bobo and Ficklen of Wilkes-
House Bill No. 800. A bill to provide for the operation of motor trucks, etc., respective to weights.

Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Holland of TattnallHouse Bill No. 801. A bill to amend Section 1249
of Code of 1910, relative to State Depositories.
Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

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By Mr. King of Wilcox-
House Bill No. 802. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Rochelle.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Messrs. Mann of Glynn, Holloway of Fulton, and others-
House Bill No. 803. A bill to create a Bond Commission for the State of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Mr. Mann of Glynn, Holloway of Fulton, and others-
House Bill No. 804. A bill to amend the Constitution relative to the proceeds of highway bonds.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Messrs. Hufstetler of Murray, Owen of Gordon, McClure and Jones of Walker, and Sapp of
~. Whitfield-
House Bill No. 805. A bill to prohibit taking fish from any of streams, etc., with a seine, etc.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 806. A bill to repeal an Act entitled an Act to repeal an Act to protect persons fur-

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nishing labor and material for construction of public works.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Messrs. Mann of Gljnn and Holloway of Ful'ton and others-
House Bill No. 807. A bill to create a Bond Commission for too State, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.
Mr. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Municipal Government have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 148.
House Bill No. 773.
House Bill No. 782.
Respectfully,
SMITH of Meriwether, Chairman.

Mr. Lankford of Toombs County, Chairman of the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Amendments to -Mle Constitution have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 555. House Bill No. 724. House Bill No. 748. House Bill No. 635.
And that the following bills of the House do not pass:
House Bill No. 668. House Bill No. 94. House Bill No. 610. House Resolution No. 147.

LANKFORD of Toombs, Chairman.

Mr. Culpepper of Fayette County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

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House Bill No. 449, as amended. House Bill No. 637. House Bill No. 716.
CuLPEPPER of Fayette, Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Moore of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education, submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following hills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
House Bill No. 772. House Bill No. 790
MooRE of Fulton, Chairman.

Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the fol1owing report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

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House Bill No. 747. House Bill No. 774. Senate Bill No. 213.

PICKREN of Charlton, Chairman.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. David of the 43rd-
:Senate Bill No. 148. A bill to amend an Act establishing a charter for the City of Calhoun.

By Mr. Johns of the 27th-
Senate Bill No. 213. A bil1 to amend the charter of the Town of Statham.

By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Bill No. 449. A bill to amend Paragraph 1, Section 2, Article 7 of the Constitution relative to tax on classified property.

By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson-
House Bill No. 555. A bill to amend Article 8, Section 4, Paragraph 1, of the Constitution, relative to schools.

By Mr. Hamilton of FloydHouse Bill No. 635. A bill to amend Article 3,

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393

Section 4, Paragraph 7 of the Constitution, relative to appointments by Governor.

By Messrs. Culpepper of Fayette and DuBose of Clarke-
.House Bill No. 637. A bill to amend an Act entitled ''The General Tax Act.''
By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 716. A bill to make it unlawful for corporations, etc., to use word "Georgia" in its corporate name.

By Mr. Johnson of Chattahoochee-
House Bill No. 724. A bill to amend Article 2, Section 3, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution relative to consol'idation of offices of Clerk and Ordinary.

By Mr. DeFoor of Clayton-
House Bill No. 747. A bill to repeal an Act to incorporate the City of Rex, in Clayton County.

By Mr. Neill of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 748. A bill to amend Paragraph 3, Section 1, Article 2 of the Constitution relative to poll taxes.

By Mr. King of Wil'cox.;_
House Bill No. 772. A bill to repeal Act establishing public school system in Town of Abbeville.

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By Messrs. Hines and Riley of Sumter-
House Bill No. 773. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Americus.

By Mr. Boyett of Stewart-
House Bill No. 774. A bil'l to repeal an Act to establish a public school system for the Town of Richland.

By Messrs. Langford and Duncan of Hall-
House Bill No. 782. A bill to amend by substitution the charter of the City of Gainesville.

By Mr. Sumner of Wheeler-
House Bill No. 790. A bill to repeal an Act to establish a system of public schools in the Town of Almo.
The following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Singletary of Grady-
House Bill No. 616. A bill to -amend the town charter of Whigham, and for other purposes.
The committee substitute was read and adopted.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.
On the passage of the biU the Ayes were 123, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.

By Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Bill No. 733. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Elberton by providing for the registration of voters of said city, and for other purposes.

The committee substitute was read and adopted.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.
On the passage of the 'bin the Ayes were 140, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.
The following resolution of the Senate was read the first time and referred to a committee:

]3(y Mr. W ohlwender of the 24thSenate Resolution No. 26. A resolution relieving
L. B. Williams as surety on bond.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.
The following resolutions of the Senate were read and concurred in :

By Mr. Thorpe of the 2ndSenate Resolution No. 81. A resolution accepting

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invitation of people of Townsend to barbecue and cel'ebration.

By Mr. Manson of the 35th-
Senate Resolution No. 82. A resolution to express appreciation for invitation to Woman's Club.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. McClure of Walker-

'

House Resolution No. 180. A resolution extending

the privileges of the floor to Ron. T. F. McFarland.

The Speaker appointed the following committee _,n the part of the House under House Resolution N~. 152, a resolution pertaining to the placing of ~memorial's to A. H. Stephens and Crawford W. Long in the Hall of Fame:

_Messrs. DeLaPerriere of Jackson,

Russell of Barrow,

Reville of Richmond.

'The following message was received from the Senate, .through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate bills, to-wit:

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By Messrs. Walker of 18th and Johns of 27th-

Senate Bill No. 122. A bil1 to amend Section 3931, . Paragraph 6, of Code of 1910, so as to make the mother an equal heir with the father, brother, and sister of a. deceased intestate.

By Mr. Nix of the 51st-

Senate Bill No. 176. A bill to amend Section 5 of Article 5 of an Act approved August 18, 1919, so as to a.dd a. proviso at the end of Section 5 providing that no material, machinery or supplies .shall be purchased except from the l'owest and best bidder.

By Mr. Womble of 25th-
Senate Bill No. 232. A bill to require all persons operating automobiles or trucks to stop same before entering covered bridges, and for' other purposes.

By Mr. Lasseter of 14th-

Senate Bill No. 231. A bill to amend an Act approved August 16, 1920, so as to fix the time of holding the Superior Courts in the Cordele Circuit of this State.
By Mr. Haralson of 40th-

Senate Bill No. 224. A birl to provide additional grounds for revoking the licenses of businesses engaged in insuring against liabilities.

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By Mr. David of 43rd-
Senate Bill No. 219. A bill to repeal an Act amend-
ing road laws in Gordon County.
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following resolution, to-wit:

By Mr. Clay of 39th-
Senate Resolution No. 83. A resolution to em-
power Georgia Secretary of State to sign marketing agreement of Georgia Cotton Growers.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of the Senate:

By Messrs. Weaver of 11th and Aiken of 4th-
Senate Bill No. 286. A bill to permit all co-rporations now incorporated by the Secretary of State, except insurance, bank and trust companies, to issue non-par stock, or partly non-par stock, and partly non-par stock, and for other purposes.
Under Orders of the Day, the following bill of the House, set as a special order on the recommendation of the Committee on Rules, was read the third time
f
and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Mundy of PolkHouse Bill No. 212. A bill to amend Paragraph 3,

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Section 4, Article 3 of the Constitution so as to provide for biennial instead of annual sessions of the General' Assembly, and for other purposes.
Mr. Knight of Berrien moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following substitute was read and adopted:

A BILL
To be entitled an Act to amend Paragraph 3, Section 4, Articre 3 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, by striking the word and figures "October, 1878, '' in line 3, and inserting in lieu thereof the word and figures ''June, 1923,'' and by striking the word "annually" in line four and inserting in lieu thereof the word "biennially" and by striking the word ''fifty'' in line six and inserting in lieu thereof the word "sixty," so as to provide for the meeting of the General Assembly biennially instead of annually and for sixty days instead of fifty and the manner of submitting same for ratification, and for other purposes. SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly
of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That Paragraph 3, Section 4, Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia be and the same is hereby amended by striking the word and figures "October, 1878," in line 3, and inserting in lieu thereof the word and figures ''June, 1923,'' and by striking the word ''annually'' in line four and inserting in lieu thereof the word "bien-

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nially," and by striking the word ":fifty" in line six and inserting in lieu thereof the word ''sixty,'' so that when said Paragraph 3, Section 4, Article 3 of the Constitution is so amended it shall read as follows:
''Paragraph 3. Meeting of the General Assembly. The :first meeting of the General Assembly after the ratification of this Constitution, shall be on the fourth Wednesday in June, 19'23, and biennially thereafter, on "the same day, until the day shall be changed by law. No session of the General Assembly shall continue longer than sixty days; provided, that if an impeachment trial is pending at the end of sixty days, the session may be prolonged till the completion of said trial.''
SEcTION 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when said amendment shall be agreed to by a two-thirds vote of the members elected to each House, it shall be entered upon the Journal of each House with the "Ayes" and "Nays" thereon and published in one or more newspapers in each Congressional District in said State for two months previous to the time for holding the next general election and shari, at the next general election, be submitted to the people for ratification. All persons voting at said election in favor of adopting said proposed amendment to the Constitution shall have written or printed on their ballots the words : ''For ratification of Amendment to Paragraph 3, Section 4, Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, providing for the meeting of the General Assem-

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bly biennially:'' and all persons opposed to the adoption of said amendment shall have written or printed on their ballots the w:ords : ''Against ratification of amendment to Paragraph 3, Section 4, Article 3 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, providing for the meeting of the General Assemllly biennially-,'' and if a majority of the electors qualified to vote for the members of the General Assembly voting thereon shall vo~ for the ratification thereof, when the returns shall be consolidated, as are required by law in elections for members of the General Assembly, and return thereof made to the Governor, then he shall declare said amendment adopted and make proclamation of the results of said election by one insertion in one of the dairy papers of this State, declaring the amendment ratified.
SEcTION 3. Be it further e~acted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.
The report of the committee, which wa.s favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.
The bill involving a constitutional amendment, the roll' call was ordered, and the vote was as follows :

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck

Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell

Bowen Boyett Braddy Branch Brantley Brown of Hancock

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Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp Carr Childs Clatk of Colquitt Clark of VVebster Colt!.er Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dudley Dykes Ficklen Fletcher Gann Grant Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Gunnels Haddock Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway Houser Houston Hufstetler Hullender H;vman

Jackson

Price

Jones of Coweta

Quincey

Jones of Thomas

Ramsey

Jones of VValker

Reagan

Johnson of Bartow Ricketson

Johnson of

Riley

Chattahoochee Robinson

Keith

Russell

Kennedy

Rutherford

King of VVilcox

Salmon

Knight

Sapp

Langford of Hall

Shettlesworth

Lankford of Toombs Sibley

Lewis

Singletary

Logan

Smiley

~IcClure

Smith of Bryan

~IcDonald of Mitchell Smith of Carroll

:\IcGarity

Smith of Haralson

~laclntyre

Smith of Meriwether

~Iaddox

Steele

Malone

Stone

:\Iann

Stovall

l\Ianning

Strickland

~Ia son

Sumner of Johnson

Mayo

Swift

Miles

Tatum

:\Iixon

Thompson of Coweta

~Ioore of Appling

Trippe

Moore of Fulton

Van Landingham

:\Ioye

Vocelle

:\Iundy

Walker

Neal of Union

Wall

Nichols

Watkins

Owen

Way

Parks

Whitaker of Roekdale

Parrish

Whitworth

Patten

Williams of Harris

Penland

Woodard

Perkins

Worthy

Perryman

Wyatt

Phillips of Jasper

'Vynne

Phillips of Telfair

Pickren

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Those voting in the Negative were Messrs:

Anderson Bentley Bleckley Bowden Bozeman Brown of Emanuel Carswell Clifton Daniel of Heard Davis of Oglethorpe Dixon Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall

Ennis Evans Foy Franks Guess Hamilton Harris Horne Howard of Forsyth Howard of Screven Johnson of Pickens Kittrell Luke

McClelland McDonald of
Richmond McMichael Peterson Pilcher Pruett Sumner of 'Vheeler Tyson Valentino VanZant Wimberly Wood

Those not voting were Messrs :

Blalock Brannen Camp Coates Daniel of Troup
Davis of Floyd
Dobbs DuBose Folsom

Fowler Gresham Hunter King of Jefferson Reville Rwindle Thompson of Dodge Turner Webb

'Veston Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Winship ::\Ir. Speaker

Ayes 144; Nays 38.

The roll call was verified.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 144, Nays 38.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.
:Mr. Dykes of Dooly moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.

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Leave of absence was granted Mr. Boyett of Stewart.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

FRIDAY, July 21, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adallli! of Walton And!erson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth noatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

1Iayo

ffouser

:Miles

Houston

~lixon

Howard of Forsyth )loore of Appling

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Hufstetler

l\ioye

Hullender

Mundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of Walker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens .Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincev

Lankford of Toombs Ram8ey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

1IcClelland

Riley

)lcClure

Robinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

)lcGarity

Sapp

1Iaclntyre

Shettlesworth

)lc)fichael

Sibley

1Iaddox

Singletary

)Ialone

Smiley

)!ann

Smith of Bryan

)Ianning

Smith of Carroll

1Iason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Rumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum ;fhonipson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Yalentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins \Vay Webb " 7eston Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes \Vhitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly \Vinship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne )lr. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the first part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.
5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-
House Resolution No. 183. (817A). A resolution for the payment of certain money to Charles W. Crankshaw.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
By ~r. Phillips of Telfair-
Honse Resolution No. 184. (817B). A resolution to relieve from liability Tax Collector and Sureties on bond of Tax Collector of Telfair County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

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By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Resolution No. 185. (8170). A resolution appropriating money, which was omitted through typographical error from General Appropriation bill of 1921.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Bleckley of Rabun, Neal of Union and others-
House Bill No. 808. A bill to authorize Treasurer of State to pay certain sums to certain counties.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
By Mr. Hodges of Evans-
House Bill No. 809. A bill to amend an Act to create city court of Claxton.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-

House Bill No. 810. A bill to amend the charter

of the City of :Milledgeville.



Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Russell of Barrow-
House Bill No. 811. A bill to establish the City Court of Barrow County.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

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409

By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 812. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Atlanta.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Brownlee of Elbert-
House Bill No. 813. A bill to amend an Act known as the ''Georgia Motor Vehicle Law.''
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Messrs. McDon~ld,. Pilcher and Reville of Richmond-
House Bill No. 814. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Augusta.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.
By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 815. A bill to repeal an act re. lative to the payment of certain wages.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
By Mr. Pruett of LumpkinHouse Bill No. 816. A bill to repeal an Act to
abolish the fees system in Northeastern Circuit. Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. McClure and Jones of WalkerHouse Bill No. 817. A bill to amend an Act

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abolishing commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Walker County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Resolution No. 181. A resolution extending the privileges of the floor to Mr. Thomas J. Hamilton.
Mr. Smith of Haralson County, Chairman of the Committee on Uniform State Laws submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Uniform State Laws have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 778.
SMITH of Haralson, Chairman.

Mr. Anderson of Chattooga County, Chairman of the Committee on Pensions submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Pensions have had under con-

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sideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House- with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 786.

ANDERSON of Chattooga, Chairman.

Mr. Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No.2 has submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No.2 have ha. under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 720. Do pass. House Bill No. 792. Do pass. House Bill No. 453. Do not pass. House Bill No. 1557. Do not pass. House Bill No. 560. Do not pass. House Bill No. 595. Do not pass. House Bill No. 700. Do not pass.

Respectfully submitted, JoHN CAMP DAVIs, o_f Floyd, Chairman.

Mr. Dobbs of Cobb County, Chairman of the Com-

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mittee on University of Georgia and Its Branches submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 578. House Bill No. 763.
And with recommendation that the following do not pass:
House Bill No. 693.
DoBBS of Cobb, Chairman.
Mr. Tatum of Dade County, Chairman of the Committee on Railroads submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Railroads have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to repGrt the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 552. Do pass by substitute as amended.
House Bill No. 662. Do not pass.
TATUl\! of Dade, Chairman.

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413

Mr. McDonald of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee Qn Special Judiciary submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consider~tion the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 636. Do not pass. House Bill No. 729. Do not pass. House Bill No. 751. Do pass. House Bill No. 779. Do pass. House Bill No. 781. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 191. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 189. Do pass.
MeDoNALD of Richmond,
Chairman.

Mr. Hullender, of Catoosa County, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Enrollment have examined, found properly enrolled, signed and ready for delivery to. the Governor, the following acts and resolutions, to-wit:

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House Resolution No. 136~ A resolution urging

Congress to accept Henry Ford's offer for Muscle

Shoals.



House Bill No. 580. A bill relative to building and constructing certain roads in Glynn County.
House Bill No. 581. A bill to grant to Glynn County certain lands herein described.

House Bill No. 609. A bill to amend an Act approved July 29, 1915, creating a Board of Commissioners for the County of Appling.
House Bill No. 240. A bill to establish a State Budget and Investigating Committee.
House Bill No. 556. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Washington.
House Bill No. 601. A bill to amend an Act creating a City Court of Thomasville.

House Bill No. 627. A bill to amend an Act to establish the City Court ot \Jlaxton.

House Bill No. 658. A bill to repeal an Act relative to the City Court of Ashburn, Turner County.
House Bill No. 634. A bill to change the time of holding Superior Court of Walker County.
House Bill No. 596. A bill to abolish an Act establishing the City Court of Hazelhurst.
House Bill No. 643. A bill to amend an Act ap-

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415

proved Aug. 1915, relative to terms of Superior Court of Tattnall County.
House Bill No. 621. A bill to amend an Act approved Aug. 17, 1908, amending the Aact incorporating the town of Norcross.

House Resolution No. 152. A resolution to provide for a joint committee to obtain subscriptions to place memorials to A. H. Stephens and Crawford W. Long in the Hall of Fame.

House Bill No. 582. A bill to amend an Act ap-

proved Aug. 16, 19115, providing a Board of Commis-

sioners for Evans County.

,

House Bill No. 666. A bill to require Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Baldwin County to pay certain fees.

House Bill No. 699. A bill to abolish the independent school system of the City of Lyons, Toombs County.

House Bill No. 685. A bill to amend an Act relative to establishment of public school system in Canton, Cherokee County.

House Bill No. 648. A bill to amend an Act establishing a Board of Commissioners of Colquitt County.
House Bill No. 356. A bill to empower County Commissioners in certain Counties to adopt rules permitting tax payers to pay taxes in quarterly or semi-annual payments.

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House Bill No. 571. A bill to abolish the office of County Treasurer of Campbell County.

Respectfully submitted, HuLLENDER of Catoosa, Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

:Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the House.
House Bill No. 356. A bill authorizing County authorities in certain Counties to collect taxes either quarterly or semi-annually.
House Bill No. 571. A bill to abolish office of Treasurer of Campbell County.
House Bill No. 582. A bill to amend Act providing a Board of Commissioners of Roads an<l Revenues for County of Evans.
House Bill No. 645. A bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Elbert County.
House Bill No. 648. A bill to amend Act establishing a Board of Commissioners of Colquitt County.
House Bill No. 666. A bill to reqmre Commis-

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417

sioners of Roads and Revenues of Baldwin County to pay to proper officers their fees.
House Bill No. 685. A bill to amend Act amending Act authorizing establishment of a Public School System in the Town of Canton.
House Bill No. 699. A bill to abolish Independent School System for City of Lyons.
Senate Bill No. 237. A bill to repeal Act establishing the public school system in the Town of . Richland.
Senate Bill No. 185. A bill to create the office of Supervisor of Roads in Wayne County.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:

' ',

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of Senate :

Senate Bill No. 182. A bill to prescribe and fix compensation of Treasurer of Clayton County.

Senate Bill No. 186. A bill to abolish County Road Commission of Wayne County.

Senate Bill No. 42. A bill to amend constitution relative to carrying of side arms.

By unanimous consent, the following bills of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

Sig. 14.

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By Mr. King of Wilcox-
House Bill No. 552. A bill to provide for the regulation of motor vehicles on the highways of the State.

By Messrs. DuBose and Dudley of Clarke-
House Bill No. 578. A bill to authorize the collection of tuition by the University and its Branches.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 720. A bill to amend Section 3353 of the Code of 1910, relative to the lien law in this State.
By Messrs. Harris and King of JeffersonHouse Bill No. 751. A bill to amend an Act to
create the City Court of Louisville.
By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 763. A bill to provide a local Board of Trustees for Georgia Military College.
By Mr. Collier of Stephens-
House Bill No. 779. A bill to amend an Act to provide for holding four terms a year of Stephens County Superior Court.
By Mr. Phillips of Jasper-
House Bill No. 781. A bill to provide payment of Court Costs in certain Counties of the State.

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419

By Messrs. Davis of Floyd, Smith of Haralson and others-

House Bill No. 786. A bill to amend Par. 1, Section 1, Art. 7, of the Constitution relative to pensions.

By Messrs. Jackson and Houser of Houston-
House Bill No. 792. A bill to amend an Act to establish a City Court for the County of Houston.

By Mr. Bellah of the 42nd-
Senate Bill No. 189. A bill to create the City Court of Summerville, in Chatooga County.

By Mr. Bellah of the 42nd-
Seimte Bill No. 191. A bill to repeal the Act creating the County Court of Chatooga County.
The following bills of the House and Senate were , eml the third time and placed upon their passage:
Y~ :.Ir. King of WilcoxHouse Bill No. 772. A bill to repeal an Act estab-
lishing a system of Public Schools for the Town of Abbeville and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 150, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Hines and Riley of Sumter-
House Bill No. 773. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Americus.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majqpty was passed.

By Mr. Boyett of Stewart-:House Bill No. 774. A bill to repeal an Act to
establish a school system for the Town of Richland and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, ,\rhich was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 110, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. DeFoor of Clayton-
House Bill No. 747. A bill to repeal an Act to incorporate the City of Rex, to provide a government for same, and for other purposes.

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421

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 140, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Robinson of Macon-
House Bill No. 778. A bill to amend an Act to amend an Act to establish the City Court of Oglethorpe, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Sumner of Wheeler-
House Bill No. 790. A bill to repeal an Act to establish a system of Public Schools in the Town of Alamo, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Mr. David of the 43rd-
Senate Bill No. 148. A bill to amend an Act establishing a charter for the City of Calhoun, and for other purposes.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Johns of 27th-
Senate Bill No. 213. A bill to amend the Charter of the Town of Statham.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following bills of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the committees:
By Mr. Golucke of 19th-
Senate Bill No. 42. A bill to amend Constitution relative to person carrying pistols, etc.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

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423

By Messrs. Weaver of 11th and Akin of 4th-

Senate Bill No. 86. A bill to permit corporations now incorporated by the State Secretary, except insurance, bank and trust companies, to issue non-par stock.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. Weaver of 11th and Johns .of 27th-
Senate Bill No. 122. A bill to amend the Code of 1910 so as to make the mother an equal ~eir with the father, brothers, and sisters of a deceased intestate.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Nix of 51st-
Senate Bill No. 176. A bill to amend an Act to reorganize the State Highway Department.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 182. A bill to prescribe and fix a compensation for the Treasurer of Clayton County and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

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By Mr. Thomas of 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 185. A bill to create the office of Supervisor of Public Roads in Wayne County and prescribe duties of Ordinary of said County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Thomas of 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 186. A bill to abolish County Commissioner of Wayne County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. David of 43rd-
. Senate Bill No. 219. A bill to repeal an Act amending road laws of Georgia in Gordon County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Haralson of 40th-
Senate Bill No. 224. A bill to provide additional grounds for revoking licenses of insurance companies doing business in Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Insurance.

By Mr. Lassiter of 14th-
Senate Bill No. 231. A bill to amend an Act fixing time .for holding Supreme Court in the Cordele Circuit.

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Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By l\Ir. Womble of 25th-
Senate Bill No. 232. A bill reqmrmg persons driving automobiles, etc., to blow horn before entering covered bridges and for other purposes.
Referred to Committe on Public Highway.

By Mr. Childs of 12th-
Senate Bill No. 237. A bill to repeal an Act establishing public school system in Town of Richland.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By unanimous consent House Bill No. 698 was withdrawn from the Committee on Public Highways and recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1.

By unanimous consent House Bill No. 364 was withdrawn from the House.
Mr. Duncan of Hall moved that House Bill No. 12 be ,taken from the table and placed upon the calendar and the motion prevailed.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 783 was withdrawn from the House.
The following message was received from His Excellency, the Governor, through his Secretary, Mr. Blalock:

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STATE OF GEORGIA: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ATLANTA.

July 21st, 1922.

To the General Assembly of Georgia: I hand you herewith report, as required by the
Constitution of Georgia, showing action taken by me in all clemency matters, including reprieves, probations, paroles, commutations and pardons granted since June 25, 1921.
Respectfully submitted, THos. W. HARDWICK, Governor.
STATE OF GEORGIA, ExECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
June 28, 1922.

REPORT OF CLEMENCY CASES REPRIEVE
EARLY BRADLEY: Stephens County, reprieve petitioned by Judge J. B. Jones, Judge Superior Court, Northeastern Judicial Circuit. Respited from July 8, 1921 to August 5, 1921. -
JOE JACKSON: -worth County, respited from December 16, 1921 to January 6, 1922 at request of the Prison Commission for more time to investigate

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application for commutation of sentence to life imprisonment.
WILL LUMPKIN: Berrien County, respited from January 6, 1922 to January 27, 1922, and again from January 20, 1922 to February 26, 1922 at request of Prison Commission for more time to consider his application for commutation to life imprisonment.

R. LANIER & J. M. HARLEY: Chatham County, sentence suspended for thirty days from May 12, 1922 and for an additional thirty days from June 12, 1922 to allow Prison Commission more time for consideration of application for clemency.
JOHN THOMPSON: Clarke County, Prison Commission requested respite for thirty days. Reprieved for thirty days from May 19, 1922.

FRANK JONES: Chatham County, sentenced to be hung June 9, 1922. At the request of the trial Judge and Solicitor, who made showing that applicant had paralysis and had only a very short time to live, and that it would be a disgrace to the law of Georgia to hang a man in such physical condition, respited for sixty days from May 29, 1922 in order to make full investigation into commutation of sentence.

JOHN THOMPSON: Clarke County, Prison Commission having declined to recommend executive clemency in this case, reprieved from June 14, 1922 to July 7, 1922 in order for Governor to have time to consider the case.

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VOGUE LAMAR: Fulton County, Prison Commission having declined application for clemency, and Governor desiring to have more time to consider the same, reprieved from June 21, 1922 to July 21, 1922.

LUDIE RILEY: Dougherty County, sentence suspended from June 21, 1922 until July 21, 1922 in order for Governor to have time to consider the application.

PROB1ATIONS
B. J. Dasher, City Court Liberty County, July Term 1920. Violating prohibition law. Upon recommendation of Prison Commission probated on July 8, 1921.
IVORY PEARSON: City Court, Dublin, March Term 1921. Violating prohibition law. Upon recommendation of Judge, Solicitor, County Commissioners, and Prison Commission, probated J ul'y 12, 1921 upon payment of fine of $75.
, JAKE YALLEDY: City Court Lowndes County, violation prohibition law. Upon recommendation of Judge and Solicitor, and having served all but six weeks of his sentence, probated on July 25, 1921.
. ERIC MAY AND DICK KERR: Fulton Superior Court, January Term 1921, robbery. 12 and 12 months or $200 in one case. Upon recommendation of Prison Commission allowed to pay fine and serve remainder of sentence on probation. July 29, 1921.

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H. L. JOLLY: City Court Polk Cohnty, March Term 1921, violating prohibition law. 12 months. Upon recommendation of Prison Commission, probated on Sept. 6, 1921.
JIM EVANS: Harris Superior Court, January Term, 1920. Violating prohibition law. 12 mon,ths. Upon recommendation of many citizens of Harris County and the Prison Commission, probated Oct. 3, 1921.
ANDREW D. BARBOUR: City Court of Savannah, July Term 1918, violating prohibition law. 12 months. Recommended by Solicitor and Jury, also Prison Commission. Probated Nov. 17, 1921.
L. A. LELOACH: City Court of Macon. December Term 1921. Violating prohibition law. 12 months or $750. Recommended by Prison Commission. Fined $100 and probated Dec. 15, 1921.
R. G. MICHAEL: City Court of Macon. December 1921. Violating prohibition law. 10 months or $500. Recommended by Prison Commission. Fined $100 and probated, Dec. 15, 1921.
R. G. MICHAEL: City Court of Macon. December 1921. Carrying concealed weapons. R-ecommended by Prison Commission. Fin,.ed $100 and
. probated Dec. 15, 1921. JERRY THORPE: Houston Superior Court. November Term 1920. Selling liquor. 15 months. Recommended by trial Judge, Solicitor and County authorities, also by Prison Commission. Also is in bad physical condition. Probated December 10, 1921.

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\VILLIA:M DORSEY: Bal'dwin Superior Court. June Tenn 1921. Misdemeanor. 9 months or $100 and 3 months. Recommended on account of having tuberculosis, by Prison Commission, Judge, Solicitor, Sheriff, County Commissioners, Warden and the prosecutor in the case. Probated December 8, 1921.
PETER SIMON: City Court of Savannah. August Term 1921. Larceny. 12 months. Goods stolen amounted to only $3.00. Recommended by Prison Commission. Probated Dec. 10, 1921.
ALBERT BUTLER: City Court of Valdosta. January Term 1921. Carrying concealed weapons. 12 months. Bad physical condition and recommendation of County Commissioners, Physician and Soli.::itor and Prison Commission. Probated on Dec. 10, 1921.
J. J. COOK: Gordon Superior Court, August Term 1921. Violating prohiibition law, 6 months and fine of $76. Recommended by Solicitor, Sheriff, many Citizens and Prison Commission. Probated and fined $76. December 10, 1921.
0. H. BRADY, wELDON PHILLIPS, AND H. HOLLOWAY: Criminal Division, Atlanta Court. Fall Term 1921, possessing liquor. 8 months each. Recommended by Prison Commission. Fined $25 each and probated January 18, 1922.
Al\IOS WILKES: Wilkes Superior Court. February Term 1921. Violating prohibition law. 12 months or 6 months and $350. Served all but 6

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weeks. Recommended by Judge and Prison Commission. Probated January 6, 1922.
ENOCH PATTERSON: Fannin Superior Court. October Term 1921. vVife beating. 12 months. Recommended by Prison Commission. Probated January 16, 1922.
JOHN JACKSON AND SCOTT DOWDY: Taliaferro Superior Court. September Term 1921. Larceny. 9 months. Recommended on account of new evidence. PrO'bated March 8, 1922.
H. P. HOWARD: Chatham Superior Court, July Term 1921. Receiving stolen goods. 12 months. Recommended by Judge, Solicitor, and Prison Commission. Probated March 8, 1922.
JOHN INGRAM: City Court Polk County. Violating prohibition law. 12 months or $500. Recommended by Judge, Solicitor, Sheriff, and Prison Commission. Probated March 29, 1922.
MAHALA AND LIZZIE SAPP: Appl'ing Superior Court. OctO'ber Term 1921. Vagrancy. 12 m~nths each. Recommended by Prison Commission. Probated April 12, 1922.
JOHN DALTON: Catoosa Superior Court. February Term 1921. Assault to rape. 12 months. Recommended by Judge, Solicitor, many citizens and Prison Commission. Probated April 12, 1922.
WM. L. DANIEL: Gwinnett Superior Court, March Term 1922. Stealing ride on train. 3 months. Recommended by Prison Commission. Probated April 4, 1922.

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ALICE, SUSIE AND CARRIE WEAVER: City Court of Jesup, July T'erm 1921. Vagrancy. Recomme~ded 1by .Judge and Prison Commission. Probated April 17, 1922.

GEORGE ALLEN: Bibb Superior Court. June Term 1921. Violating prohibition law. 12 months or 6 months and $400. Recommended by Solicitor and Prison Commission. Probated April 17, 1922.

W. J. FAULKNER: Monroe Superior Court. Kovember Term 1921. Viol'ating prohibition law. 12 months. Recommended by Judge, Solicitor, County Commissioners and the Prison Commission. Probated May 3, 19:22.
GAINES BlEVINS : W-alker Superior Court. February Term 1922. Violating prohibition law. 12 months. Recommended by Judge and Prison Commission. Probated on June 13, 1922.
J. W. NIX: Berrien Superior Court. March Term 1921. Violating prohibition law. 12 months. Recommended by Judge, Solicitor, and other officers. Also by Prison Commission. Probated June 5, 1922.
ADAM HARBOUR: City Court of Rome. March Term 1922. Having liquor. 9 months. Recommended by trial Judge and Jury nnd Prison Commission. Probated June 6, 1922.
JIM RIGGINS: Floyd Superior Court. January Term 1922. Receiving stolen goods. 12 months. Recommended by Judge, Solicitor, and Prison Commission. Probated June 6, 1922.

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MATTIE KUGLAR: Fulton Superior Court. May Term 1922. Violating prohibition law. 8 months. Pardoned June 20, 1922 account of recommendations and necessity of caring for 7 small' children, and payment of fine of $50.
R. M. COLE: Douglas Superior Court, March Term 1921; Manufacturing liquor. 12 months or $700; account of recommendation of trial Judge and other offici-als, and time already served, probated June 22, 1922.

PAROLES
Every application for parole was recommended by the Prison Commission.
A. J. HILL: Muscogee Superior Court, May 1916; Murder; life. Paroled July 11, 1921, in view of recommendation of Solicitor-General.
ZEDDIE PATTERSON: Ware Superior Court. May T'erm 1916. Murder; life. Paroled July 13, 1921.
J. R. JENKINS: Muscogee Superior Court. December Term 1914. Murder; life. Paroled July 18, 1921 on account of doubt of applicant and strong recommendation of Solicitor.
T. Q. IRWIN: Pike Superior Court. February Term 1918. Manslaughter; 12 years. Paroled July 19, 1921 on account of Judge and Solicitor's recommendation.
W. L. DARBY: Toombs Superior Court, Novem-

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her Term 1916. Manslaughter; 5 years. Paroled July 29, 1921, recommended by all trial jurors, Judge, Solicitor, and all officials of the County.

BERT PUTNAM: Gwinnett Superior Court. her Term 1919; manslaughter; 5 to 10 years. Paroled Aug. 2, 1921. Recommended by all County officials.

B. H. M 'WHORTER: Fulton Superior Court. X ovember Term 1918. Larceny of auto; 5 years. Paroled August 4, 1921. Strongly recommended by Judge.

A. C. DANZY: Crisp Superior Court. July Term 1919. Larceny; 3 years. Paroled August 4, 1921. Recommended by Judge, Jury, Solicitor, prosecutor and county officials.
D. vV. WEBSTER: Crisp Superior Court. July
Term 1919. Larceny; 3 years. Paroled August 4, 1921. Recommended by Judge, Jury, Solicitor, prosecutor and county official's.

J. B. KING: Fulton Superior Court. .M-ay Term 1919. Larceny; 3 years. Paroled August 4, 1921. Recommended by trial Judge and Solicitor.

SAMUEL SHELTON: Richmond Superior Court. .May Term 1920. Larceny of automobile; 2 years. Paroled August 11, 1921. Recommended by Judge, Solicitor, and county officials.

ZACK ALLEN: Irwin Superior Court. May Term 1917. Assault to murder; 7 years. Paroled August 12, 1921.

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ALLEN D. INMAN: Burke Superior Court, April Term 1915. Murder; life. Paroled August 29, 1921. Applicant 67 years old and in very poor health. Recommended by trial Judge, Soricitor, all of trial Jury and numerous citizens.

HEARD STOWE: Hall Superior Court,- January Term 1922. M-urder; life. Paroled on August 29, 1921 account of recommendation of Grand Jury and trial Jury, also by trial Judge.
:NI. E. SCOGGINS: Floyd Superior Court. August Term 1919, manslaughter; 12 years. Paroled August 30, 1921.

JOHN JONES: Elbert Superior Court, March Term 1907. Murder; life. Paroled on August 30, 1921 on account of recommendation of Grand Jurors and trial Jurors, and the service rendered the State in capturing escaped prisoners.

\VASH DEAN: Houston Superior Court. October Term 1912. Murder; l'ife. Paroled August 31, 1921 account of strong endorsement of Judge, Jury and Solicitor.
GEORGE GOOLSBY: Upson Superior Court. February Term 1910. Murder; life. Paroled September 1, 1921 on account of doubt of guilt of applicant.
E. G. \V01fACK: Campbell Superior Court. February Term 1919. Manslaughter; 12 years. Paroled September 7, 1921. Stro~gly recommended by all officials.

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FOSTER CAWTHORN: Jackson Superior Court. August term 1917; assault to murder; 6 years. Paroled September 7, 1921, account of applicant's good character and numerous recommendations.

vVILL WALKER: Sumter Superior Court; November Term 1916; murder; life. Parol'ed September 8, 1921 account of extreme old age of applicant, 62 years.

GORDON RAY: Cherokee Superior Court; February Term 1918; manslaughter; 10 years. Served more than minimum sentence. Paroled September 9, 1921.
"\Y. C. SMITH: Fulton Superior Court; September Term, 1919; manslaughter; 5 to 10 years. Paroled September 10, 1921, account condition of his helpless and penniless wife and 3 children.
OSCAR G. RIGGS: Gilmer Superior Court; October Term 1917; murder; life. Paroled September 20, 1921. Recommended by all county official's and prosecutor.
W. J. McNAUGHTON: Emanuel Superior Court; October Term 1910; murder.; life. Paroled September 21, 1921 account of doubt of guilt of applicant and numerous recommendations of officials and citizens.
JOHN W. LEAKE: Fulton Superior Court. May Term 1916; burglary; 10 years. Paroled September 26, 1921. -Party jointly indicted with ap-

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plicant was given new trial and sentenced for 12 montlis. Applicant had served over 5 years.

MITCHELL TAYLOR: Muscogee Superior Court; November Term 1901; murder; life. Paroled September 28, 1921. Had served more than 20 years with good record.

WILL GREEN: Upson Superior Court; Novewber Term 1915; Bestiality; 12 years. Paroled September 29, 1921. Had served over 6 years and hnd strong recommendations.

TALLEY HALL: Coffee Superior Court; September Term 1917 ; larceny; 4 years. Paroled September 30, 1921. Had completed all but a few month~ of his sentence.

EVERETT DUNCAN: Grady Superior Court; rape; 8 years. February Term 1919. Very technical and doubtful case. Paroled October 3. 1921.

MUSS LINDER.: Hart Superior Court. April Term 1913; manslaughter; 20 years. Paroled Octoher 5, 1921. Killing occurred in negro gambling game, defendant claimed self-defense. Strongly recommended.
JIM REEV~ES : Pickens Superior Court; October Term 1918; manslaughter; 6 years. Paroled October 14, 1921 account of conflicting evidence and recommendations by Judge and other officials.

COLUMBIA CAMPBELL: Jenkins Superior Court; September Term 1915; attempt to murder;

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10 years. Applicant ol'd and very feeble, had served over 5 years. Recommended by trial Judge.

ALBERT JORDAN: Hart Superior Court; October Term 1914; murder; life. Paroled October 24, 1921, Prison record good, recommended by Judge, Jury and prosecutor.

WILLIE GASTON: Chatham Superior Court; December Term 1919; burglary; 3 to 7 years. Paroled October 25, 1921. Strongly recommended.

JOHN ALEXANDER: Hall Superior Court; ~fay Term 1920; manslaughter; 2 to 3 years. Paroled November 7, 1921. Recommended by Judge, entire Jury, Sheriff, and other officials and citizens.

ISAAC NAPP: Morgan Superior Court; September Term 1908; murder; life. Paroled on November 12, 1921.

CHARLEY KENDALL: Taylor Superior Court; January Term 1916; murder; life. Paroled November 12, 1921, account of new evidence.

LOONEY SHROPSHIRE: Fayette Superior Court; September Term 1915; manslaughter; 20 years. Account of extreme youth of applicant and recommendations. Paroled NoYember 16, 1921.

GEORGE T. THRASHER: Fulton Superior Court; :May Term 1920; larceny; 3 years. Paroled November 16, 1921, Jury recommended misdemeal!or punishment and he had served longer than misdemeanor sentence.

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J. B. SIKES: Evans Superior Court; October Term 1917; manslaughter; 10 years. Paroled December 10, 1921. Applicant was only 17 years old when crime was committed. Served 4 years of sentence. Recommended by large number of citizens and official's.

SOL BROWN: Pierce Superior Court; l\Iay Term 1913; murder; life. Paroled December 10, 1921. Applicant had good character and made splendid prison reoord.

MARY RANSOM: Dooley Superior Court; February Term 1918; manslaughter; life. Paroled December 8, 1921. Prison Record good, recommended by Solicitor and many others.
J. S. & GRIGGS BAILEY: Miller Superior Court; April Term 1919; receiving stolen goods. 5 and 3Yz years. Paroled December 8, 1921. Applicants are white men who previousl bore good characters. Have served two years.
WILLIAM STEVENS: Pulaski Superior Court; March Term 1905; murder; l'ife. Paroled December 8, 1921, recommended by warden and many CO'unty officials.
BEST ARMSTRONG: Houston Superior Court; April Term 1916; murder; life. Paroled December 8, 1921. Prison record good, recommended by trial Judge and others.
MARY ANDERSON: Terrell Superior Court; May Term 1916; murder; life. Paroled November

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30, 1921 ; had served 5 years. Strongly recommended.

BEN CRUMLEY: Terrell Superior Court; May Term 1913; murder; life. Paroled November 30, 1921 account of conflicting evidence and recommendation of trial Jury.

TOM RUSSELL: Richmond Superior Court; September Term 1916; robbery; 10 years. Paroled November 25, 1921. Applicant denied his guilt. Strongly recommended by trial Judge, Solicitor, Warden, county officials and many citizens.

JACK ELROD: Habersham Superior Court; March Term 1908; murder; life. Paroled N ovember 30, 1921. Another man admitted he did this killing. Recommended by trial Judge.
R. S. ELLIOTT: Berrien Superior Court; April Term 1912. Assault to murder; 6 years. Paroled November 26;1921, Strongly recommended by prosecutor (man who was shot) also by Judge and Jury.

CLIFF BYRD: Quitman Superior Court, March T'erm 1914; murder; life. Paroled November 28, 1921. Strongly recommended.

JOHN 0. GARTRELL: Fulton Superior Court; :March Term 1920; larceny of auto; 5 years. Paroled December 29, 1921. account of insufficient evidence and applicant's prior good character.

RALPH MILLER: Spalding Superior Court; August Term 1905; murder; life. Paroled Decem-

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her 29, 1921. Has served 16 years with good record. Recommended by Judge, Jury, Solicitor.

WALTER TAYLOR: Heard Superior Court; September Term )913; murder; life. Parol'ed December 17, 1921. Had served 8 years. Recommended by prominent citizens, familiar with the case.

TOM GORE: Bartow Superior Court. July .Term 1919; murder; life. Paroled December 17, 1921, account of youth of applicant when crime was committed. 14 years.

WALTER RAGAN: Grady Superior Court; November Term 1919; larceny; 3 to 4 years. Paroled December 17, 1921. Had served 2 years for hog stealing. In very bad physical condition.

JOHN W. wRIGHT: Fulton Superior Court; May Term 1919; larceny of auto; 5 years. Paroled December 19, 1921. Had served 2 years with good record. Recommended by prosecutor.

CLARENCE PRYOR: Pike Superior Court; December Term 1920; manufacturing liquor; 3 years. Paroled January 4, 1922. Recommended by trial Judge and Solicitor.
LOU BELL S~IITH: Macon Superior Court; May term 1917 ; manslaughter; 5 years. Paroled December 20, 1921.

JIM COLEMAN: Wilcox Superior Court; January Term 1914; murder; life. Paroled December 22, 1921, strongly recommended by trial Judge.

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GARFIELD JONES: Lowndes Superior Ct.urt; May term 1912; rape; 15 years. Paroled .Jannary 19, 1922; Has served 9 years with good record.
. R\ANDOLPH MOSELEY: Emanuel Superior Court; April Term 1911; murder; life; paroled January 17, 1922; had served 10 years with good conduct; evidence was circumstantial and applicant always denied his guilt.

CLAUDE MALONE: Bartow Superior Court; January Term 1917; burglary; 10 years; paroled January 17, 1922; had served 5 years with good conduct. Recommended by al1 trial officials.

BOISE GOLDMAN: Richmond Superior Court; June Term 1915; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921 ; evidence conflicting; strongly recommended by trial Judge.
LIGE HARRIS: Wilkes Superior Court; November Term 1917 ; manslaughter; 8 years. Paroled December 20, 1921; recommended by Judge, Solicitor, trial Jury, \Varden, and County Commissioners.
ED YOUNG: Richmond Superior Court; November Term 1916; robbery; 10 years; paroled April17, 1922; had served over 5 years with good record.
J ABUS PASCHAL: Wilkes Superior Court; November Term 1909; murder; life. Parored April 17, 1922.
ENNIS McDONALD: Calhoun Superior Court; August Term 1918; manslaughter; 9 months;

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paroled April17, 1922; recommended by trial Jurors, Judge, and large number of citizens.
.ALLEN LINDSEY: Glynn Superior Court; May term 1912; murder; life. Paroled April 17, 1922; recommended by Jury, Solicitor and large number of citizens.
IVY KAYLOR: Sumter Suprior Court; November Term 1914; manslaughter; 4 years. Paroled April17, 1922; account of distressing circumstances of his family.
BILL JOHNSON: Carroll Superior Court; April Term 1910; murder; life. Paroled April 17, 1922; recommended by Jury, Judge and Solicitor.
CLAUDE JACKSON: Jasper Superior Court; murder; life; August Term 1914. Paroled April17, 1922; recommended by Jury, Judge and Solicitor.
LUCIUS HOWARD: Putnam Superior Court; March Term 1913; manslaughter; 20 years. Paroled April17, 1922; prior good character and good prison record; served 9 years, which is considerably longer than the average term given in manslaughter cases.
ROBERT GREEN: Chattooga Superior Court; March Term 1915; burglary; 15 years. Paroled April 27, 1922; recommended by prosecutor, Judge and others.
WILL REYNOLDS: Chattooga Superior Court; March rrerm 1915; burglary; 15 years. Paroled April 27, 1922; recommended by prosecutor, Judge and others.

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WILLIE SUMMERLIN: Cobb Superior Court; March term 1911; murder; life. Paroled April 27, 1922; had served more than 10 years, recommended by trial Judge and Solicitor.
HENRY GOINGS: Montgomery Superior Court; February Term 1915; murder; life. Paroled April 28, 1922; recommended by all trial jurors, Judge and others.
MELTON MATHIS: Worth Superior Court; September Term 1914; murder; life. Paroled May _1, 1922; recommended by Judge, Jurors, Solicitor and numerous citizens.
THOS. E. BUTLER: Muscogee Superior Court; February Term 1921; burglary; 2 years. Paroled April 29, 1922; had served more than 1 year, the minimum for burglary. Recommended by prosecutor, Judge, Solicitor, and others.
MALACHIE wiLLIAMS: Emanuel Superior Court; January Term 1917; manslaughter; 15 years; more than served minimum senten{?e. Paroled May 5, 1922.

NOVA ~fOORE: Spalding Superior Court; Jannary Term 1913; murder; life. Paroled May 9, 1922; numerous petitions for parole in this case.
BrESSIE CASHION: Burke Superior Court; October Term 1913; murder; life. Paroled May 18, 1922; recommended by trial Judge and Solicitor.
CLIFF NE"WTON: Madison Superior Court; January Term 1919; manslaughter; 15 years. Paroled

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.May 18, 1922; recommended by Judge, Solicitor and numerous officials.

.M:. H. MAYFIELD: Walker Superior Court; September Term 1917; manslaughter; 8 years. Paroled May 17, 1922; had served more than 4 years.

NAPOLEON WASHINGTON: Fulton Superior Court; January Term 1919; robbery; 10 to 20 years. Paroled May 18, 1922; because of his previous good record and his youth, also recommendations of Judge and Solicitor.

HENRY DAVIS: Fulton Superior Court; June Term 1920; burglary; 3 years; Paroled May 18, 1922; had served 2 years; evidence was circumstantial.

J. P. :MciNTYRE: Fulton Superior Court; October Term 1919; attempt to murder; 4 to 5 years. Paroled April14, 1922; recommended by trial Judge, Solicitor; and large number of citizens.

MOSE WILLIAMS: Fulton Sup~rior Court; May term 1919; burglary; 5 years; paroled May 19, 1922; strongly recommended.

PLEAS DOSS : Grady Superior Court; March Term 1921; assault to murder; 2 to 4 years. Paroled May 18, 1922 on account of recommendations of Judge, Jury.
EULA WILLIAMS: Morgan Superior Court; March Term 1912; murder; life. Paroled April 1, 1922; had served ten years recommended by Judge and Solicitor.

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JOE BOYD & WILL MORGAN: Pike Superior Court; December Term 1920; manufacturing liquor; 3 years. Paroled March 30, 1922; account of prior good character and strong recommendations.

wiLLIE COLSON: Fulton Superior Court; February Term 1921; larceny of auto; 2 years. Paroled March 30, 1922; had served nearly whole sentence; recommended by prosecutor.

MINNIE HARTLEY: Chatham Superior Court; }larch Term 1917; robbery; 15 years. Paroled March 30, 1922; joint applicants swear she had nothing to do with this robbery, which amounted to $4.80. Served 5 years.
JAKE DANIEL: Cohb Superior Court; September Term 1919; burgl'ary; 10 to 15 years. Paroled March 29, 1922; recommended by Judge, Solicitor and prosecutor.

LILLY HEAD: Henry Superior Court; April Term 1913; ~anslaughter; 20 years; Paroled March 28, 1922 ; had served 9 years which is much above average for the crime.

MARY CAGE: Rockdale Superior Court; October Term 1916; manslaughter; 15 years ; paroled April 3, 1922; had served 5 years; largely recommended.

wiLLIE DAVIS: Muscogee Superior Court; November Term 1920; burglary; 5 to 10 years. Paroled April12, 1922; recommended by prosecutor and trial Judge.

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A. B. JONES: Hart Superior Court; April Term 1911; rape; 20 years; parol'ed April 12, 1922; had served more than 10 years; also account of new evidence introduced.
LOUIS JOHNSON: Fulton Superior Court; January Term 1920; burglary; 5 to 10 years. Paroled April 18, 1922; account of applicant's age, 2 years service, recommendation of prosecutors, Judge, Solicitor, and other officials.
LEWIS FAIN: Floyd Superior Court; July Term 1908; murder; life; paroled April 5, 1922; had served 13 years with good record.
ED vVATSON: September Term 1917; Fulton
Superior Court; burglary; 10 years. Parol!ed April 10, 1922; applicant was held in jail 1 year by miS'take or failure of Clerk to certify conviction. Served 3,0 years with good record:

GRADY WARD: Walton Superior Court; February Term 19:20; shooting at another; 2 to 4 years; trial Judge and prosecutor join in recommendation.
CHARLEY CARTER: Early Superior Court; October Term 1915; manslaughter; 16 years. Paroled April17, 1922; recommended by trial jury.
EARNEST HOUSE: Bartow Superior Court; Fall Term 1913; murder; l'ife. Paroled April 17, 1922.
CURLEY MONTGOMERY: Lee Superior Court; May Term 1914; murder; life. Paroled April 17, 1922; rec.ommended by trial Jury.



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JOHN H. CHANCEY: Decatur Superior Court;

Fall Term 1915; murder; life. Paroled April 17,

1922; recommended by Judge, Jury and large num-

ber of citizens and officials.



P. C. AND WALLACE FUTCH: Tattnall Superior Court; April Term 1911; murder; life. Paroled April17, 1922; recommended by large number of citizens, Jury, Solicitor, and other officials.

JOE woODS: Bulloch Superior Court; December Term 1911; murder; life. Paroled April 17, 1922 ; recommended by Judge, Solicitor and other. officials and citizens.

JIM MANN: Walton Superior Court; August Term 1910; murder; life. Paroled ApriY 17, 1922; recommended by Judge and Solicitor; had served 12 years.

SHADWICK WEBB: Et1rly Superior Court; April term 1913; murder; life. Paroled April 17, 1922; recommended by jury and many citize.ns.
GEORGE- STARK: Pike Superior Court; December Term 1920; manufacturing liquor; 3 years; paroled .April 17, 1922; all others .engaged in thi~ transaction have either been pardoned or paroled. Recommended by Judge and Solicitor.
MAJOR SMITH: Chattahoochee Superior Court; :March Term 1915; murder; life, recommended by Solicitor General. Paroled December 20, 1921.
JEFF MORGAN: Hall Superior Court; July Term 1905; murder; life. Paroled Decem1ber 20,

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1921 ; had served 16 years; recommended by Judge and jurors.
BEN HIGGS: Ware Superior Court; Dec~mber Term 1915; murder; life. paroled December 20, 1921.

WILL SHEPPARD: Montgomery Superior Court; May Term 1915; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921; recommended by Solicitor.

CHARLEY PITT'S: Stephens Superior Court; September Term 1916; murder; life. Paroled December 21, 1921 account of prior good character and recommendations of trial Judge and Solicitor.

GEORGE BUTLE.R: Fulton Superior Court; January Term 1914; robbery; 15 years. Paroled December 21, 1921 account of recommendation of trial Jury, Judge and Solicitor.

JOAN HINES: Decatur Superior Court; May term 1903; murder; life. Paroled on December 22, 1921 ; had served 18 years.

JOHN CANTRELL: Cherokee Superior Court; May Term 1918 ; burglary; 12 years. Paroled December 21, 1921 ; recommended by prosecutor and officials; had wife and 3 children in very destitute circumstances.
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L. M. LAMAR: Richmond Superior Court; Ma:y
Term 1914; sodomy; life. Paroled on February 7, 1922; recommended by Judge and Solicitor; has served 8 years.

CAPE SAPPINGTON: Fulton Superior Court;

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450

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

March Term 1907 ; murder; life. Paroled January 30, 1922; had served 15 years and protested his innocence.

J. H. MULLING: Washington Superior Court; September Term 1916; manslaughter; 10 years. Paroled January 26, 1922; recommended by presecutor, and all county officials.

A. J. BUNDRICK: Dooly Superior Court; March T'erm 1903; murder; life. Paroled February 10, 1922, had served 20 years, his brother having already been hung for same crime; recommended by trial Judge, Solicitor, Jury and other officials.

ELLIE MATTHEWS: Clarke Superior Court; April Term 1917; assault to rape. Paroled February 21, 1922; had served 5 years; recommended by prosecutor, Judge, Jury, and other officials.

S. C. BRADLEY: Fulton Superior Court; Jannary Term 1917; robbery; 10 years. Paroled February 21, 1922 ; in view of extreme youth of prisoner at time of crime, and that he had served more than 4 years with good record; also in view of recommendation of Judge, Jury.
CHARLEY CHANCE: Colquitt Superior Court; October Term 1917; assault to rape; 16 years. Paroled February 27, 1922 account of prosecutor who says she was forced to swear against him.
F. A. HULSEY: Fulton Superior Court; January Term 1921; burglary; 2 to 10 years. Paroled March 3, 1922 'because of deplorable physical con-

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dition and applicant and his entire disability to perform any sort of manual labor.
M. J. GREENE: Fulton Superior Court; Spring term 1920; larceny of auto; 5 years. Paroled March 3, 1922; recommended by prosecutor, Solicitor, and Judge.

DAVE BATTLE: . DeKa.lb Superior Court; June term 1916; burglary; 15 years. Paroled March 4, 1922 ; case was technieal and money was recovered. Recommended by Judge Solicitor, Warden, Sheriff, and many citizens.
FANNIE HART: Clinch Superior Court; March Term 1914; murder; life. Paroled March 7, 1922; strongly recommended.
WILL UPSHAW: Troup Superior Court; February Term 1910; murder~ life. Paroled March 8, 1922; had served 12 years with good record; recommended by prosecutor and others.
MACK LEE: Terrell Superior Court; January Term 1911; murder; life. Paroled April 1, 1922; had served 11 years; large petition from Terrell County recommending clemency.
ROBT. OWENS: Houston Superior Court; Oetober Term 1914; murder; life; recommended by trial Judge, and Jurors.
ANDREW BRUCE: Stewart Superior Court; October Term 1910; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921. Served more than 10 years; strongly recommended.

452

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

JERRY HURST: Laurens Superior Court; J auuary Term 1916; murder; life; previous good character, strongly recommended. Paroled December 20, 1921.

CLARENCE GILBERT: Fulton Superior Court; January Term 1919; burglary; 10 years. Paroled December 20, 1921, account recommendation of misdemeanor punishment by jury, also recommended by Judge and Solicitor.

CHARLEY FAYSON: Johnson Superior Court; September Term 1913; manslaughter; 20 years. Paroled December 20, 1921; a0count of previous good character and time he has already served.
TOM TAYLOR: Crawford Superior Court; October Term 1910; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921. Had served more than 11 years ; recommended by trial Judge.
WILL ELLIS : Bibb Superior Court; Fall Term 1907 ; burglary; 20 years ; paroled December 20, 1921; had served more than 13 years on this sentence with good record.
CARL SHELTON: Floyd Superior Court; January Term 1916; robbery; 12 years. Paroled December 20, 1921; recommended by large num'her of officers and citizens.
DAN CRAWFORD: ware Superior Court; November Term 1897; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921; had served more than 18 years with good record.

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453

JOHN ZACHARY: Heard Superior Court; September Term 1910; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921; recommended by Judge, Jury, all officials and many citizens.
WILL ZELLARS: Glynn Superior Court; May . Term 1915; murder; life~ Paroled on December 20, 1921; recommended by Solicitor and Jury.
JOE SCRUTCHENS: Bartow Superior Court; January T'erm 1917; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921; Solicitor recommends Scrutchens guilty only of involuntary man-slaughter.
C. W. COWART: Clinch Superior Court; March Term 1919; incest; 20 years. Recommended by large number of citizens and officials. Paroled December 20, 1921.

DAISY SLAUGHTER: Putnam Superior Court; September Term 1920; manslaughter; 5 to 6 years. Paroled December 20, 1921 ; prior record and prison record both good.
'V JOE AKEFIELD: Early Superior Court;
October Term 1908; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921; served more than 13 years with good record.
CHARLEY LASEUR: Pike Superior Court; April Term 19li; burglary; 10 years. Paroled December 20, 1921; had made excellent record; strongly recommended by prosecutor and others.
MONROE SLAUGHTER: Bibb Superior Court; January Term 1914; murder; life. Paroled Decem-

454

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

ber 20, 1921 ; Recommended by Judge and other officials.
JIM WILLIAMS : Dougherty Superior Court; March Term 190.7; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921 ; had served more than 14 years ; physical condition poor.
BARNEY SIMMONS: Colquitt Superior Court; June Term 1916; burglary; 8 years. Paroled December 22, 1921 ; recommended by Jury and prosecutor.

MRS. STELLA ABBOT:T: Fulton Superior Court. June term 1920; manslaughter; 4 to 8 years; paroled December 20, 1921; recommended by officialE and l'arge numher of citizens of all classes; prison record excellent.

LIGE HARRIS: Crisp Superior Court; Term 1909; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921; served more than 11 years; recommended by Judge and Officials.

DALLAS BARBER: Butts Superior Court; March Term 1911; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921 ; recommended by Judge, Solicitor and many officials.

JACK DRISCOLL: Putnam Superior Court; November Term 1916; manslaughter; 10 years. Paroled December 20, 1921 ; recommended by Judge, Jury, and Solicitor.
GEORGE MARCHMAN: Colquitt Superior

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Court; April Term 1912; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921.

JOHNSON HARRIS: Crisp Superior Court; May Term 1911; murder; life. Paroled December 20, 1921.

LESTER MASSEY: Fulton Superior Court; Sept. Term 1919; burglary 3 years, paroled May 29, 192.2.

DAN DIXON: Mcintosh Superior Court; Dec. Term 1915; manslaughter; 19 years ; paroled May 29, 1922 ; recommended by many officials and citizens.
TINY HILL : Carroll Superior Court; Spring term 1918; manslaughter-7 years; had served more than 4 years; claimed sel'f-defense; paroled May 21, 1922.
PERRY LUNDY: Meriwether Superior Court; Aug. Term 1915; murder-life; paroled June 1, 192~; recommended by 'Judge and Solicitor.

JOHN~EWIS: Hancock Superior Court; March term 1919 ; manslaughter-5 years ; paroled June 1, 1922; had served more than 3 years and paroled, recommended 'by Judge, Jury_ and many relatives of deceased.

BESSIE GALE: Glynn Superior Court; Jan. term 1903; murder-life; paroled June 1, 1922; had served over 19 years with good record.

GENE, WEST: Randolph Superior Court; Nov. term 1920; burglary-2 to 3 years; paroled June 2,

456

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

1922; applicant having served more than 1 year and trial Jury having recommended misdemeanor punishment.

LICK DAVENPORT: Harris Superior Court; April term 1918; manslaughter-10 years; paroled June 8, 1922; account of new evidence.
JOHN ROB[NSON: Douglas Superior Court; March term 1913; murder-life; paroled June 7, 1922; had served with good r~cord, paroled, recommended account of new evidence.
JOE SMITH: Muscogee Superior Court; March term 1921 ; hurglary-2 years; paroled June 5, 1922; account of showing made that applicant took crime on himself to shield his brother.
ANDRE1W SCOTT: Spal'ding Superior Court; Jan. term 1912; murder-life; paroled June 5, 1922; recommended by trial Jury, Solicitor and many citizens.

W. C. VAUGHN: Elbert Superior Conrt; Dec. term 1919; larceny of auto, 4 to 5 years, paro~d June 5, 1922; recommended by prosecutor and officials.

F. D. O'ROURKE: Fulton Superior Court; March term 1920; larceny-4 to 10 years ; paroled June 5, 1922; recommended by prosecutor and officials.
:\fARION PARK~R: Burke Superior Court; April term 1907; murder-life; paroled June 5, 1922; strongly recommended.

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457

EVERETT MONTGOMERY: Emanuel Superior Court; Aprir term 1909; murder-life; paroled June 5, 1922; strongly recommended.

MOSE JOHNSON: Baker Superior Court; March term 1910; murder-life; paroled June 5, 1922; had served 11 years; recommended by large number of citizens.

LINDSEY JENKINS : Appling Superior Court; Sept. term 1910; murder-life; paroled J nne 5, 1922; had served more than 11 years with good record.

RANCE FEARS: Jasper Superior Court; Feb. term 1916; murder-life; paroled on June 5, 1922; strongly recommended by all officials.
CELIA THOMAS: Cobb Superior Court; March term 1912; murder-life; paroled June 5, 1922; had served more than 10 years ; recommended by Judge, Jury and other officials.
BUD EVANS: Butts Superior Court; Fair term 1912;. murder; life; paroled June 21, 1922 account of new evidence.
W. L..COX: Fulton Superior Court;. Jan. term 1920; larceny of auto; 5 years; paroled June 22, 1922.
J. W. -WHITE: Richmond Superior Court; April term 1921; manslaughter; 3 years; paroled J nne 23, 1922; recommended hy trial judge and solicitor.
LON DEAN: Elbert Superior Court; Sept. term 1916; manslaughter; 15 years; paroled June 27,1922.

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J ovRxAL oF THE HousE, COM~fUTATION ORDERS

Every application for commutation except the following three were recommended by the Prison Commission: Reed Butler, Sam Rhodes and Chas. B. Swords.

OBIE HART: Bibb Superior Court; July term 1920; violating prohibition law; 4 months and $250. Commuted to fine of $125 after four months service.

JOE JAMES: Twiggs Superior Court; August term 1919; murder; hang; commuted to life imprisonment. In addition, trial Judge and Solicitor state that man was of lowest mental character and they doubted tl1e wisdom of hanging him. Trial Judge stated if it had been in his power he would have sentenced him to life imprisonment.

JUDSON BLANCHARD & MARSHALL BLANCHARD: Early Superior Court; Oct. term 1919; larceny; 2 to 3 years and 12 months, and 12 and 12 months. Commuted July 16, 19:21 account of recommendation of trial jury, character of applicants, and circumstances of the crime and trial.

HANSELL EVL~NS: Thomas Superior Court; Dec. Term 1920; larceny ; 12 months ; commuted July 16, 1921 account of length of time served and doubt of defendant's guilt.

C. L. MAULDIN: Fulton Superior Court; August term 1918 ~ robbery; 5 years; commuted July 20, 1921 account of mental condition of applicant who had been confined in the State Sanitarium on

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two occasions, and recommendation of trial Jury of misdemeanor punishment.

wiLL ST. CLAIR: Bibb Superior Court; Dec. term 1920; driving auto while intoxicated; 12 months or $750; 8 months or $200 and 5 months of $150. Commuted to fine of $500 on August 2, 1921; on account of injury of applicant who was shot through the head by the arresting officer and dangerously wounded, and length of time already served.

JOHN SANDERS: Baldwin Superior Court; J ul'y term 1920 ; larceny ; 12 months on gang, 6 months in jail; or $250 fine. Had served 12 months on gang and some time on jail sentence.
JOHN HALL: Putnam Superior Court; Jan. , , term 1921; possessing liquor; 12 months or fine of
$25; commuted Aug. 5, 1921; already served 6 months.
MRS. J. W. alias JUANITA WEAVER: Baldwin Superior Court; Jan. term 1921 ; escaping; commuted to fine of $40.75 and $16.67 Aug. 5, 1921.
LE,WIS MILLIRONS: Clay Superior Court; Fall term 1908; rape; life; commuted Aug. 11, 1921 account of character of girl assaulted and applicant's good prison record.
D. L. LANGLEY: Colquitt Superior Court; June term 1920; manufacturing liquor; 2 to 3 years; commuted Aug. 13, 1921 account of physical condition of wife of applicant and the time he has al'ready served on sentence.

460

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

GEORGE BROWN: City Court of Valdosta; July term 1921; gaming; 12 months; commuted to fine of $50 Sept. 9, 1921.
SAM OLIVER: Campbell Superior Court; Feb. term 1921; burglary ; 10 months; commuted Sept. 2, 1921 account of time already served and inability of. applicant to work account of mercurial poisoning.
JIM CAMPBELL: City Court of Cairo; June term 1921; misdemeanor; 6 months; commuted Sept. 20, 1921 account of physical condition occasioned by service in chaingang and recommendation of officials.
FAY HAMILTON: Fulton Superior Court; March term 1920; larceny; 2 to 5 years; commuted
Sept. 24, 1921 ; had served one and V:! years ; recom-
mended by all officials and prosecutor.
HOMER C. HARRISON: City Court of Dubl'in; Dec. term 1920; resisting an officer; 7 months or $125 Commuted Sept. 28, 1921 upon payment of fine.
R. C. SMITH: Clayton Superior Court; Feb. term 1916; voluntary manslaughter; 15 years; trial Judge sentence applicant to a term of 7 years upon his conviction of manslaughter, but by mistake sentence was entered 15 years. In order to correct this, sentence was commuted Sept. 30, 1921.
ELWOOD ROBINSON: Dodge Superior Court; )fay term 1910; murder; life; ~ommuted Sept 30, 1921 account of extraordinary heroism and fidelity of this applicant.

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461

E. R. WELLS : Dade Superior Court; Sept. term 1921; violating prohibition law; 3 months; commuted Oct. 17, 1921 upon payment of fine of $50 and $150.

W. C. PHILLIPS: Newton Superior Court; Nov. term 1920; violating prohibition law; 12 months and 6 months or $250 in each case. Had served 12 months commuted to fine of $50 in eaoh case; Oct. 22, 1921.

JOHN N. BIRCHMORE: Meriwether Superior Court; Sept. term 1916; embezzlement and forgery; 5 and 4 years ; had served 6 years, commuted Oct. 24, 1921 account of prior good character and good prison record.

FRANK SMITH: Chatham Superior Court; March term 1916; murder; life; commuted to present service Nov. 15, 1921 bec.ause of grave doubt of guilt of applicant.

REED BUTLER: Laurens Superior Court; J ul'y term 1912; assault to murder; 10 years; account of doubt of guilt of applicant as expressed by trial judge.

ROBT. NORRIS Alias TRACY FUTCHEH: City Court of Greensboro ; June term 1921; stealing ride on train; 12 months; commuted Nov. 18, 1921.

DANIEL DAVIS: Fulton Superior Court; June term 1920; shooting atanother; 2 to 4 years; commuted Oct. 12, 1921 ; had served 12 months mid jury recommended misdemeanor punishment.
TOMMIE HART': Lowndes Superior Court;

462

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

July term 1921; violating prohibition law; 12 months; commuted Dec. 10, 1921.

ED HARRISON: Randolph Superior Court; May term 1920; shooting at another; 1 to 1% years ; commuted Dec. 10, 1921; applicant was a constable and was convicted of shooting a negro. He served more than 8 months and his family is in a pitiable condition.

JOE SPURLIN: Polk Superior Court; August term 1920; larceny and carrying pistor; 12 and 12 months; commuted Dec. 10, 1921 after completion of service of first sentence.
RICHARD STUBBS: Mitchell Superior Court; Sept. term 1921 ; having liquor; 8 months or $75 fine; commuted to $50 pro rata of the original fine after serving 2 months.
J. B. MOSELY: Cotumbia Superior Court; March term 1921; burglary; 12 months; commuted Dec. 10, 1921 account of recommendation of county officials.
JAMES RUSSELL: City Court of Savannah; June term 1920; receiving stolen goods ; 3 to 5 years ; commuted after serving more than 1 year. Stolen goods were all recovered, applicant was in poor health.
H. ISDALE: City Court" of Dublin; June term 1921; violating prohibition l'aw; 9 months or $300 and 3 months in jail. Paid fine and served 2 months in jail; commuted Nov. 22, 1921.

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CHARLIE PHARR: Wilkes Superior Court; Nov. term 1920; receiving stolen goods; commuted Nov. 29, 1921; evidence showed a very weak case and only a technical case of guilt.
CHARLIE BAILEY: Carrollton City Court; :March term 1921; violating prohibitio:r;1 law; 12 months; had served about 8 months; commuted Dee. 8, 1921..
A. J. JOHNSON: Pike Superior Court; April term 1921; larceny of automobile; 12 months; commuted to payment of fine of $50.
H. M. DURRENCE: Tattnall Superior Court; seduction; 8 years; appricant served in France during Aprilll, 1918 to Aug. 27, 1919. He was honorably discharged and cited for bravery for service in battle of the Marne. On account -of various recommendations for clemency, commuted to fine of $200 Dec. 16, 1921.
CLINT THORPE: City Court of Dublin; March term 1921; violating prohibition law; 12 months; commuted Dec. 20, 1921 after serving over half of sentence.
JIM AMMONS: Clayton Superior Court; Feb. term 1921 ; manufacturing liquor; 1 year; eommuted Dec. 22, 1921 after serving 9 months.
SAM RHODES: Richmond Supe,rior Court; Nov. term 1914; murder; life; commuted Dec. 21, 1921 account of statement filed hy trial jury that account of new evidence they believed defendant not guilty.

464

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

W. H. MANIS : Floyd Superior Court; July term 1921; 'burglary; 6, 6, and 2 months commuted Dec. 20, 1921 to present service, to be discharged Jan. 3, 1922.

ANNIE KEATON: Baker Superior Court; Nov. term 1920; cattle stealing; 12 months; commuted to fine of $200 including costs, Jan. 3, 1922.

LEVI WIDNER: Miller Superior Court; April term 1920; rape; 3% to 5 years. This being a technical case, recommendation of jury and large number of officials and citizens is carried out and sentence is commuted to 12 months, which is the misdeme.anor sentence for this crime.

CLYDE STRIBLINS: Wilkes Superior Court; Feb. term 1921; manufacturing liquor; 1 to 2 years; account of applicant having served 12 months for similar offense and 5 months of this sentence, his sentence is commuted to present service, Jan. 19, 1922.
J. H. CURL, JR. : City Court of Dublin; Dec. term 1921; misdemeanor; 6 months; commuted to nne of $75 Jan. 18, 1922.
, PAUL CHILDS & FRANK HICKS: Hart Superior Co'Urt; Dec. term 1921; violating prohibition law; 6 months and $300; commuted Jan. 6, 1922 upon payment of nne of $300 in each case.
CHARLIE BARKER: Pike Superior Court; Dec. term 1920; manufacturing liquor; 3 years; commuted Jan. 5, 1922.

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JOE JACKSON: Worth Superior Court; Jan. term 1921; murder; hang; commuted to life impris-

onment account of high state of public feeling in

Worth County at the time of trial, character of the

witnesses testifying against defendant, and petition

of various officials and citizens of Worth County,

both white and colored.

WILL LUMPKIN: Berrien Superior Court; Sept. term 1920; murder; hang; commuted to life imprisonment Feb. 9, 1922; account of newly discovered evidence concerning bad character of deceased, the recommendation of all officials and trial Jurors .

J. S. JACKSON: Cobb Superior Court; June term 1919; misdemeanor (2 cases) 12 months and $100 in each (?ase. Under circumstances of this case, the fact that it grew out of one transaction, the fine of $100 in each case having been paid and more than 2 years having elapsed since the imposition of said sentence, the Prison Commission recommended that sentence be commuted to present service, and same was commuted Feb. 2, 1922.

WALTER WOOTEN: Jeff Davis Superior
Court; Feb. term 1918; sedu(?tion ; 2 and % years ;
commuted Feb. 21, 1922; since conviction applicant paid two fines of $750 and $250 cash to support child. Prosecutor made affidavit that Wooten should not have been punished.

JACK CRAFT: Hart Superior Court; August term 1921; violating prohibition law; 6 months; coramuted to fine of $300 after serving 4 months.

466

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

C. M. ADCOCK : Bartow Superior Court; Jan. term !922; selling liquor; 6 months and $100 or 12 months; commuted to 6 months and fine of $100.

RAYMOND GLASS: Fulton Superior Court; May term 1919; larceny of auto; 5 years commuted to fine of $500 Mar<:h 13, 1922.

W. F. SURRETT: . Polk Superior Court; Fall term 1921; violating proh~bition law; 12 months; commuted to fine of $25 March 29, 1922.

CHAD WRIGHT: Lee Superior Court; May term 1920; manslaughter; 8 to 10 years; commuted March 29, 1922; variously recommended.

:MAMIE CASON, MATTIE DAVIS AND ARET'A FLUKER: City Court of Wrightsville; Nov. term 1921 ; having whiskey; 12 months each; commuted to fine of $25 each March 29, 1922 on recommendation of trial Judge and Solicitor.

FARRELL TOWERS: Whitfield Superior Court; October term 1921; selling l'iquor; 6 months or $50 and 6 months or $100; commuted to 6 months and fine of $150 on recommendation of Judge and Solicitor.

JOE ROSS: Taylor Superior Court; March term 1921; burglary; 3 to 5 years; commuted to present service (12 months) April.12, 1922.

C. E. FIELDS: DeKalb Superior Court; Sept. term 1921; having liquor; 9 months; commuted April 12, 1922.

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H. LEE STRICKLAND: Early Superior Court; April term 1919; assault to murder; 3 years and 12 morrths; account of various recommendations and the punishment recommended hy the trial Jury, misdemeanor sentence commuted to present service,. April 11, 1922.

ISADORE ROSENBERG: Fulton Superior Court; Oct. term 1921; possessing liquor; 12 months or 6 months and $250; commuted April 10, 1921 account of recommendation of Judge and Soricitor.

J. W. POPE: DeKalb Superior Court; Oct. term 1921; violating prohibition law; 12 months; commuted April 11, 1922 account of recommendation of trial Judge and Solicitor.

WILL SMITH: Stephens Superior Court; Nov. term 1919; assault to murder; 3 to 5 years; applicant ha.d served more than misdemeanor punishment which was recommended by trial Jury. Commuted April 18, 1922.

HITHER OWENS: Wheeler Superior Court; August term 1921; manufacturing liquor; 1 to 1:! years; served about 6 months, strongly recommended by trial Judge; commuted April17, 1922.
GUS DRAKE: Warren Superior Court; April term 1921 ; attempt to murder; 2 to 5 years; injury received by applicant during his confinement in penitentiary amounts to more than original sentence. Recommended by officials and prosecutor; commuted April 10, 1922.

468

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

.J. S. FARMER: DeKalb Superior Court; Oct. term 1921; manufacturing liquor; 12 months; commuted to 8 months as recommended by trial Judge on April 18, 1922.
J. L. HAMLIN : Brooks Superior Court; May term 1912; assault to rape; 1 year; recommended by all county officials, and account of dependant wife and two children of applicant commuted April 18, 1922.
C. E. HENDERSON: Dade Superior Court; :Jiarch term 1922; violating prohibition law; 12 months or 6 months and $100. He paid fine of $100 and served six months; commuted May 6, 1922.

HAROLD HOLTZENDORF: Fulton Superior Court; May term 1921; larceny of auto; 12 months and $1,000 fine; commuted to $1,000 fine May 9, 1922.

BOB MITCHELL: DeKa1b Superior Court; Sept. term 1921; attempt to manufacture liquor; 12 months; commuted after service of 7 months, May 8, 1922.

ROBERT CRAWLEY: Clayton Superior Court; Feb. term 1922; assault to murder; 2 to 4 years; commuted May 9, on account of various recommendations of county officials and citizens..

CLAIRE JONES: Hancock Superior Court; :Jiarch term 1921; distilling; commuted to fine of $500 and costs of court April 4, 1922.

LEWIS CLOTFELTER : Oconee Superior Court;

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469

Jan. term 1922 ; violating prohipition law; 6 n{onths ; commuted to fine of $50 April 15, 1922.
JOHN W. HW.ANN: Meriwether Superior Court; F~b. term 1918; manslaughter; 10 years; Jury made separate verdict asking Judge to be as lenient as possible; all officials join in asking for clemency. Applicant has a wife and several chl.ldren in destitute circumstances. He had served more than 3 years, commuted April 21, 1922.
RICHARD DARDEN: Jasper Superior Court; August term 1921 ; larceny and carrying pistol; 6 months or $250 and 9 months; commuted to fine of $50 May 22, 1922.
CHAS B. SWORDS: DeKalb Superior Court; l\larch term 1921 ~ seduction; 4 to 10 years; commuted June 1, 1922 account of new evidence which makes a strong doubt as to guilt of applicant.
ALFORD DIXON: Hancock Superior Court; Sept. term 1921; violating prohibition law; 9 months or 4 months and $40; commuted to fine of $40 June 1, 1922.
MARY 1\iOORE: Co:bb Superior Court; ~larch term 1921; forgery; 2 to 4 years; commuted June 5, 1922 account of recommendation of trial Judge.
ROBERT TATE: Walton Superior Court; Nov. term 1921; violating prohibition law; 12 months; commuted to 6 months service June 5, 1922.
A. H. McCOY: Sumter Superior Court; .June term 1920; bigamy; to 3 years; commuted June 5,

470

J OlJRNAL OF THE HousE,

1922 account of service or 1% year and large petition.
JIM vVALKER: Tift Superior Court; July term 1919; larceny; 3 years; commuted to present service, June 5, 1922; had served more than 1 year; variously recommended.

ESSIE DAWSON: Upson Superior Court; Nov. term 1919; manufacturing liquor; 2 to 4 years; had served one sentence and 9 months on the other. Recommended by all county officials; commuted June 7, 1922.

W. D. LEVAR: Coffee Superior Court; Oct. term 1921; larceny of auto; 2 years commuted June 21, 1922 account of injury received and recommendation of trial Judge.
R. LANIER & J.l\L HARLEY: Chatham Superior Court; March term 1921 ; shooting at another; 1 year each; commuted to fine of $150 in each case, June 22, 1922.
PAUL UPCHURCH: Rockdale Superior Court; Jan. term 1922; having liquor; 9 months; commuted June 27, 1922 account of recommendation of Judge and Solicitor.

PARDONS
Every application for pardon was recommended by the Prison Commission.
WILBUR ARRANT : Muscogee Superior Court;

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Dec. term 1919. Larceny; 1% years. Pardoned July 21, 1921 because of new evidence presented.
CHARLES N. HUDSON: Jones Superior Court; Oct. term 1920; manslaughter; 1 year. Pardoned July 21, 1921 hecause of Supreme Court decision ih similar cases since his trial. Recommended by Judge, Sol'icitor, ,Jurors, Prosecutor and manj Citizens.
MARGARET HARRJS: City Court of Savannah; July term 1921 ; larceny; 9 months. Pardoned Aug. 2, 1921 because of recommendation of trial Judge and forty State Senators.
WILL V. WARD: Houston Superior Court; August term 1919 ; manslaughter; 2 to 5 years; pardoned Aug. 6, 1921. Recommended hy number of county officials.
GWIN COLLINS: Grady Superior Court; March term 1920; larceny; 2 to 4 years; pardoned after costs of court were paid. Recommended by trial Judge.
MISS AUGUSTA HOWARD: Museogee Superior Court; Nov. term 1920; shooting at another; 1 to 2 years ; pardoned Dec. 12, 1921 on account of showing made as to mental conditions of applicant, and numerous petitions in her favor.
LEONARD WEAVER: Clarke Superior Court; April term 1921; forgery; 2 to 4 and 2 to 4 years. Pardoned Dec. 15, 1921 because of his very bad physical condition and recommendation of trial Judge.

472

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

M. T. SUMMERLIN: Clarke Superior Court; April term 1919; manslaughter; 3 years; pardoned Dec. :20, 1921 because of some doubt of the guilt of applicant and recommendation of many citizens.
DR. A. G. GRENOBLE: Fulton Superior Court; July term 1921; practicing medicine without license. Paidoned Dec. 20, 1921 on account of applicant's age and physical condition.
EVERETT vV. OOTTON: Muscogee Superior
Court; Fe:b. term 1922; larceny of auto; 12 months; pardoned June 1, 1922 on account of proof as to the real thief and recommendation of Judge and Solicitor.
GEORGE D. SEMKEN: Chatham Superior Court ; July term 1919; embezzlement; 5 years ; pardoned Jan. 18, 1922.
CARENCE TINSLEY: Mitchell Superior Court; Dec. term 1919; larceny; 4 years; pardoned Jan. 16, 192:2; account of recommendation of Judge and Solicitor and his poor physical condition.
FRANK DZIEZULSKI: Fulton Superior Court; .Jan. term 1920; robbery; 4 to 6 years; pardoned Jan. 17, 192:2 account of youth of applicant and recommendation of Judge and Soricitor.
J. E. S~HTH : Franklin Superior Court; Sept. term 1921; abandonment; 12 months; pardoned Jan. 2, 1922. Recommended by Judge and others.
J. H. LEWIS: Gordon Superior Court; Feb. term 1918; burglary; 1 and 1 year. Pardoned April

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473

5, 1922 on account of being urged by the two prosecutors. Also large number of citizens.
JOHN FOSTER, CHARLIE HUNT & JOHN JACKSON: Fulton Superior ,Court; March term 1921. Ro'bbe:ry; 4 to 6 years; pardoned April 17, 1922 on account of recommendation of Judge and Solicitor.

. LLOYD SKINNER: Carroll Superior Court; Oct. term 1921; assault to murder; 1 to 2 years;
J'
pardoned June 20, 1922 account of new evidence and fine paid by applicant.
JULIUS MciNTYRE: Fulton Superior Court; July term 1921; manslaughter; 1 year; pardoned June 23, 1922 upon recommendation of widow of deceased and presiding judge.

Under Orders of t.he Day the following bill of the House, set as a special order on the recommendation of Committee on Rules for a second reading and for the purpose of disagreeing to the unfavorable report of the committee, was read for the second time and placed before the House for the purpose of disagreeing to the report of the committee:

By Mr. Watkins of Butts-
House Bill No. 6. A bill to repeal an Act to regulate the return and assessment of property for taxation in this State.
Mr. Arnold of Clay rose to a point of order on the above bill stating that it could not be considered by the House under Rule 153, due to the fact that a

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bill of the same subject matter and title had been lost in the Senate. The Speaker ruled that the phraseology of Rule 153 was vague and indefinite and as House Bill No. 6 had never been passed on by the Senate that each member of the House as well as the Speaker had perfect right to pass upon the constitutionality of the consideration of House Bill No. 6 and the Speaker overruled the point of order.
Mr. Mundy of Polk moved that when the House adjo~rn that it stand adjourned until Monday morning at 10 o'clock and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that further consideration of House Bill No. 6 be postponed until next Tuesday morning immediately after the period of unanimous consents and the motion prevailed.
Unanimous vote of confidence was given to Mr. J. E. T. Bowden of Ware County relative to the matter of striking shopmen in Waycross.
Mr. Holloway of Fulton moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Clark of Webster and Peterson of Echols.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until tomorrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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MoNDAY, JuLY 24, 1922.

475

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

MoNDAY, JuLY 24, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to ad-
journment this day at 10 o'clock ..A. M.; was called
to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton

Camp

Ficklen

Adam.S of Walton

Carr

Fleteher

Anderson

Carbwel:

Folsom

Arnold

Childs

Fowler

Atkinson

Clark of Colquitt

Foy

Baldwin

Clark of Webster

Franks

Beck

Clifton

Gann

Beckham

Coates

Grant

Bentley

Collier

Gresham

Bird of Taliaferro Collins

Griffin

Blalock

Corbitt

Griffith

Bleckley

Cowart

Greene

Bloodworth

Culpepper

Gro\'enstein

Boatwright

Daniel of Heard

Guess

Bobo

Daniel of Troup

Gunnels

Boswell

Davis of Floyd

Haddock

Bowden

Davis of Oglethorpe Hamilton

Bowen

DeFoor

Harris

Boyett

DeLaPerriere

Hatcher of Burke

Bozeman

Dickerson

Hatcher of Muscogee

Braddy

Dixon

Hawkins

Branch

Dobbs

Henderson

Brannen

DuBose

Herring

Brantley

Dudley

Hillhouse

Brown of Emanuel Duncan of Dawson Hines of Decatur

Brown of Hancock Duncan of Hall

Hines of Sumter

Brownlee

Dykes

Hodges

Bush

Ennis

Holland

Byrd of Crisp

Evans

Holloway

i"

:;
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I

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Horne

Mayo

Smith of Meriwether

Houser

Miles

Steele

Houston

.:\Iixon

Stone

Howard of Forsyth Moore of Appling

Stovall

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Strickland

Hufstetler

.:\Ioye

Sumner of Johnson

Hullender

~Iundy

Sumner of Wheeler

Hunter

Keal of Union

Swift

Hyman

Nichols

Swindle

Jackson

Owen

Tatum

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Thompson of Coweta

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Thompson of Dodge

Jones of 'Valker

Patten

Trippe

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Turner

Johnson of

Perkins

Tyson

Chattahoochee Perryman

Valentino

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Van Landingham

II I

Keith Kennedy

Phillips of Jasper Phillips of Telfair

VanZant Vocelle

King of Jefferson

Pickren

'Valker

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Wall

Kittrell

Price

Watkins

Knight

Pruett

Way

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Webb

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

" 7eston Whitley

Logan

Reville

\Vhitaker of Lowndes

Luke

Ricketson

Whitaker of Rockdale

McClelland

Riley

Whitworth

McClure

Robinson

'Villiams of Harris

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

Williams of Miller

McDonald of

Rutherford

\Villiams of Walton

Richmond Salmon

Wimberly

:McGarity

Sapp

Winship

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

Wo.od

Mc~Iichael

Sibley

Woodard

Maddox

Singletary

Worthy

Malone

Smiley

Wyatt

Mann

Smith of Bryan

Wynne

Manning

Smith of Carroll

~Ir. Speaker

Mason

Smith of Haralson

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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477

Mr. Culpepper of Fayette moved that during the remainder of the session, unless otherwise ordered by the House, individual speeches be limited to twenty minutes and the motion prevailed.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted by a unanimous rising vote:
By Messrs. Fowler, Malone and Winship of Bibb, Hamilton of Floyd, and Grovenstein of Effingham-

A RESOLUTION.
House Resolution No. 186. Whereas, the gentle spirit of Joseph Hill Hall winged its flight from earth on Saturday July 22, and now rests in the . bosom of his God; and
Whereas, his long and useful life was spent m unselfish labor for the uplift of mankind, more than twenty years of which he was a distinguished member of this body,
The11ejore, be it resolved that the House stop its deliberations for a period of two minutes and with bowed heads honor the memory of the great friend of the common people.
Be it further resolved, That the Clerk of this House be instructed to forward a copy of theseresolutions to the family of the deceased.
Under the above resolution the House ceased deliberation and remained with heads bowed for a period of two minutes.

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By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:

1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.

2. Reports of Standing Committees.

3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.

4. Passage of uncontested loe.al House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.

5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.

By unanimous consent, the following bills of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees:

By Messrs. Hines and Riley of Sumter-
House Bill No. 818. A bill to consolidate and amend the City Charter of the City of Americus.
RPferred to Committee on Municipal Government.

~.I r. Hamilton of Floyd-

House Bill No. 819. A bill providing for an additional Judge of the Rome Judicial Circuit.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary Xo. 2.

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479

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 820. A bill to create a new charter for the City of Viadalia.

By Messrs. Neill, Perkins and Hatcher of Muscogee-
House Bill No..821. A bill to amend Par. 1, Sec. 13, Art. 6, of the constitution relative to salaries of Judges of the Superior Courts.

By Messrs. Duncan and Langford of Hall-
House Bill No. 822. A bill to amend an Act to establish a City Court for Hall County.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 823. A bill to fix compensation of bailiffs in certain counties.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Miles of Candler-
House Bill No. 824. A bill to amend the charter of the City Court of Metter, in Candler County.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Williams of WaltonHouse Bill No. 825. A bill to amend an Act to




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reorganize the State Highway department of Geor-
gia.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Byrd of Crisp-
House Bill No. 826. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the Town of Arabi, in Crisp County.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.
By Mr. Bozeman of WorthHouse Bill No. 827. A bill to consolidate and
amend an Act establishing a new charter of the Town of Warwick.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.
By Mr. Luke of Ben HillHouse Bill No. 828. A bill to amend an Act estab-
lishing Commissioners of Roads and RevenUE;lS for Ben Hill County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County
~ratters.
The following bills of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:
By Messrs. Harris and King of JeffersonHouse Bill No. 751. A bill to amend an Act creat-

MoNDAY; JuLY 24, 1922.

481

ing the City Court of Louisville, and for other purposes.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 133~ Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
. House Bill No. 763. A bill to provide a local Board of Trustees for Georgia Military College and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
:'
On the passage of the bill the Ayes. were 127, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Collier of Stephens-
House Bill No. 779. A bill to amend an Act to provide for holding four terms a year of the Superior Court of Stephens County, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
Sig. 16

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 134, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Jackson and Houser of Houston-
House Bill No. 792. A bill to amend an Act to establish City Court in and for County of Houston and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 135, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Bellah of 42nd-
Senate Bill No. 189. A bill to create the City Court of Summerville for the County of Chattooga.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 140, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Bellah of the 42ndSenate Bill No. 191. A bill to repeal the Act
creating the County Court of Chattooga.

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483

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

Mr. Hullender of Catoosa County, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the f9llowing report:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Enrollment has examined, found properly enrolled, signed and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following acts, to-wit:
House Bill No. 322. A bill to create the Georgia Children's Code Commission.
House Bill No. 566. A bill to provide the time of opening and closing polls in certain counties.
House Bill No. 572. A bill to amend Act creating the Municipal Court of Atlanta.

House Bill No. 586. A bill to amend an Act abolishing Justice Courts, etc., in Columbus, Ga.
House Bill No. 619. A bill to ratify sale by Commissioners of Commons of Columbus to J. T. Cooper.
House Bill No. 686. A bill to amend an act relative to time of holding Court of Walton County.

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JOURNAL OF THE HOUSE,

House Bill No. 715. A bill to amend an Act establishing the City Court of Dawson.
Respectfully submitted,
HuLLENDER of Catoosa, Chairman.

By unanimous consent the following resolution of the Senate was read and concurred in:

By Mr. Clay of the 39thSenate Resolution No. 83. A resolution relative
to the Georgia Cotton Growers Co-operative Association.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 141 was taken from the table and placed upon the calendar.
By unanimous consent the following resolution of the House was read and adopted:
By Mr. Knight of Berrien-
House Resolution No. 171. A resolution asking for information from State Entomologist as to the distribution of calcium arsenic, use of appropriation for the year 1922 and experiments made on farms of this State.
Under Rule No. 45 the following resolution of the House was withdrawn from the Committee on Rules, read, and taken up for consideration:
By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
House Resolution No. 182. A resolution to amend House Rule No. 42.

MoNDAY, JuLY 24, 1922.

485

Mr. Mundy of Polk moved that the resolution be recommitted to the Committee on Rules and the motion prevailed.
The following report of the Committee on Rules was submitted, read, and adopted:
The Committee on Rules having had under consideration an order of business for Monday, July 24th, to follow order previously set, have instructed me as their Vice-Chairman, to report as a special and continuing order of business to be taken up immediately after order of business already set, the following:
House Bill No. 474. Change Name G. N. & I. C. House Bill No. 734. Library Bill. House Bill No. 244. Free Kinder Garden. House Bill No. 1553. Temperance Day Bill in
Public Schools. House Bill No. 691. Providing for settlements by
Tax Collectors.
Debate limited to 10 minutes on each measure.
MUNDY of Polk, Vice-Chairman.
The following message was received from, the
Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed by the requisite constitu-

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tional majority the following bills of the Senate and House, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 214. A bill to give Federal Government authority to establish Rules for protection of Fish and Game.
Senate Bill No. 248. A bill to repeal an Act establishing a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Rev.enues for Hancock County, Georgia, and for other purposes.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the Senate and House, to-wit:

House Bill No. 686. A bill to change the time of holding of May and November Terms of Walton Superior Court.
Senate Bill No. 217. A bill to prescribe the precedure for application for certiorari from Court of Appeals to Superior Court.
Senate Bill No. 198. A bill for the licensing of dealers in nursery stock, tree surgeons and agents.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

MoNDAY, JuLY 24, 192_2.

487

Mr. Speaker:

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the Senate and Honse, to-wit:

Honse Bill No. 322. A bill Childrens Code Commission.

to

create

the

Georgia

House Bill No. 619. A bill to ratify a sale of certain lands in City of Columbus, County of Mnscogee, and for other purposes.

Honse Bill No. 565. A bill to provide for the salary of the Treasurer of County of Schley.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:

The Senate has adopted by the requisite constitutional majority the following resolutions of the Senate, to-wit:

Senate Resolution No. 75. A Resolution to accept funds from the Congress of the United States for the betterment of health conditions of maternity.
Senate Resolution No. 71. A resolution to provide for a commission to prevent the dismantling or junking of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway Company, and for other purposes.
The following message was received from the

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JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

JYlr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitution~! majority the following:
No. 715. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend the Act establishing the City Court of Dawson.
No. 586. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to abolish Justice Courts and Office of Justice of Peace and Notary Public Ex-officio J. P. and to create in lieu thereof a Municipal Court in and for Columbus, Muscogee County, Georgia, and regulation of cost bills, and for other purposes.
No. 572. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a Municipal Court of Atlanta by permitting Clerks to administer oaths in criminal warrants.
No. 566. A bill to provide for the time of opening and closing polls in certain Counties in School Bond elections.
No. 480. A bill to be entitled an Act to correct certain mistakes of the General Assembly for the creation of Brantley County and for other purposes.
The following bills of the House, set as a special order on the recommendation of the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

MoNDAY, JULY 24, 1922.

489

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-

House Bill No. 474. A bill to amend an Act to establish a Normal and Industrial School, relative to changing name of college.

The following amendment was read and adopted:

Amend by adding after the words "conferring Degrees", whenever they occur, the words "Degrees to be conferred only to such as who have taken the Standard College Course of Four years.''
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Mason of Hart-
House Bill No. 734. A bill giving all counties in this State the right to establish and maintain free public libraries and for other purposes.
Mr. Vocelle of Camden moved that the bill be recommitted and the motion prevailed.

By Messrs. Valentino of Chatham, Vocelle of Camden, and Johnson of Bartow-
House Bill NQ. 244. A bill to esta'blish kindergartens in the Public Schools of this State and for other purposes.

490

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Mr. Williams of Walton moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.

By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of FultonHouse Bill No. 553. A bill to provide for Tem-
perance Day in the public sc:;hools and for other purposes.
The following committee substitute was read and adopted:
A bill to provide for the observance of Temperance Day in the public schools of the State of Georgia, to fix said day, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia and by authority of same it is hereby enacted, that from and after the passage of this Act, the fourth Friday in March of each year being the nearest Friday to March 28 the date upon which Prohibition went into effect shall be designated and known as Temperance Day in the public schools of this State
Section 2. On Temperance Day, at least two hours shall be devoted in the public schools of this State to a program, which shall be educational in nature, teaching the good of temperance and prohibition, and the evils of intemperance and disobedience to law.
Section 3. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.
The report of the committee, which was favorable

MoNDAY, JULY 24, 1922.

491

to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Nays 7.
. The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.
The following resolution of the House was introduced and read:

By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Resolution No. 187. A resolution that the Senate be requested to advise the House whether or not it has rejected the bill known as the Tax Equalization Act, and for other purposes.
Mr. Beck of Carroll moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
On the adoption of this resolution Mr. Arnold of Clay called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was sustained.
The roll was called and the vote was as follows :

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton _-\rnold Beck Beckham Bentley Blalock Bowen Brantley

Brown of Emanuel Brownlee Collins Cowart Daniel of Heard Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor

Dobbs Ennis Folsom Grant Gresham Griffith Grovenstein Hamilton

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JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hines of Decatur Horne Jones of Coweta Jones of Thomas Johnson of Pickens King of Wilcox McClure McDonald of Mitchell McGarity McMichael

:\Ialone :\I a r m i n g Miles Moore of Fulton :!'lfoye Mundy Nichols Parks Penland Perkins Riley Salmon

~ibley
Smith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether Strickland Swift Thompson of Coweta Tyson Vocelle Worthy

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Adams of Walton Ab.derson Bleckley Bloodworth Bobo Bowden Braddy Brannen Byrd of Crisp Camp Childs Clark of Colquitt Clifton Collier Corbitt Daniel.of Troup DeLaPerriere Dickerson Duncan of Hall Evans :Foy Franks Griffin Greene Gunnels Haddock Harris Hawkins

Henderson

Phillips of Jasper

Herring

Phillips of Telfair

Hillhouse

Pickren

Hines of Sumter

Pilcher

Holland

Price

Houston

Ramsey

Howard of Forsyth Reville

Howard of Screven lt:->binson

Hullender

Russe(l

Jackson

Ruthecforri

Jones of Walker

~app

Johnson of Bartow Shettlesworth

Ke;th

Steele

Kennedy

Stovall

Kittrell

Sumner of Johnson

Knight

Sumner of \Vheeler

Langford of Hall

Tatum

Lankford of Toombs Valentino

Lewi~

VanZant

Luke

Watkins

:\IcDonald of

Way

Richmond Whitaker of Rockdah

:\Iixon

Whitworth

:\Ioore of Appling

\Villiams of Harri<

Neal of l'nion

\Vinf'hip

Owen

Wood

Patten

Woodard

Peterson

MoNDAY, JuLY 24, 1922.

493

Those not voting were Messrs:

Atkinson Baldwin Bird of Taliaferro Boatwright Boswell
Boy~tt
Bozeman Branch Brown of Hancock Bush Carr Carswell Clark of Webster Coates Culpepper Dixon DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Dykes Ficklen Fletcher Fowler

Gann

Hicketson

Guess

Singletary

Hodges

Smiley

Holloway

Stone

Houser

Swindle

Hufstetler

Thompson of Dodge

Hunter

Trippe

Hyman

Turner

Johnson of

Van Landingham

Chattahoochee Walker

King of Jefferson

Wall

Logan

Webb

!llcClelland

Weston

!~lacIntyre

Whitley

Maddox

Whitaker of Lowndes

~lann

Williams of Miller

Mason

Williams of Walton

Mayo

Wimberly

Parrish

Wyatt

Perryman

Wynne

Pruett

:!llr. Speaker

Quincey

Reagan

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

On the adoption of the resolution the Ayes were 59, Nays 82.
The resolution having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.
Mr. Arnold of Clay gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in failing to ~dopt House Resolution No. 187.
Mr. Vocelle of Camden moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.

494

JouRNAL oF THE HousE,

Leave of absence was granted Mr. Webb of Lowndes.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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TuESDAY, JuLY 25, 1922.

495

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

TuESDAY, July 25, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham BtJntley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock - Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Diekerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis E\anR

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

496

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Horne

.:\Iayo

Houser

.:\Iiles

Houston

.:\Iixon

Howard of Forsyth .:\Ioore of Appling

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Hufstetler

.:\Ioye

Hullender

:\fundy

Hunter

~eal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parri~h

Jones: ,_,f \Valker

Patten

,Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

ReYille

Luke

Ricketson

)llcClelland

Riley

:McClure

Robinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

.:\IcDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

.:\IcGarity

Sapp

:\lac Intyre

Shettlesworth

:\Ic:\Iichael

Sibley

:\Iaddox

Singletary

:\Ialone

Smiley

)!ann

Smith of Bryan

.:\fanning

Smith of Carroll

.:\Ia son

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Sto,all Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb \Veston Whitley \Yhitaker of Lowndes \Yhitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly \Yinship \Yood Woodard \Yorthy Wyatt Wynne ~\lr. Speaker

The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read.



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497

By unanimous consent Mr. DuBose of Clarke was granted leave of absence during illness.
By unanim<YUs consent Blouse Hill No. 815 was withdrawn from the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2 and recommitted to the Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 557 was recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2 for the purpose of reconsidering its action in reporting same unfavorably.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the remaining part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
) Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bill's having a local application.
5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the Committees:

By ~fessrs. Swift of Elbert and othersHouse Resolution No. 188 (840A). A resolution



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relative to the payment of Confederate veterans and their widows.

Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Mr. Adams of Walton-
House Resolution No. 189 (841A). A resolution relative to abol'ishing offices of Tax and Prison Commissioners, etc.
Referred to Committee on State of the Republic.

By :Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Resolution No. 190 (841B). A resolution to make appropriation for stationery used by General Assembly.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 829. A bill to incorporate the Inman School District, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. McGarity of Paulding-
House Bill No. 830. A bill to amend an Act abolishing Paulding Board of Commissioners.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

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By Mr. V.an Zant of Fannin-
House Bill No. 831. A bill to repeal an Act creating the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues, Fannin County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. DuBose of Clarke and Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 832. A bill to amend an Act providing for collection of tax on distribution of fuel oil's.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Guess, McClelland and Steele of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 833. A bill to define the term ''Filled Milk'' to be used in food products.
Referred to Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation.

By Mr. Boswell of Greene-

.

House Bill No. 834. A biH 1:o amend an Act in-

corporating the Town of Greensboro.

Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Byrd of Crisp-
House Bill No. 835. A bill to repeal the present and establish a new charter for the City of Cordele.

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Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Foy of Taylor-
House Bill No. 836. A bill to create the office of County Treasurer for Taylor County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By :Mr. Foy of Taylor-
House Bill No. 837. A hill to repeal an Act abolishing office of County Treasurer for Taylor County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By :Messrs. DuBose and Dudley of Clarke-
House Bill No. 838. A hill to appropriate certain money to the University of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By .Messrs. DuBose and Dudley of Clarke-
House Bill No. 839. A bill to appropriate maintenance money to the University of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 840. A bill to abolish the City Court of Toombs County.

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Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 841. A bill to create the City Court of Lyons, in Toombs County.
Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

By Messrs. -Winship, Fowler and Malone of BibbHouse Bill No. 842. A bill to amend the charter
of the City of Macon.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Messrs. Winship, Fowler and Malone of Bibb-
House Bill No. 843. A bill to permit the County of Bibb to support the Macon Hospital.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Daniel of Heard-
House Bill No. 844. A bill to provide for the registration of all eYidences of indebtedness in Georgia.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Dobbs and Gann of CobbHouse Bill No. 845. A bill to amend an Act estab-
lishing the Town of Austell. Referred to Committee on Municipal Government. Mr. McDonald of Richmond County, Chairman of

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the Committee on Special Judiciary, submitted the following report:

J.l'ir. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
Senate Bill No. 231 do pass. House Bill No. 824 do pass. House Bill No. 822 do pass. House Bill No. 809 do pass. House Bill No. 811 do pass.
McDoNALD, Chairman.

Mr. Smith of Bryan County, Chairman of the Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation have had under consideration bill of the Blouse and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same. do pass, as amended:
House Bill No. 607.
SMITH of Bryan, Chairman.

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Mr. Moore of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
Senate Bill No. 177 do pass. Senate Bill No. 237 do pass. House Bill No. 605 do pass. House Bill No. 494 do not pass.
MooRE of Fulton, Chairman.

Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, have submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
Blouse Bill No. 756. House Bill No. 820. House Bili No. 810.
PICKREN of Charlton, Chairman.

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~Ir. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government, submitted the following report:

ilfr. Speaker:
Your Committee on :Municipal Government have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 812. House Bill' No. 818. House Bill No. 827.
SMITH of Meriwether, Chairman.

By unanimous consent, the following bills of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the Committee, were read for the second time:

My Mr. Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 605. A bill to authorize the consolidation of Independent school systems.

By Mr. Moore of Appling-
House Bill' No. 607. A bill to provide for the control of venereal diseases, and examinations.

By l\fr. Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 755. A bill to repeal an Act incorporating the Town of Bolton, Georgia.

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By Mr. Hodges of Evans-

House Bill No. 809. A bill to amend an Act establishing the City Court of Claxton.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 810. A bill to amend an Act creating a charter for the City of Milledgeville.

By Mr. Russell of Barrow-
House Bill No. 811. A bill to establish a City Court for Barrow County.
By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of IPulton-

House Bill No. 812. A bill to amend the charter
or the City of Atlanta.
By Messrs. Hiines and Rile~ of Sumter-
House Bill No. 818. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Americus.

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
House Bill No. 820. A bill to create a new charter for the City of Viadalia.
By Messrs. Duncan and Langford of Hall-
House Bill No. 822. A bill to amend an Act establishing the City Court of Hall County.

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By Mr. Miles of Candler-

House Bill No. 824. A bill to amend an Act to establish the City Court of Metter.

By Mr. Bozeman of WorthHouse Bill No. 827. A bill to amend the charter
of the Town of Warwick.
By Mr. Collum of the 13th-
Senate Bill No. 177. A bill to amend an Act establishing Public Schools in each County in the State.
By Mr. Lassiter of the 14th-
Senate Bill No. 231. A bill to amend an Act to fix the time of holding Superior Court in Cordele Circuit.

By Mr. Childs of the 12th-
Senate Bill No. 237. A bill to repeal an Act establishing Public School system for Town of Richland.
The following message was received from His Excellency the Governor, through his Secretary, :Mr. Blalock:

Mr. Speaker:
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to deliver to the House of Representatives a. communication in writing_ to which he respectfully invites your attention.

TuESDAY, JuLY 25, 1922.

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STATE OF GEORGIA, ExECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
ATLANTA, July 25, 1922.

To the General Assembly of Georgia:

I beg to invite the attention of your body to the moral obligation of this State to provide an appropriate memorialization of those young Georgia soldiers who died in the great World War.
Although this matter has been somewhat delayed, in the pressure of many dutie~ and responsibilities, I trust there has never been a doubt in the minds of the soldiers who survive in this State from that war that the great State of Georgia will do what is proper and fitting to honor these dead sons of the State who died for their country.
Soldiers who fight for their country-those who have lived and those who have died-are entitled to every acknowledgment that a grateful people and a grateful government can express. There should be and is no limit to the grateful appreciation of the people to them, although political experience everywhere has demonstrated that no demobilized army can exist as a political organization, without menace to Democratic institutions. I feel sure that this truth is wen understood in Georgia and throughout the country. I have concerned myself to observe with the most zealous care the work of our national government in the rehabilitation of our wounded and diseased soldiers. That work has been generous and

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full-handed. That is as the people wish it, and as it should be.
It is my hope that in the near future we will erect a great memorial, on Georgia soil, to Georgia soldiers who died, and to Georgia soldiers who are the survivors of that great war. I hardly think that sufficient time has elapsed since the war to begin active work on such a memorial. It must be carefull'y planned and its form of expression be carefully considered. I hope that before much longer, the General Assembly of our State will give this subject its most serious and thoughtful consideration," and shall pass whatever legislation is necessary to provide for an appropriate and suitable memorial.
I believe that at the present time there is one thing that the present General Assembly of Georgia can and should do, as a preliminary to this great general memorial that I have the honor to suggest.
Two thousand of our most splendid young men assembled, in May, 1917, at Fort McPherson, Ga. to form a part of the 82nd Division of the American Army in France. The history of this Division is a most striking illustration of the possibilities of Southern leadership and Southern heroism in modern times. I have in my possession a complete and wonderful history of the war record of this Division, which left Georgia in May, 1918, for France. I shall take proper steps to see that it is duly recorded in the permanent records of this State. The official military records show that in the capture of Cornay by this Division, the breaking of the German lines was materially and appreciably hastened. On the

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mountain above the City of Cornay, a view is afforded of the Valley of the River Ayr, where thousands of the bravest and best of Georgia's heroic young men who participated in that great struggle enriched the soil of France with their glorious blood, in their desprate and successful assault upon Cornay.
The General Assembly could appropriately begin its recognition of the valor of Georgia's soldiers in that great war, by sending to the Province of Cornay, in France, a suita!hl'e monument of Georgia marble, with proper inscription, to be placed on the Mountain of Cornay, as a perpetual memorial to the heroic sons of Georgia who died there in the defense of their country and of their flag. This Memorial can be provided without any great or prohibitive cost, and I earnestly urge upon the General Assembly the creation of an appropriate Commission and the appropriation of a sufficient .sum to accomplish this purpose.

Respectfully submitted, THOMAS \V. HARDWICK, Governor.

The following bills and resolutions of the Senate were read for the first time and referred to the Committees:
By :Nir. Ridley of 28thSenate Bill No. 198. A bill for the licensing of

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nurserymen, dealers in nursery stock, tree surgeons, etc.

Referred to General Agricultural Committee No. 1.

By Mr. Haralson of 40th-
Senate Bill No. 214. A bill to give Federal Government authority to estahl'ish rules for the protection of game and fish.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Messrs. Clay of 39th and Golucke of 29th-
Senate Bill No. 217. A bill to prescribe the procedure for application for certiorari from Court of Appeals to Supreme Court.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.

By Mr. Hunt of 20th-.
Senate Resolution No. 248. A bill to repeal an Act establishing a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in Hancock County, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters,

By Messrs. Akin of 4th, Thomas of 3rd, and othersSenate Resolution No. 71. A resolution providing
for a Commission to prevent the dismantling or junking of the Atlanta, Birmingham & Atlantic Railway Company, and for other purposes.

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Referred to Committee on Railroads.

By ~1r. Ridley of 28th-
Senate Resolution No. 75. A resolution providing for the acceptance of a fund from the Congress of the United States for the betterment of health conditions of maternity.
Referred to Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation.
The following invitation from the Mayor and City of Savannah was read:

ExECUTIVE OFFICE, SAVANNAH, GA., July 24, 1922.

To the Members of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, Atlanta, Ga.

Gentlemen: The City of Savannah extends to the members of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and to all of the State House officers, from the Governor down, a most cordial and urgent invitation to visit Savannah on next Saturday and Sunday, July 29th and 30th, leaving Atlanta by special train on Friday night, and returning'to Atlanta by special train leaving Tybee Sunday night. We ask each and every one of you to be the guest of the people of Savannah from the moment you board the train at Atlanta until you leave the train on your return to the capital. Our program includes a ride on the Savannah River on Saturday, and Saturday

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night and Sunday at Tybee beach. This will give all an opportunity to see the commercial features of Savannah and to enjoy the salt breezes and surf bathing at Georgia's great beach.
Savannah will be disappointed if a single Legislator fails to respond to the roll call at Savannah on Saturday morning. For two days we wish each and every member of the Assembly and each and every State official to regard himself as a Savannahian, part and parcel of the life of our community.
A prompt acceptance of our invitation is requested, collectively and individually, so that we will be in position to know how many guests to arrrange for.
Twice before the General Assembly has honored Savannah by visiting it. On this third occasion we hope to make their stay even more enjoyable than that of their predecessors-to make it, in fact, the most memorable visit Georgia Legislators have ever made within the bounds of Georgia.

Very truly yours, )fuRRAY STEWART, Mayor.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Smith of Bryan-

A RESOLUTION
House Resolution No. 191. Resolved by the House, and the Senate concurring, that we accept the invi-

TuESDAY, JuLY 25, 1922.
tation of the City of Savannah to inspect the proposed harbor in said city.
The hour of 11 o'clock A. M. having arrived, the Senate appeared upon the floor of the House, and the joint session, called for the purpose of hearing the address of Hon. William J. Harris, United States Senator from Georgia, was called to order by the President of the Senate.
The President appointed the following committee as an escort for Senator Harris: Messrs. Hutchens of 38th, Boykin of 29th, Wall of 5th, Rountree of 16th, David of 43rd, Mundy of Polk, Corbitt of Atkinson, Langford of Hall, Hamiiton of Floyd, Ddbbs of Cobb, vVoodard of Cook, and Bowden of Ware.
By order of the President, the resolution calling for the joint session of the General Assembly was read by the Secretary of the Senate.
Senator william J. Harris then addressed the General Assembly.
Mr. Brown of the Fiftieth moved that the General Assembly, in joint session convened, do now dissolve, and the motion prevailed.
The Senate withdrew.
The foll'owing invitation was read:
Mayor James L. Key, in behalf of the City of Atlanta, requests the honor of your presence and lady at a Made-in-Georgia Dinner to be held in the
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Auditorium, Gilmer and Courtland Streets, Wednesd~y, July 26th, at 6:30 o'clock, in honor of Governor Thomas W. Hiardwick and members of the Senate and of the House of Representatives of Georgia. Music. Interpretative Dancing. Stunts.
Mr. Moore of Appling moved that the above invitation be accepted, and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Bozeman of Worth moved that the House do now adjourn, and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1922.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Cargwell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler :Foy :I<' r a n k s Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland ,Holloway

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Horne

Mayo

Houser

~Iiles

Houston

:\Iixon

Howard of Forsyth :\Ioore of Appling

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Hufstetler

)foye

Hullender

:\Iundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

.Jones of Walker

Patten

.Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

'Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Redlle

Luke

Ricketson

:\IcClelland

Riley

McClure

Robinson

:\IcDonald of Mitchell Russell

:\IcDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

McGarity

:Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

McMichael

Sibley

.Maddox

Singletary

Malon!'

1-lmiley

Mann

:Smith of Bryan

)fanning

Smith of Carroll

~Iason

1-lmith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone 1-ltovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift 1-lwindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turnt'r Tyson Valentino Van Landingham Van Zant Voce lie Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb Weston Whitley \Yhitaker of Lowndes \VhHaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship \\"ood \Yoodard Worthy Wyatt IVynne ~I r. :Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the first part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:

1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.

2. Reports of Standing Committees.

3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.

4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.

5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.

By unanimous consent, the following bills of the House were introduced, read the :first time and referred to the Committees:

By Messrs. Bowden and Blalock of Ware-
House Bill No. 846. A bill to amend the Georgia Workmen's Compensation Act.
Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.

By Messrs. Clark & Lewis of Colquitt-
House Bill No. 847. A bill to repeal Section 383 of Penal Code of 1910, relative to certain misdemeanors.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

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By Mr. Bush of Lamar-

House Bill No. 848. A bill to create a Board of Education for Lamar County.

Referred to Committee on Education.

By Messrs. Houser and Jackson of Houston and others-
House Bill No. 849. A bill to place the Solicitor General of the Macon Judicial Circuit on a salary.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Brantley of Pierce-
House Bill No. 850. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the city of Blackshear.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 851. A bill to authorize certain counties to build houses for fire protection.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Holloway and Moore of Fulton and others-
House Bill No. 852. A bill to be known as the Forest Act.
Referred to Committee on Conservation.

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By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-

House Bill No. 853. A bill to amend an Act amending an Act incorporating the city of St. Mary's.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. Hyman and Hawkins of Washington-
House Bill No. 854. A bill to amend an Act creating the City Court of Sandersville.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 855. A bill to amend paragraph 315 of the Military Code of this State, relative to retirement.
Referred to Committee on Military Affairs.
Mr. McDonald of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary .submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendation:
House Bill No. 841., do pass.

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House Bill No. 840, do pass. House Bill No. 624, do pass. House Bill No. 816, do pass.

MeDoNALD, of Richmond, Chairman.
Mr. Swift of Elbert County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Property, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Public Property have had under consideration the following resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Resolution No. 148.

SwiFT, of Elbert, Chairnian.

Mr. Culpepper, of Fayette County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means, submitted the following report:

1tlr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Resolution No. 160. Do pass.

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House Resolution No. 190. Do pass. House Bill No-. 832. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 16. Do pass by substitute.
Respectfully submitted,
CuLPEPPER of Fayette,
Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Ficklen of Wilkes County, Chairman of the Committee on Insurance submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Insurance have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the ~arne back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
Senate Bill No. 224.
FICKLEN of Wilkes, Chairman.

Mr. Turner of Brooks County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Highways, submitted the following report :

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Public Highways have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to

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report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows :
Senate Bill No. 232. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 176. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 133. Do not pass. House Bill No. 224. Do not pass. House Bill No. 653. Do not pass. House Bill No. 813. Do not pass.
l\fR. TuRNER of Brooks, Chairman.

Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and Com1ty Matters, submitted the following report:

llir. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters, have had under consideration the following bills and resolutions of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the reco:mrp.endation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 746. House Resolution No. 184. House Bill No. 768, as amended. House Bill No. 828. House Bill No. 836. House Bill No. 837. House Bill No. 785, by substitute. House Bill No. 817.

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,House Bill No. 797, as amended. Senate Bill No. 248, do not pass.

Respectfully submitted, MoYE, of Randolph, Chairman.

Mr. Moore of Fulton COunty, Chairman of the Committee on Education submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Y.our Committee on Education have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
House Bill No. 829. Do pass.

Respectfully submitted, MooRE of Fulton, Chairman.

Mr. Vocelle of Camden County, Chairman of the Committee on Game and Fish, submitted the following report :

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Game and Fish have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

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House Bill No. 750.

VocELLE, of Camden, Chairman.
Mr. Davis, of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2, has submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:

', ,

Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 2, have had under consideration the following House bills and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to th~ House with the recommendation as follows:

Hoqse Bill No. 690~ House Bill No. 789. House Bill No. 633. House Bill No. 620.

Do pass. Do not pass. Do not pass. Do not pass.

Respectfully submitted, ' JoHN CAMP DAvrs, Chairman.

Mr. Gminels, of Franklin County, Chairman of the Committee on: Labor and Labor Statistics submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics have had under; consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

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House Bill No. 721. House Bill No. 725. House Bill No. 39. By amended substitute.
GuNNELLs, of Franklin, Chairman.

Mr. McMichael, of Marion County, Chairman of the Committee on General Agriculture No. 2, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Agriculture No. 2, have had under consideration the following Bills and Resolutions of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 583. Do pass.
House Resolution No. 159. Do pass.

Respectfully submitted,
McMICHAEL, Chairman.

Mr. Mundy, of Polk, Vice-Chairman of the Com mittee on Rules, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Rules having had under con sideration House Resolution 139 instruct me as their Vice-Chairman to report the same back with the recommendation that the same be not adopted.
MuNDY, of Polk, Vice-Chairman.

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The following message was received from His Excellency the Governor, through his Secretary, Mr. McCurry:

Mr. Speaker:
I am directed by His Excellency The Governor to deliver to the House of Representatives a communication in writing to which he respectfully invites your attention.

STATE OF GEORGIA:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
ATLANTA.
July 26, 1922.
To The General Assembly of Georgia:
.. I beg to invite your attention to the attached com-
munication from the Assistant Secretary of the Treasury of the United States.
The request of the Secretar.v of the Treasury is reasonable, and I recommend to you the adoption of legislation in accordance therewith.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS \V. HARDWICK, Governor.

WEDNESDAY, JULY 26, 1922.

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TREASURY DEPARTMENT,

Washington, D. C., July 13, 1922. The Governor of the State of Georgia,
Atlanta, Georgia. Sir:

With reference to the cession of State jurisdiction over lands in Georgia acquired for Federal building sites, the Department has the honor to refer to your letter of May 1, 1922, stating that the legislature of Georgia would convene on June 28, at which time you would bring to its attention the subject of procuring an amendment to Section 26, Vol. 1, Code of Georgia, 1911, so as to eliminate the provision that "The State retains its civil and criminal jurisdiction over persons and citizens in said ceded territory as over other persons and citizens in this State.''
The Department ventures to express the hope that the matter is receiving favorable consideration, the enactment of the requested legislation being particula~ly desired in connection with sites recently acquired in carrying out provisions of Congress for the care of discharged sick and disabled soldiers, etc., who served in the World War.
A reply at your convenience will be appreciated.

Respootfully, (Signed) EDwARD CLIFFORD,
Assistant Secretary.

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STATE OF GEORGIA:

EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,

ATLANTA.

,July 26, 1922.

To The General Assembly of Georgia:
I unhesitatingly recommend the passage of a deficiency appropriation bill to supply the deficiencies in the school funds for 1921 caused by the misappropriation of school funds by R. N. Berrien in discounting the school 'varrants of the Counties of Heard, Decatur, Chatham, Bulloch, Warren Lumpkin, Echols, Brooks, Emanuel, Liberty, Madison,
Chattooga, Dade and Murray, and to the independ-
. ent school s.vstems at East Lake and Lawrenceville.
The subject-matter is dealt with and fully explained in the last Annual Report of the State School Commissioner, Hon. I\1. L. Brittain.
The circumstances under which the defalcation occurred are such as to make it just and equitable, in my opinion, to reimburse these Counties and local school systems for the amounts of money which they lost by reason of such defalcation, and I unhesitatingly so recommend.
Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS \V. HARDWICK,
Governor.

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By unanimous consent, the following bills and re-

solutions of the House and Senate, favorably re-

ported by the committees, were read for the second

time:

.

By Mr. Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 39. A bill to promote the health and welfare of female employees in the State.
By 1\fr. Rutherford of Monroe-
House Bill No. 1583. A bill to provide for the. maintenance of a School of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts for negroes.

By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 624. A bill to regulate boxing contests and exhibitions in the State.

By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson-
House Bill No. 690. A bill to make it a misdemeanor to issue a check with intent to d~fraud.

By Mr. Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 721. A bill to amend an Act and amendatory Acts, relative to bonds of employment agencies.

By Mr. Bowden of Ware-
House Bill No. 725. A bill to create a Bond Commission for the County of Ware.

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By Mr. Dixon of Jenkins-

House Bill No. 746. A bill to amend an Act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Jenkins County.

By Mr. Franks of Towns-

House Bill No. 750. A bill to prohibit the catching of fish in the waters of Brastown creek.

By .M:r. Jones of Walker-
House Bill No. 768. A bill to prevent certain people in no-fence districts from voting in elections for no-fence.

By Messrs. McClure and Jones of Walker-

House Bill No. 785. A bill to amend an Act and amendatory Acts to give certain powers to certain officers in certain counties.

B~ Mr. Vvay of Liberty-

House Bill No. 797. A bill to make it unlawful for persons to kill certain cows, sheep, etc., in Liberty County, except on premises of owner.

By Mr. Pruett of Lumpkin-

House Bill No. 816. A bill to repeal an Act abolishing the 'fee system in Northeastern Judicial Circuit.

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By Messrs. McClure and Jones of Walker-

House Bill No. 817. A bill to amend an Act abolishing the Board of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues of Walker County.

By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill-
House Bill No. 828. A bill to amend an Act to create the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues for Ben Hill County.

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 829. A bill to incorporate the Inman School District, in Fayette County.

By Messrs. DuBose of Clarke and Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 832. A bill to amend an Act relative to the collection of Taxes on fuels and oils.

By Mr. Foy of Taylor-
House Bill No. 836. A bill to create the office of County Treasurer for Taylor County.

By Mr. Foy of Taylor-
House Bill No. 837. A bill to repeal an Act to abolish the office of County Treasurer for Taylor County.

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By 1\Ir. Lankford of Toombs-
Hause Bill No. 840. A bill to abolish the City Court of Toombs County.

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Hause Bill No. 841. A bill to create the City Court of Lyons in Toombs County.

By Messrs. Brannen and Parrish of Bulloch-
Hause Resolution No. 148. (715-A). A resolution to authorize the sale of certain lands for benefit of 1st. District A. & M. School.

By 3fr. Knight of Berrien-
House Resolution No. 159. (737-E). A resolution to appoint committee to suggest Legislation to prohibit the sale of inferior seed.

By .Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Resolution No. 160. (737-F). A resolution to appropriate money for defraying expenses of }Iunsiou Leasing Committee.

By ~1r. Phillips of Telfair-
Hause Resolution No.184. (817-B). A resolution to relieve Tax Collector and sureties on his bond, Telfair County.

By .Mr. Arnold of ClayHouse Resolution No. 190. (841-B). A resolu-



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tion to make appropriation for stationery used by General Assembly.

By Mr. Manson of the 35th-
Senate Bill No. 16. A bill to create a State Auditors Commission.

By Mr. Nix of the 51st-
Senate Bill No. 176. A bill to amend Section 5(a) of Art. 5 of Act to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department.

By Mr. Haralson of the 40th-
Senate Bill No. 224. A bill to provide additional grounds for revoking business license in Georgia.

By Mr. Womble of the 28th-
Senate Bill No. 232. A bill to make all automobiles signal with horns before crossing bridges.
The following bills of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Childs of 12th-
Senate Bill No. 237. A bill to repeal an Act to establish the Public School system in the Town of Richland.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 134, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

. By Messrs. Duncan and Langford of Hall-
House Bill No. 822. A bill to amend an Act to establish a City Court in the County of Hall.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pass'age of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 148, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority wa.s passed.

By Mr. Miles of Candler-
House Bill No. 824. A bill to amend an Act to establish the City Court of Metter.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pass'age of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 149, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By .Mr. Hodges of Evans-
House Bill No. 809. A bill to amend an Act to create the City Court of Claxton.

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 142, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Russell of Barrow-
House Bill No. 811. A bill to establish the City Court of Barrow County, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 144, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Hines and Riley of Sumter-
House Bill No. 818. A bill to consolidate and amend the City Charter of Americus.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 145, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority wa:S passed.

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By Messrs. Moore and Holloway of Fulton-

House Bill No. 812. A bill to amend the charter of City of Atlanta.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pas.sage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill tht Ayes were 146, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Bozeman of Worth-
House Bill No. 827. A bill to amend an Act creat" ing a new charter for the Town of Warwick.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 150, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 820. A bill to create a new charter for the City of Vidalia.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pass'age of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 147, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 810. A bill to amend an Act creating a charter for the City of Milledgeville.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 143, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 756. A bill to repeal an Act incorporating the Town of Bolton.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 141, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:
1Hr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate bill to-wit:

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Senate Bill No. 173. A bill to abolish and Act regulating the practice of occupation of Barbers.
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House bill to-wit:
House Bill No. 602. A bill to amend an Act establishing Public Schools for Town of Warrenton.
The following communication from His Excellency the Governor was read:

STATE OF GEORGIA: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ATLANTA.

July 20, 1922.

To The Genera-l Assembly of Georgia:
At your last session the Georgia State Board of Forestry was created for the purpose of investigating and reporting to you the forest needs of our State. Subsequent to the creation of this board subcommittees have gone into the subject and made their reports which the board has unanimously approved.
In calling your attention to the report of the State Board, I wish to assure you that careful and painstaking work has been done, which is herewith submitted for your further consideration. You will note that this report goes into considerable detail concerning the forest needs, our forest wealth, the extent of forest depletion, Georgia's wood require-

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ments, her lumber cut, migration of saw mills, shrinkage of employment and other evidences of forest exhaustion, including the decline of our naval stores industry, soil erosion, etc. The economic aspects of the situation show that we have reached a critical point and the time has come to make a definite beginning on this most important matter.

I commend the report of the State Board of Forestry to you for your most careful consideration and action at this time and as I have had occasion to keep in personal touch with this work and fully realize the importance of forest fire control and state encouragement for reforestation of our vast cut over areas in Georgia, I heartily recommend that the provisions set out in this report be written into the code of Georgia Laws in order that our State may take its proper place with other progressive states of the Union and no longer fail to encourage its citizens in the protection and replacement of our forest areas.

Respectfully submitted,

w. THOMAS

HARDWICK,

Governor.

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REPORT OF THE GEORGIA STATE BOARD OF FORESTRY.

To the President, the Honorable Governor and Other
Members of the Georgia State Board of Fores-
try:
We your sub-committee, appointed to investigate and report to you in accordance with the Act creating this Board, herewith respectfully submit our findings. and' recommendations. Your sub-committee has been handicapped in making its investigations by being unable to incur any expenses, since no appropriation for that purpose was provided by the Legislature. In spite of this fact your committee has visited the various sections of the State and discussed the situation with land owners, farmers, timber land owners, orchardists and others. We were astonished at the lack of knowledge by many of the tremendous annual destruction as well as the incipient possibilities of our natural forest areas. The information contained in this report is based upon the knowledge of the members of your sub-committee and upon that supplied by the United States Forest Service, The American Forestry Association, the Southern Forestry Congress. the Georgia Forestry Association, Department of the State of Georgia and individuals familiar with forest conditions in the State.
S. W. McCALLIE,
B. H. STONE,
H. G. SPAHR.

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FoREST NEEDS OF GEoRGIA.
With the possible exception of North and South Carolina, forest depletion in Georgia appears to have reached a more advanced stage than in any other State in the South. There are ample evidences, your committe! finds, clearly indicating that the exhaustion of the foil 1st resources of the State has reached a point where it is not only destroying rapidly two of the State's most important industries, but is imperiling the agricultural and industrial prosperity of the entire common-wealth. The situation is made measurably more serious by the public apathy and ignorance which prevails with respect to the effects of forest depletion, and by the failure of past legislatures to recognize that the destruction of a great natural resource, upon which its industries and its people are dependent in whole or in part, is prejudicial to the public interests of the State. As a result forest depletion in Georgia continues unrestricted and at a rapid and alarming rate.
Your committee desires to point our that the effects of forest exhaustion in Georgia are making themselves felt at an unfortunate period in the progress of the State. The production of cotton, lumber and turpentine have been basic industries from which the prosperity and development of the State have largely sprung. Today, these three industries are suddenly threatened-the cotton industry by the ravages of the boll weevil, the lumber and turpentine industries by the exhaustion of its old growth timber and by the destruction of its second growth forests through fires and other forms of human neglect. The possibilities of economic distress resulting from the simultaneous decline of three of its leading industries are so insidious and far-reaching as to warrant, in the judgment of your committee, prompt and constructive consideration by those to whom the people have entrusted the welfare of the State.

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GEORGIA's FoREST WEALTH.
Next to cotton, our forests have in the past contributed in largest measure to the wealth and prosperity of our people. Until within the last few years, our forest industries have supplied employment to a larger number of wage earners than any other manufacturing industry in the State. Ten years ago, they furnished employment to more people than all other industries combined, excluding the manufacture of cotton goods.
Rich in virgin forests of pine and hardwoods, lumbering and turpentining have long been basic industries in the State. Georgian lumber has been used practically throughout the nation while her turpentine and rosin have been in demand by every civilized nation in the world. These two industries-lumbering and naval stores-have drawn to Georgia from all corners of the globe upwards of a billion and a half dollars in the last quarter of a century.
Little thought seems to have been given, however, to the fact that these two industries are wholly dependent upon a supply of raw material produced by nature and not renewed by man as the original forests were denuded. In consequence, they are today on the decline and are confronted with practical extinction in many sections of the state in the near future, because of the exhaustion of local forest supply.
The abundance of natural growth timber in the State not only stimulated the growth of the lumbering and turpentine industries but it has drawn to Georgia many related wood-using industries. The following table compiled from the 1920 Census, shows the principal woodusing industries of the State directly and wholly dependent upon an accessible supply of raw wood:

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STATISTICS CONCERNING WOODS PRODUCTS ESTABLISHMENTS IN GEORGIA.

Census of Manufactures, 1919.

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Boxes, wooden packing, except cigar boxes.............. 13
Carriages and wagons, ineluding repairs................ 66
Coffins, burial cases and undertakers' goods.......... 7
Cooperage ............................ 10 Furniture, wood, other
than rattan and willow.. 24 Lumber and timber pro-
ducts - 1,512 Lumber, planing-mill pro-
ducts, not including planing mills connected with sawmills .................. 131 Shipbuilding, wooden, ineluding boat building.... 7 Turpentine and Rosin......... 441 Wood, turned and carved.. 4
Total ........................ 2,115

831 852 212 138 1,215 15,921
3,176 1,030 7,971
125 31,471

$ 1,140,531 1,796,651 653,695 435,153 2,263,084
18,918,831
8,917,601 3,102,121 3,693,142
257,877 $41,178,686

$ 2,185,591 3,544,259 932,252 659,694 3,702,915
26,836,279
14,029,180 3,220,693 10,874,714
354,630
----
$66,340,207

The extent to which these industries are a factor in the industrial life of the State is apparent when it is stated that they comprise almost 500 per cent. of the industrial establishments of the State, employ 22 per cent. of Georgia's wage earners, represent 10 per cent. of the capital invested in manufactures and produce practically 10 per cent. of the manufacturing wealth of the State. They rank first among the industries of the State in the number of establishments, second in the number of persons employed, third in the amount of capital invested and

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third m the value of products produced. A direct comparison with other leading industries is given below:

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Lumber and forest products..2,115

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39,417 31,471
6,607 5,.342

$150,191,479 41,178,686 31,647,732 59,482,762

$192,185,896 66,340,207 99,320,307 47,479,842

As will be shown latt-r in this report, the primary forest industries of Georgia are on tht- decline and the above tabulation is given in order to emphasize the industrial importance of the problem with which the State is confronted. The continued shrinkage of these forest industries must inevitably serve to intensify conditions of unemployment, to reduce the earning power of great numbers of our citizens, to curtail local markets for our own products and to decrease the inflow of wealth to the State.

THE ExTENT OF FoREST DEPLETION.
The total area of forest land in Georgia, as given by the U. S. Forest Service, is 20 million acres, of which all has been cut owr with the exception of about one million acres. There are some six and a half million acres of cutover land which contain second growth timber of some merchantable value for lumber, seven and one-half million acres which contain unmerchantable second growth, excepting as cordwood materials, and five million acres of fort-st land classed as waste because it has been so severely cut and burned that it is producing nothing. The area of totally idle forest land in the State, therefore, is equivalent to almost -!0 per cent. of the State's improved farm area.

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The foregoing figures show that of the original virgin forests in the State, less than one-twentieth remain and that our people and our wood-using industries are rapidly becoming dependent upon second growth timber or upon lumber imported from other States. Their future independence is however threatened because of the destruction of our second growth timber in many parts of the State by fire and improper methods of turpentining. In short, your committee finds that not only have our original forests been largely destroyed but that under present .methods of neglect and public disregard of forest lands, we cannot count, even in a small way, upon our haphazard second growth to meet our needs of the immediate future.

GEORGIA's WooD REQUIREMENTS.

According to figures supplied by the American Forestry Association, Georgia is today consuming approximately 520 million feet of lumber annually, of which 338 million feet are produced within the State and 182 million feet are imported from other parts of the country jlS
follm"s:

From:

Central States

651,000 feet

Southern Pine States ----------------- 152,049,000 '' North Carolina Pine States __________ _ 11,708,000 "

Lake States

484,000 ''

Oregon and Washington_____________ _ 6,129,000 '' California __________________________ _ 10,006,000 ''

Placing a nominal value of $30.00 a thousand on the

lumber imported, the people of Georgia are already send-

ing over five million dollars a year outside the State for

lumber. It is significant that 16 million feet of the amount

imported came from as far as California, Washington and

Oregon, on which the freight alone is from $20.00 to

I

$25.00 a thousand feet. This fact serves to emphasize the

growing dependency of the Southern States upon the

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Pacific Coast timber as our Southern pine forests become exhausted, and the resultant financial drain upon our citizens in obtaining lumber. Other sections of the United States, your committee finds, are paying huge tributes to the West for lumber because their forests have become depleted. It is inevitable that as our own forests become exhausted, we will have to turn to the West in order to meet our lumber requirement because the last great body of timber in the United States is on the Pacific Coast.
In this connection, your committee desires to quote an extract from an address delivered by J. G. Peters, of the U. S. Forest Service, before the Georgia Forestry Association at Macon, on June 7. Speaking of Georgia, Mr. Peters said:
''The number of farms in this State, according to the 1920 census, is about 311,000. It has been estimated that the lumber requirements of the average efficiently run farm for upkeep and improvements is 2,000 board feet
.. yearly. This would mean, therefore, 622,000,000 board
feet yearly for this State, which exceeds your present yearly consumption of lumber for all purposes and is more than 80 per cent of your present yearly lumber production. Bear in mind that these 622 millions would represent your requirements for the upkeep and improve' ments of farms alone, and that this estimate is based on the average farm for the entire country. But will Georgia be content merely with the average farm Y
''The per capita consumption of Georgia is among the lowest of the States. This is indicated by preliminary computations of lumber consumption lately prepared in the Forest Service. It is far below that of the big agricultural States of the West and is even below that of the small, manufacturing States of New England. It is nearly in a class with the per capita consumption of those European countries where wood is a luxury.

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''Surely this cannot continue in Georgia where the possibilities for growth and development are unlimited. Some day you will use several times the quantity of lumber you are now using. Are you going to anticipate this and provide for a supply at home, or will you follow the example of the Lake States and permit timber depletion to continue unchecked and then after your supply has dwindled, be forced to bring lumber from the Pacific Coast or perhaps from Siberia?"
The wood requirements of our farms are but one of many needs in maintaining the prosperity of our State. Already our peach growers require 25,000,000 feet annually for boxes in which to market their fruit. Our vegetable growers are likewise dependent upon cheap and accessible lumber for crates. Our fmniture, carriage, wood turning and cooperage factories are even more directly dependent while almost every industry in the entire State must use wood in one way or another. Our greatest and most vital need now and in the future is probably in the building of homes. Exhaustion of our local forests imposes an increased expense upon our industries and our home builders and tends to improverish the State by drawing money from the State.
According to the Forest Service, the per capita consumption of lumber in Georgia is 179 feet a year. The average for the nation is 300 fePt ~ year. Regions undergoing rapid agricultural development invariably show the highest per capita wood consumption. Such a development in Georgia or simply a change from cotton to more diversified farming, your committee believes, will demand not less than the average per capita of 300 feet, or a total of 870,000,000 feet, which is 100,000,000 in excess of the total lumber production of the Stat( in 1920.
Your committee desires to point that the national demand for lumber is a factor of increasing importance in our local and State forest situations. The growing shor-

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tage of timber in the East is naturally stimulating the com-

petition for lumber in the Eastern markets and the ten-

dency of the situation is to increase the prices which the

lumber mills are able to obtain in these great Eastern

..

markets. Being to their advantage to sell at the best prices obtainable, Georgia mills naturally export their lumber unless they can obtain equally favorable prices

locally. The drain upon our local timber is in consequence

becoming greater as the general demand for lumber in-

creases and the available supply declines, while at the same

time the scale of lumber prices is gradually being pushed

upward. This situation merely serves to hasten the ex-

haustion of our remaining forests and io emphasize the

need and wisdom of prompt action to utilize the forest-

growing power of our denuded forest soils.

EviDENCE OF FoREST ExHAUSTION.
Georgia's Lumber Cut.
One of the most striking evidences of the rapidity with which our forests are disappearing is found in the declining production of lumber in the State. The following figures are taken from the U.S. Census and show the lumber cut in Georgia for the years given:
1899 -------------------1,308,610,000 feet 1904 --------------------1,135,910,000 " 1909 ____________________ 1,342,249,000 "
1914 --------------------1,026,191,000 " 1919 -------------------- 893,965,000 "
1920 -------------------- 761,800,000 "
Since 1909, it will be seen, the production of lumber in Georgia has declined almost 50 per cent. This represents a direct loss in the wealth of the State. The mill value of the 1909 cut at prices then prevailing was approximately $19,000,000 but the same cut today, had it been maintained, would have a mill value of over $32,000,000, or $13,-

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000,000 in excess of the value of Georgia's present reduced cut.
If the production of lumber in Georgia during the next ten years declines in the same proportion as during the past decade, the people of the State will be forced to import from other regions of the United States a large portion of their lumber requirements and will have the added cost of transportation to meet. The cause of Georgia's declining cut is found in her declining supply of forest reserve. In 1909, the Government estimated that the State's reserve of pine timber was 32 billion feet while at the present time it is placed at only about 24 billion feet.
Migration of Sawmills.
The U. S. Census shows that in 1909 there were 1991 sawmills in Georgia. Figures just issued in the 1920 Census give the number of mills in the State in that year as 694, a loss of 1,300 plants, or 65 per cent. of its mills, during one decade. Dismantled mill plants and deserted communities throughout the lumber regions of the State are forbidding reminders of the migration of an industry which, under wise and proper management of our forest lands, should be a permanent and leading industry in the State.

Shrinkagp of E1nployment.
Your committee has been greatly surprised to find that the exhaustion of our forests is exerting a strong influence upon employment and means of livelihood in the State. In both 1900 and 1910, the U. S. Census shows, that more wage earners in Georgia were employed by the primary forest industries than any other manufacturing industry in the State. In 1910, over 40 per cent. of all the wage earners in the State were engaged in lumbering or related work. By 1910, the number had dropped to 33 per cent. and by 1920 to only 18 per cent. Despite the increase in population in the State during these two de-

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cades, the number of persons who found employment in the forests declined from 38,827 in 1900 to 23,141 in 1920, or 40 per cent.

DECLINE oF GEORGIA's NAVAL SToRES INDUSTRY.
While the shrinkage of our lumber industry has been alarmingly great during the past ten years. the decline of our turpentine and naval stores industry has been even more marked. Men engaged in this industry in the State freely express grave concern as to the future existence of the industry, many believing that it is facing practical extinction in Georgia because of the wanton and destructive attitude maintained towards our young growth timber, upon which the future of the industrY. necessarily depends .
. Exhaustion of Georgia's pine timber is clearly reflected in the waning of our naval stores industry during the past twenty years. The decline in production during that period has been approximately 75 per cent. In 1920, Secretary Meredith, of the Department of Agriculture, asserted that within six years Georgia, at its then rate of decline, would be reduced to a negligible position in the naval stores industry. Mr. Thomas Gamble, of the Naval Stores Review and a profound student of the industry believes that at best, ''But ten years are before us in which we can hope for Georgia to retain even a third or fourth place among important naval stores States."
Says Mr. Gamble:
"Men of long experience and intimate knowledge believe that while Georgia has still a few seasons of comparatively fair naval stores production before it, there must be, after a matter of perhaps two or three years expansion resulting from tempting higher values for the output, a radical, almost perpendicular, drop in the quantities of timber to be worked and the resulting crops. A

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great natural source of wealth is passing away before our eyes; and industry which should bring millions of dollars to the State every season is shrinking to one of minor proportions; a trade that has belted the earth with its cargoes and brought Savannah and Brunswick into contact with every civilized people of the globe, threatens to largely disappear and become almost a reminiscehce within the next decade.
''In 1890 of the total production Georgia contributed about 53 per cent. For twelve years, from the season of 1891-92 to the season of 1902-03, over 1.300,000 packages of naval stores were yearly handled at Savannah alone, or roughly speaking six hundred million pounds a season. The greatest volume of traffic in them at Savannah was in 1896-97, with the phenomenal aggregate of 1,640,000 barrels. Brunswick at the same time handled 260,000 barrels, a total for the two Georgia ports of 1,900,000 packages, with the enormous aggregate freight weight of nine hundred million pounds. For the twelve years referred to the average receipts of the two ports, representing almost entirely Georgia production, was 1,550,000 barrels.
''Compare this with the handlings at the two ports last season of 603,000 barrels; some of which came from Florida and Alabama, and we can the more readily appreciate the tremendous falling off in Georgia's importance as a naval stores and lumber State, for the two industries, as we know, go hand in hand. When the production of the United States was at its height Georgia supplied 50 to 60 per cent. Now that the production has decreased from that height by one-third Georgia supplies but 20 to 25 per cent. of the decreased total.
"The past bas its lessons only. What has been done cannot be undone. But what of the future? Is the prediction of the Federal Government to be fulfilled 1 Is Georgia by the close of this decade to cease to be a naval stores and lumber State worthy of especial mention Y Are

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Savannah and.Brunswick to follow Wilmington and Char leston as ports through which once moved many hundreds .of thousands of barrels of naval stores in twelve months ,. but which no longer handle large shipments of turpen.tine and rosins? These are the pressing questions of the .,hour. If the answer to them is 'Yes'-and we all feel
that it is-then the problem confronting the progressive intelligence of Georgia is how to avoid this direful probability, how to promote and preserve and even expand ''two great wealth-producing and men-employing industries, and at the same time protect the general interests of ' 'the State inasmuch as further forest denudation must inevitably affect our farming classes in the effect on rainfall, freshets, erosion and other vital conditions.''

SoiL ERosw~.
Another striking evidence of forest devastation in Georgia is found in the increasing destruction of soil by :floods. It is a well established fact that forests exert a regulatory influence upon water run-off and thereby protect the soil against floods and the gullying action of surface water.. Much of our soil in Georgia is readily subject to erosion and those who travel about the State from year to year cannot fail to observe the increasing, and in many cases the alarming, extent to which our soil is being gullied and washed away, farm property seriously injured and sources of water supply rendered unusable because of the destruction of forest growth on such vast areas of our land.
Dr. S. W. McCallie, State Geologist, has followed this situation for years, visiting from time to time practically every section of the State. The destruction of wealth, actual and potential, is in his opinion far more serious than is generally appreciated. Aceording to him the effect of deforestation on the filling of water power storage dams ..in the State is already alarming. So great has become the ..washing away of our soils that, according to Dr. McCal-

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lie all of Georgia's water power storage dams will under present conditions be filled with sediment within the next one hundred years or sooner. The Savannah river is now, it is estimated, carrying to the ocean two and onehalf million tons annually of soil.matter.
''The retardation of this enormous wash which fills the storage dams," declares Dr. McCallie, "and thereby les- sens the effectiveness of our water power, is one of the strongest arguments for the protection of our forests.''

EcoNoMIC AsPECTs oF THE SITUATION.
Your committee has pointed out in considerable detail incontrovertible evidences of the alarming extent to which forest depletion has advanced in this State. It has sought to indicate some of the effects upon the present and future prosperity of the State, of the decline of a group of industries which rank among the most important in the State. Its duty would not be well performed, however, if it did not summarize the far-reaching consequences of continued devastation and neglect of our forests and our forest lands.
(1) As has already been shown, the exhaustion of our forests is rapidly destroying our two basic forest industries-lumbering and turpentining, and thus (a) depriving large numbers of our people of employment which formerly was open to them; (b) depriving the State of the inflow of wealth which follows the exportation of lumber and tur- , pentine; (c) pauperizing local communities in those sec- tions where these industries are the main means of support; (d) compelling our citizens to send more and more money outside the State in order to obtain their wood requirements; (e) undermining our independence as home builders by making our citizens increasingly dependent upon the uncertainties, high prices and competition of distant lumber markets and (f) destroying in many sections, soil and its productive power, the purity and re-

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gularity of our streams, and the actual and potential water power wealth of the State.
(2) Mention should also be made of the vast areas of land which are being rendered non-productive in whole or in part. Already five million acres are virtually idle and the area is being added to year by year while almost fourteen million acres are in a state of haphazard production and yielding a forest growth far short of that possible. Such land, if not now, eventually becomes a burden upon the State. This is clearly proven by the experience of the State of Michigan, where millions of acres of waste cut-ove;r land have in the past decade, reverted to the State. in lieu of taxes, thus depriving counties of needed revenue and thwarting their development, socially, agriculturally and industrially.
In the face of the productive power of our forest lands, as determined by competent authorities, our continued neglect and misuse of them appeals to your committee as inexcusable. Mr. Austin Cary, of the United States Forest Service, who for three years has been studying growth conditions in the Southern pine belt, stated recently:
''With timber growing recognized as an economic matter, the question at once arises where timber can be most advantageously g-rown, what sections are so endowed as to produce it at most profit, and right there is where South Georgia comes in, with very exceptional advantages. Wood for paper making, as has just been indicated, can be grown in a fraction of the time required in regions from which the industry now draws its main supplies, and the same thing would hold of wood that might be required for somewhat similar industries. For the production of saw timber, not indeed of the old heart variety to which the South is accustomed (we shall never see that in large quantities again), but thoroughly serviceable for most purposes, 25 to 60 years may be set as the time required, and yields looked for greater than these had from

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the native timber. Then the forests of the region possess this peculiarity, that the most common timber trees yield naval stores in addition to lumber and wood, a very great advantage indeed in respect to value production.
''I have now outlined somewhat more fully, the reasons for the tremendous attraction which the region exerts on a professional forester. My own belief, in fact, is (and that has 30 years experience behind it during which I have worked in every timber region of the U.S. and seen the forests of several European countries), that no region in the world probably has greater natural facilities for producing timber values than the district centering on the Okefenokee Swamp, stretching west from near Savannah some miles north of Waycross to Valdosta, the border passing thence south to Liveoak and taking in a large area of irregular shape in the State of Florida. Longleaf, and particularly slash pine characterize this region, the latter in my opinion a species which will be recognized in future, for the combination of utility in its products, for its readiness of reproduction and rapidity of growth, as one of the most valuable trees on the earth's surface. The gross area of this region is something like 5,000,000 acres in the State of Georgia."
(3) The prosperity of many industries not directly related to the lumber and turpentine industries are in part dependent upon our forests. The railroads of Georgia, for example, derive from 25 to 50 per cent. of their tonnage from the movement of lumber and forest products and the exhaustion of our local stumpage naturally deprives the railroads of much tonnage needed to keep them operating on a sound and prosperous basis.
The maintenance and development of the fruit and vegetable industry in the State is intimately dependent upon a cheap and accessible supply of box and crate rna.terials, as has already been mentional. Your committee believes that within the next ten years, the competition

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. for box lumber in the South will be an important if not a serious factor in. the marketing of fruit and vegetable .crops. The demand for shipping crates in the South is rapidly increasing with the increasing acreage of land coming into _bearing. It is estimated, for example, that the present acreage of citrus fruit planted in Florida alone will in ten years require 240,000,000 feet of box lumber annually, (equivalent to the standing timber on 50,000 acres), or almost five times the estimated annual growth of pine saw timber in the whole State.
Georgia's acreage of fruit and vegetables is likewise increasing and with crate demands accumulating on the large scale indicated and the forest supply constantly and rapidly waning, it is inevitable that Georgia growers will sooner or later be f:orced to import their lumber needs largely from the West coast. In that event, their crates will cost much more than if the lumber were obtained locally. The additional cost will naturally limit the boundaries of the region in which the Georgia grower can mar.ket his crops in competition with fmit and vegetables from other regions.
The same economic considerations apply to other industries of the State which must use wood or the products of the forest in th~ manufacture or marketing of their products. They are aspects of the forest problem which have a fundamental bearing upon the permanent welfare of thE' State and which in other States where forest depletion is somewhat more advanced than in Georgia, are making themselves felt to an aggravating and menacing degree. As an example, your committee makes reference to the State of New York where during the period 1912 to 1919, a decline of 65 per CPnt. in the lumbn cut of the State was accompanied by the disappearance of 35 per cent. of the wood-using industries Qf the State.
(4) The devastation of our f01esh;, your committee desires to point out, is prejudicial to all those things which

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go to make our citizens contented and proud of their

State. It is destructive of game and wild life, of recrea-

tional freedom in the country and of the development of

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regions especially suitable for game and recreational pre-

serves. Barren and unsightly cut-over lands yield little

revenue for the building or support of good roads, neither

do they draw tourists from other States.

DESTRUCTIVE AGENCIES.

Lumbering.

Your committee recognizes that lumbering is a proper

and legitimate industry and when properly conducted

should be fostered and encouraged. Lumbering as car-

ried on in this State in the past and at the present time,

however, is often destructive to forest perpetuation. Vast

areas have been cut so clean of all timber that natur.al re-

forestation has been precluded. If cutting were conducted

with the conscious intention of leaving a few seed trees

on each acre and of doing as little damage as possible to

the young growth on the land, natural reforestation would

be obtained on a much more extensive scale. As indica-

tivt> of the methods of cutting advocated by the U. S.

Forest Service, there is appended to this rt>port Exhibits

A and Exhibits B.

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Porest Fires.

The worst enemy to the regeneration of our cut-over forest is, in the judgement of your committee, unrestricted and un-regulated forest fires. Due to a belief of long standing that the burning of the woods improves the forage and to the almost complete absence of any public sentiment against forest fires, thousands of acres of forest land are swept by flames every year, young forest growth being destroyed or stunted and the fertility of the soil impoverished.

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In this State in the five years from 1916 to 1920, inclusive, there were reported to the Forest Service 20,000 forest fires, more than double the number reported in any other State. Ninety per cent. of these fires resulted from carelessness or from design; 10 per cent. from lightning, the only agency that cannot be controlled. Twenty-five per cent. were of incendiary origin, 23 per cent. from causes unknown, 17 per cent. from brush burning, and the remainder were caused chiefly by campers, lumbering, and railroads.
These fires burned over more than 5,000,000 acres, or one-fourth of the State's forest land area, and caused a money loss to timber and improvements alone of $4,250,000. These figures are conservative; they are incomplete, because of the difficulty of securing statistics of this character where no protective organization exists in the State which could collect them. If to these direct losses are added the losses which cannot very well be measured in dollars and cents, such for example as the destruction of small trees, the killing of game, the drying up of fishing streams, the burning up of soil fertility, the removing of the ground cover from mountain lands, which makes it possible for erosion to follow and silt to be deposited in the river channels, and the rendering and keeping idle ah area estimated to be 5,000,000 acres of forest land in this State, it is readily apparent that the total damage reaches a staggering figure.
In speaking of the forest fire situation in Georgia, Mr. J. G. Peters of the lT. S. Forest Sen-ice recently asserted:
''Obviously the thing to do, the thing which a number of other States have done, is to put a stop to the practice of promiscuous and broadcast burning of the woods. Some people say that it cannot be done, that it is a part of the very life of the people, is in fact regarded by many as an inalienable right, and that it is inevitable. But it can be _done, because it is already being done. I would hate to

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think that the situation in Georgia is any worse than it used to be in East Texas a:rid in Louisiana. Yet a big dent is being made in the progress of stopping forest fires in those States. Let Georgia take its cue not only from these two States, but as well from North Carolina, Tennessee, Virginia, West Virginia, Maryland and others, from the no less than 27 States all told which have seen the practical value of stamping out the forest fire menace. All of these have recogp.ized their responsibility to aid in providing timber supplies for their citizens for all time.''

TuRPE:NTINING.
No one who travels through the cut-over pine districts of South Georgia can fail to be impressed with the abundance of young growing timber which has followed the cutting of the original forests. Much of this young timber, which should be the source of our future supply of lumber and turpentine, is however being destroyed or rendered worthless by destructive methods of turpentining employed by some operators. No~ only are trees too small to withstand the check of the process being utilized but the larger sized trees are in very many instances hacked so heavily as to destroy their vitality and life within a few years. From the standpoint of perpetuating our pine forests and of providing a future supply of pine stumpage, your committee believes this situation to be an especially serious and menacing one. It is of the belief that turpentining, if properly done, is not antagonistic to the growing of timber crops; that, in fact, turpentining is a legitimate by-product operation, but it does not believe that our future supply of timber and turpentine should be menaced and curtailed by unrestricted and destructive methods.
Statement by Fonner Forester of the United States.
''Your committee, in discussing with the Hon. Henry S. Graves, Ex-Forester of the United States, the Forestry

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situation in Georgia, desires to call your attention to the following very pertinent statements made by him.

''The prosperity of Georgia will depend in a large part upon the way she handles her natural resources. Heretofore the forest resources in comparison to population have been so vast that the effect of wastefulness has not been felt.

''The depletion of the forests of the East is greatly increasing the net drain upon Georgia's forests for the national market. The time has already arrived when Georgia can no longer look upon her forests as a re!lerve of raw material for the general market. She must consider her own present and future needs. She must consider how her forests can supply the requirements of her growing population, build the ne" dwellings and farm improvements that will be needed, and supply the raw material for permanent forest industries.

''Georgia will soon cease to be a factor in supplying the nation's needs for lumber. Already four-fifths of the virgin forest is gone. Her annual production of lumber and turpentine is steadily declining, and this decline is not being adequately replaced by other development where the forest is being used up.

'Georgia's problem is now to determine how the for-

ests that remain can be made to serve in building up the

State on a permanent basis. This means prevention of

further wasteful dissipation of this resource and the sub-

stitution of constructive forest perpetuation for

methods of the present

fporraecstticuetsiliozfatdieovnaastnad-

tion by axe and fire.

''It is difficult for me to see how a prosperous Georgia can do with less than 750 million feet of lumber for her O\vn uses; and if any future development in keeping with the possibilities of this great State can materializr, she will need more.

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''Georgia has some excellent hardwood forests in the mountains and also in the bottom lands of the lower country. These hardwood forests furnish the basis for many small wood-using industries. Such industries may be made permanent if the forests are properly conserved and utilized. Think what it means to a farming community in the mountains to have a local furniture factory, to have a market for any mature logs a man p1ay have on his land, to haYe an opportunity each year to labor in the woods in slack times, to have a local market for crops, to have the industrial vitality that com.es from the presence of a manufacturing concern.

''Is it necessary to depict the community where the forest has been destroyed, the local sawmills and woodusing factories have closed, where the support of these industries in keeping up the roads, churches, and schools has been lost, where a large part of the land is no longer capable of yielding taxes and lies waste and a burden rather than an asset to the community?
"Such a picture applies in every region where the land is in part unadapted to cultivation and there are not many parts of the State where every acre can profitably be used for cultivation.
''The old idea still prevails that the forest is a temporary crop to be removed for settlement. Of course this is true where the land is needed for agriculture. But our lumbermen haYe seemed to proceed on the idea that they can strip off all the forest over thousands of acres, and may then invite settlers tq come upon the lands to establish homes. After the first lumbering comes the cutting for ties and poles and in the South the small trees are now being used up in a few years by destructive.methods of turpentining. Forest fires are not only allowed to burn but are set out to keep the ground clear; and this is preventing an adequate growth of pine.

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''The second growth pine in a region, the presence of young trees that now or soon can produce turpentine, the opportunities to secure an ample supply of fuel and pole wood for farm purposes are attractions to a settler. The widespread devastation of our coastal plain lands will be the greatest factor in prE!venting settlement. People will not come to a treeless Georgia..
''The question of the right handling of the forests is intimately tied in with the possible development of the State. It is not a problem of providing for future generations. It is one of insuring the new settlers with raw materials now, a question of having in different parts of the State timber and wood to aid in the establishment and maintenance of local wood-using industries, a question of improving the standards of convenience and comfort of the home rather than lowering it, a problem of making an attractive region for new comers in country and town.
'~Georgia must face her problem frankly. It doesn't do to say she has. unexhaustible forest resources, for she hasn't. She must recognize that a large part of the forest is burned over evety year and that steadily this is reducing her forest capital by injuring standing timber and retarding or completely preventing regrowth. Destructive dissipation of natural resources and progressive State development can not go hand in hand. If the first continues the se~on(l "ill not take place. It is not a difficult thing to prevent forest devastation by fire and otherwise, if the people want forests. But forests cannot be protected and perpetuated. unless the people all help to prevent fire and support the public agencies that will point the way to a better handling of them.''

GEORGIA's EssENTIAL NEEDs.
Although the virgin or original old growth of our State will soon be at an end, the State is still rich in possessing within its boundaries vast areas of forest land

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which is not suitable or needed for agricultural use. This land is naturally adapted to the rapid ~owing of forests. We have soil of wonderful forest productivity; we are blessed with long growing seasons and with native species which will produce merchantable crops in from 25 to 50 years and they yield a great variety of products of world value. We are fortunate in having such conditions as make the management of our forest lands comparatively simple if we but exercise that simple management, which your committee believes, embodies the first steps in solving our forest problem. They may be summarized as follows:
(1) The control and regulation of forest fires and the development of a public sentiment which recognizes the menace of forest fires and will co-operate in stamping them out.
(2) The stopping of the destruction of young pine timber by improper and ruthless methods of turpentining. Your committee believes the naval stores industry will readily co-operate in placing fair and reasonable restrictions upon operators.
(3) The general education of the people of the State to the value of our forests and our forest lands, their place and importance in our economic lives, and our dependency upon their products, to the end that there may be developed a sane and enlightened public attitude with respect to our forest sitnation and its urgency as a public problem.

RECOMMENDATIONS.
Your committee believes that the foregoing needs can be met only by the State assuming the responsibility of leadership in the forestry work of the State. This conclusion is based upon the experience of other States where no advancement in forestry was obtainable until the

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States themselves recognized their responsibilities and created forest departments authorized by law to protect their forests and to promote forest management throughout the State. Today, thirty-four States of the Union have forest departments and are appropriating a total of $4,000,000 annually for forest work. Twenty States are acquiring State forests, a total of almost 6,000,000 acres having been acquired to date.
In conclusion your committee respectfully wishes to submit the following recommendations for your careful consideration and action:
1. The establishment by action of the General Assembly of Georgia of an independent forestry organization to be supervised by and subject only to the State Board of Forestry.
2. The g1vmg of the necessary police powers to the personnel of this organization to afford the proper means of enforcing all forestry laws in Georgia.
3. The financing of this organization and the work of the Board through a special forestry fund to be derived either by a severance tax similar to that now in effect in Louisiana or by occupational tax drawn along the line of that in Florida. Copies of the two acts referred to are attached and are marked Exhibits C and D.
-!. Th~ exclusive use of such funds to be under the direct jurisdiction of the Georgia State Board of Foreiltry and us'ed for the protection and reproduction of our natural forest area.
5. That special technical investigations and studies be carried on by the forestry organization for the advancement of adequate forestry policies in the State.
6. That advantage be taken of the co-operation offered. by the Federal Government for fire prevention in the

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same way tha. Federal Aid is supplied for highway con'struction.
7. That the' attached copies of proposed bills which your committee has drawn to meet the requirements of a forestry policy in Georgia be given the endorsement of the Board and submitted with the report of this Board to the General Assembly for action.

Respectfully submitted, S. W. McCALLIE, B. H. STONE, H. G. SPAHR.

A BILL to be
ENTITLED, An Act to promote Forestry interests in the State of Geor'gia under the direction of the Georgia State Board of Forestry; to increase the powers and duties of such Board and to more fully define them; to provide for a State }<'orester, the manner of his appointment and to prescribe his qualifications, powers and duties; to provide for a system of Forestry protection, management and replacement, and for its maintenance; to provide a State Forestry fund; to provide for State Forests and for other purposes.
SECTION L Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the object of this Act is to bring about, so far as may be, the production of timber on all forested and cut-over land in State or private ownership not now required for other uses than the growth of timber, in order to insure an adequate and continuous supply of forest products for the use and necessities of the citizens and industries of the State.

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SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the a~thority aforesaid, That the short title of this Act shall be ''The Foresf Act."
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the terms of office of the four citizen members of the Georgia State Board of Forestry created by the Act of the Legislature approved August 15, 1921, and found in Georgia Laws 1921, page 192, shall expire on the first day of September, 1923, 1924, 1925, and 1926, respectively, the term of each to be designated by the Governor; and their successors shall be appointed by the Governor for terms of four years, beginning on the day next following the last day of the expired term, except that any person chosen to fill an unexpired term shall be appointed only for the unexpired term of the member whom he shall succeed. So far as practicable all such appointees shall be selected with reference to their knowledge of and interest in the production and use of forest products in the industries of the State.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the State Board of Forestry hereinafter called the Board shall meet annually at some regular time to be determined upon by the Board and on call of the President at such other times as occassion may require. The members of the Board shall receive no cempensation for their services as such, but they shall be reimbursed for their reasonable expenses while in the performance of their duties.

DuTms AND PowERS OF THE BoARD.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the duties and powers of the Board shall be :
(1) Perso~i (a) Sta.'te 1\>rester.-To appoint a State Forester who shall have been technically trained in the profession of forestry and in addition shall have had at least two years experience in the practical and adminis-

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trative work of that profession, the exact extent and character of which shall be certified by the Secretary of the United States Department of Agriculture, to demote or remove such State Forester only for just cause, due public hearing and record of the proceedings being made by the Board ; to pay him such salary and allow him such office and other expenses incidental to the performance of his official duties as the Board in its discretion deems necessary; to require the State Forester to devote his whole time to the duties of his office and to attend all meetings of the Board and to charge him, under full authority of law, with the immediate direction and control (subject only to the supervision and approval of the Board) of all matters relating to forestry as authorized by this Act or as may be otherwise authorized by law.
(b) Subordinate Personnel.-To appoint as occasion may require, remove for cause, define the qualifications and duties, assign them titles, and fix the compensation of such technical forestry assistants and other subordi. nate employees as may be necessary and designate those who shall have, and they are hereby given, police powers in and concerning all matters relating to or connected with the State Forests, hereinafter provided for, and the enforcement of any and all other provisions mentioned in or coming within the scope and purpose of this Act.
(2) Forest Fires.-To take such action and provide and maintain such organized means as possible and as may seem necessary to prevent, control, and extinguish forest fires including the enforcement of any and all laws pertaining to the protection of forests and woodlands.
(3) Forestation.-(a) To encourage forest and tree planting for the production of a wood crop, for the protection of water supply, for windbreak and shade or for any other beneficial purpose contributing to the general welfare, public \lygiene and comfort of the people.

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(b) To grow, collect, purchase, or import for such purposes such necessary trees, plants and shrubs and their seeds, cuttings, or other means by which they may he propagated, and to dispose of the planting materials so grown, collected, purchased, or imported, under such contracts, terms, and conditions, as in the judgment of the Board, may be to the public interest under this Act.
(4) Technical Investigations and Studies.-To cause to be made such technical investigations and studies concerning forest conditio.ns, the propagation, care, and protection of forest and shade trees, the care and management of forests, their growth, yield, and the products and byproducts thereof, and the industries incidental thereto, and any other competent subject, including forest taxation, bearing on the timber supply and needs of the State which the Board in its discretion may deem proper.
(5) Co-operation and Assistance.-To assist and cooperate with, under such terms as in the jujdgement of the Board will best serve the public interests, any Federal or State Department or institution, county, town, corporation, or individual in the preparation and execution of plans for the protection, management, replacement, or extention of the forest, woodland and roadside or other ornamental tree g-rowth in the State.
(6) Education and Publication.-To encourage public interest in the forests and forestry, by means of correspondence, the public press, periodicals, and moving pictures, the publication of bulletins and leaflets for general distribution, and delivery of lectures.
(7) Care and Management of State Forests.-To have the general care, custody, control, and regulation of all lands set apart or acquired for State Forest purposes, to devise ways and means by which State Forests shall be made so far as possible self-supporting; and to that end the Board may, and hereby is authorized, under such

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rules and regulations as it shall prescribe, to dispose of by sale, licence, permits, or any other appropriate means, any timber or other products, and to lease, or otherwise grant under limited permit and subject to its supervision and a reasonable charge, the occupancy and use of any land, water, or other resource of the State Forests not inconsistent with the purposes for which said Forests are established.
(8) Rules and Regula.tions.-To make rules and regulations for carrying out the provisions specifically mentioned in this or any other Act which the Board may be given-'authority ,to enforce. All rules and regulations so made when incorporated in the records of the Board and public notice given of that fact shall have the force and effect of law after the expiration of 60 days, unless it can be shown that an emergency exists by which the public interest is seriously endangered when the specific rule or regulation involved shall by public notice be made immediate.ly effective: Provided. That any court of competent jurisdiction may suspend the operation of any order or regulation for such time, not to exceed 60 days, as may be necessary to grant a public hearing or hearings to any person or persons aggrieved thereby.
(9) Supervision of Expenditures.-To control the expenditures of any and all funds appropriated or otherwise made available for the several purposes set forth in this Act, and under suitable regulations and restrictions to specifically authori;r,e any officer or employee of the Board to incur necessary and stipulated expenses in connection with the work upon which such person may be engaged.
(10) Biennial Report.-To submit biennially to the Legislature a report of the expenditures, proceedings, and results achieved, together with such other matters including recommendations concerning legislation as are germane to the aims and purposes of this Act.

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SEC. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board is hereby authorized and empowered, from time to time, to set apart and reserve as State Forests any lands acquired under Section 7 for the purpose of timber production, game and wild life protection, securing favorable conditions of waterflow, recreational and such other uses as the Board deems proper, and as areas upon which forestry may be demonstrated as a means of preventing the waste of the poorer grade soils through idleness and erosion by utilizing them for the production of timber and other forest products.

SEC. 7. Be it further enacted by the authoritytaforesaid, That lands necessary for the purposes outlined in the preceding section, including any which may already belong to the State not otherwise devoted to some public purpose may be acquired by the Board for State Forests, the title to vest in the name of the State, their acquisiti~n by the Board, which hereby is authorized, to be by gift, or by purchase approved by an Act of the Legislature. No title or interest in any of the said lands, held as State Forests under this Act shall be subject to be taken by any body-corporate, whether municipal or a private corporation, or any person whatsoever possessing the power of eminent domain by condemnation proceedings against the Board or the State: Provided. That the Regulations of the Board shall provide under suitable conditions for the issuance of easements for rights of way and other uses of the land which are desirable for the public welfare.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all moneys derived from the license tax imposed on the business of severing forest products, together with all moneys derived from the sale of timber or other products from the State Forests, and all moneys derived from penalties, minus the cost of prosecution imposed for the violation of this Act, shall be covered into the State

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Treasury and placed to the credit of a special fund to be

known as the Forestry Fund, which fund is hereby appro-

priated and made available for expenditure as the Board

may direct in carrying out the purposes of this Act.

SEC. 9. Be it further t>nacted by the authority aforesaid, That until sufficient moneys are derived from the sources named for the Forestry Fund as provided by this Act, a sum not to exceed ten thousand dollars ($10,000) is hereby authorized to be placed to the credit of the Forestry Fund from moneys not otherwise expended in the State Treasury in order that the Board may begin its administrative work without delay: Provided. That any part of said sum that may be expended by the Board will be refunded in the State Treasury from the Forestry Fund when moneys are aYailable from the other sources named in this Act.

SEC. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be unlawful to do any of the following acts, to wit :

(1) To drop within or near forest lands any lighted match, cigar, cigarette or pipe tobacco without completely extinguishing the same.
(2) To leave camp or other fires unextinguished and unattended in or near forest lands.
(3) To negligently allow fires in or near forest land to escape and damage the property of another.
Any person, firm or corporation violating any of the
provisions of this Section or who violates any of the rules and regulations made by the Board under the provisions of Section 5, Sub-Section 8 of this Act, or who violates any of the Forestry Fire Laws in the Georgia Code of 1910, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction shall be punished under the provision of Section 1065 of the Penal Code of 1910.

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SEC. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall take effect immediately upon its passage and its approval by the Governor. If any clause, sentence, para!!raph, or part of this Act shall be adjudged or decreed by any court of competent jurl.sdiction to be invalid, such judgment or decree shall not affect, impair, or invalidate the remainder thereof but shall be confined in its operations to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or part thereof directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment or decree shall have been rendered.
SEC. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, 'fhat all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

EXHIBI'l' C. ACT No. 31. House Bill No. 223, Substitute for House Bill No. 119.

AN ACT.
To carry into effect Article 229 of the Constitution of 1898 as amended at the rlection in November, 1910, and as repeated in the Constitution of 1913, by levying a licrnse tax upo~ all persons, firms, corporations, or associations of persons engaged in the business of severing natural resources from the soil or water; including all forms of timber, turpentine and other forest products; minerals, such as oil, gas, sulphur, salt, coal and ores; also marble, stone, gravel, sand, shells and other natural deposits; and prescribing the method of collecting and enforcing thr payment of such license tax ; requiring all those engaged in the severance of, and dealing in, such natural resources to make such reports of their business as may be necessary for the proper enforcement of this act; to provide penalties; and to repeal certain laws and all laws in conflict herewith.

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SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, That there is hereby levied a licrnse tax for the year 1920 and for each subsequent year upon each person, firm, corporation or association of persons engaged in the business of serving natural resources from the soil or water; including all forms of timber, turpentine and other forest products; minerals, such as oil, gas, sulphur, salt, coal and ores; also marble, stone, gravel, sand, shells and other natural deposits. Said license taxes shall be collected quarterly by the tax collectors as hereinafter set forth and paid into a special fund which is hereby created to be known as the Severance License Tax Fund of the State of Louisiana. The license to operate in each quarter shall. be based on the market value of the quantity severed in the last preceding quarter-annual period.
SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, etc., That every such person, firm, corporation or association of persons engaged within the State in the business of severing any or all such natural resources from the soil or water shall, within thirty (30) days after the expiration of each quarter-annual period expiring, respectively, on the last day of June, September, December, and March of each year, file with the Supervisor of Public Accounts a statement under oath, on forms prescribed by him, of the business conducted by such persons, firm, corporation or association of persons during the last preceding quarter-annual period, showing the kind of natural resources so severed or produced, the gross quantity and actual cash value thereof, and such other reasonable and necessary information pertaining thereto as the Supervisor of Public Accounts may require for the proper enforcement of the provisions of this act. There shall also be shown on such quarterly reports the location of each such natural resource and the place or places where produced or severed from the soil or water. At the time of rendering such quarter-annual report each such person, firm, corporation or association

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of persons shall concurrently file a duplicate thereof with, and pay to, the tax collector of the parish where said natural resource is taken or severed from the soil or water a license tax equal to two per centum (2%) of the gross value of the total production thereof dur1ng the preceding three months; and the value of all such products shall be computed as of the time when, and at the place where, each such product or natural resource is severed or taken from soil or water. For the purpose of this act the market value of all such products or natural resources shall be computed in their unmanufactured state immediately after severance from the soil or water.
The making of said reports, and th~ payment of said license taxes, shall be by those actually engaged in the operation of severing, whether it be the owner of the soil, or a lessee who is severing from the soil of another, or the o\vner of any such natural resources severing from the soil of another.
SEC. 3. Be it further enacted etc., That the Supervisor of Public Accounts shall have the power to require any such person, firm, corporation or association of persons engaged in severing all such natural products from the soil or water to furnish any additional information by him deemed to be necessary for the purpose of computing the amount of said license tax; and for said purpose to examine the books, records, and files of such person, firm, corporation or association of persons; and to that end shall have power to examine witnesses, and if any such \\"itness shall fail or refuse to appear at the request of the Supervisor of Public Accounts, or refuse access to books, records and files, said Supervisor of Public Accounts shall certify the facts and the name of the witness so failing and refusing to appear, or refusing access to books and papers, to the District Court of the State having jurisdiction of the party; and said court shall thereupon issue a summons to the said party to appear

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before the said Supervisor or his assistant, at a place designated within the jurisdiction of the court, on a day fixed, to be continued as occasion may require, and give such evidence, and open for inspection such books and papers, as may be required, for the .purpose of ascertaining whether or not any return so made is the true and correct return as herein required; and whenever it shall appear to the Supervisor that any such person, firm, corporation or association of persons engaged in severing such natural products from the soil or water has unlawfully made an untrue or incorrect return, as herein provided, said Supervisor shall correct the return and shall compute said license tax on same, and certify the same to the tax collector for collection.
SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, etc., That the license tax provided by this act shall become delinquent after the date fixed for each quarter-annual report to be filed in the office of the Supervisor of Public Accounts, and from such time shall, as a penalty for such delinquency, be subject to similar penalties to those provided in the general license laws of this State; and the payment of the license tax levied by this act shall be in addition to, and shall not affect the liability of the parties so taxed for, the payment of all state, paroc_hial, municipal, district and special taxes upon their real estate and other corporeal property; but no other tax in addition hereto shall be imposed upon the rights to produce in this State those things whose production is~ubject to a license tax by the provisions of this act.
SEC. 5. Be it further enacted, etc., That if any person, firm, corporation or association of persons shall fail to make a report of the gross production and value of its natural products (upon which the license tax is herein levied) within the time prescribed by law for such report, it shall be the duty of the Supervisor of Public Accounts to examine the books, records, and files of any

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such person, firm, corporation or association of persons to ascertain the amount and value of such production and to compute the tax thereon as provided herein, and according to the procedure hereinbefore provided, where witnesses refuse to testify, or access to books and papers is refused, and shall add thereto the cost of such examination, together with any penalties accruing thereon.

SEC. 6. Be it further enacted, etc., That when any license tax provided for in this act shall become delinquent, the Supervisor of Public Accounts shall issue an order directed to the Sheriff of any parish wherein the same or any part thereof accrued, and the sheriff to whom said order shall be directed shall proceed against the property, assets, and effects of the person, firm, corporation or association of persons against whom said license tax is assessed in the same manner as he is authorized by the general license laws to proceed in the collection of delinquent licenses, collecting penalties as prescribed by general laws.
SEC. 7. Be it further enacted, etc., That any person who shall intentionally make any false oath to any report required by the provisions of this act shall be deemed guilty of perjury and shall be subject to all penalties prescribed for said crime.
SEC. 8. Be it further enacted, etc., That it is hereby made the duty of the Supervisor of Public Accounts to supervise and enforce the collection of all license taxes that may be due under the provisions of this act; and, to that end, the said Supervisor is hereby vested with all of the power and authority conferred by this act.
SEC. 9. Be it further enacted, etc., That it is hereby made the duty of all purchasers and others dealing in any natural product severed from the soil or water of Louisiana to file quarterly with the said Supervisor of Public Accounts a statement, under oath, showing the

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names and addresses of all persons, firms, corporations or associations of persons from whom each said purchaser or dealer has purchased any natural product severed from the soil or water of Louisiana during said quarter; together with the total quantity of, and gross value paid for, each such natural product. Said reports shall be filed within thirty (30) days after the expiration of each quarter, and shall be made on such forms as may be prescribed by said Supervisor of Public Accounts. The failure of any person, firm, corporation or association of persons to make reports as herein provided shall be punished by fine of not less than fifty dollars ($50.00) nor m:ore than five hundred dollars ($500.00) for each such offense.

SEC. 10. Be it further enacted, etc., That Act No. 296

of 1914 and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the

provisions of the present Ae.t, and especially Act No. 20

of the Extra Session of 1918, be and the same are hereby

repealed; provided, however, that nothing contained in

this act shall in any wise be construed to impair, or de-

prive the State of whatever rights it may have against

parties subject to a license tax under said Act No. 20 of

the Extra Session of 1918 and other laws; and all rights,

interests and titles of the State to any license taxes that

may be legally due under said Act No. 20 of the Extra Ses-

sion of 1918 and other laws are hereby specially reserved,



whether the same be in litigation or not; it being the true

intent and purpose of the present act that said Act No. 20

of the Extra Session of 1918 and other laws shall remain

in full force and effect until such license taxes shall be-

come due under this present act; and no obligation that

may be due the State for license taxes under said Act

No. 20of the Extra Session of 1918, and other laws prior

to the date when this present act shall go into effect shall

in any manner be impaired; provided further that all

funds collected under this act and said prior tax laws

shall be turned into the Severance License Tax Fund of the State of Lousiana.

Sig. 19

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SEC. 11. Be it further enacted, etc., That this act shall take effect from and after July 1, 1920; and the first quarterly report thereunder, and license tax payable on the value of the production shown thereby, shall be computed on the operations of the preceding three months ending June 30, 1920. .

SEC; 12. Be it further enacted, etc., That if any clause, sentence, paragraph, or part of this act, shall for any reason be adjudged by any court of competent jurisdiction to be invalid, such judgment shall not affect, impair or invalidate the remainder of this act; but shall be confined in its operation to the clause, sentence, paragraph, or any part thereof, directly involved in the controversy in which such judgment has been rendered.

EXHIDIT D.
' REVISED GENERAL STATUTES OF FLORIDA,
1920 (VOL. 1.) CHAPTER II. OF TITLE VI.
Occupationa! Taxes and Licenses Involvilng Forest Products.

A large and inclusive list of business and occupations

, are required to pay an occupational tax or license, ex-

cept farmers and growers producing and offering for sale



farm and grove products and products manufactured

therefrom by them other than intoxicating liquors, wine

or beer; the county tax being placed at 50 per cent. of the

state tax, and municipalities being allowed to levy up to

50 per cent thereof. Among the said businesses and oc-

cupations are those mentioned in the sections below, in-

volving forest products. (See sections 803, 804, 805, m Vol. I of said code; and section 995~ shown below).

FOREST PRODUCTS.
Primary Operations.
SEC. 885. Distillers a.nd ma.nufacturers of spirits of turpentine and rosin.-Distillers and manufacturers of

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spirits of turpentine and rosin: Owners or managers of each still in operation during any portion of the year for which the same is taxed, shall pay a license tax as follows:
On each still with a capacity of sixteen barrels or less, shall pay a license tax of twenty dollars.
On each still with a capacity of over sixteen barrels and not more than twenty barrels, shall pay a license tax of thirty-five dollars.
On each still with a capacity of more than twenty barrels and not over twenty-five barrels, shall pay a license tax of forty-five dollars.
On each still with a capacity of twenty-five barrels or over, shall pay a license of sixty-five dollars.
SEC. 791. Retort plants (Wood distillation plants).Retort plants with a capacity of twenty-five barrels, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars; less than twentyfive and more than fifteen barrels, fifteen dollars; less than fifteen barrels and more than ten, ten dollars.
SEC. 979. Saw mills, planing mills, dry kilns.-Saw mills, including planing mills and dry kilns, shall pay a license tax as follows :
With a daily capacity of ten thousand feet or less, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars : Provided, That saw mills cutting less than three thousand feet per day shall pay no license.
With a daily capacity of more than ten thousand feet and less than twenty-five thousand feet, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars.
With a daily capacity of twenty-five thousand feet and less than fifty thousand feet, shall pay a license tax of fifty dollars.

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With a daily capacity of more than fifty thousand feet, shall pay a license tax of one hundred dollars.
SEC. 980. Shingle mills.-Shingle mills, whether connected with a saw mill or not, shall pay a license tax as follows:
With a daily capacity of twenty-five thousand shingles or more, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars.
With a daily capacity of less than twenty-five thousand shingles, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars.

Secondary Operations.
SEC. 867. Carriage or wagon factories.-Carriage or wagon factories, owners or managers of, shall pay a license tax of five dollars.
SEC. 893. Furniture dea.lers.-Furniture, dealers in, with a capital of seventy-five thousand dollars or more, shall pay a license tax of fifty dollars; with a capital less than seventy-five thousand and not less than fifty thousand dollars, shall pay a license tax of thirty-five dollars.
With a capital less than fifty thousand and not less than twenty-five thousand dollars, shall pay a license tax of twenty dollars, and with a capital less than twenty-five thousand dollars, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars. Provided, that this does not apply to persons paying a merchant's license.
SEC. 920. Lumber dealers.-Lumber dealers, carrying a stock on hand and sellng at retail, shall pay a license tax of fifteen dollars.
Buying or selling on commission or exporting, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars.
SEC. 923. Manufacturers. etc.-Manufacturers of barrels, tubs and buckets, by machinery, shall pay a license tax of twenty-five dollars.

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Manufacturers of turpentine barrels, shall pay a liceBse tax of twenty-five dollars for each factory.

Manufacturers of vegetable crates or fruit crates shall
I
pay a license tax of fifteen dollars.

Manufacturers of sash, doors and blinds, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars.

Manufacturers of furniture, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars.

Manufacture of pencils or cedar slats employing twenty-five hands or more, shall pay a license tax. of twenty-five dollars; employing less than twenty-five hands, shall pay a license tax of ten dollars.

SEC. 937. Naval stores factors, etc.-Naval stores fac-

tors, or persons, firms or corporations organized for th~

purpose of handling naval stores, shall pay a license tax

as follows :



Having a capital stock of two million dollars or over,

pay a license tax of five hundred dollars for each place

of business.



Having a capital stock of ()De million and less than two

million dollars, shall pay a license tax of two hundred and

fifty dollars for each place of business.

,

Having a capital stock of less than one million dollars and more than five hundred thousand dollars, one hun~ dred and fifty dollars for each place of business.
Having a capital stock of five hundred thousand dollal1J and more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, one hundred dollars for each place of business.
Having a capital stock of two hundred and :fifty thousand dollars and more than one hundred thousand dollars fifty dollars for each place of business.

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. Having: a, capital stock of one hundred thousand dol-

lars or less, twenty-five dollars for each place of busi-

ness.

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.



';

'

SEC. 958. Planing mills.~Planing mills and novelty

works, not connected, with saw mills, shall pay a license

tu of teildollars.

SEC. 991. Wa.gon f&ctories.-Wagon factories shall pay a license tax of ten dollars.

ExEMPTION
SEC. 996. Fa.rm and grove products exempt from license t&x;-That all farm and! grove products, and prod-
ucts manufactured therefrom, 'except intoxicating liquors, wine or beer, shall be exempt from all forms of license tipr, State, county and municip~l, when the same is being oflere'd for sale or sold by the farmer or grower producing
the said products.

. By unanimous consent the following bill of the Hdnse was withdrawn from the Committee on County and County Matters, read the second time, and recommitted:
I.
By Mr. McGarity of Paulding-
Rouse. :Sill No. 830. A bill to amend an Act
abolishing Paulding Board of Commissioners.
The following resolutions of the House were read an~ adopted:

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
. HoJIS.e Resolution No, 193. A., resolution that until otherwise ordered, beginning next Tuesday

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morning that the House convene at nine o'clock, and that the House have afternoon sessions beginning at three o'clock.

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
House Resolution No. 192. A resolution relative to holding up of "The Capitol Removal Bill" until after trip of General Assem~ly to Savannah.

By Mr. McDonald of Richmond-
House Resolution No. 194. A resolution extend. ing the privileges of the floor to Hon. Geo. B. Barrett of August-a.
Under the order of unfinished business the following bill of the House, set as a special order on the: recommendation of the Committee on Rules for a second reading and for the purpose of disagreei.Dg to the unfavorable report of the committee, vms taken up for further consideration:

By Mr. ~altkins of Butts-

House Bill No.6. A bill to repeal an Act to regu-:

late the return and assessment of property for taxa-'

tion in this State.

'

;

The bill had been read the second time.

On the question of agreeing to the report of the

committee, which was unfavorable to the passage :of .

the bill, Mr. Reagan of Henry moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main ques~

tion was ordered.



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L On the question of agreeing to the report of the committee, which was unfavorable to the passage of the bill, the Ayes were 56, Nays 107, and the report of the committee was not agreed to.
Mr. Watkins of Butts moved that the House disagree to the report of the committee, which was unfavorable to the passage of the bill.
Mr. Stovall, of McDuffie, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

. On thi& question Mr. Bentley of Fulton called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was sustained,
. The roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

...Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

1\dalll.5 of Walton
And~rson
Baldwin Beck Bird of Taliaferro Bleckley Bloodworth Hob!' Bowden Braddy Brown of Hancock Brownlee Byrd of Crisp qamp Carr Cim;well Ohilds Cl.ark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton

Collier Corbitt Culpepper . Daniel of Troup Davis of Oglethorpe DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dfxon .IJuncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall EnniR Evans Ficklen Fletcher Fowler Foy
Frank~
Grant Griffin Griffith

Greene Gunnels Haddock Harris Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway Horne Houser Houston Howard of Forsyth Howard of Scre\"en Hullender Hyman

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585

Jackson

}Iundy

Jones of \Valker

Neal of Union

Johnson of Bartow Owen

Johnson ol

Patten

Chattahoochee Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

Kittrell

Pickren

Knight

Pilcher

Langford of Hall

Price

Lankford of Toombs Pruett

Lewis

Ramsey

Logan

Reagan

Luke

Reville

McClelland

Ricketson

McClure

Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

McGarity

Sapp

McMichael

Shettlesworth.

Maddox

Sibley

Malone

Singletary

Mayo

Smiley

Mixon

Smith of Bryan

::\Ioore of Appling

Steele

Moore of Fulton

Stone

.. Stovall
Sumner of Johnson

~umner of .Wheeler

Swift

Swindle Tatum

.

Thompson of Dodge

Van Landingham

VanZant

Walker

Watkins

Way

Webb

Whjtaker of Rockdale

Whitworth

Williams of H.arris. Williams of Miller\.

Williams of Walton

Wimberly

Wood

Woodard

Worthy

Wyatt

Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Arnold Atkinson Beckham Bentley Blalock Boatwright Boswell Bowen Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Bush Coates

Davis of Floyd DeFoor Dobbs Dudlf>y Dykes Folsom Gresham Grovenstein Guess Hamilton Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hunter Jones of Coweta Johnson of Pickens

King of Jefferson ::\IcDonald of Mitc~ell ::\-Iaclntyre :Yianning :Mason Miles l\oloye Nichols Parks Parrish Penland Perkins Perryman Riley Robinson

J ouBNAL OF THE HousE,

Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether Strickland

Thompson of Coweta Turner Tyson Valentino

V ocelle 'Veston Winship

Those not voting were Messrs :

Boyett Bozeman Collins Cowart Daniel of Heard DuBose

Gann Hufstetler Jones of Thomas King of Wilcox Mann Quincey

Trippe Wall Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes ~Ir. Speaker

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.
On the question of disagreeing to the report of the committee the Ayes were 134, Nays 56.
The motion of Mr. Watkins of Butts prevailed, the report of the committee, which was unfavorable to the passage of he bill, was disagreed to, and the bill took its proper place upon the calendar.
Mr. DeLaPerriere of Jackson moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Salmon of .fi~loyd and Kennedy of Laurens.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

THURSDAY, JULY 27, 1922.

58i

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLAN.T:A, GA.,

Thursday, July .27,1922. "
The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was ~led to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
By unanimous consent th~ call of the, roll was dis~ pensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the .Journal
of yesterday's proceedings w~s dispensed :~vith. .:
By unanimous .consent the following bill of .the
House was withdrawn from the Committee on Generai Judiciary No. 2, read the second time, and re: committed:

By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-.
House Bill No. 853. A bill to amend an Act rel~ tive to the incorporation of the City of St. Marys.
By unanimous consent the following was estab~ lished as the order of business during the remaining part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. R-eading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.

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4. Passage ~f uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.
. 5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the: committees:

By Mr. Perryman of Talbot:
House Resolution No. 196 (864A). A resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate penal institutions.
'Referred to Committee on Penitentiary.
By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Resolution No. 197 (869A). A resolution appointing committee to investigate report of State College of Agriculture and Department of Agriculture.
Lie on table.
By Messrs. Turner of Brooks and Perryman of Talbot-
House Bill No. 856. A bill to amend an Act authorizing State Highway Department to regulate weight of vehicles going over bridges.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.
By Messrs. Atkinson, Hunter and V.alentino of Chatham-

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589

A bill to amend the charter of the City of Savannah.

Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Messrs. Clarke and Lewis of Colquitt-

House Bill No. 858. A bill to require officers of State to attest signing of documents in certain cases.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.

By Messrs. DuBose and Dudl'ey of Clarke___,
House Bill No. 859. A bill to appropriate $15,000 to University of Georgia for use of State College of Agriculture.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

B~r Messrs. Neill, Perkins and Hatcher of Muscogee-
House Bill Ko. 860. A bill to extend the corporate limits of the City of Columbus.
Referred to General .Judiciary Committee No. 2.

By Mr. Pickren of Charlton-
House Bill No. 861. A bill to require non-residents of Charlton County to secure licenses to fish in said County.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

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By Mr. Hamilton of FloydHouse Bill No. 862. A bill to require the teaching
of the Constitution in the schools of the State.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Messrs. Reville and Pilcher of Richmond-
House Bill No. 863. A bill to amend Section 6065 of Code of 1910 relative to official organ of certain counties.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.

By Mr. Turner of Brooks-
House Bill No. 864. .A bill to amend an Act and amendatory Acts, relative to definition of "trailer" and other words.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By M.r. Camp of Campbell-
House Bill No. 865. A bill to appropriate money to pay debt due on publ'ic printing, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
By Mr. DeLaPerriere of Jackson-
House Bill No. 866. A bill to appropriate money to contingent fund for the Governor.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

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591

By Mr. Reagan of Henry-
House Bill No. 867. A bill to appropriate money for upkeep of public.buildings and grounds.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill' No. 868. A bill to appropriate money to pay insurance premiums on State property.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Woodard of Cook-
House Bill No. 869. A bill to amend sections 696 and 697 of Code of 1910, relative to laying out and opening of public roads.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
Mr. McD.onald of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

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House Bill No. 854. House Bill No. 849.

McDoNALD of Richmond,

Chairman.

:\Ir. Gunnels of Franklin County, Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics, submitted. the following report:

Jlr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me a Chairman, to report the same hack to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass by substitute:

House Bill No. 327. GuNNELLs, of Franklin, Chairman.

Mr. Van Landingham of Seminole County, Chairman of the Committee on Banks and Banking, submitted the following report:

Jl r. Speaker:
Your Committee on Banks and Banking have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report same back to the House with the recommendation that

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593

House Bills Nos. 801 and 754 do pass, and that House Bill No. 712 do not pass.
VAN LANDINGHAM of Seminole,
Chairman.

:Mr. Mason of Hart County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Libraries, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Public Libraries have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report same back to the Uouse with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended:
House Bill No. 734.
MASON of Hart,
Chairman.

Mr. Hyman of Washington County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Municipal Government have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do not pass:

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House Bill No. 814.

HYMAN of Washington,

Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Lankford of Toombs County, Chairman of the Committee on Amendments of the Constitution, submitted the following report:

1Vlr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Amendments to the Constitution have had under consideration the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate respectively and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Resolution No. 188, by amendment.
Senate Bill No. 42.
LANKFORD of To'ombs,
Chairman.

l\lr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same

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back to the Hlouse with the recommendation that the same do pass :

House Bill No. 798.

PICKREN of Charlton,
Chainnan.
Mr. Vocelle of Camden County, Chainnan of the Committee on Game and Fish, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Game and Fish have had under consideration the follo'Ying bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
Senate Bill No. 214.

VocELLE of Camden, Chainnan.

Mr. Guess of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary.No. 1 have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chair

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man, to report same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 744, do pass. Senate Bill No. 172, do pass. House Bill No. 775, do pass. Senate Bill No. 174, do pass. House Bill No. 684, do pass by substitute. House Bill No. 663, do pass by substitute. House Bill No. 569, do pass by, substitute.
GuEss, Chairman.

~Ir. Hullender of Catoosa, Chairman of the Com mittee on Enrollment, submitted the following report:

J/ r. Speaker:
The Committee on Enrollment has examined, found properly enrolled, signed and ready for deliYery to the Governor, the following Acts and reso lutions, to-wit:
House Resolution No. 156 (737B). A resolution to elect members of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Jasper County by popular vote.
House Bill No. 425. A bill to create a new charter for the Town of Fry, Fannin County.
House Bill No. 559. A bill to change the terms of holding court of Swainesboro.

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House Bill No. 584. A bill to amend the charter of the City Court of Claxton.
House Bill No. 598. A bill to amend Section 1249 of the Code of 1910 relative to the selection of banks by the Governor so as to include the City of Waynesboro.
House Bill No. 600. A bill to amend the Act relative to the fire department of City of Augusta.
House Bill No. 602. A bill to amend an Act to establish the Public Schools for Warrenton.
House Bill No. 604. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Nicholson, in Jackson County.
House B'ill No. 616. A bill to amend an Act and amendatory Acts incorporating the Town of Whigham.
House Bill No. 646. A bill to abolish the local school system for the Town of Stapleton.
House Bill No. 661. A bill to amend an Act establishing a charter for the City of Sylvester.
Hause Bill No. 681. A bill to amend an Act establishing the City Court of Statesboro.
House Bill No. 687. A bill to amend the charter of the City of \Vaynesboro.

House Bill No. 696. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Americus.

House Bill No. 697. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Fitzgerald.

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House Bill No. 702. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Colquitt.

House Bill No. 703. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the Town of Canton, Cherokee County.

House Bill No. 727. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Clarksville, Habersham County.

House Bill No. 733. A bill to amend an Act incor. porating the City of Elberton, Elbert County.

House Bill No. 755. A bill to amend an Act incor. porating the City of Chamblee, DeKalb County.

House Bill No. 761. A bill to vest title to certain lands in Commons of City of Columbus.
House Bill No. 772. A bill to repeal an Act establishing Public School system in Abbeville, Wilcox County.
House Bill No. 778. A bill to amend an Act relative to City Court of Oglethorpe, Macon County.
House Bill No. 790. A bill to repeal an Act establishing system of Public Schools of Alamo, Wheeler County.

Respectfully submitted, HuLLENDER of Catoosa, Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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Mr. Speaker:

The Senate has passed. by the requisite constitutional majority the following House bills, to-wit:

House Bill No. 559. A bill to change the terms of the City Court of Swainsboro.

House Bill No. 598. A bill to. create a State depository at Waynesboro, Ga.

The following bills as amended:

House Bill No. 683. A bill to amend an Act creat-

ing a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Reve-

nues for Jasper County.



House Bill No. 77'2. A bill to repeal an Act establishing a system of Public Schools in wilcox County.

House Bill No. 778. A bill to amend an Act amending an Act establishing a City Court for the City of Oglethorpe.

House Bill No. 790. Abill to repeal an Act establishing a system of Public Schools for the City of Alamo.

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House resolutions, towit:
House Resolution No. 156. A resolution to elect members of the Commission of Roads and Revenues of Jasper County by popular vote.

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The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate bills, to-wit:

Senate Bill No. 230. A bill authorizing Legislature to add one or more additional Judges of Superior Court for the Stone Mountain Circuit.

Senate Bill No. 197. A bill to amend. an Act placing Solicitor-General of Cherokee Circuit on salary.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills and resolutions:
Senate Bill No. 263. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to establish the City Court of Eastman, in the County of Dodge; to define its jurisdiction and powers, and for other purposes.
Senate Bill No. 218. A bill to be entitled an Act to incorporate the City of .Jesup; to provide for the election of officers and fixing their salaries, their term of office, their right of taxation, their right to control public property for school purposes, etc., and for other purposes.
Senate Bill No. 242. An Act entitled an Act to amend the charter of the City of Covington, Georgia, Laws 1918, Sections 10 and 16, pages 635 and 638 respectively, and for other purposes.

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Senate Resolution No. 84. A resolution authorizing Secretary of State to accept surrender of charter of Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company and authorize Chattanooga Railway and Light Company to cease operating of cars upon that line of railroad constructed by Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company, and for other purposes.
Senate Bill No. 253. A bill to amend an Act protecting fur-bearing animals of the State of Georgia.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Manson of the 35th-
Senate Bill No. 172. A bill carrying into effect amendment to Constitution abolishing Justice Courts in Atlanta.

By Mr. Clay of the 39th-
Senate Bill No. 174. A bill to amend Section 958 of Penal Code of 1910 to provide bail in misdemeanor cases.

By Mr. Haralson of the 40th-
Senate Bill No. 214. A bill to give Federal authority right to establish rules for protection of game and fish.

By Mr. Golucke of the 19thSenate Bill No. 42. A bill to amend Paragraph

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22, Section 1, Article 1, of the Constitution relative to the carrying of pistols.

By Messrs. Swift of Elbert and othersHouse Resolution No. 188 (840A). A resolution
to amend Constitution relative to power of General Assembly over payment of Confederate veterans and their widows.
By Mr. Bowden of Ware-
House Bill No. 327. A bill to require the date of manufacture to be stamped on automobile tires.
By Messrs. Valentino of Chatham and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 569. A bill to amend the General Tax Act of 1921 relative to bill boards.
By Messrs. Davis of Oglethorpe, Keith of Meriwether, and others-
House Bill No. 663. A bill to make it unlawful for people to enter a conspiracy to prevent or hindering one's occupation.
By Messrs. Carswell of Wilkinson and Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 684. A bill relative to the protection and safety of employees and passengers of common carriers.

By Mr. Mason of Hart-
House Bill No. 734. A bill to give counties of the State the right to establish free public libraries.

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By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-

House Bill No. 744. A bill to make it a violation of the law to issue a check with intent to defraud.
By Messrs. Moore, Holloway arid Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 754. A bill to amend Section 2820 of Code of 1910 relative to capital stock of trust companies.
By Messrs. Moore of Fulton, Duncan of Hall, and others-

House Bill No. 775. A b~ll to empower county authorities to keep in repair places of holding Justice Courts.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 798. A bill to amend an Act by substitution creating a pew charter for Hazelhurst.
By Mr. Holland of Tattnall-
House Bill No. 801. A bill to amend Section 1249 of Code of 1910, relative to including City of Collins among State Depositories.

By Messrs. Houser and Jackson of Houston, and others-
House Bill No. 849. A bill to place the SolicitorGeneral of the Macon Judicial Circuit on a salary.

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By Messrs. Hyman and Hawkins of Washington-
Hiouse Bill No. 854. A bill to amend an Act to create the City Court of Sandersville.
The following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 829. A bill to incorporate the Inman School District, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 131, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Bowden of Ware-
House Bill No. 725. A bill to amend an Act to create a Bond Commission for Ware County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the ~-\yes were 127, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Dixon of JenkinsHouse Bill No. 746. A bill to amend an Act te

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establish a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Jenkins County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 128, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed.

By :Mr. Franks of Towns-
House Bill No. 750. A bill to prohibit the catching of fish in the waters of Brastown Creek, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of .the bill the Ayes were 129, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. McClure and Jones of Walker-
House Bill No. 785. A bill to amend an Act to amend an Act to amend an Act to give the Commissioners of Roads and Revenue,, Ordinary, or County Judge certain power and authority in certain counties.
The committee substitute was read and adopted.
The report of the Committee, which. was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 132, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed by substitute.

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 841. A bill to create the City Court of Lyons.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 840. A bill to abolish the City. Court of Toombs County, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 136, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Foy of TaylorHouse Bill N~ 837. A bill to repeal an Act to
abolish the office of County Treasurer of Taylor County, and for other purposes.

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 132, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill-
House Bill No. 828. A bill to amend an Act to create the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues in and for Ben Hill County.

The report of the Committee, which was favorah!e

to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.



On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 131, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional .majority was passed.

By Messrs. Mc'Clure and Jones of Walker-
House Bill No. 817. A bill to amend an Act abolishing the Board of Roads and Revenues and creating the Board of Commissioners for the County of Walker, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On. the passage ~f the bill the Ayes were 130, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Foy of Taylor-
House Bill No. 836. A bill to create the office of
.County Treasurer of Taylor County, and for other
purposes.
The committee substitute was read and adopted
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 135, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed by substitute.

By Mr. vVay of Liberty-
House Bill No. 797. A bill to make it unlawful for any person to kill and butcher any cow, hog, sheep or goat away from the premises of the owner in the County of Liberty without posting a description of the animal so slaughtered; to prescribe the punishment therefor, and for other purposes.
The following amendments were read and adopted:

By Mr. Way of Liberty-
In the caption in the sixth line following the word "owner" strike the words "the County of Liberty" and insert in lieu thereof the following words : ''Counties having a population not less than twelve

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thousand seven hundred twenty (12,720) nor more than thirteen thousand (13,000)."
In Section 1 in the sixth line following the words "sheep or goat" strike the words "the County of Liberty" and insert in lieu thereof the following words: "Counties having a population not less than twelve thousand seven hundred twenty (12,720) nor more than thirteen thousand (13,000).''
The report of the Committee, which wa~ favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 135, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitu-
tional majority. , was passed as amended.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House bills, to-wit:
House Bill No. 425. A bill to create a new charter for the T'own of Fry.
Hlorise Bill No. 755. A bill to amend an Act incorporating City of Chamblee.
House Bill No. 703. A bill to reincorporate the Town of Canton.
House Bill No. 727. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for City of Clarkesville.
Sig. 20

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House Bill No. 661. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for City of Sylvester.
House Bill No. 761. A bill to vest the title to Lot No. 3 in Block 66 of Commons of City of Columbus.
House Bill No. 604. A bill to amend charter of Town of Nicholson.
House Bill No. 696. A bill to amend an Act to amend the several Acts granting corporate authority to City of Americus.
House Bill No. 681. A bill to amend an Act creating the City Court of Statesboro.

House Bill No. 616. A bill to amend several Acts granting corporate authority to Town of Whigham.
House Bill No. 584. A bill to amend charter of City of Claxton.
Rouse Bill No. 687. A bill to amend charter of City of Waynesboro.
House Bill No. 646. A bill to abolish the local School System for the Town of Appleton.
House Bill No. 600. A bill to amend an Act to improve the fire department of the City of Augusta.
House Bill No. 773. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Elberton.
House Bill No. 697. A bill to amend charter of City of Fitzgerald relative to registration of voters.
House Bill No. 702. A bill to amend an Act creating the City of Colquitt.

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The following bill as amended:
House Bill No. 714. A bill to amend an Act creating the City Court of Statesboro.
The Senate has passed by the requisite Constitutional majority the following House resolutions, towit:
House Resolution No. 191. A resolution accepting the invitation of the City of Savannah to inspect the proposed harbor in said City.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-

A RESOLUTION.
House Resolution No. 199. Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, That the General Assembly of Georgia deeply appreciates the many courtesies shown the General Assembly of Georgia by the citizens of the City of Atlanta; and,
Be it furt'her resolved, That our thanks be tendered to Mayor Key for the splendid dinner and entertainment tendered by him to the General Assembly of Georgia during this the 1922 session.
Be it further resolped, That we assure Mayor Key. and the City of Atlanta that the many acts of kindness will always be remembered and appreciated and we will be glad to be of service to them.

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Be it further resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be sent to Mayor Key.

The following bill of the Senate was read the first time and referred to a committee:

Senate Bill No. 173. A bill to abolish an Act regulating the practice of occupation of _barbers.
Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.
A communication from the State Tax Commissioner was read and referred to the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
The following resolutions of the House were read and adopted:

By Mr. McClure of Walker-
Hause Resolution No. 198. A resolution extending the privileges of the floor to Mr. W. P. Jackson.

By Mr. Bowden of Ware-
A resolution extending the privileges of the floor to Mr. Charles Redding.
The following report of the Committee on Rules was submitted and read:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Rules having had under consideration an order of business, have instructed me as their Vice-Chairman to report as follows:

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House Resolution No. 149 to be taken up immediately, special and continuing order, after disposition House Bill No. 69. (Debate limited to ten minutes.)
Senate Bill No. 1, for a second reading and agreeing or disagreeing to the report of the Committee, to follow immediately after the consideration of House Resolution No. 149. (Debate limited to ten minutes to side).

House Bill No. 205. Income Tax. House Bill No. 449. Classification Tax.

MuNDY, Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Wyatt of Troup called for a division of the report.

1. Making House Resolution No. 149 a special order.
. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the adoption of that order of business, was agreed to.

House Resolution No. 149 was set as a special order.
2. Making Senate Bill No. 1 a special order. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the adoption of that order, was agreed to.
Senate Bill No. 1 was set as a special order.
3. Making House Bill No. 205 a special order.
Mr. Beck of Carroll moved the previous question;

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the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the House recon-
sider its action in ordering the main question, and
the motion was lost.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the adoption of that order of business, was agreed to.
On the vote to establish this as a special order of business the Ayes were 88, Nays 74.
This not being the requisite constitutional majority House Bill No. 205 was not established as a special order.

4. Making House Bill No. 449 a special order.

Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
On agreeing to the report of the Committee, which was favorable to the adoption of that order of busi':less, the Ayes were 63, Nays 85, and the report of the Committee was disagreed to, and the recommendation of the Committee on Rules to set House Bill No. 449 as a special order was lost.
Mr. Arnold of. Ola.v moved that the House recon-
sider its action in failing to agree to the report of the Committee on Rules to set House Bill No. 449 as a special order.

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Mr. Bowden of Ware moved that the House do now adjourn; the motion prevailed, and the report of the Committee on Rules went over as unfinished business with the motion of Mr. Arnold of Clay pending.

Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Moore of Appling, McClelland of DeKalb, and Swift of Elbert.

The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 10 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.
Friday, July 28, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adalll8 of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Hobc Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Lyrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of \Vebster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Da,is of Floyd Dads of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith.
Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

Mayo

Houser

Miles

Houston

Mixon

Howard of Forsyth Moore of Appling

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Hufstetler

Moye

Hullender

Mundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of Walker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pr.uett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

McClelland

Riley

McCl.ure

Robinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

:\icGarity

Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

McMichael

Sibley

Maddox

Singletary

Malone

Smiley

Mann

Smith of Bryan

~Ianning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland .Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham
I.
VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall WatkinH Way Webb Weston Whitley \Vhitaker of Lowndes Wh,itaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton \Vimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne ~Ir. Speaker

The following message was r~ceived from the

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Senate, through :Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

ntr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bills to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 178. A bill to authorize the authorities of various Counties of this State to prescribe the fiscal year of such county.
Senate Bill No. 258. A bill to amend an Act abolishing a Board of Roads and Revenues and creating a Board of Commissioners for the County of Walker.
Mr. Lankford of Toombs gave notice that at the proper time he would move that ,the House reconsider its action in passing House Bill No. 797.
The Journal of yest~rday 's proceedings was read.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 633 was recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2 for the purpose of reconsidering the action of said committee in reporting the bill unfavorably.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the remaining part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.

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3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.
5. ],irst reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions' of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees :

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Resolution No. 200. (879A). A resolution providing for a school building site on the State Farm.
Referred to Committee on Public Property.

By Mr. Valentino of Chatham-
House Resolution No. 201. (879-B). A resolution providing for the purchase of a portrait of Hugh McCall.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations ana "\Vays and Means.

By Mr. Sapp of Whitfield-
House Resolution No. 202. (879-C) A resolution providing for appointment of Committee to investigate accoustics of House.
Referred to Committee on Public Property.

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By Mr. Logan of Banks-
House Bill No. 870. A bill to amend the School Laws of Georgia, relative to reading of Bible in public schools.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Messrs. Pilcher, Reville and McDonald of Richmond-
House Bill No. 871. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Augusta.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Messrs. McClure of Walker and Boatwright of Emanuel-
House Bill No. 872. A bill to amend an Act creating the Department of Public Printing.
Referred to Committee on Public Printing.

By Messrs. Culpepper of Fayette and McMichael of Marion-
House Bill Ko. 873. A bill to appropriate additional money for the Military establishment of the , State.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Daniel of Troup and Foy of Taylor-
House Bill No. 874. A bill to regulate and prescribe the appointment of the State Veterinarian.

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Referred to Committee on General Agricult1,1re No.1.

By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill-
House Bill No. 875. A bill to amend the School Laws of Georgia, relative to vocal music.

Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Holland of Tattnall-
House Bill No. 876. A bill to amend an Act known as "Tattnall Board of Commissioners, created.''

Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Holland of Tattnall-
House Bill No. 877. A bill to amend an Act known as '' Tattnall Road Law Adopted.''

Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Perryman of Talbot, Knight of Berrien, and others-
House Bill No. 878. A bill to repeal Art. 1 of the Penal Code of 1910, relative to the Board of Pardons.

Referred to Committee on Penitentiaries.

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By Mr. Sapp of Whitfield-

House Bill No. 879. A bill providing that good or bad behavior of defendant shall be submitted to jury in all felony cases.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

Mr. Perryman of Talbot County, Chairman of the Committee on Penitentiary, submitted tP.e following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Penitentiary have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
House Bill )Jo. 518.
PERRYMAN of Talbot, Chairman.

:}lr. Culpepper of Fayette County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and .\leans, submitted the following report:

Jfr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same> do pass:

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House Bill No. 866. House Bill No. 867. House Bill No. 868.

CuLPEPPER of Fayette, Vice-Chairman.

l\fr. Lankford of Toombs County, Chairman of the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Amendments to the Constitution have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass by substitute as amended:
House Bill No. 592.
LANKFORD of Toombs, Chairman.

l\fr. Turner, of Brooks County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Highways, submitted the following report :

.t. l r. Speaker:
Your Committee on Public Highways have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:

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House Bill No. 796. Do pass by substitute as amended.
House Bill No. 825. Do pass as amended as substitute for House Bill No. 796.
House Bill No. 856. Do pass. House Bill No. 864. Do pass. House Bill No. 800. Do not pass. House Bill No. 673. No not pass. House Bill No. 752. Do not pass. House Bill No. 710. Do not pass.
MR. TuRNER, Chairman.

Mr. Moye, of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Bill No. 830. Senate Bill No. 182. Senate Bill No. 219.
Respectfully submitted,
l\foYE, of Randolph, Chairman.

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Mr. Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No.2, has submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No.2, have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to ~he House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 764. Do pass by substitute. House Bill No. 557. Do not pass. House Bill No. 858. Do not pass. House Bill No. 853. Do pass. House Bill No. 682. Do pass. House Bill No. 860. Do pass as amended. House Bill No. 765. Do pass by substitute.
Respectfully submitted,
JoHN CAMP DAvis, of Floyd,
Chairman.

The following messages from His Excellency, the Governor, were read:

STATE OF GEORGIA: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ATLANTA. To The General Assembly of Georgia:
I am now and have always been of the opinion that



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the Tax Equalization law ought to be repealed, but it cannot and should not be repealed unless and until some adequate way of supplying the revenue that will thereby be lost shall be supplied.
It is conservatively estimated that the State will lose at least two million dollars of its revenue by the repeal of this law, consequently that amount of revenue must be supplied for the State in some other way, by income-tax, or otherwise, before the Equalization law is repealed, or its repeal becomes effective. If it is supplied, concurrently with the repeal, we can and should repeal the Equalization law.
It should be borne in mind, however, that the income-tax amendment must be submitted to the people for ratification at the approaching November election and cannot become effective until it is approved by the people at that election. Consequently, the repeal of the Tax Equalization law should not become effective until January 1, 1924, even if the income-tax bill also passes.
If the people ratify the income-tax bill, then the same can be put in operation by January 1, 1924, before any loss in revenue occurs from the repeal of the Equalization law. If the people do not ratify the income-tax bill, the General Assembly will have opportunity, during its 1923 session, to provide for the loss of revenue occasioned by the repeal of the E~qualization law.

Respectfully submitted,

w. THOS.

HARDWICK,

Governor .



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STATE OF GEORGIA: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ATLANTA.
July 17, 1921.
RoN. CEciL NEILL,
Speaker, House of Representatives, Atlanta, Ga.

Dear Mr. Speaker:
I am inclosing you herewith information with respect to legislative agents, as requested by Resolution recently adopted by your body, as the same is furnished to me by the Secretary of St~te.
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Respectfully submitted,
Tnos. \V. HARDWICK,
Goven10r.

A RESOLUTION
Whereas, it is of utmost importance to the members of the House, and great interest to the legislative work of the State, that the name of registered legislative agents, registering with the Secretary of State, be furnished the House, from time to time, and,
Whereas, It is of like i~portance and interest, that the cause or interest for which agents register, be furnished the members of the House, Therefore

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Resolved by the House of Representatives in session, that the Secretary of State be instructed to transmit, in writing, weekly, to the Governor of said State, the name or names of such registered legislative agents, together with the cause or causes for which they are registered to represent;. and

Resolved, that His Excellency the Governor be requested to transmit such information, so imparted by the Secretary of State, weekly, by his written message, or in any manner he may see fit to impart such information to the members of this House.

STATE OF GEORGIA:
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I, S. G. McLendon, Secretary of State of the State of Georgia, do hereby certify, That the one page of typewritten matter hereto attached is a true copy of the registration of legislative agents for 1921, as the same appear of record in this office.
lu Testinwny lt'hereof, I have hereunto set my hand and affixed the seal of my office, at the Capitol, in the City of Atlanta, this sixth day of July in the ~ear of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and twenty<two and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-sixth
S. G. McLENDON,
Secretary of State.

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629

LEGISLATIVE AGENTS REGISTERED WITH THE SECRETARY OF STATE FOR 1921.

Narne of Attorney of Agent-W. A. Dodson, Americus, Ga.; Firm or Assn. Represented-Atlanta Chamber of Commerce, Filed, June 27, 1921; Subject Matter-Opposing Capitol Removal and Favor Exchange of Mansion Property; Fee, $25.00. Narne of Atty. or Agt.-Joe Hill Hall, Macon, Ga.; Firm or Assn. Represented-Ga. Ry. & Power Company, Filed June 29, 1921; Subject Matter-Opposing "Amending Constitution which prohibits creating debts on part of State, Counties and Municipalties''; Fee, $25.00.
Kame of Atty. or Agt.-T. G. Hudson, Americus, Ga.; Firm or Assn. Represented-American Agricultural Co., Savannah, Ga.; Subject Matter-Opposing Fertilizer Bill ; ],ee, $25.00.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Messrs. Knight of Berrien and Herring of Schley-
House Bill No. 518. A bill to amend Section 1229 of Penl Code of 1910 relative to insane convicts in State SanitarilllJl.

By .Messrs. Bentleyl Holloway and Moore of Fulton-

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House Bill No. 592. A bill to amend the constitution relative to abolishing fees of certain officers in certain counties.

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 682. A bill to make it unlawful for State Officers to accept a gift from one trading with them.

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 764. A bill to require mortgages on stocks of goods to be recorded in ten days.

By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 765. A bill to carry into effeet amendment to constitution, relative to Judge of Chattahoochee Circuit.

By Mr. Williams of Harris-
House Bill No. 766. A bill to amend and reorganize the State Highway Department of Georgia.

By Messrs. Turner of Brooks and Perryman of Talbot-
House Bill No. 856. A bill to amend the Act creating the State Highway Department.
By Mr. Williams of Walton-
House Bill No. 825. A bill to amend the act creating the "State Highway Department."

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By Mr. Williams of Walton-

House Bill No. 825. A bill to amend the act creating the State Highway Department.''

By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee--:-
House Bill No. 860. A bill to extend the limits of the City of Columbus, Muscogee County.

By Mr. Turner of Brooks-
House Bill No. 864. A bill to amend an Act and amendatory Acts relative to trailers and other motor vehicles.

By Mr. DeLaPerriere of Jackson-
House Bill Xo. 866. A bill to appropriate money to the contingent fund.

By Mr. Reagan of Henry-
House Bill Xo. 867. A bill to appropriate money to upkeep of Public Buildings.

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 868. A bill to appropriate money to pay insurance premiums due on state property.

B~- .Mr. Manson of the 35th-
Senate Bill Xo. 182. A bill to fix the compensation of the Treasurer of Clayton County..

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By Mr. David of the 43rd-
Senate Bill No. 219. A bill to repeal an Act amending road laws of Georgia in Gordon County.
The following bills of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Phillips of Jasper-
House Bill No. 781. A bill to amend an Act to amend an Act to provide for payment of Court Cost in certain counties.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Xays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 798. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Hazlehurst.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Xays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Holland of TattnallHouse Eill No. 801. A bill to amend Code of 1910

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relative to selection, by Governor, of banks in certain eities and towns in order to add the name of the City of Collins.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passag-e of the bill the Ayes were 151, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. McGarity of Paulding-
House Bill ~o. 830. A bill to :1mend an Act abolishing Paulding Board of Commissioners.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
. On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 145,
Nays 0.
The bill having received. th~ requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Jones of Walker-
House Bill No. 768. A bill to prevent those who live in a Militia District that has the no-fence law from voting in any county election for fence or no fence law held in counties of certain population and for other purposes.
The following. committee amendments were read and adopted:

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In the caption in the seventh line following the words "according to" strike the words "U. S. Census of 1920," and insert in lieu thereof the following words, "the last available U.S. Census."

In Section 2, in the seventh and eight lines following the words "according to the" strike the words '' U. S. Census of 1920, '' and insert in lieu thereof the following words: "last available U. S. Census."

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Messrs. Houser and Jackson of Houston, Fowler of Bibb, and others-
House Bill No. 84~. A bill to place the Solicitor General of the Macon Judicial Circuit upon a salary.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable
. to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 124, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Vocelle of CamdenHouse Bill No. 853. A bill to amend an Act to

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amend, consolidate, and supersede the several Acts incorporating the City of St. Mary's.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitu- tional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Hyman and Hawkins of Washington-
House Bill No. 854. A bill to amend an Act to create the City Court of Sandersville.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 17-2. A bill to carry into effect in the City of Atlanta, the amendment to the constitution relative to abolition of Justice Courts and Justice of the Peace.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 135, Nays 0.

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The bill having reeeived the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following bills and resolutions of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the committees:

By l\Ir. Thomas of 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 218. A bill to incorporate the City of Jesup.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 178. A bill to authorize the authorities of the various counties to prescribe time for fiscal year as regard to taxes.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. David of 43rd-
Senate Bill No. 197. A bill to amend the Act placing Solicitor General of Cherokee Circuit on salary.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Campbell of 34th and Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 230. A bill authorizing Legislature to add one or more additional Judges of the Superior Court for the Stone Mountain Circuit.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

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637

By Mr. Campbell of 34th-
Senate Bill No. 242. A bill to amend charter of the City of Covington.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Hutchens of 38th-
Senate Bill No. 253. A bill to amend an Act to protect fur bearing animals of State of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No. 1.

Mr. Pope of 44th-
Senate Bill No. 258. A bill to amend an Act abolishing the Board of Roads and Revenues and creating a Board of Commissioners for the County of Walker.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Peacock of 48th-
Senate Bill No. 263. .A bill to amend an Act to
establish the City Court of Eastman.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Pope of 44th-
Senate Resolution No. 84. A resolution authorizing Secretary of State to accept surrender of charter of Chattanooga Rapid Transit Company, and for other purposes.

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Referred to Committee on Railroads.

The following bills of the House were taken up for the purpose of considering Senate amendments :

By Mr. Herring of Schley-
House Bill No. 565. A bill to provide for a salary for the Treasurer of Schley County, and for other purposes.
The following Senate amendment was read and concurred in :
Amend Section 1, by striking the figures '' 1923, '' and inserting in lieu thereof the figures '' 1925. ''

By Mr. Phillips of Jasper-
House Bill No. 683. A bill to amend an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Jasper.
The following Senate amendment was read and concurred in :
Amend by striking the words and figures ''Ten Thousand ($10,000) Dollars'' and inserting in lieu thereof the figures "Two Thousand ($2,000) Dollars'' wherever they occur in the caption and sections of the bill.

By Messrs. Brannen and Parrish of Bulloch-
Honse Bill No. 714. A bill to amend au Act to create the City Court of Statesboro.

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The ~ollowing Senate amendment was read and concurred in :
Amend by striking all of Section 2 thereof after the words "costs bill" in lOth line of said section and inserting the following: "Then so much of said fund not so absorbed shall be paid on the insolvent cost bill of the Sheriff of said court for the preceding year, in event said Sheriff shall have an insolvent cost bill for said year unpaid at said time."

M:r. Lankford, of Toombs, moved that the House reconsider its action in passing House Bill No. 797.
Mr. Wyatt, of Troup, moved the previous question.

On this motion Mr. Arnold of Clay called for the Ayes and Nays.
Mr. Williams of Walton moved that the House do now adjourn.

On this motion Mr. Arnold of Clay called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
The motion of Mr. Williams of Walton that the House do now adjourn was lost.
The call for the Ayes and Nays on the motion for the previous question was not sustained.
The motion of Mr. Wyatt of Troup calling the previou~ question prevailed.
On the question of ordering the main question Mr. Arnold of Clay called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.

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The main question was ordered.

~Ir. Lankford, of Toombs, moved that the House reconsider its action in ordering the main question.

On the motion Mr. Arnold of Clay called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.

The motion of Mr. Lankford, of Toombs, that the House reconsider its action in ordering the main question was lost.
On the motion that the House reconsider its action in passing House Bill No. 797, Mr. Vocelle, of Camden, called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
The motion to reconsider the passing of House Bill No. 797 was lost.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

llfr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate bill to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 271. A bill to repeal law providing for special attorney to Railroad Commission.
The Senate has passed by the requisite t::onstitutional majority the following House Resolutions, towit:
House Resolution No. 124. A resolution to ap-

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propriate $1,500 to pay expenses incurred by com.mittee investigating tax system.
House Resolution No. 199. A resolution thanking the Mayor and citizens of Atlanta for the entertainment given them July 26, 1922.
Mr. Bentley of J;,ulton moved that the House do now adjourn until Monday morning at 11 o'clock.
Br. Beck of Carroll moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was qrdered.
On the motion to adjourn Mr. Lankford of Toombs called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
The motion to adjourn was lost.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Resolution No. 197. A resolution calling for appointment of committee to examine and investigate certain information from the Commissioner of Agriculture in pursuance with House Resolution No. 127.
The Speaker appointed the following committee under the above resolution:
Messrs. Arnold of Clay, Daniel of Troup, Kittrell of Laurens.
Under the order of unfinished business the report
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of the Committee on Rules was taken up for further consideration with the pending motion of Mr. Arnold of Clay, that the House reconsider its action in failing to agree to the report of the Committee on Rules to set House Bill No. 449 as a special order, before the House.

The motion was lost.

Mr. Bentley, of Fulton, moved that when the House adjourn today it stand adjourned until Monday morning at 11 o'clock.

Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved the previous question.
On this motion Mr. Lankford of Toombs called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
The motion for the previous question prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The motion that when the House adjourn today it stand adjourned until Monday morning at 11 o'clock prevailed.
The following bill and resolution of the House, set as a special order on the recommendation of the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Clark of Webster-
House Bill No. 691. A bill regulating the manner which the several Tax Collectors of this State shall account and settle with the school authorities for school taxes and for other purposes.

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The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 1.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
Mr. Vocelle of Camden moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.

By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
House Resolution No. 149. A resolution calling for appointment of a joint committee to investigate the records, deeds, activities and operations of the State Highway Department.
The following amendment was read and adopted :

By Mr. Beck of Carroll-
Amend by adding the following: "Resolved further they shall have authority to investigate the difference or discrepancies in its reports submitted at the session of 1921 and its report submitted in 1922, showing the amount of money spent in each county.''
The resolution involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Hatcher of Muscogee as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose, and through their Chairman reported the resolution

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back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution as amended, was agreed to.

Mr. Bentley of Fulton moved that the House do
now adjourn and the motion was lost.
I
The resolution involving an appropriation, the roll
call was ordered and the vote was as follows :

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Beck Beckham Bentley Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Bowden Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Carr Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Collier Collins

Corbitt Culpepper Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Evans Fowler Foy Grant Gresham Griffin Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse

Hines of Decatur Hodges Holland Holloway Horne Houser Houston Howard of Screven Hyman Jackson Jones of Coweta .Jones of Walker .Johnson of Bartow .Johnson of
Chattahoochee .Johnson of Pickens Keith King of Jefferson !{.ing of Wilcox Kittrell Knight Langford of Hall Lankford of Toombs Lewis Logan Luke McClure ).lcDonald of Mitchell

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McDonald of

Pilcher

Richmond Price

Macintyre

Pruett

McMichael

Ricketson

Maddox

Riley

Mason

Robinson

Mixon

Rutherford

Moore of Fulton

Sapp

Moye

Shettlesworth

Mundy

Sibley

Neal of Union

Singletary

Nichols

Smiley

Parks

Smith of Bryan

Parrish

Smith. of Carroll

Penland

Steele

Peterson

Stovall

Phillips of Jasper

Sumner of Johnson

Phillips of Telfair Sumner of Wheeler

Pickren

Tatum

Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Van Landingham Vocelle Walker Wall
Watkin~
Way Webb . Wb;itaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Wood Woodard Worthy Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Dobbs Jones of Thomas

Strickland

Wimberly

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Atkinson Baldwin Bird of Taliaferro Boswell Bowen Brannen Byrd of Crisp Camp Carswell Coates Cowart Daniel of Heard Davis of Oglethorpe DuBose Dudley Dykes

Ennis Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Franks Gann Griffith Hamilton Hines of Sumter Howard of Forsyth Hufstetler Hullender Hunter Kennedy McClelland
~IcGarity
Malone

:!l.fan~1
lianning Mayo Miles Moore of Appling Owen Patten Perkins Perryman Quincey Ramsey Reagan Reville Russell Salmon Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether

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Stone Swift Swindle Turner Tyson

Valentino

Williams of Walton

VanZant

Winship

Weston

Wyatt

Whitley

Mr. Speaker

Whitaker of Lowndes

The roll call was verified.
On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 138, Nays 4.
The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.
Mr. Bowden of Ware moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Mr. Bobo of Wilkes.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until Monday morning at 11 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

Monday, July 31, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 10 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton .Adams of Walton .Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Dobo Boswell Bowden Bowen
Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel.of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamiltoll Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

:M.ayo

Houser

Miles

Houston

Mixon

Howard of Forsyth .:Moore of Appling

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Hufstetler

Moye

'Hullender

Mundy

. -Hunter

Nealof Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of Walker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

McClelland

Riley

McClure

Robinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

McGarity

Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

McMichael

Sibley

Maddox

Singletary

Malone

flmiley

Mann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnsen Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb Weston Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale " 7hitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne )Ir. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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Bv unanimous consent the following was .establish;d as the order of business during the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents :
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and general House and Senate bills hav-. ing a local application.
5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.

By Mr. Williams of Walton-
House Bill No. 890. A bill to repeal Sec. 1578, Art. 1, Code of 1910, relative to discharge of lunatics.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary 1 No. I.

By Messrs. Moore, Hollowaj; and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 891. A bill to make it a misdemeanor to interfere with gas pipes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Davis of Oglethorpe' ;, House Bill No. 892. A bill to establish a State De-
pository in Crawford, Oglethorpe County.

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Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Mr. Atkinson of Chatham-

House Bill No. 893. A bill to appropriate $25,000 to assist in building dormitory at G. S. I. C.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations and
Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Gann & Dobbs of Cobb-
House Bill No. 894. A bill to amend charter of the city of Marietta.

Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
Hou-se Bill No. 895. A bill to amend the charter of the. City of East Point, relative to issuance of bonds.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 896. A bill to amend the charter pf the city of East Point, relative to civil service department.
Referred to Committee 011 l\Iunicipal Government.

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By :Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 897. A bill to amend the charter of the city of East Point, relative to wards.
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Referred to the Commtitee on Municipal Govern-
ment.

By Mr. Maclnty:e of Thomas-
House Bill No. 898. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Thomasville.

Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees :

By Mr. Greene of Jones-
House Resolution No. 204. (897A). A resolution providing for election of more than one member of Board of Commissioners.of Roads and Revenues for Jones County.
Refe:r:red to Committee on General Agriculture No.2.

By Mr. Wood of TwiggsHoose Bill No. 880. A bill to amend an Act estab-
lishing a new charter for the city of Jeffersonville. Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

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By Messrs. Bozeman of Worth and Russell of Barrow-
House Bill No. 881. A bill to amend section 5898 of code of 1910, relative to the transmition of interrogatories.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. DeLaPerriere and Swilfdle of Jackson-
House Bill No. 882. A bill to abolish the office of County Treasurer of Jackson County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Macintyre of Thomas-
House Bill No. 883. A bill to tax Gypsy horse traders.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Baldwin of Morgan-
House Bill No. 884. A bill to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners for Morgan Co'tmty.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.
By Mr. Hunter of Chatham-
House Bill No. 885. A bill to appropriate certain money for State Sanitarium for Tubercular patients.

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Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 886. A bill to amend an Act creating the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues, Pulaski County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 887. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Hawkinsville.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr.. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 888. A bill to amend. an Act fixing salary of treasurer of Pulaski County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. McMichael of Marion & Clifton of Lee-
House Bill No. 889. A bill to provide for distribution of certain motor vehicle tax funds.
Referred to Committee ou Public Highways.
Mr. McMichael, of Marion, moved that the above bill, which was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Public Highways, be referred to the Committee of the whole House.

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On this motion Mr. McMichael, of Marion, called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustain..d.
The motion was lost a11d the bill was referred to the Committee on Public Highways.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:
Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bills, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 227. A bill to amend code relative to executions of deeds outside of the State.
Senate Bill No. 233. A bill to amend Act codifying the School Laws of Georgia.
Mr. Culpepper, of Fayette County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Appropriation and Ways and Means, submitted the following report:
Jlr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations :and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following Bill of the House, and have instructed me as Vice-Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Bill No. 873. CULPEPPER, of Fayette, Vice-Chairman.

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Mr. Moore, of Fulton County, Chairman of the Oommittee on Education, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass, as follows:
House Bill No. 875. Do pass. House Bill No. 791. Do pass as amended.
MOORE, of Fulton.
Mr. Pickren, of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Corporations have had un-
der consideration the following Bills of the House and Senate, and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 218. House Bill No. 850. House Bill No. 826. House Bill No. 799, by substitute.
PICKREN, of Charlton,
Chairman on Corporations.

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The following message was received from his Ex. cellency the Governor, through his Secretary, Mr. Blalock:

Mr. Speaker:
I am directed by His Excellency, the Governor, to delivery to the House of Representatives a communication in writing to which he respectfully invites your attention.

STATE OF GEORGIA: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ATLANTA, Ga.:
July, 31, 1922.

To the General Assembly of Georgia:
We have successfully passed through the sufferings and dangers of War and have made progress toward overcoming the larger difficulties which have followed in its wake. We are still, however, in the transition state from general depression to prosperity and must do all in our power to create agencies and develop processes which will accelerate the transition.
In our section, one of the greatest needs is capital in small amounts, available to farmers and industrial workers.
Great numbers of our people feel that there is no way to profit by their possible savings, because too



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small to invest or even to deposit; Therefore, what could be saved, is wasted. Credit unions have been organized to s~lvage this capital and have proved wonderfully successful in Europe, Canada and twelve of our states, including Massachusetts, New York, North Carolina, South Carolina, Texas and other important states.
Credit Unions accumulate capital by the issuance of shares, payable in cash or weekly installments which are quite small, varying from ten to twentyfive cents. Emphasis is placed entirely on the regularity of savings and the unit is so small that any one who earns may save a part of what he earns.
In Massachusetts, the membership of such Credit Unions in 1920 was approximately 30,000, with assets of $4,000,000.00.
Credit Unions not only afford protection against loan sharks, but open up for the farmer sources of much needed credit for financing and improving of farms.
The movement has been approved by many of our ablest and most thoughtful men, and by banking, business and philanthropic institutions.
A bill is to be introduced in the Legislature to permit the organization of such unions in this State. This bill meets with my hearty approval and I hope that the Legislature will give it their most earnest consideration.
Respectfully submitted, THOS. W. HARDWICK,
Govenor.



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By unanimous eonsent, the following bills of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the com-
. mittees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. McMichael, of Marion, and others-
House Bill No. 791. A bill to authorize counties to levy certain taxes for educational purposes.

By Messrs. Beck and Smith of Carroll-
.House Bill No. 799. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Bowden.

By Mr. Byrd, of Crisp-
House Bill No. 826. A bill to amend an act creating a new charter for the Town of Arabi.

By Mr. Brantley of Pierce-
House Bill No. 850. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Blackshear, in Pierce County.

By Messrs. Culpeper, of Fayette and McMichael, of Marion-
House Bill No. 873. A bill to make additional appropriation for 1922 for maintenance of military establishment.
By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill-
House Bill No. 875. A bill to amend an Act codifying the School Laws of Georgia.

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By Mr. Thomas, of the Third District-
Senate Bill No. 218. A bill to incorporate the City of Jesup and for other purposes.

The following bills of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Manson, of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 182. A bill to prescribe and fix a compensation for the Treasurer of Clayton County and for other purposes.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. David, of 43d.
Senate Bill No. 219. A bill to repeal an Act amending road laws of Georgia in Gordon County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins, of Muscogee-

House Bill No. 860. A bill to provide for the extension of the corporate limits of the City of Columbus.

The following committee amendment was read and adopted:

Amend by adding after the figures '' 1925'' in Section 17 of said bill the following words: ''Provided that the total indebtedness to be assumed by said city under this Section shall not exceed one hundred thousand dollars.''

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 150, Xays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Pruitt, of Lumpkin-
House Bill No. 816. A bill to repeal an Act to abolish the fee system now existing in the Superior Courts of the Northeastern Judicial Circuit as applied to the office of Solicitor-General, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following bills of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Messrs. Thorpe, of 2d, and Cone of 49thSenate Bill No. 227. A bill to amend Code of 1910,
relative to executions of deeds outside of State. Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.

By Mr. Childs, of 12thSenate Bill No. 233. A bill to amend an Act codi-
fying School Laws relative to conferring degrees. Referred to Committee on Education.

By Messrs. Boykin, of 29th, and Walker of 18th-
Senate Bill No. 271. A bill to repeal law providing for special attorney for Railroad Commission.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.
Mr. Mundy, of Polk, moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until this afternoon at 3 o'clock, and the motion prevailed.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Messrs. Mixon of Treutlen and Davis of Oglf>thorpe-

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A RESOLUTION

House Resolution No. 205. Resolved by the House of Representatives, the Senate concurring, that the General Assembly of Georgia express their appreciation of the hospitality of the City of Savannah and the citizens of Tybee on the recent trip of inspection of port facilities of Savannah and that the General AssembLy further expresses its appreciation of the patriotic motives that prompted the City of Savannah to extend this invitation to the General Assembly with the hope that great good may result to the people of our entire state from the movement contemplated in the effort to establish a state port at Savannah.

The following report of the Committee on Rules was submitted and read:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Rules, having had under consideration an order of business, have instructed me as their Vice-Chairman to report as a special order of business for July 31st only; beginning immediately after the present order of unfinished business, as follows:
Senate Bill No. 224. Providing for settlement of insurance policies.
Senate Bill No. 214. Protection fish, game, ek
House Bill Xo. 65. Welfare bill.

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House Resolution No. 165. To put party on pension roll.
House Resolution No. 169. For appointment of Committee on State Line.
House Bill No. 554. To authorize Tech to charge tuition.
House Bill No. 203. For appropriation to State Sanitarium.
.MUNDY, of Polk, Vice-Chairman.

The report of the committee was agreed to. On establishing the order of business as set out in the report of the committe a constitutional majority not having so voted the order was not established.
Mr. Mundy, of Polk, moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to establish the order of business as set out in the report of the Committee on Rules and the motion prevailed.
The order of business as set out by the Committee on Rules was established and set as a special order.
Mr. Swift, of Elbert, moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
By unanimous consent leave of absence was granted Mr. Stovall, of McDuffie.
By unanimous consent Mr. Stovall, of McDuffie, was allowed to cast his vote at this time on House
Bill No. 6, and retire. He voted "Aye."

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The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION. 3 o'Clock P.M.
The House met again at this hour and was cnHed to order by the Speaker.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck lieckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of \Vebster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Dads of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudhy Duncan of Dawson Duman of Hall Dykes
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Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Frank' Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Gronnstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

l\layo

Houser

:Miles

Houston

::\Iixon

Howard of Forsyth ::\Ioore of Appling

Howard of Screven ::\Ioore of Fulton

Hufstetler

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Hullender

:\fundy

Hunter

~eal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

.Jones of Walker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee PPrryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pi<'kren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Pri<'e

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincev

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

RPagan

Logan

Re,ille

Luke

Ril'ketson

::\IcClelland

Riley

McClure

Robinson

:McDonald of Mitchell Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

McGarity

Sapp

:\lacIntyre

Shettlesworth

McMichael

Sibley

:Maddox

l'lingletary

Malone

Smiley

Mann

Rmith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Rmith of Haralson

Smith of Meriw~thf'r Steele Stone St{)vall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb Weston Whitley Whitaker of Lvwndes Wlutaker of Rockdale Whitworth \Villiams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne Mr. Speaker

Under orders of the day, the following bill of the Senate, set as a special order on the recommenda-

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tion of the Committee on Rules, was taken up for the purpose of a second reading and agreeing or disagreeing to the report of the committee, which was unfavorable to the passage of the bill:

By Mr. Davison, of 23d-
f?enate Bill No. 1. A bill to propose to the qualified electors of this state an amendment to the Constitution relative to creation of Peach County.
The bill was read for the second time.
The report of the committee, which was unfavorable to the passage of the bill, was not agreed to.

Mr. Houser, of Houston, moved that the report of the committee be disagreed to.
On this motion Mr. Robinson called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
The report of the committee was disagreed to and the bill took its place upon the Calendar.
Under orders of the day, the following bills of the House and Senate, set as a special order for today on the recommendation of the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Haralson of 40th Senate Bill No. 224. A bill to provide additional
grounds for revoking the licenses to do business in Georgia of companies engaged in the business of

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insuring against liability of various kinds and for other purposes.

Mr. Smith, of Bryan, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

The report of the Committee, whi~h was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 106, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
Mr.. Watkins, of Butts, moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.

By Mr. Haralson of 40th-
Senate Bill 214. A bill to give Federal Government authority to establish rules for protection of game and fish.
Mr. Moore, of Appling, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Nays 2.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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Mr. Vocelle, of Camden, moved that the House i
now adjourn and the motion was lost.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 65. A bill relating to the placing of children by persons other than the parents or relatives of such children, and for other purposes.
The substitute by Mr. Williams of Walton was read.
The bill involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Gann of Cobb as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose, and. through their Chairman reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do not pass.
Mr. Knight of Berrien moved that the bill and substitute be tabled, and the motion prevailed.

By Mr. Jones of Walker-
House 'Resolution No. 169. A resolution relative
to the boundary line between Georgia and Tennessee. The following amendment was read and adopted:
By Mr. Tatum of Dade-
Amend by inserting in the fourth line after the word "Walker" the following words: "and Dade" and after the word ''Hamilton'' the words ''and Marion.''

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of tne resolution the Ayes were 107, Nays 0.
The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed as amended.
~fr. Davis of Floyd moved that the House do now adjourn, and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker Pro-tem, Mr. Arnold, of Clay, announced the House adjourned until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

Tuesday, August 1, 1922.
The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules. 2. Reports of Standing Committees. 3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time. 4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application. 5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees:
By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 899. A bill to amend the charter
. of the Cit.v of Cedartown, and for other purposes.

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Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Messrs. Neill, Perkins and Hlatcher of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 900. A bill to repeal certain Acts to change the place of holding legal sales in the County of Muscogee.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 2.

By Messrs. Grovenstein of Effingham and Evans of Screven-
House Bill No. 901. A bill to prohibit the taking of :fish from any of the fresh water streams of this State with traps or netting.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Messrs. Whitaker and Webb of Lowndes-
House Bill No. 902. A bill to amend an Act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for th~ County of Habersham.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Bowden of Ware, Pickren of Charlton, and others-
House Bill No. 903. A bill to appropriate $75,000 to aid certain counties in tick eradication.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

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M:r. McDonald of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speake1:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
Senate Bill No. 230 do pass as amended.
McDoNALD of Richmond,
Chairman .

.Mr. Ennis of Baldwin County, Chairman of the Committee on State Sanitariums, submitted the following report :

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on State Sanitariums have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 383.
J. H. ENNIS, Chairman.
'.Mr. Guess of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 203. Do pass.
Respectfully submitted, GuEss of DeKalb, Chairman.

The following report of the Special Joint Committee appointed under Senate Resolution No. 78, to provide funds for the payment of pensions to Confederate veterans, was submitted and read:

ATLANTA, GA., August 1, 1922.
To the President of the Senate and to the Speaker of the libuse:
We, the undersigned members of the committee, appointed under Senate Resolution No. 78, to provide a source of revenue to pay confederate pensions, and to draft the necessary tax bills for the levy and collection of a tax on luxuries, embodying the ideas contained in said Senate Resolution, beg leave to submit the following report:
1. All tax bills introduced in pursuance of this resolution, after having been drafted by this committee, shall be known as ''Taxes to Pay Confederate Pensions.''
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2. We recommend that a tax be levied, equal to ten per cent on the sales, price of all tickets to moving picture houses, and places of similar amusement, boxing matches or ring contests, concerts, professional baseball and football games, and that a tax be levied equal to ten per cent of all amounts paid for the privilege of engaging in the amusements and luxuries conducted in pool rooms, dance halls, shooting galleries, and places of similar amusement.

3. We further recommend that a tax be levied, equal to twenty per cent. ~n the sales price of all' soft drinks, when made from a combination of syrup, extracts, or flavoring matter, together with plain or carbonated or mineral water; and that a tax be levied equal to twenty per cent. on the sales price of all near beer and imitations of beer, and of all bottled waters, and mineral waters, sold by soda fountains, or dispensed over the counter. This recommendation includes all bottled drinks and bottled waters.

4. We further recommend that a tax of one mill be levied for the privilege of recording, notes, mortgages, bills of sale, security deeds and all other security papers, said tax to be paid by the payee of said paper to the Cferk of the Superior Court when the same is offered for record.
5. Attached hereto and marked exhibits 1, 2 and 3, are bills providing for the levy and collection of the taxes recommended in sections 2, 3 and 4 hereof.
6. In presenting the foregoing report this committee has acted in pursuance of the provisions of

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the said Senate Resolution No. 78. Yet this committee takes this opportunity to say that if the State of Georgia would adopt a sound, equitable, and adequate plan of taxation, it would be unnecessary to engage in the taxation of special businesses, amusements and pleasures, which are already heavily and perhaps unjustly burdened with taxation, as the recommendations of this report call for. And this committee most earnestly recommends that such a sound, equitable and adequate plan of taxation be adopted by the State as early as possible, that the special taxes hereinbefore recommended may be repealed at the earliest practical moment.

Respectfully submitted, GoLUCKE of 19th Dist., HoLLINGSWORTH of 17th Dist., A. C. RouNTREE, CuLPEPPER of Fayette, Bmn of Taliaferro.

A BILL
To be entitled: An Act to require persons, firms, . associations, and corporations, operating motion
picture shows and places of similar amusement, boxing matches or ring contests, concerts, professional baseball and football games, pool rooms, dance halls, shooting galleries and places of similar amusement, to pay an occupation tax, to make returns, to provide penal'ties, and for other purposes.

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1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That persons, firms, associations, and corporations, operating motion picture shows and places of similar amusement, boxing matches or ring contests, concerts, professional baseball and football games, pool rooms, dance halls, shooting galleries and places of simil'ar amusement, for gain, in this State, shall pay an occupation tax of one cent on each ten cents or fraction thereof, paid for tickets, or admission, or for the privileges, of such shows or exhibitions.

2. That every such person, firm, association or corporation, shall make to the Comptroller-General of this State, monthly returns of such tax, and pay the same on the first of each month for the preceding month, the first of said returns to be made on October 1, 1922, and to embrace said tax from the date of this Act to said date, and each succeeding return to embrace the tax for the preceding month~

3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that any person, firm, association or corporation failing to make such returns and to pay said tax shall for each offense be guilty of a misdemaanor, and punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Penal Code.

4. All taxes collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the State Treasury and by it shall be paid as a fund for the payment of pensionii to Confederate Soldiers, until all pensions for Con-

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federate Soldiers for each calendar year shall be paid in full, when the overplus, if any, shall be turned by the Treasury into the general fund, and theD. held subject to the payment of general appropi'i~ tions.
5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this act are hereby repealed.

A BILL
To be Entitled: An Act to Require all retail vend'ors or dispensors of soft drinks, whether in glass or in bottle, bottled waters, mineral waters, and other waters sold at soda founts, to pay an occupati6n tax, to register, to make monthly returns, and payment of said tax, to provide penalties, and for other purposes.
SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is he:reby enacted by authority of the same, that each vendor or dispensor of soft drinks, whether in glass or in bottle, bottled waters, mineral waters, or other waters sold at soda fountains, as hereinafter defined, shall pay an occupatien tax for ,each five cents or fraction thereof, paid to such vendor or dispensor for such drinks.
SECTION 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that soft drinks, as herein used, mean all beverages commonly known as soft drinks, such ~s orangeade, orange crushes, lemonade, limeade, pineapple. juice, coca cola, chero cola, root beer, bevo,

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moxie, phosphates, fruit and flavoring syrups, comp!)unded or mixed with plain or carbonated water, n1ilk or malted milk shakes in any form, cream and egg shakes, ice cream, ice cream sodas, ice cream sundaes, ice cream sandwiches, ice cream cones, and all similar drinks. This list is not intended to be complete, but merely illustrative of the beverages falling within the meaning of soft drinks. This list includes drinks served in bottle as well as in glass, and also bottled waters, mineral waters, and other waters sold at soda founts.
SEcTION 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that each vendor or dispensor of soft drinks or waters as hereinbefore described, in this State, shall register by the first Monday in Octo'ber, 1922, with the ordinary of each county in which he does business, in a well-bound book to be kept for that purpose, by signing his name and giving his place of business, post office, address, and date of re.gistering.

SEcTION 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that each vendor or dispensor of soft drinks or waters as hereinbefore described, shall make sworn monthly returns to the Comptroller-General of this State of all such occupation tax due by him, and pay the same at the time of making such returns. The first of such returns shall be made on or before October 1, 1922, and shall embrace all of such tax due between the date of this Act and the time of such return. Such returns shall be sworn to by some officer authorized by law to administer oaths.

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SEcTION 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that any vendor or dispensor who shall fail to register, make said returns, or pay said tax when due, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction punished as provided in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of this State; and any vendor or dispensor who shall make a false sworn return shall be guilty of false swearing and punished as provided in Section 262 of the Penal Code of this State.
SECTION 6. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the Comptroller-General of this State shall issue an execution for such tax whenever any vendor or dispensor fails to pay the same, which shall be levied and collected as other tax executions issued by him are enforced.
SECTION 7. All taxes collected under the provis~ ions of this Act shall be paid into the State Treasury and by it shall be held as a fund for the payment' of pensions to Confederate Soldiers, until all pensions for Confederate Soldiers for each calendar year shall be paid in full, when the overplus, if any, shall be turned by the Treasury into the general fund, and th~n held subject to the payment of gene1;al appropriations.
SECTION 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed.

A BILL To be Entitled: An Act to require the payees or
holders of all notes, mortgages, bills of sale, se-

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,ourity deeds, and all other security papers, when
\
.offering same for record, to pay a privilege tax for recording same, to require monthly returns of said tax so collected by the Clerk of the Superior iCourts, to provide penalties for the holders or
payees collecting said tax from the maker of said se.curity paper, to provide penalties for failure of the Clerk of the Superior Court to make returns to the Comptroller-General, and for other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the payee or holder of any note, mortgage, bill of sale, security deed, or other security paper, when offering the same for record, shall pay a tax of one mill upon the principal sum promised to be paid in said note, mortgage, bill of saJe, security deed, or other security paper, to the Cle~k of the Superior Court where the same is offered for record, for the privilege of recording the same.

SECTION 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the first Monday in October, 1922, and on the first Monday in each and every month thereafter, the Clerk of the Superior Court in each county in this State shall make a return to the Comptroller-General of this. State of all taxes provided for in this Act collected by him, and shall remit all of suph taxes provided for in this Act and collected by hi~ to the Treasury of this State on said date.

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SECTION 3. It shall be a good and valid defense to the collection or foreclosure of any note, mortgage, bill of sale, security deed, or other security paper, that the holder or payee of the same required the maker thereof to pay the tax for the privilege of recording the same.

SEcTION 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any Clerk of the Superior Court who shall fail to make remittance to the State Treasury, as provided for in this Act, or who shall fail to make the report called for in this A~t to the ComptrollerGeneral, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as provided in Section 1065 of the Penal Code.

SECTION 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no note, mortgage, bill of sale, security deed or other security paper, shall be entitled to be recorded until the tax required by this Act shall have first been paid.

SECTION 6. All taxes collected under the provisions of this Act shall be paid into the State Treasury and by it shall be held as a fund for the payment of pensions to Confederate Soldiers, until all pensions for Confederate Soldiers for each calendar year shall be paid in full, when the overplus, if any, shall be turned by the Treasury into the general fund, and then held subject to the payment of general appropriations.

SECTION 7. Be it further enaded by the authority

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aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws m con~ flict with this Act are hereby repeal~d.
The following message was reviewed from His Excellency, the Governor, through his Secretary, Mr. McCurry:

Mr. Speaker: } am directed by His Excellency, the Governor, to
deliver to the House of Representatives a communication in writing to which he respcetfully invites your attention.

STATE OF GEORGIA, ExECt:TIVE DEPARTMENT, ATLANTA, .August 1, 1922.

To the General Assembly of Georgia: , I hand you herewith, as required by the Constitu-
tion of Georgia, report of the Board of Visitors to the University of Georgia.
Respectfully submitted, THos. \\". HARDWICK,
Governor.

To the Honorable Board of TrusteesA University of Georgia.
Gentlemen: we beg to submit herewith our report for transmission to his J1~xcellency, Ron. Thos. \V. Hardwick, Governor of Georgia.

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The greatest need of the University at this time, as we interpret the situation, after personal intel;views with the Chancellor, Deans and the heads of various departments, and after a careful and exhaustive examination of the buildings and grounds, may be summerl up as follows :

PHYSICAL EQUIPMENT.
The outstanding need of the University is enlarged physical equipment. The general air of the buildings is one of dilapidation, giving the University a poverty-stricken appearance. The situation is distressing, acute, almost tragic. Most of the high schools of the state, the preparatory schools and branches of the University have much better equipment than is to be found on the campus. With few exceptions, none of the buildings are new or adequate to the requirements. Certainly, they are not in keeping with the prestige and honorable career of the oldest state University in the United States. Th9 committee on Buildings and Grounds has done the best it could with the means at hand, and has worked hard to keep up appearances.
~fore dormitory room is made imperative, not only by the increased enrollment, but by the attendance of women students in large numbers. Despite the fact that the attendance has increased from 400 to mote than 1,400 in the past few years, not a single new dormitory has been provided in twenty years. We urgently recommend that dormitory accomodation be provided at the earliest possible date.

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,We recommend that the dormitories and buildings be painted, and that a heating plant be installed in the Chapel. We find that all the buildings on the CB;lllPUS are clean and neatly kept. This applies to th~ Chapter Houses as well.
In order to make the dormitories a fit place in which to live we point out the need for running water in the rooms and adequate bathi11g facilities.
ExTENSION \VoBK.
During the past few years a great deal has been done through the Extension Division of universities in other states and the Agricultural College in this state. The University must be taken to the people. When the people of the State once realize that the University is their own, theirs to serve in every possible way, the foundation for a Greater University will have been laid. The high schools of the state graduated this year 1,183 more students than in 1921. The high schools are feeders for the University. In addition to the many thousands of people who would normally be reaclwd and benefited through the Department of Extension work, it is highly probable that a great number of these high school graduates who ~will ,be unahle to attend the University, will be enabled to continue their studies through the Extension Division. The Department of Education, the School of Commerce, and the Extension Division of the State College of Agriculture are doing a splendid work, and we urge that their facilities for reaching more people be enlarged. We

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recommend that the Peabody Library be given facilities for extension work.
We recommend that more room and additional teaching force be provided in the School of Commerce, the Department of 'English, and the Department of Romance Languages, and that enlarged facilities be given the Department of History and Economics.

GEOLOGY.
As another step in the progress of the University, a Department of Geology and Mineralogy has been created through the generosity of the General Education Board, the purpose of which is to give the University a larger part in the development of the natural resources of the State.
ScHOOL OF JouR~ALISM
In connection with the School of Journalism, we recommend that a printing plant be established. By the installation of typesetting machines and printing equipment, the University could save thousands of dollars annually on its printing. Not only would this addition prove valuable for the training given the students and the money saved, but a printing plant would offer the means of a self-help to a large number of deserving boys and girls.

ATHLETICS.
"\Ve favor and recQmmend the creation of a Department of Physical Education in the University.

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The calls from high schools for teachers trained to act as athletic coaches are numerous and insistent. Stricted regulation of athletics, that makes proficiency in scholarship a requisite to participation m sports, is a movement in the right direction.

lN.FIRMARY.
It was a matter of great satisfaction to find the lnfirmary so neatly and well kept. This institution fills an important place in the life of the University. 1t has proved n real blessing to the students. We recommend that an additional boiler be installed in the Infirmary for the purpose of furnishing heat.
AGRICULTURAL CoLLEGE.
vVe strongly recommend the purchase of certain
lands and buildings adjacent to the tract of the College of Agriculture. \Vith the exception of about fifteen acres the College of Agriculture owns all the land on the college farm.
The installation of a sprinkler system in the dormitory at the State College of Agriculture would give a much lower insurance rate, and would be a profitable investment. This Board tinds the state of Georgia owns at the state College of Agriculture buildings and equipment worth approximately one million dollars. The property is inaclequutely protected from loss b~' fire. The extension of water mains, at a cost of about $25,000 would give proper fire protection.
\Ve heartily approYc the recc-mmendation of Dr-

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Soule for an Enabling Act, providing for the employment of county agents and making it legal to pay the salaries of such agents out of the general tax levy.
The department of Horticulture informs this Board that with a slight increase in appropriation, scientific investigations that would be of great value to the country in time of war, could be carried on.

STUDENT AcTIVITIES.
The student body of the University is composed of a splendid body of men and women. We find with much gratification that the students are applying themselves to a serious work in a studious, earnest manner. The heads of all departments have spoken in highest terms of the department of the students, and this we have found to be true after careful investigation. The religious atmosphere of the University is good, and beyond question the University of Ge~r gia is one of the great moral forces of the state. Splendid work has been done by the Young Women's Christian Association, and the Young Men's Christian Association, and we commend the capable management of these organizations.
Co-EDUCATION.
Co-education, this board is glad to report, is proving popular with both students and professors. The young ladies are among the best students, and they are fully justifying the wisdom of opening the University to women on the same basis as men. The

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scholarship of both nien and women ranks high, and is a matter of favorable comment by the heads of all departments.

wAR MEMORIAL FUND.
It is a matter of great interest to all friends of the University, and the cause of education in general, to know that the University of Georgia during the past fall raised more than a million dollars in the War Memorial Campaign. N"ot only did the alumni rally loyally to the call for help, hut the general public subscribed liberally, and the General Education Board gave one hundred thousand dollars. Much of the credit for this forward-looking movement, which marks a new and better day for the University, is due to ~fr. Harry Hodgson, who worked with unflagging interest and utmost loyalty. Mr. Hodgson deserves the thanks of the people of the entire state. ~While he was ahl~, assisted, yet be is entitled to honor and praisp for having put over a big movement in a manner that surprised even the most loyal supporters of the University. This campaign, designed to honor the many brave University of Georgia men who gave their lives in the World War, was really a campaign of education, and farreaching good is bound to follow.
CHA~CELLOR BARROW
If the rest of the world has lost its balance during the trying period of readjustment through which the country is passing, the University of Georgia has

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maintained its morale. A spirit of service everywhere prevails. Professors worked to the point of exhaustion, do their duty without complaining. Students, denied by the state adequate rooming facilities, somehow find a hole in the wall and press forward. Much of this spirit of loyalty and devotion is due to the leadership of Chancellor D. C. Barrow. A christian gentleman of the highest type, he is a leader who sees through the darkest cloud. Chancellor Barrow is the inspiration of the University, and it is the sincere wish of this board that the Greater University of the Future may be realized during his administration.

FINANCIAL SrPPORT.
It is easy for this Board to recommend more money for this or that purpose, but getting the funds is another matter. vVhat we have been concerned with most is trying to devise some plan to give the University proper financial support. It is childs play for the General Assemblly to appropriate money with no funds in sight to pay the appropriation. More revenue cannot be raised, we believe, under the existing system of taxation.
If the University is to continue to grow, it is imperative that more funds be provided. Unless this is speedily done the University will he forced by the logic of events to occupy a second or third rate position. The best brains of the state, the most patriotic service, the broadest statesmanship should be used to work out a solution to this problem. Upon

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education depends civilization itself. So momentous is the task involved, so far-reaching the result, that this board has ventured to suggest that all other plans and purposes for the time being should be made secondary to that of securing adequate funds for the proper maintenance of the higher institutions of learning.
It may be pointed out that most of the towns a:qd cities of the state have been able to provide proper school facilities only by voting bonds.
This board congratulates the University and Dr. H. C. -White upon his fifty years of distinguished serYice to the University and to the state.
The board desires to congratulte Professor J oseph Lustrat on the signal honor that has come to him in being named by the French government as '' Officier d 'Acadamie. ''
\Ve wish to call especial attention to the fact that e\ery courtesy, kindness and consideration bas been shown this board, and information has been given freel~ and cheerfully by the Chancellor, Deans and the heads of the Yarious departments.

Respectfully submitted, R. E. BRooKs, Chairman, E. R. HoRTON, LUTHER ELROD, .J. D. JONEs, Secretary, Board of Visitors.

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By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Logan of Banks-



.House Bill No. 383. A bill to amend an Act to revise the laws of Georgia with reference to commitments to the Georgia State Sanitarium.

By }lessrs. Guess of DeKalb and Davis of Floyd-
House Resolution No. 203. A resolution to create a commission to regulate. the distribution of coal 'vithin the State.

B~ }fessrs. Campbell of the 34th and :Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 230. A bill to authorize the addi-
tion of one or more judges of the Superior Court of. Stone 1fountain Circuit.
The following bills of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By l\Iessrs. Beck and Smith of Carroll-
House Bill Xo. 799. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Bowdon.
The Committee substitute was read and adopted.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 122, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majojrity, was passed by substitute.
By Mr. Byrd ofCrisp-
House Bill No. 826. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the Town of Arabi.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed.

By 1\Ir. Brantley of Pierce-
House Bill No. 850. A bill to amend an Act to create and incorporate the City of Blackshear.
The report of the Committee, which waa favora bk to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 121, Xays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Thomas of 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 218. A bill to incorporate the City of .Jesup, and for other purposes.

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill,. was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 123, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
'l'he following bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering Senate substitute:

By Mr. Strickland of Brantley-
Honse Bill No. 480. A bill to correct certain mistakes of the General Assembly for the creation of Brantley County and for other purposes.
The following Senate substitute was read:

A BILL
To Be Entitled ''An Act to correct certain mistakes and inaccuracies appearing in the act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved August 14th, 1920, proposing an amendment to Paragraph 2, Section 1, Article II of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, providing for the creation of the County of Brantley, with reference to the boundaries of said new county as appearing in Section 1, Paragraph 1 of said Act, and for other purposes. ''
WHEREAS, in the Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved August 14th, 1920, proposing an amendment to Paragraph 2, Section 1, Article II

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of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, provid- . ing for the creation of the new county of Brantley, and which proposed amendment to the Constitution was adopted by the people of Georgia, it is provided in Section 5 thereof that the General Assembly is authorized to correct any mistake or inaccuracies in reference to the boundaries of said new county as contained in Paragraph 1 of Section 1 of said Act, and,

WHEREAS, there are certain inaccuracies appearing in said paragraph of said section of said Act.
NOW THEREFORE, IN ORDER THAT said inaccuracies or mistakes may he corrected, be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that said Ac.t proposing an Amendment to the Constitution for the creation of the said new county of Brantley, as the same appears in Georgia Laws 1920, pages 34, 38, be, and the same is, hereby amended by striking from line 20 of Paragraph 1 of Section 1 of a said Act, on page 35 of said Laws, the words ''Buffalo Creek'' and inserting in lieu thereof the words "The Big Satilla River," and by striking from said line 20 of said paragraph of said section of said Act the words "Eastwards along" and by striking from line 21 and 22 of said paragraph of said section of said Act, the words ''the line between counties of Charlton and \Yayne to the Big Satilla River and the western line of Camden County,'' and by inserting in lieu thereof the following, ''North-

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ward along the channel of said Big Satilla River to the Camden line,'' so that said paragraph 1 of said Section 1 of said Act, when so amended, shall read as follows:

SECTION 1. In addition to the counties now provided for by the Constitution of Georgia, as amended, there shall be organized, by this further amendment to Paragraph 2, Section 1, Article II, another new county to be known as Brantley, the same to be laid out from the counties of Pierce, Charlton and Wayne, and shall include all of the territory embraced within boundaries as follows, to-wit: "Beginning at the southeast corner of Pierce County, at the southeast corner of lot of land number three hundred (300) in the 9th District of Pierce County, and thence northwards along the line between Pierce and Charlton Counties to the southwest corner of land lot number thirteen (13), in the 2nd District of Charlton County; thence eastwards along the south line of land lots numbers thirteen (13), fifty-two (52), seventy-seven (77), one hundred and sixteen (116), one hundred and forty-one (141), one hundred and eighty (180), two hundred and five (205), and fractional lot two hundred and forty-four (244), and thence continuing in a straight line to the Big Satilla River, and thence northward along the channel of said Big Satilla River to the Camden County line;'' thence northwards along the line between Wayne and Camden Counties to the Glynn County line; thence further northwards along the line between the Counties of Wayne and Glynn to a point on said county line one

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mile north of the main line of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway; thence westwar'ds along a line one mile north of and parallel with the aforesaid main line of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway to the Little Satilla River, and the line between the Counties of \Vayne and Pierce; thence southeast along the channel of the Little Satilla River to the southwest corner of land lot numhtlr one (1) in the 3rd District of \Vayne County; thence southwards along the west lines of land lots numbers thirty-two (32) and thirty-one (31), in the 2nd District of Pierce County, to the channel of the Big Satilla River; thence westwards up the channel of the Big Satilla River, through Pierce County, to the county line between Pierce and Ware Counties; and thence south and southwest along the county line between Pierce and \Yare Counties to the Charlton County line; and thence eastwards along the county line between Pierce and Charlton to the southeast corner of Pierce Count~~, the point of beginning aforesaid.''
SECTION 2. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
Mr. Pickren of Charlton moved that the House concur in the Senate substitute, and the motion prevailed.
By unanimous consent the following bill of the House was withdrawn from the Committee, read the sceond time, and recommitted:

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By :Messrs. Reville and Pilcher of Richmond-
House Bill No. 863. A bill to amend the Code of 1910 relative to the official organ of certain counties.
The following resolution of the House was introduced and read :

By :M.r. Arnold of Clay-
House Resolution No. 206. A resolution calling for joint committee to investigate certain charges relative to the Tax Equalization Law.
Mr. Beck of Carroll moved the previous question; the motioo prevail~d, .and the main question was ordered.
The resolution was lost.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted by a unanimous rising vote :

By Messrs Brown of Emanuel and Mixon of Treutlen-

A RESOLUTION.
House Resolution No. 207. Wlvereas, information has been received that the wife of W. E. Boatwright, member of this House from the County of Emanuel, has passed to the Great Beyond;
Therefore be it resolved by the House of Representatives that this House express its deep and heartfelt sympathy for Mr. Boatwright in his great sorrow and that it is the wish of the members of this

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body that the hand of the Great Healer may be felt in healing this great sorrow and in mending his broken heart.
Be it further resolved that the Speaker of the House be requested to wire our condolence to our bereaved member.
The following report of the Committee on Rules was introduced and read:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Rules having had under consideration an order of business have instructed me as their Vice-Chairm.an to report the following special and continuing order to be taken up immediately after unfinished business :
House Bill No. 6. To repeal Equalization Act.
House Bill No. 205. To provide an income tax.
House Bill No. 449. To provide segregation and classification tax.
House Bill N.o. 260. To reorganize Railroad Com-
miSSIOn.
House Bill No. 592. Fee system bill. House Bill No. 213. To provide for 4-year terms for members of General Assembly. House Bill No. 203. Appropriation to State Sani~ tarium.
House Bill No. sn. Emergency appropriation for
military.

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These bills set for morning sessions only.

MuNDY, Vice-Chairman.

By unanimous consent House Bill No. 873 was withdrawn from the morning calendar as recommended by the Committee ori Rules:
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 873 was placed as the first bill on the calendar for this afternoon.
The report of the Committee on Rules, which was fayorable to the adoption of the order of business, was agreed to.
The order of business, as set out in the report of the committee, was established and set as a special order.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:
By Mr. Bowden of \Vare-

A RESOLUTION.
House Resolution No. 208. Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, that whereas, the theatre and moving picture people of Atlanta, in their desire to entertain and make pleasant the stay of the members of this body in Atlanta, have thrown wide their doors to the will of each and every member and his family, and have exerted every effort to make them enjoy the amusements of the city, Therefore

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Be it resolved by the House of Representatives, that the deepest thanks and appreciation of this body be extended to the owners, managers and employees of every theatre and moving picture house in the city, and that our best wishes go to them for continued prosperity.

The following report of the Committee on Rules was introduced and read:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Rules having had under consideration the fixing of an order of business for afternoon sessions, have instructed me as their ViceChairman to report that the Committee on Rules be authorized to fix special orders of business for afternoon sessions independent of orders fi.xed for morning sessions, until otherwise ordered.
MuNDY, Vice-Chairman.
On the adoption of the report ~Ir. Wyatt of Troup moved the previous question ; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following amendment was read and adopted:
By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
Amend by adding the following proviso: Provided that the report of the Rules Committee may be amended by a two-thirds vote of the House.
The report of the committee, which was favorable

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to establishing this as an order, was agreed to as amended.
The order of business as set out in the report was established.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional. majority the following bills, to-wit:
House Bill No. 811. A bill entitled ''An Act to establish a City Court of Barrow County, in and for the County of Barrow.''
House Bill No. 822. A bill to amend ''An Act to establish a City Court in the County of Hall, and to provide for the appointment of a Judge and Solicitor thereof.''
House Bill No. 647. A bill to amend an Act to fix the amount of the fees of the Clerks of the Superior Courts of this State in counties having less than fifty thousand population.
Senate Bill No. 196. A bill to create a Board of County Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Dougherty, to prescribe their powers, and for other purposes.
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majojjrijty the following- Senate bill, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 274. A bill to amend the present charter of the City of Albany.

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The Senate has read and adopted the following. House resolution, to-wit:
House Resolution No. 205. A resolution thanking the City of Savamuih for their hospitality and for the entertainment given the General Assembly.
Under orders of the day the following bill of the House, set as a special order on the recommendation of the Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Watkins of Butts-
House Bill No.6. A bill to repeal an Act to regulate the return and assessment of property for taxation in this State, and for other purposes.

By unanimous consent Mr. DeLaPerriere of Jackson was allowed to cast his vote at this time and retire. He voted ''Aye'' on the bill and ''No'' on all amendments.
By unanimous consent Mr. DuBose of Clarke was allowed to cast his vote at this time and retire. He voted ''No'' on the bill and ''Aye'' on the two amendments.
Mr. Culpepper of Fayette moved that the House do now adjourn; the motion prevailed, and House Bill No. 6 went over as unfinished business.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. 3fcGarity of Paulding and Moore of Appling.
The following communication was read:

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BRUNSWICK, GA.

RoN. CECIL NEILL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives,

Atlanta, Ga.
while Brunswick is informed that there is hardly a possibility of the State port matter coming up before you gentlemen at this session, however, in the event there is such a possibility we want you to be fully advised of and acquainted with Brunswick's marvelous possibilities for the establishment of State owned port and terminals. We think it only fair that you should familiarize yourself with Brunswick's superior advantages, and we extend through you to all of the members of the House of Representatives a most cordial invitation to visit Brunswick at Brunswick's expense next Saturday and Sunday or the following Saturday and Sunday, or whatever time you wish to designate, but whatever time you decide to come it should be in advance of any action that may be taken by the Legislature touching the question of the establishment of State owned port and terminals.

(Signed) City of Brunswick, by C. D. Ogg, Mayor; County Commissioners, by C. Miller, Chairman; Board of Trade, by J. W. Simmons, President; Young Men.'s Club, by Frank M. Scarlett, Chairman; Rotary Club, by M. Rose, President.

The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

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AFTERNOON SESSION,
3 o'Clock P.M.
The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the following bill of the House was introduced, read the first time and referred to a committee:

By Messrs. Bowden of Ware, Pickren of Charlton, and others-
House Bill No. 903. A bill to appropriate $75,000 for aid in certain counties in the work of tick eradicaction.
The following report of the Committee on Rules was submitted and read:

Mr. Speaker:
The Rules Committee having had under consideration an order of business for the afternoon session of August 1st instruct me as their Vice Chairman to report the following special order of business :

House Bill No. 873. Emergency Appropriation for Militiary.
House Resolution No. 154. To appropriate to pay intPrest on the bonded debt.

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House Resolution No. 165. To place party on pension roll.
House Bill No. 645. Elbert County Local Bill. House Bill No. 554. To authorize T'ech to charge tuition.
House Bill No. 575. To change the name of South Ga. Normal School at Valdosta.
House Resolution No. 190. Appropriation for stationery.
House Bill No. 203. Appropriation for State Sanitarium.
House Bill No. 157. Jewelers Lien Bill. House Bill No. 564. Electric chair Bill.
Senate Bill No. 176. Letting contracts by Highway Department.
Senate Bill No. 198. Nursery Bill. In Commtitee. House Bill No. 669. To amend Prohibition Law.
House Bill No. 716. Amending Charter Laws. House Bill No. 832. To Amend Gasoline Tax Bill.
MUNDY, Vice-Chairman.

The following bills of the House and Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were n:d the third time and placed upon their passage:

Ey Messrs. Culpepper of Fayette and McMichael of Marion-
Sig. 23

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House Bill No. 873. A bill for additional appropriation for military establishment in the State of Georgia and for other purposes.
Mr. Fowler of Bibb moved that the Committee of the Whole House be instructed to limit the debate on this bill to ten minutes and the motion prevailed.

The bill involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House, and the Speaker designated Mr. Knight of Berrien as the Chairman thereof.

The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the bill back to the HiOuse with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended.
Mr. Smith of Carroll moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend by adding to Section 1, the following words: "Provided said funds shall be used only for payment of expenses of troups on riot or special duty and only so much of said funds as may be necessary for said purpose shall be used, all funds to be drawn on warrant of the Governor.'.'
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
The bill involving an appropriation, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

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Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs :

Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Bobo Boswell Bowden Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Corbitt Culpepper Daniel of Heard Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Hall Ennis Evans Folsom

Fowler

~IcC l u r e

Franks

McDonald of Mitchell

Grant

McMichael

Gresham

Maddox

Griffin

M!tlone

Greene

Mann

Grovenstein

::\Ianning

Guess

Mason

Gunnels

Mixon

Haddock

Moore of Fulton

Hamilton

Mundy

Hatcher of Burke

Neal of Union

Hatcher of Muscogee Parrish

Hawkins

Patten

Henderson

Penland

Herring

Perkins

Hillhouse

Perryman

Hines of Sumter

Peterson

Hodges

Pickren

Holland

Pilcher

Holloway

Price

Horne

Pruett

Houser

Ramsey

Houston

Reville

Hullender

Ricketson

Hunter

Russell

Hyman

Rutherford

Jones of Coweta

Salmon

Jones of Walker

Shettlesworth

Johnson of Bartow Sibley

Johnson of

Singletary

Chattahoochee Smith of Bryan

Johnson of Pickens Smith of Carroll

Keith

Steele

Kennedy

Strickland

King of Jefferson

Sumner of Wheeler

King of Wilcox

Swift

Kittrell

Tatum

Knight

Thompson of Coweta

Lewis

Thompson of Dodge

Logan

Trippe

McClelland

Valentino

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Van Landingham VanZant Watkins Webb

Whitaker of Rockdale Woodard

Wimberly

Worthy

Winship

Wood

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Daniel of Troup Ficklen Foy Hines of Decatur

Howard of Screven Luke Phillips of Jasper Reagan

Smiley Smith of Haralson Williams of Miller Williams of Walton

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Baldwin Boatwright Bowen Brannen Bush Clifton Coates Collier Collins Cowart DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Duncan of Dawson Dykes Fletcher Gann Griffith Harris Howard of Forsyth

Hufstetler

Smith of Meriwether

Jackson

Stone

Jones of Thomas

Stovall

Langford of Hall

Sumner of Johnson

Lankford of Toombs Swindle

McDonald of

Turner

Richmond Tyson

~IcGarity

Vocelle

~faclntyre

Walker

Mayo

Wall

Miles

Way

:Moore of Appling

Weston

Moye

Whitley

Nichols

Whitaker of Lowndes

Owen

Whitworth

Parks

Williams of Harris

Phillips of Telfair Wyatt

Quincey

Wynne

Riley

~Ir. Speaker

Robinson

Sapp

Ayes 135, Na.ys 12.
By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 135, Nays 12.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

Mr. Culpepper of Fayette moved that during the remainder of the session, unless otherwise ordered by the House, during the afternoon session individual speeches be limited to ten minutes and the motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent the bill just passed was ordered to be immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Resolution No. 154. A resolution to appropriate money for paying interest on the Public Debt.
Mr. Smith of Carroll moved that the Committee of the Whole House be instructed to limit the debate on this resolution to five minutes to each side and the motion prevailed.
The resolution involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House, and the Speaker designated Mr. DeFoor of Clayton as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the resolution back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
Mr. Smith of Carroll moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

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. The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.

.The resolution involving an appropriation, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows :

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

.Adams of Walton .Anderson .Arnold .Atkinson Heck Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bobo Boswell Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brantley Brown of Hancock Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Coates Collier Corbitt 'Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor Dickerson Dobbs

DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Ennis Evans Ficklen Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Grant Gresham Griffin Greene Grovenstein Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway Houser Houston Howard of Forsyth Howard of Screven Hunter Hyman

Jones of Coweta Jones of Walker Johnson of Bartow Johnson of Pickens Keith Kennedy King of Jefferson King of Wilcox Kittrell Knight Langford of Hall Luke ::'llcClelland McClure McDonald of Mitchell ::\IcDonald of
Richmond 1\Iac!ntyre McMichael Maddox Malone Mann Manning Mason Mixon Moore of Fulton Moye Mundy Neal of Union Owen Parrish Patten Perkins Perryman Peterson Phillips of Jasper

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Pickren Pilcher Price Pruett Quincey Ramsey Reagan Reville Ricketson Riley Robinson Russell Rutherford Salmon Shettlesworth

Sibley Singletary Smiley Smith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Steele Strickland Sumner of Wheeler Swift Tatum Thompson of C9weta Trippe Tyson Van Landingham VanZant

Vocelle Watkins Way Webb Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth .Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wynne

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton

Guess

Phillips of Telfair

Baldwin

Harris

Sapp

Bentley

Horne

Smith of Haralson

Bloodworth

Hufstetler

Smith of Meriwether

Boatwright

Hullender

Stone

Bowden

Jackson

Stovall

Bowen

Jones of Thomas

Sumner of Johnson

Brannen

Johnson of

Swindle

Brown of Emanuel

Chattahoochee Thompson of Dodge

Bush

Lankford of Toombs Turner

Clifton

~wis

Valentino

Collins

Logan

Walker



Cowart DeLaPerriere

McGarity Mayo

Wall Weston.

Dixon

Miles

Whitley

Dykes

Moore of Appling

Whitaker of Lowndes

Fletcher

Nichols

Wyatt

Gann

Parks

~Ir. Speaker

Griffith

Penland

Ayes 152, Nays 0.
By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

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On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 152, Nays 0.
The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
Mr; Williams of Harris moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.
By unanimous cons~nt Mr. Quincey of Coffee was allowed to cast his vote on House Bill No. 6 at this time and retire. He voted ''Aye'' on the bill and "No" on all amendments.

By Mr. Hillhouse of Worth-
House Resolution No. 165. A resolution placing Mr. S. L. Lesseur on the pension roll.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.

On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 60, Nays 50.

The resolution having failed to receive the re-

quisite constitutional majority was lost.



Mr. Hillhouse of Worth gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass Blouse Resolution No. 165.

Mr. Beck of Carroll moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.
The following bill of the House, s'et as a special

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order by the Committetl on Rules, was taken up for the purpose of considering a Senate amendment:

By Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Bill No. 645. A bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Elbert County and for other purposes.
Mr. Howard of Forsyth moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
Mr. Hillhouse of Worth moved that the bill be tabled, and the motion was lost.
The following Senate amendment was read and concurred in:
Amend by striking Section 10 and substituting in lieu thereof the following: ''Section 10. That the provisions of all foregoing Sections of this Act shall become operative only after an election to be held within twenty days after its approval. Those favoring having one commissioner shall have printed on their ballots ''For One Commissioner,'' those who favor three commissioners shall have printed on their ballots ''For Three Commissioners.'' If a majority shall vote for one commissioner, then the provisions of this act shall be null and void. If a majority shall vote for three commissioners, then the provisions of the foregoing sections of this Act shall become valid, and become operative under the terms of this Act. (Provided, however; That in no event shall the provisions contained in Section 1-A,

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, of the Act of 1919, contained-in Georgia Laws, 1919, pages 643, 644 and 645, be in any manner affected by the adoption of this Act, if the same shall be approved by the people, as aforesaid.)

Amend Section Ten by adding after the word ''aforesaid,'' the following: ''Said election shall be called by the Ordinary of Elbert County and held under the laws now provided for holding elections for county officers.''
Section Eleven. That ~II laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

The following bills and resolutions of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third. time and placed upon their passage:

~y Messrs. :Moore, Holloway, and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 554. A bill to authorize and impower the Trustees of the Georgia School of Technology to charge and collect reasonable tuition, etc.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 110 Nays 5.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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715

By Messrs. Whitaker of Lowndes and Woodard of Cook-

House Bill No. 575. A bill to change the name of the South Georgia State Normaml College at Val-: dosta.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 109 Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Resolution No. 190. A resolution appropriating money to pay for certain supplies used by the members of the House of Representatives.
The resolution involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House, and the Speaker designated Mr. Fowler of Bibb as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the resolution back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.
The resolution involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows :

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Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Walton Anderson 'Arnold .Atkinson Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Bobo Boswell Boyett Braddy Branch Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Daniel of Heard Daniel.of Troup Da\is of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DuBose Dudley Duncan of Hall Evans l<'icklen Folsom Fowler Franks Grant 'Gresham Greene

Grovenstein

Moore of Fulton

Guess

Moye

Gunnels

}Iundy

Hamilton

Xeal of Union

Hatcher of Burke

Owen

Hawkins

Parrish

Henderson

Patten

Herring

Penland

Hillhouse

Perkins

Hines of Decatur

Peterson

Hines of Sumter

Pickren

Holland

Pilcher

Holloway

Price

Houser

Pruett

Houston

Ramsey

Howard of Forsyth Reville

Howard of Screven Ricketson

Hunter

Riley

H~man

Robinson

Jones of Coweta

Salmon

Jones of Walker

Sapp

Johnson of Bartow Shettlesworth

.John~ou of

~miley

Chattahoochee Smith of Bryan

Johnson of Pickens ~mith of Carroll

Keith

Smith of Haralson

Kennedy

1:-;teele

King of Jefferson

Strickland

Kittrell

Swift

Knight

Tatum

Langford of Hall

Thompson of Coweta

Le\\;s

Thompson of Dodge

~IcClure

Trippe

~IeDonald of ~Iit!'!Je!l Tyson

1leDonald of

\'alentino

Riehmond \'an Landingham

~Iaelntyre

Yoeelle

}laddox

\Yay

:\lalmw

\Vpston

".\fanning

Whitaker of Rockdale

~Iason

\Yilliams of Walton

.\lixon

Wimberly

-Winship

TuESDAY, AuGusT 1, 1922.

717

Wood

Woodard

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Baldwin Bloodworth Boatwright Bowden Bowen Bozeman Brannen Bush Camp Carr Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs Duncan of Dawson Dykes Ennis Fletcher Foy Gann Griffin

Griffith Haddock Harris Hatcher of Mu~cogee
Hodge~
Horne Hufstetler Hullender Jackson .Jones of Thomas King of Wilcox Lankford of Toombs Logan Luke
~IcClelland
McGarity McMichael Mann Mayo Miles Moore of Appling Nichols Parks Perryman Phillips of Jasper Phillips of Telfair Quincev

Reagan Russell Rutherford Sibley Singletary Smith of Meriwether Htone Stovall Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swindle Swindle Turner VanZant Walker \Vall Watkins Webb Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitworth Williams of Harris WilliamH of Miller Worthy Wyatt Wynne 1Ir. Speaker

Ayes 127 Nays 0.

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed witl].
On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 127, Nays 0.
The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Mr. Hhuston of Gwinnett moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted :Mr. Quincey of Coffee.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, AuousT 2, 1922.

719

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA., Wednesday, August 2, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. l\L; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
I
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedi~gs was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the first part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.
3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.
5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions. By unanimous c~nsent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:
By Mr. Webb of Lowndes-
House Resolution No. 209 (912A). A resolution to

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JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

appropriate certain money to pay witnesses at hearing before State Ventinarian.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and \Vays and ~leans.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway of Fulton, Guess, Steele and McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 904. A bill to amend an act carrying into effect constitutional amendment, relative to abolition of Justice Courts in Atlanta.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By -:\Ir. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 905. A bill to require reports of all State Officials yearly.
" Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No. 2.

By Messrs. Ficklen and Bobo of Wilkes-
House Bill Ko. 906. A bill to amend the charter of the city of \Vashington.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. McGarity of Paulding-
House Bill :Xo. 907. A bill to regulate all four-year high schools, which receive certain state aid.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Weston of Brooks-
House Bill Xo. 908. A bill to amend the charter of the city court of Quitman.

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721

Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Beck of Carroll-
House Bill No. 909. A bill to provide for the return of all evidences of indebtedness for taxation.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Bowden of Ware-
House Bill No. 910. A bill to authorize the State Highway Departm~nt to purchase bridges and ferries, etc.
Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.

By .Mr. Quincey of Coffee-
House Bill No. 911. A bill to amend the charter of the town of Nicholls, in Coffee County.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By l\Ir. Wimberly of Laurens-
House Bill No. 912. A bill to amend an act creating a new charter for the town of Rockledge.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill X o. 913. A bill to amend the General Tax ~\ct relative to insurance companies.

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Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Hyman and Hawkins of WashingtonHouse Bill No. 914. A bill to authorize officials of
Sandersville to collect certain taxes annually. Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Brown of Emanuel-
House Bill No. 915. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Adrian, in counties of Emanuel and Johnson.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted :

By Mr. Perryman of Talbot-
House Resolution Ko. . . .. A resolution .to allow the Committee on Penitentiary to retire from the Hause for thirty minutes for the purpose of considering important matters.
.Jir. DuBose of Clarke County, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and "Ways ~mel Means, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and vVays and .Jieans have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chair-

WEDNESDAY, AuousT 2, 1922.

723

man, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 579. DuBosE of Clarke, Chairman.

Mr. Moore of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
Senate Bill No. 233. l\IooRE of Fulton, Chairman.

:Mr. Vocelle of Camden County, Chairman of the Committee on Game and Fish, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on. Game and Fish have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendations as follows:

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House Bill No. 805. Do pass as amended. House Bill No. 901. Do pass.
JAMES T. VocELLE, Chairman.

Mr. Smith of Bryan County, Chairman of the Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation, submitted the following report :

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation have had under consideration the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
Senate Resolution No. 75. Do pass.
House Bill No. 833. Do not pass.
SMITH of Bryan,
Chairman.

~lr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report:

J/r. Speake.r:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the H~use with the reconunendation that the same do pass :

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725

House Bill No. 887. House Bill No. 898. House Bill ~o. 899.

PICKREN of Charlton, , Chairman.

Mr. Swift of Elbert County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Property, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Public Property have had under consideration the following resolutions of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Resolution ~o. 200.
House Resolution :No. :202.
SwiFT of Elbert,
Chairman.

Mr. :Yloye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following bills of

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the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 876. Do pass. House Bill No. 877. Do pass. House Bill No. 902. Do pass. Ifuuse Bill No. 884. Do pass. House Bill No. 886. Do pass. House Bill No. 888. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 258. Do pass. House Bill No. 831. Do not pass. Senate Bill No. 157. Do not pass.
Respectfully submitted,
RoBERT L. MoYE of Randolph,
Chairman.

~fr. Guess of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 have had under consideration the following bills of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
Senate Bill No. 217. Do not pass.
Senate Bill No. 253. Do pass.
GuEss, Chairman.

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727

Mr. Lankford of Toombs County, Chairman of the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Amendments to the Constitution have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Rill No. 821.

LANKFORD of Toombs,

Chairman.

Mr. Perryman of Talbot County, Chairman of the Committee on Penitentiary, submitted the following report:

J.ll r. Speaker:
Your Committee on Penitentiary have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the H~mse with the recommendation that the same do pass :
House Bill Xo. sn.

PERRYMAN of Talbot,

Chairman.

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JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Mr. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Municipal Government have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 871. House Bill No. 835. House Bill No. 845. House Bill No. 843. Senate Bill No. 242. House Bill No. 722, as amended. House Bill No. 842, as amended. House Bill No. 758, by substitute as amended.
SMITH of Meriwether,
Chairman.

l\lr. Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General .Judiciary Xo. 2, submitted the following report:

Jlr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 2 have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and haYe instructed me as Chair-

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729

man, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
Senate Bill No. 14. Do not pass. House Bill No. 767. Do pass as amended. House Bill No. 863. Do pass. House Bill No. 881. Do pass. House Bill No. 900. Do pass.
Respectfully submitted,
JoHN CAMP DAvis, Chairman.

Mr. Hullender of Catoosa, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Enrollment has examined, found properly enrolled, duly signed and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following Acts and Resolutions, to-wit:
House Resolution No. 124. A resolution relative to paying expenses incurred by committee considering changes in the tax system.
House Bill No. 480. A bill to correct mistakes in creation of the county of Brantley.
House Bill ~o. 565. A bill to provide for the salary of the Treasurer of the county of Schley.
House Bill l\o. 683. A bill to amend an act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Jasper.

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House Bill No. 714. A bill to amend an act relative to the city court of Statesboro, in Bulloch county.

House Bill No. 645. A bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Elbert county.

House Bill No. 810. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Milledgeville.

House Bill No. 822. A bill to amend an act establishing the city court of Hall county.
House Bill No. 763. A bill to provide a local Board of Trustees for the Georgia Military Academy.

House Bill No. 725. A bill to create Bond Commissioners for Ware county.
House Bill No. 647. A bill to amend an Act relative to fees of clerks in Superior Courts in counties of certain populations.
House Bill No. 811. A bill tp create a City Court for the County of Barrow.
House Bill No. 629. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Atlanta, and for other purposes.
The following message was received from His Excellency the Governor, through his Secretary, Mr. McCurry:

Mr. Speaker:
I am directed by His Excellency, the Governor, to deliver to the House of Representatives a communi-

WEDNESDAY, AuausT 2, 1922.

731

cation in writing to which he respectfully invites your attentio.n.

STATE OF GEORGIA,
ExECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
ATLANTA, August 2, 1922.
To the General ..A.ssentbly of Georgia:
I beg to invite your attention to certain inequalities an injustices which exist under the laws of our State against women, and to urge upon you such modification of the law as will remove these injustices and discriminations:
1. I recommend that Section 3033, Volume 1 of the Civil Code of 1911 be so amended as to give to the Mother, as well as the Father, whether a widow or not, equal right with the Father to appoint a guardian for the persons of their children and for such property as she may devise or bequeath to such child.
2. I recommend that Section 3032, Volume 1 of the Civil Code of Georgia of 1911 shall be so amended as to make the Mother and Father equal natural guardians of their minor children.
3. I recommend that Section 3031 of the Civil Code of Georgia of 1911, Volume 1, be so amended as to confer a joint control and an equal right upon the Father and Mother with respect to the services and proceeds of labor of minor children.

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4. I recommend that Section 4467 of the Civil Code of this State shall be so amended as to confer a right of action against any person who sells or furnishes spirituous liquor to a minor child upon the Mother as well as upon the Father of such child.

5. I further recommend that legislation be enacted granting to each and every married woman in the State of Georgia the absolute right to have, hold, own, retain and enjoy as her separate property any wages or earnings acquired or gained by her in employment or occupation of business as her special estate and property, and the consent of the husband to the work or labor of his wife shall not be necessary and that the said earnings in every case shall be the sole and separate property of the wife.

In conclusion, I urge and recommend the repeal of every unfair discrimination against married women, but would urge extreme care in the consideration of the question as to whether or not laws which protect her in the enjoyment of her separate property are not wise and should not be retained. In my judgment, many of these laws are for the best interests of the women of the State and should never be repealed. They are intended for her protection and accomplish that result, in many cases.

Respectfully submitted,

w. THOMAS

HARDWICK,

Governor.

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By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate,. favorably reported by the committee, were read for the second time:

By :Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Resolution No. 200 (879A). A resolution providing for the establishment of a school building on State Farm.

By Mr. Sapp of whitfield-
House Resolution No. 202 (879C). A resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to investigate accoustics of House of Representatives.

By Mr. Ridley of the 28th-
Senate Resolution No. 75. A resolution providing for the acceptance of fund from Congress to better health conditions.

By Mr. Childs of the 12th-
Senate Bill No. 233. A bill to amend an act codyfying the School laws of the State of Georgia.

By Mr. Campbell of the 34thSenate Bill No. 242. A bill to amend the charter
of the city of Covington.
By Mr. Hutchens of the 38thSenate Bill No. 253. A bill to amend an act to
protect the furbearing animals of the State.

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By Mr. Pope of the 44th-

Senate Bill No. 258. A bill to amend an act abolishing the Board of Roads and Revenues for Walker County.

By Mr. Peacock of the 48th-

Senate Bill No. 263. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Eastman.

By Messrs. DuBose and Dudley of Clarke and Way of Liberty-

House Bill No. 579. A bill to supply a deficiency in the School Funds caused by misappropriation of R.N. Berrien.

By Messrs. McDonald, Pilcher and Reville of Richmond-

House Bill No. 722. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Augusta.

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 758. A bill to amend the charter of the city of College Park.

By Mr. Trippe of Bartow-
House Bill No. 767. A bill to provide giving notice of the use of person's names in names of corporations.

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735

By Messrs. Hufstetler of Murray, Owens of Gordon and others-

House Bill No. 805. A bill to prohibit the taking of fish from streams with seines, nets, etc.

By Messrs. Neill, Perkins and Hatcher of Muscogee-
Blouse Bill No. 821. A bill to amend par, 1, Sec. 13, art. 6 of the constitution, relative to payment of Judge Superior Court of Muscogee County from Treasury of said County.

By Mr. Byrd of Crisp-
House Bill No. 835. A bill to repeal the present and provide a new charter for the city of Cordele.
By Messrs. Winship, Fowler and Malone of Bibb-
House Bill No. 842. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Macon.
By Messrs. Winship, Fowler and Malone of BibbHouse Bill No. 843. A bill to permit the County
of Bibb to support the Macon Hospital.
By Messrs. Dobbs and Gann of CobbHouse Bill No. 845. A bill to amend an act es-
tablishing the town of Austell.

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By ~Iessrs. Reville and Pilcher of Richmond-

House Bill No. 863. A bill to amend Section 6065 of Code of 1910, relative to official organs.

By .Messrs. .McDonald, Pilcher and Reville of Richmond-
House Bill No. 871. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Augusta.

By Mr. Holland of Tattnall-
House Bill No. 876. A bill to amend an act known as the "Tattnall Board of Commissioners, Created."

By Mr. Holland of Tattnall-
House Bill No. 877. A bill to amend an act known as ''The Tattnall Road Law, Adopted.''

By Messrs. Perryman of Talbot, Knight of Berrien and others-
House Bill No. 878. A bill to repeal Article 1 of Penal Code of 1910, relative to Penitentiaries.

By Messrs. Bozeman of Worth and Russell of Barrow-
House Bill No. 881. A bill to amend section 5898 of Code of 1910, relative to interrogatories.

By Mr. Baldwin of MorganHouse Bill No. 884. A bill to amend an act to

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oreate a Board of County Commissioners for Morgan County.

By Mr. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 886. A bill to amend an act to create the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues for Pulaski County.

By Mr. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 887. A bill to amend an act creating a new charter for the city of Hawkinsville.

By Mr. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 888. A bill to amend an act fixing the salary of the Treasurer of Pulaski County.

By Mr. Macintyre of Thomas-
House Bill No. 898. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Thomasville.
By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 899. A bill to amend the charter of the city of Cedartown.
By Messrs. Neill, Perkins and Hatcher of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 900. A bill to repeal certain acts applying to the city of Columbus and Muscogee County.
Sig. 24

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By Messrs. Grovenstein of Effingham and Evans of Screven-

House Bill No. 901. A bill to prohibit the taking of fish from fresh water streams of this State with seine or trap, etc.

By Messrs. Whitaker and Webb of LowndesHouse Bill No. 902. A bill to amend an act estab-
lishing a Board of Commi~sioners of Roads and Revenues for Habersham County.
The following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway, and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 652. A bill to authorize additional ways for counties of certain population to provide for support of paupers, and for other purposes.
The following amendment was read and adopted:

By Mr. Moore of Fulton-
Amend by striking "seventy-five thousand" in line three of the caption and substituting ''one hundred and fifty thousand'' therefor, and by striking "75,000" in line two of section one and substituting "150,000" therefor.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 131, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority wa.s passed as amended.

By Messrs. Moore, Hlolloway, and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 650. A bill to authorize counties of certain population to provide for necessary public sanitation, and for other purposes.
Th~ following amendment was read and adopted:

By Mr. Moore of Fulton-
Amend by striking "75,000" from line two of the caption and substituting "150,000" therefor and by striking "75,000" in line three of section one and substituting '' 150,000'' therefor.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pa,ssage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed as amended.
The following bills of the ~enate were read the first time and referred to the comnri.ttees:

By Mr. Fleming of lOthSenate Bill No. 274. A bill to amend Charter of
City of Albany. Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

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/

By Mr. Fleming of lOth- .

Senate Bill No. 196. A bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Dougherty, and for other purposes.

By unanimous consent the following bill of the Senate was withdrawn from the Committee on Special Judiciary, read the second time, and recommitted:

By Mr. Peacock of 48th-
Senate Bill No. 263. A bill to amend Act creating City Court of Eastman.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 782 was recommitted to the Committee on Municipal Government.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Jfr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite c.onstitutional majority the following bills of the House, to-wit:
House Bill No~ 725: A bill to amend Act creating bond commission for Ware County.
House Bill No. 638. A bill to amend Charter of City of Pearson.
House Bill No. 629. A bill to amend Charter of City of Atlanta.

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House Bill No. 763. A bill to provide a local Board of Trustees for Georgia Military College.

A bill to amend Act creating Charter of City of Milledgeville.
The following message was received from the Sen.ate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the Senate, towit:
Senate Bill No. 275. A bill to amend Act providing a system of Public Schools for Albany, Ga.
The following bills of the House were taken up for the purpose of considering Senate amendments:

By Mr. Russell of Barrow-
House Bill No. 811. A bill to create a City Court for the County of Barrow.
The following Senate amendment was read and concurred in :
Amend by striking Section 5] and numbering sequent sections accordingly.

By Mr. Bowden of Ware-
House Bill No. 725. A bille to amend Act to amend an Act to create a Bond Commission for Ware County.

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The following Senate ~mendments were read:

Amend by striking Section 2 of said bill and substituting in lieu thereof as Section 2 the following: ''Section 2. The term of the eight elective members of said Bond Commission now in office shall expire _ on Nov. 15, 1922.''

Amend by striking Section 3 of said bill and substituting in lieu of Section 3 as Section 3 the following: "Section 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the eight elective members of said Ware County Bond Commission to succeed the present elective members of the Commission shall be elected at the general elction to be held in Ware County for State House Officers in the year 1922."

Mr. Bowden of Ware moved that the House concurr in the above amendments of the Senate and the motion prevailed.
Under the order of unfinished business the following bill of the House was taken up for further consideration:

By Mr. Watkins of Butts-
House Bill No. 6. A bill to repeal the act to regulate the return and assessment of property for taxation in this State.
Mr. Gresham of Burke moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

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On the passage of the bill Mr. Wyatt of Troup called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was sustained.
The roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

.Adams of Walton .Anderson Baldwin Beck Bird of Taliaferro Bloodworth Bobo Bowden Braddy :Byrd of Crisp Camp Carr Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Collier Corbitt Culpepper Daniel .of Troup DeLaPerriere Dickerson Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Evans Foy Franks Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Harris

Hawkins

Pilcher

Henderson

Price

Herring

Pruett

Hillhouse

Quincey

Hines of Decatur

Ramsey

Hodges

Reagan

Holland

Reville

Houser

Ricketson

Houston

Robinson

Howard of Forsyth Russell

Howard of Screven Rutherford

Hullender

Shettlesworth

Hyman

Singletary

Jackson

Smiley

Johnson of Bartow Stone

Keith

Stovall

Kennedy

Sumner of Johnson

King of Wilcox

Sumner of Wheeler

Kittrell

Swindle

Knight

Tatum

,Langford of Hall

Thompson of Dodge

Lewis

VanZant

Logan

Watkins

Luke

Way

:McDonald of

Whitley

Richmond Whitaker of Rockdale

McMichael

Whitworth

~Iaddox

Williams of Harris

llixon

Williams of Miller

Neal of Union

Williams of Walton

Owen

Wimberly

Patten

Wood

Peterson

Woodard

Phillips of Jasper

Wyatt

Pickren

Wynne

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.Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Arnold Atkinson Beckham Bentley Blalock Bleckley lioswell Bowen Boyett Bozeman Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Carswell Coates Collins Daniel of Heard Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor Dobbs DuBose Dudley Dykes Ennis

Ficklen

Mundy

Folsom

Nichols

Fowler

Parks

Gresham

Parrish

Hatcher of Burke

Penland

Hatcher of Muscogee Perkins

Hines of Sumter

Perryman

Holloway

Phillips of Telfair

Hunter

Riley

Jones of Coweta

Salmon

J one~ of Thomas

Sapp

Jones of Walker

Sibley

Johnson of

Smith of Bryan

Chattahoochee Smith of Carroll

Johnson of Pickens Smith of Haralson

King of Jefferson

Smith of MPriwdher

Lankford of Toomb8 Steele

:UcClelland

Strickland

McClure

Thompson of Coweta

:\IcDonald of Mitchell Trippe

:\>Iaclntyre

Turner

Malone

Tyson

Mann

Van Landingham

Manning

Vocelle

:Mason

Walker

Mayo

Webb

~Iiles

'Veston

Moore of Fulton

Winship

~loye

Worthy

Those not voting were Messrs :

I:IGatwright Bush
Cowart Dixon FletcherGann

Grant Hamilton Horne Hufstetler :\IcGarity ~Ioore of Appling

Swift Valentino \Vall 'Vhitaker of Lownde~ :\lr. Hpeaker

Ayes 104, Nays 86. The roll call was verified.

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On the passage of the bill th~ Ayes were 104; Nays 86.
The bill having received the requisite constitu'tional majority was passed.
Mr. Moye of Randolph gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in passing House Bill No. 6.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the bill just passed be immediately transmitted to the Senate.
Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.
On the motion to immediately transmit Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
On the motion to. immediately transmit Mr. Vocelle of Camden called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
On the motion to immediately transmit House Bill No.6 to the Senate the Ayes were 109, Nays 39, and the motion prevailed.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted :

A RESOLUTION.
House Resolution No. 210. Whereas our veteran member from the County of Habersham, the Honorable James Hampton Grant, an old and honored Confederate Veteran, is now confined to his room on account of sickness;

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Therefore be it resolved: That the House of Rep-
resentatives extend to our distinguished member our heartfelt sympathy and earnestly express the hop'e of his speedy recovery and that he will soon be in his accustomed seat near the Speaker's stand.

Mr. Bentley of Fulton moved that the HO'Use re. consider its action in voting to immediately trans. mit House Bill No.6 to the Senate.
Mr. McMichael of Marion moved that the House do now adjourn.
The motion to adjourn, taking precedence over the preceding motion, prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Grant of Habersham and Fowler of Bibb.
The Speaker announced the Ho.use adjourned un. til this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION.
3 o'Clock P.M.
The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker Pro-tem, Mr. Arnold of Clay.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dis. pensed with.
The following report of the Committee on Rules was submitted and read:

Mr. Speaker: The Rules Committee having had under considera-

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tion an order of business for an afternoon session August 2nd, has instructed me as their Vice-Chair~ man to report the following order:
House Bill No. 157. Jewelers Lien Bill.
House Bill No. 203. Appropriations State S~ni~ tarium.
Senate Bill No. 253. Fox and Opossum.
House Bill No. 564. Electric Chair.
House Bill No. 18. Title Bill.
Senate Bill No. 176. Letting Contracts by High~ way Department.
House Bill No. 669. Amendment to Prohibition Law.
House Bill No. 716. Amending Charter Law. House Bill No. 832. Amend Gasoline Tax Bill. House Bill No. 626. Female Poll Tax Exemption. House Bill No. 754. Capital Stock Trust Companies. Senate Bill No. 230. DeKalb County Judge Bill. House Bill No. 765. Chattahoochee Judgeship.
MuNDY, Vlice-Chairman.

By unanimous consent Mr. Pickren, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report :

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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
House Bill No. 834.
PICKREN, Chairman.

By unanimous consent Mr. Tatum of Dade County, Chairman of the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Railroads have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill' No. 622.
T.nT:u of Dade, Chairman.
By unanimous consent ~Ir. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government, submitted the following report:

Mr. Sp.eaker:
Your Committee on Muni-cipal Government have had under consideration the following bills of the

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House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendati~n that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 896. House Bill No. 885. House Bill No. 880. House Bill No. 897. House Bill No. 894. House Bill No. 782, by substitute.
SMITH of Meriwether,
Chairman.

By unanimous consent Mr. McMichael of Marion County, Chairman of the Committee on General Agriculture No. 2, submitted the following report:

Mr. Sp.eaker:
Your Committee on General Agriculture No. 2 has had under consideration House Resolution No. 204 and instructed me as its Chairman to report that the same do pass.
1\fc~iicHAEL, Chairman.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Greene of Jones: House Resolution No. 204 (897A). A resolution

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providing for the election of more than one member of Board of Commissioners of Jones County.

By Messrs. Bentley of Fulton, Fowler of Bibb, and others-
House Bill No. 622. A bill to regulate the operation of motor vehicles in certain towns and cities.

By Messrs. Langford and Duncan of Hall-
House Bill No. 782. A bill to amend the act incorporating the City of Gainsville.

By Mr. Boswell of Greene-
House Bill ~o. 834. A bill to amend an act incorporating the town of Greensboro.
By ~lr. W.ood of TwiggsHouse Bill No. 880. A bill to amend the charter
of the City of .Jeffcrsonville.
Ky .\lr. Hunter of ('hatham-
House Bill No. 885. .A bill to authorize offici:als of towns and municipalities to appropriate sums to State Sanitorium for Tubercular patients.
By Messrs. Gann and Dobbs .of CobbHouse Bill No. 894. A bill to amend the charter of
the City of ~Iarietta.

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751

By Messrs. Bentley, Holloway and Moore of Fulton-

House Bill No. 897. A bill to amend the charter of the City of East Point.

By Messrs. Bentley, Moore and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 896. A bill to amend the charter of the City of East Point.
The following bills of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage.

By Messrs. Kittrell of Laurens, Holloway, Moore, and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 157. A bill to create a lien in favor of jewelers and to provide for the foreclosure of same.
The following amendments were read and adopted:

By Mr. Beck of Carroll-
Amend section one by striking out the words ''or bona fide private" in line 15 thereof.

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
Amend by adding to section one the following words: "Provided, that no lien in favor of any person shall arise where goods have been stolen and pawned or deposited without consent of true owner.''

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The repott of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the ,Ayes were 109, Kays 4.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed as amended.
By .Messrs. Ennis of Baldwin and Dixon of Jenkins-
House Bill No. 203. A bill to appropriate $108,916.00 for supplying deficiency for completion of Nurses Home at State Sanitarium.
The bill involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House, and the Speaker designated Mr. Pickren of Charlton as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
The revort of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
~Ir. ShettlPsworth of Gwinnett moved that the bill he tabled.
.:\Ir. Culpepper of :B'ayette moved that the House do now adjourn; the motion prevailed, and House Bill No. 20:3 went over as unfinished business.
Leave of absence was granted .:\Ir. Hillhouse of "\Yorth.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

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753

REPRESE~TATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

Thursday, August 3, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the ChapLain.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the J ourna] of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the following bills of the Senate were withdrawn from the committee, read the second time, and recommitted:

By Mr. Fleming of the lOth-
Senate Bill No. 274. A bill to amend present charter of City of Albany.

By Mr. Fleming of the lOth-
Senate Bill No. 275. A bill to amend an Act to provide for a system of public schools for the City of Albany.
By unanimous consent 300 copies of House Bill No. 878 were ordered printed for the use of the House and Senate.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the remaining



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part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules. 2. Reports of Standing Committees. 3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time. 4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application. 5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions. By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House, were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:
By Messrs. Guess, Stelle and McClelland of DeKalb: House Bill No. 916. A bill to repeal Section 1398
of Civil Code of 1910, relative to admission of females in rolleges.
Referred to the Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches.
By :Mr. King of Wilcox: House Bill No. 917. A bill to create a Board of
Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for County of Wilcox.
Referred to Committees on Counties and County -:\Iatters.


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By Mr. King of Wilcox:
House Bill No. 918. A bill to change the time of holding the Superior Court of Wilcox County.

Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. King of Wilcox:
House Bill No. 919. A bill to repeal an Act establishing Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Wilcox County.

Referred to Committees on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Guess, Steele and McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 920. A bill to amend an Act to establish a Normal and Industrial College at Bowdon.
Referred to the Committee on University of Georgia and ts Branches.
By Messrs. Steele, Guess and McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 921. A bill to amend Section 1430, of the Civil Code of 1910, relative to Trustees of Academy for Deaf and Dumb.
Referred to Committee on Georgia School for the Deaf.

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By Mr. Perryman of Talbot-
House Bill No. 922. A bill to create a Bond Com mission of the State to issue Highway Bonds, etc.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Mr. Perryman of Talbot-
House Bill No. 923. A bill to amend Art. 7 of Constitution so as to permit issuance of Highway Bonds, etc.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to Constitution.

By Mr. Byrd of CrispHouse Bill No. 924. A bill to repeal an Act
amending the charter of the City of Cordele.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Messrs. Beck of Carroll and others-
House Bill No. 925. A bill to provide for a fair distribution of motor vehicle tax funds.
Referred to Committee on General Agriculture Xo. 2.
The bill was referred by the Speaker to the Committee on Public Highways. By unanimous consent the bill was withdrawn from that Committee and referred to the Committee on General Agriculture ~o. 2.

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/57

By Messrs. Clarke and Lewis of Colquitt-

House Bill No. 926. A bill to amend Section 4651 of Code of 1910, relative to list of N. P. 's & J. P. 's.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No. 1.

By Mr. Baldwin of Morgan-
House Bill No. 927. A bill to amend an Act and Amendatory Acts creating a new charter for City of Madison.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 928. A bill to amend an Act establishing a system of public schools for Hazelhurst.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff DavisHouse Bill No. 929. A bill to fix the terms of the
Superior Court of Jeff Davis County. Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Clarke and Lewis of Colquitt-
House Bill No. 930. A bill the amend the charter of the Town of Doerun.
Referred to Committees on Corporations.

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By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
House Bill No. 931. A bill to amend an Aet relative to consolidated public schools in each county.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Henderson of WhiteHouse Bill No. 932. A bill to repeal an Act creat-
ing a city court of Cleveland.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Messrs. Horne and Thompson of DodgeHouse Bill No. 933. A bill to amend the charter
of the City of Eastman.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Stovall of McDuffie-
Hause Bill No. 934. A bill to amend an Act fixing the salary of the Solicitor General of Augusta Judicial Circuit.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.
Mr. Gunnels of Franklin County, Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics, submitted the following report:

}fr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics

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have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 910.

GuNNELS of Franklin,

Chairman.

Mr. Pickren, of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report :
111 r. Speaker: Your Committee on Corporations have had under
consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 906. House Bill No. 912-.
PICKREN, of Charlton,
Chairman.

Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

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Mt-. Speaker: Your Committee on Counties and County ~atters
have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recom~ mendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 178.
Respectfully submitted,
RoBERT L. MovE,
Chairman.

The following communication was received from Mr. S. G. McLendon, Secretary of State:

STATE OF GEORGIA,
OFFICE OF SECRETARY OF STATE.
I, S. G. McLendon, Secretary of State of the State of Georgia, do hereby certify, That the one page of typewritten matter hereto attached is a true copy of the names of legislative agents registered with this office under an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, approved August 19, 1911, as the same appear of record on page 16 of the Docket of Legislative Appearance, which is of file in this office.
In Testimony Whereof, I have hereunto set my band and affixed the seal of my office, at the Capitol, in the City of Atlanta, this third day of August,

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in the year of our Lord One Thousand Nine Hundred and twenty-one, and of the Independence of the United States of America the One Hundred and Forty-sixth.

S. G. McLENDON,

Secretary of State.

Legislative Agents registered with the Secretary of State for 1921.
Narne of Attorney or Agent number 16; Grover Middlebrookls, Atlanta; 17, W. I. Geer, Colquitt, Georgia.
Firm or Association represented; Georgia Hotel Men's Association, filed August 1, 1921; G. A. Dozier, J. J. and S. L. Monroe, J. M. Clements et al; R. M. Jordan, E. G. Jordan; all of Calhoun County, Georgia.
Subject Matter-Fee. Favoring or opposing certain legislation in re "Hotels and Hotel Keepers.'' $25.00; Opposing of Court House from Morgan, Georgia to Edison, Georgia, and also Bill to abolish Board of County Commission of Calhoun County and establish new Board, $25.00.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resoultions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

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By Messrs. Ficklen and Bobo of Wilkes-

House Bill No. 906. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Washington, Georgia.

By Mr. Bowden of Ware-
House Bill No. 910. A bill to authorize the State Highway Department to condemn land, and bridges, etc.

By Mr. Wimberly of Laurens-
House Bill No. 912. A bill to amend an Act creat~ ing a new charter for the Town of Rockledge.

By Mr. Manson of the 33rd-
Senate Bill No. 178. A bill to authorize the different counties to fix the period of the fiscal year.
The following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 887. A bill to amend' Act creating new charter for City of Hawkinsville.
The report of the committee, w~ich was favorable to the passage of the bHl, was agreed to.
Qn the passage of the bill the Ayes were 12S, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisi~e constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 888. A bill to amend Act fixing salary of Treasurer of Pulaski County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 128, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Macintyre ~f Thomas-
House Bill No. 898. A bill to amend charter of City of Thomasville.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 127, Nays 0.
The bill having received the re9.uisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Holland of TattnalHouse Bill No. 876. A bill to amend Act known
as '' Tattnall Board of Commissioners created.'' The report of the committee, which was favorable
to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 133, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Holland of Tattnall-
'House Bill No. 877. A bill to amend Act known as '' Tattnall Road Law adopted.''
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 132, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Baldwin of MorganHouse Bill No. 884. A bill to amend an Act to
create a Board of Commissioners for County of Morgan.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 131, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Coates of PulaskiHouse Bill No. 871. A bill to amend charter of
City of Augusta.

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 206, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutiomi1 majority was passed.

By Mr. Coates of Pulaski-
House Bill No. 886. A bill to amend an Act to create the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues for Pulaski County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the hill the Ayes were 130, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Fowler, Winship and Malone of Bibb-
House Bill No. 843. A bill to permit the County of Bibb to support the Macon Hospital
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 201, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitu tional majority was passed.

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By Messrs. Dobbs and Gann of Cobb-

House Bill No. 845. A bill to amend an Act estab. lishing and creating a new charter for the Town of Austell.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 190 Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Boswell of Green- .
House Bill No. 834. A bill to amend an Act to incorporate the Town of Greensboro.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 140, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Wood of Twiggs-
Honse Bill No. 880. A bill to amend an Act to establish a new charter for the City of Jeffersonville.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 139, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Gann and Dobbs of Cobb-
House Bill No. 894. A bill to amend the charter . of the City of Marietta.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 138, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Bentley, Holloway, and Moore of Fulton-
.House Bill No. 896. A bill to amend the charter of East Point.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Langford and Duncan of Hall-
House Bill No. 782. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Gainesville.

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The Committee substitute was read and adopted.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, ":'as agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 141, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.

By Messrs. Whitaker and Webb of Lowndes-
House Bill No. 902. A bill to amend an Act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Habersham and the County of Lowndes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 125, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 899. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Cedartown.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 150, ~ays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite Constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Bentley, Moore, and Holloway of Ful ton-
House Bill No. 897. A bill to amend the charter of City of East Point.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 145, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Fowler, Winship, and Malone of Bibb-
House Bill No. 842. A bill to amend the charter of Macon.
The following Committee Amendment was read and adopted:
Amend by adding thereto the following Sections: ''Section 4. The City of Macon is hereby authorized to bargain, grant, sell and convey to owners of property in Square 95, original city, which fronts on Second Street in the City of Macon, and which lies between the encroachment line on Arch Street and Oglethorpe Street in said City, encroachment extending into said Second Street from the original line of said Second Street, a distance of twentyfour (24) feet."
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''Section 5. All Acts or parts of Acts in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed."

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes wer~ 109, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Green of Jones-
House Bill No. 204. A resolution for the election of more than one member of Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Jones County.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.
On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 142, Nays 0.
The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. .McDonald, Pilcher and Reville of Rich-
mond-
House Bill No. 722. A bill to amend charter of City of Augusta.
The following Committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend Section 45 by striking the words ''at the

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771

Court House of Richmond County'' between the

words" at the" and "City of Augusta" and insert

in lieu thereof ''at the regular voting places in each

ward in said City."

'

By adding to said Section 45 between the words "appointed" and "made all usual" the following ''But no employer or officer of the City of Augusta shall be appointed as Manager or Clerk.''

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 147, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Pope of 44th-
Senate Bill No. 258. A bill to amend an Act abolishing the Board of Roads and Revenues and creating a Board of Commissioners for the County of Walker.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 150, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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JOURNAL oF THE HousE,

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
,House Bill No. 758. A bill to amend the charter of College Park.
The Committee substitute was read and adopted.
The following Committee amendments to the Committee substitute were read and adopted:
The Committee on ~funicipal Government of the House amends the substitute to House Bill No. 758 by adding to the caption, after the word ''thereto,'' and before the word ''and,'' in the next to the last line of same, the following: ''So as to provide for the election of the members of the Board of Education of the City of College Park," and the Committee further moves to amend said substitute by adding after Section Eleven thereof, the following Sections, as Sections Twelve, Thirteen and Fourteen, to-wit:
Section Twelve. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that Section 1 of the Act of the General Assembly, amending the said Acts incorporating the City of Manchester, approved August 10, 1920, and relating to the election of the member of the Board of Education of the City of College Park (Georgia Laws, page 1189), be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Section Thirteen. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that Section 3 of the Act of the General Assembly amending the aforesaid Acts in-

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corporating the City of Manchester, approved Au-

gust 14, 1908 (Georgia Laws, page 557 and 558),

providing for the Election of the members of the

Board of Education of said City, be, and the sam~

is hereby repealed, and the following Section Sub-

stituted in lieu thereof as Section 3 of said Act to-

wit:

.

''Section 3. That a Board of Education for said

City is hereby created and the same shall consist

of the Mayor of said City of College Park, who shall

be ex-officio a member of s~d Board, and of five

members who shall be citizens of said City, and who

are free-holders, to be elected at the general elec-

tion for Mayor and Council to be held in said City

on the first Monday in December, 1922, on the same

manner in which the Mayor and Councilmen of said

City are elected; two of said members of said Board

shall be elected at said time from the City at large,

and their terms of office shall begin on the first day

of January, A. D. 1923, and shall continue for three

years, and until their successors are elected and

qualified; three members of said Board shall be

elected at said time, whose term of office shall be-

gin on the first day of January 1923, the election of

said three members to be as follows: One member

of said Board shall be elected from the First Ward

in said City, and shall be a resident of said Ward,

for a term of one year; one member of said Board

shall be elected from the Second 1;Vard of said City,

and shall be a resident of said W ~d for a term of

two years; and one member of said Board shall be

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.elected from the Third Ward in said City, a. nd shall
be a resident, of said Ward for a term of three years; that on the first Monday in December of each and any year thereafter in which any of the terms of office of any of the members of said Board elected as herein provided, shall expire, there shall be held an election, as herein provided, _for a successor of successors in office to the member or members of said Board whose term of office will expire, under the provisions of this Act on December 31, of said year. The term of office of the members of said Board, after the expiration of the terms just provided for, shall be three years, and until their successors are elected and qualified; and one of said members shall be elected for said term for the First Ward; and shall be a resident thereof, and one of said members shall be elected from the Second Ward, for said term, and shall be a resident thereof, and one of said members shall be elected for said term from the Third Ward, and shall be a resident thereof. Said Board shall elect from their own members a President, Vice-President, and a Secretary and Treasurer. No member of the Board shall receive any compensation for his services, except the Secretary and Treasurer, who shall receive such compensation as the Board may prescribe. No member of said Board shall hold the office of Councilman of said City, and the election of any member of the Board to such office shall immediately work a forfeiture of his office as a member of said Board. Any vacancy in said Board caused by death, resigna-

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tion, removal or otherwise than by the expiration of the term of office of a member shall be filled by said Board until the next regular election for such member or members. All elections for the members of said Board of Education shall be by the qualified ~ voters of said City, as herein provided for, and shall . be held under the same rules and regulations and .
with the same qualifications as to electors, as are
provided for in the elections for Mayor and Councilmen of said City. The Board of Education of said City, as at present constituted, shall continue in office and be authorized to perform all the d11ties which they are at present empowered and authorized to perform, until the first day of January, 1923."
Section Fourteen. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that Sections Twelve and Thirteen of this Act, relating to the election of the members of the Board of Education of said City shall not become effective or operative unl.ess and until the same are ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of said City voting in an election which shall be called for that purpose by the Mayor . and Council of s~id City within fifteen days from the date of the passage of this Act, and which election shall be held not later than sixty days from the passage of the ordinance of the Mayor and Council of said City calling said election, notice of which election shall be given in the manner prescribed by the charter of said City, and which shall be subject to the same rules and regulations governing elections for Mayor and Councilmen of said City. Those

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in favor of the ratification of said Sections shall cast ballots in said election having written or printed Jthereon the words: ''For election of members of Board of Education by the people;'' those against the ,ratification of said Sections shall cast ballots in .said election having written or printed thereon the :words~ ''Against election of members of Board of Education by the people.'' In the event the result ,of said election. is in favor of the ratification of said .Sections, they shall thereupon immediately become ;effective.
The Committee further moves to amend said sub.stitute by renumbering Sections Twelve and Thirteen thereof, so that the same will follow Sections Twelve, Thirteen and Fourteen of this amendment, and he numbered respectively, Sections Fifteen and Sixteen of said substitute bill.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of t_he bill by substitute as ame~ded, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 139, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute as amended.

,By Messrs. Neill, Perkins and Hatcher, of Muscogee-
A BILL. House Bill No. 821. To be entitled an Act to 'amend Paragraph 1, Section 13 of Article 6 of the

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Constitution of Georgia regulating the salaries (}{ the Judges of the Superior Courts, by providing for the payment from the County Treasury of Muscogee County to the Judge of the Circuit of which said County is a part, an additional compensation; and for other purposes.

Section 1. The General As~embly of the State of Georgia hereby proposes to the People of Georgia an amendment to Paragraph 1 of Section 13 of Article 6 of the Constitution of this State, as follows: '

By adding to Paragraph 1 of Section ~3, of Article

6 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia as it

now is the following~



"Provided, That the County of Muscogee, from and after January 1, 1925, shall pay from its Treasury to the Superior Court Judges of the Circuit-of which it is a part such sums as will with the salary paid each Judge from the State Treasury, make a salary of Six Thousand Dollars per annum to each Judge, and said payments are d~clared to be a part of the Court expenses of such County.''

Section 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that whenever the above proposed amendment to the Constitution of this State shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the Houses of the General Assembly, and the same has been entered upon their Journals, with the ayes and nays taken thereon, the Governor shall, and he is hereby authorized and instructed to cause the



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above proposed amendment to be published in one or more newspapers in each Congressional District in this State for the period of two months next preceding the time of holding the next General election; and the Governor is hereby authorized and directed to provide for the suhmission of the amendment proposed for ratification, or rejection to the electors of this State at the next general election to be held after said publication, at which election every person shall be qualified to vote who is entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly. All persons voting at such_ election in favor of adopting the said proposed amendment shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, ''For amendment to Paragraph 1 of Section 13 of Article 6 of the Constitution, providing for additional compensation to be paid by Muscogee County, to the Judges of the Circuit of which it is a part.'' All persons opposed to the adoption of said amendment shall have written or printed on their ballots the words, ''Against amendment to Paragraph 1 of Section 13 of _\.rticle 6 of the Constitution providing for additional compensation to be paid by Muscogee County to the Judges of the Circuit of which it is n pnrt." If a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, voting thereon, shall vote for ratification, the Governor shall, when he ascertains the same from the Secretary of State, to whom the returns from said election .shall be referred in the same manner as in cases of election for members of the General Assembly to count and



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ascertain the result, issue his proclamation for one insertion in one daily paper of the State, announcing such result and declaring the amendment ratified.

Section 3. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are repealed.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the biP, was agreed to.
The bill involving a constitutional amendment, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

~.\dams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Bleckley Bowden Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Camp Carswell Clark of Colquitt Clark of \Vebster Coates Collins Corbitt

Daniel of Heard Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dobbs DuBo.;e Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans Ficklen Folsom
F~vler
Foy Frank" Gann Gresham Griffin Griffith Grovenstein Guess Hamilton Harris

Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hines of Sumter Hodges Horne Houser Hullender Hunter Hyman .Jackson .Jones of Coweta. Johnson of Bartow .Johnson of
Chattahoochee .Johnson of Pickens Keith Kennedy King of Jefferson King of Wilcox Kittrell Knight Langford of Hall Lankford of Toombs

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Lewis Logan Luke McClelland l\1cClure McDonald of Mitchell McGarity Macintyre McMichael Maddox Malone Manning Mason Mayo Miles Moye Neal of Union
Nichol~
Owen Parks Parrish Patten

Penland
Perkin~
Pl'rryman Phillips of Telfair Pickren Pilcher Pruett Ricketson Riley Robinson Rutherford Sapp Sibley Singletary Smith of Mt>riwl'thcr
~teele
Stovall
~tril'kland
::>umner of Johnson ~umnPr of \Vheeler
~wift ~windle

Thompson of Coweta l hompson of Dodge Trippe Tyson Yalentino \'an Landingham \'an Zant \ melle Walker Watkins \\'ay \\'eston \\'ltitaker of Rockdale \\'hitworth \Yilliams of Harris \\'illiams of ='>1iller Williams of Walton Winship \\'o()(l \\'oodard \\'ynne

'rhose voting in the negative were .Messrs:

Bubo Boswell Clifton Collier Daniel of Troup DeFoor

Greene Haddock Holland Houston Howard of Forsyth Jones of Thomas

Price Ramsey Salmon
~hettle"vorth
Webb \\'orthy

Those not voting were Messrs :

Bentley .Blalock Bloodworcth Boatwright Bowen Brown of HancO<'k Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp Carr Childs

Cowart Culpepper Dixon Fletcher Grant Gumwls Hillhon,e Hine' of Detatur Holloway Howard of ~nenn

Hufstetler

.Jones of \Valker

.\!<'Donald of

.\lann

Ri('hmond

:\lixon

:\loore of Appling

:\loore of Fulton

.\Iundy

I'Pter~on

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781

Phillips of Jasper Quincey Reagan Reville Russell Smiley

1:->mith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson 1:->t{)ne Tatum Turner

Wall \Vhitley \Vhitaker of Lowndes Wimoerly Wyatt )[r. Speaker

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.
On the passage of the bi'll the Ayes were 141,
Nays 18.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majorit:v was passed.

By Messrs. McDonald, Reville and Pilcher, of Richmond-
House Bill No. 760. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend Paragraph 1, of Section 13, of Article 6 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, in so far as said paragraph relates to the salary of the .Judge of the Superior Court of the Judicial Circuit in which is located the County of Richmond, so as to require the County authorities of Richmond County, from the Treasury of said County, to supplement the salary of such .Jmlge in such ammmt as when added to the amount receiYed hy him out of'the State Treasury will amount to seven thousand dollars per annum.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That Paragraph 1 of Section 13 of Article 6, of the Constitution be amended as follows:

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(a) By striking out the word "Richmond" wherever it appears in paragraph 1.
(b) By adding at the end of Section 1 of said paragraph the following: .And provided, Further that the Board of County Commissioners of the County of Richmond, or such other Board or person as may from time to ~ime exercise the administrative powers of said county, shall supplement from said county's Treasury, the salary of the Judge of the Superior Court of the circuit of which the said County of Richmond is a part, but such sum as may be necessary with salaries paid such judge from the State Treasury to make a salary for said Judge of $7,000.00 per annum; and such payments are declared to be a part of the court expenses of said County, and such payment shall be made to the Judge now in office, as well as to his successors. The provisions of this amendment shall take effect and the salaries herein provided for shall begin from the ratification of this amendment, as provided in the second section hereof, and shall apply to the incumbent in office, as well as his successors.
Section 2. Be it further enacted that if this amendment shall be agreed to by two-thirds of the members of the General Assembly of each House, the same shall be entered on their Journals, with the ayes and nays taken thereon, and the Governor shall cause the amendment to be published in one or .more of the newspapers in each Congressional District for at least two months immediately preceding the next

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general election, and the same shall be submitted to the people at the next general election, and all persons voting at said election in favor of adopting the proposed amendment to the constitution shall have written or printed on their ballots the words: ''For ratification of amendment to Paragraph 1 of Section 13 of Article 6, of the Constitution fixing .the salary of the Judge of the Superior Court of the Augusta Circuit;" and all persons opposed to the adoption of said amendment shall have written or printed on
their ballots the words: ''Against ratification of
amendment to Paragraph 1, of Section 13, of Article 6 of the Constitution fixing the salary of the Judge of the Superior Court of the Augusta Circuit;'' and if a majority of the electors qualified to vote for the members of the next General Asserp.bly voting shall vote in favor of the ratification as shown by the consolidation and by the returns made as now provided by law in elections for members of the General Assembly, then said amendment shall become a part of Paragraph 1, of Section 13, of Article 6, of the Constitution of this State, and the Governor shall make proclamation thereof.

Section 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith are repealed.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

The bill involving a constitutional amendment, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

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Those voting in the affirmativP were Messrs:

Adams of Newton

Fowler

}fc.:Vlichael

Anderson

Franks

1Iaddox

Arnold

Gann

1Ialone

Atkinson

Uresham

.\Iann

Baldwin

Griffin

.\Janning

Beck

Griffith

11a~on

Beckham

Grovenstein

}file,;

Bird of Taliaferro Guess

}Io.re

Bleckley

Gunnels

Xi<hols

Bloodworth

Hamilton

Owen

BoswPII

Harris

Parks

Bowden

Hatcher of Burke

Parri,h

Bowen

Hatcher of }fuseogee Patten

Bozeman Braddy

Hawkins Henderson

PPnland Perkins

Branch

Herring

Phillip< of Jasper

Brown of Emanuel Hines of Decatur

Phillips of Telfair

Brown of Hancock Hines of Sumter

Pickren

Byrd of Crisp

Holloway

Pilc-her

Camp

Horne

Pruett

Carr

Hous<>r

Reagan

Carswell

Howard of ScrPven Ricketson

Clark of Colquitt

Hullender

Hiley

Clark of Webster

Hunter

Robinson

Coates

.Ja<kson

Sapp

Collin:;

.Toms of Coweta

Sibley

Corbitt

.Johnsou of Bartow :-imiiPy

CnlpPpper

.J olm,nll of

Smith of )fpriwrther

Daniel of Heard

Chattahoochee Steele

Daniel of Troup

Kennedy

Stolle

Davis of Floyd

King of .Jefferson

Stmall

])pLaPerriere

Ei11g of "-ikox

Strickland

Dickerson

Kittrell

Sumner of Johnson

Dobbs

Knight

Sumner of \Vheeler

DuBose

La11gford of Hall

Swift

Dudley

Lankford of Toomb,.; Swindl<'

Duncan of Hall

I..cwis

Thompson of Coweta

Dykes

Logan

Thompso11 of Dodge

Ennis

Luke

Trippe

E,an~

}IeClelland

Tyson

Ficklen

1I<"Garity

\-alPntino

Fol>om

~Iad11tyre

Yan Landingham

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VanZant Vocelle Watkins \Yay Webb

Weston

Winship

WMtaker of Rockdale "ood

Whitworth

W~arcl

Williams of Harris \Yorthy

William" of Walton

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Adams of \Valton Bobo Boyett 1Brownlee Clifton Collier

DeFoor Greene Haddock Hodges Holland Jones of Thomas

Keith .McDonald of Mitehell Price Ramsey Salmon " 7 illiams of ~Ii ller

Those not voting v-tere Messrs :

Bentley Blalock Boatwright Brannen Brantley Bush Childs Cowart DaYis of Oglethorpe Dixon Duncan of Dawson Fletcher Foy Grant Hillhouse Houston Howard of Forsyth

Hufstetler

Russell

Hyman

Rutherford

.Jones of Walker

Shettlesworth

.Johnson of Pickens ~ingletary

:McClure

~mith of Bryan

~IcDonald of

~mith of Carroll

Ri~:hmond ~mith of Haralson

:\Ia yo

Tatum

::\liXOll

Turner

::\Ioore of Appling

\\.alker

::\loore of Fulton

Wall

:\Iundy

\YhitlPy

Neal of Union

\Vhitaker of Lownde,-

Perryman

Wimberly

Peterson

Wyatt

<Jnincey

Wynne

Hedlle

::\Ir. Hpeaker

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 139, Nays 18.

The bill having received the requisite constitu.tional majority was passed.

786

JouRNAL oF THE HousE,

The following bill of the Senate was read the first time and referred to a committee:

By Mr. Fleming of the lOth-
Senate Bill No. 275. A bill to amend an Act to provide for a system of public schools for the City of Albany.
The following bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering Senate amendment:

By Mr. Corbitt of Atkinson-
House Bill No. 638. A bill to amend the Charter of the City of Pearson.
The following Senate amendment was read and concurred in:
Amend by adding the following, to follow Section 3 and renumbering remaining section accordingly: ''Provided further that before the provisions of Section 2 of this Act, shall become of full force and effect only when ratified by a majority of the votes cast by the qualified voters of the City of Pearson, for their approval at an election to be called by the :Mayor of said City of Pearson, which election and the notice of the call must be published for thirty days immediate!~ preceding the election, which election shall be held during the year, 1922, in the City of Pearson after the passage of this bill, an.d it is hereby made the duty of the Mayor or the Mayor protem in case the ~fayor refuses to call said elec-

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787

tion as provided in this Act, and those parties who

wish to cast their ballots for the provisions of Section

2 of this bill, shall do so by casting ballot having

written or printed upon them the words 'Against

. the levy of the tax in the City of Pearson to operate



and maintain the public school of said City of Pear-

son,' and those who wish to cast ballots in favor of

the levy of the tax in the City of Pearson for the

purpose of raising revenue to operate and maintain

the public school of said City of Pearson, and against

the provisions of Section 2 of this bill shall do so by

casting ballots having written or printed on them

the words 'For the lev~r of tax for the purpose of

raising revenue to operate and maintain the public

school of said City of Pearson.' Provided further,

that the returns of said election shall be made to the

Mayor or the Mayor pro tern of the City of Pearson,

and he shall declare the result thereof; and provided

further that the rules and regulations of holding

of said election where not otherwise provided in this

bill shall conform to laws of Georgia.''

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. 8pPakPr: The Senate has passed by the requisite constitu-
tional majority the following Senate Bills:
Senate Bill No. 283. A bill to amend charter of Lincolnton.
Senate Bill No. 286. A bill to amend an Act to car-

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Jo"CRNAL OF THE HousE,

ry into effect in the City of .Atlanta the provisions of the amendments to Paragraph 1 Section 7, Article 6, of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, ratified October 2, 1912, relating to the abolition of Justice, so as to increase the jurisdiction of the "Municipal Court of Atlanta.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Jlr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bills, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 276. A bill to change the time of holding the June term of the Superior Court of Barrow County.
Senate Bill No. 288. A bill to incorporate the town of Townsend in the County of Mcintosh.
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bills, to-wit:
House Bill No. 830. A bill to amend an Act abolishing Paulding Board of Commissioners.
House Bill No. 836. A bill to create the office of County Treasurer of Taylor County.
House Bill No. 837. A bill to repeal an Act to abolish the office of County Treasurer of Taylor County.
A bill to amend the Act amending an Act incorporating the town of St. Marys.

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789

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The President has appointed as a committee on the part of the Senate to act with a Committee from the House as a Joint Conference Committee to consider the free school book question the following Senators:
Messrs. Walker, Rountree, Boykin.
The following message was received from the Senate through M~. l\IcClatchey, the Secretary ther~of:

1lfr. 8 peaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bills of the House, to-wit:
House Bill No. 827. A bill to amend the Charter of the Town of Warwick, Worth County.
House Bill No. 820. A bill to create a new Charter for the City of Vedalia.
House Bill 818. A bill to amend and consolidate the several Acts of the Legislature to revise and consolidate the several Acts granting corporate authority to the City of Americus.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bills of the House, to-wit:
House Bill No. 816. A bill to. repeal an Act to abolish the fee system now existing in the Superior Courts of the Northwestern Judicial Circuits as applied to the office of Solicitor General.
House Bill No. 812. A bill to amend the Charter of Atlanta.
House Bill No. 849. A bill to plac.e the Solicitor General of the Macon Judicial Circuit upon a salary.
House Bill No. 798. A bill to amend an Act creating a new Charter for the City of Hazelhurst in the County of J e:ff Davis.
House Bill 773. A bill to amend the Charter of Americus.
House Bill No. 756. A bill to repeal an Act incorporating the Town of Bolton.
House Bill No. 570. A bill to establish a county depository in Campbell County.
The following resolution of the House was read and taken up for consideration:
By Messrs. Guess, of DeKalb, and Davis, of Floyd-
House Resolution No. 203. A resolution to create a commission to regulate the distribution of coal within this State and for other purposes.

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1922.

791

Mr. Bowden, of Ware, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.
Mr. .McMichael of l\larion, moved that the House reconsider its action in ordering the main question and the motion prevailed.

Mr. McMichael, of Marion, moved that the resolution be tabled and the motion prevailed.

\

The following resolutions of the House were in-

troduced and read:

By Mr. Kittrell, of Laurens-
House Resolution No. 211. A resolution calling for a committee to investigate certain charges made in regard to the Port Terminal and Harbor CommissiOn.

Mr. Bowden, of Ware, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

The resolution was lost.

By unanimous consent Mr. Moye, of Randolph, was permitted to be recorded as voting against the investigation of charges made by Mr. Mann, of Glynn, as referred to in the above resolution.

792

.JouRNAL OF THE Hm_sE,

By Mr. Beckham, of Dougherty-

.House Resolution No. 212. A resolution providing for the postponement of selection of site for State owned port until all interested cities have be{m given full and fair opportunity to he heard.

Mr. Carswell, of Wilkinson moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

The resolution was adopted.

Mr. Atkinson, of Chatham, gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in adopting House Resolution No. 212.

The speaker appointed the following, on the part of the House, on the Conference Committee on Free School Books:

:\Iessrs. Beck of Carroll, Gresham of Burke, J;'oy of Taylor.
Under orders of the day the following Bill of the House set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Carswell, of Wilkinson-
House Bill No. 205. A bill to propose an amendment to the Constitution by striking Paragraph 1,

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1922.

793

Section 2, Article 7, and substituting a new paragraph relative to income tax.
Mr. Henderson, of White, moved the previous question.

Mr. McMichael, of Marion, moved that the House do now atljourn.

On this motion Mr. Hyman, of Washington, called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.

The motion to adjourn, taking precedence over the motion for the previous question, prevailed, a~d House Bill No. 205 went over as unfinished business with the motion for the previous question pending.

Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Price, of Lincoln, and Hamilton, of Floyd.

The speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION
3 o'Clock P. M.
The House met again at .this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names:

794

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley llloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel 1of Troup Davis of Floyd

Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans Ficklen Fleteher Folsom Fowler Foy Frank" Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway Horne Houser Houston

Howard of Forsyth Howard of Screven Hufstetler Hullender Hunter Hyman Jackson Jones of Coweta Jones of Thoma8 Jones of Walker ,Johnson of Bartow ,Johnson of
Chattahoochee Johnson of Piekens Keith Kennedy King of Jefferson King of Wilcox Kittrell Knight Langford of Hall Lai.kford of Toombs Lewis Logan Luke :\IcClelland
~lcClure
UcDonald of llitchell :\fcDonald of
Ri!'hmond :\IcGarity :\laclntyre :\lcMichael Maddox :\Ialone Mann :\Ianning :Mason :\fayo :\Iiles :\lixon :\loore of Appling :\loore of Fulton Moye Mundy

THURSDAY, AuGUST 3, 1922.

795

Neal of Union :Nichols Owen Parks Parrish
Patten
Penland Perkin" Perryman Peterson Ph1Jlips of Jaspm Phillips of Telfair Pickren Pilcher Price Pruett Quincey Ramsey Reagan Reville
Ricket~on
Riley Robinson Russell Rutherford

Salmon
Sar-P ShettJegworth Sibley Singletary
~miley
Smith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Smith of MPriwPther
~teele
Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of ,Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindlt Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe TurnPr Tyson Valentino

Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb Weston Whitley \Vhitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne Mr. Speaker

The following report of the Committee on Rules was submitted and read:

1Ur. 8peake1: The Rules Committee having had under consider-
ation an order of business for the afternoon session of August 3rd, instruct me, as their Vice-Chairman, to report t~e following special order .of business:
1. Introduction of New Matter.
2. Reports of Standing Commitees.
3. Second Reading House and Senate Bill favorably reported.

796

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

4. House Bill No. 863. General Bill with a local application for Richmond County.

5. House Bill No. 203. Appropriation for State

Sanitarium.



6. House Bill No. 564. Electric Chair Bill.

7. Senate Bill No. 176. Letting Contracts by Highway Department.

8. House Bill 327. Automobile Tire Bill.

No.9. Senate Bill No. 230. DeKalb County Judge Bill.

10. House Bill No. 765. Chattahoochee Judgship.

11. House Bill No. 669. Amendment to Prohibition Law.

12. House Bill No. 716. Amending Charter Law.

13. House Bill No. 832. Amendment Gasoline Law.

14. H. B. 614. Payment County Police.

15. House Bill Xo. 630. Change of Venue for Grand Jury.

16. House Bill No. 579. Appropriation Berrien Defaulcation.
17 Senate Bill No. 60. Amending Securities Law.

18. House Bill No. 568. Repealing Law Relating to Investment Company.

'>;

THURSDAY, AuousT 3, 1922.

797

19. House Bill No. 674. Amending Law Relative to Bar Examination.

20. House Bill No. 300. State Veterinarian.

21 House Bill No. 745. Adding Women to Vote of Trustees State Sanitarium.

22. House Bill No. 626. Female Poll Tax Exemption.

23. House Bill No. 383. Amending Law relative to Committment State Sanitarium.

24. House Bill No. 139. Deputy Insurance Commissioners Salary.

25. House Resolution No. 160. Appropriation for Mansion Lease Committee.

1\fmmY, Vice-Chairman.

The following Bills of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees:
By Mr. Corbitt, of Atkinson-
House Bill No. 935. A bill to amend the Act creating Board of Commissioners for Atkins~n County.
Referred to Committee on County and County Matters.

By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins, of Museogee-

798

J OFRXAL OF THE HousE,

House Bill No. 836. A bill to empower governing bodies of cities to select Mayor pro-tem, or Recorder pro-tem, for certain purposes.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Beck, of Carroll-
House Bill No. 837. A bill to amend Section 695 of Parks Code, Volume 1, relative to road duty.
Referred to Committee on County and County Matters.
Mr. DuBose, of Clarke County, Chairman of the Commitee on Appropriations and Ways and Means submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Bill No. 883.
DuBOSE, of Clarke, Chairman.
Mr. Moore, of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education submitted the following report:

\

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1922.

799

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 914. Do pass.

MOORE, of Fulton, Chairman.

Mr. Kittrell, of Laurens County, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture No. 1 submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker :
Your Committee on Agriculture No. 1 have had under consideration the following Bill of the Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 198. Do pass.
C. H. KITTRELL, of Laurens, Chairman.

Mr. Tatum, of Dade County, Chairman of the Committee on Railroads submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Railroads have had under consideration the following Resolution of the Sen-

800

JocRXAL OF THE HousE,

ate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Resolution No. 71.
TATUM, of Dade County, Chairman.

Mr. Guess, of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 submitted the folJowing report:
11Ir. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No.1 have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 594. Do pass by substitute. Senate Bi llNo. 161. Do pass as amended. House Bill No. 590. Do not pass. House Bill No. 823. Do pass. House Bill No. 698. Do pass.
CARL N. GUESS, Chairman.

Mr. Smith, of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Corporations submitted the following report:
Lllr. Speaker: Your Committee on Municipal Corporations have
had under consideration the following Bill of the

THURSDAY, AUGUST 3, 1922.

801

House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

H;ouse Bills Nos. 911, 915, 927, 933. Do pass as amended.
House Bill No. 857.

SMITH2 of Meriwether, Chairman.

The following bills and resolutions of t~ House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read the second time:

By Messrs. Moore, of Fulton, and DeLaPerriere, of Jackson-

House Bill No. 594. A bill to provide credit unions and for other purposes.

By Messrs. Brown, of Emanuel, and Lankford, of Toombs-

House Bill No. 698. A bill to change the annual fees for licensing motor vehicles.

By Messrs. Hunter, Atkinson and Valentino, of

Chatham-

'L

House Bill No. 857. A bill to amend the charter

of the City of Savannah.

By Mr. Macintyre, of Thomas: . House Bill No. 883. A bill to tax Gypsy traders
in this State.
Sig. 26

802

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

By Mr. Quincey, of Coffee-
House Bill No. 911. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Nicholls in Coffee County.

By Messrs. Hyman & Hawkins, of Washington-
House Bill No. 914. A bill to authorize certain officials of Sandersville to collect certain taxes.

By Mr. Brown, of Emanuel-
House Bill No. 915. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Adrian.

By Mr. Manson, of the 35th-
Senate Resolution No. 71. A bill providing a commission for junking the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railway Co.

By Mr. Taylor, of the 46thSenate Bill No. 161. A bill to repeal an Act to
establish the City Court of Alma.
By Mr. Ridley, of the 28thSenate Bill No. 198. A bill to provide for licens-
ing of nurserymen. The following resolution of the House was in-
troduced and read:
By Mr. Kittrell, of LaurensHouse Resolution No. 213. A resolution.

THURSDAY, AuausT 3, 1922.

803

Whereas, The City of Brunswick has tendered an invitation to the General Assembly to visit the City of Brunswick on the following Saturday and Sunday, August 5 and 6, at the expense of the City of Brunswick, for the purpose of inspecting their City and prospective terminal facilities, therefore
Be it Resolved, by the House, the Senate concurring: That this cordial invitation be accepted, awaiting their arrangements for necessary transportation facilities, and that the General Assembly stand adjourned from its adjournment hour Friday until Monday morning, following, at 11 o'clock, in order that all members may be enabled to avail themselves of this cordial and hospitable invitation.
The following amendment was read and adopted:

By Messrs. Bowden, of Ware, and Williams, of Wal ton-
Amend by striking out the words and figures ''August 5 and 6'' and inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures ''August 12 and 13. ''
The following amendment to the above amend ment was read and adopted:

By Mr. Neill, of Muscogee-
Amend amendment to original resolution by add. ing after '' 12 and 13'' the following words: ''Said day the 12th being declared 'die non. ' ''
By unanimous consent Mr. Mann, of Glynn, was allowed to add the following proviso:

804

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

"Provided, That two-thirds of the members of the Honse and Senate accept the invitation and agree to make said trip to Brunswick. ''

The substitute by Mr. Moye, of Randolph, was lost.

The resolution was adopted as amended.

Mr. Bowden, of Ware, moved that the resolution be immediately transmitted to the Senate and the motion prevailed.

Under order of unfinished business the following bill of the House was taken up for further consideration:

By Mr. Ennis, of Baldwin, and Mixon, of Jenkins-

House Bill No. 203. A bill to appropriate $108,916.00 for supplying deficiency for completion of Nurses' Home at State Sanitarium.

The pending motion of Mr. Shettlesworth, of Gwinnett to table the bill was lost.

Mr. Perkins, of Muscogee, moved that during the

remainder of the session, unless otherwise ordered

by the House, during the afternoon session indi-

vidual speeches be limited to five minutes and the

,.

motion was lost.

Mr. Hawkins, of Washington, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main ques~ tion was ordered.

..

THURSDAY, AuausT 3, 1922.

806

The bill involving an appropriation, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

.Anderson Baldwin Beckham Bleckley Bloodworth Bowden Bowen Boyett Braddy Brantley Brown of Hancock Brownlee Clark of Webster Clifton Collins Cowart Daniel of Heard Davis of Floyd DeLaPerriere Dixon DuBose Duncan of Dawson Ennis Fowler Gresham Griffith Greene Grovenstein ;Hamilton Hatcher of Muscogee

Hawkins Hines of Sumter Horne Houser Howard of Screven Hullender Jackson Jones of Walker Johnson of Bartow Johnson of Pickens Keith King of Jefferson King of Wilcox Lankford of Toombs Lewis Luke McClelland McClure McDonald of Mitchell llcGarity McMichael Maddox Malone Mann Manning Mayo Miles lfundy Nichols Owen

Penland Perkins Phillips of Jasper Pilcher Pruett Ramsey Reagan Reville Riley Robinson Russell Sapp Smith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Steele $tone Strickland Sumner of JohnsoB Swift Swind,le Tatum Trippe Van Landingham VanZant Webb Winship Woodard Worthy Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

.Adams of Walton Arnold Bobo Boswell Branch

Byrd of Crisp Camp Childs Clark of Colquitt Collier

Corbitt Culpepper Daniel of Troup DeFoor Dickerson

806

JouRNAL 'oF THE HousE,

Duncan of Hall Foy Griffin Haddock Harris Hatcher of Burke Henderson Herring Hines of Decatur Hodges Holland Holloway Houston Hunter

Hyman J one~ of Coweta Knight Langford of Hall :\fixon
~loye
Neal of Union Parrish Patten Peterson Phillips of Telfair Pickren Salmon Smiley

Smith of Meriwether Sumner of Wheeler Tyson Vocelle Walker Way Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Wood Wyatt

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Atkinson Beck Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Boatwright Bozeman Brannen Brown of Emanuel Bush Carr Carswell Coates Davis of Oglethorpe Dobbs Dudley Dykes Evans Ficklen Fletcher

Folsom

Parks

Franks

Perryman

Gann

Price

Grant

Quincey

Guess

Ricketson

Gunnels

Rutherford

Hillhouse

Shettlesworth

Howard of Forsyth Sibley

Hufst~tler

Singletary

Jones of Thomas

Stovall

Johnson of

Thompson of Coweta

Chattahoochee Thompson of Dodge

Kennedy

Turnt>r

Kittrell

Valentino

Logan

Wall

~IcDonald of

Watkins

Richmond Weston

2\Iaclntyre

Whitley

Mason

\Vhitaker of Lowndes

~foore of Appling

Williams of Harris

Moore of Fulton

:\Ir. Speaker

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 90, Nays 56.

THURSDAY, AuGusT 3, 1922.

807



The bill having failed to receive the requisite con-

stitutional majority was lost.

Mr. Ennis, of Baldwin, gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House recon., sider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 203.

By Mr. Perkins, of Muscogee-
Rouse Bill No. 564. A bill to provide for electrocution of persons sentenced to death and for other purposes.
Mr. Mundy, of Polk, moved that during the r~ mainder of this afternoon's session individual speeches be limited to five minutes and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Vocelle, of Camden, moved the previous ques.., tion, the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend by striking the words ''at Milledgeville, Georgia," wherever they occur in said bill and m~ serting in lieu thereof the words ''wherever lo:cated.''
The report of the committee, which was favorabley to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
The bill involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

808

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Arnold Baldwin Beckham Bleckley Bowen Braddy Branch Brantley Brown of Hancock Childs Clark of Webster Clifton Collins Culpepper Davis of Floyd Foy Franks Guess Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Herring Hines of Sumter Horne

Howard of Screven Perryman

Hullender

Phillips of Telfair

Jones of Coweta

Pilcher

Jones of Walker

Reville

Johnson of Bartow Riley

Keith

Robinson

King of Jefferson

Sapp

King of Wilcox

Smith of Carroll

Knight

Steele

McClelland

Stone

McClure

Stovall

McDonald of Mitchell Strickland

McMichael

Sumner of Johnson

Maddox

Swift

Mann

Thompson of Coweta

Moyl'

Tyson

Mundy

VanZant

Nichols

Vocelle

Owen

Woodard

Parks

Wyatt

Parrish

Wynne

Penl~nd

Perkins

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Adams of Walton Anderson Beck Bloodworth Bobo Boyett Brownlee Byrd of Crisp CD.rswell Clark of Colquitt Collier Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup DeFoor

Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Ennis Folsom Greene Grovenstein Henderson Hines of Decatur Hodges Holland Hyman Langford of Hall Lankford of Toombs Lewis

Luke Patten Peterson Phillips of Jasper Pickren Ramsey Smiley Smith of Bryan Smith of Haralson Way Wimberly Wood

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809

Those not 'voting were Messrs.:

Adams of Newton Atkinson Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Boatwright Boswell Bowden Bozeman Brannen Brown of Emanuel Bush Camp Carr Coates Corbitt Cowart Davis of Oglethorpe DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Dykes Evans Ficklen Fletcher Fowler Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith

Gunnels

Pruett

Haddock

Quincey

Hamilton

Reagan

Harris

Ricketson

Hawkins

Russell

Hillhouse

Rutherford

Holloway

Salmon

Houser

Shettlesworth

Houston

Sibley

Howard of Forsyth Singletary

Hufstetler

Smith of Meriwether

Hunter

Sumner of Wheeler

Jackson

Swindle

Jones of Thomas

Tatum

Johnson of

Thompeon of Dodge

Chattahoochee Trippe

Johnson of Pickens Turner

Kennedy

Valentino

Kittrell

Van Landingham

Logan

Walker

McDonald of

Wall

Richmond Watkins

:McGarity

Webb

Macintyre

Weston

Malone

Whitley

Manning

Whitaker of Lowndes

Mason

Whitaker of Rockdale

Mayo

Whitworth

Miles

Williams of Harris

Mixon

Williams of Miller

Moore of Appling

Williams of Walton

Moore of Fulton

Winship

Neal of Union

Worthy

Price

Mr. Speaker

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 67, Nays 40.

810

JOURNAL OF THE HousE,

The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.
Mr. Perkins, of Muscogee, gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 564.
Mr. Smith, of Haralson, moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.

FRIDAY, AuGUST 4, 1922.

811

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA:

Friday, August 4th, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names:

Adams of Newton AdalW! of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee BUBh Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of 'Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart' Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Hotne

l\fayo

Houser

Miles

Houston

Mixon

Howard of Fm-syth Moore of Appling

Howard of Screven Moore of Fulton

Hufstetler

Moye

H11llender

Mundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of Walker

Patten

Johruwn of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hail

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

McClelland

Riley

McClure

Robinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

McGarity

Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

Mdiichael

Sibley

Maddox

Singletary

Malone

Smiley

Mann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stmall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb \Veston Whitley \Vhitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard \Yorthy Wyatt Wynne ~Ir. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the first part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consent-

1. Introduction of .New Matter under the Rules.

2. Reports of Standing Committees.

3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.
4. Passage of uncontested local House and Renate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.
5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Miles of Candler-
House Bill No. 938. A bill to repeal an act incorporating the town of Aline.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Miles of Candler-
House Bill No. 939. A bill to reqmre Board of Commissioners of Candler County to publish Statement.
: ..... Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

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By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 940. A bill to amend the constitution so as to abolish the office of Tax Receiver of Jeff Davis County.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By ~Ir. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 941. A bill to create the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues for Jeff Davis County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. Smith and Keith of Meriwether-
Honse Bill ~o. 942. A bill to amend an act relative to Confederate veterans.

Referred to Committee on Pensions.

By Mr. Moore of Appling-
House Bill No. 943. A bill to amend an act creating a Board of Commissioners for Appling County.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.

By Mr. Cowart of Calhoun-
House Bill No. 944. A bill to change the name of the City Court of Morgan to City Court of Arlington.

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Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

By Mr. Cowart of Calhoun-
House Bill No. 945. A bill to create the City of Arlington in lieu of Town of Arlington.
Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

By Mr. Bird of Taliaferro-
House Bill No. 946. A bill to require operators of Motion Picture Theaters to pay occupation tax.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 947. A bill to require all payees or holders of mortgages, etc., to pay privilege tax.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Brantley of Pierce-
House Bill No. 948. A bill to require all vendors of soft drinks to pay an occupation tax.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
Mr. Guess of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 have . had under consideraion the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the Ifuuse with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 934.
GuEss of DeKalb,

Mr. Lankford of Toombs County, Chairman of the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, submitted the following report:

j}Jr. Speaker:
Your Committee on .Amendments to the Constitution have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 738. Do pass.
House Bill No. 794. Do not pass.
LANKFORD of Toombs,
Chairman.

Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following bills of the Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 185.
Senate Bill No. 186.
Respectfully submitted, RoBERT L. MoYE of Randolph,
Chairman.

Mr. Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No.2 have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
Senate Bill No. 275. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 274. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 196. J?o pass. House Bill No. 905. Do pass. House Bill No. 936. Do pass.

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House Bill No. 694. Do pass. Rouse Bill No. 633. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 202. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 86. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 4. Do pass as amended.
Respectfully submitted, .J. C. DAvis of Floyd, Chairman.

Mr. Hullender, of Catoosa, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the following report:

Jlr. Speaker:
The Committee on Enrollment, has examined, found properly enrolled, duly signed, and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following Acts and Resolutions of the House, to-wit:
House Bill No. 827. A bill to amend the charter
of the Town of vVarwick.
House Bill No. 853. A bill to amend an act amending the charter of the City of St. ~:lary's.
House Bill No. 849. A bill to place the Solicitor General of Macon Judicial Circuit on salary.
House Bill No. 837. A bill to repeal an act to abolish the office of Cbunty Treasurer of Taylor County, Georgia.

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House Bill No. 836. A bill to create the office of County Treasurer of Taylor County, Georgia.

House Bill No. 756. A bill to repeal an Act incorporating the Town of Bolton Georgia.

House Bill No. 830. A bill to amend an Act of 1920, approved August 10, 1920, abolishing Paulding Board of Commissioners by striking sections 4, 5 and 6.

House Bill No. 816. A bill to repeal an Act approved August 8, 1918 entitled "An Act to abolish the fee system now existing in the Superior Courts of the Northeastern Judicial Circuit as applied to the office of Solicitor General.
House Bill No. 638. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Pearson in Atkinson County Georgia.
Hou!3.e Bill No. 570. A bill to establish a County depository for the County of Campbell.
House Bill No. 773. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Americus.
House Bill No. 798. A bill to amend an amended act by substitution ~ntitled an act creating a new charter for the City of Hazlehurst.
House Bill No. 812. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Atlanta.
House Bill No. 818. A bill to consolidate and amend the charter of Americus.

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House Bill No. 820. A bill to create a new charter for the City of Vidalia.
Respectfully submitted, HULLENDER of Catoosa, Chairman.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the Committees, were read for the second time:
By Messrs. Williams of Miller and Walker of Baker-
House Bill No. 633. A bill to amend an act to license the business of making loans in the State.
By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 694. A bill to amend an Act to fix the fees of coroners, etc.; in this State.
By Messrs. Kittrell of Laurens and McMichael of Marion-
House Bill No. 738. A bill to amend the constitution relative to State Owned Terminals in Georgia.
By Mr. Beckham of DoughertyHouse Bill No. 905. A bill to require reports of
all State Officials yearly.

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By Mr. Stovall of McDuffie-

Honse Bill No. 934. A bill to amend an Act to fix the salary of the Solicitor General of Augusta Judicial Circuit.

By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 936. A bill to allow officials of corporated Cities to elect Mayor and Recorder pro. terns, and for other purposes.
By Mr. Fleming of the lOth-
Senate Bill No. 4. A bill to allow absent voters to vote in elections.

By Messrs. Weaver of the 11th, and Akin of the 4th-
Senate Bill No. 86. A bill to permit corporations
now incorporated by Secretary of State to issue non par stock.

By Mr. Thomas of the 3rdSenate Bill No. 185. A bill to create the office
of Supervisor of Public Roads for \Vayne County.
By Mr. Thomas of the 3rdSenate Bill No. 186. A bill to abolish the County
commissioners of Wayne County.
By Mr. Golucke of the 19thSenate Bill No. 202. A bill to amend Section 4381.

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of Code of 1910, relative to period of limitation of actions.

By Mr. Fleming of the lOth-
Senate Bill No. 275. A bill to amend an act establishing system of public schools for City of Albany.

By Mr. Baldwin of Morgan-
House Bill No. 927. A bill to amend an act to amend the charter of the City of Madison.

By Messrs. Horne and Thompson of Dodge-
House Bill No. 933. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Eastman.

The following bills of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:-

By Mr. Wimberly of LaurensHouse Bill No. 912. A bill to amend an Act crea-
ting a new charter for the town of Rockledge.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 135, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitt:tional majority was passed.

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By Messrs. Moore, Holloway, and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 823. A bill to fix compensation for bailiffs in certain Counties.

The report of the committee, which was favorablf' to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 156, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Brown of Emanuel-
House Bill No. 915. A bill to amend an Act to incorporate the City of Darian.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Atkinson, Hunter, and Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 857. A bill to amend the charter of Savannah.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted:

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Amend by adding Section 5 (a) as follows: ''Be it further enacted that Section 5 of this Act shall not go into effect unless same is ratified by a majority of the qualified voters of the City of Savannah, who shall vote at the next General Election to be held on the :first Tuesday in November 1922, at which election the authorities of the City of Savannah shall make necessary arrangements to submit this issue to the voters.''
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 141, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Messrs. Hyman and Hawkins of Washington-
Hl.ouse Bill No. 914. A bill to authorize Mayor and Council of City of Sandersville to levy and collect certain ta..'\:es.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 133, ~ays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Messrs. Reville and Pilcher of Richmond-
House Bill No. 863. A bill to amend Code of 1910 relative to official organ of certain Counties.

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The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 134, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Quincey of Coffee-
House Bill No. 911. A bill to amend the Charter of Nicholls.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 134, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Byrd of Crisp-
House Bill No. 835. A bill to repeal the present Charter of City of Cordele and to provide for a new charter for the City of Cordele.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill,. was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 125, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was paesed.

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By Messrs. Ficklen and Bobo of Wilkes-

House Bill No. 906. A bill to amend the Charter of City of Washington.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Campbell of 34th-
Senate Bill No. 242. A bill to amend the Charter of City of Covington.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the.bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 145, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Taylor of 46th-
Senate Bill No. 161. .A bill to repeal an Act to establish the City Court of Alma.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 134, Nays 0.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

The following bills of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the committees :

By Mr. Johns of 27th-
Senate Bill No. 276. A bill to change time of holding Superior Court of Barrow County.
Referred to Special Judiciary Committee.

By Mr. Boykin of 39th-
Senate Bill No. 283. A bill to amend charter of Lincolnton.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 286. A bill to amend an Act to carry into effect provisions of an Act relating to abolition of Justice Court.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.

By Messrs. Thorpe of 2nd, Thomas of 3rd, and Jackson of 21st-
Senate Bill No. 288. A bill to incorporate the Town of Townsend in Mcintosh County.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.
By unanimous consent, granted to Mr. Williams of Walton, House Bill No. 878 was recommitted.

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By unanimous consent House Bill No. 869 was withdrawn from the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means and recommitted to the Committee on County and County Matters.
/
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 244 was taken from the table and placed upon the calendar.

The following resolution of the House was read:

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Resolution No. 214. A Resolution providing that the House remain in session on this day until 2 o'clock P. M. and when it adjourn it stand adjourned until Monday morning at 9 o'clock.

Mr. Vocelle of Camden moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
T~e resolution was adopted.
Mr. Perkins of Muscogee moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 564 and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Ennis of Baldwin moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 203 and the motion prevailed.
Under the order of unfinished business the following bip of the House was taken up for further consideration :

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By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson-
House Bill No. 205. A bill to amend the Constitution relative to the levying of an income tax.
The pending motion, of Mr. Henderson of White, for the previous question was lost.
Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson moved that further consideration of this bill be postponed until next Tuesday morning immediately following the confirmation of the Journal, and the motion prevailed.
Byunanimous consent House Bill No. 449 was set .as a special order to immediately follow House Bill No. 205.

By unanimous consent 300 copies of the substitute and amendments to House Bill No. 205 and 300 copies of House Bill No. 449 were ordered printed for the use of the House and Senate.
T'he following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Jones of Coweta-

A RESOLUTION.
House Resolution No. 215. Whereas, just seventyone years ago to-day in the good old land of Wilkes a baby boy first opened his blue eyes upon the glad light of day; and
Whereas that baby boy has since grown into the Honorable Boyce Ficklen of Wilkes, an esteemed and able member of this House,

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Resolved that we assure Hon. Boyce Fielden of our love and esteem, that we congratulate him upon his good health and years, and wish him many happy returns.
Under orders of the day the following bill of the House, set as a special order by the- Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Brantley of Pierce-
House Bill No. 260. A bill to change the name of Railroad Commission of Georgia to the Georgia Public Service Commission and for other purposes.
Mr. Hatcher of Muscogee moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following committee substitute was read and adopted:

A BILL

To be entitled an Act to change the name of the Railroad Commission of Georgia to the Georgia Public Service Commission; to revise, enlarge and define the duties and powers of, what shall, after the passage of this Act be known as the Georgia Public Service Commission; to extend its powers and jurisdiction over sleeping car companies; to provide for a public prosecutor to represent the public in all matters before the Commission, to fix his salary, define his duties and provide for his

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appointment by the Governor; to provide a license fee to be collected from all public utilities companies for the maintenance of said Commission; to give said Commission authority to employ such experts, attorneys, clerks, statisticians, engineers, secretary and such other help, as in the opinion of the Commission may be necessary and to fix the compensation of each; to provide rules of procedure, and for other purposes.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the passage and approval of this Act the name of the Railroad Commission shall be, and the same is hereby changed to that of the Georgia Public Service Commission; that all of the authority, rights,. powers, duties, privileges and jurisdiction of the Railroad Commission of Georgia are hereby expressly conferred upon the Georgia Public Service Commission as full as if so p.amed in any laws of this State; that all actions and proceedings now or hereafter pending in the name of the Railroad Commission shall survive; and be continued and prosecuted by and in the name of Georgia Public Service Commission; and that no rights, privileges, immunities or appropriations granted to or made in behalf of the Railroad Commission of Georgia shall merge, lapse, or be lost by reason of such change of name, but shall be conferred, transferred and imposed upon the Georgia Public Service Commission.

Section 2. The Commission shall have power to

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employ, during its pleasure, such officers, experts, attorneys, engineers, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks and employees as it may deem necessary to carry out the provisions of this Act, or to perform the duties and exercise the powers conferred by law upon the Commission. The compensation of such officials and all other employees shall be fixed by the Commission at such sum as it shall deem reasonable and proper.

Section 3. There shall be assigned to the work of the Commission an Assistant Attorney General, to be known as a Public Prosecutor, whose sole and exclusive duties shall be that of representing the public, or assisting in representing the public, as and when such representation is desired by the public in particular cases, in all matters heard before the Commission, in which the public has an interest. Such Assistant Attorney General shall be appointed by the Governor, for a period not less than six years; shall be paid out of the funds provided for the maintenance of the Commission a salary or" three thousand dollars per annum and all legitimate traveling expenses incurred in the proper discharge of his duties, and shall be provided by the State with proper and suitable working offices. The qualifications for the Assistant Attorney General provided under this section shall be based upon experience in the line of work to be performed.

Before any order shall be issued by the Commission affecting the public, or the public service companies, contemplating either an increase or decrease

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in rates, not less than 15 days' notice shall be given to all interested parties and full opportunity afforded of being heard with regard to such proposed change on the part of the Commission. Copies of all complaints and petitions respecting the work of the Special Attorney General, together with copies of all . notices, as to hearings, shall be furnished to the Special Attorney General by the said Commission promptly.

Section 4. That the Commission shall prescribe the rules of procedure and for taking of evidence in all matters that may come before it. In the investigations, preparations and hearings of cases, the Commission shall not be bound by the strict technical rules of pleading and evidence, but it may exercise such discretion as will facilitate its efforts to ascertain the facts bearing the right and justice of the matters before it. In all formal cases heard and determined, the Commission shall render an opinion, setting out the issues involved in the case, and its decision, ruling and finding thereupon.

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Section 5. A full and complete record shall be kept of all proceedings had before the Commission, on any formal investigation bad and all testimony shall be taken down by the official reporter appointed by the Commission.

Section 6. The Commission, or any party, may, in any investigation, cause the depositions of witnesses residing within or without the State to be taken in the manner prescribed by law, for like depositions in civil actions in civil courts.
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Section 7. The powers, duties and jurisdiction heretofore conferred upon the Railroad Commission of Georgia are hereby extended to sleeping car companies and to persons, companies or associations operating sleeping cars; to companies or persons operating vehicles as common carriers in the transportation of freight and passengers.
Section 8. There shall be paid by all public service corporations or utilities, subject to the provisions of this Act, a special license fee in addition to those now required by law. Such fee shall be fixed by the Comptroller General of Georgia upon each of such public service corporations or utilities, according to the value of its property, as ascertained by the last preceding State Tax Assessment, and shall be apportioned among such public service corporations or utilities, upon the basis of such valuation, so as to produce a revenue of seventy thousand ($70,000.00) dollars per annum, or so much thereof as may be necessary, which shall be paid on or before the 20th day of January in each year. The Comptroller General shall notify each public service corporation or utility of the State of the amount due by it under the provisions of this Act, and said license fee shall be paid to the State Treasurer on or before the 20th day of January as above provided; such sum of seventy thousand ($70,000.00) dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated and set aside for the purpose of paying the salaries, compensations, costs and expenses of the Public Service Commission, its members and employees,

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and the Special Attorney General above provided, and no other sum shall be appropriated therefor.
In case of default in payment by any public service corporation, company or person of such fee as provided in this section, the. Comptroller General shall proceed to collect the same, in the same manner as franchise taxes are now collected.

Section 9. The annual salary of each Commissioner shall be as at present provided by law. All officers, experts, engineers, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks and employees of the Commission shall receive such compensation as may be fixed by the Commission; and the salaries as fixed by the Commission for the officers, experts, engineers, statisticians, accountants, inspectors, clerks and other employees and as fixed by this Act for Commissioners, shall be paid monthly from the funds provided for the use of the Commission, after being approved by the Commission.
All the expenses incurred by the Commission pursuant to the provisions of this Act, including the actual and necessary traveling and other expenses and disbursements of the Commission, their officers and employees incurred while on business of the Commission shall be paid from the funds provided for the use of the Commission, after being approved by the Commission.
Section 10. All laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act are hereby repealed. If any action, sub-section, sentence, clause, or phrase of this Act is

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for any reason held to be unconstitutional, such decision shall not affect the validity of the remaining portions of this Act.
The following amendments to the substitute were read and adopted:

Committee amends as follows:

1. By striking from the caption and elsewhere in the bill the word ''license'' wherever the same occurs before the word "fee," wherever the said word may occur.

2. By striking from the caption in the fifth and sixth lines thereof the following: "to extend its powers and jurisdiction over sleeping car companies.''

3. By adding at the end of Section 3 the following words:

''Provided that nothing in this section shall be construed as requiring the Public Utility Counsel to appear in hearings or controversies between private individuals and corporations, or private individuals or corporations, or in any case, hearing, or controversy unless the public at large in one or more communities is affected or concerned."

By adding the following at the end of Section 4: ''The Public Service Commission shall conduct hearings and investigations in ~ifferent parts of the State, when, in the opinion of the Commission, such hearings will best serve the interest and convenience of the public.''

FRIDAY, AuGUST 4, 1922. By striking all of Section 7 of said bill.

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By Mr. Wyatt of Troup-

Amend by adding thereto a new section to read as follows: "Beginning with the expiration--Df the present term of office of Hon. J. A. Perry and Hon. C. M. Candler the membership of the Commission shall be reduced to three members. ''

By Mr. Wyatt of Troup, Moye of Randolph, and Hillhouse of Worth-
Amend by adding thereto in Section 3 to read as follows:

''Provided, however, that there shall be no attorney for the Commission except the attorney herein provided for to represent the public. The present duties of the attorney to the Railroad Commission and the duties of the attorney provided for to represent the public shall be performed by one man.''
Mr. Hatcher of Muscogee moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main ques- , tion was ordered.

The report of the committee, which was favorable. to the passage of the bill by substitute as amend~d, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Speaker ordered the . roll call and the vote was as follows:

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Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Anderson Arnold Beck Beckham Blalock Bloodworth Bobo Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Brantley Brownlee Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Collier Collins Corbitt Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Dickerson DuBose Ennis Evans Ficklen Folsom Foy Fcanks Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene

Grovenstein Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Hatcher of Burke Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Holland Horne Houser Howard of Forsyth Howard of Screven Hunter Hyman Jackson Jones of Coweta Jones of Thomas Jones of Walker Keith King of Jefferson King of Wilcox Knight Lankford of Toombs McDonald of Mitchell Macintyre McMichael Mann Manning Moye Neal of Union Nichols Parks Parrish

Patten Penland Perryman Peterson Phillips of Jasper Phillips of Telfair Pickren Pruett Ramsey Riley Russell Rutherford Sibley Singletary Smiley Smith of Bryan Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Thompson of Coweta VanZant Vocelle Walker Webb Whitaker of Rockdale Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Woodard Worthy Wyatt \Vynne

Those voting in the Negative were Messrs:

Adams of Walton Baldwin Bentley Bird of Taliaferro

Boswell Branch Brannen Brown of Hancock

Camp Davis of Floyd DeFoor Dixon

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Dobbs Duncan of Hall Fowler Gann Guess Harris Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Holloway H"ouston Hullender Johnson of Pickens Kittrell Langford of Hall Lewis Luke

McClelland McClure )Jaddox Mason Mayo Miles Moore of Fulton Mundy Owen Perkins Pilcher Reagan Reville Ricketson Robinson Salmon

Sapp Shettlesworth Steele Stovall Tatum Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Watkins Way Whitley Williams of Walton Wimberly

Those not voting were Messrs :

Atkinson Bleckley ...soatwright Bowden Brown of Emanuel Bush Byrd of Crisp Carr Clifton Coates Cowart Davis of Oglethorpe DeLaPerriere Dudley Duncan of Dawson

Dykes

)foore of .Appling

Fletcher

Price

Grant

Quincey

Hodges

Smith of Carroll

Hufstetler

Stone

Johnson of Bartow Swindle

Johnson of

Thompson of Dodge

Chattahoochee Van Landingham

Kennedy

Wall

Logan

Weston

llcDonald of

Whitaker of Lowndes

Richmond Whitworth

)lcGarity

Winship

11alone

Wood

1Iixon

Mr. Speaker

Ayes 106, Nays 58.
The roll call was verified.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 106, Nays 58.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority, was passed by substitute as amended.

Mr. Williams of Walton gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in passing House Bill No. 205.

. Mr.. Jleckha~ of D?ugherty mo~ed th~.-bill

JUSt paSsed be unmed1ately transmitted t~en-

ate, and the motion prevailed.

.;...

The following message was received from His Excellency, the Governor, through his Secretary, Mr. McCurry:

M1. Speaker:
I am directed by His Excellency the Governor to deliver to the House of Representatives a communication in writing to which he respectfully invites your attention.

STATE OF GEORGIA,
ExECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
ATLANTA.
To the General Assembly of Georgia: I respectfully desire to call your attention to the
situation existing in some of the counties in Southern Georgia with regard to the work of tick eradication.
I am constantly receiving letters from citizens in that section, complaining of the situation and asking

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841

for some relief. It appears that they have a problem to deal with in that section that is di:fferen~ from what it is in other sections of the State, and much more difficult. It seems that in some of these counties there is very little land being cultivated and that cattle are allowed to roam at will through vast open r~ges. Under these conditions, it is very difficult for the citizens to gather these cattle together for the purpose of dipping, and in some sections practically amounts to the confiscation of the cattle.
It is most unfortunate that regrettable instances of lawlessness and disorder and open and violent resistance to the laws of the State have occurred in some of these counties, and I am constrained to believe that a vast majority of the people in these counties are law-abi.ding citizens of Georgia and deeply regret and deplore these occurrences. Resolutions to that effect, adopted by representative mass meetings of responsible citizenshave been presented to me, and I am informed that all resistance to the law has ceased; certainly that such of it as occasionally manifests itself is not supported by public sentiment and is condemned by the law-abiding citizens of the territory concerned.
Under these circumstances, I feel that I ought to say that it should not be the purpose and intent of the laws of this State to work any undue hardship upon any of its citizens, and that local conditions sometimes make it necessary to so amend the law that it can be applied to the whole State, with wisdom and with justice, and I urge that you investigate

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this subject carefully and seek some remedy which will relieve the unfortunate situation existin~ in some of these counties.
The laws of Georgia must be enforced and upheld, but they must be made with intelligence and framed so as not to work unnecessary hardship upon the people, and their enforcement is rendered much easier whenever they are so framed. Consequently, I urge upon the General Assembly prompt consideration of this question, with the view of making such changes in the law as may be necessary, in the interest of the people as a whole, so as not to work undue and unnecessary hardship upon any locality.

Respectfully submitted,

w. THOMAS

HARDWICK,

This August 4, 1922.

Governor.

By unanimous consent House Bill No. 592 was set as a special order on next Tuesday to immediately follow House Bill No. 449.
By unanimous consent 300 copies of House Bill No. 592 were ordered printed for the use of the House and Senate.
By unanimous consent the House took under consideration at this time the calendar set for yesterday afternoon's session.
Mr. Guess of DeKalb moved that House Resolu-



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843

tion No. 203 be taken from the table, and the motion prevailed.

The following resolution of the House taken from the table was taken up for immediate consideration, read the third time, and placed upon its passage :

By Messrs. Guess of DeKalb and Davis of Floyd-
House Resolution No. 203. A resolution t.o create
a commission to regulate the ~istribution of coal within this State, and for other purposes.
The following amendments were read and adopted:

By Mr. Davis of Floyd-
Amend by substituting the name ''Railroad Commission'' in said resolution where the words ''a commission of 5 men'' appears.
Amend further by striking the last paragraph beginning with the word "That" and ending with the word "Georgia."
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 105, Nays 6.
The resolution having received the requisite Constitutional majority, was passed as amended.
The following bill of the House, set as a special order for yesterday afternoon's session by the Com-



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mittee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Messrs. Moore, Holloway and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 754. A bill to amend Code of 1910 relative to capital stock of trust companies, and for .other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
l\Ir. Bentley of Fulton moved the previous question; the motion preYailed, and the main question was ordered.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 89, Nays 18.
The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majojrity, was lost.
Mr. Moore of Fulton gave notice that at the proper time he would moYe that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 754.
l\Ir. Valentino of Chatham moYed that the House do now adjourn, and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until Monday morning at 9 o'clock.

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845

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

Monday, August 7th, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell .Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswe!! Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Dads of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Dtmean of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilt{)n Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Hende1son Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

:\I a y o

Houser

Miles

Houston

Mixon

Howard of Forsyth :\Ioore of Appling

Howard of SereHn :\Ioore of Fulton

Hufstetler

:\Ioye

Hullender

~Iundy

Hunter

~eal of Union

Hyman

Nichol~

.Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

.Tones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of \Valker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee. Perryman

John~on of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quineey

Lankford of Toombs Ram'e.''

Lewis

RPagan

Logan

ReYille

Luke

Ritkebon

McClelland

Riley

M<"Ciure

Rohinson

McDonald of :\litchell Russell

:\lcDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

:\IcGarity

Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

!\ic::\Iichael

Sibley

Maddox

SingiPtary

:\Ialone

Smiley

:\Iann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone StoYall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb 'VPston Whitley 'Yhitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth 'Yilliams of Harris 'Yilliams of Miller _Williams of Walton Wimlwrly Winship Wood 'Vo<Jdard Worthy Wyatt 'Vynne :\Jr. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal. of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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847

By unanimous consent the following bill of th~ House was withdrawn from the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, read the second time, and recommitted:

By Mr. Moore of Appling-
Hous(t Bill No. 943. A bill to amend an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Appling County.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 831 was recommitted to the Committee on Counties and County Matters.
Mr. Lewis of Colquitt gave notice that at the proper time he would mo~ that the House instruct the Committee on General Agriculture No. 1 to report House Resolution No. 135 back to the House.
The following resoution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Resolution No. 216. A resolution authorizing the Secretary of State to correct an error in certain lo?al bill for Dougherty County.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the remaining part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:
1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.
2. Reports of Standing Committees.

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3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.

4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and general House and Senate bills having a local application.
5. First reading of Senate bills and res~lutions.

By unanimous consent, the following bills of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Daniel of Heard-
House Bill No. 949. A bill to establish a Normal and Industrial College in Franklin, Heard County.
Referred to Committee on University of Georgia.

By Mr. VanZant of Fannin-
House Bill No. 950. A bill to amend an Act amending an Act incorporating the city of Blue Ridge, Ga.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Messrs. Ficklen and Bobo of 'Vilkes-
House Bill No. 951. A bill to establish a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Wilkes County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

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849

By.Mr. Brown of Hancock-
House Bill No. 952. A bill to appropriate $5,. 000.00 to Tenth District A. & 1\L School.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Bentley and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 953. A bill to amend an Act to regulate the sale of stocks of goods, wares and merchandise in bulk.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. Guess, McClelland &nd Steele of DeKalb House Bill No. 954. A bill to amend an Act
creating a new charter for the town of Decatur. Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.
By Messrs. Steele, Guess and McClelland of DeK;alb-
House Bill No. 955. A bill to change the name of the Town of Decatur to the City of Decatur.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Messrs. Hunter, Atkinson and Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 956. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Tybee, Chatham County.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

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By Messrs. Guess of DeKalb and Bentley of Fulton-

House Bill No. 957. A bill to amend Section 1 of Code of Georgia, relative to boundary line of the State.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By .Mr. Whitaker of Lowndes-
House Bill No. 958. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Valdosta.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By ~Ir. Ragan of Henry-
House Bill No. 959. A bill to establish a new charter for the Town of Locus Grove, Henry County.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.
Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

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851

House Bill No. 924. House Bill No. 930. Senate Bill No. 288. Senate Bill No. 283.
PICKREN, of Charlton, Chairman.

By unanimous consent, the following bills of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:
By Mr. Byrd of CrispHouse Bill No. 924. A bill to repeal an Act amend-
ing the charter of the city of Cordele.
By Messrs. Clarke and Lewis of ColquittHouse Bill No. 930. A bill to amend the charter
of the City of Doerun, Colquitt County.
By Mr. Boykin of the 29th-
Senate Bill No. 283. A bill to amend the chartei of the town of Lincolnton.
By :Messrs. Thorpe of the 2nd; Thomas of the 3rd; and Jackson of the 21st-
Senate Bill Xo. 288. A bill to incorporate the Town of Townsend, in Mcintosh County.
The following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

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By Mr. Stovall of McDuffie-
Honse Bill No. 934. A bill to amend an Act fixing salary of Solicitor General.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 109, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Horne and Thompson of Dodge-
House Bill No. 933. A bill to amend an Act to ~reate a new charter for the City of Eastman.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, :\ays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered to be immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Baldwin of Morgan-
House Bill No. 927. A bill to amend an Act to amend an Act to amend the new charter for the City of Madison.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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853

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 123, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority wa:s passed.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Ll1 r. S peaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate bills to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 280. A bill relative to time in
which defendants may demand indictments in the City Court of Blakely.
Senate Bill No. 278. A bill relating to the Board of Roads and Revenues of Early County.
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bills to-wit:
House Bill .No. 785. A bill to amend an Act giving the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of certain counties certain powers.
House Bill. No. 746. A bill to amend an Act tQ establish a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Jenkins County.
House Bill No. 817. A bill to amend an Act to abolish the Board of Roads and Revenues and creating the Board of Commissioners for Walker County.

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House Bill No. 799. A bill to amend the charter of thP. City of Bowden.
House Bill No. 826. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the city of Arabi.

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate and House Resolutions to-wit:

Senate Bill No. 86. A resolution to release certain bondsmen of one W. K. Brooks.

House Resolution No. 213. A resolution accepting the invitation of the City of Brunswick to inspect their City and prospective terminals facilities.
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bill, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 270. A bill to amend Sec. 755 of Volume 1 of Code of Georgia of 1910.
Mr. Moore of Fulton moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 745 and the motion prevailed.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Perryman of Talbot-
House Resolution No. 217. A resolution extending the privileges of the floor to ~Ir. Wm. G. Sutlive.
Under orders of the day, the following bills of the House and Senate, set as a special order by the Com-

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855

mittee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. DuBose of Clarke-
House Bill No. 1561. A bill to amend an Act to create a department of Insurance.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered to be immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Messrs. Horne of Dodge and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 745. A bill to amend several Acts for creation, maintainance, etc. of the Confederate Soldiers Home, so as to provide that State President of Daughters of the Confederacy shall be member of Board of Trustees,. and for other purposes:
The following amendment was read and adopted:

By Mr. Horne of Dodge-
Amend by adding thereto the following: ''Provided, That the President of each Atlanta Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy be made exofficio members of the Board of .Trustees of the Confederate Soldiers Home.''

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Knight of Berrien-
House Bill No. 630. A bill to provide for the change of venue in investigation by Grand Juries when no qualified Grand Jury can be found in the county where crime was committed, and for other purposes.
The following committee amendments were read and adopted:
Amend by striking Sections 4 and 5 and substituting the following instead: ''Section 4. Be it further enacted that the Grand Jury Box shall be exhausted in trying to secure a qualified jury before a transfer of the investigation can be made, provided the aceused does not consent to a transfer."
"Section 5. Be it further enacted that the Solici-tor-General and the Counsel for the accused shall agree upon the county to which the transfer shall be made, but in the event they cannot agree then it shall be the duty of the presiding Judge to name the '~ounty to which the transfer of the investigation 3hall be made.''
Amend Section 6 by adding the following at the

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857

end of said Section: "Provided that no change of venue shall be had for the trial of the accused ex~ept as now provided by law, unless by consent of the accused.''
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Nays 4.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Messrs. Hufstetler of Murray, Owen of Gordon, and others-
House Bill No. 805. A bill to prohibit taking of fish from any of the streams of this State with seine, net, gig, or spear, etc., and for other purposes.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted:

By Mr. Sapp of Whitfield.
Amend by adding io the sixth line of said bill and imml;l(liately following the word .O.e;ffQCtive, ,; at the conclli13ion of s~id Section 2, the folloWing words towit:
''Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to affect any county in the State of Georgia having a population of less than 16,897, or more

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than 16,898 or 17,736, or more than 17,737; or 6,677, or more than 6,678; or 9,490, or more than 9,491; or 23,370, or more than 23,371; respectively as shown by the Federal Census for the year 1920. ''

The following amendments were read and adopted:

By Mr. McClure of Walker-
Amend the committee amendment by striking the words, ''as shown by the Federal Census for the year 1920 '' and inserting in lieu thereof the words, ''according to the last available Federal Census.''

By Mr. Bowden of Ware-
Amend by inserting the words, ''that this law shall not apply to Commercial Fishing or private owned lakes in this state."

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
Amend the amendment by Mr. Sapp, of Whitfield, by adding "or 20,351 or more than 20,359" after the words ''the year 1920'' in last line of said amendment by Mr. Sapp of Whitfield.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 15.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

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859

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 145. A bill making it optional with persons in this State, who have been convicted of a ~rime, to begin the service of the sentence imposed, under certain circumstances.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed t?.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 4.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Messrs. DuBose, of Clarke and Culpepper of Fayette-
House Bill No. 832. A bill to amend an Act providing for collection of tax on distribution of fuel oils and for other purposes.
The following amendment was read and adopted:

By Mr. Culpepper of FayetteAmend by striking from line 17 and 18 of Section
l, the words ''Provided this Act shall not be construed so that said tax shall be collected more than once,'' and substituting in lieu thereof the follow-

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ing: ''Provided this Act shall not be so construed .so as to cause double taxation on any of the products ;3pecified in said Act approved Aug. 10, 1915, except where such products are shipped out of and back into this State for distribution."
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 112, Nays 3.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Hutchens of 38th-

Senate Bill No. 253. A bill to amend an Act to protect fur bearing animals of the State, and for other purposes.
Mr. Vocelle, of Camden moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following amendments were read and adopted:

By Mr. Williams of Harris-
Amend by striking out the words and figures ''Aug. 1st,'' wherever they appear and insert in lieu thereof the words and figures '' Sept. 1st. ''
By Mr. Macintyre of ThomasAmend by adding a section appropriately number-
ed to read as follows :

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''After the passage of this Act it shall be lawful for

parties to have in possession at any time of year the live animals above mentioned when the purpose of

.-v .

8uch possession is to raise such animals and dis-

tribute same so as to increase the supply of game.''

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 105, Nays 13.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Nix of 51st-
Senate Bill No. 176. A bill to amend an Act to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department of Georgia.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 111, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite con-stitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Campbell of 34th and Mason of 35th-
House Bill No. 230. A bill authorizing Legislature to add one or more additional Judges of the Superior Court for the Stone Mountain Circuit.
The main question was ordered.

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Mr. Moore, of Fulton, moved that the House re-



consider its action in ordering the main question and and the motion was lost.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was disagreed to and the bill was lost.

Mr. McClelland of DeKalb gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in disagreeing to the favorable report of the committee on "Senate Bill No. 230.

Mr. Wimberly of Laurens moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.

The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION 3 o'Clock P. M.
The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
The following bills of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:
By Mr. Gunnels of FranklinHouse Bill No. 960. A bill to amend an Act fixing
the salary of the Treasurer of Franklin County.

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Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Hillhouse of Worth-
House Bill No. 961, A bill to provide for disposing of strictly locAl, county and municipal matters by the Judges of the Superior Courts of the various counties.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to Constitution.

By Mr. Hillhouse of Worth-
House Bill No. 962. A bill to provide for change in number and apportionment of the House of Representatives andSenate.

Referred to Committee on Amendments to Constitution.

By Mr. Wood of Twiggs-
Honse Bill No. 963. A bill to establish a new charter for the town of Danville, and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 964. A bill to enable counties to provide for county agents and home economics.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

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Mr. Moore of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education submitted the following rtport:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass by substitute:
House Bill No. 862.
-
MooRE of Fulton, Chairman.

Mr. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on Municipal Government have

had under consideration the following bills of the

House and have instructed me as chairman, to re-

port the same back to the House with the recommen-

.dation that the same do pass :

House ~.

B' ill

No.

895 .

House., N_o. 938.

House Bill No. 954.

House Bill No. 955.

House Bill No. 956.

House Bill No. 958.

:.

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House Bill No. 959. House Bill No. 963.
SMITH of Meriwether, Chairman.

Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters, have had under consideration the following bills of the House, and have instructed me as chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
House Bill No. 917. House Bill No. 919. House Bill No. 937. House Bill No. 939. House Bill No. 935. House Bill No. 869. House Bill No. 941.
Respectfully submitted,
MoYE of Randolph, Chairma:t;1.

Mr. C. H. Kittrell, of Laurens County, Chairman of the Committee on Agriculture No.1 submitted the following report:
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Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on .Agriculture No. 1 have had under consideration the following bills and resolutions of the House and have instructed me as.Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 759. Do pass by substitute as amended.
House Resolution No. 157. Do pass. House Resolution No. 135. Do not pass.
C. H. KITTRELL, of Laurens, Chairman.

Mr. Hullender, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the following Report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Enrollment has examined, found properly enrolled, duly signed and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following Acts, to-wit:
House Bill No. 746. A bill to amend an Act to
establish a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Jenkins.
H. B. No. 817. A bill to amend an act abolishing the Board of Roads and Revenues and creating the Board of Commissioners for the county of Walker.
House Bill No. 785. A bill to amend an Act to give the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues or

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the Ordinary of Judge certain powers and authority in certain counties.
H. B. No. 799. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Bowden.
House Bill No. 826. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the town of Arabi.

Respectfully submitted, HULLENDER, of Catoosa, Chairman.

Mr. McMichael of Marion County, Chairman of the Committee on General Agriculture No. 2, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Agriculture No. 2 has had under consideration House Bill No. 925 and instruct me as its Chairman to report that the same ''do pass '' as amended.
McMICHAEL, of Marion, Chairman.
The following bills and resolutions of the House, fayorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time :
By Mr. Wall of Putnam-
House Resolution No. 157. A resolution providing for investigation relative to manufacture of calcium arsenate.

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By Mr. Brown of Emanuel-

House Bill Ko. 759. A bill to prohibit the growing of cotton in the state of Georgia for 1924.

By Mr. vVoodard of Cook-
House Bill No. 869. A bill to amend sections 696 and 697 of Code of 1910, relative to opening of public roads.

By Messrs. Bentley, Holloway and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 895. A bill to amend the charter of the City of East Point.

By Mr. King of Wilcox-
House Bill No. 917. A bill to create a board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Wilcox County.
By Mr. King of WilcoxHouse Bill No. 919. A bill to repeal an Act creat-
ing Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Wilcox County.
By Messrs. McMichael of Marion and Beck of Carroll-
House Bill No. 925. .A bill to provide for distribution of motor vehicle tax in this state.

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By Mr. Corbitt of Atkinson-

House Bill No. 935. A bill to amend the act creating the Board of Commissioners for Atkinson county.

By Mr. Beck of Carroll-

House Bill No. 937. A bill to amend Section 695., of Park's Code, relative to those subject to road duty.

By Mr. Miles of Candler-
House Bill No. 938. A bill to repeal an Act to incorporate the Town of Aline, in Emanuel County.

By Mr. Miles of Candler-
House Bill No. 939.-A bill to require the Board of Commissioners of Candler County to publish quarterly itemized statements.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 941. A bill to create the office of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Jeff Davis County.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 862. A bill to provide for the teaching of the constitution of the United States in the public schools of the State.
The following bill and resolution of the Senate

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were read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Williams of 45th-
Senate Resolution No. 86. A resolution to relieve certain bondsmen of one W. K. Brooks.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County
..Matters.
By Mr. Williams of 45th-
Senate Bill No. 270. A bill amending Code of 1910 relative to ferries and roads approaching tliereto.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.
. The following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Macintyre of Thomas-
. House Bill No. 883. A bill to tax gypsy horse traders.
The repo.rt of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 121,
Nays o.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Mr. Rutherford of Monroe-
House Bill No. 583. A bill to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a school of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in this State, and for. other purposes.

Mr. Hawkins of Washington moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following amendment was read and adopted:

By Mr. Knight of Berrien-
Amend by adding to Section 4 the following: ''Provided that no funds shall be asked of the State for the support of said school.''
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 35.
The bill having received the requisite constitu., tional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Guess of DeKalb-House Bill No. 726. A bill to amend Geor~a
Workmen's Compensation Act by providing a method of calculating the wages received and for other purposes.
Mr. Valentino of Ohatham moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 122, Nays 0.
The hill having received the requisite eonstitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the hill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Steele of DeKalh-
House Bill No. 680. A bill to amend Georgia Workman's Compensation Act so as to provide a salary for certain officers, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 111, Nays 2.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the hill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.
By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
H. B. No. 677. A bill to provide that an officer authorized by law to attest the execution of deeds, loan deeds, mortgages, etc., shall not be disqualified to attest such writings, where such writings are executed by or to a corporation in which such officer is a stockholder, and for other purposes.

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Mr. Mundy, of Polk, moved that the bill be tabled and the motion was lost.

The report of the Committee, which was favoraltle to the passage of the bill, was disagreed to and the bill was lost.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Resolution No. 200. A resolution providing for a school building site on the State Farm and authorizing the Prison Commission to convey certain land for said purpose.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pasage of the resolution, was agreed to.
On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 110, Nays 1.
The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
Mr. McMichael of Marion moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.

By Messrs. Whitaker and Webb of Lowndes-
House Bill No. 300. A bill to amend an Act creating the office of State Veterinarian.
Mr. Smith of Carroll moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 105, Nays 4.
. The bill having received the requisite constitu.tional majority wa.s passed.
Mr. Vocelle, of Camden, moved that the bill be immediately transmitted to the Senate and the motion prevailed.
Mr. McMichael, of .Marion, moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.

TUESDAY, AUGUST 8, 1922.

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Tuesday, August 8th, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to ad-

was -journment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.;

called

to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by

the Chaplain.

By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.

By unanimous consent the reading of the J~urnal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

By unanimous consent House Bill No. 25 was taken from the table and placed upon the Calendar.

By unanimous consent the following Bill of the House was withdrawn from the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, read the second time, and recommitted:

By Mr. Stone, of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 940. A bill to amend the Constitution so as to abolish the office of Tax Receiver of Jeff Davis County.
By unanimous consent 300 copies of House Bill No. 925 and all amendments were ordered printed for the use of the House and Senate.
By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the remain-

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ing part of the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents :

1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.

2. Reports of Standing Committees.

3. Reading of House and Senate Bills and Resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.

4. Passage of 1,mcontested local House and Senate Bills and uncontested general House and Senate Bills having local application.
5. First reading of Senate Bills and Resolutions.
The following Resolution of the House was read ~md adopted:

By Mr. Holland, of Tattnall-
House Resolution No. 219. A resolution extending the privileges of the floor to Mr. W. H. Purcell.
By unanimous consent, the following Bills of the House were introduced, read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Van Zant, of Fannin-
.House Bill No. 965. A bill to amend an act and amendatory acts incorporating the Town of McCaysville.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

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By Messrs. Gunnells, of Franklin, and Mason of ' Hart-
House Bill No. 966. A bill to amend an Act establishing a public school system for the Town of Canon.
Referred to the Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Boyett, of StewartHouse Bill No. 967. A bill to create a new Charter
for the City of Richland. Referred to the Committee on Corporations.

By Messrs. Guess, McClelland and Steele, of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 968. A bill to establish the City Court of Decatur.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Messrs. Gunnells, of Franklin, and Mason, of Hart-
House Bill No. 969. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Canon in Franklin and Hart Counties.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Van Landingham, of Seminole:
House Bill No. 970. A bill to amend the Charter of the Town of Donalsonville.

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Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Langford of Hall and Duncan, of HallHouse Bill No. 971. A bill to regulate the running
of automobiles and the use of cut-outs in this State.
Referred to the Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Clifton of Lee-
House Bill No. 972. A bill to amend an act to create a Board of Commissioners for Lee County.
Referred to Committee on County and County Matters.

By Mr. Macintyre of Thomas-
House Bill No. 973. A bill to repeal an Act incorporating the Town of Cooledge, in Thomas County.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Boswell of Greene-
House Bill No. 974. A bill to repeal an Act to prohibit employes of Hotels, etc., receiving tips.
Referred to Committee on General Agriculture No.2.
Mr. Moore, of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education submitted the following report:

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}I]r. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 928.
MooRE of Fulton, Chairman.

Mr. Pickren, of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 950.
PicKREN of Charlton, Chairman.

Mr. Moye, of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following Bills

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and Resolutions of the House and Senate and have

instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back

to the House with the recommendation that the same

do pass:

House Bill No. 960.



House Bill No. 851.

Senate Resolution No. 86.

Respectfully submitted,

RoBERT L. :J:IoYE, Chairman.

Mr. Walter R. McDonald, of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary submitted the following report: Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following Bills of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 932. House Bill No. 929. House Bill No. 918. House Bill No. 908. Senate Bill No. 263. Senate Bill No. 197. Senate Bill No. 276.
McDoNALD of Richmond, Chairman.

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Mr. Turner, of Brooks County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Highways submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Public Highways have had
under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 889. Do not pass.
MR. T'uRNER of Brooks, Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed by the requisite constitu-
tional majority the following Bills of the House, to-wit:
House Bill 841. A bill to abolish City Court of Lyons.
House Bill No. 854. A bill to amend Act creating City Court of Sandersville.
House Bill No. 4.74. A bill to amend Act establishing a Normal and Industrial College at Milledgeville.
House Bill No. 779. A bill to change time of holding Superior Court in Stephens County.

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House Bill No. 801. A bill to make Collins, Ga., a State Depository.
House Bill No. 840. A bill to abolish City Court of Banks County.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

1rlr. Speaker: The Senate has passed by the requisite constitu-
tional majority the following Bill of the Senate.
Senate Bill No. 226. To substitute a Board of Control for Boards of Trustees of University of Georgia.
The Senate concurred in the House amendment to the following Senate Bill:
Senate Bill No. 161. A hill to repeal Act establishing City Court of Alma, Ga.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Sen~te, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Davis of the 43rdSenate Bill No. 19'7. A bill to amend an Act placing
the Solicitor-General of Cherokee Circuit on salary.
By Mr. Peacock, of the 48th-
Senate Bill No. 263. A bill to amend aii Act to establish the City Court of Eastman.

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883

By Mr. Johns of the 27th-

Senate Bill No. 276. A bill to change the time of holding the June term of Superior Court of Barrow County.

By Mr. Williams of the 45th-
Senate Resolution No. 86. A resolution to relieve certain bondsmen of Mr. W. K. Brooks.

By Mr. Weston of Brooks-
House Bill No. 908. A bill to amend an Act establishing the City Court of Quitman.

By Mr. King of WilcoxHouse Bill No. 918. A bill to change the terms
of Wilcox Superior Court.
By Mr. Stone of Jeff DavisHouse Bill No. 928. A bill to amend an Act es-
tablishing system of public schools for Hazelhurst.
By Mr. Stone of Jeff DavisHouse Bill No. 929. A bill to fix the terms of the
Superior Court of Jeff Davis County.
By Mr. Henderson of WhiteHouse Bill No. 932 A bill to repeal an Act creating
the City Court of Cleveland.



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By Mr. Van Zant of Fannin-

House Bill No. 950. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Blue Ridge, Georgia.

By Mr. Gunnells of Franklin-
House Bill No. 960. A bill to amend an Act fixiii.g the salary of the Treasurer of Franklin County.

By Messrs. Guess, McClelland and Steele of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 954. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the Town of Decatur.

By Mr. Whitaker of Lowndes-
House Bill No. 958. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Valdosta.

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 851. A bill to authorize counties of certain populations to maintain fire houses for the protection of property.

By Messrs. Steele, Guess and McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 955. A bill to change the name of the Town of Decatur to the City of Decatur.

By Messrs. Hunter, Atkinson and Valentino of Chatham-



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House Bill No. 956. A bill to amend the charter of the Town of Tybee.

By Mr. Reagan of Henry-
House Bill No. 959. A bill to establish a new charter for the Town of Locus Grove, Henry County.

By Mr. Wood of Twiggs-
Honse Bill No. 963. A bill to establish a new charter for the Town of Danville, and for other purposes.
The following bills of the House and Senate were ' read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Messrs. Thorpe of 2nd, Thomas of 3rd, and Jackson of 21st-
House Bill No. 288. A bill to incorporate the Town of Townsend.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 118, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 178. A bill to authorize the authorities of the various counties of this State to

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prescribe by order the time and period of the fiscal year in regard to taxes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Boykin of 29th-
Senate Bill No. 283. A bill to amend charter of Lincolnton.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Bentley, Holloway and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 895. A bill to amend charter of East Point.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 125, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Mr. King of Wilcox-
House Bill No. 917. A bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in and for the County of Wilcox.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 116, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority wa.s passed.

By Mr. King of Wilcox-

House Bill No. 919. A bill to repeal an Act creat-

ing Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Wil-

cox County.



The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pas.sage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 941. A bill to create the office of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues of the County of Jeff Davis.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 110, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Byrd of Crisp-
House Bill No. 924. A bill to repeal an Act amending the charter of the City of Cordele.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 111, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitution~! majority was passed.
By Messrs. Clark and Lewis of ColquittHouse Bill No. 930. A bill to amend, revise, con-
solidate, etc., the several Acts incorporating the Town of Doerun.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 133, Nays 0.
The bill having reeeived the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Corbitt of AtkinsonHouse Bill No. 935. A bill to amend the Act
creating the Board of Commissioners for Atkinson

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889

Oounty and for other purposes. The report of the Committee, which was favorable
to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes _were 113, Nays 0.
The bill having r&eived. the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Miles of Candler-
House Bill No. 938. A bill to repeal an Act to incorporate the Town of Aline.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Beck of Carroll-
House Bill .No. 937. A bill to amend Code of 1910 relative to those subject to road duty m counties of certain population.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 105, Nays 2.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Miles of Candler-

House Bill No. 939. A bill to require the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Candler County to publish certain statements.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passa.ge of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 111, Nnys 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bills, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 291. A bill to repeal an Act creating a Board of Roads and Revenues for Houston County.
Senate Bill No. 216. A bill to amend the Georgia Motor Vehicle Law.
Senate Bill No. 294. A bill to create a Board of C?unty Commissio~rs for Houston County. ,

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Senate Bill No. 277. A bill to amend the Code of 1910 so as to provide for selections of State depositories by the Governor in certain cities.
Senate Bill No. 209. A bill to repeal an Act abolishing the fee system in the Southern Judicial Circuit.
Senate Bill No. 262. A bill to provide further regulation with regard to practise and procedure in the courts of this State.
The Senate has passed by the requsite constitutional majority the following Senate Resolutions, to-wit:
A resolution relative to appointing a Committee of the House and Senate to ascertain some plan for aiding Confederate Soldiers.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 968 was withdrawn from the Committee on Special Judiciary and recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No.1.
Mr. McClelland of DeKalb moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to agree to the favorable report of the Committee on Senate Bill No. 230.
Mr. McClelland of DeKalb moved that action on this motion be postponed until next Tuesday morning under the head of ''Motions to Reconsider'' and the motion was lost.
The motion to reconsider Senate Bill No. 230 was lost.

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Under orders of the day, the following bill of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson-
House Bill No. 205. A bill to amend the Constitution relative to the levy and collection of an Income Tax.
Mr. Bentley of Fulton moved the previous question on the bill, substitutes, and amendments; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
Mr. Knight of Berrien moved that the House reconsider its action in ordering the main question and the motion was lost.
The following substitute was read and adopted:
By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson-

A BILL

TO BE ENTITLED
An Act to propose an amendment to Article 7 of the Constitution of the State of Georgia Which Will Change the State Tax Rate from Five Mills to Four Mills, as the Same Is Fixed in Paragraph 2, Section 1, Article 7 of the Constitution; and to Provide in Paragraph 1, Section 2, .AJ:ticle 7 for Income, Inheritance, Privilege and Occupational

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Taxes; to Provide for Submission of the Proposed Amendment to the Legal Voters of the State, and for Other Purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, that Par. 2, Sec. 1, Art. 7 of the Constitution of said State be amended by striking therefrom the word ''five'' where the same appears in the fourth line of said paragraph as it is now published in Sec. 6552 of the Civil Code of Georgia, and substituting therefor word "four," so that said paragraph when amended will read:

''The levy of taxes on property for any one year by the General Assembly for all purposes, except to provide for repelling invasion, suppressing insurrection, or defending the State in time of war, shall not exceed four mills on eacH dollar pf the value of the property taxable in the State.''
Section 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that said Article be further amended by striking all of Paragraph 1, Section 2, Article 7, and substituting therefor the following language:
''All taxation shall be uniform upon the same class of subjects and when ad valorem, assessed on all the property subject to be taxed by that method within the territorial limits of the authority levying the tax, and shall be levied and collected under general laws and for the purposes authorized by the Constitution.
''The General Assembly may impose taxes upon

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incomes, inheritances, privileges and occupations~ which taxes may be graduated, and the laws under which they are levied may contain provision for reasonable exemptions; provided that when an income tax is imposed the same shall not exceed three per centum of the net income to be taxed as the same may be defined by statute''
Section 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that when said amendment shall be entered upon the Journal of each House with the ''yeas'' and ''nays'' thereon and published in one or more newspapers in each Congressional District in said State for two months previous to the time for holding the next General Election, and shall, at the next General Election, be submitted to the people for ratification~ All persons voting at, said election in favor of adopting said proposed amendment to the Constitution shall have written or printed on their ballots the words: ''For ratification of amendment to Art. 7 of the Constitution limiting the State rate to four mills, and authorizing the levy and collection of income taxes, inheritance taxes, privilege and occupational taxes, provided the income tax shall not exceed three per cent.'' All persons opposed to the adoption of said amendment shall have written or printed on their ballots the words: ''Against ratification of amendment to Art. 7 of the Constitution limiting the State rate to four mills, and authorizing the levy and collection of income taxes, inheritance taxes, privilege and occupational

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taxes, provided the income tax shall not exceed three per cent.'' If the majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General AsMmbly voting thereon shall vote for ratification thereof, when the returns shall be consolidated, as now required by law in elections for members of the General Assembly, and returns thereof made to the Governor, he shall declare said amendment adopted and make Proclamation of the result by publication thereof by one insertion in one of the daily papers of the State, declaring said amendment ratified.
Section 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed.
The following amendments to the substitute were read and adopted:

. By Mr. Rutherford of Monroe and Mundy of Polk-
Amend by adding the following to Section 2: ''The exemption provided for shall be as follows: $1,000.00 for each single person or in the case of a head of the family or a married person living with husband or wife, a personal exemption of $2,500.00 and $200:00 additional for each minor or dependent female.''

By Messrs. Lankford of Toombs and Smith of Meriwether-
Amend by adding at the end of Section 2 the

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following: ''And the amount paid the State as ad valorem tax is hereby allowed as an exemption.''
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to by substitute as amended.
The bill involving a Constitutional Amendment the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Anderson Arnold Atkinson Raid win Beck
Blec:~kley
Bloodworth Boswell Bowden Boyett Braddy Branch Brannen Brown of Emanuel Bush Byrd of Crisp Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Webster Clifton Collier Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe

DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudl('y Dykes Ennis Evans Fletcher Folsom Foy Gann Grant Gresham Griffm Griffith Greene Grovenstein Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hawkins Hentlerson Herring Hillhouse

Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Horne Houser Howard of Forsyth Howard of Screven Hufstetler Hullender Hunter Hyman .Jackson Johnson of Bartow Johnson of Pickens Keith Kennedy King of Wilcox Kittrell Knight Lankford of Toombs Lewis Logan Luke McClure .McGarity McMichael l\lanning Mason

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Mayo Miles Mixon Moore of Appling Neal of Union Nichols Owen Parrish Patten Penland Peterson Phillips of Jasper Price Pruett Ramsey Reagan Reville Robinson

Russell Rutherford Salmon Sapp Shettlesworth Sibley Singletary Smith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Steele Stone StoYall Sunmer of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum

Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Walker Wall Watkins 'Yay Weston
. Whitaker of Lowndes Whitworth Williams of Harris Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Adams of Newton AdalliB of Walton Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Bobo Bowen Bozeman Brantley Brown of Hancock Brownlee Clark of Colquitt Collins Daniel of Troup Duncan of Hall Fick.Jen Fowler

Franks

Parks

Hatcher of Museogee Perkins

Holloway

Perryman

Jones of Coweta

Phillips of Telfair

Jones of Thomas

Pickren

Jones of Walker

Pilcher

Johnson of

Riley

Chattahoochee Smiley

Langford of Hall

Smith of Meriwether

McClelland

J'hompson of Coweta

McDonald of Mitchell Trippe

Macintyre

Turner

Maddox

Vocelle

Malone

Williams of Miller

Moore of Fulton

Williams of Walton .

~foye

Wyatt

Mundy

Those not voting were Messrs :

Blalock Boatwright Coates Duncan of Dawson Guess Houston
Sig. 29

King of Jefferson

Strickland

McDonald of

Thompson of Dodge

Richmond Webb

~Iann

Whitley

Quincey

Whitaker of Rockdale

Ricketson

~Ir. Speaker

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Ayes 141, Na.ys 48.
The roll call was verified. On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 141, Nays 48.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute as amended.

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until this afternoon at 4 o'clock.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.
Mr. Bentley of Fulton moved that when the House adjourned it stand adjourned until this afternoon at 4:30 o'clock.
The motion of Mr. Wyatt of Troup that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock taking precedence over the o.ther motions, prevailed.
Mr. Beck of Carroll moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Messrs. Guess of DeKalb and Jones of Walker.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.

WEDNESDAY, AuGUST 9, 1922.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

Wednesday, August 9, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened With prayer by the Chaplain. .
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the following was established. as the order of business during the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents :

1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.

2. Reports of Standing Committees.

3. Reading of House and Senate bills and resolutions, favorably reported, the second time.

4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.

5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the Hause were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees:

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By Mr. Mundy of PolkHlouse Bill No. 975. A bill to amend section 3033
of Code of 1910, relative to testamentary guardians.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No. 2.

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 976. A bill to am!=lnd section 3032 of Code of 1910, relative to natural guardians.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-

House Bill No. 977. A bill to repeal section 4464 of Code of 1910, relative to relations of husband and wife.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Mundy of PolkHouse Bill No. 978. A bill to amend section 3037
of Code of 1910, relative to guardians of minors.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 979. A bill to repeal section 4467 of Code of 1910, relative to sale of spirituous liquors.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Bush of Lamar-
House Bill No. 980. A bill to create the Board of Commissioners for the County of Lamar.

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Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Messrs. McDonald, Pilcher and Reville of Richmond-
House Bill No. 981. A bill to amend an act establishing the fee system now existing in Augusta Judicial Circuit.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.
By Mr. DuBose of Clarke-
House Bill No. 982. A bill to amend an act apprO:priating money to Georgia Training School for Mental Defectives.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.
By Messrs. Dobbs and Gann of CobbHouse Bill No. 983. A bill to repeal an act creat-
ing a Board of Commissioners for Cobb County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.
By Mr. Quincey of CoffeeHouse Bill No. 984. A bill to nmend the charter
of the city of Douglas.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

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By Messrs. Rutherford of Monroe, Wimberly of I aurens and others--

taxHouse Bill ij"o. 985. A bill to place and collect a on syrups used in making soft drinks.

Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Messrs. Bowden and Blalock of Ware--

House Bill No. 986. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Waycross.

Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics.

By Messrs. Harris and King of J e:fferson--
House Bill No. 987. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Louisville.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary.
Mr. DuBose of Clarke County, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and .Means have had under consideration the following 'bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

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House Bill No. 808. House Bill No. 865.
Respectfully submitted, DuBosE of Clarke, Chainnan.

Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, su~ mitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chainnan, to. report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 951. -senate Bill No. 270.
Respectfully submitted,
RoBERT L. MoYE of Randolph,
Chairman.

Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chariman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under. consideration the following bills of the Hlouse and

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have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :

House Bill No. 965. House Bill No. 966. House Bill No. 973. House Bill No. 969. House Bill No. 967. House Bill No. 970.

PICKREN of Charlton, Chairman.

Mr. Swift of Elbert County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Property, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Public Property have had under consideration the following bill of the Hause and have instructed nie as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended:
House Bill No. 740.
SwiFT of Elbert,
Chairman.

Mr. Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2, submitted the following report:

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905

Your Committee on General Judiciary No.2 have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the following recommendations:
House Bill No. 964. Do pass. , House Bill No. 170. Do pass. House Bill No. 736. Do not pass.
Senate Bill No. 74. Do not pass. Senate Bill No. 227. Do not pass.
DAvis of Floyd,
Chairman.

:Mr. Guess of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Yaur Committee on General Judiciary No.1 have had under consideration the following bills and r~o lutions of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 892. Do pass. House Bill No. 943. Do pass as amended. House Resolution No. 973A. Do pass. House Resolution No. 973B. Do pass. House Bill No. 968. Do pass. House Bill No. 957. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 122. Do pass.

JoURNAL OF THE HousE,

House Bill No. 926. Do pass. ' House Bill No. 709. Do not pass.
Senate Bill No. 94. Do pass. Blouse Bill No. 890. Do not pass. House Bill No. 847. Do pass.

I'

GuEss of DeKalb,

Chainnan.

Mr. Hullender, Chairman of the committee on Enrollment, submitted tlw following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your committee on Enrollment has examined, ~ound properly enrolled, duly signed, and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following Acts, towit:
House Bill No. 834. A bill to amend the charter pf the Town of Greensboro.
1Iouse Bill No. 860. A bill to provide for the extension of the corporate limits of Columbus.
House Bill No. 751. A bill to amend an act creating the City Court of Louisville.
House Bill No. 766. A bill to amend par. 1, section 13, art. 6 of the constitution relative to salary of Judges of Superior Court in judicial circuit in which Richmond County is lo,cated.
House Bill No. 792. A bill to amend an act to establish a City Court for County of Houston.

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907

House Bill No. 781. A bill to amend an act and amendatory acts providing for payment of costs in misdemeanor cases in certain counties and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 809. A bill to amend an act .to create the City Court of Claxton.
H~mse Bill No. 824. A bill to amend an act establishing the City Court of Metter.
. Respectfully submitted,
HuLLENDER of Oatool:la, -
Chairman.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Boswell of Greene-
House Bill No.170. A bill to provide for the foreclosure of mortgages, etc.

By Mr. Way of Liberty-
House Bill No. 740. A bill to authorize the Governor to sell certain lands within the State.

By Messrs. Bleckley of Rabun, Neal of Union and others-
House Bill No. 808. A bill to pay certain Counties funds from sale of products of National Forest Reserve.

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By Messrs. Clark and Lewis of Colquitt-

House Bill No. 847. ,A bill to repeal section 383 of Code of 1910, relative to certain misdemeanors.

By Mr. Camp of Campbell-
House Bill No. 865. A bill to appropriate certain sums to pay public printing debt.

By Mr. Davis of Oglethorpe-
House Bill No. 892. A bill to establish a State Depository in Crawford, Oglethorpe County.

By Messrs. Clark and Lewis of Colquitt-
House Bill No. 926. A bill to amend section 4651 of Code of 1910, relative to Notaries Public and Justices of Peace.
By Messrs. Ficklen anrl Bobo of WilkesHouse Bill No. 951. A bill to establish a Board
of Commissioners for Wilkes County.

By Messrs. Guess of DeKalb and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 957. A bill to amend section 1 of Code of 1910, relative to boundar~ line of this State.
By Mr. Beckham of DoughertyHouse Bill No. 964. A bill to enable Counties to
provide for County agents and home economics.

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909

By Mr. Van Zant of Fannin-
House Bill No. 965. A bill to amend the act amending the charter of the Town of McCaysville.

By Messrs. Gunnells of Franklin and Mason of Hart-
House Bill No. 966. A bill to amend an act establishing system of public schools in City of Canon.

By Mr. Boyett of Stewart-
House Bill No. 967. A bill to create a new charter for the City of Richland.

By Messrs. Guess, Steele and McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 968. A bill to create the City Court of Decatur.
By Messrs. Gunnells of Franklin and Mason of Hart-
House Bill No. 969. A bill to amend an act incorporating the City of Canon in Counties of Franklin an.d Hart.
By Mr. Van Landingham of SeminoleHouse Bill No. 970. A bill to amend the charter
of the Town of Donalsonville.
By Mr. Macintyre of ThomasHouse Bill No. 973. A bill to repeal an act amend-
ing the charter of the Town of Cooledge.

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By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-

House Resolution No. 219 (973A). A resolution to relieve the bondsmen of P. P. Jackson.

By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
House Resolution No. 22 (973B). A resolution to relieve the bondsmen of P. P. Jackson.

By Mr. Thomas of the 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 94. A bill to provide for the assessment given an approval of the supersedeas bonds, etc.

By Messrs. Walker of the 18th and Johns of the 27th-
Senate Bill No. 122. A bill to amend Section 3931 of Code of 1910, relative to deceased intestate.

By Mr. Williams of the 45th-
Senate Bill No. 270. A bill amending section 755 of Code of 1910, relative to the operation of ferries.
The following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By :Mr. Moore of Appling-
House Bill No. 943. A bill to amend an act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and' Re,enues for the County of Appling.

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The following committee amendme-p.ts were read and adopted :
Amend Section 14 A as follows: By changing the figures at the end of second line "15" to "20".
Amend by adding at the end of Section 14 A the following: "Provided, however, that upon the recommendation of the Grand Jury at any term of the Superior Court of Appling County that said salary and expenses as provided for in this section shall not longer be paid; then, in such event, the County authorities shall not longer pay same, and said Chairman shall only receive the per diem as provided for in the original Act which this amends;''
Amend Section 14 Has follows: By striking, beginning at the word "not", in the fourth line of said section, and striking the remaining portion of said section, and substituting the following therefor: "nor shall said County Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of said County levy at any time any additional tax to pay any future bonded indebtedness nor to pay for any bonded indebtedness that may now be in the course of validation; provided that the Grand Jury of said County may, sitting immediately preceeding a levy any given year, recommend higher levy for carrying on the necessary current expenses of the County, but the Grand Jury of said County shall not have the right under the provision of this Act and amendment to recommend a tax levy for any future bond issue or an"y bond issue that may now be in process of validation.''

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Whitaker of Lowndes-
House Bill No. 958. A bill to amend the Act char. tering the City of Valdosta.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 141, .Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Atkinson, Hunter and Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 959. A bill to amend the several Acts granting corporate authority to the Town of Tybee.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 155, Xays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitu. tional majority was passed.

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913

By Mr. Weston of BrooksHouse Bill No. 908. A bill to amend an Act estab
lishing the City Court of Quitman.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pas,sage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 133 Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Guess, McClelland, and Steele of DeKalb--
House Bill No. 954. A bill to amend an Act creating and establishing a new charter for the Town of Decatur.
The substitute by Messrs. Guess, McClelland, and Steele of DeKalb was read and adopted.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to by substitute.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 128, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.

By Messrs. Steele, Guess and McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 955. A bill to change the name

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of "Town of Decatur" to "City of Decatur" and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Van Zant of Fannin-
House Bill No. 950. A bill to amend an Act to amend the several Acts incorporating the City of Blue Ridge.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 125, Xays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Henderson of White-
House Bill No. 932. A bill to repeal an Act to create the City Court of Cleveland.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 126, Nays 0.

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915

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 929. A bill to fix terms of the Superior Court of Jeff Davis County and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favomhle to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 155, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 928. A bill to amend an Act to authorize the establishment of a system of public schools in the Town of Hazelhurst and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorahle to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 145, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. King of Wilcox-
Blouse Bill No. 918. A bill to change terms of Wilcox Superior Court.

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 134, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill-
House Bill No. 875. A bill to amend an Act codifying the School Laws of Georgia relative to the elementary rudiments of vocal music in Counties of certain population.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 135, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 851. A bill to authorize certain Counties to provide and maintain houses and equipment for purpose of fire protection.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 135 Nays 0.

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917

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Neill, Perkins, and Hatcher of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 900. A bill to repeal certain Acts relative to place of holding legal sales in the County of Muscogee.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 199, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Gunnels of FranklinHouse Bill No. 960. A bill to amend an Act fixing
the salary of the Treasurer of Franklin County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pas-sage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 121, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By ~Ir. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Resolution No. 81. A resolution to provide for a survey of lands of the State known as the Col-

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.TOURNAL OF THE HousE,

ony Lands of Georgia. State Sanitarium for the Insane.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.

On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 105, Nays 0.

The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Johns of 27th-
Senate Bill No. 276. A bill to change time of holding June Term of Superior Court of Barrow County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 126, Nays 0.
. The bill having rec.eived the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Peacock of 48th-
Senate Bill No. 263. A bill to amend an Act to establish the City Court of Eastman.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 145~ Nays 0.

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919

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Lassiter of 14th-
Senate Bill No. 231. A bill to amend an Act to fix time of holding the Superior Court in the various Counties comprising the Cordele Circuit and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
l
By Mr. Reagan of Henry-
House Bill .No. 959. A bill to provide and establish a new charter for the Town of Locust Grove.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pasSJage of the bill, was agrMd to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent Senate Bill No. 197 was recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
The following bills and resolution of the Senate

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were read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Pope of 44th -
Senate Resolution No. 92. A resolution relative to appointing a committee of the House and Senate to ascertain some plan of aiding Confederate Soldiers.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Snow of 9thSenate Bill No. 209. A bill to repeal the Act abol-
ishing fee system in Southern Judicial Circuit. Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.
By Mr. Thomas of 3rdSenate Bill No. 216. A bill to amend Georgia
:\iotor Vehicle Law. Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Mr. Cone of 49thSenate Bill No. 226. A bill to substitute a Board
of Control of five members for different Boards of Trustees of University of Georgia.
Referred to Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches.
By Mr. Haralson of 40thSenate Bill No. 262. A bill to provide further re-

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921

gulation with regard to practice and procedure in the several courts of this State.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No. 1.

By Mr. Brown of 50th-
Senate Bill No. 277. A bill to amend an Act providing for the selection of banks in certain- Cities as State depositories so as to add City of Crawford.
Referred to Committee on Banks and Banking.

By Mr. Davidson of 23-
Senate Bill No. 291. A bill to repeal act creating Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Houston County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Davidson of 23-
Senate Bill Ko. 294. A bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Houston County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

M t. Speaker:The Senate has passed by the requisite constitu-
tional majority the following bills of the Senate:


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Senate Bill No. 308. To amend an Act to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Haralson County.
Senate Bill No. 221. To abolish the fees accruing to the office of Solicitor General in Criminal Cases in the Southern Judicial Circuit of this State.
The Senate has read and adopted the following Resolution of the House :
House Resolution No. 216. To correct error in Dougherty County Bill.
The Senate has passed by the requisite Constitutional majority the following bill of the Senate:
Senate Bill No. 236. To amend the Georgia Motor Vehicle Law.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:-
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the House:
House Bill No. 824. To amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish the City Court of Metter in the County of Candler," so as to provide that either party in any cost in court may have a trial by a Jury upon demand.
House Bill No. 766. A bill to amend Paragraph 1 Section 13 Article 6 in so far as said paragraph relates to the salary of the Judge of the Superior


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923

Court of the Judicial Circuit in which is located the County of Richmond.

House Bill No. 834. A bill to amend an Act to incorporate the town of Greensboro.

House Bill No. 809. To amend an Act to create the City Court of Claxton.
House Bill No. 792. To amend an Act to establish a City Court in the County of Houston.

House Bill No. 751. To amend Section 26 of an Act entitled ''An Act creating the City Court of Louisville.''
House Bill No. 781. To amend an Act providing for payment of cost in misdemeanor cases.
House Bill No. 860. To provide for extention of the Corporate limits of the City of Columbus.

The following message was received from the Sen~te, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:-

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bill:
Senate Bill No. 241. A bill for the rotation of Superior Court Judges in this State providing for their expenses.
Under orders of the day, the following bill of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on

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Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Bill No. 449. A bill to amend the Constitution so as to authorize the General Assembly to classify property for taxation and for other purposes.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the bill and all amendments be tabled and the motion was lost.

Mr. Williams of Walton moved the previous question and the motion was lost.
Mr. Hawkins of Washington moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following amendments were read and adopted:

By Mr. .Arnold of Clay-
Amend caption by striking therefrom the words ''and to authorize taxes to be imposed upon incomes, inheritances, privileges, and occupations which latter classes of taxes may be graduated and when levied, may contain provisions for reasonable exemptions.''
Amend Section 1 by striking all of said section and substituting in lieu thereof the following: ''Section 1. Be it enacted by authority of same, that paragraph one of Section 2 of Article 7 of the Con-

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stitution of the State of Georgia be and the same is hereby amended by adding. to said Section, the following words, towit: 'The General Assembly shall have the power to classify property for taxation and to adopt different rates and methods for different classes of property and to segregate different classes of property for State and local taxation.'' '

Amend Section 2 as follows: By striking the words beginning line 12 of printed bill, ''and authorizing imposing taxes upon incomes, inheritances, privileges and occupations'' and the words beginning in line 19 of printed bill, ''and authorizing imposing taxes upon incomes, inheritances, privileges and occupations."

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to as amended.
The bill involving a constitutional amendment the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows :

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

.Anderson .Arnold. .Atkinson Beckham Bleckley Bowden Boyett Braddy ,Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock

Bush Byrd of Crisp Car;,well Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of VVebster Clifton Collier Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe

Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Dykes Ennis Evans Folsom Fowler Gann Grant Gresham Griffith

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Greene Grovenstein Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Hillhouse Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway Horne Houser Hullender Hunter Hyman Jones of Coweta Johnson of Bartow J olmson of Pickens Keith Kennedy King of Jefferson King of Wilcox Kittrell Knight Lankford of Toombs

Lewis

Strickland

Luke

Sumner of Johnson

McClure

Swift

McDonald of

Tatum

Richmond Thomp8on of Coweta

)IcGarity

Thompson of Dodge

McMichael

Trippe

Maddox

Tyson

Malone

Valentino

Moore of Appling

Van Landingham

Moore of Fulton

VanZant

Nichols

Vocelle

Owen

Walker

Parrish

Wall

Penland

Watkins

Perkins

Webb

Peterson

Weston

Pickren

Whitaker of Lowndes

Pilcher

Whitaker of Rockdale

Quincey

Williams of Harris

Ramsey

Wimberly

Robinson

Winship

Russell

Woodard

Sibley

Worthy

Smiley

Wynne

Stone

Stovall

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Adams of Walton Baldwin Beck Bird of Taliaferro Bloodworth Bobo Boswell !Jowen Bozeman Brownlee Carr Corbitt Daniel of Troup Dei..aPerriere

Dickerson Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Ficklen Foy Franks Griffin Haddock Herring Hines of Decatur Houston Howard of Forsyth Howard of Screven Jackson

Jones of Thomas Johnson of
Chatta~oochee
Langford of Hall Logan McDonald of Mitchell Macintyre Manning Mason Mayo Miles Moye Neal of Union Parks

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Perryman Phillips of Jasper Price Pruett Reville Ricketson Riley Salmon

Sapp Shettlesworth Singletary Smith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether Steele

Sumner of Wheeler Way Whitley Whitworth Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wood Wyatt

Those not voting were essrs :

.Adams of Newton Bentley Blalock Boatwright Camp Coates Collins DeFoor Fletcher

Guess Gunnels Hamilton
Huf~tetler
Jones of Walker McClelland Mann Mixon Mundy

Patten Phillips of Telfair Reagan Rutherford Swindle Turner Mr. Speaker

Ayes 116, Nays 65.

The roll call was verified.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 116, Nays 65.
The bill having fa~led to receive the requisite con~ stitutional majority was lost.
Mr. Arnold of Clay gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 449.
Mr. Moore of Appling moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

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AFTERNOON SESSION.
3 o'Clock P. M.

The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
The following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Russell of Barrow-
House Resolution No. 221 (993A). A resolution providing for payment of expenses of joint committee on Board of Regents bill.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Wimberly of LaurensHouse Resolution No. 222 (993B). A resolution
to relieve the bondsmen of Alfred Conly.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Messrs. Whitworth of Madison and Dudley of Clarke-
House Bill No. 988. A bill to amend an act known as the appropriations act relative to pensioners.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.



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929

By Mr. Lankford of Toombs-
Honse Bill No. 989. A bill to provide for organization and taxation of incorporated mutual insurance companies.
Referred to Committee on Insurance.

By Messrs. Atkinson, Hunter and Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 990. A bill to provide for precinct voting in the County of Chatham.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.
. By Mr. Houston of GwinnettHouse Bill No. 991. A bill to amend section 2972
of Code of 1910, relative to habeas corpus. Referred to Comittee on General Judiciary No. 1.

By Mr. Hlouston of Gwinnett-
House Bill No. 992. A bill to amend section 4528 of Code of 1910, relative to notice of possession and title.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.1.

By Messrs. Ennis of Baldwin and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 993. A bill to authorize Board of Trustees of Georgia State Sanitarium to review committments.
Sig. 30

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Referred to Committee on Georgia State Sanitarium.
Mr. Foy of Taylor County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No.1, submitted the following report :
Mr. Speaker:-
y our Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, have had under consideration the following Bill and have instructed me as Vice-chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
Senate Bill No. 262.
C. W. Fox of Taylor,
Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:-
y our Committee on 'Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the folowing bills of the Senate and have instructed ~e as chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
Senate Bill No. 291
Senate Bill No. 294.
Respectfully submitted, RoBERT L. MoYE, Chariman.

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931

Mr. Moore of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education, submitted the following report:

J.lfr. Speaker:-
Yaur Committee on Education have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me as chairman, to report the same back to the House with .the recommendation that the same do pass as amended.
House Bill No. 931.
MooRE of Fulton,
Chairman.

Mr. Vocelle of Candler. County, Chairman of the Committee on Game and Fish, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on Game and Fish have had under

consideration the following bill of the House and

have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same

.

back to the House with the recommendation that the

same do pass as amended:

House Bill No. 861. JAMES VocELLE of Camden, Chairman.

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The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McCfatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:-
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the Hlouse.
House Bill No. 863. A bill to amend Section 6065 of the Code of 1910.
House Bill No. 575. A bill to change the name of the South Georgia State Normal College at Valdosta.
House Bill No. 652. A bill to authorize additional ways for counties having a population of over 150,000 to provide for the support of paupers, etc.
House Bill No. 650. A bill to authorize counties of over 150,000 population to provide for necessary public sanitation.
House Bill No. 587. A bill to prevent taxing of authorities of certain Counties of any advalorem tax in excess of 10 mills.
House Bill No. 747. A bill to repeal an Act to incorporate the City of Rex in the County of Clayton.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:-
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:
House Bill No. 899. A bill to amend the Charter of Cedartown.

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938

House Bill No. 854. A bill to amend an Act establishing and creating a new charter for the Town of Austell.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:-
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bill, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 195. A bill to rearrange the Tifton Judicial Circuit and the Cordele Judicial Circuit.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:-
The Senate has passed as amended by the requisite constitutional majority the following Resolution of House, to-wit:
House Resolution No. 203. A resolution creating a Coal Commission.
The following bills of the House, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Pickren of Charlton-
House Bill No. 861. A bill to require non-residents of Charlton County to procure licenses to fish in said County.

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By Mr. McMichael of Marion-

House Bill No. 931. A bill to amend Section 1 of Act establishing consolidated schools in each County of State.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted :

By Mr. Brownlee of Elbert-
House Resolution No. 223. A resolution extending the privileges of the floor to Messrs. Dr. C. F.
Herndon, Dr. D. N. Thompson, and "Y'f. E. Smith
The following resolution of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate amendment thereto:

By Messrs. Guess of DeKalb and Davis of Floyd-
House Resolution No. 203. A resolution to create a commission to regulate the distribution of coal within this State, and for other purposes.
The following amendment of the Senate was read and concurred in :
Amend by adding: ''That the' Railroad Commission may refuse to approve the furnishing of coal to anyone violating the provisions of this act or their order."
The following bills of the House, set as a special order by the Committee' on Rules, were read the third,time and placed upon their passage:

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935

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-

House Bill No. 862. A bill to require the studying of the Constitution of the United States and the State of Georgia in the public schools.
Mr. Fowler of Bibb moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The committee substitute was read and adopted.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 65 Nays 47.
The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.

Mr. Mundy of Polk moved that during the remainder of this afternoon's session individual speeches be limited to five minutes and the motion prevailed.

By Mr. Bowden of Ware-:-
House Bill No. 910. A bill to authorize the State Highway Department to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, and pay for, certain toll bridges etc.
The report of the Committee, which wa.s favorabl" to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
Mr. Valentino of Chatham moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.

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By Messrs. Bentley of Fulton, Fowler of Bibb, and others-
House Bill No. 622. A bill to regulate the operation of motor vehicles in Towns and Cities and for other purposes.

The following amendments were read and adopted:
By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
Amend Section 3 by adding to Section 3 at end of said Section the following: "Provided that this law shall not apply to Cities and Towns of less than twenty:thousand."

By Messrs. Hatcher and Perkins of Muscogee-
Amend by adding at end of Section 2 the following: ''Provided, that the terms of this Act shall not apply to any jitneys, motor vehicle or Bus Lines operating from a City to Military reservations or immediate suburb.''
Mr. Shettlesworth of Gwinnett moved that bill and amendments be tabled and the motion was lost.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 106 Nays 33.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

WEDNESDAY, AuousT 9, 1922.

93,7

By Mr. Reagan of HenryHouse Bill No. 626. A bill to amend and Act, to
annually in addition to the ad valorem tax on real and personal property as now required by laws, to levy and collect a tax for the support of the State Government and public institutions; for educat~onal purposes in instructing children in the elementary branches of an English education only; and for other purposes.
The following substitute was read and adopted:
By Mr. Reagan of Henry-

A BILL
To be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled ''An Act to annually, in addition to the ad valorem tax on real and personal property as now required by law to levy and collect a tax for the support of the State Government and public institutions; for educational purposes in instructing children in the elementary branches of an English education only; to pay the interest on the public debt; to pay maimed and indigent Confederate Soldiers and widows of Confederate soldiers such amounts as are allowed them by law; to pay the public debt when due; to prescribe what persons, corporations, professions, business and property are liable to taxation; to prescribe the methods of collecting and receiving certain of said taxes; to prescribe questions to be propounded to tax payers and to provide penalties for violations thereof; and to repeal conflicting laws.

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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same that the "1st" paragraph of Section Two (2) of the above recited Act be and the same is hereby amended in the following manner: By adding after the last words ''Vol. 1 of the Code of 1895" of said "1st" paragraph of said Section, the following words, to-wit:

Nor shall this tax be required or demanded of female inhabitants of the State who do not register for voting, so that said Section after being amended shall read as follows:-

. '..Section 2. Upon each and every inhabitant of ~he State between the ages of twenty-one and sixty J~ears on the days fixed for the return of property for taxation a poll tox of one ($1.00) dollar which shall be for educational purposes, in instructing children in the elementary branches of an English education only. Provid.ed this tax shall not be demanded of blind persons nor crippled, maimed or disabled Confederates relieved of such taxes under and by authority of Section 766, Vol. 1 of the Code of 1895, Nor shall this tax be required or demanded of female inhabitants of the State who do not register for voting.

Section 3. Provided further, That those female inhabitants who have heretofore registered may avail themselves of the benefits of this Act, and be relieved of said tax, by applying to the Tax Collector of their County, and have their names stricken from said Registration Book; and it shall be the duty of

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939

said Tax Collector to issue to such females who may apply to have their names so stricken a certificate, which certificate shall bear date when issued and shall give the name of such female, and state in substance that said named female has been stricken from the Registration Book, and is no longer a Registered Voter for that year.

Section 4. Provided further, That those female inhabitants whose names have, at any time, been stricken from said Registration Book, or those who have never registered, may register for the purpose of voting, and shall be required to pay a poll-tax for the year in which they may so register; and shall be required to pay a poll-tax for every succeeding year so long as their names remain on said Registration Book.

Section 5. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby repealed.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to by substitute.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 14.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.

Mr. Reagan of Henry moved that the bill be immediately transmitted to the Senate and the motion prevailed.

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Mr. Bowden of Ware moved that House Bill No. 910 be taken from the table; the motion prevailed, and the bill was placed upon the calendar.

Mr. Knight of Berrien moved that House Bill No. 377 be taken from the table and the motion was lost.

By Messrs. Houston of Gwinnett and Guess of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 18. A bill for quieting, perfecting and aiding land titles in this State and for other purposes.
Mr. Hlatcher of Muscogee moved that the bill, substitute and all amendments be tabled and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Knight of Berrien moved that the House reeonsider its action in ordering House Bill No. 622 immediately transmitted to the Senate.
.On this motion Mr. wyatt of Troup moved the previous question.
Mr. Bentley of Fulton moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.
The motion for the previous question was lost.
Mr. Hatcher of Burke moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The motion that the House reconsider its action in ordering House Bill No. 622 immediately transmitted to the Senate prevailed.

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941

Mr. Arnold of Clay gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the Hause reconsider its action in passing House Bill No. 622.
Mr. Foy of Taylor moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

Thursday, August 10, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M., was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Canwell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins l'orhitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dud!Py Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis E\ans

Ficklen
. Fletcher
Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring , Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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943

Borne

~layo

Houser

Miles

Houston

::\lixon

Howard of Forsyth ~loore of Appling

Howard of Screven ::\1oore of Fulton

Hufstetler

Moye

Hullender

Mundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of Walker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

PhillipR of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

McClelland

Riley

McClure

Hobinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

McDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

::\lcGarity

Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

Mc~lichael

Sibley

::\laddox

::-lingletary

Malone

~miley

Mann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone ::-ltovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler ::-lwift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Yan Landingham Yan Zant Yocelle Walker Wall "'atkins Way Webb Weston Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale \Vhitworth \Yilliams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship \Yood \Yoodard \Yorthy Wyatt Wynne Mr. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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By unanimous consent the following was established as the order of business during the thirty minutes period of unanimous consents:

1. Introduction of New Matter under the Rules.

2. Reports of Standing Committees..

:-t Reading of House and Senate bills and reso-
lutions, favorably reported, the second time.

4. Passage of uncontested local House and Senate bills and uncontested general House and Senate bills having a local application.

5. First reading of Senate bills and resolutions.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees:

By Messrs. DeLaPerriere and Swindle of Jackson-
House Bill No. 994. A bill to abolish the Jefferson City Court.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Braddy of Glascock-
Honse Bill No. 995. A bill to repeal an Act to create a Commissioner of Roads and Revenues for Glascock County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

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By Mr. McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 996. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the Town of Decatur.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Stone of J e:ff Davis-
House Bill No. 997. A bill to repeal an Act to create Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for J e:ff Davis County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

By Mr. Wimberly of Laurens-
House Resolution No. 224 (996.A). A resolution to relieve the bondsmen on bond of E. P. Woodward.
Referred to General Judiciary Committee No. 1.
Mr. DuBose of Clarke County, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following bills and resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 948. Do not pass. House Bill No. 946. Do not pass.

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House Bill No. 985. Do not pass. House Bill No. 943. Do not pass. House Bill No. 982. Do pass as amended. House Resolution No. 167. Do pass.
Respectfully submitted,

DuBosE of Clarke, Chairman.

::VIr. Lankford of Toombs County, Chairman of the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Amendments to the Constitution have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have i~structed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 923. Do pass. House Bill No. 922. Do pass. House Bill No. 940. Do pass. House Bill No. 337. Do pass~
LANKFORD of Toombs,
Chairman.

Mr. Gunnels of Fratrklin County, Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics, submitted the following report:

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947

Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics have had under consideration the following bill of the House an? have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

House Bill No. 986. Do pass.

GuNNELS of Franklin,

Chairman.

Mr. C. W. Foy of Taylor County, Vice-Chairman of the committee on General Judiciary No. 1, submitted the following report:
1U1. Speaker :
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 have had under consideration the following resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Resolution No. 222.
C. W. FoY of Taylor,
Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Perryman of Talbot County, Chairman of the Committee on Penitentiary, submitted the following report:

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iltlr. Speaker :
Your Committee on Penitentiary have had under consideration the following bill of the Hous~ and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do not pass :
House Bill No. 878.
PERRYMAN of Talbot,
Chairman.

Mr. Boyett of Stewart County, Chairman of the Committee on Pensions, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Commitee on Pensions have had under consideration the following bill and r~solutions of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 735. House Resoluion No. 137. House Resolution No. 179.
MR. BoYETT of Stewart,
Chairman.

Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report:

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949

Mr. Speake1:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same_ back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :

House Bill No. 984.

PicKREN of Charlton, Chairman.

Mr. Walter R. McDonald of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 762.
House Bill No. 981.
McDoNALD of Richmond,
Chairman.

Mr. Hullender of Catoosa, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on Enrollment has examined, found properly enrolled, duly signed and ready for . delivery to the Governor, the following Acts and resolutions, to-wit:
House Bill No. 841. An Act to create the City Court of Lyons.
House Bill No. 779. An Act to amend Act providing for holding four terms of Superior Court of Stephens County.
House Bill No. 474. An Act to amend Act establishing a Normal and Industrial School, so as to change name of said school.
House Bill No. 801. An Act to amend Section 1249 of Code of 1910, relative to State Depositories.
House Bill No. 840. An Act to abolish the City Court of Toombs County.
House Bill No. 854. An Act to amend Act creating City Court of Sandersville.
House Bill No. 863. An Act to amend Section 1065 of Civil Code of 1910, relative to official organs.
House Resolution No. 203. An Act providing for appointment of Commission to regulate distribution of coal within State.
House Bill No. 587. An Act to prohibit levying or collection by authorities of certain counties of taxes to build jails, etc.

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Hou~ Bill No. 650. .An Act to authorize counties of certain populations to provide for public sanitation.

House Bill No. 575. An Act to change the name of the South Georgia State Normal College at Valdosta.

House Bill No. 845. An .Act to amend an Act establishing a new charter for the Town of Austell.

House Bill No. 652. An Act to authorize additional way~ whereby counties of certain populations may provide for support of paupers.
House Bill No. 747. An Act to repeal an Act to incorporate the City of Rex, Clayton County.
House Bill No. 899. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Cedartown.
Respectfully submitted,
HULLENDER of Catoosa,
Chairman.

By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:



By Messrs. Boatwright and Brown of Emanuel-

House Resolution No. 167 (762C). A resolution to relieve the sureties on bond of J. B. Hall, Tax Collector of Emanuel County.

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By Messrs. Branch of Turner and Costes of Pulaski-
House Resolution No. 137 (669A). A resolution to restore T. D. Davis to the pension roll.

By Mr. Sapp of Whitfield-
House Resolution No. 179 (806A). A resolution to pay pension to Mrs. Elizabeth Arnold, widow of Martin Arnold.

By Mr. Wimberly of Laurens-
House Resolution No. 222 (993B). A resolution to relieve bondsmen of Alfred Conly.

By Mr. Haralson of the 20th-
Senate Bill No. 262. A bill to provide regulation of procedure and practice in several courts of State.

By Mr. Davidson of the 23rd__:_
Senate Bill No. 291. A bill to repeal an Act creating the Board of Commissioners of Houston County.

By Mr. Davidson of the 23rd-
Senate Bill No. 294. A bill to create a Board of County Commissioners for Houston County.

By Mr. Pruett of Lumpkin-



House Bill No. 337. A bill to amend Article 7, Section 1, Paragraph 1 of the Constitution relative to public roads and bridges.

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953

By Mr. Fowler of Bibb-
House Bill No. 735. A bill to place Elliott S. Hicks on pension roll.

By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 762. A bill to amend an Act creating the Municipal Court of Atlanta.

By Mr. Perryman of Talbot-
House Bill No. 922. A bill to create a Bond Commission for State to issue highway bonds.

By Mr. Perryman of Talbot-
House Bill No. 923. A bill to amend Article 7 of the Constitution relative to issuance of highway bonds.

By Messrs. McDonald, Pilcher and Reville of Richmond-
House Bill No. 981. A bill to amend an Act relative to Augusta Judicial Circuit.

By Mr. DuBose of Clarke--

H1ouse Bill No. 982. A bill to amend an Act rela-

tive to Georgia Training School for Mental Defee-

. tives.



By Messrs. Bowden and Blalock of Ware-
House Bill No. 986. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Waycross.

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The following bills of the House were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Boyett of Stewart-
House Bill No. 967. A bill to create a new charter for the City of Richland.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pass:age of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Ficklen and Bobo of Wilkes-
House Bill No. 951. A bill to establish Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Wilkes County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 133, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was ,passed.

By Messrs. Guess, McClelland, and Steele of DeKalb--
House Bill No. 968. A bill to create and establish the City Court of Decatur.

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The report of the Committee, which was favorabie to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite cons.titutional majority was .passed.

By Mr. Wood of Twiggs-
Honse Bill No. 963. A bill to establish a new charter for Town of Danville.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 135, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was .passed.

By Mr. Pickren of Charlton-
House Bill No. 861. A hili to require non-residents of Charlton County to procure a license to fish in the waters of said County, and for other purposes.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend Section 2 by inserting between the word "license" in the 7th line of said Section, and the word "nothing" in the 7th line of said Section, the following language: ''Provided, that bona :tid~ nonresident members of fishing clubs which are now

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established and own property in said Charlton County, shall be required to pay said Warden the sum of three ($3.00) dollars only, for said license provided for in this Section.''

Amend Section 4 by adding at the end of said Section the following language: ''Provided, that bona fide non-resident members of fishing clubs which are now established and own property in said Charlton County, shall be permitted to fish six consecutive days in each month during said closed season.''

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 145, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Macintyre of Thomas-
Hlouse Bill No. 973. A bill to repeal in part and amend an Act incorporating Town of Cooledge.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By M:r;-. Davis of Oglethorpe-
House Bill No. 892. A bill to establish a State Depository at Crawford.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 133, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Gunnells of Franklin and Mason of Hart-
House Bill No. 966. A bill to amend an Act authorizing the City of Canon to establish and maintain a system of Public Schools, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 136, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Van Zant of Fannin-
House Bill No. 965. A bill to amend an Act to amend the several Acts incorporating the Town of McCaysville.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 132, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Gunnells of Franklin and Mason of Hart-
House Bill No. 969. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Canon.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the pasHage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passag~ of the bill the Ayes were 135, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite cons.titutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Van Landingham of Seminole-
House Bill No. 970. A bill to amend charter of Town of Donaldsonville.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 140, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following bills of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the committees:

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By Mr. Williams of 45th-

Senate Bill No. 195. A bill to rearrange the Tifton Judicial Circuit.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Snow of 27th-
Senate Bill No. 221. A bill to abolish fees of Solicitor-General from criminal cases in Southern Judicial Circuit and provide salary for said offic~.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. Wall of 5th-
Senate Bill No. 236. A bill to amend the Georgia Motor Vehicle Law.
Referred to Committee on Public Highways.

By Messrs. Lassiter of 14th and Thomas of 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 241. A bill for the rotation of Superior Court Judges and providing for their expenses.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Mr. Hutchens of 38th-
Senate Bill No. 308. A bill to amend an Act amending an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Haralson County.
Referred to Committee on Counties and County Matters.

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Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 449, the motion prevailed, and the bill went to the end of the calendar.
Mr. Mundy of Polk moved that during the remainder of the sess.ion, unless otherwise provided by the House, individual speeches during the morning sessions be limited to 10 minutes, and the motion prevailed .

.Mr. McClelland of DeKalb moved that the House reconsider its action in passing House Bill No. 226.
On this motion Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The motion that the House reconsider its action in passing House Bill No.. 226 prevailed, and the bill went to the end of the calendar.

By Mr. Hunter of Chatham-

House Bill No. 885. A bill to authorize and empower towns, cities and counties of the State to appropriate money to the State Sanatorium for Tubercular Patients, and for other purposes.

The repo.rt of the C<>mmittee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 141,

Nays 2.



The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority wa.s passed.

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By Mr. Williams of Harris-
House Bill No. 796. A bill to amend an Act to reorganize State Highway Department relative to Federal Aid Roads.
The following committee substitute was read and adopted:

By Mr. Williams of Walton-
An Act to amend an Act entitled ''An Act to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department of Georgia, and to prescribe the duties and powers thereof. To create a system of State Aid Roads and provide for the designation, maintenance, improvement and construction of the same. To create and provide for a State Aid Road and for the control and management thereof; to provide for the paving of said State Aid Roads by the State, or cooperation with the county or with the United States Government; to provide for assistance to counties upon the public roads thereof and in retiring county road bonds, to assent to the provisions of the Act of Congress, approved July 11, 1916, known as the "Act to provide that the United States shall aid the State in the construction of rural post roads and for other purposes ;'' to provide the right to condemn property for State Aid Roads in certain cases; to provide for a change in the manner of the selection of the Chairman and other members of the Board, and for other p)lrposes.''
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by
Sig. 31

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authority of the same, That provision 3, Section 2, of Article 5 on page 249, Georgia Laws of 1919, and amendments thereto, Acts 1912, page 200, be amended by striking out the figures and words in lines 2 and 3, Paragraph 2, Section 1, Acts 1921, page 200: ''And inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures 5,500 miles and inserting in lieu thereof ''Not to exceed 7 per centum of the total highway mileage of said State,'' and by adding the following provision, to-wit: ''The said Highway Department may have the right to construct and maintain State Aid Roads in and through towns of not more than twenty-five hundred population.''

Section 2. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

The following committee amendment to the above substitute was read and adopted:

Amend Section 1 by adding thereto the following: "Provided that nothing contained in said provision shall be construed as effecting the present State aid mileage of 5,500 miles.''

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 129, Nays 5.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute as amended.

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By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to tlte Senate.

By Messrs. Moore, Bentley and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 592. A bill to amend the Constitution so as to authorize various counties to abolish fees of certain county offices and to provide salaries in lieu thereof.
The following committee substitute was read and adopted:
AN ACT To amend Article 11, Section 3, Paragraph 1, of the
Constitution of this State, so as to authorize the General Assembly to consolidate the offices of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver: To abolish the fees accruing to the Ordinary, Clerk of the Superior Court, Sheriff, Tax Collector, Tax Receiver, Solicitor and other officers of any City or County Court, and any other officers having charge of the transaction of county matters in any county in this State: To prescribe salaries and expenses in lieu thereof, sources of payment and levy of tax therefor: To provide what disposition shall be made of fees accruing to said offices: When approved by the voters of such county or counties; and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That Article 11, Section 3,

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Paragraph 1, of the Constitution of Georgia, which is as follows :
''Whatever tribunal, or officers, may hereafter be created by the General Assembly, for the transaction of County matters, shall be uniform throughout the State, and of the same name, jurisdiction and remedies, except that the General Assembly may provide for the appointment of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in any County, and may abolish the office of County Treasurer in any County, or fix the compensation of County Treasurer and such compensation may be fixed without regard to uniformity of such compensation in the various Counties,'' be amended by inserting in said paragraph the following words, "May consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector in any County,'' following the words thereof ''Except that the General Assembly may provide for the appointment of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in any County," and by adding at the end of said paragraph the words ''And except that the General Assembly may in any County, by general or special laws, abolish the fees accruing to the Ordinary, Clerk of the Superior Court, Sheriff, Tax Collector, Tax Receiver, Solicitor and other officers of any City or County Court, and any other officers having charge of the transaction of County matters, and in lieu thereof prescribe salaries and sources of payment thereof for such officers, their deputies and assistants, and provide for clerical and other expenses of such officers and for levy of such purposes of a tax additional to other taxes, and provide what disposition shall be made of

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the fees accruing to such offices, all without regard to the uniformity of such compensation or methods or sources of payments thereof in the various counties; provided that no such legislation with respect to abolishment of fees and prescribing of salaries and expenses shall operate so as to affect the compensation of any official during the term of office for which he may have been elected prior to approval and adoption of this Act by the voters of the County to be affected as hereinafter provided; (and, provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to work a forfeiture of the accrued legal fees due the respective officers herein affected up to the time of said approval and adoption of the same by each County as affected,) nor shall be effective in any County until a majority of qualified voters thereof who vote at a regular election or a special election called for that purpose and held in such manner as may be, by general or special law, prescribed by the General Assembly, shall approve and vote for the same," so that the said paragraph when so amended will read as follows, to-wit:
"Whatever tribunal, or officers, may hereafter be created by the General Assembly, for the transaction of County matters, shall be uniform throughout the State, and of the same name, jurisdiction and remedies, except that the General Assembly may provide for the appointment of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in any County, may consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector in any County, and may abolish the office of County T!easurer in any County, or fix the compensation of County

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Treasurer and such compensation may be fixed without regard to the uniformity of such compensation in: various Counties; and except that the General Assembly may in any County, by general or special laws, abolish the fees accruing to the Ordinary, Clerk of the Superior Court, Sheriff, Tax Collector, Tax Receiver, Solicitor and other officers of any City or County Court, and any other officers having charge of the transaction of County matters, and in lieu thereof prescribe salaries and sources of payment thereof for such officers, their deputies and assistants, and provide for clerical and other expenses of such officers and for levy for such purposes of a tax additional to other taxes, and provide what disposition shall be made of the fees accruing to such offices, all without regard to the uniformity of such compensation or methods or sources of payments thereof in the various Counties; provided that no such legislation with respect to abolishment of fees and prescribing of salaries and expenses shall operate so as to affect the compensation of any official during the term of office for which he may have been elected prior to approval and adoption of this Act by the voters of the County to be affected as hereinafter provided; (and, provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to work a forfeiture of the accrued legal fees due the respective officers herein affected up to the time of said approval and adoption of the same by each County as affected,) nor shall be effective in any County until a majority of qualified voters thereof who vote at a regular election or a special election called for that purpose, and held

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in such manner as may be, by general or special law, prescribed by the General Assembly, shall approve and vote for the same.''
.
. Section 2. Be it further enacted, by th~ authority aforesaid, That if this amendment shall be agreed to by two-thirds vote of the members of the General Assembly of each House, the same shall be entered upon their journals, with the yeas and nays taken thereon, arid the Governor shall cause the amendment to be published in one or more of the newspapers in each congressional district, for two months previous to the time of holding the next general election, and the same shall be submitted to the people at the next general election, and the voters thereat shall have written or printed on their ballots ''For ratification of amendment to Article 11, Section 3, Paragraph 1, of the Constitution of this State, authorizing the abolishment of fees accruing to County officers and the substitution of salaries in lieu thereof and the consolidation of the offices of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver,'' or ''Against ratification of Article 11, Section 3, Paragraph 1, of the Constitution of this State, authorizing the abolishment of fees accruing to County officers and the substitution of salaries in lieu thereof and the consolidation of the offices of Ta.x Collector and Tax Receiver,'' as they ma.y choose, and if the people shall ratify such amendment by a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, voting therein, as shown by consolidation thereof and returns made, as provided hy law, then said amend-

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ment shall be and become a part of said Article 11, Section 3, Paragraph 1, of the Constitution of this State, and the Governor shall make proclamation thereof.

Section 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with the Act be and the same are, hereby repealed.

The following amendments to the committee substitute were read and ad~pted:

By Mr. Fowler of Bibb-

Amend by striking the following language wherever it appears in the bill: "and, provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed to work a forfeiture of the accrued legal fees due the respective officers herein affected up to the time of said approval and adoption of the same by each County as affected.''
By adding after the word ''County'' in line 21 of Section 1 the following ''having a population according to the census of 1920 of not less than 42,500;'' and by adding the words "42,500" after the word ''County'' in line three of page three of said substitute.
1\ir. Hawkins of vVashington moved the previous
question.
Mr. Wyatt moved that the bill, substitute and all amendments be tabled, and the motion was lost.

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The motion for the previous question prevailed and the main question was ordered.
:Mr. McMichael of :Marion moved that the House reconsider its action in ordering the main question and the motion was lost.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute as amended, was agreed to as amended.
The bill involving a constitutional amendment the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows :

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Arnold Atkinson Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Bleckley Bloodworth Boswell Bowen Boyett Bozeman Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Bush Carr Carswell Clark of Webster Cowart Culpepper Davis of Floyd DeFoor DeLaPerriere

Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dykes Ennis Evans Folsom Fowler Gann Gresham Griffin Grovenstein Guess Haddock Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Herring Hillhouse Hodges Holloway Horne Houser Howard of Forsyth

Howard of Screven Hufstetler Hullender Hunter Hyman Jackson Jones of Coweta Jones of Thomas Johnson of Bartow Johnson of
Chattahoochee Keith Kennedy King of Jefferson King of Wilcox Kittrell Knight Lankford of Toombs Lewis Luke ::\IcCielland ::\IcClure ::\IcDonald of Mitc-yn ::\IcGarity Macintyre

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Mc::llichael l\laddox Malone Mason Mayo Miles :Moore of Appling l\Ioore of Fulton l\Ioy<' Mundy Nichols Owen Parks "Parrish Patten Perkins Perryman Peterson Phillips of Jasper Pruett

Reagan Robinson Rutherford Salmon Sapp Shettlesworth Sibley Singletary Smiley Rmith of Bryan Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone ::Stovall Striekland Sumner of Johnson Swift Tatum Thompson of Coweta

Trippt Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham Vocelle Wall \Yay Webb Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Walton Winship Woodard Worthy \Vynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Anderson Beck Bobo Bowden Braddy Branch Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Camp Childs Clark of Colquitt Clifton Coates Collier Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Da,is of Oglethorpe Duncan of Dawson Du~an of Hall

Ficklen

Pickren

Fletcher

Pilcher

Foy

Price

Franks

Quincey

Grant

Ramsey

Griffith

Reville

Greene

Ricketson

Harris

Riley

Hender~on

Smith of Carroll

Hines of Decatur

Sumner of Wheeler

Holland

Thompson of Dodge ,

Houston

VanZant

Johnson of Pickens \Yalker

Langford of Hall

Williams of Miller

McDonald of

\Yimberly

Richmond ""ood

slanning

Wyatt

Neal of Union

Penland

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Those not voting were Messrs :

Baldwin Bentley Blalock Boatwright Collins Corbitt Dudley

Gunnels Hamilton Hines of Sumter Jones of ,Walker Logan Mann Mixon

Phillips of Telfair Russell Swindle Watkins Weston Mr. Speaker

Ayes 133, Nays 54.
The roll call was verified.
On the passage of the bill the .Ajyes were 133, Nays 54.
The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.
Mr. Moore of Fulton gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 592.
By unanimous consent when the House adjourn it will stand adjourned until this afternoon at 3 :30 o'clock.
Mr. McDonald of Richmond moved that the House do now adjourn, and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 :30 o'clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION'
3 o'Clock P. M. The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.

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By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
The following bills of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill Ko. 998. A bill to appropriate additional money to State Board of Entomology.
Referred to Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means.

By Mr. Singletary of Grady-
House Bill No. 999. A bill to amend an Act creating the City Court of Cairo.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.

By Mr. McDonald of Richmond-
House Resolution No. 225 (998A). A resolution to establish library for Judge of Federal Court, Southern District.
Referred to Committee on Special Judiciary.
Mr. Guess of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, submitted the following report :

Mr. Speaker :
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chair-

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man, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 987. Senate Bill No. 84.
CARL N. GuEss, Chairman.

}Ir. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on :Municipal Corporations, submitted the following report:

JJ; r. Speaker:
Your Committee on ~lunicipal Corporations have had under consideration the following bill of the H'ouse and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pas' s:
House Bill :No. 990.
SMITH of 2\leriwether,
Chairman.

Mr. ;\Ioye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and Count~- Matters, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following bills of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

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House Bill No. 995. House Bill No. 983. House Bill No. 972, as amended. House Bill No. 980. House Bill No. 997.
Respectfully submitted,
RoBERT L. MoYE, Chairman.

Mr. Ennis of Baldwin County, Chairman of the Committee on Georgia State Sanitarium, submitted the following report:
Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on . Georgia State Sanitarium have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 993.
Respectfully submitted,
ENNis of Baldwin,
Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through :Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:
Mr. Speaker: The Senate has concurred in House amendments

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Nos. 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 9, 9A and 1Q to Senate Bill No. 7, a bill known as the Australian Ballot Bill.
The Senate has. disagreed to the House amendments Nos. 7 and 8 to abo~e bill.
The President appoints as a Conference Committee on the part of the Senate:

Messrs. Jones of 37th, Nix of 51st, and Jackson of 21st.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, tbe Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate bill, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 252. A bill to require the posting of rates in hotels and to place the inspection of hotels under the supervision of the State Board of Health.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of Senate:
Senate Bill No. 240. A bill to amend Section 2820 of the Civil Code of Georgia of 1910, relative to the increase of the capital stock of trust companies, b~~ providing that the capital stock of such companies

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shall not be limited '.'to a sum not exceeding two million dollars.''

Senate Bill No. 250. A.bill relative to payment of poll taxes.
By unanimous consent, the following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Clifton of Lee-
House Bill No. 972. A bill to amend an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Lee County:

By Mr. Bush of Lamar-
House Bill No. 980. A bill to amend an Act to create a Board of Commissioners for Lamar County.

By Messrs. Dobbs and Gann of Cobb-
House Bill :Ko. 983. A bill to repeal an Act creating a Board of Commissioners for Cobb County.

By Messrs. Harris and King of .Jefferson-
House Bill Xo. ~)87. A bill to amend an Act creating the City Court of Louisville.

By Messrs. Atkinson, Hunter and Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 990. A bill to provide for precinct voting in Chatham County.

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By i\lessrs. Ennis of Baldwin and Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 993. A bill to authorize Trustees of Georgia State Sanitarium to review commitments.

By Messrs. Weaver of the 11th and Aiken of the . 4th-
Senate Bill No. 84. A bill to permit all corporations incorporated by Secretary of State, except insurance, banking and trust companies, to increase capital stock.
-The following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Swift of Elbert-
House Resolution No. 160. A resolution appropriating money to pay expense of ){ansion Leasing Committee.
The resolution involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Tatum of Dade as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the resolution back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.

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The resolution involving an appropriation, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs :

Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Baldwin Beck Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Bleckley Bloodworth Bobo Boswell Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Webster Collier Cowart Culpepper Davis of Floyd Da\is of Oglethorpe Dickerson Dobbs Dykes Ennis Ficklen Folsom Foy Franks

Gann

Macintyre

Grant

McMichael

Gresham

Maddox

Griffin

Malone

Greene

Mason

Grovenstein

Mayo

Gunnels

Miles

Haddock

}loore of Appling

Hawkins

Moore of Fulton

Henderson

::\Ioye

Herring

Mundy

Hodges Holland

Neal of Union Owen



Holloway

Parks

Horne

Parrish

Howard of Forsyth Patten

Hullender

Penland

lfnnter

Perryman

Hyman

Peterson

Jones of Coweta

PhillipR of Jasper

Jones of Thomas

Phillips of Telfair

Johnson of Bartow Pilcher

,Johnson of

Price

Chattahoochee Pruett

Johnson of Pickens Ramsey

Keith

Reville

Kennedy

Ricketson

King of Jefferson

Riley

King of Wilcox

Robinson

Kittrell

Russell

Knight

Rutherford

Lankford of Toombs Salmon

LPwis

Sapp

Logan

Shettlesworth

:\IcC l u r e

Sibley

McDonald of Mitchell Smith of Carroll

:\IcDonald of

Smith of Haralson

Richmond Smith of ~'!eriwether

:\IcGarity

Steele

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Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Wheeler Swift Tatum Thompson of Coweta Turner Tyson

Valentino VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Way Webb Weston Whitaker of Lowndes

Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Hillhouse Howard of Screven

Luke

Smith of Bryan

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Atkinson Bentley Blalock Boatwright Bowden Bowen Camp Clark of Colquitt Clifton Coates Collins Corbitt Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dixon DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson

Duncan of Hall

Mixon

Evans

Nichols

Fletcher

Perkins

Fowler

Pickren

Griffith

Quincey

Guess

Reagan

Hamilton

Singletary

Harris

Smiley

Hatcher of Burke

Sumner of Johnson

Hatcher of Muscogee Swindle

Hines of Decatur

Thompson of Dodge

Hines of Sumter

Trippe

Houser

Van Landingham

Houston

\:Vatkins

Hufstetler

Whitley

Jackson

Whitaker of Rockdale

,Jones of Walker

Whitworth

Langford of Hall

Williams of Walton

McClelland

Wynne

~Iann

lfr. Speaker

~ianning

Ayes 141, Nays 4.
By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

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On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 141, Xays 4.

The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By 1\Ie.ssrs. Hamilton, Davis and Salmon of Floyd-
House Bill No. 467. A bill to authorize the Insurance CommisRion to appoint an assistant fire inspector.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, 1\ays :21.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was, passed.

By Mr. Williams of 45thSenate Bill No. 270. A bill amending Code of
1910 relative to the establishment, maintenance, and operation of ferries over streams dividing one or more counties.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Xays 17.
The bill having received the requisite eonstitutional majority was passed.
Mr. ~fundy of Polk moved that when the House

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adjourn it stand adjourned until to-night at 8 :00 o'clock.

Mr. McMichael of Marion moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until to-morrow morning at 8:30 o'clock.

Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson moved that the House do now adjourn, and the motion was lost.
The motion that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until to-morrow morning at 8 :30 o'clock was lost.
The motion that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until to-night at 8:00 o'clock was lost.

By Mr. Woodard of Cook-
House Bill No. 869. A bill to amend Code of 1910 relative to the laying out and opening of public roads.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 111, Nays 2.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Valentino of Chatham and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 569. A bill to amend Tax Act of 1921 as to bill boards.

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The following committee substitute was read and adopted:

A BILL
To be entitled an Act to amend the General Tax Act of 1921, providing annually in addition to the ad valorem tax on real and personal property as now required by law to levy and collect a tax for the support of the State Government and public institutions, approved August 15, 1921, by striking from the fourth paragraph of Section two of said Act all following the word "sold" appearing as the second word in the seventh line of said paragraph four of said Section two, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: ''In each county where located, fifty cents a location.''
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, paragraph four of section two of the General Tax Act approved August 15, 1921, be and the same is hereby amended by striking from said section all appearing after the word ''sold'' the second word in the seventh line of said paragraph, and inserting in lieu thereof the following:
''In each county where located, fifty cents for each location," so that when amended said section shall read:
"4th. Advertising. Upon each person, firm or corporation conducting the busine!'ls of an advertis-

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ing agency, using other means than billboards, $50.00; upon each person, firm or corporation conducting the business of advertising by signs painted, pasted or printed on bill boards or other places where space is leased, rented or sold, in each county where located, fifty cents for each location," and a location is defined to be 75 lineal feet or a fractional part thereof, and proviiled further that before painting or posting such locations or fractional part thereof it shall be the duty of the person or persons so advertising to register with the 10rdinary and Tax Collector of said county as required by hiw, and in case of any increase of advertising the Ordinary shall in each instance be notified as to the number of locations.

Section 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be and the same are hereby repealed.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 123, Nays 4.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.
Mr. McMichael of }!arion moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until to-morrow morning at 8 :30 o'clock.
Mr. Wyatt of T'roup moved that the House do now adjourn, and the motion prevailed.

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Leave of absence was granted Mr. Langford of Hall.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 9:00 o'clock.

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REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.,

FRIDAY, AuGusT 11TH, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A.M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
The following bills of the House were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the Committees:

By Mr. King of Wilcox-
House Bill No. 1000. A bill to amend an Act to incorporate the Town of Abbeville.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.
By .Mr. King of WilcoxHouse Bill No. 1001. A bill to amend an Act to
incorporate the Town of Abbeville. Referred to Committee on Corporations. The following message was received from the
Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has concurred in House Amendments to the following Senate Bill:
Senate Bill No. 253. A bill for the protection of furbearing animals in Georgia.
The following message was receivd from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the House, to-wit:
House Bill No. 903. A bill to create a new charter for City of. Eastman.
House Bill No. 857. A bill to amend the charter of City of Savannah.
House Bill No. 888. A bill to fix salary of Treasurer of Pulaski County.
House Bill No. 617. A bill to fix compensation of Jury Commissioners.
House Bill No. 886. A bill to amend an Act to create Commissioners for Pulaski County.
House Bill No. 934. A bill to fix salary of Solicitor of Augusta Circuit.
House Bill No. 823. A bill to fix compensation for Bailiffs.

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House Bill No. 914. A bill granting authority to Mayor and Council of Sandersville.
House Bill No. 906. A bill to amend charter of City of Washington.
House Bill No. 884. A bill to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Morgan County.
House Bill No. 758. A bill to amend charter of College Park, Georgia.

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following resolution of the House, to-wit.
House Resolution No. 204. A resolution for the election of more than one member of Board of Commissioners of Jones County.
Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker: Your Committee on Counties and County Matters
have had under consideration the following bills of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the sam~ back to the House with the followingrecommendations:
Senate Bill No. 278. Do pass as amnded. Senate Bill No. 280. Do not pass.
Respectfully submitted, RoBERT L. MoYE, Chairman.

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Mr. Turner of Brooks County, Chairman of the Committee on Public Highways, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on P:ublic Highways have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

House Bill No. 971. Senate Bill No. 216.
TuRNER of Brooks, Chairman.

Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

House Bill No. 996.

PICKRE~ of Charlton, Chairman.

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Mr. Hullender, of Catoosa, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the following report:

1llr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Enrollment has examined, found properly enrolled, duly signed, and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following Acts and Resolutions of the House, to-wit:
House Bill No. 886. An Act to amend Act creating the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Pulaski County.
House Bill No. 884. An Act to amend an Act creating Board of Commissioners for Morgan County.
House Bill No. 906. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Washington.
House Bill No. 914. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Sandersville.
House Bill No. 934. An Act to amend Act fixing salary of Solicitor-General of Augusta Judicial circuit.
House Resolution No. 204. A resolution for election of additional members of Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Jones County.
House Bill No. 617. An Act to fix the compensation of Jury Commissianers in certain counties.

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House Bill No. 823. An Act to fix compensation of bailiffs in certain courts.

House Bill No. 888. An Act to amend an Act fixing salary of the Treasurer of Pulaski County.

Respectfully submitted,

HULLENDER of Catoosa,

Chairman.

The following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the Committees, were read for the second time:
By Messrs. Langford and Duncan of Hall-
House Bill No. 971. A bill to regulate the running of automobiles and the use of cut-outs.
By Mr. Braddy of GlascockHonse Bill No. 995. A bill to repeal an Act estab-
lishing Commissioners for Glascock County.
By Mr. McClelland of DeKalbHouse Bill No. 996. A bill to amend an Act creat-
ing a new charter for the Town of Decatur.
By Mr. Stone of J e:ff DavisHouse Bill No. 997. A bill to repeal an Act creat-
ing a Board of Commissioners for J e:ff Davis County.

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By Mr. Thomas of the 3rd-

Senate Bill No. 216. A bill to amend the Georgia Motor Vehicle Law.

By Mr. Sheffield of the 9th-
Senate Bill No. 278. A bill to amend Act creating Board of. Commissioners for Early County.
The following bills of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:
By Mr. Clifton of Lee-
House Bill No. 972. A bill to amend an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Lee.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend House Bill No. 972 by striking therefrom the following paragraph:
''That said Board of Commissioners to be elected as provided herein, shall promptly elect a Chairman from their number, who shall be paid a salary of one Hundred dollars per annum, and the other four members of the Board shall be paid a salary of sixty dollars per annum; and a clerk shall be elected who shall be paid at the rate of three hundred dollars per year as his salary,'' and by inserting in lieu and instead thereof the following paragraph:

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''That the ballot to be used in the General Election in Lee County, in 1922, shall have a blank line thereon, preceded by the words ''For Chairman, County Commissioners,'' and the voters voting may write on their ballot the name of the candidate for County Commissioner in said election whom they desire to be Chairman of said Board of Roads and Revenues; and the candidate for County Commissioner who is elected Commissioner in said election, and who also receives the largest number of votes for Chairman in said election shall be Chairman of the Board of Roads and Revenues, as herein provided. That said Chairman shall devote his entire time, attention and service to Lee County and its affairs, as the agent of said Board of Roads and Revenues, and shall act as the purchasing agent of said Board of Roads and Revenues, and shall be paid a salary aij the rate of Eighteen Hundred ($1,800.00) dollars per year; provided, that said Chairman shall at all times be under the jurisdiction of, and be amenable to the said Board of Roads and Revenues. That the other four members of said Board of Roads and Revenues shall each be paid a salary of Sixty Dollars per annum; and a clerk shall be elected who shall be paid at the rate of Three Hundred Dollars per year as his salary."

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, as amended, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 119, Xays 0.

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. The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Harris and King of Jefferson-
House Bill No. 987. A bill to amend Act creating City Court of Louisville.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 132, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Atkinson, Valentino and Hunter of Chatham-
House Bill No. 990. A bill to provide for precinct voting in the County of Chatham.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On. the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. McDonald, Pilcher and Reville of Richmond-
House Bill No. 981. A bill to amend an Act to
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establish the fee system now existing in the Superior Courts of Augusta Judicial Circuit.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Bowden and Blalock of Ware-
House Bill No. 986. A bill to amend the charter of City of Waycross.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Bush of Lamar-
House Bill No. 980. A bill to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for County of Lamar.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 118, Nays 0.

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The bill having received. the requisite constitutional majority was passed..

By Mr. Quincy of Coffee-
House Bill No. 984. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Douglas.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 116, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite eonstitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Dobbs and Gann of Cobb-
House Bill No. 983. A bill to repeal an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Cobb County.

The report of the Committee, which was favorahle to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.
The bill having reeeived the requisite constitu. tional majority was passed.

By Mr. Davis of 23rd-
Senate Bill No. 291. A bill to repeal an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Houston County.

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Davison of 23rd-
Senate Bill No. 294. A bill to create a Board of County Commissioners of Houston County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 119, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following bills of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the Committees:
By Mr. Manson of 35thSenate Bill No. 240. A bill to amend the Code of
1910 relative to increase of capital stock of trust companies.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
By Messrs Thorpe of 2nd and Foy of 1stSenate Bill No. 250. A bill relating to the pay
went of poll taxes.

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Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.

By Mr. Fleming of lOth-
Senate Bill No. 252. A bill to require the posting of rates in all hotels and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
By unanimous consent the following bill of the Senate was withdrawn from the Committee, read the second time, and recommitted:

By Mr. Hutchens of 38th-
Senate Bill No. 308. A bill to amend an Act amending an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Haralson County.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 994 was withdrawn from the Committee on Special Judiciary and recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2.
Mr. Holloway of Fulton moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 592 and the motion prevailea.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.
Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bills, to-wit.

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Senate Bill No. 320. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Crawfordville.
Senate Bill No. 304. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the City of Valdosta so as to provide for a public amusement park.

The following bills of the House and Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 171. A bill to amend and Act to establish a permanent Board of Education for the City of Savannah and for other purposes.
The following substitute was read and adopted:

By Mr. Valentino of Chatham-

AN ACT
To be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a permanent Board of Education for the City of Savannah and to incorporate the same, and for other purposes'' approved March 21, 7866; and also t'o amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish a permanent Board of Education for the City of Savannah and to incorporate the same and for other purposes, approved March 21, 1866, and to change the name and extend the authority and powers of the said Board, and for other purposes,'' approved December 18, 186&, and for other purposes.



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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that the several Acts approved March 21, 1866, and December 18, 1866, creating the Board of Public Education for the City of Savannah and County of Chatham are hereby amended by adding thereto the following:
The entire membership of said Board, except the Massie School Commissioners, shall be subject to election by the qualified voters of said County. They shall be elected from the County at large and such election shali be held under the provisions of the General Laws governing County elections, so far as they are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.

Section 2. The candidates in number equal to the number or members to be chosen, who have the highest number of votes, shall be declared elected.
If. at any election, a member is to be chosen to fill a vacancy and to serve out an une:A.rpired term, candidate may be chosen as above provided, but the~ shall, in all cases, be designated on the ballots as candidates to fill a vacancy and the date of the unexpired term shall be stated.
Section 3. On the first day of January 1923, the term of office of the three members of the-permanent Board who were last elected shall cease and terminate. On January 1, 1925, the term of office of the three members of the permanent Board then serving

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and who were last elected shall terminate. On January 1, 1927, the term of office of the remaining members of the permanent Board shall terminate. At the general election occurring in the month of November 1922, three members of the Board of Education shall be elected to fill the offices of members whose term of office terminates, January 1, 1923, they shall hold office for a term of six years. At the general election in 1924 three additional members shall be elected to hold the offices of those members whose term of office terminates January 1, 1925, and at the general election in 1926, three members shall be elected to hold the office of those members whose term of office terminates January 1, 1927. Each of the members so elected shall hold office for a term of six years and until their successors are elected and qualified. Thereafter every two years at regular election. Three members of the Board shall be elected to fill the office of those members whose term of office expires the following January.

Section 4. Any vacancy in said Board from whatever cause ocurring, shall be temporarily filled by the other members of the Board as soon as practicable after vacancy occurs. The member so chosen shall hold office until his successor is elected and qualified, which successor must be elected at next regular election.
Section 5. No person shall be eligible to the office of member of the Board of Education, who has

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not attained the age of thirty years, or who is not the owner of real estate in Chatham County, and who is not a citizen of and bona fide resident of Chatham County, for three years preceding his election; or who holds or discharges office, deputyship, or agency, under the City or County, or under the State of Georgia, or any department thereof, or under the United States, or any foreign government, except that of Notary Public, or Militia Officer of Georgia.
No person shall be eligible to this office who is directly or indireptly interested in an~ contract with the Board, or whose father, son, brother, wife, daughter, mother, or sister, is employed in any capacity by such Board, or in any of the Public Schools, or who is directly or indirectly interested in the sale to the Board of books, stationery, or other prop. erty. If he shall after election become a candidate for any office or agency, or for the nomination thereto, the holding and discharging of which would have rendered him ineligible before ele.ction, or if he shall move out of the County, or shall do ~r incur anything which would have rendered him ineligible for election, or if any of his relatives above specified be employed by the Board, his office shall, by order of the said Board be declared vacant, and shall be :filled as directed.
Section 6. This Act shall not go into effect until it shall have been adopted at a special election to be called and held not more than thirty days after

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the passage of this bill and it shall be the duties of the County Commissioners to call such an election. Notice of said election to be given by County for the four weeks preceding the election by advertisement, once a week in any daily newspaper published in the City of Savannah.
Section 7. All laws or parts of laws in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to by substitute.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Xays 8.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By :Mr. Whitworth of Madison-
House Bill No. 515. A bill to amend Code of 1910, relative to the foreclosure of Chattel Mortgages before due.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of, the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 93, Nays 29.
The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.

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By Messrs. Moye o;f Ran.d<dph, and Quincey of Coffee-
House Bill No. 213. A bill to amend the Constitution so as to provide for the election of members of the General Assembly every four years instead of every two years.
Mr. Vocelle, of Camden, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
The bill involving a constitutional amendment the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmativ~ were Messrs:

Adams of Newton

Adams of Walton

Andlerson

Beck

Beckham

Bentley

Bird of Taliaferro

Blalock

Bloodworth

Bobo

Boswell

Bowden

Boyett

~

Bozeman

Braddy '-~i Brannen

Brantley

Brown of Hancock

Brownlee

Bush Camp Carr Childs Clifton Collier Collins Culpepper DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dobbs Dudlt>y Dykes Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith

Greene Grovenstein Gunnels Haddock Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of :Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Sumter Holland Holloway Houser Houston Hufstetler Hullender ll.Ut)ter

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Jones of Coweta

Neal of l'nion

Jones of Thomas

Owen

Johnson of Bartow Parks

Johnson of

Penland

Chattahoochee Phillips of Jasper

Keith

Phillips of Telfair

Kennedy

Price

King of Jefferson

Pruett

,King of Wilcox

Ram~ey

Lankford of Toombs Rt>ville

McDonald of

Riley

Richmond Robinson

McGarity

Russell

:Macintyre

Sapp

Malone

Shettlesworth

l\Iann

Sihley

Mason

Smiley

:\loore of Fulton

Smith of Bryan

Moy,

Smith of Carroll

Mundy

Smith of Meriwether

Stovall Strickland Sumner of Wheeler Tatum Tripp!' Turner Valentino Van Landingham Vocelle \\"alker Wall Way Webb \Veston \Yilliam~ of ~Iiller \Yilliam~ ,of Walton
\Yin~hip
\Voodard

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Arnold Atkinson 'Baldwin Bleck ley Branch Brown of Emanuel "Byrd of Crisp Carswell Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Coati'S Corbitt Cowart Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe Dickerson DuBose Duncan' of Hall Ennis
Evan~

Ficklen

Folsom

Foy

Guess

Hines of Decatur

Hodges

Howard of Forsyth

Howard of Screven

H~man

Jal'kson

JonP~ of Walker

Johnson of Pickens

Kittrell

/

Knight

Le"i:-~

Logan

Luke

:\IcCielland

:\ll'llure

McDonald of :\Iitchell

:\IcMichael

Maddox Manning Miles :\Ioore of Appling Parrish Patten Perryman PPtcrson Pickren Pilcher Ricketson Rutherford Salmon Singletary Smith of Haralson Steele Sumner of .Johnson Swindle Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Tyson

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VanZant Watkins Whitley lVhitaker of Lowndes

\Yhitaker of Rockdale Wood

\Yhitworth

Worthy

Williams of Harris Wyatt

Wimberly

Wynne

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Those not voting were Messrs :

Boatwright Bowen Daniel of Heard Dixon Duncan of Dawson Fletcher Fowler

Hamilton Horne Langford of Hall
~Mayo ~Iixon
Nichols Perkins

Quincey Reagan Stone Swift ~lr. Speaker

The roll call was verified.

On tlt'e passage of the bill the Ayes were 113, Nays 75.

The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.

Mr. Moye, of Randolph, gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass House Bill No. 213.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Messrs Penland, of Gilmer, Dobbs and Gann of Cobb, Atlcinson qf Chatham, and Arnold of Clay-
A RESOLUTION House Resolution No. 226.
Whereas, The esteemed representative from Cherokee, Hon. John W. Collins, has deserted the noble

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fraternity of bachelorhood, and been fortunate enough to discover a champion to aid him in entry into the ranks of the benedicts, therefore

Be it resolm-:d by the House, That the membership of this body extend to the newly married couple its warmest and most cordial wishes for many years of happiness.

Mr. Mundy, of Polk, moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock and the motion prevailed.

The Speaker appointed the following committee, on the part of the House, as conference committee on Senate Bill No. 7:

Messrs. Hyman of Washington Davis of Oglethorpe Knight of Berrien.

By Mr. Davison of 23rd-
To be entitled an Act to propose to the qualified electors of this State an amendment to Paragraph 2, Section 1, Article 11, of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, as amended by the ratification of the qualified electors of this State of the several Acts approved, respectively, on July 19, 1904, July 31, 1906, July 30, 1912, August 14, 1912, July 7, 1914, July 27, 1914, August 11, 1914, August 15, 1917, August 21, 1917, July 30, 1918, August 11, 1919, July 8, 1920, and August 14, 1920, and for other purposes.

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Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the following amendment is hereby proposed to Paragraph 2, Section 1, Article 11, of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, as amended by the ratification of the qualified voters of said State, of the several Acts approved, respectively, on July 19, 1904, July 31, 1906, July 30, 1912, August 14, 1912, July 7, 1914, July 27, 1914, August 11, 1914, August 15, 1917, August 21, 1917, July 30, 1918, August .11, 1919, July 8, 1920, and August 14, 1920, to-wit:

By Adding to said paragraph the following language: .

''Provided, however, that in addition to the Counties now provided for by this Constitution there shall be a new County laid out and created from the territory now comprising Houston and Macon Counties, to be made up and composed of all that part of the territory of Houston and Macon Counties described and contained with boundaries as follows:
''Beginning at the point where the Counties of Bibb, Houston and Crawford corner; running thence along the line between the Counties of Houston and Crawford, to the point where the Counties of Houston, Crawford and Macon corner; thence in a Southwesterly direction along the line between the Counties of Crawford and Macon, to the middle of the run of Flint River; thence in a southerly direction,

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down the middle of the run of Flint River to the Southern line of fractional lot No. 149 in the Eighth District of Macon. County; thence East, along the Southern line of lots Nos. 149, 140, 11.7, 108, 85, 76, 53, 44 and 21 in the Eighth District of Macon County to the Southwest corner of lot No. 12 in the Eighth District of Macon County; thence South, along the Western line of lot Ko. 13 in the Eighth District of Macon County, to the Southwest corner of said lot No. 13 in the Eighth District of Macon County; thence East, along the Southern line of said lot No. 13 in the Eighth District of Macon County, to the Southwest corner of lot No. 253 in the Ninth District of Macon County; thence South along the \Vestern line of lots Nos. 254, 255 and 256 in the Ninth District of Macon County, and the Western line of lots Nos. 1, 32, 33, 64 and 65 in the Fourteenth District of Macon County to the Southwest corner of said lot No. 65; thence East, along the Sout~ern line of lots Nos. 65, 66 and 67 in the Fourteenth District of Macon County tp the Southwest corner of lot No. 68 in the Fourteenth District of Macon County; thence South, along the Western line of lot No. 93 in the Fourteenth District of Macon County to the So-qthwest corner of lot No. 93 in the Fourteenth Di~:~trict of Macon County; thence East along the Southern line of lots Nos. 93, 92, 91, 90, 89, and 88 in the Fourteenth District of Macon County to the Southwest corner of lot No. 87 in the Fourteenth District of Houston County; thence continuing East along the Southern line of

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lots Nos. 87, 86, 85 and 84 in the Fourteenth District of Houston County to the Southwest corner of lot .No. 83 in the Fourteenth District of Houston County; thence North along the Western lip.e of lots Nos. 83, 78, 51, 46, 19, and 14 in the Fourteenth District of Houston County to the Southwest corner of lot .No. 33 in the Ninth District of Houston County; thence North along the Western line of lots Nos. 33 and 34 in the Ninth District of Houston County to the Southwest corner of lot No. 35 in the Ninth District of Houston County; thence East the entire length of the South line of said lot No. 35; thence North the entire length of the East line of said lot No. 35; thence East the entire length of the South line lot No. 29; thence North the entire length of the East line of lot No. 29; thence East the entire length of the Southern line of lot No. 5 (said lots Nos. 35, 29 and 5 being in the Ninth District of Houston County) to the line between the Ninth and Tenth Land Districts of Houston County; thence North along said District line to the Southwest corner of lot No. 11 in said Tenth District; thence Eas the entire length of the Southern line of lot No. 11; thence East the entire length of the Southern line of lot No. 23; thence North the entire length of the Eastern line of lot No. 23; thence East the entire length of the Southern line of lot No. 41; thence North the entire length of the Eastern line of lot No. 41; thence East the entire length of the Southern line of lot No. 57; thence North the entire length of the Eastern line of lot No. 57; thence East the entire

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length of the Southern line of lot No. 71; thence North the entire length of the Eastern line of lot
No. 71; thence East the entire length of the Southern
line of lot Xo. 91; thence Korth the entire length of the Eastern line of lot Xo. 91; thence East the entire length of the Southern liue of lot No. 101; thence Xorth the entire length of the J<_Jastern line of lot No. 101, thence East the entire length of the Southern line of lot Xo. 125; thnce North the entire length of the East ern l~ne of lot No. 1215; thence East the entire length of the Southern line of lot No. 131; thence North the entire length of the Eastern line of lot No. 131; thence East the entire length of the Southern line of lot No. 159; thence North the entire length of the Eastern line of lot No. 159; thence East the entire length of the Southern line of lot Ko. 161; thence Xorth the entire length of the Eastern line of lot Xo. 161 (said lots Nos. 11, 23, 41, 57, 71, 91, 101, 125, 131, 159 and 161 being in the Tenth District of Houston County) to the Southwest
corner of lot No. 144 in the Fifth District of Hous-
ton County, thence North along the Western line of lots Nos. 144, 145, 146, 147, 148, 149, 150, 151, 152, 153 and 154 to the line between Houston and Bibb Counties; thence westerly, along the line between the Counties of Houston and Bibb, to the point where the Counties of Houston, Bibb and Crawford corner, the same being the point or place of beginning.''
'' Th~t the said new County shall be known as the

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County of Peach and the City of Fort Valley shall be the County Site of the same.
''That, irrespective of other provisions of this Constitution said County of Peach shall, upon its creation, be entitled to one Representative in the House of Representatives of this State, and said County of Peach shall be entitled to one Representative in the House of Representatives of Georgia until the apportionment shall be changed 'by law, in ac- cordance with the provisions of this Constitution.
"That the said County of Peach shall be attached to the Same Congressional District and to the same Judicial Circuit, and to the same State Senatorial District as those to which the County of Houston is attached at the date of the ratification of this amendment.
''That all legal voters residing in the limits of the County of Peach entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly under the laws of Georgia, shall, on the first Wednesday in January following the ratification of this proposed amendment, elect a Represenative in the House of Representatives of this State, and Ordinary, a Clerk of the Superior Court, a Sheriff, a Coroner, a Tax CollectQr, a Tax Receiver, a County Treasurer and a County Surveyor. Said special election shall be held at the several election precincts existing within the limits of said Peach County at the time of the adoption of this proposed amendment and the Ordinary of Houston County shall appoint election managers for such

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election precincts as may be located in Houston County at the time of the adoption of this proposed amendment; and the Ordinary of Macon County shall appoint election managers for such precincts as may be located in Macon County at the time of the adoption of this proposed amendment. On the day succeeding the holding of said election the election managers shall meet at the Council Chamber of the Mayor and City Council of the City of Fort Valley and consolidate the vote for the officers named; and the general laws of this State now in force as to elections, consolidation of the votes, the return of the election and the commission of officers shall be applicable to the officers elected at the election herein provided for. The officers elected at said election and the Representative in the House of Representatives shall hold their offices until the next General Election for such officers throughout the State and until their successors are elected and qualified. The General Assembly is hereby given power to create any additional statutory offices in said County or statutory courts, therein, and to provide for filling said offices. Any vacancies that may occur before the next General Election after the elections as herein provided may be filled in the same manner as such vacancies are now filled under the law. The Justices of the Peace and the Constables residing in the territory included within the limits of the said County of Peach shall exercise the duties and powers of their offices until new militia districts are laid out in said County

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of Peach as now provided by law, and Justices of the Peace and Constables therefor elected.

''That the Superior Courts of said Peach County shall be held on the :first Monday in March and the :first Monday in September of each year.
''That the Congressional and Senatorial Districts, the Judicial Circuit to which said Peach County is attached, the times of holding the terms of the Superior Court, and the limits of the County shall be as designated above until changed by law.
''Provided, that the laws applicable to the organization of counties as found in Sections 829 to 848 inclusive of the Code of 1910 of Georgia, and in any other Acts or Sections having applicability, are hereby made applicable to said County of Peach, whenever the same may be created by the proposed amendment to the Constitution, and that said County, when created, shall become a statutory County and shall be subject at all times to all laws applicable to all other counties of this State.
"That the property of all tax payers included within the limits of the said Peach County as herein above designated is hereby made ratably chargeable with any debt that may have been incurred by either of the. counties from which the territory included in the new County of Peach is taken by the legally constituted authorities of the counties for the purpose of raising revenues for the benefit of either of said counties, whether the said debt is a bonded debt or

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one which has been incurred for the benefit in any way of either of said counties. The value of the taxable property included within the limits of the said County of Peach at the time of the adoption of this amendment to the Constitution in proportion to the value of the property in the counties for which the said County of Peach is taken shall determine the proportionate amount of the indebtedness which shall be borne by the property of the tax payers located within the 'limits of said proposed new county.
''Authority is hereby given to the Ordinary of the said County of Peach and to the officers of the counties from which said territory is taken who are charged with the management of the business of said counties to settle and agree upon an amount of the said indebtedness that shall be assessed against and paid by the said County of Peach; and it is hereby made the duty of the Ordinary of the said County of Peach when the amount of said indebtedness with which the said County of Peach is chargeable is so ascertained to cause a tax to be levied upon all of the property within the limits of the said County of each sufficient to pay off and discharge the proportionate part of the indebtedness due b~ the said Peach County.
"In the event of the failure or refusal of the Or-. dinary of Peach County to levy such tax, it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Superior Courts of the Circuit to which the said County of Peach is at-

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tached to compel the Ordinary of the said Peach County to perform the duty herein required of him. In the event of the failure of the authorities of the counties from which the said Peach County is created and the Ordinary of the said Peach County to ascertain and agree upon the amount of said indebtness, then either of said counties may bring a suit against the said County of Peach in the Superior Court of said County of Peach for the purposes of having the proportion of said debt so assumed by the said County of Peach ascertained; and the said Superior Court is hereby given power to enforce whatever judgment may be had as the result of such trial by compelling the Ordinary of said Peach County to levy a tax sufficient for the payment of the indebtedness found to be due by the County of Peach; cause the same to be collected and paid to the constituted authorities of the County or Counties from which said Peach County is created entitled to receive the same.
''It is especially provided that all ad valorem and special taxes and all other revenues realized for the year in which this amendment is adopted or ratified by the qualified voters of this State shall be applied to any indebtedness, except bonded indebtedness, due and owing by either of the counties from which the said Peach County is created; it being the purpose of this provision to fix the basis of settlement between the counties involved upon their financial condition on the 31st day of December next following the ratification of this amendment.''

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Section 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that whenever the above proposed amendment to the Constitution shall be agreed upon by two-thirds of the members elected to each of the two Houses of the General Assembly and the same has been entered on their Journals, with the Ayes and Nays taken thereon, the Governor shall be, and he is, hereby authorized and instructed to cause the above proposed amendment to be published in at least two newspapers in each Congressional District of this State, for the period of two months next preceding the time of holding the next general election, and the Governor is further authorized and directed to provide for the submission of the amendment proposed for ratification or rejection to the electors of this State at the next general election to be held after such publication, at which election every person shall be qualified to vote who is entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly. All persons voting at said election in favor of adopting the said proposed amendment shall have written or printed on their ballots the words ''For amendment to the Constitution creating the County of Peach;" and all persons voting at said election against the adoption of the said proposed amendment shall have written or printed on their ballots the words ''Against the amendment to the Constitution creating the County of Peach.''
If a majority of the electors qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly voting thereon

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shall vote for the ratification of said proposed amendment, then the Governor shall, when he ascer- tains the same from the Secretary of State, to whom the returns of said election shall be referred in the manner as iu cases of elections for members of the General Assembly to count and ascertain results, issue his proclamation for one insertion in one daily paper of this State, announcing such results, and declaring the amendment ratified.

Section 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

By unanimous consent the main question was ordered.

The report of the committee, which was unfavor. able to the passage of the bill, had been disagreed to.
The bill involving a constitutional amendment the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those Yotin in the affirmatin' were 1\Iessrs:

Adams of Newton Adam.~ of ""alton Anderson Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boswell Bowden Braddy

Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of HancO<'k Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp Can
l'ar~well
Clark of Colquitt Clark of \Yebster ('Iifton Collins { 'orhitt

Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Dads of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon DuBose Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Enni" Fletcher

.

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Fowler

~IcDonald of

Singl<'tary

Franks

Richmond Smiley

Grant

~!<'Garity

Smith of Bryan

Gresham

:\lacIntyre

Smith of Carroll

Griffith

:\Ic1Iichael

Smith of Haralson

Harris

Maddox

Stri<'kland

Hatcher of Burke

~!alone

Sumner of Johnson

Hawkins

~fanning

Sumner of \Vheeler

Henderson

~lason

Swindle

Hines of Decatur

Miles

Tatum

Hine~ of Sumter

~Iixon

Thomp~on of Coweta

Hodges

:\Ioore of Appling

Thompson of Dodge

Horne

~Iundy

Tripp

Houser

Xeal of Union

Turner

Howard of Fonyth Ni(hob

Yalentino

Howard of Henwn Owen

Yan Landingham

Hufstetler

Parrish

Yan Zant

Hullender

Patten

\Yall

Hunter

PPnland

\Ya~

Hyman

Peterson

\Yehh

Jackson

Phillips of Jasper

\Y,.ston

Jones of Coweta

Phillips of Telfair \Yhitley

Jones of Thomas

Pickren

\Vhitaker of Lowndes

Jones of \Valker

Pile her

\Yhitaker of Rockdale

Johnson of

Price

\Vhitworth

Chattahoochee Pruett

\\'illiams of Miller

Johnson of Pickens RanH;Py

\\'illiams of Walton

King of Wilcox

RPdlle

\Yimberly

Kittrell



Russell

Winship

Lankford of Toombs Salmon

\\._Iard

Logan

Sapp

Wyatt

Luke

Shettlesworth

Wynne

:McDonald of ~Iitehell Sihley

Those voting in the negative were ~fessrs:

Arnold Bowen Boyett Bozeman Brown of Emanuel Childs Coates Daniel of Troup Dobbs

Dykes Evans Folsom Foy Gann Griffin Greene Grovenstein Haddock

Hatcher of Muscogee HE'rring Hillhouse Holland Holloway Johnson of Bartow Keith Kennedy King of Jefferson

Knight Lewis McClure Mayo :Moye Parks Perryman

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Ricketson Riley Robinson Rutherford Smith of :Meriwether Steele Stomll

Tyson Vocelle \Yalker Watkins Williams of Harris \Vood \Vorthy

Those not Yoting- were :Messrs:

Bird of Taliaferro Boatwright Bobo Camp Collier Dudley Ficklen

Guess Gunnels Hamilton Houston Langford of Hall )lcClelland .\Iann

The roll call was verified.

.\Ioore of Fulton Perkins Quincey Reagan Stone Swift .\Ir. Speaker

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 138, Nays 48.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majorit~ was ,passed.

Mr. Valentino, of Chatham, moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3:30 o'clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION'
3:30 o'Clock P.M.
The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.

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The following Bills and Resolutions of the Houee were introduced, read the first time, and referred to the committees:

By Messrs. Howard and Evans of ScrevenHouse Bill No. 1002. A bill to repeal an Act es-
tablishing system of public schools for Sylvania. Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Russell of BarrowHouse Bill No. 1003. A bill to amend the Charter
of the City of Carl.
Referret1 to Committee on ~Iunicip.al Government.

By Mr. Jones of Walker-
House Bill No. 1004. A bill to amend Section 755 of Penal Code relative to definition of cruelty.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. Clatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. 8pPakr>r:

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bill by substitute, to-wit:
House Bill No. 894. A bill to amend the Charter of the City of Marietta.

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The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bills, to-wit:

House Bill No. 918. A bill to change the terms of the Wilcox Superior Court.

House Bill No. 782. A bill to create a new Charter for the City of Gainesville.

House Bill No. 902. A bill to amend an Act establishing a Board of Roads and Revenues for County of Habersham.
House Bill No. 900. A bill to repeal certain Acts relative to holding legal sales in County of Muscogee.

House Bill No. 898. A bill to amend Charter of City of Thomasville.

House Bill No. 960. A bill to amend an Act fixing the salary of the Treasurer of Franklin County.

House Bill No. 939. A bill to require the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Candler County to publish a quarterly report of expenditures.
House Bill No. 835. A bill to repeal present Charter of Cordele.
House Bill No. 597. A bill to make tax collectors of counties having a certain population ex-officio sheriffs.
House Bill No. 924. A bill to repeal an Act amending the Charter of the City of Cordele.

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House Bill No. 919. A bill to repeal an Act creating Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Wilcox County.

House Bill No. 928. A bill to amend an Act to authorize the establishment of a public school system in Town of Hazelhurst.

House Bill No. 941. A bill to create the office of Roads and Revenues in the County of Jeff Davis.

House Bill No. 917. A bill to create a Board of Commissioners for Wilcox County.

House Bill No. 876. A bill to amend an Act known as the "Tatnall Board of Commissioners created."
House Bill No. 887. A bill to amend an Act creating a new Charter for City of Hawkinsville.

House Bill No. 929. A bill to fix the terms of the Superior Court of Jeff Davis County.
House Bill No. 955. A bill to change the name of the ''Town of Decatur'' to tlw ''Cit!' of Decatur.''
House Bill No. 880. A bill to amend an Act creating a new Charter for the City of Jeffersonville.

House Bill No. 911. A bill to amend the Charter of Nicholls, Coffee ( ounty, Georgia.
House Bill No. 842. A bill to amend the Charter of the City of Mason.
House Bill No. 908. A bill to amend an Act establishing the City Court of Quitman, Georgia.

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House Bill No. 912. A bill to amend an Act creating a new Charter for the Town of Rockledge.

House Bill No. 897. A bill to amend the Chart~r of the City of East Point.

House Bill No. 950 (912). A bill to amend an Act to amend an Act relative to the City of Rockledge.
House Bill No. 722. A bill to amend the Charter of the City of Augusta.

House Bill No. 877. A bill to amend an Act known as the Tatnall Road Law adopted.
House Bill No. 896. A bill to amend the Charter of East Point.

House Bill No. 915. A bill to amend an Act to incorporate the City of Adair.
House Bill No. 935. A bill to amend the Act creating the Board of Commissioners for Atkinson County.
House Bill No. 871. A bill to amend the Charter of the City of Augusta.
House Bill No. 850. A bill to amend an Act creating and incorporating the City of Blackshear.
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bill, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 38. A bill to provide a uniform County Commissioners Law for certain counties.

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Mr. Moore, of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

House Bill No. 848. Do pass as amended. MooRE of Fulton, Chairman.

Mr. Guess, of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 have had under consideration the following Bill of the Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
Senate Bill No. 286.
GuEss, of beKalb, Chairman.

Mr. DuBose, of Clarke County, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means submitted the following report:

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M-r. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following Bills and Resolutions of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendations as follows:

House Bill No. 732. Do pass as amended. House Bill No. 784. Do pass. House Bill No. 839. Do pass. House Bill No. 788. Do pass. House Bill No. 102. Do pass. House Bill No. 998. Do pass. House Bill No. 753. Do pass. House Bill No. 651. Do pass as amended. House Bill No. 717. Do pass. House Resolution No. 221. Do pass. House Resolution No. 209. Do pass. House Resolution No. 129. Do pass as amended.
House Bill No. 220. Do pass as amended.
Your Chairman is instructed by the Committee to report to the House that a number of bills have not been considered by the Committee for lack of time, due to the fact that the Committee has been waiting on the House to pass such revenue measures as would warrant the consideration of many matters.

Sig. 33

Respectfully submitted, DuBosE, of Clark, Chairman.

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Mr. Davis, of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No.2 submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No.2 have had under consideration the following Bills of the. House and Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with recommendation as follows:
Senate Bill No. 195. Do not pass. House Bill No. 975. Do pass. House Bill No. 976. Do pass. House Bill No. 977. Do pass. House Bill No. 978. Do pass. House Bill No. 979. Do pass.
Respectfully submitted,
JoHN CAMP DAvrs, of Floyd, Chairman.

Mr. Walter R. McDonald, of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following Bills and Resolutions of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

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1027

House Bill No. 999. House Resolution No. 225 (998-A).

MeDoNALD, of Richmond, Chairman.

Mr. Moye, of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 882.
Respectfully submitted,
RoBERT L. MoYE, Chairman.

The following Bills and Resolutions of the House and Senate, favorably reported by the Committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Henderson of White-
House Resolution No. 129 (606-B) A resolution to pay the old class pensioners for 1922.

By Mr. Webb of LowndesHouse Resolution No. 209 (912-A). A resolution

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to appropriate money to pay L. M. Stanfield for certain purposes.

By .Mr. Russell of Bartow-

House Resolution No. 221 (993-A). A resolution providing for payment of Joint Committee on Board of Regents Bill.

By Mr. McDonald of Richmond-

House Resolution No. 22~ (998-A). A resolution to establish a library for the Judge of the Federal Court, Southern District.
By ~lr. Beckham of Dougherty-

House Resolution No. 102. A resolution appropriating money to State Negro School at Albany.

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 651. A bill to appropriate money to Georgia Training School for Girls.

By Mr. Ennis of BaldwinHouse Bill X o. 717. A bill to appropriate money
to State Sanitarium for cold storage plant.
By Messrs. Hines and Riley of SumterHouse Bill No. 732. A bill to appropriate money
to Third District A. & M. School.

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1029

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-

House Bill No. 753. A bill to appropriate money for Hygiene and Sanitation in this State.

By Messrs. Grant of Habersham, and Bleckley of Rabun-
House Bill No. 784. A bill to appropriate money to Ninth District A. & M. School.

By Mr. Pruett of Lumpkin-
House Bill No. 788. A bill to appropriate money to N. G. A. C. at Dahlonega.

By Messrs. DuBose and Dudley of Clarke-
House Bill No. 839. A bill to appropriate money to the University of Georgia.

By Mr. Bush of LamarHouse Bill No. 848. A bill to create Board of Edu-
cation for Lamar County.
By Messrs. DeLaPerriere and Swindle of JacksonHouse Bill No. 882. A bill to abolish the office of
County Treasurer for Jackson County.
By Mr. Mundy of PolkHouse Bill No. 975. A bill to amend section 3033
of Code of 1910 relative to testamentary guardian.

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By Mr. Mundy of Polk-

House Bill No. 976. A bill to amend Section 3032 of Code of 1910 relative to natural guardian.

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-

House Bill No. 977. A bill to repeal Section 4464 of Code of 1910, relative to relations of husband and wife.

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 978. A bill to amend Section 3037 of Code of 1910, relative to guardians for minors.

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 979. A bill to amend Section 4467 of Code of 1910, relative to spirituous liquors.

By Mr. Mundy of PolkHouse Bill No. 998. A bill to appropriate money
to State Board of Entomology.
By Mr. Singletary of GradyHouse Bill No. 999. A bill to amend an Act to
create the City Court of Cairo.
By .Mr. Manson of the 35thSenate Bill No. 286. A bill to amend an Act carry-
ing into effect amendment to constitution, relative to Justice courts in City of Atlanta.

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1031

The following bills of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the Committees:

By Mr. Golucke of 19thSenate Bill No. 320. A bill to amend- the charter
of the City of Crawfordville. Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Jones of 6thSenate Bill No. 304. A bill to amend an Act to
incorporate the City of Valdosta.
Referred to Committee Oll Municipal Government.
By Mr. Ellis of 47th-
Senate Bill No. 38. A bill to provide a uniform County Commissioner's Law.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
The following bills and resolutions of the House and Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 762. A bill to amend an Act creating the Municipal Court of Atlanta.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional maj<?rity was passed.

By Mr. Luke of Ben Hill-

House Bill No. 107. A bill to amend an Act codifying the School Laws of Georgia relative to the elementary rudiments of vocal music.
The following Committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend by adding after the word ''music'' in the 8th and 22nd lines of Section 1 the following words: ''Provided that teaching the elementary rudiments of vocal music shall be optional with the county and city boards of education and not required as in the case of the other elements of an English education."
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 106, Nays 6.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Ridley of 28th-
Senate Resolution No. 75. A resolution providing for the acceptance of a fund from Congress for the betterment of health conditions of maternity.

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1033

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.

On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 106, Nays 5.

The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority ~as passed.

By Messrs. Duncan of Hall, Smith of Haralson and others-
House Bill No. 775. A bill to empower county authorities to provide and keep in repair suitable quarters for the holding of Justice of the Peace Courts.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 114, Nays 14.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. McMichael of Marion, Kittrell of Laurens, and others-
House Bill No. 791. A bill to confer upon the several counties of this State the authority to levy taxes for educational purposes and for other purposes.
Mr. Howard of Forsyth moved the previous ques-

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tion; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the Committee, which w:as favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill Mr. Harris, of J e:fferson, call for the Ayes and Nays and the call was sustained.
The roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Arnold Atkinson Beek Beckham Bentley Bleekley Bloodworth Boswell Bowden Bowen ,Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Camp Carr Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Cowart

Davis of Floyd DeLaPerriere Dickenon Dobbs Dykes E\ans Folsom Fowler Grant Gresham Griffith Gunnels Harris Hatcher of Burke Hateher of ~fus('ogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhou,e Hines of Sumter Holloway Houser Houston Howard of Screven Hufstetler Hullender Hunter

Hyman Jaekson Jones of Coweta Jones of Thomas Jones of Walker Johnson of Bartow Johnson of
Chattahoochee Jolmson of Piekens Kennedy King of .Jefl'erson Kittrell Lankford of Toombs Luke ~IcC l u r e McDonald of Mitchell :\IeDonald of
Riehmond :\Iadntyre :\Idlichael :\Iaddox
~fason
:\Iayo Miles Moore of Fulton :\Ioye :\Iundy

FRIDAY, AuGusT 11, 1922.

1035

Nichols Owen 1 Parks Parrish Penland Peterson Phillips of Jasper Phillips of Telfair Pruett Riley Robinson Russell Salmon

Sapp Shettlesworth Sibley Singletary Smith of Carroll Smith of Meriwether Steele Stovall Strickland Sumner of Wheeler Thomp:;on of Coweta Trippe Turner

Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Wall Whitworth 'Williams of Harris Williams of Walton Woodard Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Adams of Walton Anderson Bobo Clark of Colquitt Collier Daniel of Troup Duncan of Hall Ficklen Foy Franks Griffin Grovenstein Haddock Hines of Decatur Hodges

Holland Howard of Forsyth Knight Lewis ~fa lone Manning )foore of Appling Neal of Union Patten Pickren Pilcher Price Ramsey
Re~an
Ricketson

Smiley Smith of Bryan :Sumner of Johnson Tatum Thompson of Dodge Walker Way Webb Whitley 'Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Williams of Miller Wimberly

Those not voting were Messrs :

BaJdwin Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Boatwright Bush Carswell Childs Collins Corbitt Culpepper

Daniel of Heard Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor Dixon DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Ennis Fletcher Gann

Greene Guess Hamilton Horne Keith King of Wilcox Langford of Hall Logan McClelland )fcGarity

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.:\Iann .:\Iixon Perkins Perryman Quincey Redlle

Rutherford

\YPston

:-4mith of Haralson \Yinship

Stone

Wood

Hwift

\\orth~

Swindle

Wyatt

'

\\'atkins

.:\Ir. Speaker

Ayes 116, Nays 43.
By un~mimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 116, Nays 43.

The hill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered Immediately tranmitted to the Senate.

Mr. Robinson, of Macon, gave notice that at the proper time he would move that the House reconsider its action in passing Senate Bill .No. 1.

Mr. Knight of Berrien moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.

By Mr. Wall of Putnam-
House Resolution No. 157. A resolution providing for operation of a factory for manufacture of calcium arsenate, and for other purposes.
Mr. Beck of Carroll moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

FRIDAY, A-cGUST 11, 1922.

1037

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was disagreed to, and the bill was lost.
Mr. Fay, of Taylor, moYed that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.

By Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson-
House Bill No. 690. A bill declaring it a misdemeanor to make, draw, or utter a check with intent to defraud.
Mr. Moore of Appling moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 4.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 674. A bill to withdraw the privilege of admission to the Georgia bar by diploma alone.
The report of the Committee, which wa,s favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill .J:Ir. Hyman, of Washington, called for the Ayes and Nays.
Mr. Horne of Dodge moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Mr. Woodard of Cook.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until next Monday morning at 9 o'clock.

MoNDAY, AuGusT 14, 1922.

1039

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

Monday, August 14th, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.

The roll was called and the following members answered to their names:

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton An<krson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel qf Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

:VIayo

Houser

:VIiles

Houston

~Iixon

Howard of Forsyth ~Ioore of Appling

Howard of Screven ~Iome of Fulton

Hufstetler

~Ioye

Hullender

.\Iundy

Hunter

Xeal of Union

Hyman

:Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of VValker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hail

Quineey

Lankford of ToomiJH Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

~IcCielland

Riley

~IcCluro;,

Robinson

.\IcD'Jlla ld of .\litehell Russell

~kDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

:IIcGarity

Sapp

:MacI utyr<>

ShettJe,worth

.\Ic.\lichael

Sibley

}!aridox

Singletary

.\Ial,me

Smiley

:II ann

Hmith of Bryan

.\Ianning

Smith of Carroll

.\Jason

Smith of Harabon

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone StO\a!l Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of VVheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge TrippP Turner Tyson Valentino ''an Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way VVebb
"'""ton Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of .\.Iiller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship "'ood 'Yoodard \\orthy Wyatt Wynne .\Ir. Speaker

The Journal of yesterday's proceedings was read.

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1041

Mr. Pickren, of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations submitted the following report:

Jh-. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 1000. House Bill No. 1001. House Bill No. 1002. Senate Bill No. 320.
PicKREN, of Cliarlton, Chairman.

~Ir. walter R. McDonald, of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary submitted the following report:

Jl r. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following bills of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the. same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 209. Senate Bill No. 221.
MeDoNALD, of Richmond, Chairman.

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Mr. Smith, of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government submitted the following report:

iU r. Speaker:
Your Committee on Municipal. Government have had under consideration the following bill of the House and have instructed me as chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 1003.
SMITH, of Meriwether, Chairman.
Mr. Hullender, of Catoosa, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, delivered the following report:
Jlr. SpPaker:
The Committee on Enrollment has examined, found properly enrolled, duly signed and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following Acts and Resolutions, to-wit:
House Bill No. 928. An Act to amend an Act . establishing system of public schools in Hazelhurst.
House Bill No. 919. An Act to repeal an Act ereating Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of \Vilcox county.
House Bill No. 912. An Act. to amend an Act creating new charter for Town of Rockledge.

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1043

House Bill No. 960. An Act to amend an Act fixing salary of Treasurer of Franklin County.
House Bill No. 782. An Act t~ amend by substitution Act incorporating the City of Gainesville.

House Bill No. 939. An Act requiring certain duties of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Candler county.
House Bill No. 597. An Act to repeal Act to make tax collectors of certain Counties Ex-officio Sheriffs.
House Bill No. 908. An Act to amend an Act establishing City Court of Quitman.
House Bill No. 918. An Act to change the terms of Wilcox Superior Court.
House Bill No. 850. An Act to amend an Act incorporating the City of Blackshear.
House Bill No. 941. An Act to create the office of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Jeff Davis County.
House Bill No. 911. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Nicholls.
House Bill No. 758. An Act to amend the charter of the City of College Park.
House Bill No. 935. An Act to amend the Act creating Board of Commissioners for Atkinson County.
House Bill No. 887. An Act to amend an Act creating a new charter for the City of Hawkinsville.

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House Bill No. 876. An Act to amend an Act known as the Tattnall Board of Commissioners.
House Bill No. 842. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Macon.
House Bill No. 9115. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Adrian.
House Bill ~o. 896. An Act to amend the charter of the City of East Point, relative to civil service and police department.
House Bill No. 871. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Augusta, relative to Board of Health.
House Bill ~o. 897. An Act to amend the charter of the city of East Point.
House Bill No. 955. An Act to change the name of the town of Decatur to city of Decatur.
House Bill No. 835. An Act to establish a new charter for the city of Cordele.
House Bill No. 898. An Act to amend the charter of the city of Thomasville.
House Bill No. 880. An Act to amend the charter of the city of Jeffersonville.
House Bill No. 929. An Act to fix the terms of the Superior Court of Jeff Davis County.
House Bill No. 950. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Blue Ridge.
House Bill Ko. 877. An Act to amend the Tattnall Road Law.

MoNDAY, AuGusT 14, 1922.

10~5

House Bill No. 933. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Eastman.
House Bill No. 917. An Act to create a Board of
Commissioners for th.e Count.y of Wilcox.
House Bill No. 900. An Act to repeal Acts relative to holding legal sales in Muscogee County.
House Bill No. 902. An Act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Habersham and Lowndes.
House Bill 1\o. 924. An Ad to repeal an Act amending the charter of the City of Cordele G.eorgia.
House Bill 1\o. 722. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Augusta.
Respectfully submitted, HuLLENDER of Cato~sa, Chairmau.

The following message was receiYed from tlw Senate, through Mr. :McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed as amended by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of the House, to-wit:
House Bill 1\o. 260. A bill to change the name of the Railroad Commission to the Georgia Public Service Commission.

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The Senate has also passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the Senate, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 303. A bill to amend Act creating new charter for City of Tifton.
Senate Bill No. 269. A bill for the protection of Game Animals.
The following bills of the House and Senate favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time.

By 1\fr, King of Wilcox-
House Bill No. 1000. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Abbeville.

By Mr. King of Wilcox-
House Bill 1\o: 1001. A bill to amend the charter
of the city of Abbeville.

By Messrs. Howard and Evans of ScrevenHouse Bill No. 1002. A bill to repeal an Act
establishing a system of public schools for Sylvania.
By Mr. Russell of Barrow: House Bill No. 1003. A bill to amend the charter
of the Town of Carl.
By Mr. Snow of the 7thSenate Bill No. 209. A bill to repeal an Act
abolishing fee system of Southern Judicial Circuit.

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104-7

By Mr. Snow of the 7th-
Senate Bill No. 221. . A bill to abolish the fee system in Southern Judicial Circuit, relative to office of Solicitor-General.

By Mr. Goluke of the 19th-
Senate Bill No. 320. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Crawfordville.
The following bills of the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage :
By unanimous consent all uncontested local bills passed at toda~'s session were ordered immediatelJ transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 997. A bill to repeal an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Jeff Davis.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 109, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. DeLaPerriere and Swindle of Jackson-
House Bill No. 882. A bill to abolish the office of County Treasurer of Jackson County.

1048.

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 109, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional ri:tajo,rity was 1passed.

By 1\Ir. Bush of Lamar-
House Bill No. 848. A bill to create a Board of Education of Lamar County.
. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By :Mr. Singletary of Grady-
House Bill No. 999. A bill to amend an Act to create City Court of Cairo.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, ~was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Nays 0.
The bill having re<'eived the requisite constitutional majority wa.s passed.

MoNDAY, AuGusT 14, 1922.

1049

By Mr. McClelland of DeKalb-
House Bill No. 996. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the Town of Decatur.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 110, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Bradley of Glascock-
Honse Bill No. 995. A bill to repeal an Act to establish a Commissioner of Roads and Revenues of Glascock.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 111, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Sheffield of 9th-
Senate Bill No. 278. A bill to amend an Act relating to the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Early County.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted:

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JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Amend by striking figures '' $2.00'' in second line Section 24, and insert in lieu therof '' $3.00. ''
Amend by striking all that portion of Section 2C down to the word ''all'' in fourth line, having only the repealing clause in said Section.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitu- tional majority was passed as amended.

By Mr. Manson of 35th-
House Bill No. 286. A bill to amend an Act to carry into effect in the City of Atlanta the provisions of an Act amending the Constitution relative to the abolition of Justice Courts.
The report of the Committee, which was favora.ble to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 114, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. McDonald of Richmond-
.House Resolution No. 225. A resolution to establish a library for Judge of l<'ederal Court Southern District at Augusta, Georgia.

MoNDAY, AuGusT 14, 1922.

1051

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
Mr. McDonald, of Richmond, moved that the House reconsider its action in agreeing to the report of the committee and the motion prevailed.
The following amendment was read and adopted:

By Mr. McDonald of Richmond-
Amend by providing that this shall apply to only subsequent publications.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Nays 23.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.
By unanimous consent the following resolutions of the House were introduced, read, and adopted:

By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
A RESOLUTION
House Resolution No. 227. Be it Resolved by the House of Representatives, That we thank most heartily the City of Brunswick, her officials and citizens generally for the splendid reception and cordial treatment which we received at their hands on the occasion of our recent visit to them, and for

1052

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the opportunity afforded us of viewing the magnificient harbor of this splendid port and its large industrial enterprises. The possibilities for the development of the State owned port at Brunswick have been so impressed upon us that we feel careful consideration should be given to the advantages offered here, before a decision is reached as to the designation of the proposed State port and terminal.

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-

A RESOLUTION
House Resolution ?\o. 228. Whereas, The Honorable Burton L. Weston of Brooks County did on yesterday join the Ancient and Benevolent Order of Benedicts.
Therefore, Be it Resolved, That this House extend its most hearty congratulations and good wishes to the gentleman from Brooks and his better half.
Be it Further Res,olved, That said gentleman is relieved from attendance of all night sessions of this House.
Under the order of unfinished business, the following bill of the House was taken up for further consideration:

By 1\Ir. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill Xo. 674. A bill to withdraw the privilege of admission to the Georgia bar by diploma alone.

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1053

The bill having been read the third time and the report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, having been agreed to, the bill was placed upon its passage.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 105, Nays 14.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was .passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered Immediately transmitted to the Senate.
Under orders of the day, the following bills of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were. read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 65. A bill relating to placing of children by persons other than the parents or relatives of such children, and for other purposes.
The following committee substitute was read and adopted:

A BILL
To be entitled an Act to regulate the placing out of children by persons other than the parents or relatives of such children; prescribing certain records to be kept and conditions to be observed by persons authorized by law to secure homes for children; regulating the bringing into or taking

1054

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

out of the State of children for the purpose of placing-out; requiring persons placing children to comply with regulations and secure a license from the Judge of the Superior Court; conferring certain powers upon and prescribing certain duties of the Board of public welfare and making appropriation to cover same, and making certain violations of this Act unlawful, and for other purposes:

SEcTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia and it is hereby enacted by authority of same that no person, agency, hospital, maternity home, or institution, or official, public or private in this State shall receive or accept a child, under sixteen years of age, for placement or adoption, or place such a child either temporarily or permanently, in a home other than the home of the child's relatives within the second degree, or solicit money in behalf of such agency, unless it has received a license from the Judge of Superior Court of the circuit in which the person or agency has head- quarters, issued after the passage of this Act in compliance with the provisions set forth herein.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no such license shall be issued unless the person, agency, hospital, institution or official, is competent and equipped to comply with the provisions of Section 4 of this Act.

SEc. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that applications for child placing license

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1055

must be filed in duplicate with the Judge of the
Superior Court on forms furnished by the State Board of Public Welfare, by all persons, agencies, hospitals, maternity homes, institutions or public or private officials now engaged in child placing on or
before January 1, 1923; and by others thereafter who may desire to engage in child placing. It shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court to furnish a copy of each application for child placing license to the Board of Public Welfare within five days after such application is filed, and no license shall be granted Dr denied until six months after such copy has been thus transmitted. It shall also be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court to furnish the State Board of Public "\V"elfare with a copy of each child placing license granted by the Judge of the Court.
A period of six months time after application for child placing license has been filed shall be allowed by the Judge, during which time applicants may place children under the provisions of the Act. Only one six months period of time shall be granted to an applicant.
For the purpose of Sections 2, 3, 4 and 5 of this .Act, the State Board of Public Welfare shall carefully ascertain the competency and equipment of each applicant for a child placing license and submit its findings to the Judge within six months after the date of each application. Said Board shall make similar inquiries into the child placing work of

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lcensed persons or agencies at least once each year and report its findings to the Superior Court.

SEc. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that the holder of a license shall:

(a) Never place a child in a foster home or boarding home without previously becoming carefully acquainted with (1) the conditions which call for placement of the child, making diligent effort to avoid separation from the parents, and afterwards removing the child only when this action is found necessary in order to prevent serious detriment to the welfare of the child; (2) the home in which the child is to be placed, taking every proper precaution to place children only in homes where they will receive the proper care and training.
(b) Inquire carefully into the care of the child in its new home, at least once during the first two mouths, twice during the first six months and twice in every year thereafter unless the child is legally adopted, or until the child reaches the age of eighteen years; and remove any child promptly from a home where it is mistreated or neglected.

(c) Report immediately to the Board of Public "\Velfare every child received by the agency or institution, or born in the institution, and every child placed, together with such information regarding the child, its family, and the foster home as the Board may require. Such report to be filed within ten days of such receipt, birth or placement. . The Board of Public Welfare shall supply .the Superior

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Court with forms for issuing licenses and the child placing licenses with record and report forms to be used as required in this Section.

SEc. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that proof of failure to comply with the above regulations shall be grounds for revocation of the license by the Judge, upon ten days written notice to the licensee, and opportunity to answer charges at a formal hearing. Upon the filing of a petition for revocation of license, the Superior Court shall in every instance proceed with notice and hearing on the petition.

SEc. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that for the purposes of Section 3, 4 and 5 the Board of Public "\Yelfare may ascertain by visit of its agents or otherwise if necessary, the character of any private home or private boarding home in which children are placed or boarded, either temporarily or ~ermanently by any person or agency. Whenever the Board shall find that a child has been placed in an improper home, the agency placing the child shall be notified by the State Board of Public Welfare and if the child is not removed within a reasonable time, the Board shall institute proceedings before the proper court for its removal and placement in a proper home.

SEc. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no person, as an inducement to a woman to go to any maternity hospital or home during confinement, shall in any way offer to dispose of
Sig. 34

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any child or advertise that he will give children for adoption or hold himself out as being able to dispose of children in any manner or permit any child to be left or abandoned in such maternity home, hospital or private home by its mother or any other person, unless such hospital or home is dul~ licensed to place children under this Act.

SEc. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no child placed by an agency under this Act shall be legally adopted into its foster home until he has lived six months in said foster home, nor thereafter without written permission of the person or agency responsible for the placement.

SEc. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no person shall bring or send into the State any child for the purpose of placing him out or procuring his adoption, without first filing notice with the State Board of Public Welfare. He shall file with the Board a bond to the State for each child, approved by the Board, in the penal sum of one thousand dollars, conditioned that he will not seud or bring into the State any child who is incorrigible or unsound of mind or bod~; that he will remoYe any such child who becomes a public charge or who, in the opinion of the Board of Public Welfare, becomes a menace to the community prior to his adoption or becoming the legal age; that the person with wi:.om the child is placed shall be responsible for his proper care and training. Before an~ child shall be brought or sent into the State for the purpose of placing him in a foster home, the person so bringing o-r sending

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such child shall first notify the State Board of Public Welfare, of his intention, and shall obtain from the Board a certificate stating that such home is, in the opinion of the Board, a suitable home for the child. Such notification shall state the name, age and personal description of the child, and the name and address of the person with whom the child is to be placed, mid such other information as may be required by the Board. The person bringing or sending the child into the State shall report at least once each year, and such other times as the Board of Public Welfare shall direct, as to the location and well-being of the child so long as he shall remain within the State and until he shall have reached the age of eighteen or shall have been legally adopted.
Section 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that no officer or authorized agent of the State Board of Public Welfare, or any of its agents, or a holder of a child placing license, or any other person, shall directly or indirectly disclose the contents of the records herein provided for, or the particulars entered therein, of facts learned about such homes, or the inmates thereof, except upon inquiry before a court of law, at a coroner's inquest or before some other tribunal, or for information of the State Board of Public Welfare. Provided, however, that nothing herein shall prohibit the holder of the license or the Board of Public Welfare disclosing such facts to such proper persons as may be in the interest of any child.

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Section 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that any person who shall violate any of the provisions of this Act, or who shall make any false statements or reports to the Board of Public Welfare with reference to the matters contained herein, and any parent or guardian or person receiving a child who shall give a false name or address to the Board of Public Welfare, or any agency licensed under this Act, shall, upon conviction, be guilty of misdemeanor.

Section 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that there is hereby appropriated the sum of $5,000.00 annually to the State Board of Public Welfare, for the purpose of carrying out the duties imposed upon said Board by this Act, in addition to any other appropriations alloted to said Board.

Section 13. The Judge shall direct the Clerk to enter all orders and proceedings under this Act on the minutes of the Superior Court and the Clerk shall be paid such fees as clerks are allowed for similar services to be paid out of the appropriation for the Department of Public Welfare upon the certificate of the Judge.
Section 14. If for any reason the Judge of the Circuit is disqualified the duties imposed by this Act may be discharged by any qualified Judge of the Superior Court who shall order the proceedings entered on the minutes of the Superior Court of the proper county.

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Section 15. If any section, clause or sentence of this Act is declared invalid the remainder of the Act shall be valid notwithstanding.

Section 16. All Acts and parts of Acts in conflict herewith are hereby repealed.
The following amendment to the substitute was read and adopted:

By Mr. Knight of Berrien-
Amend by striking Section 12 of said bill so as to eliminate mention of an appropriation of $5,000 and to renumber the sections accordingly.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Nays 1.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute as amended.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Foy of Taylor-
House Bill No. 562. A bill to repeal an Act to prevent the shipment or movement of tick-infested cattle into, within or through the State of Georgia and for other purposes.

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~Ir. Green, of Jones, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following committee substitute was read and adopted:

An Act to amend an Act entitled '' an Act to prevent the shipment or movement of tick infested cattle into, within, or through the State of Georgia; to provide for statewide tick eradication throughout the State of Georgia; to provide for the expense of conducting the work in the several counties; to provide processes to compel compliance by county officials with the provisions of this Act, and of orders and regulations of the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and for the State Veterinarian; to provide penalties for violation of this Act; and for other purposes'' by adding to said Act a new section to be known as Section 6 (a); providing that none of the provisions of said Act shall apply to any county in this State not heretofore having been declared tick free until a hvo-thinls yote of a grand jury regularly setting therein shall so recommend to provide for shipment of cattle from tick-infested counties upon dipping and inspection as now required by Fede~al law to exempt from inspection dressed meats and salt and flint hides.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that from and after the passage of this

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1063

Act, that the Act of the General Assembly of Georgia, approved August 17, 1918, and contained in Acts of the General Assembly, 1918, pages 256-59, inclusive, known as the "Tick Eradication Law," be and the same is hereby amended by adding a new section to said Act, to be known as Section 6 (a) and as follows:

Section 6 (a). Provided, however, that none of the provisions of this Act shall apply to any county in this State that has not already been declared tickfree, until a two-thirds YotE: of the grand jury regularly sitting shall so recommend (the statement of the grand jury as to the result of such vote being sufficient), and providing further that shipment of beef cattle from such tick-infested counties shall be allowed b~ the State Veterinarian upon complieuce of the owner or owners with the Federal laws in such cases made and provided, and provided further that the proYisions of this Act sh~1ll in no wise interefere with the shipment of dressed meats and salt and flint hides.

Provided further, that when tick-free counties, or counties engaged in county wide dipping, border on counties not tick-free that the line between such counties shall be a quarantine line which shall be mainta:ined by the counties under quarantine until ~uch line is removed by such other counties becoming tick-free.
Provided further, that the provisions of Section 6 (a) shall not go into effect as to counties not now

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tick-free, but now engaged in county wide dipping, until January 1, 1923.

Section 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

The following amendment to the substitute was read and adopted:

By Mr. McMichael of M;arion-
Amend by adding the following proviso: ''Provided that the county or counties within the exempted territory shall build a double barbed wire fence on the quarantine line of the tick-free territory; and the double fence shall be built at the expense of the county or counties in the exempted territory under the specifications and directions of the State Veterinarian.''

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to as amended.
9n the passage of the bill the Ayes were 106, Nays 29.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed by substitute as amended.
By unanimous censent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

MoNDAY, AuGUST 14, 1922.

1065

By Messrs. Brannen and Parrish of Bullock-
House Resolution No.148. A resolution to authorize sale of certain lands owned by the State for benefit of 1st District A. and l\f. School.
The report of the Committee, which. was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.
On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 108, Nays 3.
The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the resolution was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
House Bill No. 931. A bill to amend an Act to aid in the establishment and maintenance of public schools in each county of this State.
The following Committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend by striking out the words "Rental of the Western and Atlantic Railroad,'' and substituting therefor the words ''General School Fund.''
Mr. Green, of Jones, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, ;WRS agreed to.

1066

JorRxAL OF THE HousE,

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 105, 1'\ays 10.

The bill having reeeiYed the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By l\fr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Bill No. 757. A bill to permit cities and counties to issue bonds to construct joint high schools.
The report of the Committee, which :was faYorable to the passage of the bill,~ was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.
Mr. Robinson, of Macon, moved that the House reconsider its action in passing Senate Bill No. 1, and the motion was lost.

By Mr. Brown of Emanuel-
House Bill No. 759. A bill to prohibit the growing of cotton in State for year 1924 and each second year thereafter.

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1067

Mr. Swindle, of Jackson moved that the bill, substitutes, and amendments be tabled and the motion prevailed.

By Mr. Hamilton of Floyd-
House Bill No. 675. A bill to define the liability of hotel keepers.
The report of the Committee, whichwa.s favorable to the passage of the bill,, was agreed to.
I
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 104, Nays 1.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the .bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Mason of Hart-
House Bill No. 734. A bill giving all counties in this State the right to establish and maintain free public libraries, and for other purposes.
Mr. Moore, of Appling, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was disagreed to and the bill was lost.

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J O"LRNAL OF THE HousE,

By Messrs. Bentley, Holloway and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 592. A bill to amend the Constitution relative to the abolition of certain county off~cers and to provide salaries in lieu thereof.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, having been agreed to the bill was up for passage.
Mr. Rutherford of Monroe moved that the House reconsider its action in agreeing to the report of the Committee and the motion was lost.
The bill involving a constitutional amendment, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in theaffirmtltin' were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Arnold Beck Beckham Bentle;y Bird of Taliaferro Boswell Bowen
Bo~ett
Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Haneoek Brownlee Carr Collier I Cowart Dobbs DuBoe DndlPy

E,an~
Fobom Fowler Gann Gresham Griffith GroYenstein
(~lH~S
Haddock Hatcher of Burke Hateher of Muscogee Hawkins Holloway Horne Howard of Foryth Hullender Hunter Hyman .Tones of Coweta .fone of Thomas

.Johnson of Bartow .Tohnson of
C'hattahooehee Keith Kennedy King of .Jefferson Knight Lewis
~fcClelland
}IcC lure McDonald of ::\Iitchell ::\IeGarity ~lac Intyre ),lr :\[ichael Maddox Malone Manning Miles :\Ioore of Appling ~Ioore of Fulton

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1069

l\Ioye Mundy Nichols Parks Parrish Patten Perryman Phillips of Jasper Phillips of Telfair Pruett Rutherford Sapp

Sibley Smith of Bryan Steele Stovall Strickland Sumner of Wheeler Swift Tatum Thompso!1 of Coweta Turner Tyson Valentino

Van Landingham Vocelle Way Webu \Vhitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale \Villiams of Harris Winship \Vynne

Those voting in the ~egative were Messrs:

Anderson

Foy

Neal of Union

.

Bloodworth

Franks

Owen

Bobo

Grant

Penland

Braddy

Griffin

Peterson

Branch

Greene

Pickren

Brannen

Harris

Pilcher

Byrd of Crisp

Henderson

Price

Camp

Herring

Quincev

Childs

Hillhouse

Ramsey

Clark of Colquitt

Hines of Decatur

Reville

Clark of Webster

Hines of Sumter

Riley

Coates

Hodges

Salmon

Corbitt

Holland

Shettlesworth

Culpepper

Houser

Smith of Carroll

Daniel of Heard

Howard of Scre\en Smith of Haralson

Daniel of Troup

.Jackson

Watkins

Davis of Oglethorpe Jones of w-alker

\Yilliams of ),[iller

DeFoor

.Johnson of Pickens \Yimberly

Dixon

Lankford of Toombs \Yood

Duncan of Dawson )!cDonald of

Wyatt

Duncan of Hall

Richmond

Ficklen

\Ia,on

Those not voting were Messrs :

Atkinson Baldwin Blalock Bleckley Boatwright

Bowden Bozeman Bush Carswell Clifton

Collins Davis of Floyd DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dykes Ennis

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Fletcher Gunnels Hamilton Homton Hufstetler King of Wilcox Kittrell Langford of Hall Logan Luke :\Iann :\I a yo

:\lixon Perkin" l{t>agan
Ri~ketson
Robinson Ru"sell Singl<'tary Hmiley Smiti of :\Ieriwether Stone Sumner of .John:;on Swindle

Thompson of Dodge Tripp<' Yan Zant \\'alhr \\'all \\'.,,;ton Whitworth Williams of \\'alton \\'oodard \\'crthy :\lr. Speaker

Ayes 93, Nays 63.

.

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll

call was dispensed with.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 93, Xays 63.

The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.
By unanimous consent all bills passed this morning were ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.

The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

3 o'Clock P . .JI.
The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.

l\IoNDAY, AuausT 14, 1922.

1071

By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
The following bill of the House was introduced, read the first time and referred to the Committee:

By Mr. Summer of Johnson-
House Bill No. 1005. A bill to repeal an Act incorporating the Tom School District in Emanuel and Johnson Counties.
l\Ir. DuBose of Clarke County, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriation and Ways and Means have had under consideration, the following resolution of the House and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Resolution No. 185.
llcBosE, Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bills to-wit:

1072

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

House Bill No. 843. A bill to permit the County of Bibb to support the Macon Hospital.

House Bill No. 937. A bill to amend Parks Code applicable only to Carroll County.

House Bill No. 943. A bill to aniend an Act creating a Board of Roads and Revenues for the County of Appling.

House Bill No. 951. A bill to amend an Act to establish a Board of Roads and Revenues for the County of Appling.

House Bill No. 954. A bill to amend an Act creating a new charter for the Town of Decatur.

House Bill No. 968. A bill to create the City Court of Decatur.

The following Senate Bills:

Senate Bill No. 159. A bill to revise the present law creating the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy.
Senate Bill No. 322. A bill to repeal an Act incorpor-ating the Tom School District in Emanuel and Johnson Counties.
The following resolution of the House, favorably reported by the Committee, was read the second time:

By Mr. Beckham of DoughertyHouse Resolution No. 185. A resolution to correct

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1073

error in appropriation bill of 1921 relative to amount appropriated for control of hog cholera.
The following bills of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Trippe of Bartow-
House Bill No. 767. A bill to provide for giving notice to persons and corporations whose names are sought to be used as a corporation, and for other purposes.
The following Committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend by adding at the end of Section 1 the following words: "Provided that the provisions of this Act shall apply only to secret or fraternal societies, orders, or lodges, and where the words 'person,' 'order,' 'lodge,' 'society,' or, corporation,' are used in this Act they shall be used in this sense."
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 110, Nays 9.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

1074

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

By Messrs. Neill, Hatcher, and Perkins of Muscogee-
House Bill No. 936. A bill to provide for municipal corporations to hold recorders court in the absence of the Recorder, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, 1was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 112, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.
;
By Messrs. Moore, Holloway, and Bentley of Fulton-
House Bill No. 720. A bill to amend Section 3353 of Code of 1910 amending the lien law of Georgia.
Mr. Harris of Jefferson moved that the bill be tabled and the. motion was lost.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was disagreed to and the bill was lost.
Mr. Mundy of Polk moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until 8 o'clock tonight.
On this motion Mr. Macintyre of Thomas moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

MoNDAY, AuausT 14, 1922.

1075

The motion that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until tonight at 8 o'clock prevailed.
Mr. Wyatt of Troups moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the report of the Committee on Rules be amended so as to place House Resolution No. 129 on the Calendar set by said Committee to immediately follow House Bill No. 579".
On this motion Mr. Rutherford of Monroe called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was sustained.
The roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were :\Iessrs:

Adam8 of \Valton
~-\ndi2rson
Atkinson Baldwin Beck Be<>kham Bird of Taliaferro Bleck ley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boyett Braddy Braneh Brown of Emanuel Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Camp Carr Childs

Clark of Colquitt Coates Collier Corbitt Culpepper Dani<>l of Heard Daniel of Troup Da,is of Oglethorpe DeFoor Dunean of Dawson Dykes Ennis Enws Fieklen Folsom Foy Franks Grant Greene GrO\enstein

Guess Gunnels Haddo<'k Hamilton Hatcher of Burke Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway Horne Howard of Forsyth Howard of Screven Hullender Hyman Jone8 of Coweta Jones of Walker

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.T ouRNAL Ol<' THE HousE,

Johnson of Bartow Parrish

Johnson of

Patten

Chattahoochee Penland

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

King of Wileox

Phillips of Jasper

Kittrell

PhillipH of Telfair

Knight

Pi<'kren

Lewis

Pile her

Logan

Pri<'e

::\leCiure

Pnwtt

::\IeGarity

Quin<'ey

Maddox

Ramsey

:\fa lone

Hf'agan

::\lanning

Re\"ille

::\Iayo

Ricketson

Mile>

Riley

::\Iixon

Rutherford

::\Ioore of Appling

Salmon

::\Ioye

Sapp

~eal of L'nion

Shettlesworth

Owen

Sibley

SingiPtary Smiley Smith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Stone Stomll Sumner of Wheeler Tatum Thompson of Coweta Valentino Vocelle "'atkins Webb Whitley Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Walton \Yood Worthy Wyatt \Vynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Arnold Bentley Boswell Bowen Bozeman Brantley Carswell Clark of Webster Collins Dickerson Dobbs DuBose DudiP,\'

Fowler Gann Griffin Harris Hines of Decatur Hunter ,Joue,; of Thomas Keith Kt>nnedy King of Jefferson Luke }f!'Donald of Mitchell :\lacIntyre

~las on Mundy N,ichols Parks Smith of Meriwether Steele Sumner of .Johnson Trippe Turner Tyson Van Landingham Way Whitaker of Lowndes

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Blalock Bowden Brannen

Brown of Hancock Bush Clifton Cowart

Davis of Floyd DeLaPerriere Dixon Duncan of Hall

MoNDAY, AuausT 14, 1922.

1077

Fletcher

~fc)fichael

Gresham

}lann

Griffith

)[oore of Fulton

Hatcher of Muscogee Perkins

Houser

Perryman

Houston

Robinson

Hufstetler

RusRell

Jackson

Smith of Haralson

Langford of Hall

Strickland

Lankford of Toombs Swift

McClelland

Swindle

:McDonald of

Thomp,on of Dodge

Richmond Van Zant

Walker Wall Weston Williams of Harris Williams of ~Iiller Wimberly \Yimhip \Voodard :\Ir. Speaker

Ayes 122, Nays 39.

The roll call was verified.

On the motion to amend the report of the Committee on Rules the Ayes were 122, Nays 39, and the motion prevailed.

Mr. W aktins, of Butts, moved that the House reconsider its action in voting that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until tonight at 8 o'clock.

On this motion Mr. Henderson, of White, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

The motion to reconsider was lost.

By Mr. Knight of Berrien-
House Bill No. 579. A bill to supply a deficiency in the school fund.<; caused by mis~ppropriation of funds by R.N. Berrien.
The bill involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House

1078

.JotoRNAL OF THE HousE,

and the Speaker designated Mr. Moore, of Fulton, as the Chairman thereof.

The Committee of the Whole House arose and through its Chairman reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

Mr. Moore, of Appling, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

The bill involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were :Jiessrs:

Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold
~-\tkinson
Baldwin Beck Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Bleckley Boatwright Boswell Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancoek Carr

Carswell Childs ('lark of Colquitt l'lark of Webster Collins Daniel of Heard Dad~ of Oglethorpe Diekerson Dohhs DuBose DudlPy Ennis E,ans Folsom Foy Frank" Gann Gresham Griffin GrePne GrO\enstein

Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hateher of Burke Haw kim: Henderson H,rring Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Holland Holloway Horne Houser Howard of For,yth Hullender Hunter
H~man
,Jones of Coweta Jmws of Walker

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1079

Johnson of Bartow 1Iayo

Johnson of

.!\Iile.;

Chattahooehee 1Iixon

Johnson of Pickens :\Ioore of Appling

Keith

:\Ioore of Fulton

Kennedy

.:\fundy

King of Jefferson

Xichob

King of Wilcox

Owen

Kittrell

Parks

Knight

Parrish

Lewis

Patten

Logan

Penland

:\IcClelland

Perryman

l\IcClure

Peterson

McDonald of :\Iitchell Phillips of Jasper

:\IcDonald of

PiekrPn

Riehmond Pilcher

1IeGarity

Price

Me:\Iichael

Pruett

.\faddox

Reagan

:\Ialone

ReYille

Mann

Rieketson

Manning

Russell

Halmon
~app
Sibley Smiley Hmith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Steele Strickland Sumner of \\"hteler Tatum Thomp,..on of Coweta TrippP Turner \"alentino \"an Landingham Yo, ell(' \\"ay \\"i1itaker of Rockdale \\"hitworth \\"illiams of \\"alton "nood
Wyatt

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Bloodworth Bobo Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Collier Culpepper Ficklen Grant

Hillhou~e
Hodge,; Howard of Scre\en .Tones of Thomas 11aelntyre .:\loye Xeal of Union Quin<ey

Ramsey Riley Rutherford :-:tone Stomll Swift

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Bentley Blalock Bowden Bush Camp Clifton

Coates Corbitt Cowart Daniel of Troup DaYis of Floyd DeFoor DeLaPerriere

Dixon Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Fletcher Fowler Griffith

1080

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

Hatcher of .:llu,;cogee Houston Hufstetler Jackson Langford of Hall Lankford of Toombs Luke Mason Perkins Phillips of Telfair Robinson Shettlesworth

~ingletary
Bmith of Meriwether ~umner of Johnson Swindle Thompson of Dodge Tyson Van Zant \Yalker Wall \Yatkins \Yebb Weston

Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Williams of Harris \Yimberly Whitley Williams of Miller Winship Woodard Worthy \Vynne .:IIr. Speaker

Ayes 130, Nays 22.

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 130, Nays 22.
The bill having r~ceived the requisite constitu. tional majority was passed.

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered imme. diately transmitted to the Senate.

Mr. Dobbs, of Cobb County, Chairman of the Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on University of Georgia and Its Branches have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and :P.ave instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do not pass.
House Bill No. 949.
C. B. DoBBs, Chairman.

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1081

Mr. Turner, of Brooks County, Chairman of the Committee on Highways, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Highways have had under consideration the following Bill of the Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass by substitute.
Senate Bill No. 236.
TuRXER of Brooks, Chairman.

Mr. Tatum, of Dade County, Chairman of the Committee on Railroads, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Railroads have had under consideration the following Bills and Resolutions of the House and Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do not pass:
House Bill No. 330. House Bill No. 238. House Resolution No. 38. Senate Resolution No. 84.
TATUM of Dade, Chairman.

1082

.JoL"RKAL OF THE HousE,

Mr. DuBose, of Clarke County, Chairman of the Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Appropriations and Ways and Means have had under consideration the following Bill of the House and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Bill No. 760. Do pass.

DuBosE of Clarke, Chairman.

Mr. VanLandingham, of Seminole County, Chairman of the Committee on Banks and Banking, submitted the following report:

Mr. SpeakPI":
Your Committee on Banks and Banking have had under consideration the following Bill of the Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 277.
VAN LAXGIKGHAl\I of Seminole, Chairman.

Mr. Guess, of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, submitted the following report:

MoNDAY, AuGusT 14, 1922.

1083

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 1 have had under consideration the following Resolution of the House and have instructed me, as Chairwan, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
House Resolution No. 224.

CARL N. GUEss of DeKalb, Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. 8peakPr:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the Senate, towit:
Senate Bill No. 257. A bill to be entitled an Act to promote Forestry interest in the State of Georgia under the direction of Georgia State Board of Forestry and for other purposes.
The following Bills and Resolutions of the House, favorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Beckham of Dougherty-
House Resqlution No. 185. A resolution to correct error in the General Appropriation Bill of 1921.

1084

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

By Mr. Wimberly of Laurens-
House Resolution No. 224 (996-A). A resolution to relieve bondsmen on bond of E. P. Woodward.
By Mr. Smith of Bryan-
House Bill ~o. 760. A bill to appropriate money for repair of State Sanatorium for Tubercular patients.
By Mr. Wall of the Fifth-
Senate Bill No. 236. A bill to amend the Georgia Motor Vehicle Law, relative to licenses.

By Mr. Brown of the 50th-
Senate Bill No. 277. A bill to amend Section 1249 of Code of 1910, relative to State Depositories so as to include the town of Crawford, in Oglethorpe County.
The following Bills of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Ridley of the 28th-
Senate Bill No. 159. A bill to revise the present laws creating the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy.
Referred to the Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation.
By Messrs. Ellis of the 47th, Mills of the 26th, and Snow of the 7th-
Senate Bill No. 257. A bill to promote Forestry interests in this State.

MoNDAY, AuausT 14, 1922.

1085

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary.

By Messrs. Brown of the 50th, and Thomas of the 3rd-

Senate Bill No. 269. A bill for the protection of Game and Fish in this State.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Mr. Ellis of the 47th-

Senate Bill No. 303. A bill to amend the Charter of the City of Tifton.
Referred to the Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Roundtree of the 16th-
Senate Bill No. 322. A bill to repeal the Act incorporating the Tom School District.
Referred to the Committee on Education.
Mr. Vocelle, of Camden, moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.
The following Resolution of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Henderson of White-

House Resolution No. 129. A resolution to pay 'the "old" class pensioners $226,700.00 for 1922, and the ''new'' class pensioners $975,000.00 for 1922.

1086

JoURNAL OF Tl.i~: l-tOUSE,

Mr. Arnold, of Clay, moved that the House instruct the Committee of the Whole House that debate on this resolution be limited to one hour, thirty minutes to each side.
Mr. McMichael, of Marion, moved that the House instruct the Committee of the Whole House that debate on this resolution be limited to thirty minutes, fifteen minutes to the side, and the motion prevailed.
The resolution involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Davis, of Oglethorpe, as the Chairman thereof.

The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the resolution back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended.

Mr. Beckham, of Dougherty, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

All amendments were lost. The report of the committee, which was faYorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.
Mr. Davis, of Oglethorpe, moved that the House reconsider its action in ordering the main question and the motion was lost.
The resolution involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

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1087

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adam,, of \Valton Anderson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright Hobo Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of \Vebster Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Oglethorpe DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dobbs Dykes Ennis E\ans Fieklen Fobom Foy Franks Gann

Grant

::\IcGarity

Griffin

::\1cMichael

Greene

Maddox

Grovenstein

~Ialone

Guess

Manning

Gunnels

Mason

Haddock

::\Iayo

Hamilton

Miles

Harris

:Mixon

Hatcher of Burke

::\Ioye

Hawkins

~Iundy

Henderson

Neal of l'nion

Herring

Owen

Hillhouse

Parrish

Hines of Decatur

Patten

Hines of Sumter

Penland

Hodges

Perryman

Holland

Peterson

Holloway

Phillips of Jasper

Horne

Phillips of Telfair

Howard of Forsyth Pickren

Howard of Screven Pilrher

Hullender

Price

Hyman

Pruett

Jones of Coweta

Quin<ey

Jones of Walker

Ramsey

Johnson of Bartow Reagan

.Johnson of

Reville

Chattahoochee Ricketson

Johnson of Pickens Riley

K<>nncdy

Russell

King of .Jefferson

Rutherford

King of Wilcox

Salmon

Kittrell

:-lapp

Knight

Sibley

Lewis

Smiley

Logan

:-imith of Bryan

:\ieCielland

Smith of Carroll

:\<IcC lure

Smith cf Haralson

~1cDonald of ::\iitchell Steele

::\icDonald of

Stovall

Richmond Strickland

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Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Trippe

Valentino VanZant Voc-elle Way Webb Whitaker of Lowndes

Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Walton Wimberly Wyatt Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Arnold Boswell ,Bowen

Hunter .Tone" of Thomas Macintyre

Parks

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adam" of Newton Atkin,-on Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bowden Brantley Bush Camp Clifton .Cowart Dads of Floyd DeFoor Dixon DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Fletcher Fowler

Greo;ham Griffith Hatcher of Muscogee Houser
Hou~ton
Hufstetler Jackson Keith Langford of Hall Lankford of Toombs Luke
~[ann
)foore of Appling Moore of Fulton Nichols Perkins Robinson Shettlesworth Singletary Smith of Meriwether

Stone Sumner of Johnson Thompson of Dodge Turner Tyson Van Landingham \Valker \Yall Watkins \Veston \Yhitley \Villiams of Harris Williams of Miller Winship \Vood Woodard Worthy ~Ir. Speaker

Ayes 142, Nays 7.

The roll call was verified.

On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 142, Nays 7.

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The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill waiil ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.
Mr. Vocelle, of Camden, moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until tonight at 8 o'clock.

Night Session,
8 o'Clock P. M.
The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
The following Bills and Resolutions of the House and Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:
By Mr. Williams of 45th-
Senate Resolution No. 86. A resolution to relieve certain bondsmen of one W. K. Brooks.
Mr. Knight, of Berrien, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
Sig. 35

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The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.
On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 107, Nays 3.

The resolution having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By unanimous consent the resolution was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Messrs. Boatwright and Brown of Emanuel-
House Resolution No. 167. A resolution to relieve the surety on the bond of J. B. Hall.
Mr. Beck, of Carroll, moved that the House instruct the Committee of the Whole House that debate on this resolution be limited to five minutes to each side and the motion prevailed.
The resolution involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Way, of Liberty, as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the resolution back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.
The resolution involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

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Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs :

Baldwin

Grovenstein

Miles

Beckham

GUPSS

Mundy

Blalock

Haddock

Owen

Blackley

Harris

Parrish

_.

Bloodworth Bobo

Hateher of Burke Hawkins

Patten Penland

Bowden

Henderson

Peterson

Bozeman

Hillhouse

Phillips of Telfair

Branch

Hines of Decatur

Pickren

Brannen

Hines of Sumter

Pilcher

Brantley

Hodges

Price

Brown of Emanuel Holland

Pruett

Brown of Hancock Holloway

Ramsey

Brownlee

Houser

Reville

Camp

Howard of Screven Riley

Carr

Hullender

Russell

Carswell

Hyman

Rutherford

Childs

Jackson

Singletary

Clark of Colquitt

Jones of Coweta

Smith of Bryan

Clifton

,Jones of Walker

Smith of Carroll

Coates

Johnson of Bartow Smith of Haralson

Collier

Johnson of

Steele

Corbitt

Chattahoochee Strickland

Cowart

Kittrell

Sumner of .Johnson

Daniel of Heard

Knight

Tatum

Dickerson

Langford of Hall

Thompson of Coweta

Dixon

Lewis

Valentino

DuBose

Logan

Van Landingham

Duncan of Dawson Luke

VanZant

Dykes

~cClelland

Walker

Ennis

:\IcDonald of ~itchell Way

Ficklen

McDonald of

Webb

Folsom

Richmond Whitaker of Lowndes

Fowler

McGarity

Whitaker of Rockdale

Grant

Macintyre

"Villiams of Harris

Gresham

MdEchael

Williams of Walton

Greene

~Ia yo

Winship

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Arnold Beck Bentley

Bosweli Bowen Braddy

Byrd of Crisp Clark of Webster Culpepper

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Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe Duncan of Hall Gann :McClure Malone

)fason )Iixon )loore of Appling 1loye Phillips of Jasper Quincey Salmon

Sapp Smiley Smith. of Meriwether Trippe Turner Williams of )!iller Wyatt

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Atkinson Bird of Taliaferro Boatwright Boyett Bush Collins DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dobbs Dudley Evans Fletcher Foy Franks Griffin Griffith Gunnels Hamilton Hatcher of )fuscogee Herring

Horne Houstm; Howard of Forsyth Hufstetler Hunter Jones of Thomas Johnson of Pickens Keith Kennedy King of Jefferson King of Wilcox Lankford of Toombs )laddox )!ann )lanning ~Ioore of Fulton Neal of Union Nichols Parks Perkins Perryman R<>agan Ricketeon

Robinson Shettlesworth Sibley Stone Stovall Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Thompson of Dodge Tyson Voce lie Wall Watkins Wlston Whitley Whitworth Wimberly "ood Woodard Worthy Wynpe )lr. Speaker

Ayes 109, Nays 30.

By unammous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 109, Nays 30.

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1093

The resolution having received the requisite con stitutional majority was passed.
The following bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering Senate amendments thereto:

By Mr. Brantley of Pierce-
House Bill No. 260. A bill to change the name of the Railroad Commission and for other purposes.
The following Senate amendments were read:
Atnend Section 9 by striking same.
Amend by striking Section 3.
Amend the title by striking the words ''to provide for a public counsel to represent the public in all matters before the Commission, to fix his salary, to define his duties, and provide for his appointment by the Governor.''
Amend Section 8 by adding after the word ''law'' in the fourth line thereof the following words: ''In eluding the Special Attorney now provided by law, whose term of cfiice and appointment shall con tinue as heretofore, except that the special attor. n!ey's sa:lary sh~ll be four thousand lfiollars per annum."
Mr. Beckham, of Dougherty moved that the House concur in the Senate amendments.
On this motion Mr. Dobbs, of Cobb, moved the

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previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

The motion to concurr in the Senate amendments prevailed.

The following message was received from the

Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary

thereof.



Mr. Speaker:

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the Senate:

Senate Bill No. 180. A bill to establish a College of Agriculture and. Mechanic Arts as a branch of the University of Georgia to be known as South Georgia Agricultural College at Tifton.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Bill of the Senate:
Senate Bill No. 208. A bill to establish Juvenile Courts in this State, to fix their jusisdiction and for other purposes.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker: The Senate has passed by the requisite consti-
tutional majority the following Bill of the Senate:

MoNDAY, AuGusT 14, 1922.

1095

By Mr. Manson-

Senate Bill No. 306. A bill to be entitled an Act to establish kindergartens in the public schools of this State, where desired and sufficient funds are obtainable from taxes raised within the town, district or city in which the kindergarten is located, and for other purposes.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisit~ constitutional majority the following Bill of the Senate.
By Mr. Clay-
Senate Bill No. 17. A bill to be entitled an Act to regulate the use of motor vehicles and motorcycles upon the public streets and highways of this State and for other purposes.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:
Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Senate Bill, to-wit:
Senate Bill No. 321. A bill to amend an Act to incorporate the Town of Sharon.

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The following Bill of the Senate was read the first time and referred to the committee:

By Mr. Clay of 39th-
Senate Bill No. 247. A bill to regulate use of motor vehicles and motorcycles on the public streets and highways of this State and for other purposes.
Referred to the Committee on Public Highways.
The following Bills and Resolutions of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Smith of Meriwether-
Honse Bill No. 210. A bill to amend an Act to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department of Georgia, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 118, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Turner of BrooksHouse Bill No. 856. A bill to authorize the State

MoNDAY, AuGUST 14, 1922.

1097

Highway Department and the County authorities to ascertain capacity of bridges and post notices thereof.
Mr. Dykes, of Dooly, moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.

By Messrs. Langford and Duncan of Hall-
House Bill No. 971. A bill to regulate the running of automobiles and the use of cut-outs thereon.
Mr. Smith, of Bryan, moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Gresham, of Burke, moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.
By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-
House Bill No. 651. A bill to appropriate certain sum to Georgia Training School for Girls.
Mr. Smith, of Carroll, moved that the House instruct the Committee of the Whole House that debate on this bill be limited to five minutes to each side.
The bill involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designat~d Mr. Bozeman, of Worth, as the chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended.

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Mr. Quincey, of Coffee, moved that the bill and amendment be tabled and the motion was lost.
The following amendment was read and adopted:

By Mr. Moore of Fulton-
Amend by striking all items appropriated therein, except '' $12,000.00 for furnishing of an adequate water supply," and "$2,500.00 for the construction of a barn.''
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
Mr. McMichael, of Marion, moved that the House do now adjourn; the motion prevailed, and House
Bill No. 651 went over as unfinished business. The Speaker announced the House adjourned un-
til tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.

TuESDAY, AuGusT 15, 1922.

1099

REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

Tuesday, August 15, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.
The following report of the Committee appointed to examine the report of the Commissioner of Agriculture and the President of State College of Agriculture was submitted and read:
Mr. Speaker:
Your committee appointed to examine the report submitted by the Commissioner of Agriculture and President of State College of Agriculture in pursuance of House Resolution No. 127 beg leave to submit the following:
lJnder the resolution providing for this committee we were only authorized to ascertain wherein the reports failed to furnish the information requested in said resolution.
We find that the report failed to furnish the infor.. mation with reference to the Department of Entomology. After investigating this matter we find that

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the fact that this was not submitted grew out of a misunderstanding as to the meaning of the resolution. The report has been submitted to your committee and we attach same herewith.
A list of the employees and salaries of the Department of Agriculture who draw their pay direct from the State Treasurer is also attached, the same was not submitted in accordance with the resolution but the failure of the Commissioner to furnish it grew out of a misunderstanding of the resolution. The Commissioner states that he did not think the resolution covered this, but upon being told by your committee that it did he readily furnished the information to your committee.
We further find that there was n typographical error made in giving the address of F. \Y. Cowie which should have been .Jlontreal, Canada, iristead of Moultrie, Ga.
vVe have not been able to ascertain any other inaccuries in the reports submitted.
We believe the information furnished will prove to be valuable to the people of the State in determining any needed changes in our laws affecting the State Department of Agriculture and the State College of Agriculture, and we therefore recommend that the reports be spread upon the Journal of the House of Represen"tatives for the information of all concerned.
Respectfully submitted, ARNOLD of Clay, Chairman,
c. H. KITTRELL,
J. B. DA~IEL.

TuESDAY, AuGusT 15, 1922.

1101

ATLANTA, GA., August 9, 1922.

HoN. J. J. BROWN, Commissioner of Agriculture, State Capitol, City.

Dear Sir: In accordance with your verbal request I beg to give you below the names, and the amount of salary drawn by each of the employees of the Department of Agriculture who are on our pay roll, as follows:
J. J. Brown, Commissioner ............... $5,000.00 Tom Johnson, Chief Clerk. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500.00 L. B. Jackson, Director of Markets. . . . . . . . 3,000.00 S. H. -Wilson, Chemist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00 S. V. Reed, Entomologist. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3,000.00 P. F. Bahnsen, Veterinarian . . . . . . . . . . . . 2,500.00 J. J. Holloway, Oil Inspector ............. 2,100.00 P. H. ~fell, Assistant Oil Inspector. . . . . . . . 2,100.00 "\V. H. Simms, Assistant Chemist. . . . . . . . . 1,000.00 l\L C. Allen, Assistant Chemist. .......... 1,000.00
The amount of salary shown, of course, covers a one year period.
Trusting this gives you the desired information, lam
Yours very truly,
H. A. HrxoN, Cashier.

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ATLANTA, GA.,
August 8, 1922.

To Representatives

HoN. ZAcH ARNoLD,
c. HoN. H. KITTRELL,
HoN. J. B. DANIEL, Committee.

Dear Sirs:
Appended hereto, I beg to submit a digest and summar~v of the duties and salaries and expenses of the members of Georgia State Board of Entomology, for the period of June 1st, 1921, to and including :May 31st, 1922.

Respectfully submitted,

WFT/cm

\YILLIA~I F. TURNER, Acting State Entomologist.

Sworn to and subscribed before me this 9th day August.

(Seal)

HoRACE G. BRIDGES, )J.P. State at Large.

JUNE 1, 1921, TO MAY 31, 1922.

Name and Address

Rate

Duties

Salary Expenses Total

W. V. Reed, Atlanta ............ $250.00 State Entomologist ... $ 3,000.00 $ 1,157.45 $ 4,157.45

I. Vl. Williams, Thomasville .... 247.50 Cotton Specialist,

General Field Agent

in charge :F'ield work 2,970.00

1,906.13

4,876.13

1-' 1-'

W. W. Chase, Cornelia ......... 227.50 Apple insects and dis~

0 Cl-'

eases ............. 2,750.00 755.80 3,505.80

W. ~'. Turner, Thomasville. . . . . 220.00 Peach and pecan m-

sects and diseases,

Mexican bean beetle 2,640.00 1,10~.64 3,742.64

W. L: Neese, Atlanta ........... 200.00 Secretary & Treasurer 2,400.00 208.30 .2,608.30

D. C. Warren, Valdosta. . . . . . . . 220.00 Cotton boll weevil .... Dr. J. I. Ayres, Thomasville. . . . 125.00 Plant Pathologist .... B. M. Gaddis, Valdosta ......... 200.00 Supt. Experiment Sta. 0. H. Gaddis, Reidsville. . . . . . . . 150.00 Supt. Experiment Sta. W. H. Leonard, Thomasville ..... 150.00 Supt. Experiment Sta. J as. M. Malloy, Macon. . . . . . . . . 150.00 Field Agent ......... J. C. Maness, Atlanta .......... 166.66 Field Agent ......... J. H. Pressley, Valdosta ........ 150.00 ]'ield Agent .........

660.00 250.00 2,400.00 1,800.00 1,800.00 1,800.00 2,000.00 1,800.00

148.75 30.35 1,077.98 648.27
0
1,060.49 1,461.52 1,564.16

808.75

280.35

f-3
~

3,477.98

t.;l
rn

t;j

2,448.27 ~~

1,800.00 2,860.49

~
~

3,461.52 3,364.16

c;:l
r~n 1-3

S. V. Brown, Baxley ............ 150.00 Bee Inspector ....... Mrs. Kate Maguire, Atlanta .... 133.33 Stenographer 0 Mrs. P. W. Jones, Atlanta ...... 100.00 Temporary Stenog.... Mrs. B. M. Gaddis, Valdosta .... 50.00 Stenographer 0 0.

1,800.00 1,600.00
500.00 175.00

932.22
0
........
. .......

2,732.22

1-' ~1:.11

1,600.00 1-'

500.00

~ !).:)

175.00 ~

$30,345.00 $12,054.06 $42,399.06

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Mr. Gunnels of Franklin County, Chairman of the Committee on Labor and Labor Statistic,, submitted the following report:

J.llr. Speake-r:
Your Committee on Labor and Labor Statistics have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 173. Do pass.
GuxxELS of Franklin,
Chairman.

~Ir. }foore of Fulton County, Chairman of the Committee on Education, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following hill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:

Senate Bill No. 322.

~IooRE of Fulton, Chairman.



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Mr. Philips of Jasper County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Game and Fish, submitted the following _report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Game and Fish have had under consideration the following bill of the .Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended.
Senate Bill No. 269.
PHILIPS of Jasper,
Vice-Chairman.

Mr. Smith of Bryan County, Chairman of the Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation, submitted the following report:

1~1 r. Speaker:
Your Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommen- dation that the same do pass as amended:
Senate Bill No. 159.
SMITH of Bryan,
Chairman.

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Mr. Pickren of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report:

J.l!lr. Speaker:
You,r Com.mittee on Corporations have had under considerati?n the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
Senate Bill No. 303.
PrcKREN of Charlton,
Chlti.rman.

Mr. Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2, submitted the following report:
1Vl r. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 2 have had under consideration the following bills of the House and Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows:
House Bill No. 1004. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 38. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 252. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 240. Do pass.
DAVIs of Floyd, Chairman.

TuESDAY, AuGUST 15, 1922.

1107

Mr. Smith of Meriwether County, Chairman of the Committee on Municipal Government, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Municipal Government have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to re. port the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :
Senate Bill No. 304.
W. E. SMITH of Meriwether,
Chairman.

Mr. Hullender, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the following rel?ort:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Enrollment has examined, found properly enrolled, duly signed and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following Acts and Resolutions of the House, to-wit:
House Bill No. 937. An Act to amend Section 659 of Parks Code of Georgia, Volume 1, relative to Roard defaulters.
House Bill No. 843. An Act to permit the County of Bibb to support the Macon Hospital.
House Bill No. 968. An Act to create and establish the City Court of Decatur.

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House Bill No. 951. To amend An Act to establish a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Wilkes County.
House Bill No. 954. An Act to amend Section 38 of the Act creating a new charter for the Town of Decatur.
House Bill No. 943. An Act to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Appling County.
Respectfully Submitted,
HuLLENDER of Catoosa, Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr..McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

lV1 r. Speaker:-

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bill by Committee Substitute:
House Bill No. 988. A bill to amend the charter of City of \Vaycross.

The following Senate Bills:

Senate Bill No. 180. A bill to establish a college of agriculture and mechanic arts.

Senate Bill No. 299. A bill to amend the Code of

Ga. so as to give of guardians for

mothers preference minor children.

in

appointment

The following bills and resolutions of the Senate,

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TuESDAY, AuGusT 15, 1922.

1109

favorably reported by the Committees, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Ellis of the 47th-
Senate Bill No. 38. A bill to provide a uniform County Commissioner Plan for Counties in this State.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary Ko. 2.

By Mr. Ridley of the 28th-
Senate Bill No. 159. A bill to revise the present laws creating the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy.
Referred to Committee on Hygiene and Sanitation.

By Mr. Clay of the 39thSenate BillKo. 173. A bill to abolish the act reg-
ulating the occupation of barbers. Referred to Committee on Labor and Labor
Statistics.
By Mr. Manson of the 35thSenate Bill No. 240. A bill to amend section 2820
of the Code of 1910, relati~ to capital stock of trust companies.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No. 2.
By Mr. Fleming of the lOthSenate Bill No. 252. A bill to require the posting
of rates in all hotels and for other purposes.

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,

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.

By Messrs. Brown of the 50th and Thomas of the 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 269. ~\ bill to protect the game and fish of the State.
Referred to Committee on Game and Fish.

By Mr. Ellis of the 47thSenate Bill No. 303. ~\ bill to amend an Act
creating a new charter for the City of Tifton. Referred to Committee on Corporations.

By Mr. Jones of the 6thSenate Bill No. 304. A bill to amend an act incor-
porating the City of Valdosta.
Referred to Committee on Municipal Government.

By ~Ir. Rountree of the 16th-
Senate Bill No. 322. A bill to repeal an Act incorporating the Tom School District.
Referred to Committee on Education. 'l'he following bills of .the House and Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:
By Mr. King of WilcoxHouse Bill No. 1001. .A bill to amend an Act to
re-incorporate the Town of Abbeville as the City of .Abbeville.

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1111

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 119, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Howard and Evans of Screven-
House Bill No. 1002. A bill to repeal an act to establish a system of Public Schools for Sylvania School District.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 116, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Russell of Barrow-
House Bill No. 1003. A bill to amend an act to incorporate Town of Carl.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 1115, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Mr. King of Wilcox-

House Bill No. 1000. A bill to amend an Act to reincorporate the Town of Abbeville as the City of Abbeville and for other purposes.

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, )was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 118, Nays 0.

The bill having reeeived the requisite constitutional majority was)~assed.

By Mr. Golucke of 19th-
Senate Bill ?\o. 320. A bill to amend charter of City of Crawfordville.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, lwas agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was )Passed.
By Mr. Brown of 50th-
Senate Bill No. 277. A bill to amend Code of 1910, relative to appointment of State Depositories so as to include the Town of Crawford, Oglethorpe County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, ~as agreed to.

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1113

On the passage of the bill the Ayes werce 120, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite. constitutional majority was.,.passed.
The following bills of the Semite were read the first time and referred to the committees:

By Mr. Ellis of 47th-
Senate Bill .No. 180. A bill to establish A. & M. College as branch of University of Georgia to be known as South Georgia Agriculture College.
Referred to Committee on General Agriculture No.1.

By Mr. Thomas of 3rdSenate Bill No. 208. A bill to establish Juvenile
Court in this State and for other purposes.
Referred to Committee on Reformatories.

By Mr. Manson of 35th--:-
Senate Bill No. 306. A bill to establish kindergartens in public schools of this State.
Referred to Committee on Education.

By Mr. Golucke of 19th-
Senate Bill No. 321. A bill to amend an Act to incorporate the Town of Sharon.
Referred to Committee on Corporations.

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The following resolution of the House was introduced and read :

By Mr. Lewis of Colquitt-
House Resolution No. 229. A resolution requesting Attorney General to render his opinion on the validity of extending session one day.
Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson moved that the resolution be tabled.
On this motion Mr. Quincey of Coffee called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
The motion to table prevailed.
The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Pickren of Charlton-

A RESOLUTION
Resolved by the House of Representatives that we extend our~ongratulation to our colleague Hon. John W. Collins of Cherokee County, the efficient ViceChairman of the Committee on Corporations.
August 9th be led to the matrimonial altar one of Cherokee's fairest daughters, she will in future be known as Mrs. John \V. Collins.
May their lives be unhampered and the sea of their matrimonial travels be smooth and serene and all their big troubles be little ones.

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The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. .McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Resolution of the Senate, to-wit:
Senate Resolution .No. 107. A resolution to relieve the bondsmen of one Price Hubbard and for other purposes.
Under orders of the Day, the following bill of the . House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Messrs. Knight of Berrien and Herring of Schley-
House Bill No. 518. A bill to amend Code of 1910, relative to placing of insane convicts in State Sanitarium.
Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson moved previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was disagreed to and the bill was lost.
By Mr. Holloway of FultonHouse Bill No. 651. ~-\. bill to appropriate money
to the Georgia Training School for Girls.

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The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to yesterday.
By unanimous consent the following amendment was introduced and read:

By Mr. Holloway of Fulton-

Amend by striking therefrom all items of appropriation except $12,000.00 for water supply and by adding ''that said amount shall be paid as follows: $6,000.00 in 1922, and $6,000.00 in 1923. ''
Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson moved the previous question ; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The amendment of "Mr. Holloway of Fulton was adopted.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.
The bill involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affinnative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Boswell

Bowden Bowen Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Carswell Childs Clark of Webster

Clifton Coates Collins Cowart Culpepper Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan 6f Hall Dykes

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Ennis

.Johnson of Pickens Price

E\ans

Kennedy

Pruett

Ficklen

King of Jefferson

Reville

Folsom

King of Wilcox

Ricketson

Grant

Kittrell

Riley

Gresham

Knight

Russell

Griffin

Lankford of Toombs Salmon

Greene

Logan

Sapp

Grovenstein

McClelland

Shettlesworth

Guess

:McClure

Si~ley

Gunnels

~IcDonald of Mitchell Singletary

Hamilton

~IcDonald of

Smith of Bryan

Harris

Richmond Smith of Carroll

Hatcher of Burke

1I('Garity

Smith of Meriwether

Hatcher of :Muscogee Madntyre

Steele

Hawkins

Mc~Iichael

Stone

Henderson

~iaddox

Stovall

Herring

Malone

Sumner of Johnson

Hillhouse

1Iann

Sumner of Wheeler

Hines of Sumter

)lanning

Swift

Hodges

}iason

Tatum

Holloway

:Miles

Thompson of Coweta

Horne

)loore of Appling

Trippe

Houser

Moore of Fulton

Tyson

Howard of Forsyth Mundy

Valentino

Howard of Screven Nichols

Van Landingham

Hullender

Parks

\\"alker

Hunter

l'! rrish

Way

Hyman

Patten

Webb

Jackson

Penland

\Yeston

Jones of Coweta

Perkins

Whitley

Jones of Thomas

Perryman

Whitaker of Lowndes

Jones of Walker

Peterson

Wltitaker of Rockdale

Johnson of Bartow Phillips of Jasper

Williams of Walton

.Johnson of

Phillips of Telfair Winship

Chattahoochee Pilcher

Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Adams of Walton Bloodworth Bobo Boyett Byrd of Crisp

Camp Clark of Colquitt Collier Corbitt Daniel of Troup

Davis of Floyd DeLaPerriere Dickerson Franks Griffith

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Haddock HineH of Decatur Holland Houston Langford of Hall Lewis Moye

Neal of Union Owen Pickren Quincey Ramsey Reagan Rutherford

Swindle Watkins Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Wimberly Wood Wyatt

Those not voting were Messrs :

Boatwright Brownlee Bush Carr DaniPl of Heard Dixon Duncan of Dawson Fletcher Fowler Foy

Gann Hufstetler ,Keith Luke "Iayo Mixon Robinson Smiley Smith of Haralson Strickland

Ayes 142, Nays 37.

Thompson of Dodge Turner VanZant Vocelle Wall Whitworth Woodard Worthy ~Ir. Speaker

The roll call was verified.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 142, Nays 37.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was ,passed.

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By ~Iessrs. Ennis of Baldwin and Carswell of Wilkinson-
House Bill No. 204. A bill to appropriate certain sum to Georgia Training School for Boys.
The bill involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House

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and the Speaker designated Mr. Houston of Gwinnett as the Chairman the;eof.

The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended.

Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the bill and all amendments be tabled and the motion was lost.

Mr. Arnold of Clay moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

The following committee amendment was read and adopted:

That the figures $16,800.00 be substituted in the caption for the figures '' 20,053.57'' and the words ''sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars'' be substituted in lines three and four Section 1 for the words ''Twenty thousand fifty three dollars and fifty cents."

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the question of agreeing to the report of the committee Mr. Rutherford of Monroe called for the Ayes. and Nays but the call was not sustained.
The bill involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

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Those voting in the affil1llative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Ada~ of Walton Anc:Lerson Arnold Atkinson ,Baldwin -Beck Beckham Blalock Bleck ley Boatwright Bowden Bowen Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Bush Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Webster Clifton Coat!'S Collins Cowart Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Dykt>s Ennis Evans

Ficklen

.\<Iaclntyre

Folsom

McMichael

Gann

Maddox

Grant

.\Ialone

Gresham

.\fann

Griffin

Manning

Grmenstein

.\Iayo

Guess

l\lixon

Gunnels

Moore of Fulton

Hamilton

Nichols

Harris

Parks

Hatcher of Burke

Patten

Hawkins

Penland

Henderson

PPrryman

Herring

Peterson

Hines of ::>mnter

Phillips of Jasper

Holloway

Phillips of Telfair

Horne

Pilcher

,Houser

Price

Howard of Forsyth Pruett

Howard of Screven Reville

Hullender

Riley

Hyman

i:>hettlesworth

Jones of Coweta

Sibley

Jones of Walker

i:>ingletary

Johnson of Bartow Smith of Bryan

Johnson of

1:-;mith of Carroll

Chattahoochee Steele

Johnson of Pickens Sumner of \Vlweler

Kennedy

Tatum

King of Jefferson

Thompson of Coweta

King of Wilcox

Trippe

Lankford of Toombs Valentino

Logan

\Vay

Luke

Webb

).fcCielland

\Vhitaker of Lowndes

).IcC lure

Williams of \'\'alton

:JieDonald of Mitchell Winship

:JieDonald of

Worthy

Richmond

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Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Bloodworth Bobo Boswell Boyett Brownlee Byrd of Crisp Camp Clark of Colquitt Collier Corbitt Culpepper Daniel of Troup Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Foy Franks Griffith Greene

Haddock Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Holland Houston Jones of Thoma~ Keith Langford of Hall Lewis Miles ~Ioore of Appling Moye Neal of Union Parrish Quincey Ramsey Ricketson Rutherford

Salmon Sapp Smiley Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether Strickland Swift Swindle Walker Watkins Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Wimberly Wood Wyatt

Those not voting were Messrs:

Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Daniel of Heard Dickerson Fletcher Fowler Hatcher of Muscogee Hodges Hufstetler Huuter Jackson Kittrell Knight

McGarity
~lason
Mundy Owen Perkins Pickren Reagan Robinson Russell Stone Stovall Sumner of Johnson Thompson of Dodge

Ayes 117, Nays 52.

Turner Tyson Van Landingham Van Zant Vocelle Wall Westm; Whitley Whitaker of Rockdale Woodard Wynne }fr. Speaker

The roll call was verified.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 52.
Sig. 36

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the House do now adjoum.

On this motion Mr. Wyatt of Troup called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.

The motion to adjourn was lost.

By Mr. DuBose of Clarke-
House Bill No. 98:2. A bill to amend an Act known as House Bill No. 273 so as to correct mistake made in caption and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage. of the bill, ~as agreed to.
On the passage of the bill ~fr. Wyatt of Troup called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 126, Nays 7.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.
Mr. Quincey of Coffee moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion was lost.

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By Mr. ~Iundy of Polk-
House Bill No. 998. A bill to appropriate an additional $10,000 to Georgia State Board of Entomology for years 1922-23.
The bill involving an appropriation the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Coates of Pulaski as the Chairman thereof.
On motion the Committee of the whole House was instructed to limit the debate on this bill to five minutes to the side.

The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.

Mr. Lankford of Toombs moYed the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

The bill involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Ada~s of \Valton Arnold Baldwin Beck Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Blalock

Bleck ley Boatwright Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Branch

Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

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Carswell Childs Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collie.r Collins Cowart Culpepper Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Ennis Folsom
Ga.nn.
Grant Gresham Grovenstein Gunnels Hamilton Hatcher of Burke Hawkins Henderson Herring Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Holland Horne Houser lloward of Screven Hullender Hunter

Hyman

Pilcher

.Jones of Coweta

Pruett

.Jones of Thomas

Ramsey

Jones of Walker

Reagan

Johnson of Bartow Reville

Johnson of Pickens Ricketson

King of Wilcox

Riley

Kittrell

Rutherford

Knight

Happ

Langford of Hall

Sibley

Lankford of Toombs Smiley

Lewis

Smith of Carroll

Logan

Hteele

Luke

Stone

:\IcClelland

Stovall

McClure

Strickland

:\lcDonald of

Sumner of Wheeler

Richmond Swift

:\IcGarity

Swindle

}facintyre

Tatum

Mc}fichael

Thompson of Coweta

Maddox

Trippe

Mann

Valentino

}fanning

Van Landingham

)las on

Wall

}Iiles

Watkins

}Iixon

Webb

:Moore of Appling

Whitaker of Lowndes

Mundy

Whitaker of Rockdale

Nichols

Williams of Harris

Owen

Williams of Walton

Parks

Wimberly

Patten

Winship

Penland

W01thy

Phillips of Jasper

\Vynne

Pickren

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Anderson Bloodworth Bobo Braddy Carr Clark of Colquitt

DeLaPerriere Duncan of Dawson Dy!.:es Evans Foy Griffin

Griffith Greene Haddock Hillhouse Howard of Forsyth Keith

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King of Jefferson McDonald of Mitchell Malone :Moye Parrish

Price Quincey Salmon Shettlesworth Smith of Bryan

Tyson Way Wood Wyatt

Those not voting were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Atkinson Bentley Bozeman Camp Corbitt Daniel of Heard . Daniel of Troup Dickerson Duncan of Hall Ficklen Fletcher Fowler Franks Guess Harris Hatcher of Muscogee

Hodges

Singletary

Holloway

Smith of Haralson

Houston

Smith of Meriwether

Hufstetler

Sumner of Johnson

Jackso:n

Thompson of Dodge

Johnson of

Turner

Chattahoochee VanZant

Kennedy

Vocelle

Mayo

Walker

Moore of Fulton

Weston

Neal of Union

Whitley.

Perkins

Whitworth

Perryman

Williams of Miller

Peterson

Woodard

Phillips of Telfair ::\ir. Speaker

Robinson

Russell

Ayes 127, Nays 32.
The roll call was verified.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 127, Nays 32.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.
The following bill and resolution of the Senate were read the first time and referred to the committees:

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By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 299. A bill to amend Code of 1910, relative to appointment of Mother as guardian of children.

Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
Senate Resolution No. 107. A resolution to relieve the bondsmen of Price Hubbard.
Referred to Committee on Generl:\-1 Judiciary No.1.
Mr. Rutherford of Monroe moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

AFTERNOON SESSION.
3 o'clock P.M.

The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
Mr. Williams of Walton County, Chairman of the Committee on Reformation, submitted the following report:
Mr. SpeahJer: Your Committee on Reformation have had under

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consideration the following Bill of the Senate and have instructed me as chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do Pass :

Senate Bill No. 208.

WILLIAMS of Walton, Chairman.

Mr. Hullender, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the following report:
Mt. Speaker:-
The Committee on Enrolhnent has examined, found properly enrolled, duly signed and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following Acts, to-wit:
House Bill No. 981. An Act to amend an Act to establish the fee system now existing in the Superior Courts of Augusta Judicial Circuit as applied to the office of Solicitor General.
House Bill No. 467. An Act to authorize the Insurance Commissioner to appoint an Assistant Fire Inspector.
Respectfully submitted,
W. C. HuLLENDER of Catoosa,
Chairman of the Enrollment Committee.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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Mr. Spealoer:
The President of the Senate has instructed the Secretary of the Senate to notify the House that the Senate will adjourn today at 6 :30 till tomorrow morning at 9 o'clock.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaher:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:
House Bill No. 630. A bill to be entitled an Act to provide for the change of venue in investigation by Grand Juries when no qualified Grand Jury can be found in the County where the crime was committed, and for other purposes.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:
House Bill No. 554. A bill to be entitled an Act to authorize and empower the trustees of the Georgia School of Technology to charge and collect reasonable tuition, etc., and for other purposes.
Hone Bill No. 583. A bill to be entitled an Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a

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School of Agriculture and Mechanical Arts in this State, and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 561. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create a Department of Insurance, to stipulate their salaries and duties, and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 805. The following bill as amended, to be entitled an Act to prohibit taking fish from any of the streams of this State with seine, net, gig, or spear or with any other device than hook and line for a period of five years, etc., and for other purposes.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secr-etary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:
House Bill No. 981. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to establish the fee system now existing in the Superior Courts of the Augusta Judicial Circuit, as applied to the office of Solicitor General and all fees, now heretofore or hereafter accruing to the office of Solicitor General in said Circuit,'' and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 892. A bill to be entitled an Act to establish a State Depository in Crawford, Oglethorpe County, and for other purposes.
The following bill as amended:

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House Bill No. 745. To be entitled an Act to amend the several Acts for the creation, maintenance, management and government of the Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia, so as to provide that the State President of the Daughters of the Confederacy and President of each Atlanta Chapter of the Daughters of the Confederacy be made exofficio members of the Confederate Soldiers' Home.
House Bill Xo. 467. ~--\. bill to be entitled an Act to authorize the Insurance Commissioner to appoint an assistant fire inspector.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

J/ r. f3pp,akei:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:
House Bill No. 938. A bill to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act to incorporate the Town of Aline, in the County of Emanuel, to define the corporate limits thereof, and for other purposes, approved August Hi, 1913.
House Bill No. 750. A bill to be entitled an Act to prohibit the catching of fish in the waters of Braston Creek south of the public road leading from Young Harris to Blairsville and all the tributaries thereof,. for a period of two years, and for other purposes.
House Bill Ko. 9'27. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act approved August 16, 1920, entitled

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an Act to amend an Act approved August 15, 1910, entitled an Act to amend the new charter for the City of Madison, Georgia, and for other purposes.

House Bill No. 967. A bill to be entitled an Act to create a new charter for the City of Richland, Stewart County, and for other purposes.

The following message was received from the Senate, through :J,Ir. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:
House Bill No. 990. A bill to be entitled an Act to provide for precinct voting in the County of Chatham, and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 987. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled an Act creating the City Court of Louisville, and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 972. A bill to be entitled an Act . to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Lee County, and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 966. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend ''An Act authorizing the City of Canon, in the Counties of Franklin and Hart, in the State of Georgia, to establish and maintain a system of Public Schools in the said City, and for other purposes, apprond August 14, 1911," and for other purposes.

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House Bill No. 875. To be entitled an Act to amend an Act codifying the School Laws of Georgia, approved May 19, 1919, relative to vocal music, and for other purposes.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

ilh. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:
House Resolution No. 53. A resolution for the relief of bondsmen of one Perry Hendrix.
House Resolution No. 169. A resolution to take necessary steps to locate State line between Georgia and Tennessee.
House Resolution Xo. 154. A resolution to make ' additional appropriation for interest on public debt.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof
.ZJlr. Speaker: The Senate has passed by the requisite constitu-
tional majority the following House Bill as amended, to-wit:
House Bill No. 680. A bill to amend the Georgia Workmen's Compensation Law, relative to the salaries of certain officers.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. .McClatchey, the Secretary thereof

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1133

Mr. Speak,er:

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitu tional majority the following House bill, to-wit:

House Bill No. 62. A bill to allow common carriers operating in this State to issue annual passes to sheriffs and their lawful deputies.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Spealoer:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:
Senate Bill No. 323. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act approved February 2, 1877.
The following bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering Senate substitute thereto:
By Messrs. Bowden and Blalock of WareHouse Bill No. 986. A bill to amend the Charter
of the City of Waycross.
The Senate substitute was read and concurred in. The following bills and resolutions of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:
By Mr. Maddox of SpaldingHouse Bill No. 614. A bill to provide a fund to

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assist Counties in paying salaries of County Police and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill,. was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 34 Nays 78.
The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.

By Messrs. Bleckley of Rabun, "Xeal of Union, Pruett of Lumpkin, and others-
House Bill No. 808. A bill to authorize State Treasurer to pay certain Counties pro rata part of funds due, now in the Treasury of State, from sale of products from the Go\ernment Area of the National Forest Reservation, etc.
The report of the Committee, \vhich was f~worable to the passage of the bill, .was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 119, Xays 1.
The bill having receiwtl the re(1uisite constitutional majority was passed.
By ~lr. Jones of \\Talker-
House Bill Xo. 1004-. A bill to amend criminal Code of Georgia relative to cruelty to animals and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill,~was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 110, Nays 6.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was_ passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Messrs. Hamilton and Davis of Floyd-
House Bill No. 236. A bill to amend an Act regulating the practice of Optometry.
The following committee substitute was read and adopted:

A BILL
To Be Enittled An Act to amend An Act approved August 7th, 1916, entitled ''An Act to establish a Board of Examiners in Optometry in the State of Georgia; to define its duties and powers; to regulate the practice of Optometry; to provide for issuing and recording licenses of Optometrists of this State~ to provide penalties for the violation of this Act; and for other purposes,'' by amending Section 2 of said Act so as to provide for removal of members of said Board; and by amending Section 4 of said Act so as to provide the Board with power to act orfministerial questions by mail; and by repealing Section 6 of this Act; .and by providing qualifications and fees of applicants for examination and registration; and to fix the status of applicants who fail to pass such examination;

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and by providing fees and qualifications of applicants for license who are residents of Georgia; and by providing fees and qualifications of applicants who have been licensed or have practiced without the State of Georgia; and by providing for the issuance of permits to practice Optometry; and by providing for notice of location and change of location of the place of practice by optometrists; and by providing for annual license fees and renewal fees to be paid by practitioners; and by providing for place of hearings before said Board; and by providing for notice of hearings before said Board; and by providing said Board with power to administer oaths, take testimony and secure attendance of witnesses at such hearings; and by providing said Board with power to administer oaths, take testimony and secure attendance of witnesses at such hearings; and by providing grounds for refusing and for re,oking license under this Act; and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted b~ the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that Section II of the Act approved August 7th, 1916, to establish a Board of Examiners in Optometry in the State of Georgia; to define its duties and powers, to regulate the practice of Optometry; to provide for'lssuing and recording Licenses of Optometrists in this State; to provide penalties for the violations of this Act; and for other purposes; be and the same is hereby amended by adding to said Section II, the following words at

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the end thereof, to-wit: ''The Governor shall have the power to remove from office any member of the Board for neglect of duty required by this Act or for unprofessional conduct,'' so that said Section II, when so amended shall read as follows:
"That within thirty days after the passage of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint for this State a Board of Examiners in Optometry to consist of five members. Tlie said Board shall be styled the Georgia State Board of Examiners in Optometry, and its members shall be persons who have been actively engaged in the practice of Optometry_ in the State of Georgia for five years immediately preceding such appointment; provided that no person is eligible to appointment on this Board who is connected in any way with a school teaching optometry or who sells optical goods at wholesale. Be it further provided, that after the appointment of the first Board, only optometrists registered under the provisions of this Act shall be eligible for appointment. The said Board shall file with the Governor annually a complete list of registered optometrists in this State. Within thirty days after the Governor shall have notified the several members of their appointment, each member shall subscribe and forward to the Governor the following oath: "I do swear that I will faithfully-and impartially perform the duties of a member of the Board of E.xaminers in Optometry for the State of Georgia to the best of my ability, so help me God." Upon such oath being filed in the office of the Governor of this

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State, he shall issue to said examiner a certificate of appointment. The Governor shall have the power to remove from office any member of the Board for neglect of duty required by this Act or for unprofessional conduct.''
Section 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that Section IV of the above recited Act be and the same is hereby amended by adding thereto the following words, at the end thereof, to-wit: "The Board shall have power to act on any ministerial question by mail, such action being in the form of resolution or order, and shall be signed by each member of a quorum of the Board, and said action when properly approved by the Secretary of the Board shall become a part of the regular proceedings of the Board and shaH be admitted as evidence in an~' Court, or in any hearing before the Board", so that said section when amended shall read as follows:
"That said board at the first meeting after the appointment of its members and annually thereafter, shall elect a president, vice-president and secretarytreasurer, who shall hold their office until their successors are elected and qualified. The SecretaryTreasurer shall give bond with security in such sum as said hoard may determine. Said Board shall prescribe such rule~, regulations and by-laws for its proceedings and government as will carry into effect the provisions of this Act. There shall be at least two regular meetings of the board of examiners held every year on the first Wednesday in January and

TuEs~Y, AuausT 15, 1922.

1139

July. Special meetings may be held on the call of

the president and two other members. A majority

of said board shall constitute a quorum. The board

shall keep a record of its proceedings and register of

all applicants for license, giving the name, age and

residence of applicant and the county in which he

r

proposes to practice; also show the date of examina-

tion, whether the applicant was rejected or granted a

license, and the manner of the License granted. The

Board shall have power to act on any ministerial

question by mail, such action being in the form of

resolution or order, and shall be signed by each mem-

ber of a quorum of the board, and said action when

properly approved by the secretary of the board shall

become a part of the regular proceedings of the board

and shall be admitted as evidence in any court or in

any hearing before the Board.''

Section 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Section VI of said Act be, and the same is, hereby repealed, which section so repealed ,reads as follows:

"Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this Act, all persons engaged in the practice of optometry or who wish to begin practice of same in this State shall make application to the board to be registered and for a certificate of registration. Such registration and certificates shall be granted to such applicants, but only upon compliance with the following conditions contained in subdivisions 1, 2 and 3 of this section.

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(1) The applicant shall be registered and given a certificate of registration on passing a satisfactory examination limited to a demonstration of practical work, if he shall present satisfactory proof on or before March 1, 1917, of being twenty-one years of age, of good moral character and of having been continuously engaged in the practice of optometry in this State for at least two years prior to the passage of this Act. The fee for registering such applicants shall be ten dollars.
(2) The applicant shall be registered and given a certificate of registration if he holds a valid license from such other State boards of optometry as may be, under the rules of comity, recognized by the Georgia State Board of Examiners in Optometry. The fee for registering such applicant shall be ten dollars.
(3) From and after March 1, 1917, any applicant for registration under this Act shall be required to pass an examination as hereinafter provided. Such applicant shall be twenty-one years of age, of good moral character, and shall be possessed of an education equal to a two years' high school course. He shall have been employed as an assistant in the office of an optometrist, registered under this Act, for a period of not less than two years, or shall hold a diploma from a school of optometry, approved by this board, provided that after July 1, 1917, all applicants for examination shall hold a diploma from a school of optometry requiring a two years' attendance course and satisfactory to this board. The

TuEsDAY, AuGusT 15, 1922.

1141

said board shall examine all applicants shown to have the necessary qualifications, as above set forth, in the following subjects: Ocular anatomy and physiology; theoretic optics ; theoretic and practical optometry, including normal and abnormal refractive, accommodative and muscular conditions of the eye as applied by recognized methods of subjective and objective optometry when determining the need of glasses. When the applicant shall attain an average standing of 75 per cent. on all subjects submitted he shall be deemed to have passed satisfactorily and be given a certificate of registration, which certificate, and any other certificate provided for in this section shall operate as a license to practice optometry in this State when it shall have been recorded in the office of the clerk of the superior court of each county in which said person practices. The clerk of said court shall be entitled to a fee of one dollar for recording such certificate. The fees for applicants of this class shall be fifteen dollars for examination and ten dollars for registration. Failure to pass a satisfactory examination shall not debar the applicant from participating in subsequent examinations before said board, upon his complying with the provsions of this Act.''

Section 4. Be it further enacted, That no person, except as otherwise provided in this Section shall practice Optometry until he shall have passed an examination conducted by the Board and attained an average standing of seventy-five per cent. in all the following subjects, to-wit: theoretic, practical

1142

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and physiological optics; theoretic, practical optometry; and in the anatom~, physiology and pathology of the eye, and shall have been registered and shall have received a Certificate of Registration, which certificate and an~ other certificate provided for in this Section, shall operate as a Licensed to practice Optometry in this State, when it shall have been recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of any county in which the said person proposes to practice. The Clerk of said Court shall is-sue him a certified copy of the record and be entitled to a fee of One Dollar; provided that a temporary license shall not be recorded.
Section 5. Re it fnrtlwr enacted hy the authority aforesaid, That every applicant for examination and registration shall present satisfactory evidence in the form of affidavits properly sworn to that he is over twenty-one years old and of good moral character, has had a preliminary education equivalent to at least two years in public High School, and has graduated from a school of optometry, requiring a two year attendance course, and satisfactory to the Board created under this ~1.ct; Provided that should an applicant be unable to offer satisfactory proof of
the preliminary education equivalent to two years in
High School, the Board shall determine the applicant's qualification by an examination, the fee. for which shall be Five Dollars to be paid by the applicant; and provided further that if an Optometrist who has practiced for a period of five years and who has conducted such practice in a manner not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, desires to ap-

TuESDAY, AuacsT 15, 1922.

1143

ply for examination he may offer satisfactory proof of such practice in lieu of other educational requirements.
Section 6. Be it further enacted, That failure to pass a satisfactory examination shall not debar the applicant from participating in subsequent examinations before said Board, upon complying with the provisions of this Act.
Section 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That application for examination and for license shall be filed with said Board at least fifteen days prior to date of meeting of said Board, and fee for applicants of this class shall be Twenty-five Dollars, payable as follows: Fifteen Dollars to accompany the application and Ten Dollars upon issuance of Registration Certificate; such Certificate and any other registration certificate provided for in this Act, now in force, or hereafter issued, shall continue in force until the first day of January in the year next succeeding the passage of this Act.
Section 8. Be it further enacted, That an applicant for license to practice in this State, who has successfully passed the standard examination of the Optometry Board of another State, shall be registered and given a Certificate of Registration if the said Optometry Board that awarded his license is recognized under the rules of comity by the Georgia State Board of Examiners in Optometry, and provided that the applicant has not previously failed to pass the examination required in this State. The fee for applicants of this class shall be Fifty Dollars, pay-

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able as follows: Fifteen Dollars to accompany the application and Thirty-Five Dollars upon. the issuance of Registration Certificate.
Section 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the State Board of Examiners in Optometry, created by this Act, may in its .discretion, issue a permit to practice Optometry in this State during the interim between examinations to any person who has filed application for examination, which has been accepted by said Board as admitting the applicant to the next examination. Such permit, which shall be known as a temporary license, shall be valid only until the date of the next examination, and shall not be issued sooner th8ll thirty days following any regular examination, and no permit shall be issued to any person who has failed before this Board, nor to a person whose Certificate has been revoked.
Section 10. Be it further enacted, That before engagi:ng in the practice of Optometry in this State, it shall be the duty of each Registered Optometrist to notify the Secretary of the said Board of Examiners in Optometry in writing of the place or places of business where he is to engage or intends to engage in the practice of Optometry, and of changes in the loeation of his place of business.
Section 11. Be it further enacted, That every registered Optometrist who desires to continue the practice of Opteometry shall annually, on or before
the first day of J anuan-, pay to the Secretary of the
Board a renewal registration fee of Two Dollars,

...

TuESDAY, AuGUST 15, 1922.

1145

for which he shall receive a Certificate of Renewal,

which shall render the holder thereof a legal practi-

tioner of Optometry for the ensuing year. In cases of neglect to pay the Renewal Fee herein specified, the Board may revoke the practitioner's Certificate of Registration, and the holder thereof may be rein-

stated by complying with the conditions specified in

this Section; provided no Certificate shall be revoked for non-payment of registration fee without giving

sixty days notice to the delinquent, who within such period shall have the right of renewal of such Certificate on the payment of the renewal fee, with a pen-

alty of Five Dollars; and provided further that re-

tirement from practice for a period not exceeding

five years shall not deprive the holder of said Certi.ficate of the right to renew his Certificate on the pay-

ment of all lapsed fees.

Section 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all hearings before said board for the purpose of revoking license, or on the question of refusing license, shall be held in the Capital of Georgia at some place designated by said board by an order properly adopted by said board.

Section 13. Be it further enacted, That fifteen days' notice of the time and place of hearing shall be served personally upon any applicant for license of any hearing on the question of the refusal of his license and that like notice shall be personally served upon any licensed Optometrist before a hearing shall be had upon the question of revoking his license.

Section 14. Be it further enacted by authority

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aforesaid, That said board for the purpose of conducting the hearings hereby provided, shall have power to administer oaths, take testimony, and upon application to a judge of the superior court of the circuit in which the Capital of the State is located, compel the attendance of witnesses.
Section 15. Be it further enacted, That said board shall have power to revoke any license or certificate of registration issued by it upon the following grounds:

1. Fraud or deception in procuring license. 2. Error in granting license.

3.. The practice of optometry under a false or assumed name.

4. Failure to record license in the office of the clerk of the superior court for a period of ninety days in the county where practice is conducted.

5. Unprofessional Conduct. For the purpose of this Act the term "Unprofessional Conduct" is defined to mean; the use of untruthful or impossible statements in advertisement or announcements issued; the employing, directly or indirectly, of an unlicensed or suspended optometrist to perform any of the work covered by this Act; soliciting from house to house; the employment of a person to solicit from house to house.
6. The violation of any of the provisions of this Act .



TuESDAY, AuGUST 15, 1922.

1147

Section 16. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict herewith be, and the same are, hereby repealed.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 3.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Russell of Barrow-
House Resolution No. 221. A resolution providing for payment of expenses for Joint Committee on Board of Regents. Bills.
The resolution involving an appropriation the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Mayo of Mitchell as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the .Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the resolution back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the resolution, was agreed to.

1148

JouRNAL oF THE HousE,

The resolution involving an appropriation, the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs :

Adams of Newton

DeLaPerriere

Hunter

Adam,s of Walton

DickerBon

Hyman

And!erson

Dixon

Jones of Coweta

Arnold

Dobbs

Jones of Walker

Baldwin

DuBose

,Johnson of Bartow

Beck

Dudley

.Johnson of

Beckham

Duncan of Hall

Chattahoochee

Bentley

Ennis

Johnson of Pickens

Bleck ley

E,ans

King of Jefferson

Bloodworth

Ficklen

King of Wilcox

Bobo

Folsom

Kittrell

Boswell

Fowler

Langford of Hall

Bowden

Foy

Lankford of Toombs

Bowen

Franks

Lewis

Boyett

Grant

Logan

Bozeman

Gregham

Luke

Braddy

Griffin

McClelland

Branch

Griffith

l\fcClure

Brannen

Greene

McDonald of Mitchell

Brantley

Grovenstein

)lcGarity

Brown of Emanuel Guess

Macintyre

Brown of Han~ock

Haddock

McMichael

Brownlee

Hamilton

Maddox

Bush

Harris

}Ialone

Byrd of Crisp

Hatcher of Burke

Manning

Camp

Hatcher of Muscogee Mayo

Carswell

Hawkins

l\liles

Childs

Henderson

:\Iixon

Clark of Colquitt

Herring

)loore of Appling

Clark of Webster

Hines of Decatur

Mundy

Clifton

Hines of Sumter

Neal of Union



Coates Collier

Hodges Holland

Nichols Parks

Cowart

Holloway

Parrish

Culpepper

Howard of Forsyth Patten

Daniel of Heard

Howard of Screven Penland

Daniel of Troup

Hufstetler

Perkins

DeFoor

Hullender

Peterson



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1149

Phillips of Jasper Phillips of Telfair Pickren Pilcher Price Pruett Reville Ricketson Riley Russell Salmon Sapp Shettlesworth Sibley

Singletary Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Steele Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Turner Valentino

Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Webb Whitaker of Lowndes Whitworth Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wood Wyatt Wynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Hillhouse

Quincey

Those not voting were Messrs :

Atkinson

Jones of Thomas

Smith of Meriwether

Bird of Taliaferro Keith

Stone

Blalock

Kennedy

Swindle

Boatwright

Knight

Trippe

Carr

McDonald of

Tyson

Collins

Richmond Van Landingham

Corbitt

Mann

VanZant

Davis of Floyd

Mason

Way

'

Davis of Oglethorpe Moore of Fulton

Weston

Duncan of Dawson Moye

Whitley

Dyke~

Owen

Whitaker of Rockdale

Fletcher

Perryman

WilliaiJ?.s of Harris

Gann

Ramsey

Wimberly

Gunnels

Reagan

Winship

Horn!'

Robinson

Woodard

Houser

Rutherford

Worthy

Houston

Smiley

:\Ir. Speaker

Jackson

Smith of Bryan

Ayes 153, Nays 2.

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.



1150

JovR:NAL oF 1HE HousE,

On the passage of the resolution the Ayes were 152, Nays 2.

The resolution having rec~ived the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By unanimous consent the resolution was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 655. A bill to appropriate $150,000 for purpose of supplying a deficiency in main-
. tenance of Georgia State Sanitarium for year 1921.
The bill involving an appropriation, the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Wyatt of Troup as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the Whole House arose and through their Chairman reported progress and begged leave to sit again.
.Mr. .:\Iundy of Polk moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until to-night at 8 :30 o'clock.
.Mr. Bentley of Fulton moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
Leave of absence was granted Mr. Duncan of Hall.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-night at 8 :30 o'clock.

TuESDAY, AuGusT 15, 1922.

1151

NIGHT SESSION'
8 :30 o'Clock P. M.
The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
The following bill of the House was taken up for further consideration:

By Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 655. A bill to appropriate $150,000 for purpose of supplying a deficiency in maintenance of Georgia State Sanitarium for the year 1921.
Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson moved that the House instruct the Committee of the Whole House that the debate on this bill be limited to five minutes to each side and the motion prevailed.
The House was again resolved into the Committee of the whole House with Mr. Wyatt of Troup as the Ghairman thereof.
The Committee of the whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended.
Mr. Carswell of Wilkinson moved the previous question ; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following amendments were read and adopted:

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By Mr. Williams of Walton-

Amend House Bill No. 655 by adding the following proviso:

"That the sum above appropriated shall not be available until and unless the Board of Trustees take and keep all patients properly commutted out of jails in the various Counties of Georgia.''

By Mr. Smith of BryanAmend House Bill No. 655 by adding a nev>' sec-
tion as follows:
That $3,500 or so much as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appropriated for silo, and repairs to the buildings at the State Sanatorium for Tubercular patients, at Alto. That the caption be amended by adding the above paragraph thereto.

By Mr. Knight of Berrien-
Amend House Bill No. 655, by adding a new section to be known as Section 2A as follows:
Section 2A. Be it further enacted that from and after the passage of this Act it shall be the duty of the physicians in charge of the State Sanatorium to visit and treat the insane at the Georgia State Farm.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.
The bill involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

TuESDAY, AuausT 15, 1922.

1153

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boswell Bowden Bowen Bozeman Braddy Branch Branntm Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Coates Collier Culpepper Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor Dixon Dobbs Dudley Duncan of Hall Ennis Ficklen Folsom Fowler Franks

Grant

Maclntyn

Gresham

Mdiichael

Greene

:\Ialone

Grovenstein

:\Iann

Guess

:\Ianning

Haddock

:\Iason

Hamilton

Mile~

Harris

Mixon

Hatclwr of }[uscogee .Moyl'

Hawkins

::Ylundy

Henderson

Neal of Union

Herring

Niehob

Hines of Decatur

Owen

Hines of t:>umh'r

Park><

Holland

Parrish

Holloway

Patten

Horne

Penland

Houser

Perryman

Howard of ForRyth Phillips of Telfair

Hullender

Pickren

Hy~<:an

Pilcher

Jackson

Price

Jones of Coweta

Pruett

,Jones of Thonm'

Ramsey

Jones of Walker

Reville

Johnson of Bartow Riley

,Johnson of

Russell

Chattahoochee Sapp

Johnson of Pickens Shettle~worth

King of Jefferson

Sihley

King of Wilcox

Smiley

Kittrell

Smith of Carroll

Knight

Smith of Haralson

Langford of Hall

Steele

Lankford of Toombs Stone

Lewis

Stovall

Logan

Strickland

:\IcClelland

Sumner of .Johnson

McClure

Swindle

McDonald of l\Iitchell Tatum

:\IcDonald of

Thompson of Coweta

Richmond Thompson of Dodge

Sig_ 37

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JoL'RNAL OF THE HousE,

Van Landingham VanZant Voeelle

\ \7 a l l \Vatkin" Way

Webb William" of Harris Winship

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Bobo Hodges

\Yilliam" of ~Iiller Wyatt

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton ,\dmP,s of \'Valton Anderson Bentley Boatwright Boyett Byrd of Crisp Clifton Collins Corbitt Cowart Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup DeLaPerriere Dickerson DuBose Duncan of Dawson Dykes Evans Fletcher Foy Gann Griffin Griffith

Gunnels Hat<"her of Burke Hillhou"e Houston Howard of Screven Hufstetler 'Hunter Keith KPnnedy Luke )lcGarity )!add ox
)la~o
)loore of Appling )[oore of Fulton Perkins Peterson Phillips of Jasper Quineey Rt>agan Ricketson Robinson Hutherford
s~Jmon

Singletary Smith of Bryan Smith of Meriwether fiumner of Wheeler :-lwift Trippe Turner Tyson \'alentino \Yalker Weston \Yhitley Whitaker of Lowndes \\"hitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of \Valton Wimberly Wood Woodard \\'orthy Wynne )lr. Speaker

Ayes 133, Nays 4.
By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 133, Nays 4.

TuEsDAY, AuausT 15, 1922.

1155

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered Immediately transmitted to the Senate.
The following bills of the House, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Camp of Campbell-
House Bill No. 865. A bill to appropriate $49,000 to pay debts clue on public printing and for other purposes.
Mr. Lankford of Toombs moved that the House instruct the Committee of the "Whole House that debate on this bill be limited to 10 minutes and the motion prevailed.
The bill involving an appropriation the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated ::\Ir. "Winship of Bibb as the Chairman thereof.
The Committee of the whole House arose and through their Chairman reported the bill back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass as amended.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted:
Amend by striking the words and figures ''Forty Thousand Dollars'' wherever they appear and insert in lieu thereof the words and figures ''Forty Five

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Thousand Seven Hundrey Thirty Six and Twenty

Nine One Hundredth Dollars."

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.

The bill involving an appropriation the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bleck ley Bloodworth Bobo Boswell Bowden Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Camp Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Coates Collier Culpepper Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeLaPerriere Dobbs Dudley

Duncan of Hall

Kittrell

'bnnis

Knight

Folsom

Langford of Hall

Grant

Lankford of Toombs

Greene

Lewis

Grovenstein

Logan

Guess

:McClelland

Haddock

:McClure

Hamilton

:McDonald of ~Iitchell

Harris

McDonald of

)Iatcher of ~luscogee

Richmond

Hawkin.s

Macintyre

Henderson

:\Ic:\lichael

Herring

:\Ialone

Hines of Decatur

:Mason

Hines of Sumter

1Iayo

Hodges

:\Iiles

Holland

)fixon

Holloway

)loye

Horne

:\fundy

Houser

Owen

Hullender

Parks

Hyman

Parrish

,Tones of Coweta

Patten

Jones of Thomas

Penland

Jones of Walker

Perryman

Johnson of Bartow Pickren

Johnson of

Pilcher

Chattahoochee Price

Johnson of Pickens Pruett

King of .Jefferson

Quincey

King of \Vilcox

Ramsey

Reagan Reville Riley Russell Rutherford Sapp Sibley Smiley

TuESDAY, AuGusT 15, 1922.

1157

Smith of Carroll Stone Stovall Swindle Tatum ~hompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Vocelle

Wall Way We'bb Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Winship

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Adam,s of Walton Anderson Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Boatwright Bowen Boyett Byrd of Crisp Carr Clifton Collins Corbitt Cowart Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup DeFoor Dickerson Dixon DuBose Duncan of Dawson Dykes Evans Ficklen Fletcher Fowler Foy Franks Gann

Gresham Griffin Griffith Gunnels Hatcher of Burke Hillhouse Houston Howard of Forsyth Howard of Screven Hufstetler Hunter Jackson Keith Kennedy Luke :\IcGarity :\faddox :\Iann .'\1anning :\Ioore of Appling Moore of Fulton Neal of Union Nichols Perkins Peterson Phillips of Jasper Phillips of Telfair RiC'ketson Robinson Salmon

Ayes 117, Nays 0.

Shettlesworth Singletary Smith of Bryan Smith of Haralson Smith of Meriwether Steele Strickland ,Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Trippe Turner Tyson ValentinoVan Landingham VanZant Walker Watkins \VPston Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Wimberly Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne :\Ir. Speaker

1158

JouRNAL OF THE HousE,

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Pruett of Lumpkin-
House Bill No. 788. A bill to appropriate $3,00().00 for 1922, and $3,500.00 for 1923 to University of Georgia for use of North Georgia Agricultural College.
The bill involving an appropriation the House was resolved into the Committee of the Whole House and the Speaker designated Mr. Harris of Jefferson as the Chairman thereof.
By motion the House instructed the Committee of the Whole House that the debate on this bill be limited to ten minutes to each side.
The Committee of the "\Vhole House arose and through their Chairman reported progress and begged leave to sit again.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

TuESDAY, AuGusT 15, 1922.

1159

Mr. Speaker:

The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of the Senate, towit:

Senate Bill No. 251. A bill to provide a remedy for an applicant for certiorari in certain courts.
Also the following bills of the House, to-wit:
House Bill No. 832. A" bill to amend an Act providing certain ta,x on fuel oils, and for other purposes.

The following bill of the Senate was read the first time and referred to the committee:

By .Mr. Fleming of 8th-
Senate Bill No. 251. A bill to provide a remedy for an applicant for certiorari in certain courts.
Referred to Committee on General Judiciary No.2.
Mr. Culpepper of Fayette moved that the House do now adjourn.
Mr. Culpepper of Fayette made the point of order that less than a quorum could adjourn. The Chair sustained this point of order.
The motion to adjourn prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

1160

JoURNAL OF THE HousE, REPRESEXTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

Wednesday, August 16th, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opend with prayer by the Chaplain.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck 'Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Bloodworth Boatwright Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr
Car~well
Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Davis of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobb:; DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis E\'ans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of ~luscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

WEDNESDAY, AuGusT 16, 1922.

1161

Horne

1Iayo

Houser

Miles

Houston

)Iixon

Howard of Forsyth )loore of Appling

Howard of Screven :\Ioore of Fulton

Hufstetler

Moye

Hullender

Mundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of Walker

-Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

John8on of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

1IcClelland

Riley

11cClure

Robinson

)lcDonald of Mitchell Russell

1IcDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond ~almon

1IcGarity

Sapp

11adntyre

Rhettlesworth

. )fc1Iichael

Sibley

1Iaddox

Singletary

Malone

Smiley

)Iann

Smith of Bryan

)fanning

Smith of Carroll

)Iason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thompson of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb "'eston Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth '\'illiams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood , Woodard Worthy Wyatt Wynne 11r. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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By unanimous consent Senate Bill No. 63 was taken from the table and placed upon the Calendar.
By unanimous consent House Bill No. 69 and House Bill No. 589 were withdrawn from the House.
Mr. Pickren, of Charlton County, Chairman of the Committee on Corporations, submitted the following report :

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Corporations have had under consideration the following Bill of the Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 321.
PrcKREX, of Charlton, Chairman.
Mr. Haddock, of Early County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on General Agriculture No. 1, submitted the following report:
J.Vir. Speaker: Your Committee on General Agriculture No. 1
have had under consideration the following Bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Vice-Chairman, to report the same back to the House with. the recommendation that the same do pasR:
Senate Bill No. 180. Respectfully submitted,
MR. HADDOCK of Early, Vice-Chairman.

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Mr. Guess, of DeKalb County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 1, submitted the following report:

j'J!Jr. Speaker:
Your Committee on General Judiciary No.1 have had under consideration the following Resolu~on of the Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Resolution No. 107.
GuEss, of DeKalb, Chairman.

Mr. W. R. McDonald, of Richmond County, Chairman of the Committee on Special Judiciary, submitted the following report:

JJr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Special Judiciary have had under consideration the following Bill of the Senate and have instructed me, as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass:
Senate Bill No. 323.
McDoNALD of Richmond, Chairman.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:



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Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bill:

House Bill No. 726. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend the Georgia Women's Compensation Act approved August 17, 1920, by providing a method of caUmlating wages received, etc., and for other purposes.

House Bill No. 569. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend the Tax Act of 1921, as to Bill Boards, etc., and for other purposes.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following:
House Bill No. 851. A bill to be entitled an Act to authorize certain counties to lease, build or maintain houses and equipment for the purpose of giving fire protection to citizens and property and to levy a tax therefor and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 984. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act approved December 20, 1899, entitled an Act to create a new Charter for the City of Douglas in the County of Coffee and for other purposes.



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House Bill No. 969. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act incorporating the City of Canon in the Counties of Franklin and Hart in the State of Georgia and for other purposes, to define the territorial limits of said City of Canon to provide for the issuance of bonds to build, equip and repair school building in said City, and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 991. A bill to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Jeff Davis, State of Georgia, and for other purposes.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:
Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bills.
House Bill No. 973. A bill to be entitled an Act to repeal in part and amend Act of December 10, 1901, incorporating Town of Cooledge and to amend Act amendatory thereof approved July 29, 1914, and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 956. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend, revise and consolidate the several Acts granting corporate authority to the Town of Tybee ; to confer additional powers upon the Mayor and Councilmen of the Town of Tybee, to define the corporate limits of said town and for other purposes.

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House Bill No. 963. A bill to be entitled an Aot to establish a new Charter for the Town of Danville, etc., and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 970. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act creating a new Charter for the Town of Donaldsonville, in Decatur (now Seminole) County and for other purposes.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Resolution:
House Resolution No. 148. A resolution to authorize the sale of certain lands owned by the State for benefit of the First District A. & M. School, to fix the price of same and for other purposes.
The following message was rPceived from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

JJ r. SpPaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bills:
House Bill No. 999. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to create the City Court of Cairo and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 995. A bill to be entitled an Act to repeal an Act entitled an Act to create the office

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of Commissioner of Roads and Revenues for the County of Glascock, State of Georgia, to provide for an appointment to fill said office until January 1, 1915, etc., and to provide for and create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in and for the County of Glascock, and for other purposes.

House Bill No. 996. A bill to be entitled an Act creating a new Charter for Town of Decatur approved August 17, 1909, so as to permit said Town of Decatur to designate and establish by appropriate proceedings restricted residence district, and for other purpose.s
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

klr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bills:
House Bill No. 930. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend, revise, consolidate and supersede the several Acts incorporating the Town of Doerun, and the City of Doerun, in the County of Colquit, State of Georgia, and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 965. A bill as amended to be entitled an Act to amend an Act to amend, consolidate and supersede the several Acts incorporating the Town of McCaysville in the County of Fannin, and for other purposes.

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House Bill No. 959. A bill to be entitled an Act to provide and establish a new Charter for the Town of Locust Grove, in the County of Henry, to define and prescribe its corporate limits, and for other purposes.

House Bill No. 895. A bill to be entitled an Act to amend the Charter of East Point, giving authority to issue bonds for certain purposes.
Mr. Hullender of Catoosa, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the following report:

Jfr. Speaker:
The Committee on Enrollment has examined, found properly enrolled, d~ly signed and ready for delivery to the- Governor, the following Acts and Resolutions, to-wit:
House Bill No. 583. An Act to provide for the establishment and maintenance of a School of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts in this State.
House Resolution No. 154. A resolution to make additional appropriation for interest on Public Debt.
House Bill No. 892. An Act to establish a State Depository in Crawford, Oglethorpe County, Georgia.
House Bill No. 630. An Act to provide for the change of venue in investigation by Grand Juries

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when no qualified Grand Jury can be found in the County where the crime was committed.
House Bill No. 966. An Act to amend an Act authorizing the City of Canon in the Counties of Franklin and Hart to establish and maintain a system of Public Schools in said County.
House Bill No. 875. An Act to amend an Act codifying the School Laws of Georgia relative to vocal music.
House Bill No. 972. An Act to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Lee County.
House Resolution No. 169. A resolution to take necessary steps to locate State line between Georgia and Tennessee.

House Bill No. 990. An Act to provide for precinct voting in the County of Chatham.
House Bill No. 554. An Act to authorize and empower the trustees of the Gorgia School of Technology to charge and collect reasonable tuition.
House Bill No. 927. An Act to amend an Act and amendatory Acts creating a new Charter for tl].e City of Madison.

House Bill No. 750. An Act to prohibit fishing in Braston Creek for a period of two years.
House Bill No. 938. An Act to repeal an Act to

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incorporate the Town of Aline in the County of Emanuel (Candler).

House Resolution No. 53. A resolution to relieve the bondsmen of Perry Hendrix.

House Bill No. 987. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act creating the City Court of Louisville, Georgia.

House Bill No. 561. An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to create a Department of Insurance for the State.
House Bill No. 62. An Act to allow common carriers to issue annual passes to sheriffs and deputies.
House Bill No. 986. An Act to amend the Charter of Waycross.
House Bill No. 832. An Act to amend an Act providing for the collection of a tax on distributors of fuel oils and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 569. An Act to amend the Tax Act of 1921, as to Bill Boards.

Respectfully submitted, HULLENDER of Catoosa, Chairman.

The following Bills and Resolutions of the Senate, fayorably reported by the committees, were read for the second time:

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1171

By :Mr. Ellis of the 47th-
Senate Bill No. 180. A bill to establish an A. & M. College near Tifton .

By Mr. Thomas of the 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 208. A bill to establish a Juvenile Court in this State.

By Mr. Golucke of the 19th-
Senate Bill Xo. 321. A bill to amend the Charter of the Town of Sharon.

By Mr. Golucke of the 19th-
Senate Bill No. 323. A bill to amend an Act cr&ating Board of Commissioners for Warren County.

By Mr. Manson of the 35thSenate Resolution No. 107. A resolution to re-
lieve the bondsmen of Price Hubbard. The following Bills of the Senate were read the
third time and placed upon their passage:
By Mr. Rountree of 16th-
Senate Bill No. 322. A bill to repeal an Act incorporating the Tom School District in Emanuel and Johnson Counties.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 118, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Fleming of lOth-
Senate Bill No. 196. A bill to create a Board of County Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Dougherty County.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 137, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Ellis of 47th-
Senate Bill No. 303. A bill to amend an Act creating new Charter for City of Tifton.
The report of the Committee, which was fa,orable to the passage of the bill, jWas agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 124, Nays 0.
The bill having recBived the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Jones of 6thSenate Bill No. 304. A bill to amend an Act in-
corporating City of Valdosta.

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1173

The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, 1was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Fleming of lOth-
Senate Bill No. 275. A bill to amend an Act to provide for a system of public schools in and for the City of Albany.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill,:' was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 138, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
By Mr. Fleming of lOth-
Senate Bill No. 274. A bill to amend present Charter of City of Albany.
The report of the Committee, which was (avorable to the passage of the bill,, .was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 163, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Mr. Snow of 7th-

Senate Bill No. 209. A bill to repeal Act abolishing fee system in Southern Judicial Circuit as applied to the office of Solicitor-General and for other purposes.

Mr. Macintyre, of Thomas, moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.

By Mr. Snow of 7th-
Senate Bill No. 221. A bill to abolish the fees accruing to office of Solicitor-General in criminal cases in the Southern Judicial Circuit.
Mr. Macintyre, of Thomas, moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.
Tl!e following resolution of the House was introduced and read:

By Messrs. McMichael of Marion, and Perkins of Mnscogee-
House Resolution No. 2. A resolution thanking the citizens, theaters, etc., of the City of Atlanta for the kindness. shown by them to the General Assembly.
The resolution was ordered to lie on the table one day.
The following report of the Conference Committee on Senate Bill No. 7 was submitted, read, and adopted:



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1175

Mr. Speaker:
We, your Conference Committee on .Senate Bill No. 7, known as the Neill-Jones Australian Ballot Bill, respectfully report that we have. agreed and recommend that the Bill be enacted with all House amendments except the amendments which would strike Sections 18 and 19 of the original Senate Bill; would fix the closing hours of the polls; known respectively as Amendments Nos. seven (7) and eight (8).
Therefore the committee recommends that the House recede from Amendments ~os. senn (7) and eight (8) as hereinbefore mentioned.

On the part of the Senate.
Messrs. Jones, 37th. Nix, 51st, Jackson, 21st,

On part of House.
Messrs. Hyman, of Washington, Davis, of Oglethorpe, Knight, of Berrien,

The following bills of the House and Senate, set as a special oraer by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

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By Mr. Ridley of 28th-

Senate Bill No. 198. A bill for the licensing of nurserymen, dealers in nursery stock, etc.

Mr. Beck, of Carroll, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

The following committee amendment was read and adopted:

Amend by striking from Section 7 and line two the word "three" and substituting in lieu thereof the word ''five.''

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 116, Nays 6.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Mr. Haralson of 40th-
Senate Bill No. 262. A bill to provide further regulation with regard to practice and procedure in the several courts of this State and for other purposes.

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Mr. Moore, of Appling moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 105, Nays 6.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed..
By unanimous consent the bill was ordered immediately transmitted to the Senate.

By Messrs. Kittrell of Laurens, and McMichael of Marion-
House Bill No. 738. A bill to amend the Constitution so as to provide for the building of a State owned port and terminal at Savannah, Ga.
Mr. Williams, of Walton, moved that the bill, substitute, and all amendments be tabled.
On this motion Mr. Bowden, of Ware, call for the Ayes and Nays and the call was sustained.
The roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Ada~ of Walton Bobo Boswell Bowen

Boyett Brantley Brownlee Camp

Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster DeLaPerriere
Dicker~on

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Ennis Ficklen Foy Franks Gann Grant Griffith Houston Johnson of Pickens Ke;th King Of Jefferson King of Wilcox Langford of Hall

Lewis Luke }f<'Clure M<'Donald of ~Iit<'hell
)fa~o
)!oore of Appling )foore of Fulton )foye Neal of Union Pickren Ramsey Salmon Shettlesworth

Sibley Stovall Swift Thompson of Dodge Turner Walker Whitley Whitworth 'Yilliams of Harris 'YiJJiams of Miller 'Villiams of Walton Wimberly

Those voting in the Iiegativ~ were Messrs:

Adams of Newton AmLerson Arnold Atkinson Beck Beckham Bloodworth Bowden Bozeman Braddy Branch Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Bush Byrd of Crisp Carswell Childs Clifton Collier Collins Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup DaYis of Floyd DeFoor Dixon Dobbs DuBose

Dudl<'y Dun<'an of Hall Dyhs Evans Folsom Griffin ( ~reene GroYenstein Guess Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins HenderRon Herring Hillhouse Hine,- of Decatur Hines of Sumter Flolioway Houser Howard of Forsyth Howard of SC'reven Hullender Hunter Hyman ,Jackson .Ton2' of Coweta

,J one~ of Thomas Jones of Walker Johnson of Bartow Johnson of
Chattahoochee Kennedy Kittrell Knight Lankford of Toombs )lcCielland }fcDonald of
Richmond )!cGarity }faclntyre )lc)Iichael
~faddox
)Iann )Ianning
~Iiles
Mundy Nichols Owen Parks Parrish Patten Penland Perkins Perryman Peterson

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. 1179

Phillips of Jasper Pilcher Price Reagan Reville Ricketson Robinson Russell Sapp Singletary Smiley Smith of Bryan

Smith of Carroll Smith of Haralson Smith of :\Ieriwether Stone Btri<kland Sumner of .John~on Sumner of Wheeler Tatum Thompson of Coweta Tyson Yalentino Van Landingham

VO<elle
'Vall Way Webb Weston 'Vhitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale 'Yood Worthy Wyatt Wynne

Those not voting were Messrs :

Baldwin Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleck ley Boatwright Brannen Carr Coates Corbitt Davis of Oglethorpe Duncan of Dawson Fletcher

Fowler Gresham Gunnels Hodges Holland Horne Hufstetler Logan :\[alone
:\ia,~on
:\Iixon Phillips of Telfair Pruett

Ayes 50, Nays 120.

Quin<"ey Riley Rutherford Steele Swindle Trippt> VanZant " 7atkins Winship 'Voodard :\[r. Speaker

By unanimous consent the nrification of the roll call was dispensed with.
On the motion to table the Ayes were 50, Nays 120, and the motion was lost.
Mr. Culpepper of Fayette moved that whtln thf:' House adjourn it stand adjourned until this afternoon at 3:15 o'clock, and the motion prevailed.
By unanimous consent Mr. Duncan of Hall was granted leave of absence from the afternoon session.

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.By unanimous consent Mr. Duncan of Hall was allowed to cast his vote on the bill before the House at this time and retire. He voted ''Aye'' on the original bill and "No" on the substitute and all amendments.
Mr. Davis of Floyd moved that the House do now adjourn, and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 :15 o'clock.

~-\.FTERNOON SESSION,
3 :15 o'Clock P. M.

The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
Mr. Gresham of Burke County, Vice-Chairman of the Committee on Education, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on Education have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass :

Senate Bill No. 306.

GRAHAM of Burke, Vice-Chairman.

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1181

Mr. Moye of Randolph County, Chairman of the Committee on Counties and County Matters, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Counties and County Matters have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate, and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass.
Senate Bill No. 308.
Respectfully submitted,
RoBERT L. MoYE, Chairman.

Mr. Lankford of Toombs County, Chairman of the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, submitted the following report:
1Jilr. Speaker:
Your Committee on Amendments to the Constitu.tion have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommention that the same do not pass:
Senate Bill No. 250, relative to the payment of poll taxes.
LANKFORD of Toombs,
Chairman.

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The following bills of the Senate, favorably reported by the committees, were read the second time:

By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 306. A bill to establish kindergartens in the public schools of the State.

By Mr. Hutchens of 38th--
Senate Bill No. 308. A bill to amend an Act amending an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Haralson County.
The following bill and resolution of the Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Hutchens of 38th-
Senate Bill No. 308. A hill to amend an Act creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for Haralson County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 120, Na~s 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was. passed.

By Messrs. Akin of 4th, Manson of 35th, and others-
Senate Resolution Ko. 71. A resolution providing for a Commission to prevent the dismantling or

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junking of the Atlanta, Birmingham and Atlantic Railw,'ly Company, and for other purposes.

Mr. Wimberly of Laurens moved that the resolution be tabled, and the motion prevailed.

By unanimous consent Senate Bill Ko. 227 was recommitted to the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2 for the purpose of reconsidering its action in reporting the same unfavorably.

The following bills of the House were taken up for the purpose of considering Senate amendments thereto:

By Messrs. Hufstetler of Murray, Owen of Gordon, and others-
House Bill No. 805. A bill to prohibit taking of fish from any of the streams of this State with seine, net, gig, etc., for a period of five years.
The following Senate amendments were read and concurred in :
Amend by striking the words "for commercial purposes" wherever same occur.
Amend by adding the following: ''that the provisions of this Act shall not apply to counties having a population of less than 6,455 or more than 6,456; 11,709 or more than 11,710.''
By :\fr. Van Zant of Fannin-
House Bill No. 965. A bill to amend an Act incorporating the Town of McCaysville.

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The following Senate amendment was read and concurred in :

Amend by adding the following proviso at the end of Section 4: Provided, however, that the present Mayor and Councilmen of said City of McCaysville shall hold office until the first Monday in February, 1923, when their term of office for which they were elected expires.

By Messrs. Atkinson, Hunter and Valentino of Chatham-
House Bill No. 857. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Savannah.
The following Senate amendments were read and concurred in :
Amend 1st by striking Section five.
Amend 2nd by striking Section five A. Amend 3rd by changing the numbers of the Sections 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, to numbers 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, and 14 respectively.
By Messrs. Gann and Dobbs of Cobb--
House Bill No. 894. A bill to amend the charter of the City of Marietta.
The Senate substitute for the above bill was read and concurred in.

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1185

By Mr. Steele of DeKalb-

House .Bill No. 680. A bill to amend an Act knowu as the Georgia Workmen's Compensation Act relative to the salaries of certain officers.
The following Senate amendment was read and concurred in :

Amend by adding to Section two the following language, to-wit: "All moneys assessed against and that may be payable under this Act by the Insurance Companies writing Compensation Insurance in this State and the employers permitted by the Commission to pay compensation direct, shall be by the same paid into the State Treasury of Georgia, and by it held as a Special Fund subject to the change of salaries, expenses, etc., as provided in this Act, to be paid out of the State Treasury only upon warrant signed by the Governor and countersigned by the Comptroller-General.

By Messrs. Horne of Dodge and Moore of Fulton-
House Bill No. 745. A bill to amend the several Acts for the creation, maintenance, management and government of the Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia, so as to provide that the State President of the Daughters of Confederacy and Presidents of each Atlanta Chapter of same organization be made ex-officio members of said Soldiers' Home.
The following Senate amendments were read and concurred in :
Sig. 38

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Amend by inserting in Section 1 of said bill, in the eighth line thereof, after the words "following" and before the word ''and,'' the following: ''and two women who are members of the Georgia Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy, to be selected from the State at large, and the Chairman of the Soldiers' Home Committee of the Georgia Division of the Daughters of the Confederacy.''

Amend by striking from Section 1 of said bill, in the seventeenth line thereof, after the word: "of," and before the word: "members," the followin~ word: ''eleven,'' and inserting, instead, and in lieu thereof, the following word: ''fifteen.''
Amend the caption of said bill, to conform to and to inc\ude the amendments as herein provided.

The following bill of the House, set .as a special order by the Committee on Rules, was taken up for further consideration:

By Messrs. Kittrell of Laurens and McMichael of Marion-
House Bill No. 738. .A. bill to amend the Constitution so as to provide for State owned terminal at Savannah, Georgia.
Mr. Moore of Appling moved the previous queston; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following amendment to the bill was read and adopted:

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By Messrs. Williams of Walton and Lankford of Toombs-
Amend by striking out the word ''Savannah'' wherever the same appears both in the caption and in the bill.
The substitute by Mr. Mann of Glynn was lost.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to as amended.
The bill involving a constitutional amendment the roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows :

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adams of Newton Anlb!rson Atkinson Beck Beckham Bird of Taliaferro Bowden Branch Brannen Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Bush Carr Childs Coates Cowart Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Duncan of Dawson Duncan of Hall Evans

Fowler Gresham Griffin GroYenstein Guess Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of luscogee Hawkins Hillhouse Holland Holloway Houser Howard of Screven Hullender Hunter Jackson Jones of Thomas Kennedy Kittrell Knight Lankford of Tooml)s McClelland

:McDonald of Richmond
Macintyre ?.'Idlichael Maddoi :\fanning Mason Mixon Parrish Perkins Perryman Peterson Phillips of Jasper Pilcher Pruett Reville Robinson Russell Shettlesworth Smith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Stone Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Tyson

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Wall Way

Winship Wyatt

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Adam.s of Walton Arnold Bleckley Bloodworth Bobo Boswell Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Brantley Brownlee . Byrd of Crisp Camp Carswell Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Collier Collins Corbitt Culpepper Daniel of Heard DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Ficklen Folsom Foy Franks Gann Grant Griffith Greene Gunnels Henderson Herring

Hines of Decatur

Price

Hines of Sumter

Quincey

Hodges

Ramsey

Horne

Reagan

Houston

Riley

Hyman

Rutherford

.Jones of Coweta

Salmon

Jones of Walker

Sapp

Johnson of Bartow Sibley

Johnson of

Singletary

Chattahoochee Smiley

,Johnson of Pickens Smith of Haralson

Keith

Smith of Meriwether

King of Jefferson

Steele

King of Wilcox

Stmall

Langford of Hall

Strickland

Lewis

Swift

Logan

Swindle

Luke

Tatum

1IcClure

Thompson of Coweta

McDonald of ~Iitchell Thompson of Dodge

~IcGarity

Trippe

1Ialone

Turner

1Iann

Van Landingham

1Iayo

VanZant

)Iiles

Walker

~Ioore of Appling

Watkins

1Ioye

Webb

Mundy

\Vhitaker of Lowndes

Neal of Union

Whitaker of Rockdale

Nichols

Williams of Harris

Owen

Williams of Miller

Parks

Williams of Walton

Patten

Wimberly

Penland

Wood

Phillips of Telfai>: Wynne

Pickren

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Those not voting were Messrs :

Baldwin Bentley Blalock Boatwright Davis of Oglethorpe Dykes

Ennis Fletcher Howard of Forsyth Hufstetler Moore of Fulton Ricketson

\Veston Whitley Whitworth Woodard Worthy ::\Ir. Speaker

Ayes 80, Nays 109.

By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 80, Nays 109.
The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.

Mr. Mundy of Polk moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until to-night at 8 o'clock.

On this motion Mr. Knight of Berrien moved the previous question ; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The motion was lost.

Mr. Watkins of Butts moved that the House do now adjourn.

On this motion Mr. Vocelle of Camden called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
By unanimous consent Mr. Davis of Floyd County, Chairman of the Committee on General Judiciary No. 2, submitted the following report:

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Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on General Judiciary No. 2 have had under consideration the following bills of the Senate and have instructed me as Chairman, to re~ port the same back to the House with the recommendation as follows :

Senate Bill No. 251. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 227. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 299. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 257. Do pass. Senate Bill No. 241. Do not pass.

DAVIs of Floyd,

Chairman.

By unanimous consent the following bills of the Senate, favorably reported by the committee, were read for the second time:

By Mr. Fleming of the 8thSenate Bill No. 251. A bill to provide a remedy
for an applicant for writ of certiorari from certain courts.
By Mr. Manson of the 35th-
Senate Bill No. 299. A bill to amend Section 3037 of Code of 1910, relative to guardians.

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By Messrs. Ellis of the 47th, Mills of the 26th, and Snow of the 7th-
Senate Bill No. 257. A bill to promote the forest interest in the State..

By Messrs. Thorpe of the 2nd and Cone of the 49th-
Senate Bill No. 227. A bill to amend Section 4203 of Code of 1910, relative to execution of deeds.
The motion that the House do now adjourn prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourn~d until to-morrow morning at 9 o'clock.

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JouR~AL oF THE HousE, REPRESENTATIVE HALL, ATLANTA, GA.

Thursday, August 17th, 1922.

The House of Representatives met pursuant to adjournment this day at 9 o'clock A. M.; was called to order by the Speaker, and opened with prayer by the Chaplain.
The roll was called and the following members answered to their names :

Adams of Newton Adams of Walton Anderson Arnold Atkinson Baldwin Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Blalock Bleckley Bloodworth Boatwright ,Bobo Boswell Bowden Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Brownlee Bush Byrd of Crisp

Camp Carr Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster Clifton Coates Collier Collins Corbitt Cowart Culpepper Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Da,i,; of Floyd Da,is of Oglethorpe DeFoor DeLaPerriere Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose Dudley Dtmcll,n of Dawson Duncan of Hall Dykes Ennis Evans

Ficklen Fletcher Folsom Fowler Foy Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Grovenstein Guess Gunnels. Haddock Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson Herring Hillhouse Hines of Decatur Hines of Sumter Hodges Holland Holloway

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Horne

Mayo

Houser

Miles

Houston

:Mixon

Howard of Forsyth ~Ioore of Appling

Howard of Screven 2\ioore of Fulton

Hufstetler

1Ioye

Hullender

Mundy

Hunter

Neal of Union

Hyman

Nichols

Jackson

Owen

Jones of Coweta

Parks

Jones of Thomas

Parrish

Jones of Walker

Patten

Johnson of Bartow Penland

Johnson of

Perkins

Chattahoochee Perryman

Johnson of Pickens Peterson

Keith

Phillips of Jasper

Kennedy

Phillips of Telfair

King of Jefferson

Pickren

King of Wilcox

Pilcher

Kittrell

Price

Knight

Pruett

Langford of Hall

Quincey

Lankford of Toombs Ramsey

Lewis

Reagan

Logan

Reville

Luke

Ricketson

licClelland

Riley

llcClure

Robinson

McDonald of Mitchell Russell

~IcDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Salmon

licGarity

Sapp

Macintyre

Shettlesworth

1Ic~Iichael

Sibley

lladdox

Singletary

)Ialone

Smiley

1Iann

Smith of Bryan

Manning

Smith of Carroll

Mason

Smith of Haralson

Smith of Meriwether Steele Stone Stovall Strickland Sumner of Johnson Sumner of Wheeler Swift Swindle Tatum Thomp~on of Coweta Thompson of Dodge Trippe Turner Tyson Valentino Van Landingham VanZant Vocelle Walker Wall Watkins Way Webb \Veston Whitley Whitaker of Lowndes Whitaker of Rockdale Whitworth Williams of Harris Williams of Miller Williams of Walton Wimberly Winship Wood Woodard Worthy Wyatt \Vynne lir. Speaker

By unanimous consent the reading of the Journal of yesterday's proceedings was dispensed with.

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The following message was received from the Senate through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following Resolution of House, to-wit:
House Resolution No. 160. A resolution to appropriate $2,000 for the purpose of defraying expenses of Special Mansion Leasing Commission.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has overridden the Governor's veto on the following bill of Senate.
Senate Bill No. 288. A bill to incorporate Town of Townsend.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has read and adopted the following:
Senate Resolution No. 112. A resolution providing for certain members and attaches of the General Assembly to remain 5 days after adjournment.

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The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bills of the House, towit:
House Bill No. 328. A bill to provide for election prescribed by Par. 1, Sec. 4, Art. 8, of Constitution for school purposes.
House Bill No. 553. A bill to provide for Temperance Day in Public Schools.
House Bill No. 651. A bill to appropriate to Georgia Training School for Girls.
House Bill No. 865. A bill to appropriate for public printing.
House Bill N6. 885. A bill relative to municipalities levying tax and appropriate money to State Sanitarium for Tuberculosis Patients.
House Bill No. 982. A bill to amend Act for appropriation to Georgia Training School for Mental Defectives.
House Bill No. 1004. A bill to amend Section 755 of Criminal Code.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following resolutions of the House, to-wit:
House Resolution No.167. A resolution to relieve the surety on the bond of J. B. Hall, Tax Collector of
Emanuel County.

House Resolution No. 233. A resolution extending thanks to Miss Wyley for composing music to song ''Georgia.''

The following bills of the Senate were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Mr. Golucke of 19th-
Senate Bill No. 321. A bill to amend an Act to incorporate the town of Sharon in Taliaferro County.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Golucke of 19th-
Senate Bill No. 323. A bill to amend an Act to create a Board of Commissioners of . Roads and Revenues for Counties of Warren and Taliaferro.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill,!"was agreed to.

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On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 114, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was'passed.

The following bi~ls and resolutions of the Senate set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, . were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Messrs. Ellis of 47th, Mills of 26th, and others-
Senate Bill No. 257. A bill to promote Forestry interest in the State under direction of Georgia State Board of Forestry.
Mr. Rutherford, of Monroe, moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.

By Mr. Clay of 39th-
Senate Bill No. 174. A bill to amend Penal Code ~elative to bail in misdemeanor cases.
The report of the Committee, which_wa.s favorable to the passage of the biB, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 115, Nays 0.
The biB having reeeived the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following resolutions of the House were read and adopted :

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Jo"CRNAL OF THE HousE,

By Mr. Brown of Emanuel-

A RESOLUTION
House Resolution No. 232. Whereas, Mrs. Lillian Wheeler who has served during .this session at the Information Bureau for the convenience and assistance of the members of this House has been diligent, faithful and courteous in the discharge of her work,
Thetefore, be it resolved that this House express to Mrs. Wheeler its sincere thanks and appreciation for her services during this session of the General Assembly.
Be it further resolved that a copy of this Resolution be delivered by the Clerk to her.
By Mr. Moore of Fulton-
House Resolution Ko. 233. A resolution thanking )!iss Lottie Belle 'Vyley for setting the poem "Georgia" to music and designating the same as Georgia '~i song.
The following resolution of the Senate was read and adopted :
Senate Resolution No.112. A resolution to allow certain officials and attachees of Senate and House to remain five days after session.
The following message wa~ received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House bills, to-wit:

House Bill No. 577. A bill to require non-residents of Camden County, Ga., to procure a license to fish in fresh waters of said County.

House Bill No. 936. A bill to require governing bodies of certain Municipal Corporations to select Mayor Pro-tem or Recorder Pro-tem.
House Bill No. 768. A bill to prevent people from voting in any County election who live in militia district which has the no-fence law.
House Bill No. 821. A bill to amend the Constitution of the State of Georgia so as to regulate the salaries of the Superior Court Judges.
House Bill No. 579. A bill to supply a deficiency in the school funds caused by the misappropriation of funds by one R.N. Berrien.
House Bill No. 107. A bill to amend an Act codifying the School Laws of Ga., relative to the teaching of vocal music.
House Bill No. 67:5. A bill to define the liability of Hotel Keepers.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House resolutions:
House Resolution Xo. 81. A resolution to provide a Survey of the Lands of the State known as the Colony Lands.
House Resolution No. 221. A resolution providing for payment of expenses for Joint Committee on Board of Regents Bill.
House Resolution No. 300. A resolution providing for a School Building Site on the State Farm.
The following message was received from the Senate, through 1\:lr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Jir. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House bills, towit:
House Bill No. 1003. A bill to amend an Act to incorporate the Town of Carl.
House Bill 1002. A bill to repeal an Act to establish a system of Public Schools for Sylvania School District.
House Bill No. 1001. A bill to amend an Act to reincorporate the Town of Abbeville.
House BilllOOO. A bill to reincorporate the Town of Abbeville.

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House Bill No. 980. A bill to create a Board of Roads and Revenues for County of Lamar.
House Bill No. 848. A bill to create a Board of Education of Lamar County.
House Bill No. 808. A bill to authorize the State Treasurer to pay certain Counties of this State funds now or hereafter due from the sale of products from the National Forest Reservation.
House Bill No. 791. A bill to confer upon the several counties of the State authority to levy taxes for educational purposes.
House Bill No. 775. A bill to empower County authorities to provide suitable quarters for Justice of the Peace Courts.
The following bill of the Senate set as a Special order by the Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By l\Ir. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 240. A bill to amend Code of 1910 relative to increase .of capital stock of Trust Compames.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup made the point of order that the House could not legally act upon the above because the 50 days of the session had expired.
The above motion was overruled by the Speaker.
:Mr. Smith, of Carroll, appealed from the decision of tlie chair.

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Mr. Arnold, of Clay, moved the previous question and the motion was lost.

Mr. Moye, of Randolph, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

The decision of the chair stood as the sense of the House.

Mr. Watkins, of Butts, made the point of order that it was unconstitutional for the House to take up this bill at this time due to the fact that a bill of like nature had already been rejected by the House.

The speaker overruled the above point of order; stating that a. motion to reconsider the House bill of like nature having prevailed it made it constitutional to vote on this Senate bill.

The report of the Committee, which.Was favorable to the passage of the bill,.was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 92, Xays 12.

The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.

The following resolution of the House was read:

By l\Ir. Stovall of McDuffie-
Honse Resolution No. 234. A resolution that the General Assembly adjourn sine die at 6 :30 o '9lock P.M.

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Mr. Carswell, of Wilkerson, moved that the resolution be tabled and the motion prevailed.
The following bills of the Senate, set as a special order by the Commj.ttee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Thomas of 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 208. A bill to establish Juvenile Court in this State, and for other purposes.
The report of the Committee, which_,was favorable to th~ passage of the bill,. was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill. the Ayes were 63, Nays 45.
The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.

By Mr. Thomas of 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 216. A bill to amend Georgia Motor Vehicle Law.
Mr. Perryman, of Talbot, moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Macintyre, of Thomas, moved that Senate Bill No. 209 be taken from the table and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Macintyre, of Thomas, moved that Senate Bill No. 221 be taken from the table and the motion prevailed.

.

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J orRXAL OF THE HousE,

By Mr. Snow of 7th-
Senate Bill No. 209. A bill to repeal the Act abolishing fee system in Southern Judicial Circuit.
The report of the Committee,'which~was favorable to the passage of the bill,.was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Kays 6.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was,,passed.

By Mr. Snow of 7th-
Senate Bill .No. 221. A bill to abolish fees of Solicitor-General from criminal cases in Southern Judicial Circuit and provide salary for said office.
The following committee amendments were read and adopted:
Amend by adding next after Section 4 of said bill two new sections to read as follows:
Sec. 4a. It shall be the duty of all arresting officers of said circuit to make upon the warrants executed by them, at the time of executing such warrants, an entry of their acts and doings; and it shall be the duty of all committing magistrates in such circuit to enter upon the warrant, at the time of the commitment, an itemized statement of the costs charged and to whom payable. It shall be the duty of every sheriff, arresting officer and committing magistrate in said circuit, where such warrant

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Is returnable to the Superior Court, to present or cause the same to be presented to the clerk of the court to which it is returnable, as promptly as practicable after the arrest has been made, for entry upon the grand jury docket, and also after a commitment trial has been had thereupon or waived, for the notation of that fact upon such docket. A delay of more than one week in so presenting such warrant, to the clerk shall, in every case (except only when the delay is the result of providential cause), be deemed and held to be inexcusable neglect of duty on the part of the officer so withhold:lng such warrant, subjecting him to attachment and punishment for contempt of court, as well as to a forfeiture of all costs that might otherwise accrue to him in such case.
It shall be the duty of the clerk of every Superior Court of said circuit to keep a ''Grand Jury Docket,'' composed of ruled and printed form, in a bound book, wherein appropriate blanks are left for inserting; (1) The number of the case; (2) the name of the accused; (3) the name of the alleged offense; (4) the date of the alleged offense; (5) the name of the prosecutor; (6) the date of the warrant and the name of the magistrate by whom it was issued; (7) the date of the arrest and tl~e name of the officer making it ; (8) the date and amount of the appearance bond, if any, together with the names of the sureties; (9) the total amount of costs due to each officer as shown by the warrant; (10} a list of the witnesses for the State: and {11) the disposition of the case by the

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committing magistrate and the grand jury. Whenever a warrant is presented to the .clerk in vacation, as herein provided, it shall be his duty forthwith to docket the said case for presentation to the grand jury, unless the same has then already been so docketed; and, in every such case, to insert the suggested matter in every blank pertaining to that case, in so far as the necessary information is desirable from the warrant or from the entries thereon, or as otherwise made known to him. Upon the case being so docketed, the warrant may be returned to the sheriff or other arresting officer. All warrants shall be so docketed in the order of their presentation to the clerk, and the cases shall be numbered consecutively, beginning with "No.1," for each term to which they are returnable.
. Twenty days or more before each term of court,
and regardless of any disposition that may have been made of any felony case outside of the Superior Court, the clerk shall issue and deliver to the sheriff, and the sheriff shall at once proceed to serve a subpoena, in the usual form, for every prosecutor and witness whose name appears upon said docket in connection with cases returnable to said term, and likewise in all cases in which "no bills" were returned at the last preceding term, requiring the attendance of such witnesses and prosecutors before the next grand jury; and where cases are docketed less than twenty days before the next regular term of court, such subpoena shall be immediately issued and deliverey to the sheriff for service, as aforesaid.

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]'or all cases so docketed by the clerk, he shall be entitled to a fee of two dollars, and the sheriff or other arresting officer presenting the warrant to be so docketed shall be entitled to a fee of one dollar, both of which fees shall be taxed as other costs in the said case.
Other cases may be entered upon said docket by the Solicitor-General, or any member of the grand jury, or at their instance and direction, as well as by the clerk, always omitting to fill in such blanks as are inappropriate to the particular case.
The sole purpose of such docket being for the convenience of the grand jury and of the SolicitorGeneral, for expenditing the business before that body, and for better keeping the record of the costs due in criminal cases, no entry or irregularity therein, nor even the total absence of such docket, shall ever, in any case, afford the aceused any ground of objection in any manner.
It shall be the duty of the county. authorities to supply and pay for said docket as other blank books for public records are supplied and paid for.
Sec. 4a. All costs, fines and forfeitures paid into the Superior Courts of said circuit shall be paid , to and received by the respective clerks of said courts, who are hereby charged with the duty of keeping a clear, accurate, complete and permanent record of all sums so received or paid out by them. Each of such clerks shall deposit in a bank or unquestioned solvency, to be selected or changed by him at his

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pleasure, all money so received by him, which aecount shall be carried in his name as clerk of the Superior Court of his county; and no disbursement or payment of any part of such fund shall be made except by clerk, which shall bear a distinguishing number and shall be his voucher for the payment thereby made. All such checks and the stubs thereof, properly filled out, shall be preserved as a part of the permanent record. Such bank account shall follow the office; that is to say, the successor in office of such clerk shall succeed to such bank account by virtue of his office and for the purpose of disbursing the said fund, as in this act provided.

J1~ach of said clerks shall keep a well bound book to be known as the ''Criminal Cost Record,'' which book shall consist of ruled and printed pages with blanks for the insertion, on one horizontal line to each case, of matter respecting every criminal case disposed of in his court, including returns of ''no bill," as follows: (1) The docket number of the case, including (a) the grand jury docket number and (b) the trial docket number; (2) the return term thereof; (3) the name of the accused; (4) the name of the offense; (5) the disposition of the case, (whether "no bill," "acquitted" or "convicted" etc.,) and (b) the date thereof; (6) the sentence imposed, in-' eluding (a) the fine and (b) the term of service; (7) costs accrued to the county as Solicitor-General's fees, including (a) amount, (b) when paid, (c) from what fund paid ("fine" or "insolvent"), and (d) number of voucher by which paid; (8) costs accrued

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to clerk (with same detailed statement as for the county); (9) cost accrued to sheriff (with same detailed statement as for the county); (10) costs accrued to the committing magistrate, if any, with (a) his name, (b) the amount, (c) when paid, (d) from what fund paid (either "fine" or "insolvent" as the case may be), and (e) number of the voucher by which the payment was made; (11) cost accrued to the lawful constable, if any (with same detailed as for the committing magistrate) ; (12) costs of appeal, if any, including (a) amount accruing to the Solicitor-General, (b) when paid, (c) how paid, and (d) voucher number, if paid by check; (e) amount accruing to the clerk, (f) when paid, (g) how paid, and (h) voucher number; (i) amount accruing to sheriff (with same details as for the clerk), and (13) a reasonable space for remarks. Each of said clerks shall also keep, either in the same or in a separate book, a complete and detailed record of all additions to and disbursements from the insolvent fund. This record shall show; (1) the trial docket number of the case from which the fund was received; (2) the return term thereof; (3) the name of the accused; (4) the amount added to the insolvent fund from S'uch case ; and (5) the dates and amounts of each and every receipt and disbursement of said fund, together with the voucher number by which the same was paid.
Quarterly, on the first days of January, April, July, and October of each year, or oftener if he sees fit so to do, the clerk shall pay to the county, to him-

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self, and to each officer to whom cost is due, the amounts accrued in the disposed of criminal cases in which collections have been made during the preceding quarter or since the last preceding settlement. The amount remaining in the hands of the clerk from any particular criminal case after the payment of all costs in that case shall at once be credited to the insolvent fund; and the said clerk shall also make quarterly distributions of said insolvent fund, applying the same, first, to special orders of the court passed within one year from the date of distribution; then (2), generally, either with .or without any order of the court, to the payment of insolvent costs in criminal cases disposed of during the current year; and (3) to the criminal cases disposed of during the preceding year, and so on back through the fourth year, until all of such accrued costs are paid or said fund is reduced to an amount insufficient to pay the costs in full in the next cases in order for such satisfaction. Whenever all accrued costs are paid back through the fourth year, the balance of such fund then in hand, if any, shall be paid into the county treasury.

For keeping the said records as in this section provided the clerk shall be entitled to a fee of three dollars in each case, to be taxed as other costs in the said case.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Nays 7.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.

By Messrs. Wall of 5th and David of 43rd-
Senate Bill No. 60. A bill to amend an Act creating and establishing the Securities Commission.
'l'he following committee substitute was read and adopted:

A BILL
To Be entitled an Act to amend an Act approved August 17, 1920, entitled "An Act to create and establish the Securities Commission, to provide the membership of said Commission and define the duties thereof, to define and classify securities and regulate the sale thereof, to provide for the license of dealers in securities and their agents, to fix fees therefor, to provide .a penalty for violation of this Act, and for other purposes,'' so as more fully to define, classify and regulate such securities; to provide for the license of all dealers, other than the issuers of such securities and of their agents; to revise the fees heretofore fixed for licenses; to regulate the sale of real estate in certain cases; to give greater latitude to the Securities Commission in classifying securities and regulating their sale; to increase penalties for violation of the Act; and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same that, from and after the pas-

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sage of this Act, the Act approved August 17, 1920, entitled ''An Act to create and establish the Securities Commission to provide the membership of said Commission and define the duties and powers thereof, to define and classify securities and regulate the sale thereof, to provide for the license of dealers in securities and their agents, to fix fees therefor, to provide a penalty for violation of this Act and for other purposes,'' be amended in the following particulars, to-wit:

1. AmeudmPnt to Section 15. By inserting after the second paragraph of said section ending with the words "profit sharing certificates" the following paragrapli: ''For the purpose of this Act, the word 'securities' shall further include all contracts for the sale of territorial rights for which a consideration is paid or to be paid and all contracts which entitle the purchaser thereof to receive from the ven-
dor compensatio'n whether the same be for services
to be performed, discounts or special rates not afforded the general public on goods to be purchased, or any other compensation whatever accruing to the purchaser solely by virtue of the purchase of such contract,'' and by striking from said section the last paragraph beginning with "The word 'file' " and ending with "provisions of this Act" and by striking from the paragraph defining the word or term "dealer" the words "except Nationa! Banks" and "its own," so that the said section when amended shaU read as follows:
Section 5. The words and phrases used herein

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shall, unless the context otherwise indicates, have the following meaning:

The word 'securities' shall include stocks, bonds, debentures, notes, certificates of participation, certificates _of shares of interest, pre-organi~ation certificates and subscriptions, certificates evidencing shares in trust estates or associations, and profit sharing certificates.

For the purposes of this Act, the word 'securities' shall further include all contracts for the sale of territorial rights for which a consideration is paid or to be paid, and all contracts which entitle the iurchaser thereof to receive from the vendor compensation, whether the same be for services to be performed, for discounts or special rates hot afforded the general public on goods to be purchased; or any other compensation whatever accruing to .the purchaser solely by virtue of the purchase of such contract.
The word 'issuer' shall include every person and every company, trust, partnership or association incorporated or unincorporated heretofore or hereafter formed for any lawful purpose and organized under the laws of this State or any foreign State or country which shall have issued any security sold or offered for sale to any per~on or persons in this -State.
The term or word 'Dealer' shall be deemed to include 8Jl.Y person, company, trust, partnership or association, incorporated or unincorporated, selling

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or disposing or offering to sell or dispose of any such securities through agents or otherwise, or engage in the marketing of quotation of securities either directly or indirectly or through agents or underwriters, or any stock promotion scheme whatever.''
2. .Amendment to Section 7 Paragraph 3. By inserting in the first line of Paragraph 3 of Section 7, between the word, ''incomes'' and the word ''which,'' the words, ''or on assets the fair market value of which in the judgment of the Commission gives the investor a reasonable margin of safety" so that said parjgraph when amended shall read as follows:

(3) Securities based on established incomes or on assets the fair market value of which in the judgment of the Commission gives the investor a reasonable margin of safety shall be known as securities in Class "C".
3. .Amendment to Section 8. By striking Section 8 and substituting therefor the following:
Section 8. Securities in Class ''A'' shall co-
pnse:
"(1) Those issued or guaranteed'by the United States or any territory or insular possession thereof or by the District of C,olumbia, or by any State or political subdivision or agency thereof.

"(2) Those issued or guaranteed by any foreign government with which the United States is at the time of the sale or offer of sale thereof maintaining

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diplomatic relations, or by any State, Province or political subdivision thereof having the power of taxation or assessment.
"(3) Those issued by a National Bank or any Federal Land Bank or joint stock land bank or National farm loan association under the provisions of the Federal Farm Loan Act of July 17, 1916, or by theWar Finance Corporation, or by any corporation created or acting as an instrumentality of the Government of the United States pursuant to authority granted by the Congress of the United States; provided, That such corporation shall be subject to supervision or regulation by the Government of the United States.

" (4) Those issued by any bank or trust company or insurance company operating under the supervision .of the Insurance Commission of this State.
'' (5) Those issued or guaranteed as to principal, interest, or dividend by a corporation owning or operating a railroad or any other public service utility: Provided that such corporation is subject to regulation or supervision either as to its rates and charges or as to the issue of its securities by a public Commission, board or officer of the Government of the United States; or of any State, territory or insular possession thereof or of the District of Col'umbia, or by the Dominion of Canada or any Province thereof.
"(6) Those issued by a corporation organized exclusively for education, benevolent, fraternal,

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charitable or reformatory purposes, and not for pecuniary profit.

" ( 7) Those appearing in any list of securities dealt in on the New York, Chicago or Philadelphia stock exchange or other stock exchanges of like standing to be selected by the Securities Commission, pursuant to official authorization by such exchanges, and securities senior to any securities so appearing whereof the current prices shall have been quoted from time to time for not less than one year next preceding the offering for sale thereof in tabulated market reports published as news and not as advertisements in a daily newspaper of general circulation in this State.

'' (8) Bonds or notes secured by a deed to secure debt or first mortgage lien upon real estate or leasehold where the entire deed or mortgage together with all the bonds and notes based thereon are sold or offered for sale to a single purchaser as a single sale.
"(9) Bills or notes evidencing the acquisition of personal property under conditional sale contracts; and, when runing for. a period of not more than one year, negotiable promisory notes given for full value, commercial paper, and bank acceptances.
'' (10) Subscriptions to the capital stock of any company, incorporated or to be incorporated under the laws of this State, made and to be paid by the organizers thereof, where no commission or other

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remuneration is paid or to be paid for the disposition of such securities.
. ''Securities in Class ''A'' and the sale thereof shall not be subject to the provisions of this Act.''
4. Amendment to Section 9. By striking Section 9 and substituting therefor the following:

Section 9. Securities in Class '' B '' shall comprise:

"(1) Those sold by the owner or his representative for the owner's account, such sale being in the nature of an isolated transaction and not made in the course of repeated and successive transactions of a similar nature by such owner, or on his own account by such representative, and such owner or representative not being the underwriter of such securities.

"(2) Increased capital stock, bonds or other securities of a corporation sold by it to its stock holders or employes without the payment of any commission or expense to solicitors, agents or brokers in connection with the distribution thereof; capital stock, bonds or other securities distributed to the security holders or other creditors of a corporation in the process of a bona fide re-organization of such corporation either in exchange for the securities or claims of such security holders or creditors or partly for cash or partly in exchange for the securities or claims of such security holders or creditors; or increased capital stock distributed to stockholders as dividends out of earnings or surplus.
Sig. 39

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" (4) Those sold by or to any national or state bank or trust company, functioning as a bank or trust company and not engaged in dealing in securities, or insurance company doing business in this State under .the supervision of the Insurance Commission or any public sinking fund trustees ; or to any corporation or any dealer or broker in securities.

" (5) Those sold or offered for sale at any executor's or administrator's sale or at any sale by a receiver or trustee in insolvency or bankruptcy, or at a public sale or auction held at an advertised time and place; or sold by or for the account of a pledge holder or mortgagee selling or offering for sale or delivery in the ordinary course of business to liquidate a bona fide debt.

''Securities in Class '' B '' when disposed 2f by the persons and in the manner provided by this section, shall not be subject to the provisions of this Act."

5. Amendment to Section 10. By adding at the end of Section 10, defining securities in Class "C," the following paragraph:
'
"Provided, however, that nothing in this section shall be construed so as to prohibit the Securities Commission in its discretion from licensing in Class "C" securities which are unable to meet the foregoing requirements where it is conclusively shown that the purchaser would be undergoing no greater risk than he would in the purchase of securities meeting said requirements.''

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6. New Section. By inserting between Sections 14 and 15, a new section to be known as Section 14a which shall read as follows:

Section 14a. Every dealer not the issuer engaged in the business of buying and selling securities as defined in Section 5 of this Act, whether as owner, underwriter or broker, and every dealer in securities based upon real estate mortgages shall file with the Commission statements and documents as follows:

"(1) Giving address of applicant, principal office and branch office in Georgia, if any.

"(2) If applicant is a corporation, names and addresses of officers and directors and a certified copy of articles of incorporation and by-laws; of a co-.partnership, names and addresses of active partners.
"(3) Detailed account of the character of securities dealt in by applicant with estimate proportion of the whole falling within Classes 'A', 'B', 'C' and 'D'.

" (4) If applicant is a subsidiary of or connected with any other corporation, firm or business, a de-. tailed showing of the relationship or connection with such corporation, firm or business.

'' (5) Three references, one of which shall be a bank with which applicant has an account; and such other data as applicant may deem necessary to a complete showing as to his good character, business qualifications and claim to public confidence.

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"Such statement shall be accompanied by a filing fee of five ($5.00) and shall be verified on oath of applicant, if an individual; or by two of the partners, if a partnership; or by two of the officers, if a company or unincorporated association.

7. New Section. By inserting after the forego-

ing section an additional new section numbered 14b

which shall read as follows:



''Sec. 14b. .If the Commission be satisfied of the good repute in business of such applicant, it shall, on the payment of a fee of fifty ($50.00) dollars renewable annually on the first of January of each year on a showing made that all of the provisions of this Act and the regulations of the Commission have been complied with, register such applicant as a licensed dealer or broker in securitie~, and shall require of such licensed dealer or broker no additional fees or statements evidencing the nature and chara:cter of the securities offered for sale by him, except,
in the case of securities in Class "C," notice of his intention so to do, followed within such time as may
be prescribed by the Commission, by a brief statement under oath showing that the security to be offered is in said class, and in the case of securities based on real estate mortgages, proof of the value of the real estate mortgaged and a sworn opinion by a reputable attorney supporting the title thereto; and such dealer or broker will not be required for himself or the issuer to file separate applications for each issue of securities in Class "C" sold or dealt m by him:

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"Provided, however, .that this section shall not be construed as limiting or curtailing the right of the Commission to refuse to grant or revoke a license for the sale of any securities coming within the provisions of this Act ; and
''Provided further that the exemptions of this section shall not apply to securities in Class "C" or to notes or bonds based upon real estate mortgages, where the Commission has good cause to believe that fuller investigation is necessary; nor to any securities whatever in Class '' D,'' in all of which cases detailed statements must be :filed and the license fee paid for each security as elsewhere stipulated in this Act for issuers.
"Non-resident applicants having no branch office in Georgia, shall before a license can issue, exe<:>ute the power of attorney required in Section 14 of this ...\.ct, but it shall not be necessary for each issuer of securities offered by licensed dealers to execute such power of attorney."
"If application for license is made after the thirtieth of June of any year, one half of the annual fee shall be charged.''
8. A nwndmPnt to Section 15. By striking Section 15 and substituting therefor the following:
''Sec. 15. If the Commission be satisfied with the showing made in the application filed by or in behalf of any issuer and with its investigation thereof, it shall register such applicant as a licensed dealer in such security, said license to be renewable annually

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as hereinafter provided in this Act, upon the payment of the following fees:
''For permission to offer securities not exceeding twenty-five thousand ($25,000) dollars, twenty-five ($25.00) dollars; in amounts greater than twentyfive thousand ($25,000) dollars and not exceeding one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars, fifty ($50.00) dollars; in amounts greater than one hundred thousand ($100,000) dollars and not exceeding two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars, ($100.00) dollars; in amounts greater than two hundred thousand ($200,000) dollars and not exceeding three hundred thousand ($300,000) dollars, one hundred and fifty ($150.00) dollars; in amounts greater than three hundred thousand $300,000) dollars and not exceeding five hundred thousand ($500,000) dollars, two hundred ($200.00) dollars; in amounts greater than fiye hundred thousand ($500,000) dollars and not exceeding one million $(1,000,000) dollars, two hundred and fifty ($250) dollars; in amounts greater than one million ($1,000,000) dollars, three hundred ($300) dollars.

''Such license shall he taken out at the beginning of each callendar year, but may be issued at any time for the remainder of such year and in such case the annual fees shall be reduced as follows for each expired calendar month:
"For fees of twenty-five ($25.00) dollars, two ($2.00) dollars; for fees of fifty ($50.00) dollars, four ($4.00) dollars; for fees of one hundred ($100.00) dollars, eight ($8.00) dollars; for fees of

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one hundred and fifty ($150.00) dollars, twelve ($12.00) dollars, for fees of two hundred ($200.00) dollars, sixteen ($16.00) dollars; for fees of two hundred and fifty ($250.00) dollars, twenty ($20.00) dollars; for fees of three hundred ($300.00) dollars, twenty-four ($24.00) dollars; provided, however, that in no case the fee charged be less than ten ($10.00) dollars. All renewals shall be made as of the first day of January of each calendar year upon proper application therefor, filed not less than twenty (20) days nor more than sixty (60) days next preceeding such date.
''This and the next preceding section shall not apply to issuers of or dealers in securities who have obtained their licenses for the calendar year of the adoption of this Act until the expiration or revocation of said license.''
"Amendment to Section 16. By striking 16 and substituting therefor the following:

"Sec. 16. On such showing of good character as

the Commission may require, it shall license agents

of issuers of securities and of dealers and brokers



therein on written application of their principals.

Such agents shall pay a fee of ten ($10.00) dollars

each of which five ($5.00) dollars shall be for regis-

tration and five ($5.00) dollars for a copy of the

license issued to their principals, certified as such

by the Chairman of the Commission, whose certifi-

cate attached to said copy shall bear the agents name

and address. All agents' licenses shall expire at the

end of the calendar year during which they are is-

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sued. Employers of agents shall immediately notify the Commission when any agent is dismissed or leaves their employment, giving reasons for change of employment. Change of employment shall automatically cancel the license of any agent, but on application to the Commission by a new employer said agent may be registered as the agent of said employer without the payment of an additional registration fee.''
10. Amendment to Section 17. By striking Section 17 and substituting therefor the following:

''~ection 17. The printed lj.cense for dealers on

a form to be prepared by the Commission shaH con-

tain in bold face type the words 'neither the State of

Georgia nor the Securities Commission assumes any

responsibility for statements made by any licensed

dealer, nor recommends the securities offered him.'

Besides a brief description of the securities author-

ized to be sold and a statement to the uses to which

the proceeds shall be applied, issuers' licenses shall



bear at the top in bold face type the following language: License for t~e sale of securities in Class "C"

(''Or Class '' D '' as the case may be) under the Geor-

gia Securities Law. Neither the State of Georgia nor

the Securities Commission assumes any responsi-

bility for any statement contained herein, nor recom-

mends the securities described below.'

"On the petition of any licensee, with such exhibits attached thereto as may be pertinent, verified in the manner required of exhibits attached to the original

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1225

statement, the Commission may take up the original license and issue in lieu thereof an amended license and a fee of $10 shall be paid for such amended license and a fee of $1 each for verified copies thereof to be supplied agents already qualified under the original license.''
11. Amendment to Section 22. Paragraph 1. By inserting immediately after the words, ''The amom1t of securities sold,'' the following words, ''and in the case of securities in Class "D", so that said paragraph when amended shall read as follows:

"(1) The amount of securities sold and, m the case of securities in Class '' D, '' the names and addresses of the parties to whom the same were sold, the sale price thereof, and the amount of cash proceeds received therefor by the issuer.''

12. Amendment to Section 24. By striking Section 24 and substituting therefor the following:

''Sec. 24. No person, partnership or company, unless licensed so to do in the manner hereinafter provided, shall within this State deal in any interest in real estate not located in Georgia. Each and every dealer in such real estate shall first be required to file with the Commission statements and documents as follows:

"(1) Name and address of applicants; state whether individual, co-partnership, corporation or unincorporated association; give three references as to character and business qualifications.

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"(2) A description of real estate to be offered in Georgia, giving applicant's interest therein and ~p praisal by a disinterested party of the value thereof.

"(3) Amount paid for such real estate by owner at time statement is filed, date of his acquisition thereof; certified copies of deed or deeds, together with exemplified copy of any mortgage or other encumbrance thereon; certified copy of reputable attorney or responsible title guaranty company attesting the validity of the title thereto; and last returns made for State, county and (in the case of realty located in an incorporated town) city taxes.

" (4) Detailed account of the manner and terms on which said real estate is to be offered in Georgia, whether as timber lands, developed or undeveloped farm property, city lots, home sites, oil or mineral leases, etc.
'' (5) Such other information and data as the Commission may require for the prevention of fraud in the disposal of said real estate.
"Such statement shall be accompanied by a filing fee of five ($5.00) dollars and shall be verified by the oath of the individual applicant, if an individual; or by two members of a firm or partnership, if a partnership; or by two officers of a company, if a company or unincorporated association. When said statement shall have been approved by the Commission, such applicant shail be granted a license to deal in such real estate upon the payment of a fee of fifty ($50) dollars renewable annually on the first day of

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January of each calendar year. At any time during th() year for which license is granted, a dealer in such real estate may be authorized to offer for sale additional tracts of real estate on filing with the Commission statements and doc'!}ments regarding such real estate verified as in the case of the original statement and accompanied by a fee of ten ($10.00) dollars. The same provisions as to registration and fees for agents offering securities shall also be applicable to agents of dealers in real estate lying outside of this State.
''This section shall apply where the title to such property is held in the name of a trustee for any corporation or for any such described person or oompany, but it shall be deemed to prohibit the disposal of his own property by any owner or by his representative for the owner's account in good faith and not for the purpose of avoiding the provisions of this Act, where the transaction is not one of repeated transactions of a similar nature performed as part of the business of dealing in real estate."
13. New Section. By inserting between sections 24 and 25 a new section to be known as Section 24a as follows:
''Section 24a. The provisions of the foregoing section shall apply to the sale or offer of sale of real estate located in Georgia in the case of oil, gas and mineral leases and of subdivisions of larger tracts to be offered as city or suburban lots, or as fractional portions thereof planted in nuts or fruits commonly known as orchard units, or as small farms for oolon-

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izing purposes, when said lots or tracts are offered outside of the countr~ in which the land is located..

"Provided, however, that it shall not apply to the offer of lots of a city or territory suburban thereto in any of the counties included in such city or suburban territory; nor to the offer of tracts as orchard units or small farms in any of the counties of the location of the larger tract subdivided to form such orchard units or farms; nor to the advertisements of such offers in a newspaper published in any county in which the offer or sale is exempt from the provisions of this Act.''

14. "Amendment to Section 27. By striking Section 27 and substituting therefor the following:
"Section 27. The Securities Commission shall have the power to make such rules and regulations from time to time as it may deem necessary and proper for the enforcement of this Act, which rules and regulations when published by the Commission shall have the force and effect of law; provided, however, that any party affected adversely by any ruling of the Commission shall have the right of appeal within thirty (30) days thereafter to the Superior Court of Fulton County.
"The Commission shall at such times as it deems advisable and whenever it may have reason to believe that fraud is being or about to be perpetrated, investigate the business and affairs of every licensee, and for that purpose shall have free access to the vaults, books and papers thereof, and other sources

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of information with regard to the business of such licensee and whether it has been transacted in accordancewith this Act. The Comniission, in making investigations may by subpoena compel the attendance of witnesses and" the production of books and P.apers before it relating to any matter as to which it has jurisdiction under this Act. Any member of this Commission or the Chief Examiner shall have the power to administer oaths. Such subpoenas may be issued by any Commissioner or the Chief Examiner and shall be served in such manner as the Commission may provide, so long as the provisions of law relative to service of subpoenas in a court of , law shall apply to subpoenas issued under this Act, in so far as they are possible. Witnesses, when testifying under subpoenas from the Commission, shall be allowed the same fees and expenses as are ,allowed witnesses testifying before the Railroad Commission, such fees to be charged against the ~party at whose instigation the witness was subpoe~ naed or against the funds of the Commission to be paid out on the order of the Chairman. In case any person shall willfully fail or refuse tp obey such subpoena, it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Superior Court of any county, upon application of the Commission, to issue an attachment for such witness and compel him to attend before the Commission or the Chief Examiner and give his testimony upon such matters as shall be lawfully required by the Commission, and said court shall have the power to punish for contempt as in other cases of refusal to obey tqe process and order of such court.

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''The Commission shall have the right to delegate to the Chief Exanimer, who shall be its administrative officer, such powers and duties as it may see fit, and the acts of the Chief Examiner shall be regarded as the acts of the Commission when approved by that body."

15. AmPIIdment to Section 28, first paragraph.

By adding at the end of said paragraph the follow-

ing: "Provided that the Commission may within its

discretion withold from the public such matters of a

private and a confidential nature as may be required

by it of licensees in the administration of the law

and

exhibit

them

to

such

persons

only

as

can

show .

'

that they have a legal right thereto,'' so that said

paragraph when amended shall read as follows :

"Section 28. The Securities Commission shall have an official seal upon which shall be engraved the words. "Securities Commission of Georgia," and in addition thereto such design as the Commission may prescribe. The Commission may prescribe .ij and furnish forms for all statements and documents and summaries required by this Act to be filed in its office and s~ch statements, documents and summaries shall follow substantially the forms so prescribed. All statements and documents and all other matters filed in the office of the Commission under the provisions of this Act shall at all proper hours be available for public inspection; provided that the Commission may within its discretion withold from the public such matters of a private and confidential nature as may be ~equired by it of licensee~ in the

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administr~tion of the law and exhibit them to such persons only as can show that they have a legal right thereto.''
16. New Section. By inserting between Sections 35 and 36 the following new Section to be known as Section 35a.
''Section 35a. Any dealer in securities or issuer of securities in Class "0" as defined in this Act, his agent, broker, solicitor, officer, director, or other person who shall sell or offer securities for sale without first having obtained a license so to do shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction therefor shall be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of Georgia 1910.
''In addition to the penalty above provided, the Commission may through the Attorney-General apply to the Superior Court of the County of the residence of any dealer for an injunction against such dealer whoshall offer or sell securities without first securing a license so to do or who shall continue to offer or sell securities after his license has been revoked or not renewed; and the Court, shall on proof of the findings presented by the Attorney-General for the Commission issue an order declaring the business of such dealer to be a public nuisance and restraining him from further exercise thereof for such time as the Court may deem necessary and proper.
17. New Section. By inserting immediately after the foregoing and additional new Section to be known as Section 35b as follows :

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"Section 35b. That in any suit, complaint, information, indictment, or other writ or proceeding, civil or criminal, laid or brought under this Act, it shall not be necessary to negative any of the exemptions provided by this Act; and the burden of proof of any such exemption claimed by the defendant shall be upon the defendant.''

18. Ameudnwut to Section 36. By striking said section and substituting in lieu thereof the following:
''Section 36. Any issuer, dealer, broker, solicitor, agent or other person who shall sell or offer for sale any securities coming within Class '' D '' as defined in this Act, without having first secured a license so to do in accordance with the terms and provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a felony, and on conviction therefor shall be punished by imprisonment in the State penitentiary for not less than two years nor more than five years.
''The publisher of any newspaper who shall print any advertisement offering for sale securities in Class '' D'' aforesaid, the issuer of which has not before submitting such advertisement, secured a license from the Commission to offer such securities and who has not complied with Section 23 of this Act in the writing of such advertisement, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and on co1iviction therefor shall be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of Georgia, 1910. ''
19. Amendment to Section 37. By striking 37 and substituting therefor the following:

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''Section 37. Any former licensee, whether issuer, dealer, or agent, who shall sell or offer for sale any securities or real estate in violation of the provisions of this Act after his license shall have been revoked or shall have expired and not been renewed, shall be guilty of a felony and, on conviction therefor, shall be confined in the State Penitentiary not less than two nor more than five years; any applicant or licensee who shall knowingly file with the Commission any false affidavit shall be guilty of fase swearing and on conviction therefor shall be punished as prescribed in Section 262 of the Penal Code of Georgia 1910.
20. New Section. By inserting between Section 37 and 38 a new section to be known as Section 37a as follows:
"Sec. 37a. The Commission may in its discretion grant the application of a licensee of another State having requirements to be met preliminary to the offering of securities in said State substantially equivalent to those of this Act, on the filing by such applicant of a transcript of the record and docu- .ments filed with such other State together with a copy of the license issued him where a license is required, certified as correct by the proper official of said State, and on the payment of the necessary fees.
~
''Provided that said State shall grant the same privilege to applicants who. are Georgia licensees ; and provided further that an inve_stigation of such applicant has been made by said State department within a period of not more than six months prior to

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the filing of such application with the Georgia Commission.''
Sec. Be it enacted by authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.

The report of the Committee, which; was favorable to the passake of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Xays 1.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was11passed.

By .Mr. Snow of 7th-
Senate Bill No. ~9. A bill to provide for the return and transmission of interrogatories taken under provisions of Code of 1910.
The report of the Committee, which ',was favorable to the passage of the bill,.was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 113, Xays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Weaver of 11th and Akin of 4th-
Senate Bill No. 84. A bill to permit corporation to issue non par stock subject to consent of Railroad Commission of Georgia.

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1235

The report of the Committee, whichwas favorable to the passage of the bill,.was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 106, Nays 0.
The bilf having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Messrs. Weaver of 11th and Akin of 4th-
Senate Bill No. 86. A bill to permit corporations, except insurance, bank and trust companies, to issue non-par stock.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was..;passed.
Mr.. Culpepper, of Fayette, moved that House Resolution NQ. 234 be taken from the table and the motion prevailed.
The following resolution of the House was taken from the table and read:

By Mr. Stovall of McDuffie-
Honse Resolution No.234. A resolution that the General Assembly adjourn sine die at 6 :30 o'clock P.M.

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Mr. .Macintyre, of Thomas, moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main que2tion was ordered.
The resolution was lost.
By unanimous consent the following. bill of the House was read and placed upon its passage:

B~, Mr. Stone of Jeff Davis-
House Bill No. 940. A bill to amend the Constitution so as to abolish Tax Receiver of Jeff Davis County.
The Committee amendment was read and adoptc~d. The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill as amended, was agreed t.-.
The bill involving a constitutional amendmen: the. roll call was ordered and -the vote was as follows:

Those voting in the affirmative were Messrs:

Adam,s of Walton Anderson Baldwin Beek Beckham Bentley Blalock Bleck ley Bobo Bowen Boyett Bozeman Branch Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brownlee

Bush Camp Carswell Childs Clark of Colquitt Clark of Webster DeFoor Dickerson Dudley Duncan of Dawson Dykes Evans Folsom Grant Griffith Guess

Haddock Hamilton Hatcher of Burke Hi-llhouse Hines of Sumter Holloway Horne Howard of Forsyth Howard of Screven Hufstetler Jackson Jones of Walker Johnson of Bartow .Johnson of
Chattahoochee Kittrell

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Langford of Hall Lankiord of Toomb~ Lewis McClelland McClure Macintyre Malone Manning Mason Miles Moore of Appling Owen Penland

Perkins Phillips of Jasper Pruett Quincey Ramsey Re,ille Robinson Russell Smith of Haralson Stone Stovall
~tri~kland
Sumner of Johnson

Tyson Valentino Van Landingl1am \"an Zant Vocelle \Yalker Wall \Yhitaker of Lowndes Williams of Walton \Yinchip \Vynne

Those voting in the negative were Messrs :

Boswell Braddy Byrd of Crisp Clifton Corbitt Daniel of Heard Daniel of Troup Davis of Floyd Dobbs DuBose Gann Griffin Greene Grovenstein Harris Henderson Herring

Holland Houston Hul:ender Hunter Jones of Coweta .Johnson of Pickens Keith Logan ::\lcDonald of .:O.Iitchell ::\IcGarity Maddox ::\Ioore of Fulton Neal of Union Nichols Parks Parrish

Price :::ialmon Sapp Shettlesworth Smith of Carroll Smith of .:O.Ieriwether Steele Sumner of \Vheeler Swift Thompson of Coweta Trippe \Yatkins \Yhitaker of Rockdale \Vhitworth \Yilliams of Harris Wood

Those not voting were Messrs :

Adams of Newton Arnold Atkinson Bird of Taliaferro Bloodworth Boatwright Bowden Brannen

Brown of Hancock Carr Coates Collier Collins Cowart Culpepper Dads of Oglethorpe

DeLaPerriere Dixon Duncan 'of Hall Ennis Ficklen Fletcher Fowler Foy

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:Franks

McMichael

Gresham

:\Iann

Gunnels

::\Iayo

Hatcher of Muscogee ::\Iixon

Hawkins

::\Ioye

Hines of Decatur

Mundy

Hodges

Patten

Houser

Perryman

Hyman

Peterson

Jones of Thomas

Phillips of Telfair

Kennedy

Pickren

King of Jefferson

Pilcher

King of \Vil1ox

Reagan

Knight

Ricketson

Luke

Riley

::\IcDonald of

Rutherford

Richmond Sibley

Singletary Smiley Smith of Bryan Swindle Tatum Thompson of Dodge Turner Way Webb \VPRton Whitley Williams of Miller Wimberly Woodard Worthy Wyatt ::\lr. Speaker

Ayes 84, Nays 49.
By Unanimous consent the verification of th~ roll ~all was dispensed with.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were b4, Nays 49.
The bill having failed to receive the requisite con-
stitutional majority was lost.
The following bill of the Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, was read the thi!d time and placed upon its passage:

By Messrs. Wall of 5th and David of 43r<l-
Sena1:e Bill No. 63. A bill to amend an Act to regulate banking in State of Georgia.
The following committee amendment was read and adopted:

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Amend by striking Sub-Section 12 and renumbering subsequent sections accordingly.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage ~f the bill as amended, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 118, Nays 12.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed as amended.
The following resolution of the House was introduced, read the first time, and referred to the Committee on Rules:

By Mr. McMichael of Marion-
House Resolution .No. 235. A resolution that Committee on Rules be requested not to set the Highway Bond Bill for consideration.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitu: tional majority the following bill of Senate, towit:
Senate Bill 254. A bill to amend Constitution so as to provide for issuance and sale of highway bonds.
Mr. Shettlesworth of Gwinnett moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until this afternoon at 3 o'clock.

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AFTERNOON SESSION,
3 o'Clock P. M.
The House met again at this hout and was called to order by the Speaker.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
The following bill of the Senate was read the first time and referred to the committee:

By Messrs. Ellis of 47th, Foy of 1st, and others-
Senate Bill No. 254. A bill to amend Constitution so as to provide for issuance and sale of highway bonds.
Referred to Committee on Amendments to the Constitution.
The following resolutions of the House were read and adopted :

By Messrs. Collins of Cherokee and Pickren of Charlton-
- House Resolution No. 236. A resolution conveying thanks and appreciation to Lowe's Grand Theater for courtesies shown during the past session of the General Assembly.

By Messrs. Bobo, of Wilkes and Henderson of White-

A RESOLUTION House Resolution No. 237. Whereas, the distin-

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guished member of this House the Hon. James Hampton Grant, from the County of Habersham, , being the eldest member in point of years in the House of Representatives, and

Whereas, The said James H. Grant will probably never again serve his county in the capacity of Legislator, owing to the fact that he is not offering for re-election.

There{ore be it resol1;.ed, That this House extend to the Honorable member from the County of Habersham, its appreciation of his long and faithful service, and express the hope that the remaining years of his life may be filled with peace and happiness,
The following bills and resolution of the Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage:

By Messrs. Walker of 18th and Johns of 27th-
Senate Bill No. 122. A bill to amend Code of 1910 so as to make the mother and equal heir with the father, brothers and sisters of a deceased intestate.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill,,was agreed to.
I
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 108, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

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By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 299. A bill to amend Code of 1910 relative to appointment of guardians for
I
minors.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, .was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Nays 0.

The bill having received the requisite ~ons.titu tional majority was .passed.

By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Resolution No. 107. A resolution to relieve the bondsmen of Price Hubbard, and for other purposes.
The repo;t of the committee, which was favorable to the pas.sage of the bill,,was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Nays 0.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

By Mr. Johns of 27th-
Senate Bill No. 47. A bill to deClare that growing crops shall be personalty, and for other purposes.
Mr. Webb, of Lowndes, moved that the bill be tabled and the motion was lost.

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The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill,,was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 117, Nays 6.

The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.

The following message was received from His Excellency the Governor, through his Secretary, Mr. McCurry:

Mr. Spealoer:

I am directed by His Excellency the Governor, to

deliver to the House of Representatives a communi-

cation in writing your attention.

to

which

he

respectfully invites .

STATE OF GEORGIA: EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, ATLANTA.

To The General Assembly:
I beg to again invite your especial attention, at this late hour in the session, and to again commend to your favorable consideration the bill to promote the forestry interests in Georgia.
It seems to me the bill in question is a distinctively progressive and necessary step in the development of a sound public policy; that it will tend to preserve our forests, our lumber interests and our naval

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stores industry, and that every argument is in favor of its passage and that no legitimate objection can be offered to it. It involves no public expenditure.

I understand that Senate Bill No. 257, to accomplish these purposes, has already passed the Senate and is now pending in the House, and I earnestly hope that both Houses of the General Assembly may agree to this legislation before the adjournment of the present session.

Respectfully submitted,
THOMAS w. HARDWICK,

This August 17, 1922.

Governor.

The following message was received from the Senate, thrqugh Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speake1:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House bills as amended:
House Bill No. 233. A bill to appropriate $65,000 for the use of the State ~ormal School at Valdosta.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. ~icClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House bills:

House Bill No. 65. A bill relating to the placing out of chidren by persons other than the parents of such children.
House Bill No. 931. A bill to amend an Act to establish or aid in the establishment of consolidated public schools in each county of the State. ,

House Bill No. 998. A bill to appropriate an additional $10,000 to the State Board of Entomology for the years 1922-23.
The following resolutions of the House were read and adopted :

By Messrs. Whitaker of Rockdale and Hamilton of Floyd-

A RESOLUTION
House Resolution No. 238. Resolved that whereas the Hon. W. E. Boatwright, member of the House of Representatives from the County of Emanuel has suffered a great loss in the death of his beloved wife, and
Whereas, the said W. E. Boatwright is now confined at his home with a serious illness,
Therefore be it 1esolved, that the members of the House of Representatives extend to Mr. Boatwright

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their heartfelt sympathy in his recent grief, and wish for him an early recovery from his illness.

By Messrs. Whitaker of Rockdale and Hamilton of Floyd-

A RESOLUTION
House Resolution No. 239. Whereas, the Ron. Thomas N. Swift, a member of the House of Representatives from the County of Elbert has long represented the County of Elbert in the General Assembly of Georgia, and
WhetoeaSt, Mr. Swift is retiring from public serYice, he not offering for election to the next House,
1'herefore be it Resolved, that the members of the House of Representatives express to him their high appreciation of his long and faithful service andregret that Georgia will lose his valued services.
Resolved further, That the members of this House wish for him a long and peaceful life, full of happiness.
Mr. Beckham of Dougherty moved that Senate Bill .No. 257 be taken from the table and the motion prevailed.
The following bill of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering the Senate Amendment thereto:

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By Mr. Vocelle of Camden-
House Bill No. 577. A bill relative to non-residents of Camden County fishing in said county.
The following Senate amendment was read and concurred in :
Amend by adding the following provision to Section 1: ''Provided further, that none of the provisions of said bill shall apply to hook and line fishing in said Camden County.''

.The following bills of the Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their passage :

By Mr. Fleming of lOth-
Senate Bill No. 252. A bill to require the posting of rates in all hotels and to place .the inspection of hotels and all laws governing hotels under the supervision of the State Board of Health, and for other purposes.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was disagreed to and the bill was lost.
Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that Senate Bill No. 216 be taken from the' table and the motion was lost.

By Mr. Ellis of 47th-
Senate Bill No. 38. A bill to provide a uniform County Commissioner's Law for such counties as

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may reqmre a commission form of County government, and for other purposes.
Mr. DeFoor of Clayton moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill,.was agreed to.

On the passage of the bill Mr. Beckham, of Dougherty called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was sustained.

The roll call was ordered and the vote was as follows:

Those voting m the affirmative were Messrs.

Adams of Newton Arnold Atkin"on Beck Beckham Bentley Bird of Taliaferro Bleckley Bloodworth Bowen Boyett Bozeman Braddy Branch Brannen Brantley Brown of Emanuel Brown of Hancock Bush Byrd of Crisp Camp Childs

Clark of Colquitt l'urbitt Daniel of Heard Davis of Floyd DeFoor Dickerson Dixon Dobbs DuBose
Dyke" Ennis Folsom Fowler Foy Grovenstein Guess Hamilton Harris Hatcher of Burke Hatcher of Muscogee Hawkins Henderson

Herring Hillhouse Hine8 of Decatur Hines of i:'iumter Holland Houser Howard of Forsyth Hufstetler Hyman Jackson Jones of Coweta Johnson of Bartow John"on of
Chattahoochee Keith Kittrell Lankford of Toombs Lewis Logan Luke .\IcClelland .\lcClure

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McDonald of Mitchell Pruett

McDonald of

Quincey

Richmond Reagan

Md'lichael

Salmon

Maddox

Sibley

Mann

Singletary

Mixon

Smith of Meriwether

Moore of Appling

Steele

Moore of Fulton

Stone

Moye

Stovall.

Mundy

1-lumner of Johnson

Nichols

Sumner of Wheeler

Patten

Swift

Perkins

Tatum

Peterson

Thomp~on of Coweta

Phillips of Telfair Thompson of Dodge

Trippe Ty8on Turner Valentino Van Zant Vocelle Walker Wall Webb \Yeston Whitley \Yhitaker of Lowndes \Villiams of \Valton Winship

Those voting in the negative were Messrs:

Adal111l of Walton
An~rson
Brownlee Carr Clifton Coates Collins Daniel of Troup DeLaPerriere Duncan 'of Hall E\ans Franks Gann Grant Gresham Griffin Griffith Greene Gunnels

Horne Houston Howard of Screven Hullender Hunter Jones of Thomas J01ws of \Valker Johnson of Pickens Langford of Hall JicGarity ::lfaclntyre ::lfalone ::lfason Miles Neal of Union Owen Parks Penland Phillips of Jasper

Pickren Pilcher Price Ramsey Reville Robinson flapp Shettlesworth Smiley Smith of Haralson Strickland Watkins \Vay \Vhitaker of Rockdale \Vhitworth Williams of Harris Wood Wyatt

Th.ose not voting were Messrs :

Baldwin Blalock Boatwright
Sig. 40

Bobo Boswell Bowden

Carswell Clark of Webster Collier

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Cowart Culpepper Davis of Oglethorpe Dudley Duncan of Dawson Ficklen Fletcher Haddock Hodges Holloway Kennedy

King of Jefferson King of Wilcox Knight )fanning )Iayo Parrish Perryman Ricketson Riley Russell Rutherford

Smith of Bryan Smith of Carroll Swindle Van Landingham Williams of Miller ' Wimberly Woodard Worthy Wynne )lr. Speaker

Ayes 109, Nays 56.
By unanimous consent the verification of the roll call was dispensed with.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 109, Nays 56.
The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was passed.
The following report of the Conference Committee on Senate Bill No. 41 was read:
Mr. Speaker:
We the undersigned Conference Committee on the part of the House and Senate as to the Senate Bill No. 41, known as the free school Book Bill, beg to report that we are unable to agree and ask that another Conference Committee be appointed.
Respectfully submitted, On part of Senate:
B. F. WALKER, Chairman, J. H. BOYKIN,
RouNTREE,

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On part of House : I. H. P. ~EcK, Chairman, C. W. FoY, E. B. GRESHAM.

The Speaker appointed the following members of the House on the part of the House as a new Conference Committee on Senate Bill No. 41:
Messrs : McMichael of Marion, Moore of Fulton, Jones of Coweta.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The President has appointed as a Conference Committee on the part of the Senate to act with a Conference Committee from the House with reference to Senate Bill No. 41, the following Senators:
Messrs: Rountree, Walker, Boykin.

The following bill of the Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage :

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By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 16. A bill to create the office of State Auditor.
Mr. Boswell of Green moved the previous ques~ tion; the motion prevailed, and the main question was orderd.
The following committee substitute was read and adopted:

A BILL
'l'o he entitled an Act to create the office of State Auditor and an Auditing Department; to provide the method of his appointment, and length of his term of office; to define his powers and duties ; to fix his compensation and the compensation of the employees of the Auditing Department; to provide for the appointment of clerical assistants and their compensation; to fix penalties for the refusal to submit books and records, and furnish such information as may be called for by such auditor and Auditing Department; to provide for inspection by the State Auditor and the Auditing Department of the various state departments, institutions, bureaus and agencies, and for other purposes.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, that the office of State Auditor be and the same is hereby created, and an Auditing Department is hereby created and established. The auditor shall be appointed by and be amenable to the State In-

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vestigating and Budget Commission heretofore created and now existing, and his term of office shall be two years, subject to the provisions herein provided. It shall be the duty of such auditor and the Auditing Department, acting under the direction of the State Investigating and Budget Commission, to examine the books, records, vouchers, papers, warrants and all other records kept by the various departments, institutions, commissions, bureaus and officers of the state, and to report to the State In-
vestigating and Budget Commission the condition of such departments, institutions, commissions, bureaus and officers, and to point out in such report all failures to keep records as required by law, and to report all inaccuracies, irregularities and shortages and make such further and additional report as the State Investigating and Budget Commission may require from time to time.
Section 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that it shall be the duty of each and all of the State Departments, Institutions, Commissions,
Bureaus and Officers to furnish from time to time at
the request of such auditor all the books, papers, warrants, documents and records and such information as such Departments, Institutions, Commissions, Bureaus and Officers may have, in order that the auditor and Auditing Department may be able to make a complete and accurate audit of such Departments, Institutions, Commissions, and officers.
Section 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid that should any department, institution,

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commission, bureau or officer of said state, which is required by this act to be audited, refuse to submit to the Auditor and Auditing Department for inspection and examination any records or warrants to aid the Auditor in such examinations and inspections according to the provisions of this Act, and should the responsible officer in charge thereof willfully with- hold from such auditor and Auditing Department any record or records, warrants, books or other information within the possession and control of such department, institution, commission, bureau or officer for the purpose of preventing their complete audit of such warrants, records, and departments, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and upon conviction shall be punished as provided by Section 1065, Volume 2, Code 11.

Section 4. Be it further enacted that the State Auditor herein provided for shall be selected and appointed by the State Investigating and Budget Commission, said auditor shall be a licensed certified public accountant and he shall be appointed for a term of two years and he shall hold his office for two years from the date of his appointment, unless removed by the State Investigating and Budget Commission for the failu;re to discharge the duties of his office to the satisfaction of such commission.

Section 15. The Auditor may by the consent of the Commission employ an assistant whose salary shall not exceed $3,000 per annum and also employ a stenographer whose salary shall not exceed $1,500.00 per annum. The salary of the auditor shall be $5,000 per

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annum. The actual traveling expenses of the auditor and the assistant auditor, acting under the direction of the auditor, when properly itemized and verified shall also be paid by the State.
Section 6. The provisions of this Act shall in no way effect the duties of the auditor as defined and provided for in Section 65 of an Act Codifying the school laws of the State of Georgia approved August 19th, 1919.
Section 7. The provisions of this Act are int~nd ed to cover and include the provisions of the Act creating the State Investigatin~ and Budget Com~ mission and to authorize the Auditor and Auditing Department to examine all the records and budgets made by departments, institutions, bureaus, commissions, and officers of state under the direction of the investigating Budget Commission and to furnish said commission such report or reports thereon as may be called for by said commission.
Section 8. The provisions of this Act shall not go into effect until thirty days after its approval by the governor.
Section 9. Be it further enacted that all laws and parts of laws in conflict wirth this Act be and the same are hereby repealed.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 107, Nays 10.

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The bill having received the requisite constitutional majority was ,passed.

By unanimous consent the bill was ordered liDmediately transmitted to the Senate.

Mr. Lankford of Toombs County, Chairman of the Committee on Amendments to the Constitution, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
Your Commitee on Amendments to the Constitution have had under consideration the following bill of the Senate and h!lve instructed me as Chairman, to report the same back to the House with the recommendation that the same do pass by substitute:
Senate Bill No. 254. In reference to Road Bonds.
LANKFORD of Toombs, Chairman.

Mr. Mundy of Polk moved that when the House adjourn it stand adj,ourned until 8 :00 o'clock tonight.
Mr. Stovall of McDuffie moved that when the House adjourn it stand adjourned until to-night at 9 :00 o'clock.
By unanimous consent the night session was set for 8 :30 o'clock.
Mr. Watkins of Butts moved that the House do now adjourn and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned until to-night at 8:30 o'clock.

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NIGHT SESSION'

8 :30 o'Clock P. M.

The House met again at this hour and was called to order by the Speaker.
By unanimous consent the call of the roll was dispensed with.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.
Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has read and adopted the following resolution of the Senate, to-wit:
Senate Resolution No. 113. A resolution providing for a World's Fair and Maritime Exposition at Savannah and Atlanta in 1926.
The following resolution of the Senate was read and adopted:
By Messrs. Manson of 35th and Foy of 1st-
Senate Resolution No. 113. A resolution providing for a Worlds Fair and Maritime Exposition in Georgia in 1926.
The following bills of the Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, were read the third time and placed upon their' passage:

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By Messrs. Brown of 50th and Thomas of 3rd-
Senate Bill No. 269. A bill for the protection of game animals, game birds, fish, oysters and for other purposes.
Mr. Carswell of wilkinson moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.

By Mr. Ridley of 28th-
Senate Bill No. 159. A bill to revise the present laws creating the Georgia State Board of Pharmacy, and for other purposes.
Mr. Howard of Forsyth moved that the bill be tabled and the motion prevailed.
:Mr. Dykes of Dooly moved that Senate Bill No. 269 be taken from the table.
On this motion Mr. Brannen of Bullock called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
The motion to take Senate Bill No. 269 from the table was lost.

By Mr. Golucke of 19th-
Senate Bill No. 42. A bill to amend the Constitution relative to the carrying of side arms! such as pistols and the like, and for other purposes.
Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the bill be tabled and the motion was lost.

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By Mr. \Vall of 5th-
Senate Bill No. 236~ A bill to amend the Georgia Motor Vehicle Law by adding a section providing for a reasonable time for obtaining a motor license and for other purposes.
Mr. Watkins of Butts moved that the bill and all amendments be tabled and the motion was lost.
Mr. Mason of Hart moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The committee substitute as amended was read and adopted.
The report of the Committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was agreed to as amended.
On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 70, Nays 65.
The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.

By Messrs. Ellis of 37th, Foy of 1st, and others-
Senate Bill No. 254. A bill to amend Constitution so as to permit issuance and sale of Highway Bonds.
Mr. Watkins of Butts made the point of order that the House could not legally pass upon the above bill because it had not been read three times on three consecutive days and that being a revenue producing measure could not originate in the Senate.

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Mr. McMichael of Marion made the point of order that the House could not legally pass upon the above bill because it had not been read three times on three consecutive days and that the same was headed and . designated "A Bill."
The Chair ruled that any proposal to amend the fundamental laws of the State can be made by resolution submitted to the House and read and that the language of the Constitution is a restriction on the passage of a law but not a restriction on submitting ~atter to the people.
The Chair overruled the points of order made by Messrs. Watkins of Butts and McMichael of Marion.
Mr. McMichael of Marion appealed from the decision of the Chair.
On the appeal from the decision of the Chair Mr. Mason of Hart moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The decision of the Chair was upheld and stood in the judgment of the House.
Mr. Shettlesworth of Gwinnett moved that the bill, substitute and all amendments be tabled.
On this motion Mr. Lewis of Colquitt called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
The motion to table was lost.
Mr. Hyman of Washington moved the previous question on the original bill, substitute and all



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amendments; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The substitute and all amendments were lost.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill by substitute, was disagreed to by a vote of 43 to 73 and the bill was lost.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed as amended by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of House, to-wit:
House Bill No. 626. A bill to amend Act relative to payment of poll tax by women.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House bill as amended:
House Bill No. 129. A bill to pay old and new class pensioners certain sums for 1922.
The following message was received from rthe Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

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.J-leRNAL OF THE HousE,

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bill by substitute as amended:
House Bill No. 210. A bill to amend an Act to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Bill as amended, to-wit:
House Bill No. 73. A bill to make for the year 1922 additional appropriation for the maintenance of the military establishment of the State.
The following bill of the Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, was taken from the table and placed upon its passage:
By Messrs. Ellis of 47th, Mills of 26th, and others-
Senate Bill No. 257. A bill to promote forestry interest in the State under the direction of the Georgia State Board of Forestry.
Mr. Bowden of Ware moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.

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The amendment by Mr. Beckham of Dougherty was read and adopted.

The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the "bill, was agreed to as amended.

On the passage of the bill the Ayes were 89, Nays 30.

The bill having failed to receive the requisite constitutional majority was lost.

The following bills and resolutions of the House were taken up for the purpose of considering Senate amendments thereto:
.
By Mr. Reagan of Henry-
House Bill No. 626. A bill to amend Act to annually in addition to the ad valorem tax on real and personal property to levy and collect a tax for the support of State Government and public institutions, and for other purposes.
The following Senate amendment was read:
Amend as follows: By adding the following proviso: ''Provided that all females are required to pay all back poll taxes due from the time they shall become eligible tu vote to the date of their registration.''
Mr. Reagan of Henry move~ that the Hquse concurr in the Senate amendment and the motion prevailed.

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By Mr. Henderson of White-
House Resolution No. 129. A resolution to pay the old class pensioners $226,700.00 for 1922 and new class pensioners $975,000.00.
The following Senate amendments were read and adopted:
Amend Paragraph 4 of said Resolution 129 by adding after the word ''and;' at the end of said paragraph the following: ''The sum of $1,250,000.00 appropriated to pay said class of pensioners for the year 1923 shall be used to pay this class of pensioners the amount due each of them in full for said year 1923."
Also amend said Resolution No. 129 by adding a new paragraph as follows:
Resolved, that all laws and parts of laws in con~ flict with this resolution be and the same are hereby repealed.
Amend further by striking the word ''available'' in the 19th line after the word ''funds'' and before the word" in".
Bill shall be amended so that said appropriation be paid to the pensioners without any reference or consideration whatever to that portion. of Sub-Paragraph '' D'' of Section Thirteen that reads as follows: ''The same to be paid to that class of pensioners showing a pension .prior to the acts of 1919 and the amount to be the same as paid prior to all acts of 1910."

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Mr. Wyatt of Troup moved that the House concurr in the Senate amendments and the motion prevailed.

By Messrs. Whitaker and Webb of Lowndes and Woodard of Cook-
House Bill No. 233. A bill to appropriate $65,000 to the South Georgia State Normal College at Valdosta.
Mr. Mason of Hart moved the previous question on all amendments; the- motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
The following Senate amendments were read and concurred in :
Amend by striking the words and figures '' 1924 and 1926'' and by inserting in lieu thereof the words and figures '' 1923 and 1924' '.
Am~nd by adding a new Section as follows:
"That the sum of $10,000 is hereby appropriated to promote further efficiency at the Georgia School for the Blind."
Amend by adding a newSection as follows:
"There shall also be appropriated out of the public funds of this State to the Trustees of the University of Georgia, for the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega the sum of $3,000 for the year 1922 and $3,500 for the year 1923. ''

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Also to amend caption so as to conform hereto.
Amend by adding a new Section to read as follows:
''That the sum of $5,000 is hereby appropriated to the Trustees of the University of Georgia for the purpose of repairing buildings on the University Campus which appropriation was passed by the Committee last year but was overlooked in the printed bill.
Amend by adding a new Section to be numbered appropriately as follows:

''That there is appropriated to the Trustees of the University of Georgia for the use of the First District Agricultural and Mechanical School of Statesboro, Georgia, the sum of Six Thousand Five Hundred ($6,500) Dollars and to be used for the purpose of paying off an indebtedness incurred in building and equipping a dining hall and teachers home~ said sum to be paid during the year 1923.
Amend further by changing the caption of said bill to comply herewith.
Amend by adding a new Sect~on, to be numbered appropriately, as follows:
"That there is .appr~priated $12,148.00 to the trustees of the third District Agricultural and Mechanical School at Americus, Georgia, to be used to pay past due indebtedness of the school, and for other purposes.

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Amend by adding a new Section as follows:

''And be it further provided that the sum of $3,500 be and is hereby appropriated to the Trustees of the 5th District A. and M. School for the purpose of completing and equipping a dairy barn.''

Amend by adding a new Section as follows:

"That the sum of $5,000 be appropriated to the 7th District Agricultural School to complete a building in progress of construction.''
Amend by adding a new Section to be known as Section 2 and to read as follows:
''Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the sum of Seven Thousand ($7,000) Dollars, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the use of the Trustees of the Ninth District Agricultural School at Clarkesville, Georgia, to complete and equip the Girl's Dormitory on the Campus thereof. Said sum to be available in the year 1923. ''
Amend caption to conform hereto and renumber the. Sections accordingly.
Amend by adding a new Section as follows :
''?'hat the sum of $5,000 be and the same is hereby appropriated to the Trustees of the University of Georgia for the use of the Trustees of the A. and M. School of the 12th District located at Cochran, Georgia, for the purpose of finishing a Dormitory and to be paid out of any funds available in the State Treasury for such purposes."

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The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following bill of House, to-wit:
A bill to appropriate $16,800.00 for the purpose of supplying a deficiency in the maintenance of the Georgia Training School for Boys.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

ill r. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House bill by substitute as amended :
House Bill No. 796. A bill to amend an Act to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department.
'rhe following message was receiveQ. from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof:

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has passed by the requisite constitutional majority the following House Resolutions as amended:

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House Resolution No. 190. A resolution to make appropriations for stationery used by members of the General Assembly for the years 1920, 1921, 1922, and 1923.
House Resolution No. 225. A resolution to establish a Library forJudge of the Superior Court of the Southern District at Augusta.
The following bills and resolutions of the House were taken up for the purpose of considering Senate amendments thereto :

By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Resolution No: 190. A resolution to make appropriation for stationery used by the General Assembly for years 1920-21-22-23.
The following Senate amendments were read: Amend by adding in appropriate places the followmg:
1. To appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 as Contingent Fund for the Governor.
2. To appropriate the sum of $10,000.00 to pay for additional insurance premiums for the State.
3. To appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 to the Railroad Commission to defray the expenses of the Commission for acting as Commissioner for distribution of coal.
4. To appropriate the sum of $6,000.00 for the keeper of public buildings and grounds to provide for deficiency.

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5. To appropriate the sum of $5,000.00 to the University of Georgia on account of a mistake in the general appropriation for this institution.
6. To appropriate the sum of $4,400.00 to the Department of Printing to take care of clerical assistance and maintenance of this departmnt.
7. To appropriate $3,000.00 to cover deficiency in incidental for supplies furnished the Senate and House for the years 1921-22; payable on approval of Secretary of Senate and Clerk of House.
8. Amend by striking the figures "$1,200.00" wherever they occur in the resolution and inserting the figures '' $2,000.00'' ; also a11,1end by inserting after the word ''stationery'' wherever it occurs the words "and printing."

9. Amend by adding the following: ''That the sum of $7,500.00 be and the same is hereby appropriated for the lOth District Agricultural College located at Granite Hill in Hancock County for the maintenance, repairs and equipment of the buildings and grounds of said college.''
10. Amend by adding the following:-'' $184.30 is hereby appropriated to the Secretary of the Senate to cover deficiencies in fund for incidentals furnished the Senate, which have been paid by him for sessions 1921-22."

11. Provide for two extra doorkeepers and two extra assistant Messengers for the Senate, all of the above to be paid by the Treasurer upon approval by

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the Secretary of the Senate or President of the Senate.
12. Also amend the caption in conformity with above.
Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the House concur in Senate amendments Nos. 1, 2, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, and 12 and disagree to amendments Nos. 3, 4 and 5, and the motion prevailed.
Mr. Knight of Berrien moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to agree to the favorable report of the committee on House Bill No. 828 and the motion was lost.
Mr. Moore of Fulton moved that the House reconsider its action in failing to pass Senate Bill No. 240, and the motion was lost.
By Mr. McDonald of Richmond-
House Resolution No. 225. A resolution to estabLish a Library for the Judge of the Federal Court for the Southern District at Augusta, and for other purposes.
The following Senate substitute was read and concurred in :

A RESOLUTION
Whereas, the District Court of the United States for the Southern District, is required in the administration of the laws governing the causes determined in said court to give effect to the laws of this State, as construed by the Supreme Court thereof;

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Be it therefore reSI()[ved, by the Senate and the House of Representatives of Georgia in General Assembly met, and each concurring, that the State Librarian be and is hereby authorized to deliver to the clerk of the court aforesaid for the use of said court at such seat of said court as the Judge thereof may designate, continuations of Georgia Reports, Georgia Appeals Reports, Codes and Acts, the same to be delivered, in accordance with precedent, to his successor in office, by the clerk of said court.

By .Mr. Williams of Harris-
House Bill No. 796. A bill to amend an Act to reorganize the State Highway Department.
The following Senate substitute was read and concurred in:

A BILL
An Act to amend an Act entitled "An Act to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department of Georgia, and to prescribe the tluties and powers thereof; to create a system of State Aid Roads and provide for the designation, maintenance, improvement and construction of the same; to create and provide for a State Aid Road and for the control and management thereof; to provide for the paving of said State Aid Roads bv the State, or co-operation with the county or with the United States Government; to provide for assistance to counties upon the public roads thereof and in retiring road bonds, to assent to tht:~ pro-

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visions of the Act of Congress, approved .ruly l1,
1916, known as the 'Act to provide that the United States shall aid the State in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes, in order to provide for construction and maintenance of State Aid Roads within the corporate limits of certain towns and cities and for other purposes.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, that provision 5, section 5, article 15 of Georgia Laws of 1919, and amendments thereto, Act 1921, to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department of Georgia and to prescribe its powers and duties, be amended by adding at the end of said Provision, Section, and Paragraph the following: Provided said State Highway Board is authorized to construct and maintain State Aid Roads in and through towns or cities of not more than twenty-five hundred people.

Section 2. Be it further enacted by authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with t!Iis Act be, and the same are hereby repealed.

By Mr. Smith of Meriwether-

House Bill No. 210. A bill to amend an Act to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department.

The following Senate substitute was read and con-



m1rred in:

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A BILL

To be entitled an Act to amend an Act entitled ''An

Act to reorganize and reconstruct a State High-

way Department of Georgia, and to prescribe the

duties and powers thereof; to create a system of

State-Aid roads, and provide for the designation,

maintenance, improvement and construction of the

same; to create and provide for a State-Aid Road

.B'und, and for the control and management there-

of; to provide for the paving of State-Aid Roads

by the State , or in co-operation with the counties

or with the United States Government; to provid~

for assistance to counties upon the Public Roads

thereof, and in retiring County Road Bonds; to

assent to the Act of Congress approved July 11,

1916, known as the ''Act to provide that the United

States shall aid the State in the construction of

rural post road, and for other purposes;" to pro-

vide the right to condemn property for State-Aid

Roads in certain cases; and for other purposes"

by striking Section Five (5) of Article Three (3)

of said Act, which provides for an Attorn.ey for

the State Highway Board, and substituting in lieu
thereof a new Section to be known as Section Five

(5) authorizing the State Highway Department

and. the county authorities to regulate the maxi-

mum load or weight that may be transported over

certain bridges and approaches in this State, the

giving of notice thereof, and providing of a pen-



alty for the violation of the provisions of this Sec-

tion, and for other purposes.

' ..

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Section 1. Be it enacted by t.he General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Act approved August 18, 1919, entitled ''An Act to reorganize and reconstruct the State Highway Department of Geor- gia, and to prescribe the duties and powers thereof; to create a system of State-Aid Roads and provide for the designation, maintenance, improvement and construction of the same; to create and provide for a State-Aid Road Fund, and for the control and management thereof; to provide for the paving of said State-Aid Roads by the State, or in co-operation with the counties or with the United States Government, to provide for assistance to counties upon the public roads thereof, and in retiring County Road Bonds; to assent to the provisions of the Act of Congress approved July 11, 1916, known as the "Act to provide that the United States shall aid the State in the construction of rural post roads, and for other purposes;'' to provide the right to condemn property for State-Aid Roads in certain cases; and for other purposes, be amended by striking Section Five (5) of Article Three (3) of said Act and substituting in lieu thereof the following to-wit: Section Five (5). The State Highway Department is authorized to ascertain and determine the maximum load or weight that can with safety be transported over any bridge and its approaches on the State-Aid Road. The county authorities in each county of this State shall have similar power with respect to any bridge and its approaches within such county not State-Aid Roads. The State Highway Department and the

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county authorities r~spectively shall be authorized to post on any such bridge a legible notice showing the maximum amount which has been so ascertained such bridge or its approaches can carry with safety, and any person hauling, driving or otherwise bringing on any such bridge or its approaches any load or weight exceeding the rated capacity so ascertained and posted, shall do so at their own risk, and neither the State nor County shall be liable for any damages to persons or property that may result therefrom. And it shall be unlawful for any person to haul, drive or otherwise bring on such bridge or its approaches, any load or weight exceeding the rated capacity so ascertained and posted, and upon conviction therefor, shall be punished as prescribed in Section 1065 of the Penal Code of 1910.

Section 2. Be it further enacted by the a~thority aforesaid, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of same, that all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

The following Senate amendments to the above substitute were read and concurred in:

Amend substitute to House Bill No. 210, by adding a new section to be numbered 2 before the repealing clause, the latter to be numbered appropriately as follows: Section 2. Amend Georgia Highway Laws, Acts of the General Assembly 1919, by adding the following provision to Article 3, Section 3, Paragraph 2:
Provided further, the State Highway Board shall



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determine the number of employees, designate their place of labor, prescribe their duties, fix their compensation, and also the salary of the Chairman (including the year 1922) who shall devote all of his time and attention to the discharge of the duties of his office, who shall represent the Board and is vested with all the power and authority of same when not in session. No person shall be appointed to or discharged from any position in the State Highway Department without the approval of the Board, or when it is not in session by th.e Chairman.

Amend by striking out last sentence in Section one which provides a misdemeanor.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mt. Speaker:
The Senate luis passed by the requisite constihitional majority the following House bill as amended, to-wit:
House Bill No. 655. A bill to appropriate $150,000 for the purpose of supplying a deficiency in the maintenance of the Georgia State Sanitarium.

By Mes~rs. Culpepper of Fayette and McMichael of Marion-
House Bill No. 873. A bill to make additional appropriation for maintenance of the military establishment of t}le State for 1922, and for other purposes.



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The following Senate amendment was read:
Amend by striking the words ''of troops on riot or special duty" in the 9th line of Section 1.
Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the House disagree to the above Senate amendment, and the motion prevailed.
The following bill of the Senate, set as a special order by the Committee on Rules, was read the third time and placed upon its passage:

By Mr. Manson of 35th-
Senate Bill No. 306. A bill to establish kindergartens in public schools of this State.
The report of the committee, which was favorable to the passage of the bill, was disagreed to and the bill was lost.
The following bill and resolution of the Senate were taken up for the purpose of considering Senate amendments thereto:
By .Mr. Ennis of Baldwin-
House Bill No. 655. A bill appropriating $150,000.00 for the purpose of supplying a deficiency in the maintenance of the Georgia State Sanitarium, and for other purposes.
The following Senate amendment was read:
Amend by adding the following word~: ''That the sum of forty thousand dollars be and the same is

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hereby appropriated to the Board of Trustees of the Georgia State Sanitarium, for the purpose of completing building known as 'Nurses Home.' Said amount being available as required by Trustees."
Caption of said 'bill to be amended to comply with above.
Mr. Ennis of Baldwin moved that the House concur in the Senate amendment.
On this motion Mr. McMichael of Marion moved the previous question; the motion prevailed, and the main question was ordered.
On the motion to concur in the Senate amendment Mr. Wyatt of Troup called for the Ayes and Nays and the call was not sustained.
The motion that the House concur in the Senate
. amendment prevailed.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate in~ists on amendments Nos. 3, 4 and 5 to the following House resolution:
House Resolution No. 190. A bill to make appropriation for stationery used by the General Assembly for years 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923.
The Senate has also receded from its amendment to the following House bill:
House Bill Ko. 873. A bill to appropriate addi-

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tional funds for the maintenance of the military establishments of State of Georgia.
The following resolution of the House was taken up for the purpose of considering Senate amendments thereto to which the House has disagreed and upon which the Senate insisted:

By Mr. Arnold of Clay-
House Resolution No. 190. A resolution to make appropriation for stationery used by General Assem.. bly for years 1920, 1921, 1922, 1923.

Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the House recede from disagreement on amendments No. 3 and No. 4 and not recede from disagreement to amendment No.5.
Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that a Conference Committee be appointed on the above resolutton, and the motion prevailed.
The Speaker appointed the following members of the House as a Conference Committee on the part of the House on House Resolution No. 190:
Messrs. Arnold of Clay, Dykes of Dooly, Bowden of Ware.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker: The President has appointed as a Conference Com-

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mittee on the part of the Senate, to act with a Conference Committee from the House, with reference to House Resolution No. 190, known as the Stationery Resolution, the following Senators:
Messrs. Walker, Wall, Hutchens.

The following report of the Conference Committee on House Resolution No. 190 was submitted and read:

Mr. Speaker:

Your Committee on Conference on House Bill No. 190 beg leave to submit the following report:

We recommend that the House recede from its position on amendments No.3 and No.4. That the Senate recede on amendment No.5.

We further recommend that amendment No.3 be amended by adding: ''That said sum shall be a revolving fund and shall revert to the Treasury."

Sig. 41.

B. F. wALKER, H. C. HuTCHENs, DAN WALL,
On part of Senate.
ZACH ARNOLD,
c. B. DYKES,
JET BowDEN,
On part of House.

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Mr. Arnold of Clay moved that the above report be adopted and the motion prevailed.

The following resolution of the House was read and adopted:

By Mr. Mundy of Polk-
House Resolution No. 240. A resolution to notify the Governor that the General Assembly was ready to adjourn sine die.
The Speaker appointed the following committee on the part of the House to notify the Governor that the General Assembly had completed all business before it and was ready to adjourn sine die:
Messrs. Mundy of Polk, Watkins of Butts, Wyatt of Troup.

The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

Mr. Speaker:
The Senate has adopted the report of the Conference Committee with reference to Senate amendments to House Bill No. 190.
The following message was received from the Senate, through Mr. McClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

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Mr. Speaker:

The Senate has read and adopted the resolution of the House, to-wit:
A resolution providing for a Joint Committee- to inform the Governor that the General Assembly now stands ready to adjourn sine die.
The President has appointed the following Senators, as a Committee on the part of the Senate:
Messrs. Thomas of 3rd, Manson of 35th.

Mr. Hullender, Chairman of the Committee on Enrollment, submitted the following report:

Mr. Speaker:
The Committee on Enrollment. has examined, found properly enrolled, duly signed and ready for delivery to the Governor, the following Acts andResolutions, to-wit:
House Resolution.No. 233. A resolution to extend to Miss Wyley thanks for composing music to song ''Georgia.''
House Resolution No. 240. A resolution appointing committee to notify the Governor that the General Assembly stands ready to adjourn sine die.
House Bill No. 959. An Act to establish a new . charter for the Town of Locust Grove.
House Bill No. 865. An Act to appropriate cer-

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tain money to pay debts due on public printing by the State of Georgia.
House Bill No. 993. An Act to repeal and amend charter of the Town of Cooledge.
House Bill No. 805. An Act to prohibit taking of fish from any waters of streams of State with certain instruments for five years.
House Bill No. 726. An Act to amend the Act known as the Georgia Workmen's Compensation Act.
House Bill No. 967. An Act to create a new charter for the City of Richland.
House Bill No. 680. An Act to amend the Georgia Workmen's Compensation Act.
House Resolution No. 160. A resolution to appropriate $2,000.00 t.o defray expenses of Mansion Leasing Commission.
House Bill No. 107. An Act to amend an Act codifying the School Laws of Georgia, relative to teaching of vocal music in the public schools.
House Resolution No. 81. A resolution to provide for survey of lands known as Colony lands.
House Bill No. 999. An Act to amend act establishing the City Court of Cairo.
House Bill No. 936. An Act to empower certain cities to hold recorder's court in absense of recorder.
House Bill No. 995. An Act to repeal an Act to create the Commissioners for Glascock County.

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1285

House Bill No. 980. An Act to create a Board of Commissioners for Lamar County.

House Bill No. 997. An Act to repeal an kt creating Board of Commissioners for Jeff Davis County.

House Bill No. 1004. An Act to amend section 755 of Criminal Code of 1910, relative to cruelty to animals.
House Bill No. 996. An Act to amend an Act creating a new .charter for the town of Decatur.

House Bill No. 956. An Act to amend the charter of the Town of Tybee.

House Bill No. 848. An Act to create a Board of Education for Lamar Caunty.
House Bill No. 204. An Act to appropriate certain sums to Georgia Training School for Boys.
House Bill No. 626. An Act to amend an Act to levy and collect tax on property for support of State Government.
House Resolution No. 129. A resolution to pay old and new class pensioners certain sums of money.
House Bill No. 982. An Act to amend an Act appropriating money to Georgia Training School for mental defectives.
House Bill No. 651. An Act to appropriate money to Georgia Trnining School for Girls.
House Bill No. 579. An Act to supply deficiency

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in school funds caused by misappropriation of R. N. Berrien.
House Bill No. 655. An Act to appropriate money to Georgia State Sanitarium for deficiency.
House Bill No. 233. An Act to appropriate to SO'uth Georgia State Normal College, at Valdosta, and others, certain sums of money.
House Bill No. 851. An Act to authorize certain counties to maintain fire houses.
House Bill No. 768. An Act to prevent certain persons voting in militia districts of no-fence laws.
House Bill No. 895. An Act to amend the charter of the City of East Point relative to bonds.
House Bill No. 745. An Act to amend the act es~ tablishing Confederate Soldiers' Home of Georgia.
House Bill No. 857. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Savannah.

House Bill No. 791. An Act to authorize levy of taxes for educational purposes in certain counties.
Ho.use Bill No. 1003. An Act to amend an Act incorporating the Town of Carl in Gwinnett County.
House Bill No. 553. An Act to provide for Temperance Day in the public schools.
House Bill 1:\o. 100~. An Act to repeal an Act to establish a system of public schools for Sylvania School District.

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House Bill No. 1000. An Act to amend an Act reincorporating the Town of Abbeville.

House Bill No. 965. An Act to amend an Act incorporating the Town of McCaysville.
House Bill No. 577. An Act requiring non-residents of Camden County to procure a license to fish in waters of said County.

House Bill No. 970. An Act to amend.the charter of the Town of Donaldsville.
House Bill No. 984. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Douglas.

House Bill No. 969. An Act to amend an Act in- corporating the City of Canon.

House Bill No. 675. An Act to define the liability of Hotel Keepers.

House Bill No. 931. .An .Act to amend an .Act establishing consolidated public schools in each County of State.

House Resolution No. 148. A resolution to authorize the sale of certain lands owned by the State for benefit of First District A. & M. School.

House Resolution No. 221. A resolution providing for payment of expenses of joint committee on Board of Regents Bill.

House Resolution No. 200. A resolution providing for a school building site on the State Farm.

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House Resolution No. 167. A resolution to relieve
the surety on the bond of J. B. Hall.

House Resolution No. 225. A resolution to establish a library for Judge of Federal Court of the Southern District, at Augusta.

House Bill No. 328. An Act to provide for the election prescribed in Par. 1, sec. 4, art. 8, of the constitution, relative to taxes for school purposes.

House Bill No. 65. An Act relative to placing out of children by persons other than their parents.

House Bill No. 963. An Act to establish a new charter for the Town of Danville.
House Bill No. 930. An Act to amend and revjse the charter of the Town of Doerun.

House Bill No. 1001. An Act to amend an Act reincorporating the Town of Abbeville.
House Bill No. 808. An Act to authorize the State to pay certain counties their pro rata share of funds from products on National Forest Reservation.
. ~-
House Bill No. 775. An Act to empower County authorities to provide and keep in repair suitable quaders for holding of Justice of the Peace courts.

House Bill No. 894. An Act to amend the charter of the City of Marietta.
House Bill No. 8:21. An ~-\ct to amend par. 1, sec. 13, of Art. 6 of the constitution, relative to salaries of Judges of the Superior courts.

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House Bill No. 873. An Act to make additional appropriation for maintenance of Military Depart. ment.

House Bill No. 998. An Act to appropriate additional money to Georgia State Board of Entomology.
House Resoluton X o. 190. A resolution to make appropriations for stationery, printing and incidentals, used by the General Assembly for years 1920, 1921, 1922 and 1923.
House Bill No. 210. An Act to amend an Act ''To reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department,'' and for other purposes.
House Bill No. 260. An Act to change the name of the Railroad Commission to the Georgia Public Service Commission.
House Bill No. 796. An Act to amend an Act entitled ''An Act to reorganize and reconstitute the State Highway Department, and for other purposes.''
Respectfully submitted,
HuLLENDER of Catoosa, Chairman.

The committee to notify the Governor that the General Assembly was now ready to adjourn sine die reported that the office of the Governor had been notified and that no objection was made to the resolution to adjourn sine die.
The following message was received from the Senate, through l\Ir. )fcClatchey, the Secretary thereof.

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Mr. Speaker:-
The Senate has read ~nd adopted the following Resolution of the Senate.
Resolved that the General Assembly do now stand adjourned sine die.
The following resolution of the Senate was read and concurred in :
A resolution that the General Assembly do now stand adjourned sine die.
The Speaker announced the House adjourned sine die.

INDEX
TO THE
HOUSE JOURNAL
REGULAR SESSION
1922

INDEX

PART I.

BlOUSE JOURNAL.

A
ABSENT VOTER (Bee Election).
AGE OF CONSENTTo amend Act to defin,e --------------------------- 135 268
ADMINISTRATORS, EXECUTORS, ETC. (See Code Amendments Part I).

AGRICULTURAI.l SCHOOLS AND OOLLEGES (See Appropriations)-

To establish at Forsyth, Ga. --------------------135 529 871

Establish College at Franklin, Ga. ----------------

848

AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS (See Market Bureau).

ANIMALS, FUR-BEARING (See Game and Fish).

AJ>P.ROPRIATIONS-

Pay expenses of Tax Commission ------------------

20

Pay deficiency in school funds, Berrien ________134 734 1077

Pay widow of T. P. Powell _---------------------

140

Alpprop:riate money fox p~sions 1002 and 1923 141 1026

1085 1264

Appropriation for Georgia Training School fm: Girls

.

173 1027 1097 1115

General appropriation Act, amend Georgia School of

Technology -------------------------------------

174

Appropriations for all class of pensions ------------

175

Appropriation to Prison Commission for Water Plant

181

Appropriation Georgia School of Technology --------

197

$50,000 to University of Georgia. for Agriculture____

198

$150,000 to Georgia State Sanatorium 198 312 1150 1151 1278

$30,000 to Agricultural and Industrial School at Al-

bany -------------------------------------------199 1028 $29,000 to Georgia State Sanatorium, cold storage ---260 1028

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INDEX

Appropriation to pay expenses of Tax Cmnmittee__ 268 337

$65,000 to South Georgia Normal College ______276 297 1261i

Appropriation for mental defectives --------------

280

Appropriation Third District Agriculture School __282 1028

Pay interest on public debt ------------------281 314 709 Pay expenses of Mansion Leasing Committee __282 532 977

Appropriation for Confederate Cemetery at Marietta 302

Relative license tag appropriation _____ -----------

326

Appropriation for maternity and infancy (753) __ 326 1029

$3,500 Sanatorium at Alto -------------------------

327

$15,000 to State Board of Entomology ------------ 340 357 Appropriation North Georgia Agricultural College at

Dahlonega --------------------------------------

347

$600 Georgia Training School for Boys ----------349 1118

Ninth District A. & M. School --------------------365 1029

North Georgia Agricultural College ----------366 1029 1158

Twelfth District A. & M. School -------------------

367

Charles W. Crankshaw ----------------------------

407

Appropriation, error in general appropriations---- 408 1073

Authorize Treasurer to pay certain counties ------

408

Stationary used by General Assembly_-498 532 715 1269 1280

University of Georgia (838) ----------------------

500

University of Georgia, maintenance (839) __________500 1029

$15,000 State College of Agriculture -------------- _ 589 Public printing deficiency ____________________590 908 1155

Governor's Contingent fund ---------------------- 590 631

Public building upkeep ---------------------------- 591 631

Insurance premiums ------------------- ______ ---- _ 591 631

Portrait of Hugh McCall --------------------------

619

For Military Department (873) ____________620 658 706 1277

$25,000 G. S. I. C. at Savannah ------------------

650

Sanatorium at Alto ___ ------ __ -------------------652 1084

$75,000 for tick eradication ----------------------

671

Expenses of investigation of State Veterinarian ____

720

$108,916 to Georgia State Sanatorium ----------752 804 828

$5,000 to Tenth District A. & M. School ----------

849

Georgia Training School for Mental Defectives--901 953 1122

Expenses of Joint Committees on Regents Bill 928 1028 1147

Amend appropriations for pensions ----------------

928

State Board of E'ntomology _____ -------- _____ 972 1030 1123

L. M. Stanfield ---------------------------------- 1027

AUSTRALIAN BALLOT (See Elections, Etc.).

AUTOMOBILES (See Motor Vehicles).

INDEX

1295

B
BAILIFFSCompensation in Fulton County _______________ _479 505 823

BALLOT (See Elections).

BOARDS OF EDUCATION (See Schools and School Laws).

BOND COMMISSIONVVare County -----------------------------281 529 604 741
BONDS, MUNICIPAL (See Charters and Corporations, Municipal).

BOWDON NORMAL AND INUUSTRIAL COLLEGE-

To amend Act creating ----------------------------

755

BOXINGTo regulate

173 529

c

CAPITAL REMOVAL-

House Resolution No. 4. TO' Macon

273

CAJRTRIDGES (See Weapons).

CATTLE (See Live Stock).

CHATNGANGS (See Commissioners of Roads and Revenues).

CH.A!RTERS-
Unlawful to use name of Georgia ------------------ 260 393 Requirements in applications for charters ______ 346 734 1073

CHARTERS AND CORPORATIO~S, MUNICIPALWashington, amend ----------------------------17 268 290 Claxton, amend -------------------------------135 208 222 Augusta, Fire Department ----------------------139 209 245 Nicholson, amend ------------------------ ______ 140 209 223 Whigham, amend ------------------------------171 393 394 Norcross, amend -------------------------------172 210 224 Atlanta, amend ---------------------------174 269 359 379 ,Pearsons, amend --------------------------176 269 294 786 Columbus, sell commons -----------------------172 210 224 Sylvester, amend ------------------------------200 270 295 Augusta, employment of firemen ------------------ 217 312 Waynesboro, amend ----- __ --------------------237 313 330

...

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INDEX

Americus, amend -------------------------------239 313 333

Fitzgerald, amend -----------------------------239 290 316 Colquitt, amend ______ -------------------------240 353 375

Canton, amend --------------------------------240 313 333

Augusta, amend -------------------------------281 734 770

Clarksville, amend ----------------------------282 354 375 El'berton, amend __ ------------------ ___________283 373 395

Rex, repeal ------------------------------------303 393 420

Foy, new charter --------------------------------- 311 328 Chamblee, amend ------------------------ ______ 326 354 376

Botton, repeal ---------------------------------327 504 537

College Park, amend -------------------------- _327 734 777 Albany, bonds for schools (959) ----------~~-- _____ 327 371

Columbus, commons (761) ----------------------328 354 376

Americus, amend ----------- __ ---------------- -348 394 420

Gainesville, amend ------------------------365 394 750 767

Hazlehurst, amend __ --------------------------387 603 632

Bowdon, amend --------------------------------387 658 691

Rochelle, amend ----------------------------------

388

Milledgeville, amend ---------------------------408 505 537

Atlanta, amend (812) -------------------------409 505 536

Augusta, amend (814) ----------------------------

409

Americus, consolidate (818) ---------------------478 505 535

Vidalia, create ---------------- ______________ _479 505 536

Arabi, amend --------------------------------ABO 658 692

VVarwick, amend ------------------------------480 506 536

Greensboro, amend -----------------------------499 750 766

Cordele, create --------------------------------499 735 825

Macon, amend (842) ---------------------------501 735 769

Austell, amend --------------------------------501 735 766

Blackshear, amend ----------------------------518 658 692

St. Marys, amend ------------------------------519 587 634

Savannah, amend -------------------------589 801 823 1184

Cohtmbus, -corporate limits ----------------------589 631 660

Augusta, amend (871) -------------------------620 736 764

Marietta, amend --------------------------650 750 767 1184

East Point, bonds (895) -----------------------650 868 886

East Point, Civil Service (896) -----------------650 751 767

East Point, wards (897) -----------------------651 751 769

Thomasville, amend ---------------------------651 737 763

Jeffersonville, amend --------------------------651 750 766

Hawkinsville, amend --------------------------653 737 762

Cedartown, amend -----------------------------670 737 768

VVashington, amend ----------------------------720 762 822

INDEX

1297

Nichols, amend --------------------------------721 802 825 RoekJedge, amend -----------------------------721 762 822 Adrian, amend --------------------------------722 802 823 Sandersville, levy tax --------------------------722 802 824 Cordele ---------------------------------------756 851 888 Madison --------------------------------- -----157 822 852 Doerun ---------------------------------------757 851 888 East~nan ----------------------~---------------758 822 852 Cities to select Inayor pro-tein, etc. ------- _____ 798 821 1074 Aline, a~nend ----------------------------------813 869 889 Holington, create _____ ----------------------- _____ 815
Blue Ridge, ainend -----------------------------848 884 914 Decatur, a~nend -------------------------------849 884 913 Decatur, change to city ------------------------849 884 913 Tybee, ainend ---------------------------------849 885 912 Valdosta, ainend _____ -------------------------850 884 912
Locust Grove, ainend --------------------------850 885 919 Danville, ainend -------------------------------863 885 955 McCaysville, ainend ----------------------876 909 957 1183 Richland, create -------------------------------877 909 954 Canon, amend ----------------------~----------877 909 958 Donaldsonville, ainend ------------- ____ --------877 909 958
Cooledge, repeal -------------------------------878 909 956 Douglas, ainend -------------------------------901 909 995 Waycross, amend ------------------------------902 953 994 Decatur, ainend ------------------------------945 990 1049 Abbeville, amend ----------------------------985 1046 1110 Carl, ainend --------------------------------1020 1046 1111

CHECK8Misde~neanor to utter fraudulent cheek _---- _____ 237 529 1037
Fraudulent cheeks (744) -------------------------- 303 603

CHILDREN-

To regulate guardianship of ------------------------

17

To regulate placing out children ----------------220 668 1053

COASTAL PLAINS EXPERIMENT STATION-

Provisions for experiinental work at _------ __ -----

281

COCA-COLA (See Soft Drinks).

CODE AMENDMENTS TO CODE OF 1910-

A~nending Section 1225 --------------------------

18

Section 5849, ainend subpoena __ ----------------- __

133

Section 38, amend -------------------------------

136

Sig. 42.

1298

INDEX

Section 870, charters ---------- ------- _____ -------

137

Section 3306, personal property--------------------~

138

Section 1249, Waynesboro depository ----------138 243 271

Section 1225, tax collectors ex-officio sheriffs --------

170

Section 1240, tax collector and tax receiver, repeal

170

Section 4381, non-suits, amend --------------------

171

Section 388, repeal jurisdiction of courts ------~--- 172 209

Section 967, criminal procedure --------------------

195

Section 331, meeting of General Assembly ----------

201

Section 5997, amend sheriffs fees __ --------------

216

Section 2823, amend charters ---------------------

217

Section 416, amend certain callings _____ --------- 237 373

Section 3176, amend surviving partners ---------- _ 237

Section 4126, amend shipped goods by mistake ____

239

Section 789, amend justice courts ----------------

258

Section 1169, amend property sold for taxes ------- 259-373

Section 3353, amend lien law ------------------280 418 1074

Section 2820, amend trust companies ----- ______ 326 603 844

Section 5202, amend certiarari --------------------

348

Section 1249, State Depository Collins ------- ___ 387 603 632

Section 6065, amend O--Cial organ--------------590 696 824

Sections 696-697, layout public roads __________ 591 868 981

Board of Pardon~ repeal (878) -------------------- 621 736

Section 1229, insane convicts ----------------------629 1115

Section 1578, repeal lunatics -----------------------

649

Section 5898, interrogatories ---------------------- 652 736

Section 1249, Crawford State Depository --------649 908 ~57

Section 1398, repeal, females in college _____ _____

754

Section 1430, Academy Deaf and Dumb ----------

755

Section 4651, list of justices of peace ___ ----------- 757 908

Section 695, road duty ------------------------ 798 868 889

Section 1, boundary line of State ------------------ 850 908 Section 3033, testamentary guardians ------- _______900 1029

Section 3032, natural guardians --------------------900 1030 Section 4464, husband and wife ___________________900 1030

Section 3037, guardians to minors ----------------900 1030 Section 4467, spirituous liquors ____________________900 1030

Section 383, repeal, misdemeanors ------------------ 517 908

Section 2972, habeas corpus -----------------------

929

Section 4528, possession and title _-----------------

929

Amend, foreclosure of mortgages ------------------ 1002

Section 755, cruelty ------------------------1020 1046 1134

COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUESEvans County, amend -------------------------135 289 316

INDEX

1299

Appling County, create -------------------- __ -169 184 210 Appling County, amend _____ ---------~---------169 184 210

Bibb County, repeal ------------------------------

175

Elbert County, create ----------------------182 269 293 713

Colquitt County, amend --------- ______ ------ ___ 197 270 293

Baldwin County, pay certain fees --------'-----201 271 293

Jasper County, amend ----------------------236 271 296 638 Jasper County, members elected by popular vote __283 315 329

Jenkins County, ameud -------------------------303 530 605

Ware County, amend -----------------------------

349

Walker County, amend ------------------------365 530 605

Walker County, amend (817) ------------------409 531 607

Ben Hill County, amend ------------------------480 531 607

Paulding County, amend -------------------~--498 582 633

Fannin County, repeal --------------------- ______

499

Bibb County, support Macon Hospital __________ 501 735 765

Tattnall County, amend ------------------------621 736 763

Tattnall County, road law ----------------------621 736 764 Morgan County, amend ------------------------652 737 764

Pulaski County, amend -------------------------653 737 765

Habersham andi Lowndes Counties --------------671 738 768

Jones County, amieJ!d ------------------------651 749 770

Wilcox County, create ------------------------ 754 868 887

Wilcox County, repeal -------------------------755 868 887 Atkinson County, amend ---------------------797 869 888" Candler County, require statement ---- ________813 869 890

Jeff Davis County, create ----------------------814 869 887

Appling County, amend ------------------------814 847 910

Wilkes County, establish -----------------------848 908 954
Lee County, amend ____ ----------------------- _878 976 991
Lamar County, create ___ ---------------------_goo 976 994

Cobb County, repeal ---------------------------901 976 995

Glascock, repeal ------------------------------944 990 1049 Jeff Davis, repeal ----------------------- ______945 990 1047

COMMITTEE ASSIGNMENTS-

Bozeman of Worth ------------------------------ _

32

Hillhouse of Worth ------------------------------

32

King of Wilcox -----------------~-----------------

33

Sapp of ~itfield ---------------------------------

33

VanZant of Fannin-------------------------------

33

Kittrell of Laurens ----------------------------- _

33

COMMITTEES, CONFEREN9EOn free text book bill, S. B. 41 --------------------792 1250

1300

INDEX

On Senate Bill Xo. 7 --------------------------On H. R. 190, stationary and incidentals ----------
COMMITTEES, SPECIAL (See Reports of)To notify Governor -----------------------------To draft resolutions on deceased members ------~ _ On revenues to be raised from soft drinks -------On Hall of Fame ------------------------------On report of Department of Agriculture _------ ___ Notify Governor of adjournment ------------------
COMMITTEES, STANDING (See Reports of).
COMMON CA}l)RIERS (See Railroads).

1006 1280
7 33 378 396 641 1282

COMMUNICATIONS-

Comptroller-General ------- _------- _---------------

149

State Highway Board -----------------------------

184

American Legion ---------------------------------

360

Board of visitors University of Georgia ------------

682

S. G. McLendall ----------------------------------

761

COMMUTATION TAX (See Commissioners Roads and Revenues).

COMPTROLLER GENERAL (See Communications).

CONFEDERATE VETERANS-

Relating to, amend Act ----------------------------

814

CONSTITUTION OF STATERead in schools --------------------------------590 869 935

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTsTo amend Act 8, section 4, paragraph 1 Constitution

schools ---------------------------------------- 17 392

Amend relative to publication of amendments ____

133

Abolish fees of county officers ------------137 630 963 1068

Amend relative to State Highway Department ------

139

Amend, judges salary ------------------------------

170

Amend, appointment by Governor ----------------- 175 393

To put in force election constitutiona1 amendment

274

Amend, to consolidate offices of clerk and ordinary 281 393

Amend, to construct grain elevators, port terminals,

820-1177-1186

Amend, quadrennial elections for members of General

Assembly --------------------------------------289 1003

Amend, relative to Glynn County (550) -------------

289

INDEX

1301

Amend, income tax -------------------------302 792 829 892
Amend, poll tax ------------------------ __ -------- 303 393 Relative to judge of Chattahoochee Circuit -------- 346 630 Relative to Richmond Judicial Circuit __________346 374 781

A~nend, pensions (786) --------------------------- 365 419

Exempt certain property --------------------------

386

Issue State Highway Bonds ____ ----------------- _ 388

Bond Commission fqr State (803) --------------- ____

388

Bond Commission for State (807) ----------------

389

Classified Property ----------------------------392 814 875

Bienniel Sessions __ ------------------------------

398

Salaries judges Superior Courts (821) _______ A79 735 777

Issue bonds for highway (923) -------------------- 756 953

Relative to increase tax (205) ------------------792 829 892

Relative to tax receiver of Jeff Davis County 814 895 1236

Relative to classification of property for taxation __

924

Relative to roads and bridges ------------------

952

CONTRACTSTo repeal Act relative furnishing labor and Inaterial 388

CONVICTED PERSONs-
When sentence commence .!------------------------ 859

CORONERSFix fees of

238 820

CORPORATIONS, MUNICIPAL (See Charters Municipal).

CORPORATIONS, PiRIVATE (See Code Amendments)Unlawful to hinder firms or corporations -------- 200 602

OOSTS AND FEES (See Fees), (See Counties and County Matters)-
To change manner of compensating tax collector and

tax receiver ------------------------------------

170

Amend Act relative to court costs in Jasper County,

364 418 632

COTTON AND COTTON SEED-

To regulate sale of lint cotton ------------------- _ 173 790 Prohibit cotton growing in 1924 ---------------327 868 1067

COUNTIES AND COUNTY MATTERsAuthorize Glynn County to construct roads ______134 208 221 Grant to Glynn County certain marsh lands ____ 134 208 224 To employ county police ---------------------171 209 1133

1302

INDEX

Sanitation in Fulton County (650) ------------197 270 739 Paupers in Fulton County (652) --------------198 270 738 Fulton County, houses for fire protection --------518 884 916 Muscogee County, place of holding legal sales 671 737 917 Provide for county agents, etc -------------------- 863 908

COUNTY DEPOSITORIESFor Campbell County --------------------------132 208 220

COUNTY POLICE (See Counties and County Matters).

COUNTY SITETo change from Morgan to Arlington --------- _19 130 274

COUNTY TREASURERS-

To ehange for Talfair County -------------------

130

Campbell County, abolish ---------------------132 208 221

Schley County, salary of ------------------------- 183 638

Taylor County, abolish -------------------------500 531 606

Taylor County, create ------------------------500 531 608

Jackson County, abolish ---------------------652 1029 1047

Pulaski County, salary ------------------------653 737 763

Franklin County, salary -----------------------862 884 917

COURTS, APPELLATE (See Supreme Courts).

COURTS, CHILDREN (See Juvenile Court!!).

COURTS, CITY AND COUNTYSwainsboro, city court of, terms ----------------18 311 329 Hazlehurst, Abolish ----------------------------138 268 295 Thomasville, amend ----------------------------139 220 244 Claxton, amend -------------------------------174 268 295 Ashburn, repeal --------------------- _________199 220 244 Statesboro, amend -----------------------------219 312 331 Statesboro, amend (714) _________________,;_259 314 334 638
Dawson, amend -------------------------------260 291 315 Louisville, amend ____ --------------------- ____326 418 480 Oglethorpe, amend ----------------------------349 385 421 Colquitt, amend __ ------------------------------ __ 240 353 Houston County, amend ------------------------367 419 482 Claxton, amend --------------------------------408 505 534 Barrow County, create ---------------------408 505 535 741 Hall County, amend _--------------------------479 505 534 Metter, amend ------- ___ -------------- _______ -479 506 534 Toombs County, abolish -----------------------500 532 606 Lyons, create ---------------------------------501 532 606

INDEX

1308

Sandersville, amend ---------------------------519 604 635

Quitman, amend -------------------------------720 883 913

Cleveland, repeal ------------------------------758 883 914

City Court of Morgan to City Court of Arlington __

814

City Court of Decatur --------------------------877 909 954

Jefferson, abolish ______ ------ -------~---------- ---

944

Cairo, amend ----------------------------- ___972 1030 1048

Louisville, amend -------------------------- ___902 976 993

COURTS, JUVENILETo amend Act to establish ------------------------ 282 314

COURTS, MUNICIPALAtlanta, amend --------------------------------132 289 315 Columbus, establish ____ --------------------- ___136 208 222 Atlanta, amend -------------------------------328 953 1031 Atlanta, put in effect constitutional amendment ---- 720 953
COURTS, SUPERIORBaker County, change time -------------------175 269 294 Wheeler County, fix time ----------------------181 269 291 Tattnall, two terms ------------------------- ___181 269 292 walton, change time ---------------------------237 313 332 Stephens, amend -------------------------------349 418 481 Wilcox, change time ---------------------------755 883 915 Jeff Davis, terms ------------------------------757 883 915

COURT, STENOGRAPHERS-

To provide help ----------------------------------

199

CREDIT UNIONS-

Provide for -------------------------------------- 137 801

ORIMINAL LAWS (See Practice and Procedure).

OROPS-

Liens on crops ------------------------------------

17

D
DEEDS, MORTGAGES, ETC. (See Code Amendments)Authority of officers executing ----------------- _218 271 872
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE (See House Resolu tions).
DEiPOSITQIRIES, STATE (See Sect. 1249 Code Amend ments).

1304

INDEX

DIVORCE (See Code Amendments).

DOCUMENT-

Officers of State signing

589

DRUGS-

Regulate sale of

238

E

ELECTION AND ELECTION LAW8-

Jno. N. King of Wilcox ----------------------------

10

Wm. Sapp of Whitfield -------------------------

11

W. 0. Bozeman of VVbrth --------------------------

12

C. W. Hillhouse of Worth -------------------------

12

Blaine Van Zant __ ----------------------------- _

13

To provide for opening polls in school bond elections

19 311 329

Primary Entrance Fees ---------------------------

366

Precinct voting in Chatham County -----------929 976 993

ELECTROCUTIONTo provide for -----------------------------19 208 807 828

EMPLOYMENT AGENCIEsTo amend Act relating bonds of _----------------- 280 529

ENGINEERING AND SURVEYING-

To regulate practice of

282

F

FEEBLE-MINDED (See Appropriations).

FEES (See Solicitor General)-

To abolish fee system -----------------------------

137

To amend' Act, fees of clerks of Superior Courts 196 312 334

FELONIES (See Practice and Procedure)-

Good behavior of dependants in cases of

622

FEMALES (See Women) (See Election, etc)-

Promote health and welfare of female workers

169

To amend Act to define age of consent ---------- 135 268

FENCE LAWsRelative to voting in fence elections ----------347 530 633

FISCAL YEARTo authorize counties to prescribe------------------ 133 208

INDEX

1305

FISH (See Game and Fish).

FORESTS-

Laws on

518

FORTUNE TELLERS AND HORSE-TRADERS (See Taxes).

G

GAME AND FISH-

To require license of non-residents to fish in Camden

County --------------------------------134 277 316 1247

Amend Act relative to fur-bearing animals --------

137

Amend Act relative to fur-bearing animals, Ho-gse

Bill 606 --------------------------------------- 140 372 Non-residents to purchase license to 1isb in Brantley,

218 312 331

Harmonize Federal and State game laws ---------

226

To amend Act relating to fur-bearing animals ------

258

To amend Act relating to fur-bearing animals ,(731)

282

Prohibit catching fish in Townes County, Brastown

Creek ---------------------------------------325 344 605 Federal Government to furnish rules -------------- 347 374

Fish only with book and line ----------------------

388

Seining in fresh waters prohibited --------671 735 857 1183

License for non-residents to fish in Charlton County,

589 733 955

GARNISHMENT (See Code Amendments)-

Payment of exempted fees and wages ------------

366

GAS PIPES-

Misdemeanor to interfere -------------------------

649

GEORGIA BARRegulate admission to --------------------217 373 1037 1052

GEORGIA MILITARY COLLEGEProvide Local Board of Trustees --------------328 418 481

GEORGIA STATE SANATORIUM (See Appropriations).

GEORGIA NORMAL AND INDUSTRIAL SCHOOL-

To change name of ------------------------------

489

GEORGIA SCHOOL OF TECHNOLOGYPermit to charge tuition ------------------------16 243 718

1306

INDEX

GEORGIA STATE SANATORIUM-

Revise laws relative to commitment to ------------

691

Trustees to review commitments

929-977

GEORGIA TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (See Appropriations.)

H

HEALTH (See Board of Health).

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES-

Reapportioned ----- _-----------------------------

863

HOG CHOLERA (See appropriations).

HORSE-TRADERS, ITINERANT (See Taxes).

HOTELS, INNS AND BOARDING HOUSESDefine liability of keepers of -----------------217 271 1067

I

INDEBTEDNESS-

To provide for registration of all

501

IXHE!RITANCE TAX (See Taxes).

INSANE PERSONS (See Code Amendments) .

.IXSPECTORS, FERTILIZER AND OIL (See Code Amendments).

INSURANCE-

To amend laws --------------------------------18 242 855 Provide incorporation Mutual Co. ________ ------- _ 929

To appoint assistant fire inspector ------------------

980

IXVESTMENT COMPANIES- To repeal Act to regulate ------------------------ 131 242

Il\TVITATIONS-

To sheriff's barbe('ne

Visit Savannah ------- ________ -------------------

511

Mayor Key, l'it~- of Atlanta _________ -------- ____ _

513

Visit Brunswick

70:1

INDEX

1307

J

JEWELERS-

Lien in favor of

751

JOINT SESSIONS-

To hear Governor's address --------- __ -------------

35

Wm. J. Harris -----------------------------------

513

JUDICIAL CIRCUITS-

To create DeKalb Judicial Circuit__________________

130

To rearrange Tifton Judicial Circuit____________.::___

176

Additional Judge Stone Mountain Circuit____________

258

Additional Judge Rome Circuit _____ ____ ______ _____

478

JUDGES (see Constitutional Amendments). Local matters of counties to be disposed of by Judges of Superior Courts --------------------------------- _ 863
JURIES, GRANDTo change in investigations --------------------.:.175 290 856
JURORS (see Code Amendments).

JURY COMMISSIONERS (see Code Amendments). To fix compensation in DeKalb County -----------171 209 244

JUSTICES OF PEACE-
FURNISH blanks to ------------------------------ 347 374 Repair court rooms of ------------------------348 603 1033

K

KINDERGARTENS-

To establish in public schools ----------------------

489

L

LAWS (see Corporations, Municipal).

LANDLORDS-

LAND TITLES-

For quieting and perfecting

940

LIBRARIES, FREETo establish in every county ______________ 282 373 489 1067

LIQUOR AND LIQUOR LAWS (see Prohibition). Amend prohibition law ____ ----- ________ ------ _____ 202 353

1308

INDEX

LIVE STOCK-

Maner of butchering cattle _------------- ______ -----

172

Repeal Act, shipping tick-infected cattle ----------18 353 1061

Place of butchering cattle, Liberty County____ 387 530 608 639

LOANSTo amend Act to regulate making of loans ---------- 175 820

LUNATICS (see Insane Persons).

M

MARRIAGE LICENSE (see Code Amendments) .

MEDICAL EXA~IINERS, STATE BOARD OF-

To amend Act creating ___________ -----------------

353

MERCHANDISE, STOCKS OF GOODS-

To amend Act to regulate sale in bulk

849

l\IEI:iSAGES, GOVERNOR9 35 165 167 168 179 251 425 506 526 528 538 625 656 682 730 840 1243

MESSAGES, ::iENATE5 7 15 ~4 142 142 182 211 288 297 335 343 345 356 356 357 371 383 383 384 396 398 416 417 485 486 487 487 488 537 598 600 609 618 640 654 701 740 741 787 788 789 789 790 853 881 882 890 921 922 923 932 9e2 933 933 974 975 985 986 997 1020 1045 1071 1083 1094 1095 1115 1128 1129 1130 1131 11~2 1133 1159 1163 1164 1165 1166 1167 1168 1194 1195 1199 1200 1239 1244 1245 1251 1257 1261 1261 1262 1268 1268 1277 1279 1280 1282 1283 1290

MIDWIVESTo prohibit improper praetiee ---------------------- 259 354

:\HLITARY-

Amend laws --------------------------------------

519

MILK-

Define "Filled ~Iilk" _____ -------------- ____ ______ _

499

MINOR CHILDREN (see Children).

~ ISDK\IEANORS ( 'ee l'nuti< e and l'rotedure 1.

:\lORTGAGES (s<><> Dee<b, Et<.!.

Require to recorded on ,-tod.: of good,- -------------- 346 630

ProYide for forel'lo,ur<> -----------------------------

90/

INDEX

1309

MOTION PICTURES-

To regulate ---------------------------------------

283

MOTOR VEHICLES-

Manner of operation in towns and cities (622) __ 173 750 936

940 960

Amend Motor Vehicle Act

198

To change license fees of ------------------------- 239 801

To amend motor vehicle law (Collins) --------------

258

Require drivers to stop at railroad crossings _-------- _

259

Operation of, relative to weights ----------- ____ -----

387

Amend Georgia Motor Vehicle Law------------------

409

Relati\:e to weight of motor vehicles passing over bridges

588 630 1096

Define "Trailer" to motor vehicles _________ ------- 590 631

Distribution motor vehicle license funds ------------

653

Distribution motor ,-ehicle license fund (925) -------- 756 868

Relative to use of cut outs _____ --------- _______ 878 990 1097

N

NANTAHALA AREAFunds to Raburn County ----------------------365 907 1134

NETS (see Game and Fish).

NEW COUNTIES-

Brantley County, correct errors --------------------

693

NOTARIES PUBLIC (see Justices of Peace).

NOTES, PRO::\IISSORY, ETC. (see Taxes).

0

OATH OF OFFICE-

,,~. Sapp ---------------------------------------

13

John N. King -------------------------------------

13

W. 0. Bozeman ------------------------------------

13

C. W. Hillhouse -----------------------------------

ll!

Blaine Van Zant ----------------------------------

13

OILS AXD GREASES (see Taxes).
OPTO::\IETRYTo amend Act regulating --------------------------353 1135

1310

INDEX

p

PARK'S CODE-

To amend Act relative to supply of ------------------

181

PENSIONS-

Pay Christopher Shelton ---------------------------

21

T. D. Davis on pension roll __________ -------------- 195 952

Elliott Hicks on roll ------------------------------ 283 953

S. L. LeSuere on roll ---------------------------325 374 712 Widow of Martin Arnold -------------------------- 386 952

PISTOLS (see Constitutional Amendments).

POLL TAX (see Taxes).

POOL AND BILLIARDS-

To prohibit rooms for ------------------------------

139

PRACTICE AND PROCEDURE-

To amend Act regulating signing of criminal bonds___

136

To prescribe rules of evidence ---------------------- 176 373.

To regulate arrests and baiL_______________________

283

To regulate trials ---------------------------------

284

PRISON COMMISSION-

Relative to clemency ------------------------------

16

PROHIBITION (see Liquor) .

PROPERTY (see Taxe~).

PUBLIC PRINTING-

300 Copies Highway Report ------------------------

9

To establish State printing plant ___ ---------- _____ 136 290

300 Copies of House Bill No. 589 --------------------

319

300 Copies of school data---------------------------

350

Amend Public Printing Act ------------------------

620

300 Copies House Bill No. 878 ----------------------

753

300 Copies each House Bills Nos. 205 and 449__ ______

829

300 Copies House Bill No. 592 ----------------------

842

300 Copies House Bill No. 925 ___________ ---------- _

875

Pl'BLIC PROPERTYGmernor sell <ertain State land _____________________ 302 907
Install sanitary plumhing in puhlic huildings_____ ___ 353

PCBLIC CTILITIES (see Railroad Conunission).

INDEX

1311

Q QUAIL (see Game and Fish).

R

RAILROAD COMMISSIONTo give authority over motor vehicles used in trans-

portation -------------------------------------Decrease me"mbership (Adams of Walton) ---------Amend section 2613 Code of 1910 relative to_--------_ Reduce membership (Kittrell) ______ -------------Reduce membership ('Villiams of Walton)____________ Authority over motor vehicles_______________ ---------

16 418 199 199 200 201 216

Abolish office of attorney ------------------------

240

Change name to Public Sen-ice Commission__________ 830 1093

RAILROAD AND STREET RAILWAY CO::\IPANIES-

Provide for surrender of railr~d franchises__________

200

Railroads to grant passes to sheriffs__________________

233

Common carriers to dispose of unclaimed freight_ ___ . 234 247

Special officer to protect common carriers ______ -----_ 236 602

Appoint railroad policemen ____________ . ------------

240

RAINBOW TROUT (see Game and Fish).

REGISTRATION LAWS (see Election).

RELIEF BONDS-

J. T. Jones----------------------------------------

302

J. L. Adams --------------------------------------

325

J. B. Hall ------------------------------------325 951 1090

Perry Hendrix ------------------------------------

337

Tax Collector of Telfair County -------------------- 407 532

P. P. Jackson------------------------------------

910

P. P. Jackson ------------------------------------

910

Alfred Conley------------------------------------ 928 952

E. P. Woodward ---------------------------------945 1048

REPORTS OF CONFERENCE COMMITTEESOn Neill-Jones Primary Bill (Senate Bill No. 7l-----On Free School Book Bill (Senate Bill No. 41) ____ ____
On House Resolution No. 190 ------------------------

1175 1281
1281

REPORTH OF SPECIAL CO~L\!ITTEEH-

Joint Committee on Board of R<.>genb __ . _-------- ___

25

.Joint Tax Committee ------------------------------

29

Governor'" :Mansion Leasing Committee>--------------

118

'

1312

INDEX

Memorial Committee on deceased members __ ---------On taxing soft drinks-----------------------------On Department of Agriculture and State College of
Agriculture ------------------------------------

245 673
1099

REPORTS OF STANDING COMMITTEES--

Amendments to Constitution --------287 368 389 594 623 727 816 946 1181 1256
Appropriations and Ways and ~leans __ . ______ 205 260 305 390

520 622 654 723 798 903 1024 945 1071 1082 Banks and Banking _______ ---------- _________ 241 592 1082

Conservation-

Corporations --------------207 242 310 351 370 391 503 594 655 724 747 759 850 879 903 948 988 1106 1041 1162
Counties and County ~latters __ .117 202 262 286 ~07 522 624

725 759 816 865 879 903 930 973 987 1027 1181

Drainage-Education . ____ 182 264 306 391 503 523 655 723 798 864 878

931 1024 1104 1180 Enrollments _____ _413 482 596 729 818 867 906 949 989 1107

1142 1127 1168 1283 Game and Fish ______________ 309 367 523 595 723 931 1105

General Agriculture ~o. 1_ _____ 310 350 672 799 865 905 1162

General Agriculture No. 2------.------------286 525 749 867 General Judiciary No. 1_ ___ 206 288 595 726 800 815 930 947

972 1024 1083 116~

General Judiciary No. 2--. __ 202 263 308 369 411 524 625 728

817 905 1026 1106 1189 Georgia State Sanitarium ___________ ---------- _____ 672 974

Hygiene and Sanitation --------------------351 502 724 1105

Insurance---------------------------------------- 241 521 Invalid Pensions and Soldiers' Home-Labor and Labor Statistics ________ 309 524 592 758 946 1104

Manufactures-

~Iilitary Affairs-

Mines and Mining-

~Iunicipal Government_ _205 261 3.06 352 389 504 593 728 749

800 864 973 1107 1042

Penitentiary ------.------------------------622 722 727 947

Pensions --------------------------------------370 410 948

Privileges and Election~----------------------------

204

Public Highway~ ----------------------521 623 881 988 1081

Public Library ------------------------------------ 371 593

Public Printing ----------------------------------

287

Public Property ----------------------------204 520 725 904

INDEX

1313

Railroads ----------------------------261 412 784 799 1081 Reforn1atories --------------------------------203 305 1126 Rules . ____ 272 319 336 1179 485 525 613 642 662 698 700 704
747 795 1075 Sanatorium at Alto--; Special Judiciary __219 263 304 368 413 501 519 591 672 880
949 1026 1041 1163 State of Republic-

Temperance -------------------------------------- 307 350 Uniform La.ws ----------. _---------------- ____ _____ 410

University of Georgia and Branches------------241 412 1080

Western and Atlantic Railroad--------------------

369

REVENUES-

To control placement of all --------.----------------

258

s

SALARIES (see Constitutional Amendments) .

SANATORIUM AT ALTO-

.

Permit certain charity appropriations------------652 751 960

SCHOOL BOOKS (see Text Books).

SCHOOLS AND SCHOOL LAWS-

Warrenton, amend ------------------------------139 183 210 Consolidation of independent districts (605) ____ . ____ 140 504

Stapleton (formerly Spead), abolish ------------196 270 292 Amend Consolidated School Act-------------------- 197 270

Canton, amend --------------------------------236 313 332 Lyons, abolish _-------------- __ -----------------239 3111 333

Abbeville, repeal ------------------------------347 393 419

Richland, repeal ------------------------------348 394 420

Alamo, repeal ----------------------------------366 394 421 Inman School District --------------------------498 531 604

Lamar County --------------------------------518 1029 1048 Amend school laws, Bible reading------------------ 620 658 Vocal music in schools ______ ------- ____ ---------621 658 916

Regulate high schools --------------------------720 883 1066

Hazlehurst, amend (928) ----------------------757 883 915 Consolidated schools (931) ----------- __ -------758 934 1065

Canon, amend ----------------------------------877 909 957

Amend Act creating Board of Education at Savannah-_

998

Sylvania, repeal ----------------------------1046 1020 1111 Tom School Digtrict, repeal ------------------------ 1071

Vocal music in schools optional-------------------- 1033

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INDEX

SHERIFFS AND DEPUTIES (see Railroads).

SOLDIERS' HOME (see Appropriations). Amend Act relating to --------------------303 375 855 1185

SOLICITORS-GENERAL-

To abolish fees in Tallapoosa Circuit----------------

227

To abolish fees in Northeastern Circuit ----------409 530 660

To abolish fees in Macon Circuit ----------------518 60ll 634

To abolish fees in Augusta Circuit ---------------758 821 852

To amend for Augusta Judicial Circuit -------------- 901 953

SOFT DRIXKS (see Code Amendments).

STATE HIGHWAY DEPARniENT-

To regulate letting of contracts in road work__ .______

207

To increase powers of chairman --------------------

217

Amend section 1, Act amending Highway Laws________

218

Reorganize State Highway Department (210) ____ 373 1096 1273

Reorganize State Highway Department ( 796) . 386 630 961 1272

Reorganize State Highway Department (825)-------- 479 631

To purchase bridgesand ferries------------------721 762 935

Create Bond Commission for (922)-------------------756 953

SOUTH GEORGIA STATE NORMAL COLLEGE VALDOSTAChange name of --------------------------------133 243 715

STATE FARM (see Public Property). (See House Resolutions).

STATE OFFICIALSTo require annual reports of -------- -------------- 720 820

T

TAXES AND TAX LAWSAmend General Tax Act, billboards ____ . __________132 602 981

Prohibit levying certain taxes in Grady County___ -136 209 223

Amend Act relating to poll tax ------------173 858 937 1263 Amend General Tax Act ------------------------177 210 393 Occupation tax on oils and greases --------- __ ----- __ 280

Tax on mortgages, etc.----------------------------

282

Soft drinks and near beer--------------------------

ll02

Repeal Tax Equalization Act (749) ----------------

304

Taxes for county agents (791) ________________ 367 858 1033

Levy other than ad valorem ------------------------

386

Repeal of Tax Equalization Law ____________ -475 583 702 742

Fuels oils --------------------------------------499 531 859

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INDEX

1315

Fortune tellers and Gypsy horse-traders ----------652 801 870

Tax all indebtedness -------- ----------------------

721

Amend General Tax Act, insurance _-----------------

721

Motion pictures to pay occupation tax --------------

815

Holders of mortgages to pay privilege tax ------------

815

Soft drink vendors to pay occupation tax___ ---------

815

Tax soft drinks (985) ----------------------------

902

TAX COLLECTORS (see Costs and Fees), (see Code Amendments). To make ex-officio sheriffs in Jeff Davis County_ ---138 268 291 Settlement with school authorities --------------238 313 642

TAX RECEIVERS (see Code Amendments), (see Costs and Fees).

TELEPHONE AND TELEGRAPH COMPANIES (see Railroad Commission) .

TEMPERANCE DAYProvided for in public schools-------------------- 16 311 490

TIPS-

To repeal Act prohibiting

878

TRADEProhibit gifts to induce trade from officials_______ --- 236 630

TRAINING SCHOOL FOR GIRLS (see-Appropriations) . TRIALS (see Practice and Procedure) .

u

UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIATo collect tuition for Georgia Tech__________________ 134 418

Change board of trustee system---------------~----

238

v

VENEREAL DISEASES-

To provide control of ------------------------------ 140 504

VETERINARIAN, STATE-

Co-operate with Bureau of Animal Industry ----------

201

Prescribe appointment ___ -------------------------

620

Amend Act creating office of ---------- ------------

873

w

WAGES-

To repeal law relative to certain

409

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WELFARE-

To promote health, etc., of females

529

WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAILROADTo preserve-------------------------------------- 181 374

WORLDS WAR-

Pay bonus to veterans of

240

WORIU"\IEN'S COMPENSATION ACT-

~~mend Act (680) ------------------------218 312 872 1185

Amend Act, Guess (726) ------------------------281 314 871

Amend Act, Bowden (846) -------------------------

517

PART II.

HOUSE RESOLUTIONS.

Clerk notify Senate that House has met----------------

5

Joint committee to notify Governor ____ . ----------------

5

Relati\e to deceased members --------------------------

6

G. A. \Vhitaker --------------------------------------

8

For joint session on June 29th--------------------------

8

Relative to majority and minority reports on Highway

Department---------------------------- 9 1~0 212 251 253

Death of Rev. H. J. Ellis ::_____________________________

14

Committee to escort Governor ______ --------- ____ ______

-15

Employees of House _________________:.__________________

15

Requesting report from Highway Commission . __ . __ . ---- 20 130

Requesting Congress to repeal Bankruptcy law____________

20

Relati,e to pensions -----------------------------------

20

Relative to rock quarry at Elberton --------------------

21

Information from State College of Agriculture and Depart-

ment of Agriculture ---------------------------- 29 131 146

Pri\ileges of floor to Mrs. Clay and l\Irs. Jno. H. Jones____

141

Relative to Woodrow Wilson --------------------------

141

Relati\e to adjournment ------------------------------

143

Imestigate salaries of State officials --------------------

177

Information from Sanatorium at Alto ------------------

177

l\Iake House Bill No. 6 a special order ------------------

177

Appoint committee to investigate State Department of Agri-

culture -------------------------------------------

177

Crge Congrei'-s to accept H<'nry Ford's bid for Muscle Shoal8

1i7

Pre\?nt junking of A., B. & A. R. R. --------------------

Hl6

Relati,-e to member,;hip of investigating committees ------- 196

~equesting information from Prison Commission ______ ___

196

I~DEX

1317

Investigate Department of Entomology ------------------ 219 314

Provide for adjourned sessions of Appropriations Committee

219

Prison Commission to furnish information --------------- 225 328

On deceased members ----------------------------------

246

Floor extended to J. G. Childs ------- ________ ____ _______

250

Floor extended to Mrs. W. H. Felton --------------------

256

Floor extended toP. G. Veazey--------------------------

256

To 0. B. Bush and Judge Crawley ----------------------

257

Relative to jurisdiction of Justice Courts ----------------

257

Relative to sale of hinds for First District A. & M. School

_257 532 1065

Relative to salaries of members of General Assembly_____

257

Investigate State Highway Department, House Resolution

~0. 149 -------------------------------------- 265 318 643 Provide for committee on subscriptions to Hall of Fame

fund ---------------------------------------------

272

Adjourn sine die --------------------------------------

272

Send delegation American Independent Exposition _______ _

284

Committee to draft luxury tax bill----------------------

284

Committee to draft seed bill---------------------------- 285 532

Investigate accounting system of State Highway Commission

286

To American Legion -----------------------------------

324

Floor to Z. V. Peacock --------------------------------

340

State line between Georgia and Tennessee ------------345 375 668 Information from State Entomologist_ ___________________ 346 484

Thanking Malone of Bibb ------------------------------

349

Floor toW. F. Jones et al. -----------------------------

350

B. J. Williams of Harris ------------------------------

359

Judge B. H. Hill ----------------,.-------------------

363

Hon. II. B. Folsom --------------- ____ -----------------

363

Thanking Atlanta Woman's Club _______ ---------- ______ _

318

W. H. Burt -------------------------------------------

385

T. J . .McFarland _________________ ------ ____ -----------

396

Thos. J. Hamilton ____________________________________ _

410

Joe Hill Hall -----------------------------------------

477

Amend Rule 42 ---------------------------------------

484

Requesting information relative to Tax Equalization Act__ 491 697

Payment of pensions (House Resolution ~o. 188) ___ _ 497 602

Abolish Tax and Prison Commissions--------------------

498

Accept invitation to Savannah _________ -----------------

512

Meet at 9 oclock ----------------------- --------------

583

Relatiw to Capitol Remoml Bill _______________________ _

584

Committee to inve~tigate penal in,titntion~ --------------

588

l'c:J'mittee on D<>partment of .\grieulture report __ _

588 641

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Appreciation to City of Atlanta------------------------

611

VV. R. Jackson ----------------------------------------

612

Charles Redding --------- __ --------------------------- _ 612

School site on State Farm --------------------------619 733 873

Committee on acoustics -------------------------------- 619 733

Thanking City of Savannah ------------------------.----

662

Regulate distribution of coal in State ------------691 791 842 934

VV. E. Boatwright, sympathy -------------- _------------

697

Courtesies of civic organizations of Atlanta ----- __ ---

699

James Hampton Grant --------------------------------

745

Investigate charges regard to Port Terminal and Harbor

Commission _____ ---- ___________ ---------------- __ _

791

Selection of site of port terminal ----------------------

792.

To visit Brunswick _____ -------- ____ -------------------

802

Limit session --------- __ ------ ___ ------------ ________ _

828

Boyce Ficklen, Sr. ---------------------- ________ ------ _ 829

Error in local bill for Dougherty County --------------

847

VV. G. Sutlive -----------------------------------------

854

)Ianufacture of calcium arsenate ----------- ____ -------- _ 867

VV. H. Purcell ----------------------------------------

876

Survey of colony, Georgia State Sanitarium--------------

917

C. F. Herndon, D. N. Thompson and VV. E. Smith -------- 934

Library Federal Judge Southern Circuit_ ______972 1028 1050 1271

John VV. Collins -------------------------------------Attorney-General on dies non --------------------------

1005 1114

Jno. VV. Collins --------------------------------------Manufacture calcium arsenate ---------------------- ___

1114 1037

Thanking Brunswick ---------------------------------- 1051

Burton L. VVeston ----------------- __ ----------------- 1052

Thanking City of Atlanta -----------------------------Mrs. Lillian VVheeler ------------------------------- ___ Mrs. Lottie Belle VVylie --------- ____ ---------------- _

1174 1198 1198

Adjourn sine die ------------------------------------ 1203 1236 Rules Committee not to set Highway Bond Bill__________ 1239

Thanks to Loew's Grand Theatre ---------------------James Hampton Grant --------- ______ -----------------

1240 1240

VV. E. Boatwright ------------------------------------Thomas M. Swift, Sr. ---------------------------------Notify Governor ready to adjourn ----------------------

1245 1246 1282

INDEX PART III.

1319

SENATE BILLS A
ABSENT VOTERS (see Elections, Part III).
AGRICULTURAL SCHOOLS AND COLLEGESTo establish A. & M. College at Tifton --------------1113 1171
AUDITOR, STATETo create ---------------------------------------- 533 1252

B

BANKS AND BANKINGTo regulate ---------------------------------------

1238

BARBERSAbolish Act regulating ____________ --------------- 612 1109

BALLOT (see Elections, Part III).

BONDS (see Charters, Municipal). Provide assessment for supersedeas bonds ----------- 354 910

c

CEMETERIES-

CHARTERS AND CORPORATIONS, MUNICIPAL-
Calhoun, amend --------------------------------354 392 422
Crest, repeal -------------------------------------- 355 375 Statham, amend -------------------------------377 392 422 Jesup, incorporate -----------------------------636 659 692 Covington, amend ------------------------------637 733 826 Eastman, amend ------- __ ------------------------- 637 734 Albany, ainend --------------------------------739 753 1173 Lincolnton, amend -----------------------------827 851 886 Townsend, incorporate ___ ---------- ____ ------ ___827 851 885
Tifton, amend ------------------------------1085 1110 1172 Valdosta, ainend ------- ____ -------- _________1031 1110 1172
Crawford,ille, amend ------------------------1031 1047 1112 Sharon, amend ------------------------------1113 1171 1196

CODE A.\IEND.\IENTH TO CODE OF 1910--

Section 967, l'riminal prot'edun _________ ___________

193

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INDEX

Section 4775, court bailiffs, amend _________ ------ ___

315

Section 4775, court bailiffs, repeal ------------------

315

Section 958, misdemeanor -------------------------- ~55 601

Scetion 4381, amend ------------------------------- 356 821

Section 147, burglary _-----------------------------

377

Mother equal heir (Senate Bill No. 122) ____________ _423 1241

Execution deeds, outside State -----.-----------661 910 1191 Section 755, relative to ferries and approaches to bridges

870 910 980 Section 1249, Crawford State Depository ________ 921 1084 1112

Amend 2820, capital stock of trust companies __ 996 1109 1201

Amend, mother as guardian ------------------1126 1190 1241 Amend, return and transmission of interrogatories___ 1234

COMMISSIONERS OF ROADS AND REVENUES-

Wayne County, abolish ---------------------------- 424 821

Hancock County, repeal ----------------------------

510

Walker County, amend -------------------------637 735 771

Dougherty- County, create ---------------------740 1113 1172

Houston County, repeal ------------------------921 952 995

Houston County, create -------------------------921 952 996

Haralson County, amend -------------~---------959 997 1182

Early County, amend --------------------------959 991 1049 County Commissioner Plan __________________1031 1109 1247

Taliaferro and Warren ----------------------1113 1171 1196

CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS-
Carrying pistols ___ ------------------------ __ -423 601 1258 Amend so as to issue State Highway Bonds__________ 1259

CORPORATIONS-

To increase stock

977

COUNTY TREASURERClayton County _______ ------ -~-- __ -------- ____ -423 631 659

COURT OF APPEALS (see Supreme Court, Part III).

COURTS, CITY AND COUNTYChattooga County, repeal -----------------------355 419 482 Summerville, create _---- _______________ - __ -----377 419 482
Eastman, amend _------------------------------637 882 918 .~lma, repeal ------------------------------------- 802 826
l'OFRTH, MUNICIPAL-Atlanta, amend --------------------------------355 601 635 Atlanta, amendment to Constitution in effect_ ___ 827 1030 10fl0

INDEX

1321

COURTS, JUVENILETo establish --------------------------------1113 1171 1203

COURTS, SUPERIORBarrow County, change time ------------------827 883 918

COURTS, SUPREME AND COURT OF APPEALS-

CROPS, GROWINGDeclare to be personalty

1242

E
ELECTION AND ELECTION LAWSTo provide for secret ballot ------------------------ 179 190 To provide absent voters --------------------------- 183 821

F
FEMALES-
FISCAL YEARCounties to prescribe --------------------------636 762 885
FISH (see Game and Fish, Part III).
FORESTRYPromote interest of _---------------- ___1084 1191 1197 1262

G
GAME AND FISHFederal Government to make rules _--------------510 601 667 Amend Act, fur-bearing animals -----------------637 733 860 Protection of (Senate Bill No. 269) -----------1085 1110 1258

H HOTELS, INNS, ETC.-
Post rates -----------------------------------997 1109 1247
I INSURANCE-
Relative to revoking lieenses --------------------424 533 666

1322

INDEX

J

JUDICIAL CIRCUITSFix time of holding courts in Cordele Circuit_ ____ ---- 195 919
Time of courts in Cordele Circuits ------------------ 424 506 Additional Judge Stone Mountain CircuiL-~------636 691 861 Rearrange Tifton Judicial Circuit ______________ .;___ 959

Rotation of Judges --------------------------------

959

K
KINDERGARTENSTo establish --------------------------------1113 1182 1278

M
MEDICAL EXA~IINERS, STATE BOARD OF-
MOTOR VEHICLESBlow horn at covered bridges----------------------- 425 533 Amend motor vehicle law (216) ----------------216 991 1203 Amend motor vehicle law (236), Iicense________959 1084 1259 Regulate operation on streets (247) --~------------- 1096

N
NEW COUNTIESPeach County ------------------------------------ 666 1006
NON-PAR STOCKCorporations to issue -------------------------_423 821 1234 Corporations to issue, subject to Railroad Commission 1234
NURSERYMENTo license ------------------------------------509 802 1176
p
PHAR~IACY, STATE BOARD OFRevise la\vs --------------------------------1084 1109 1258
PRACTICE AND PROCEDURETo prescribe for certiorari ------------------------ 510 1190 PrO\ide further regulation --------------------920 952 1176

INDEX

I323

R

RAILROAD COMMISSION-

Abolish attorney for ------------------------------

661

RELIEF OF SURETY-

L. B. Williams ------------------------------------

395

W. K. Brooks -----------------------~---------870 8811 1089

Price IIubbard ------------------------------1126 1171 I242

ROADS, PUBLIC AND PRIVATE-
Supervisor for Wayne County ---------------------- 424 821 Repeal Act amending road laws of Gordon County __424 632 659

s

SECURITIES COMMISSIONTo amend Act to establish ----------------------210 1211
SCIIOOLS AND SCIIOOL LAWSSparta, amend ------------------------------------ 268 296 Consolidated schools, amend ------------------------ 355 506 Richland, repeal -~-----------------------------425 506 533 Amend, conferring degrees -------------------------- 661 733 Albany, amend ---------------------------------- 786 1173 Tom School District, repeal ------------------1085 1110 1171
SOLICITORS-GENERALAmend fee Act, Cherokee Circuit-------------------- 636 882 Southern Judicial Circuit, repeal abolishing Act--_--_ 920 1046 1174 1204 Southern Judicial Circuit (Senate Bill No. 221) ______959 1047 1174 1204
STATE IIIGIIWAY DEPARTMENTTo reorganize --------------~-------------------423 533 861

T
TAXES AND TAX LAWSPoll tax -----------------------------------------Fuel oils --------- ____ ---------- ____ - _-------------
u
UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIASubstitute for Trustees, Board of Control -----------Establish South Georgia A. & M. College as branch_---

996 1159
920 1113

1324

INDEX

PART IV.

SENATE RESOLUTIONS.

Joint committee to notify Governor----------------------

7

Inviting T. E. Watson to address General Assembly______

34

Inviting W. J. Harris to address General Assembly -------- 225

Accepting invitation of Woman's Club ------------------

357

Joint session, Senator W. J. Harris----------------------

379

Barbecue at To~send ---------------------------------

395

Thanking Woman's Club ------------------------------- 396

Cotton Growers Co-Operative Association ----------------

484

Commission on A., B. & A. R. R. -------------------510 802 1182 Provide for acceptance of fund on maternity--_-- ____511 733 10S2

Charter of Chattanooga Rapid Transit Co.________________

637

To aid Confederate veterans ---------------------------Providing for World's Fair in Georgia in 1926----------General Assembly adjourn sine die _______________ -------

920 1157 1290