Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia Georgia Law, Georgia Georgia. Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia MILLEDGEVILLE: P. L. B. H. ROBINSON, PRINTERS 18341100 English

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1834. 18341100 18341200 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. MILLEDGEVILLE: P. L. B. H. ROBINSON, PRINTERS. 1835.

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA. PASSED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1834 ACADEMIES. AN ACT to incorporate certain Academies therein named and to appoint Trustees for the same, and to confer certain powers, rights, and privileges upon the same. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Jinkin Wilson, Eaton Bancks, Henry S. Smith, Richard Turner, and Trige M. Hardwick, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Pleasant Academy in the county of Jasper; who shall have full power to fill all vacancies which may happen in their Board, and to be entitled to all the rights, privileges, and immunities which are conferred by this law upon any Academy. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That Cullin Lockett, William H. Pritchard, Alexander Spencer, James J. Bancks,

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Robert Tripp, John Sneed, and Thomas Stanford be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Female Academy in the town of Culloden, with power to add to their number, if desired by the Board, and to fill such vacancies as may occur in the Board, and to have all the rights, privileges, and immunities which by this law are conferred upon any Academy. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Gibson Clarke, Bushrod Pettit, Guy W. Smith, Henly Varner, Thomas D. Johnson, and Jonathan M. Peck be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Henry County Academy at the town of McDonough, in addition to the number already allowed by law; and the said Commissioners herein named, and their successors in office, shall be vested with the privileges, immunities, and legal authorities from the passage of this Act which are by law vested in the Trustees of said Academy by the Act incorporating the same. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Richard Pace, John Martin, Elisha Perryman, Isham Broocks, and William Maddox, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared Trustees of Pace's Academy in the county of Putnam, and as such are hereby declared to be a body corporate, with the power of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, of having, holding, and conveying property real and personal belonging to said Academy, of making and using a common seal, and of doing all other things appertaining to said Corporation. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees of said Academy shall have full power and authority to adopt such by-laws and regulations for the government of the same: Provided such by-laws and regulations are not repugnant to the Constitution and Laws of the State or of the United States. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That any vacancies which may happen in said Board of Trustees by death, resignation, or otherwise, the subscribers shall, upon ten days public notice, assemble at the said Academy, and by ballot elect Trustees to fill any such vacancies: Provided that any two or more freeholders, residents of said county and not subscribers, shall preside at said election; and Provided that said election shall be determined by a majority of the votes of the subscribers present and voting.

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SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees as a body corporate shall be capable of accepting and being vested with all manner of property real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, bequests, privileges, and immunities whatsoever, which may belong to said institution, or to be hereafter conveyed to them and their successors in office, to have and to hold the same to the proper use, benefit, and behoof of said Academy. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That William Murphee, Matthew Jones, Jesse Cox, Fielding J. Brown, Allen Junning, Addison E. Harris, and James Grubbs, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Bark Camp Academy in the county of Burke; and that when any vacancy shall happen in the Board of Trustees to fill the same by a majority of the Trustees; and they shall be entitled to receive a portion of the Academy fund of the county of Burke, and shall have all the immunities and rights conferred by this Act upon any other Academy therein mentioned. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That William Fish, Alexander Irwin, Benjamin Sessions, Benjamin Tarberton, and William B. Glenn, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for Union Academy in the county of Washington, to be entitled to all the privileges and benefits, and under the same provisions of other incorporated Academies in said county. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That Moses Jones, William W. Welbourn, Drury Kindrick, William O. Rutledge, Abraham Miles, John P. Hardy, and Nathaniel J. Scott, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the style of the Trustees of the Prospect Academy in Harris County; and they are as such declared to be capable of using a common seal, of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded in the several courts of law and equity in this State, of receiving and holding for the use of said Academy all donations, gifts, grants, and bequests, of executing and receiving titles to property, of executing and receiving acquittances, for making such by-laws, not contrary to the Constitution and Laws of this State, as they may deem proper for the government of said Academy, of removing, by a vote of the majority, all officers for a neglect of duty or improper conduct, and of filling all vacancies that may occur by death, resignation, or otherwise.

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SEC. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Daniel Malone, Allen Green, John Drury, William D. Ethridge, Jeremiah W. Stokes, Francis Tufts, and John W. Gordin be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Blountsville Academy in the county of Jones: That James R. Cox, Robert Burt, Davis Dawson, William Barron, and Ichabod Davis be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of Blountsville Academy in the county of Upson: That Live R. Bullard, William Irwin, John Driver, William Prior, and John Meacham be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Union Academy in the county of Pike. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That Joseph I. Singleton, Asa Varner, William Bell, Sterling Combs, and Walter S. Mitcheal, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby appointed and declared to be a body corporate, under the name and style of the Trustees of the Prospect Academy of the county of Jackson. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said several Boards of Trustees and their successors in office be, and they are hereby appointed and declared to be bodies corporate and politic, under the several names, and as such shall be capable and liable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorized to make such by-laws and regulations as may be necessary for the government thereof; Provided such by-laws be not repugnant to the Constitution and Laws of this State; and for that purpose may have and use a common seal, and appoint such officers as they may think proper, and remove the same from office. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property both real and personal, all gifts, donations, grants, rights, privileges, and immunities whatsoever, which may belong to said institutions, or which may hereafter be conveyed or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the benefit of said Academies. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That, in addition to the present Board of Trustees of the Walton County Academy, Waters Brisco, Peter G. Morrow, Orin Stroud, Paul T. Willis, and Reuben Weaver, sen. be, and they are hereby appointed as Trustees for said Academy, with the same

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powers and privileges of those formerly constituting the Board for said institution. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That Lewls Leroy and William B. Wafford be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Clarksville Academy in the county of Habersham, in addition to those already appointed. SEC. 17. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Frederick Sims, Elijah Catter, Elijah Matthews, Matthew Hughs, and John McMurrain be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office are declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of the Trustees of Bibb Academy. SEC. 18. And that Anderson Rice, Henry S. Catter, James R. Lowry, George B. Wardlaw, Eleazer McCall, David Flanders, and Joseph Willet be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office are declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of the Trustees of the Marion Academy in the county of Bibb: and that the Trustees of said Academies respectively be, and they are hereby vested with all the authority and powers, and subject to the same liabilities as the Trustees of the Lake Academy in the county of Bibb. SEC. 19. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That Gideon Strange, English Smith, Isaac R. Youngblood, Lewis Dupree, Wiley W. Cullins, and Frederick Cullins be, and their successors in office, are hereby appointed Trustees of the Farmer's School in the county of Washington, under the same rules and restrictions, and entitled to the same benefits, of the other incorporated Academies in said county. SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That Hudson Wade, William Hanson, William Perkins, William Stallings, and Nathan Aldridge be, and they are hereby made a body corporate, under the name and style of Commissioners of Union Academy in the county of Morgan. SEC. 21. And that said Commissioners be, and they are hereby empowered, as a body corporate, to use a common seal, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in the several courts of law and equity in this State, make all by-laws which may be necessary to the government of said Academy not contrary to the laws of this State, appoint their successors,

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fill vacancies, make, receive, and execute all conveyances, acquittances, and receipts, hold property real and personal, and any and all things do in reference to the interest of said Academy which may not be contrary to the Constitution and Laws of this State. SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That John Hunter and Alexander Duncan be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for the Blairsville Academy in the county of Union, in place of John Lander and R. Holden, removed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate Cedar Town Academy in the County of Paulding, and to appoint Trustees for the same. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act John Kerley, Jacob Scott, Lary Witcher, John Witcher, Sen., and Ephraim Mabry be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Cedar Town Academy in the county of Paulding. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees, or their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Cedar Town Academy, and as such shall be capable and liable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded; and shall be authorized to make such bylaws

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and regulations as may be necessary for the government of said Academy: provided such by-laws are not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this state; and for that purpose may have and use a common seal, and appoint such officers as they may think proper, and remove the same from office. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees of the before mentioned Academy shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property both real and personal, all gifts, donations, grants, rights, privileges, and immunities whatsoever which may belong to said institution, or which may hereafter be conveyed or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the proper benefit and behoof of said Academy. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any vacancy shall happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, of any one or more of the Trustees of said Academy, their survivors or a majority of them shall fill such vacancy. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the Jackson Academy in the County of Forsyth. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Joseph

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Hamilton, Leroy Hammonds, James Roberts, John Miller, and Alexander Flanagan, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed and declared to be a body corporate by the name and under the title of the Trustees of the Jackson Academy, in the county of Forsyth, to be located and built on lot number 286, in the first district of the first section formerly Cherokee, now Forsyth County, with the privilege of using a common seal; and to be capable and liable in law to sue and be sued, and to do and perform all such matters and things as may be authorized by the Constitution and Laws of the State. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Trustees shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges, and immunities whatsoever, which may belong to said Academy, or which may hereafter be conveyed or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the proper benefit and behoof of said Academy for ever. SEC. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any vacancy may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, of any of the Trustees of said Academy, the survivors, or a majority of them, shall fill the same in such manner as may be pointed out by the laws and regulations of the trustees aforesaid. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled An Act to incorporate the Madison county Academy, and to appoint Trustees for the same, passed the 13th of Dec. 1823. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That William M. Morton and Charles Jones be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for Madison County Academy in addition to those already appointed, and that the Trustees of the said Academy, or a majority of them be, and they are hereby authorized to establish branches of the said institution, not exceeding two, and to locate them in any neighbourhood or neighbourhoods in said county, which to them may appear most convenient and beneficial to the citizens of said county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Academic fund which may be now on hand and unexpended, and that which may hereafter accrue to the said Academy, shall be disbursed and distributed to the original institution and its branches in proportion to the number of students actually taught in each respectively, or in such proportion as the Trustees, or a majority of them, may deem best calculated to promote the purposes of education. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when the Board of Trustees of said Academy shall [Illegible Text] and establish a branch of said institution in any neighbourhood in said county, two of the Board residing nearest the site of such branch, in conjunction with a freeholder to be appointed by the Board, or a majority of them, shall be competent to employ a teacher, and to examine into and manage the concerns of the branch, and whose duty it shall be to report their actings and doings in the premises to the Board of Trustees at their annual meeting in each and every year. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall have power to appoint a Secretary and Treasurer, under such restrictions and obligation as they may think necessary to ensure the performance of the duties required of them.

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SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said Act to which this Act is amendatory as militates against the same be, and the same is hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate Hamburg and Camp Creek Academies in the County of Marion. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That William Brown, Sampson English, Elisha Curtis, Archibald Mathews, and Powell Hydrick be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of the Trustees of the Hamburg Academy: and that Wilson Colling, Waid H. Hall, Joseph Daniel, Aquilla Diaz, and Joseph Mott be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office are hereby declared to be a body corporate by the name and under the title of the Trustees of the Camp Creek Academy. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, and privileges whatsoever which may belong to said institution, or which may hereafter be conveyed or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the proper use and benefit of said Academy.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, of any of the Trustees of said Academy, the survivors or a majority of them shall fill the same in such manner as shall be pointed out by the by-laws and regulations of the Trustees aforesaid. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and they are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to appoint two additional Trustees for the Pleasant Grove Academy in the County of Paulding. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Brooks and William Malone be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Pleasant Grove Academy in the County of Paulding, in addition to those already appointed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to add three additional Trustees to the Etowah Academy in the County of Cherokee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by that authority, That Philip Kroft, William Lay, and Eli McConnell be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Etowah Academy in the County of Cherokee, in addition to those already appointedany law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to Amend an act entitled An Act to Incorporate certain Academies, and to appoint Trustees for the said Academies, and to authorize the Governor to pay over to the Trustees of the Stewart County Academy the Academy-fund coming to said county, passed the 26th day of December, 1831. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Kennedy Dennard, Tomlinson Fort, Hollis Boynton, and John Stevenson be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of Stewart County Academy, in addition to those appointed by the before-recited Act.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the second section of the before-recited Act as militates against this Act be, and the same is hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to alter the laws relating to County Academies so far as relates to the County of Baldwin. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That a lot of ground, not more than two acres, on the south-west corner of the Penitentiary-square, be, and the same is hereby conveyed to the Commissioners of the Academy of Baldwin county, for the purpose of erecting thereon an academy with suitable enclosures, but for no other purpose. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the lots heretofore appropriated for this purpose be sold for the purpose of defraying the expense of erecting buildings on the lot herein conveyed, and that the Commissioners of said academy be authorized to sell the unsold lots in the town of Milledgeville for the same object. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the term of service of the Commissioners now in office shall expire with the present year, and that the persons who may have entered scholars for the first quarter of the ensuing year shall have power to elect by ballot (each individual giving a note for each child entered by him) three

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Commissioners for the current year, whose offices shall in like manner expire on the last day of the ensuing December. And the Commissioners so elected shall have all the rights and powers held by the present Commissioners of the Academy of Baldwin county. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That for the providing a regular succession of Commissioners there shall be held at the Academy on the first Tuesday in January, in each year, an election on the principle above stated, for three commissioners; Provided, That the omission to elect on that day shall not prevent the persons entering scholars from holding the election on any subsequent day. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to amend an act passed the 19th December, 1827, to authorize the commissioners of Washington County Academy to raise by Lottery a certain sum of money for the benefit of said Academy. Whereas, by the said act the Trustees of the said Washington County Academy are made the commissioners to carry said lottery into effect, And whereas, there are now more incorporated academies in said county, Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and

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it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That each of the incorporated Academies of said county shall be entitled to a distributive share of the sum or sums of money which may be raised by said lottery, to be apportioned according to the law now in force for the distribution of the Academy fund of said county. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in place of the Trustees of the Washington County Academy being the lottery commissioners, said lottery shall be conducted by commissioners chosen by the Trustees of all the incorporated Academies in said county, the Trustees of each Academy to choose one lottery commissioner, a majority of whom shall form a quorum, and be authorized to proceed to business; and the commissioners thus chosen shall be governed by the acts of which this is an amendatoryany law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to amend an act incorporating the Cassville Academy, in Cass County. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That William Brewster, Berry W. Gideon, Isaac Anderson, and Leander Goodwin be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees to said

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Academy; who, together with those already appointed, shall constitute the number of Trustees for said Academy. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate Buck-head Academy, in the county of Morgan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John T. McNeal, William Harris, John Emberson, John Johnston, and Reuben Massy be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of the Trustees of Buck-head Academy, in the county of Morgan. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees aforesaid, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby invested with the power of using a common seal, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, in the several courts of law and equity in this State; of making all necessary by-laws for their government; of holding title to and conveying real and personal estate; and of doing all other things, and of enjoying all other immunities, not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this State, which may be necessary to the well-being of said corporation. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts

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of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to repeal a part of the second section of an act passed 2d December, 1830, entitled An Act to incorporate Jefferson Academy, in the county of Putnam, and appoint Trustees for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act so much of the second section of the aforesaid act as provides that the Trustees of Jefferson Academy, and their successors in office, shall not be entitled to receive a proportion or dividend of all moneys which may hereafter be appropriated to the Academies in said county by the laws of this State, apportioning funds for the benefit of county Academies, except on condition of their keeping in their employ at said Academy of Jefferson a teacher capable and qualified to teach the classics, and shall actually have one or more students engaged in the study of classical acquirements, which fact being annually made known to the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county of Putnam by the certificate of the Trustees of said Academy, and their successors in office, shall entitle them to a proportional share or dividend of all the funds aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 9th, 1834.

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AN ACT to alter the 12th section of an act passed the 26th Dec. 1831, to incorporate Stone Creek Academy, and appoint Trustees for the same, in the county of Twiggs. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the names of William A. Tharp, Jeremiah A. Tharp, and James Pearson be inserted in lieu of William A. Sharp, Jeremiah A. Sharp, and William Davis, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Trustees of Stone Creek Academy, in the county aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize the Trustees of the Academy in the town of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee, to lay off two acres of the commons of said town for the purpose of erecting thereon a building for said Academy, and to authorize them to lay off into lots the present Academic square, and sell the same for the use of said Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Trustees of the Academy in the town of Columbus, in the county of Muscogee be, and they are hereby authorized to select and lay off two acres of the town commons of said town for an Academy square for said town. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees be, and they are hereby authorized to lay off the present Academy square into town lots, and sell them for the use and benefit of said Academy. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, or so much thereof as militates against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives, JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 9th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize the citizens of McIntosh county to elect the Commissioners of the Academy of said county, and to alter the act regulating the election of the Commissioners of Poor-schools and the Poor-school tax in said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That on the first Monday in January next, being the time for electing county officers, the citizens of McIntosh county qualified to vote for members of the Legislature shall, and they are hereby authorized to vote at the said election for seven Commissioners to manage the Academy of said county, take care of its funds, and provide for the best mode of instructing the youth at said Academy. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners shall continue in office two years, but be eligible to a re-election; that they shall be bound at the expiration of each term to file a full statement of the receipts and disbursements of said Academy in the Clerk of the Superior Court's office of said county, which shall be received as of record therein. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners elected as aforesaid shall, before they enter on the duties of their office, take before any Judge or Justice of the Peace the following oath:I, A. B. do solemnly swear that I will faithfully discharge my duty as Commissioner of McIntosh County Academy to the best of my knowledge; and while I continue in office: so help me God. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the majority of said Commissioners shall be authorized to fill all vacancies in their own body that may occur during the time for which they were elected. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That instead of three Commissioners of Poor-schools to be elected by the several precincts of McIntosh county,

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agreeable to an act passed the 29th December, 1832, each precinct shall only elect one Commissioner, who shall perform all and every duty assigned to the three; and that the amount of tax paid, as prescribed by the aforerecited act, shall be reduced from five dollars down to two dollars. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws militating with this act be, and the same is hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to legalize the acts of the late Senatus Academicus at their session in November, 1834, and to make certain grants mentioned therein valid and receivable in evidence in the several Courts of Justice in this State. Whereas a majority of the Trustees of the University of Georgia did not attend, on the second Monday in November at Milledgeville, the meeting of the Senatus Academicus; in consequence of which the Senatus Academicus was not organized, and no meeting of that body was held; but in order that the business connected with the college should be transacted, and that the University should not be embarrassed by the non-attendance of a quorum of the Board of Trust, the Board of Visiters, together with such of the Trustees of the University as were in attendance, did organize themselves into a body and informally transact the business connected with the College, the County Academies,

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and Poor Schools, ordinarily devolving upon the Senatus Academicus; and whereas the acts of said body have not the force and effect of law, therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the same, That all acts done, and proceedings had, by the Senate of the State of Georgia as a Board of Visiters, together with a minority of the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia, on the second Monday in November, 1834, at Milledgeville, in relation to the interests and affairs of the University of Georgia and the Poor Schools and Academies of this State be, and they are hereby declared to be valid, and of as full force and effect in law as if said acts and proceedings were had by the Senatus Academicus, regularly organized and in session according to law. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passing of this act all grants held by any person or persons, which grants were signed and registered under the signature of Hamilton B. Gaither as Deputy-secretary of State, or Hamilton B. Gaither for William A. Tennille, Secretary of State, shall be good and valid in law and equity, and receivable in evidence in the several courts of justice in this State. SEC. 3. And that all laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834.

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APPROPRIATIONS. AN ACT to appropriate money for the support of Government for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, viz. The salary of his Excellency the Governor shall be three thousand dollars per annum. The Secretaries of the Governor, not exceeding three, one thousand dollars each per annum. The Secretary of State, two thousand dollars. The Treasurer, two thousand dollars. The Comptroller, two thousand dollars. The Surveyor General, two thousand dollars. The Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate, six hundred dollars each per annum; Provided, no warrant shall issue for the first quarter salary of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, until the Executive shall have satisfactory evidence that the said Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives have respectively made or caused to be made and attached to the Journals of the present session good and sufficient indices. The Judges of the Superior Courts, each twenty-one hundred dollars. The Attorney General, and nine Solicitors General, two hundred and twenty-five dollars each per annum. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the printing-fund not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, and the further sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same are hereby appropriated and set apart as a contingent fund, subject to the order of the Governor, during the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the compensation of the Members of the Legislature, four dollars each per day, during their attendance; Provided, that nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize any member of either branch of the General Assembly to receive said four dollars after they have left the Legislature for the remainder of the sessionbe appropriated, and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles in coming to and returning from the seat of Government; the sum of six dollars each per day to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives during their attendance; and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles in coming to and returning from the seat of Government. To the Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate, during the session of the Legislature, six dollars each per day, and the sum of sixty dollars each for contingent expenses. To two engrossing Clerks, assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, and two engrossing and one enrolling Clerk of the Senate, six dollars each per day. To the Clerk of the Committee on Finance, one hundred dollars. To the Clerk of the Committee on the State of the Republic, one hundred dollars. To the Clerk of the Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, one hundred dollars. To the Clerk of the Judiciary Committee, one hundred dollars. To the Clerk of the Committee on Public Education and Free-schools, one hundred and fifty dollars. To the Clerk of the Committee on the Penitentiary, one hundred dollars. To the Messengers and Door-keepers of the Legislature, four dollars each per day during the present session. To Peter Fair the sum of one hundred dollars, for airing, scouring, and taking care of the Senate and Representative Chambers, and making fires on wet days. To Peter Fair the sum of one hundred dollars, for winding up the clock, and keeping clean the staircases, c.; and for sweeping out the gutters to the State House, twenty-five dollars. To the Inspectors of the Penitentiary, not exceeding three, two hundred and twenty-four dollars each per annum. And the sum of four hundred dollars to the Secretary of State to defray the expense of a clerk in his office. Also, the sum of fifteen hundred and eleven dollars and sixteen cents to the Corporation of Savannah, to reimburse the

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expenditures made by that Corporation in the enforcement of the Quarantine Laws for the past year; and the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the erection of a Lazarretto in or near the city of Savannah, to be paid to the Mayor and Aldermen of said city,by them to be applied to said purpose, agreeable to a concurred resolution. To Thomas Haynes, Esq. Treasurer, the sum of three hundred dollars, as compensation for extra services in arranging the papers of his office, they having been deranged in consequence of the fire last winter. And the sum of two thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty four cents for extra work done on the State House, it having cost that amount above the appropriation made by the last Legislature. And the sum of four hundred dollars to the Surveyor General, to defray the expense of Clerk hire. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eight thousand two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to complete the cell building in the Penitentiary, for enlarging work-shops, and procuring wagon and carriage timber for said institution. For building an addition to the south end of the State House, to correspond with that on the north, so as to render the building uniform; and for covering said addition with copper, as recommended in the annual Message of his Excellency the Governor, the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of thirty dollars be appropriated to pay the court cost of a suit against John H. Broadnax, in favour of the State, in Troup Superior Court. To Abraham Stephens, tax collector of Wilkinson county, the sum of fourteen dollars and fourteen cents for his insolvent list for 1833. And the sum of five hundred dollars to Willam G. Springer, agreeably to a concurred resolution. The sum of three thousand dollars for the education of the deaf and dumb, agreeably to a concurred resolution. And three thousand dollars for such compilations of the laws of Georgia as may be requisite to furnish the newly acquired Territory, and such other deficiencies as may occur in the old counties of the State. And the sum of one hundred dollars for William Grant, agreeably to a concurred resolution. To a slave by the name of Peter, the property of Peter J.

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Williams, the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, for his exertions to save the State House from conflagration. And the sum of one hundred and six dollars to Benjamin F. Johnston, agreeably to a concurred resolution. And the sum of five hundred dollars to Philip T. Schley, John A. Cuthbert, and James A. Merriwether, agreeably to a concurred resolution. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of two and a half per cent. be allowed the several agents of the State for the sale of public hands on the amount received and paid over in money and good notes to the Central Bank of Georgia. And four hundred dollars to William W. Carnes, agreeably to a concurred resolution. To the Secretary of the Senate and his Assistant Secretary, and his engrossing and enrolling Clerks, six days pay to bring up the unfinished business of the Senate. And the sum of three dollars per day for the witnesses in the case of Judge Hooper, and three dollars for every twenty miles in coming to and returning from the seat of Government; and the sum of three dollars for every twenty miles for the messengers who summoned the witnesses. The sum of two thousand two hundred dollars for James Wood's claim, agreeably to a concurred resolution. To John A. Cuthbert, Esq., for professional services rendered in the investigation of the official conduct of Judge Hooper, at the request of the Committee of the House of Representatives, the sum of one hundred dollars. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor, Assented to, Dec. 20th, 1834.

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AN ACT to appropriate and set apart a Military Fund for the years 1834, 1835. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the sum of six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated and set apart as a Military Fund, subject to the order of the Governor, for the political years one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, and thirty-five. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money to cut out and put in good order the road lately marked out from Columbus, on the Chatahoochee river, to the town of St. Mary's in Camden county, and to appoint Commissioners to carry the same into effect. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the sum of seven thousand

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five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of clearing, cutting out, and putting in good order the road lately surveyed and marked out, from Columbus on the Chatahoochee river, in Muscogee county, to the town of St. Mary's, in Camden county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That Archibald Clark of Camden county, John Dominey, Jr. of Irwin county, John Richardson of Lee county, Alexander Nelson of Stewart, and E. B. W. Spivey of Muscogee county shall be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for said road; and they are hereby vested with full power and authority to contract for, and superintend the cutting out and putting said road in good order: and before they enter on the discharge of said duty they and each of them shall severally enter into a bond, with good and sufficient security, payable to his Excellency the Governor for the time being, and his successors in office, in the penal sum of three thousand dollars, for their, and each of their faithful discharge of duty in contracting for said work, and for their, and each of their superintendence as aforesaid in the application of the said seven thousand five hundred dollars, or of such part of the same as may severally come into their, or each of their possession. Which said several bonds shall be taken and approved by the Justices of the Inferior Court, or a majority of them, of the county in which the said Commissioners severally reside; to be by them transmitted to the Governor as aforesaid, and filed in the Executive office. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That upon the receipt of the Bonds of the said Commissioners, executed in conformity to the above and foregoing section, it shall be the duty of the Governor to issue his warrant in favour of the Commissioners aforesaid for the aforesaid sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That in case of the neglect, refusal, or death of any one or more of said Commissioners to act or comply with the conditions contained in the foregoing sections, the Commissioners assenting to act, the number not being less than three; shall be, and they are hereby authorized to draw the aforesaid sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars, by increasing their bonds to be approved as aforesaid, so that in the aggregate the penal sum shall amount to the sum of fifteen thousand dollars.

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SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That each and every Commissioner appointed as aforesaid shall be entitled to compensation, and receive three dollars per day for each and every day he shall attend on said road, superintending the work in completion of the same: Provided, no Commissioner shall receive pay for more than ten days service. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be the duty of the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, to report from time to time to his Excellency the Governor, and whenever they may be required by him, the state, condition, and progress of said work. And on failure to do so, when required by his Excellency the Governor as aforesaid, they the said Commissioners shall forfeit the perdiem compensation as aforesaid, and which they would or might otherwise be entitled to. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 15th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to appropriate a sum of money for the improvement of the Locust Stake Road, running through the counties of Rabun and Habersham, and for the purpose of building a bridge over Tallula river, where the road crosses the same, and to appoint Commissioners to carry thesame into effect. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from

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and immediately after the passing this act, the sum of fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of improving and putting in good repair the road from the Locust Stake on the North Carolina line, through the counties of Rabun and Habersham, to the line of Franklin county, and to build a bridge across Tallula River. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That John H. Sloan of the county of Rabun, and Stephen Smith of the county of Habersham be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for said road, and they are hereby vested with full power and authority to contract for and superintend the improving and putting said road in good order, and the building said bridge; and before they enter on the discharge of said duty, they and each of them shall enter into a bond, with good and sufficient security, payable to his Excellency the Governor for the time being, and his successors in office, in the penal sum of three thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of their duty, and for their faithful superintendence in the application of said funds, or of such part of the same as severally may come into their hands or possession; which said bond shall be taken and approved of by the Justices of the Inferior Court of Habersham county, or a majority of themwhich bond is to be filed in the Executive office. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That upon the receipt of the bond of the Commissioners, executed in conformity to the above and foregoing section, it shall be the duty of the Governor to issue his warrant in favour of the said Commissioners for the aforesaid sum of fifteen hundred dollars. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That each commissioner appointed as aforesaid shall be entitled to and receive two dollars per day for each and every day he shall attend on said road, superintending the work in completion of the same provided, that no commissioner receive pay for a longer time than twenty days. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty

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of the said commissioners to report to the next Legislature the amount of said funds expended, and the extent of improvement on said road and bridge. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 9th Dec. 1834. AN ACT for the relief of William Lasseter, tax collector of the county of Burke for the year 1833. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the treasury for the sum of forty dollars in favour of William Lasseter, tax collector of the county of Burke for the year 1833, it being the amount of the State's tax overpaid by him to the State. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT for the relief of Harman H. Howard and James Hollingsworth. Whereas, the receiver of tax returns for the county of Bibb returned William P. Hunter of said county, agent of the United States Bank, dealing in exchange as a broker, and in default for not giving in his taxes; and whereas the said James Hollingsworth issued his execution under the laws of this State against the said William P. Hunter as such agent; and whereas the said execution was placed in the hands of Harman H. Howard, then the sheriff of Bibb county; and the said Harman H. Howard having levied the said execution on the house and lot of the Bank of the United States, and sold the same for the sum of five hundred dollars, which, after deducting costs, he paid over agreeably to law, and the said the Bank of the United States having instituted an action in the District Court of the United States against the said James Hollingsworth and Harman H. Howard, and having recovered in the said action the sum of six hundred dollars for damages, and the sum of twenty-five dollars and fifty-eight cents for costs; and whereas justice requires that the damages and costs aforesaid be paid one-half by the State and the other by the county of Bibb Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the sum of three hundred and twelve dollars seventy-nine cents, the one-half of the amount of said damages and costs, be appropriated to pay the said one-half thereof, and also the sum of fifty dollars, the one-half the cost of counsel fees; and that the Governor draw his warrant on the treasury for the same. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tax collector of the county of Bibb be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay from that part of the State tax of that county for the present year reserved for county purposes, the like sum of three hundred and twelve dollars seventy-nine cents, the other one-half of said damages and costs, and the sum

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of fifty dollars for counsel fees, and that the same be allowed to the said collector in settlement with the county authorities. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT for the relief of James B. Hanson of the county of Rabun, and John H. Lowe, administrator of the estate of John Selman, deceased. Whereas, James B. Hanson did heretofore purchase fraction number 8 in the third district of Rabun county, and pay into the treasury of this State the full amount of the purchase-money of said fraction; and whereas the said fraction was afterward sold by mistake as a reverted lot; and the same having been recovered from the said James B. Hanson in an action of ejectment; and whereas the said James B. Hanson is justly entitled to compensation for the loss which he has thus sustained Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby allowed to the said James B. Hanson for the injury he has sustained by the loss of the said lot No. 8 in the third district of Rabun county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, And to John H. Lowe, administrator of the estate of John Selman, deceased, the sum of two hundred and eleven

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dollars and sixty-nine cents, agreeable to a concurred resolution. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT for the relief of Edmond Gresham of Walton, and Lancelot Johnston of Morgan county. Whereas, Edmond Gresham and Lancelot Johnston, the former of the county of Walton, and the latter of the county of Morgan, did prosecute and convict Enoch Waters and Nathaniel Simpson of the offence of negro-stealing at the last terms of the Superior Courts of Walton and Morgan counties, and did lay-out and expend a large amount of money in arresting in the State of Alabama, and bringing to trial and conviction said offenders against the laws; and whereas the good people of this State are all interested, particularly in the prevention of the crime of negro-stealing, by bringing to justice those who violate the laws in this regard; therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the sum of four hundred and thirty-five dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, out of any funds belonging to the State which are unappropriated, to Edmond Gresham and Lancelot Johnston, to be divided between them according to the amounts respectively expended by them in arresting, prosecuting, and convicting the said Enoch Waters and Oliver Simpson for the offence of negro-stealing.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the treasury in favour of said Edmond Gresham and Lancelot Johnston for the aforesaid sum of four hundred and thirty-five dollars. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT for the relief of Anderson Craft, tax collector for the county of Elbert. Whereas, the last Superior Court of the county of Elbert failed to be holden in consequence of the death of the presiding judge, whereby Anderson Craft, the tax collector of the county of Elbert, was prevented from exercising the privilege allowed him by law of presenting and having allowed by the grand jury the insolvent list of said county; and whereas manifest injustice will be done the said Craft by settling with the comptroller general without such allowance for his relief; therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Anderson Craft be, and he is hereby allowed the sum of ninety-nine dollars and fourteen cents, the amount of returns

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as insolvent; and that the comptroller-general be hereby authorized to settle with him accordingly. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 1st December, 1834. ASYLUMS. AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of Clarke county to provide for and establish an Asylum for the invalid poor of said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so soon as the Justices of the Inferior Court of Clarke county shall have at their disposal sufficient funds, and deem the measure expedient, they shall be, and are hereby authorized to purchase for said county a suitable tract of land for the use and occupation of the invalid poor of said county, contract for the erection of suitable buildings thereon, and make every other provision which to them may appear necessary to an economical and comfortable support of such invalid poor. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Justices shall have full power to act themselves, or appoint curators, overseers, and other officers and agents, for the care and management of the Asylum and poor aforesaid, make all orders, rules, and regulations which they may deem

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necessary and most conducive to the end and object contemplated by this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That, after the establishment of said Asylum, the said Justices shall be entitled to apply an adequate portion of the Poor-school Fund, appropriated to the use of said county, to the education of the poor children residing at and near said Asylum; subject, however, to the same accountability that is provided by any general law on that subject. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all paupers received at said Asylum shall be under such rules and regulations as shall be hereafter pointed out by the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county; but no part of this Act shall be so construed as to prevent the Justices from making any appropriation, at any time, in order to aid and facilitate the promotion of said institution, or in favour of any poor persons, which they may deem more conductive to the interests of the county, or more congenial with the feelings of humanity, to keep them in any other part of the county. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Greene, Houston, Bibb, Talbot, Glynn, and Decatur counties to provide and establish an Asylum for the poor of each of said counties, and to appoint Directors for the management of the same. Be it enacted, c., That so soon as the Inferior Courts of the counties aforesaid, respectively, shall have at their disposal funds sufficient, and the measure shall be deemed expedient, said Courts shall be, and they are hereby authorized to appoint three suitable and discreet persons of said counties, who shall be denominated and styled the Directors of the Asylum of the said counties respectively. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Directors, when thus appointed, shall take and subscribe before any one of the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county the following oath:I do solemnly swear, that I will, according to the best of my skill and ability, manage, and so direct the affairs of the Poor-house Asylum of the county of which I am appointed a Director, as shall seem to me best calculated to promote an economical and comfortable support of the poor or invalid received at the same: and make annually a true return to the Inferior Court of all expenses incurred in conducting the affairs of said institution. Which oath shall be entered on the minutes of the Inferior Court. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Directors aforesaid shall hold their offices during good behaviour, which shall be determined by the Inferior Court of said counties respectively, and a majority of them shall be competent to the transaction of business: and should either of them fail or refuse to do their duty as Directors aforesaid, the Inferior Court shall have power to remove them and appoint others in their place. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said Directors, when thus appointed and qualified, shall immediately proceed,

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under the instructions of the Inferior Court, to purchase a suitable tract of land for the use and occupation of the poor of said counties respectively; contract for the erection of suitable buildings thereon, and make other provisions which to them may appear necessary to an economical and comfortable support of such invalid poor. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Directors shall have power to employ, if they deem it necessary, two suitable persons (male and female, who in all cases shall be husband and wife) to act on the premises and superintend the feeding, clothing, and general management of the paupers, and attend to other duties, under such instructions, rules, and regulations as the Directors shall from time to time prescribe; for which objects the said Directors shall meet at said Asylum at least once in three months, or oftener if the affairs of the institution shall require it. They may also employ a physician to attend the paupers when sick, and such other persons as may scem best calculated to promote the ends and objects contemplated by this act. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Directors aforesaid shall have power to purchase and provide every thing necessary to any of said Asylums, especially all necessary implements for work, in and about said Asylums, and the farms thereof, according to sex, condition, and ability of said poor; and said Directors shall, at the first term of the Inferior Court in each year, lay before the Justices of the same an exact account of the amount of expense incurred in conducting the affairs of said institution the preceding year: at which time the Inferior Court shall order an appropriation to be made to meet the same, to be placed in the hands of the Directors for its payment, if they shall deem the same correct and just. They may also, at the same time, allow the said Directors such compensation as may seem just and reasonable for their services in conducting the affairs of said institution. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all paupers received at said Asylum shall be under such rules and regulations as shall hereafter be prescribed by the Inferior Court of said counties respectively: the said Justices of the Inferior Court being at all times authorized to call in and consult the Directors of said Asylum as to the best mode, c. of profitably and economically maintaining and directing said paupers.

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SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be construed as to prevent the Justices of the Inferior Court of said counties, respectively, from making any appropriations, at any time, in order to aid and facilitate the operations of said institution, or in favour of any poor persons, when they shall consider it will be more conducive to the interest of the county, or more congenial with the feelings of humanity to keep them in any other part of the counties aforesaid. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That said Justices of the Inferior Court of said counties, respectively, are hereby fully impowered to do and perform, direct and order, the arrangements of said Asylum in such manner as they shall deem most conducive to the good of the paupers, and the interest of the counties aforesaid. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Wilkinson and Elbert counties to provide for and establish an Asylum for the invalid poor of said counties. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so soon as the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Wilkinson and Elbert

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counties shall have at their disposal sufficient funds, and deem the measure expedient, they shall be, and are hereby authorized, respectively, to purchase for said counties suitable sites, consisting of arable or wood land, for the use and occupation of the invalid poor of said counties, erect suitable buildings, and make every other provision which to them may appear necessary to an economical and comfortable support of such invalid poor. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Justices shall have full power to act themselves, or appoint curators, overseers, and other officers and agents for the care and management of the Asylums and invalid poor aforesaid, make all orders, rules, and regulations which they may deem necessary and most conducive to the end and object contemplated by this actany law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834.

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BANKS. AN ACT to extend the charter of the Bank of Darien, and the acts now of force amendatory thereto. Whereas, the President and Directors of the Bank of Darien have petitioned for an extension of the act incorporating the Bank of Darien, and the acts now of force amendatory thereto Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the charter of the Bank of Darien, granted on the fifteenth day of December, in the year one thousand eight hundred and eighteen, and the acts of the General Assembly amendatory thereto now of force be, and the same are hereby prolonged to the first day of January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five: Provided, that nothing in this charter shall be so construed as to prevent the State from selling out her stock, and thereby withdrawing her interest at pleasure; in which case the stockholders should have the privilege of choosing five more directors: nor shall any thing be so construed as to authorize the president and directors to call in an additional instalment upon the stock owned by the State. SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Bank shall, at the discretion of its directors, or a majority of them, establish a Branch at Dahlohnega, in Lumpkin county, with a capital of not less than one hundred thousand dollars, within six months after the commencement of the recharter; and the said Branch shall be permanent thereat, subject to the same regulations and restrictions as are other Branch Banks. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the

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passage of this act, the State shall elect seven directors, and the stockholders three directors. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to repeal the last section of An Act to make Bank and other corporations subject to garnishment, and to regulate proceedings against garnishees, in certain cases, passed 24th December, 1832. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the said last section of the above recited act be, and the same is hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834.

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BRIDGES. AN ACT to authorize certain persons therein named, and their associates, their heirs and assigns, to build a Bridge over the Savannah River, at or near the northern end of McKinne-street, or Mill-street, in the city of Augusta; and to receive the same rate of toll for passing the same as may now be lawfully demanded for passing the Bridge opposite Centre-street in said city. Whereas, J. K. Kilburn, James Harper, Jonathan Meigs, and William Harper have, by their memorial, made it known to the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia that they, as well as many of their fellow-citizens of Richmond county and others, are subjected to much inconvenience from the want of a Bridge across the Savannah River, opposite the western part of the city of Augusta; and have applied for authority to build a Bridge to remedy the same: and whereas their application is just and reasonable Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That J. K. Kilburn, James Harper, Jonathan Meigs, and William Harper, and their associates, their heirs, and assigns shall have the right and privilege of building a Bridge across the Savannah River, at or near the northern end of McKinne-street, or Mill-street, in the city of Augusta; which said Bridge shall be vested in them, their heirs, and assigns as tenants in common, and not as joint tenants; and shall be authorized and empowered to demand and receive, for their use and benefit, the same rate of toll for passing the same as may now be lawfully demanded for passing the Bridge opposite Centre-street in said city, agreeably to an act approved the 9th day of Nov. 1814: Provided, nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize the above named persons to construct

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a Bridge so as to obstruct the navigation of said Savannah River. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all acts and parts of acts militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize Robert McAfee, his heirs and assigns, to erect a toll-bridge across the Chatahoochee River, on his own land, at or near Gates's Ferry, in Gwinnett county, and to regulate the toll of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Robert McAfee, his heirs and assigns be, and he is hereby authorized to erect a toll-bridge across the Chatahoochee River, at or near the place formerly known as Gates's Ferry on said river in Gwinnett county, on his own land; and that the said Robert McAfee shall be authorized to charge and receive for the crossing the said bridge the same rates of toll as are usually charged at the several ferries across the said riverany law to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Robert McAfee, and his heirs and assigns, shall have the exclusive privilege of building and

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keeping a toll-bridge at the ferry aforesaid, for the term of twenty years from the passage of this act, and for the distance of one mile above and below the said bridge: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall authorize the said Robert McAfee or his assigns to obstruct or interfere with any rights heretofore granted to said ferry. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to authorize Seaton Grantland to erect a toll-bridge over the Flint River, at or near the ferry known as Gibson's or Marshall's, of which he is the proprietor, at any point on his own land. Whereas, the said Seaton Grantland is the proprietor of the land on both sides of the Flint River, at and near to his ferry on said river, and is desirous of the privilege of the erection of a toll-bridge at some point within his present bounds Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the said Seaton Grantland is hereby authorized to erect a toll-bridge over the said river, at any point he may think proper on his own land, at or near his ferry on said river; and to receive for and during the full term of thirty years from and after the completion of the said bridge the following rates of toll: viz.For a loaded wagon, fifty cents; for an empty wagon

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and four horses, thirty-seven and a half cents; for a cart and two horses, twenty-five cents; for all four-wheel pleasure carriages, fifty cents; for all two-wheeled carriages, twenty-five cents; for led horses or mules, six and a quarter cents each; for a man and horse, twelve and a half cents; for each foot-passenger, six and a quarter cents; for all cattle, three cents each; for goats, sheep, or hogs, two cents per head. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That if the bridge so authorized to be erected shall be destroyed by freshets or otherwise, and shall not again be rebuilt within three years thereafter, or shall from the want of repairs be impassable for the space of three years at any one time, then and in such case the right hereby vested in the said Seaton Grantland and his assigns shall immediately thereafter cease, and determine and become void, as if this act had never passed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to authorize William Towns, of the county of Talbot, to erect a toll-bridge across Flint river on his own lands, at or near a place where a road crosses said river, known by the name of the Ford road. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said William

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Towns be, and he is hereby authorized to erect and establish a toll-bridge across the Flint river on his own land, at or near the place where the road crosses said river, known by the name of the Ford road. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said William Towns shall be entitled to demand and receive such rates of toll for crossing upon the said bridge as are usual and customary for crossing at the several ferries below said bridge on said river. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the athority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the said Towns, and his successors in the proprictorship of the said bridge, to keep the same at all times in good, sufficient, and safe repair, and to give due attendance thereat; and if at any time damages shall happen to any person or persons on their property by reason of insufficiency of such bridge, the non-attendance or neglect of the keeper thereof, or by the charge of more than the established rates herein authorized, the person so aggrieved or damaged shall and may have an action against the owner of such bridge. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the proprietor of the said toll-bridge to fix, as soon as the same shall be used, a board in a conspicuous situation on the said bridge, the board to be painted black, with white legible characters written on the same, noting the different rates of toll allowed by law as hereinbefore expressed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT authorizing Samuel Buffington to erect a toll-bridge across the Oconee river, in Baldwin county, at or near the place now known as Buffington's Ferry in said county. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, Samuel Buffington of Baldwin county is fully authorized to construct a bridge across the Oconee river, at or near his present ferry in said county, beginning on his own land and extending the same to the west bank of or the town common of Milledgeville, lying on said river; and the said bridge to be kept up by the said Samuel Buffingt on and his heirs for thirty years from the passage of this act: Provided, the said Samuel Buffington shall pay to the commissioners of the town of Milledgeville such tax as they may assess per annum upon said bridge. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Samuel Buffington be authorized to demand and receive from all persons crossing said bridge the usual rates of toll charged at other bridges on said river in said county. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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CENSUS. AN ACT to authorize the taking the Census in Walker county, and to require his Excellency the Governor to pay over the Poor-school Fund belonging to said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior Court in said county of Walker to take a full and accurate census or enumeration of the free white population; and the person so appointed shall make his returns to the Clerk of the Inferior Court of said county on or before the first day of April next. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so soon as the census or enumeration shall have been taken and returned as required by this act, it shall be the duty of the Inferior Court to forward a certified copy of the same to his Excellency the Governor; and it shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor to pay to said county an equal proportion, according to their white population, of the Poor-school Fund appropriated for annual distribution among the several counties of this State. SEC. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the persons appointed to take the census or enumeration shall receive the same compensation, and be governed in the performance of their duty by the provisions contained in the act passed twenty-sixth day of December, 1826, except so much as militates against the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That

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all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. CHURCHES AND CAMP-GROUNDS. AN ACT to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Church in the town of Columbus, under the name and style of The Church-wardens and Vestry of Trinity Church in Columbus. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met and convened, That H. R. McClintock and Lewis C. Allen, Church-wardens, and Edwin L. De Graffenried, George Hargraves, Junior, Charles A. Peabody, John A. Urquhart. John Forsyth, Junior, John E. Davis, and Battle A. Sorsby, Vestry-men, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby made a corporation and body politic, under the name and style of The Church-wardens and Vestry of Trinity Church in Columbus, with the right of perpetual succession, and the power to contract and be contracted with, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, to use a common seal, to hold, possess, and convey property, both real and personal, and generally to do and perform all other acts incidental to corporations aggregate.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Church-wardens and Vestry, and their successors in office, shall have power to make, ordain, and establish all needful by-laws, rules, and regulations for the government and management of the affairs of the said corporation, as to them shall seem expedient: Provided, the same shall not be repugnant to the laws and constitution of this State, or to the canons of the Protestant Episcopal Church in the diocese of Georgia; and provided further, in all corporate acts, that five of the said Church-wardens and Vestry shall be necessary to constitute a quorum; and the concurrence of a majority of those present shall be sufficient to render their acts valid and obligatory. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the Methodist Episcopal Church in the village of Culloden in Monroe county, the Presbyterian Church at New-Hope in Madison county, and the Baptist Church at Concord in Carrol county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Methodist Episcopal Church in Culloden, Monroe county, shall be known and called by the name of the Culloden Methodist Episcopal Church; and that James J. Banks, Thomas Stanford, Robert Tripp, Newdygate

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Ousby, James Smith, John W. Persons, and Nicholas W. Persons, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Culloden Methodist Episcopal Church, and as such shall be capable and liable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorized to make such by-laws and regulations as shall be necessary for the government of said Church: Provided, such by-laws are not repugnant to the Constitution and Laws of this State: and, for the purposes aforesaid, may have and use a common seal, appoint such officers as they may think proper, and remove the same from office for improper conduct or neglect of duty. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property, both real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges, and immunities whatsoever which may now belong to the said Church, or which may hereafter be conveyed or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the proper use, benefit, and behoof of said Church. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall happen in said Board by death, resignation, or otherwise, the survivors, or a majority of them, shall fill the same in such manner as shall be pointed out by the by-laws and regulations of the Trustees aforesaid. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Presbyterian Church at New-Hope, in the county of Madison, be incorporated under the name and style of the New-Hope Presbyterian Church; and that they be invested with all the powers and enjoy all the privileges granted and allowed by this act to the Trustees of the Culloden Methodist Episcopal Church; and that David Evans, Thomas Long, Samuel G. McCrady, and Benjamin W. Wood be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for the same. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Baptist Church at Concord, in the county of Carrol, be incorporated under the name and style of the Baptist Church at Concord; and that they be invested with the same powers and enjoy all the privileges allowed and granted by this act to the Culloden Methodist Episcopal Church; and that Isaac E. Cobb,

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Thomas B. Williams, and Thomas P. Wilkins be appointed Trustees for the same. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the First Particular Baptist Church in the city of Darien, McIntosh County. Whereas a religious society having been established and dedicated to the Lord in the city of Darien, and of Baptist denomination Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Rev. James McDonald, Rev. Samuel S. Law, Rev. Edward Postell, James Smith, and Charles O'Neal, and their successors in office (of the same faith and order), shall be, and are hereby declared to be a body corporate by the name and style of the Trustees of the First Particular Baptist Church in the city of Darien, McIntosh County. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said James McDonald, Samuel S. Law, Edward Postell, James Smith, and Charles O'Neal, Trustees aforesaid, and their successors in office (of the same faith and order), shall be invested with all manner of property, both real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, and hereditaments, privileges, and immunities whatsoever which may belong

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to the said Church at the time of the passing of this act, or which may hereafter be made, conveyed, or transferred to them or their successors in office as aforesaid; shall be, and they are hereby declared to be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, and of using all necessary legal steps for recovering or defending any property whatsoever which the said Church may hold, claim, or demand, and also for recovering the rents, issues, and profits of the same or any part thereof. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all vacancies which may happen in the said incorporation by death, resignation, or otherwise, the same shall be filled up by appointment from their own body or Church, for one or more, as the case may be, of the same faith and order as aforesaid. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the Baptist Church at Mars Hill, in the county of Clarke. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That David Stephens, Josiah Daniell, Abram Doolittle, Bedford Langford, Jeremiah Daniell, Anselm L. Harper, and Walden Wise, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate by the name and style of the Trustees of the Baptist Church at Mars Hill, in the county of Clarke, with power

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to hold any property, either real or personal, which may now belong to or be hereafter acquired by the said Church, whether by purchase, gift, or bequest, with all the privileges and immunities thereunto belonging, for the use and benefit of the said Church; and they are hereby declared capable of suing and being sued, and of using all legal means for defending and recovering any property whatever which the said Trustees or their successors in office may hold, claim, or demand. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy or vacancies may occur in the board of Trustees by death, removal, resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy or vacancies may be filled by a majority of the remaining members of the said board. SEC. 3. Andbe it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to appoint such officers and to make and ordain such by-laws and regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for the carrying into effect the provisions of this act, and for the management of the temporal affairs of the said Church, provided such by-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate a Baptist Church in the county of Emanuel, and to appoint Trustees for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby

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enacted by the authority of the same, That John Clifton, James Searborough, Henry Brown, Jr., Jonas Procter, and Charles Miller, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby [Illegible Text] to be a body corporate under the name and style of the Trustees of the Baptist Church at Heaborn in the County of Emanuel. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the lot or parcel of land on which the said Church is situated be exempted from taxation. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the Baptist Church at Providence, in Habersham county, the Presbyterian Church at Salem, in the county of Wilkes, and the Methodist Episcopal Church at Crowell's Meeting-house, in the county of Crawford. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Joshua Sutton, Frederick Cannup, John Haynes, Stephen Candell, and James West, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate under

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the name and style of the Trustees of the Baptist Church at Providence in Habersham county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Joshua Sutton, Frederick Cannup, John Haynes, Stephen Candell, and James West, Trustees as aforesaid, shall be invested with all manner of property, both real and personal, which they may acquire or be possessed of by gift, donation, grant, or purchase; and all privileges and immunities which may belong to said Church at the time of passing this act, or which may hereafter be made, conveyed, or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same to the proper use, benefit, and behoof of the said Church; and also, that the said Trustees in office, or a majority of them, shall, and they are hereby declared to be capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, and of using all legal and necessary steps for receiving or defending any property whatever which the said Church may hold, claim, or demand. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees of the said Church shall hold their office for and during the term of two years from the passing of this act, and until their successors are appointed. And on some convenient day every second year after the passing of this act the members of said Church, or a majority of them, shall convene at the Meeting-house of said Church, and proceed by ballot to elect from among their own body five fit and proper persons as Trustees, who shall hold their office for two years as aforesaid from and after their said election, with the same powers and for the same purposes as above mentioned. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the members of the said Church, or a majority of them, shall have power to fill any vacancy which may happen in the Board of Trustees by death, removal, resignation, or otherwise, of any of the Trustees: the Church shall be notified thereof by those Trustees who still remain in office; and on the Saturday of their next monthly meeting the members of the Church, or a majority of them, may proceed by ballot to fill such vacancy or vacancies, and the person or persons so elected to hold their office during the term for which their predecessor had been appointed. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That Joseph Foster, Isaac N. Guin, Peter Bennet, Thomas Truitt, and D. Wotes McJunkin, and their successors in office be, and they are

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hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Presbyterian Church at Salem, in the county of Wilkes, with power to hold any property, either real or personal, which may now belong to or which may hereafter be acquired by said Church, whether by purchase, gift, or bequest, with all the privileges and immunities thereunto belonging, for the use and benefit of said Church; and they are hereby declared capable of suing and being sued, and of using all legal means for defending or recovering any property whatsoever which they, the said Trustees, and their successors in office, may hold, claim, or demand. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to appoint such officers, and to make and ordain such by-laws and regulations, as they may deem necessary and proper for carrying into effect the provisions of this act, and for the management of the temporal affairs of said Church; Provided, such by-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy may occur in the board of Trustees by death, removal, resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy or vacancies may be filled by a majority of the remaining members of the said board. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Methodist Episcopal Church known as Crowell's Meeting-house, in the county of Crawford, in the fourteenth district of said county, be, and is hereby incorporated, under the name and style aforesaid, and that R. B. Davis, Septimus Weatherby, and Charles Hays be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for the same; and that the said Church and the said Trustees shall be invested with the same rights and corporate privileges as are granted by this act to the Presbyterian Church hereby incorporated by this act at Salem, in Wilkes county. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to amend an act incorporating the Rock Spring Camp-Ground, in the county of Putnam; and to appoint additional Trustees to the Mossy Creek Methodist Church, in the county of Habersham; and to appoint a Trustee for the Evansville Academy, in the county of Morgan; and to incorporate The White Plains Academy, in the county of Greene, and appoint Trustees for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Trustees of the Rock Spring Camp-Ground, in the county of Putnam, be, and they are hereby authorized to pass such by-laws as they may deem proper (not inconsistent with the laws or constitution of this State), for the well-ordering and government of the same; and that they have full power and authority to appoint all necessary officers to carry the same into effect, and again to remove the same from office, and to appoint others in their stead. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees of said Camp-Ground shall have full power to suppress all riotous and disorderly conduct on said Camp-Ground and within its corporate limits; and to that end the chairman of said Board may issue his warrant, upon oath made before him, to arrest the offender or offenders, and bind him or them to answer to the next Superior Court of Putnam county, to answer to such indictment as may then be preferred against him or them; which warrant may be served by the officer of said Board, any constable, sheriff, or coroner of the county. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That James Quillian, Jun. Elijah Starr, and Vincent Sears be, and they are hereby appointed additional trustees to the Mossy Creek Methodist Camp-Meeting Ground, in the county of Habersham. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That Edmond Walker be, and he is hereby appointed a trustee of the Evansville

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Academy, in the county of Morgan; and that the trustees of said academy be, and they are hereby empowered to appoint their successors. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the academy in the county of Greene, now known as the White Plains, shall hereafter be known and styled by that name; and that Walker Lewis, Milns Young, Samuel Jones, Zaccheus Wright, Zebulon Wright, Wiley Wright, Edward D. Alfriend, John Bonner, and Hugh Moore, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The Trustees of the White Plains Academy, in the county of Greene; and as such shall be capable and liable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorized to make such by-laws and regulations as may be necessary for the government of said academy, provided such by-laws are not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State; and for that purpose may have and use a common seal, appoint such officers as they may think proper, and remove them from office for improper conduct or neglect of duty. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property, real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges, and immunities whatsoever, which may belong to said institution, or which may hereafter be conveyed or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the proper use, benefit, and behoof of said academy. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy may happen by refusal of any of said trustees to act, or by death, resignation, or otherwise of any of the trustees of said academy, the survivors, or a majority of them, shall fill the same in such manner as may be pointed out in the bylaws and regulations of the trustees aforesaid. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts

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of laws conflicting with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the Baptist Church at Macedonia, Merriwether county, and to appoint Trustees to the Male and Female Academy at said place; the United Baptist Church and the Zebulon Baptist at Zebulon, in the county of Pike, and to appoint Trustees for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and Houseof Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That George Owen, Lodwic Robbins, David Magourik, James A. Hunter, Andrew Pless, Wesley A. Anderson, and Clark Aldridge, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Baptist Church at Macedonia, in the county of Merriwether, with power to hold any property, either real or personal, which may now belong to or may hereafter be acquired by the said Church, whether by purchase, gift, or bequest, with all the privileges and immunities thereunto belonging, for the only use and benefit of the said Church; and they are hereby declared capable of suing and being sued, and of using all legal means for defending and recovering any property whatsoever which they the said Trustees may hold, claim, or demand.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the above-named trustees shall continue in office until the third Saturday in October next, when the male members of the said Church shall, at their usual place of worship, proceed to the election of seven trustees for the year thence ensuing; and on the Saturday preceding the third Sabbath in October in each and every year thereafter, or as soon thereafter as shall be convenient, an election shall be held in like manner; any member of the board shall be re-eligible, written notice being put up at the door of the Church by any one or more of the members of the board, at least ten days previous to the day fixed on for such election; the trustees to continue in office until their successors shall be elected. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any vacancies which may occur in said board by death, resignation, or removal, or otherwise, may be filled by a majority of the remaining members of said board. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees of the above-said Church shall also be the trustees of the Male and Female Academy, erected on the said lot on which the above Church is established, and they, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to appoint such officers and to make and ordain such by-laws and regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for carrying into effect the provisions of this act, and for the management of the temporal affairs of said Church, and for the pecuniary and literary interest of said Academy, with the privilege of using separate and distinct seals as trustees of the said Church and Academy; Provided, always, that such by-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That Francis S. Martin, Joseph R. Martin, Wiley F. Martin, Charles Johns, and John Aikins, Jun., and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate by the name and style of the Trustees of the United Baptist Church at Zebulon, in the county of Pike, with power to hold any property, either real or personal, which may now belong to or be hereafter acquired by the said Church, whether by purchase, gift, or bequest, with all the privileges and immunities thereunto belonging, for the use and benefit of the said Church: they are hereby declared capable of suing and being sued, and of using all legal means for defending and recovering any property

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whatever which the said trustees or their successors in office may hold, claim, or demand. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That John Cochran, Miles Murdock, and James E. Bland, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Zebulon Baptist Church at Zebulon, in the county of Pike, with power to hold any property, either real or personal, which may now belong to or be hereafter acquired by the said Church, whether by purchase, gift, or bequest, with all the privileges and immunities thereunto belonging, for the use and benefit of the said Church; and they are hereby declared capable of suing and being sued, and of using all legal means for defending and recovering any property whatever which the said trustees or their successors in office may hold, claim, or demand. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. CONSTITUTION. AN ACT to alter and amend a part of the 1st section of the 3d article of the Constitution of this State. Whereas, a part of the 1st section of the 3d article of the Constitution is in the following words, to wit: The judicial powers of this State shall be vested in a Superior, Inferior, and Justices' Courts, and in such other courts as the Legislature shall from time to time ordain and establish. The Judges of the Superior Courts shall be elected for the

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term of three years, and shall continue in office until their successors shall be elected and qualified; removable by the Governor on the address of two-thirds of both branches of the General Assembly for that purpose, or by impeachment and conviction thereon. The Superior Courts shall have exclusive and final jurisdiction in all criminal cases (except as relates to people of colour, and fines for neglect of duty, and for contempt of court, for violations against road-laws, and for obstructing water-courses, which shall be vested in such judicature or tribunal as shall be or may have been pointed out by law; and except in all other minor offences committed by free white persons, and which do not subject the offender or offenders to loss of life, limb, or member, or to confinement in the penitentiary: in all such cases, Corporation Courts, such as now exist or may hereafter be constituted in any incorporated city, being a seaport town and port of entry, may be vested with jurisdiction under such rules and regulations as the Legislature may hereafter by law direct), which shall be tried in the county where the crime was committed; and in all cases respecting titles to land, which shall be tried in the county where the land lies; and also concurrent jurisdiction in all other civil cases; and shall have power to correct errors in Inferior Judicatories by writ of certiorari, as well as errors in the Superior Courts, and to order new trials on proper and legal grounds: Provided, that such new trials shall be determined, and such errors corrected, in the Superior Court of the county in which such action originated; and the said Court shall have appellate jurisdiction in such other cases as are or may be pointed out by law, which shall in no case tend to remove the cause from the county in which the action originated; and the Judges thereof, in all cases of application for new trials or correction of errors, shall enter their opinion on the minutes of the Court. And whereas the said part of said section requires amendment Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so soon as this act shall have passed agreeably to the requisitions of the Constitution, the following shall be taken and adopted in lieu of the said recited portion of said section, to wit: The judicial powers of this State shall be vested in a Supreme Court for the correction of errors, a Superior, Inferior, and Justices' Courts, and in such other courts as the Legislature shall from time to time ordain and establish. The Supreme Court shall consist of three Judges, who shall be elected by the Legislature for such term of years as shall

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be prescribed by law, and shall continue in office until their successors shall be elected and qualified; removable by the Governor on the address of two-thirds of both branches of the General Assembly for that purpose, or by impeachment and conviction thereon. The said Court shall have no original jurisdiction, but shall be a Court alone for the trial and correction of errors in law and equity from the Superior Courts of the several circuits; and shall sit at least once a year, at a time to be prescribed by law, in each of five Judicial Districts to be hereafter laid off and designated by the Legislature for that purpose, at the most central point in each Judicial District, or at such other point in each district as shall by the General Assembly be ordained for the trial and determination of writs of error from the several Superior Courts included in such Judicial Districts. And the said Court shall at each session in each district dispose of and finally determine each and every case on the docket of such Court at the first term after such writ of error brought; and in case the plaintiff in error in any such case shall not be prepared at such first term of said Court after error brought to prosecute the same, unless precluded by some providential cause from such prosecution, it shall be stricken from the docket, and the judgment below shall stand affirmed. The Judges of the Superior Courts shall be elected for the term of four years, and shall continue in office until their successors shall be elected and qualified; removable by the Governor on the address of two-thirds of both branches of the General Assembly for that purpose, or by impeachment and conviction thereon. The Superior Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all criminal cases (except as relates to people of colour, and fines for neglect of duty, and for contempt of court, for violations against road-laws, and for obstructing water-courses, which shall be vested in such judicature or tribunal as shall be or may have been pointed out by law; and except in all other minor offences committed by free white persons, and which do not subject the offender or offenders to loss of life, limb, or member, or to confinement in the penitentiary: in all such cases, Corporation Courts, such as now exist or may hereafter be constituted in any incorporated city, being a seaport-town and port of entry, may be vested with jurisdiction under such rules and regulations as the Legislature may hereafter by law direct), which shall be tried in the county where the crime was committed, and in all cases respecting titles to land, which shall be tried in the county where the land lies; and also concurrent jurisdiction in all other civil cases; and shall have power to correct errors in Inferior Judicatories by

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writ of certiorari, and to grant new trials in said Superior Courts on proper and legal grounds; and in all cases where a new trial shall be so allowed, the Judge allowing the same shall enter on the minutes of said Court his reasons for the same. And the said Superior Courts shall have appellatu jurisdiction in such other cases as may be pointed out by law in cases arising in Inferior Judicatories, which shall in no case tend to remove the cause from the county in which the action originated. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, December, 1834. AN ACT to alter and amend the fourth and eighth sections of the first article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia. Whereas, the fourth section of the first article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia reads in the following words, viz.No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and have been nine years a citizen of the United States, and three years an inhabitant of this State, and shall have usually resided within the county for which he shall be returned at least one year immediately preceding his election, (except persons who may have been absent on public business of this State or of the United States), and is and shall have been possessed in his own right of a settled freehold estate of the value of five hundred dollars, or of taxable property to the amount of one thousand dollars within the county for one year preceding his election, and whose estate shall, on a reasonable estimation, be fully competent to the discharge of his just debts, over and above that sum. And whereas the 8th section reads in the following words, viz.No person shall be a representative who shall not have

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attained to the age of twenty-one years and have been seven years a citizen of the United States, three years an inhabitant of this State, and have usually resided in the county in which he shall be chosen one year immediately preceding his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of this State or of the United States, and shall be possessed in his own right of a settled freehold estate of the value of two hundred and fifty dollars, or of taxable property to the amount of five hundred dollars within the county for one year preceding his election, and whose estate shall, on a reasonable estimation, be competent to the discharge of his debts over and above that sum. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so soon as this act shall have passed agreeable to the Constitution of this State, the following shall be adopted in lieu of the said fourth and eighth sections: The fourth section shall read as follows, viz.No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and have been nine years a citizen of the United States, and three years an inhabitant of this State, and shall have usually resided within the county for which he shall be returned at least one year immediately preceding his election, except persons who may have been absent on lawful business of this State or of the United States. And the 8th section shall be as follows:No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-one years, and have been a citizen of the United States seven years, and three years an inhabitant of this State, and have usually resided in the county in which he shall be chosen one year immediately preceding his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of this State or of the United States. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 1834.

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COUNTIES. AN ACT to add one hundred and one in the Seventh District of originally Baldwin, now Jones county, to the county of Bibb. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act the said fraction number one hundred and one, in the said Seventh District of originally Baldwin, now Jones county, be added to and become a part of the county of Bibb. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to add a part of the county of Murray to the county of Cass. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the following portion

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of the county of Murray shall be added to and become a portion of the county of Cass; to wit, commencing at the south-west corner of the fourteenth district of the third section, and running due north to No. 72 in said district and section, thence due east until it strikes the Ostunalla River, then following said river to the dividing line between the seventh and eighth districts of the third section, thence due east to the north-east corner of lot No. 9, in the twenty-fourth district of the second section, thence due south to the corner of the counties of Cass and Cherokee. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the line as aforesaid described shall in future be the dividing line between the counties of Cass and Murray. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all officers, both civil and military, who may be added to the county of Cass by the running of the aforesaid line, shall hold their commissions respectively for and during the time for which they may have severally been elected, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1834. AN ACT to add a part of Newton county to Jasper county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the following shall become

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a part of the line separating the counties of Newton and Jasper, to wit: to commence on the north-east corner of fraction number one hundred and twelve in the ninth district of originally Henry, now Newton county, on the Alcofanhatchee river, and from thence running a due west line until said line strikes Yellow river, previously passing between lots of land number one hundred and seventeen and number one hundred and eighteen, and from thence down said river to the mouth of the Alcofanhatchee river. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to add a part of Carroll county to the county of Heard, and to establish an additional election precinct in Heard county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act the following lots of land lying in the fourth district of Carroll county, viz.lots number one hundred and fifty-eight, one hundred and fifty-nine, and one hundred and sixty, be added to and form a part of Heard county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That an additional election precinct is hereby established at the house of George H. Cooper, in the county of Heard, under such rules and regulations as are established by the laws now in force for the establishment of other election precincts in said county. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to amend an act to remove and make permanent the public site in the county of Paulding. Whereas, the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county of Paulding have not complied with the provisions of the above recited act, not having given the notice of the time of holding said election for a county site as is by said law required Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Paulding, or a majority of them, shall, at any time they may deem proper, advertise the holding of an election by the people of said county of Paulding for a site for public buildings, by giving such notice as is required by the act of which this is amendatory; and said election shall be holden, the same

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persons vote, and the result declared as is pointed out and qualified by said act. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to appoint commissioners to build a Court-house and Jail in the county of Lowndes, and to select a suitable place for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Joshua Kemp, John Dees, Sen., James Edmundson, James Wade, and John Matthis, Jun., be appointed commissioners to contract for and cause to be built in the county of Lowndes a suitable Court-house and Jail. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the said commissioners shall deem it expedient to remove the public site from the town of Franklinville, they or a majority of them are hereby authorized to select and purchase a sufficient quantity of land for the use of said county, and pay for the same out of any money in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated, and cause the same to be run out into lots of such size as they may think to be of the greater utility to the county. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid are hereby authorized to expose to sale at public outcry any lots which they may have run out as aforesaid

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to the highest bidder, giving at least sixty days' notice in one of the public gazettes of this State, and in three or more public places in said county. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the purchasers of said lots shall be entitled to six and twelve months' credit by giving good security, one-half to be paid at the end of six months from the purchase, and the other half at the end of twelve months, to the commissioners and their successors in office; which notes or bonds shall be field in the office of the clerk of the Inferior Court. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the aforesaid commissioners shall cause the Court-house to be built by or before the first day of October next, or as soon thereafter as practicable, and the Jail as soon thereafter as they may think best for the interest of the county; and that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent them from building said Court-house and Jail at the public site in the town of Franklinville, if they or a majority of them may think proper. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the commissioners shall report to the Inferior Court of said county that the new Court-house is completed, the Superior and Inferior Courts shall be opened and held at the same; and all elections for said county shall be held and consolidated at said Court-house in lieu of the old one, and at the several election precincts as heretofore established by law, and under existing rules and regulations. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners aforesaid be empowered to draw on the county treasurer for all or so much of the county funds, from time to time, as shall be sufficient to pay for the building of said Court-house and Jail; and that all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834.

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COURTS. AN ACT to authorize the issuing, suing, and executing attachments on the Sabbath-day, in certain cases. Whereas, it sometimes happens that persons residing near the lines of this State leave the State on the Sabbath-day, and thereby place it out of the power of their creditors to stop them or their property to satisfy debts owing by them; for remedy thereof Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall hereafter be lawful to issue and serve attachments and bail processes on the Sabbath-day, in the same manner and under the same rules, regulations, and restrictions as are now provided for the issuing and serving of the same on other days: Provided, the person or persons applying for such attachment or bail process shall, in addition to the oath heretofore required to be taken, swear that he apprehends the loss of his debt, or some part thereof, unless said attachment or bail process shall issue on the Sabbath-day. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws that militate against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize plaintiffs in ejectment to recover such mesne profits as they may be entitled to in said action of ejectment by way of damages, and to prevent a separate action for mesne profits. SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for all plaintiffs in ejectment to add a count or counts in their writ of ejectment, and to submit evidence to the jury, and recover by way of damages all such sum or sums of money to which they may be entitled by way of mesne profits, together with the premises in dispute. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the several clerks of the Superior Courts to incorporate in the execution of habere facias possessionem a clause directing the sheriff to collect all such sums of money as, by the finding of the jury, shall have been awarded to the plaintiff in ejectment as mesne profits. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no plaintiff or plaintiffs in ejectment, in cases which may hereafter be instituted, shall be permitted to have and maintain a separate action in their behalf for mesne profits which have accrued, or may accrue, to him or them from the premises in dispute. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in case an action of ejectment be brought by the defendant in the first action of ejectment for the premises recovered of him, and a verdict obtained in his favour, it shall be lawful for him to institute an action on the case for such damages as may have been collected from him as mesne profits in the first action, and under such action it shall be lawful for him to give in evidence the verdict obtained by him in the second action, which shall be deemed and taken to prevent the judgment obtained in the first action as operating an estoppel. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to amend the several acts relative to the issuing of summonses of garnishment and proceedings against garnishees. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, in all cases, in any of the courts of this State, where any person or persons shall fail to answer, after being duly summoned as garnishee or garnishees, the court, upon motion of the plaintiff or his attorney, shall pass a rule or order requiring the garnishee or garnishees to answer at such time as the court may direct, or show cause why judgment should not be entered against him, her, or them for the amount of the plaintiff's demand and costs, which rule shall be served by the sheriff or his deputy; and if the garnishee or garnishees shall fail to answer or show cause at or by the time limited in the said rule or order, the court shall enter judgment against the garnishee or garnishees for the amount of the plaintiff's judgment with costs. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the clerk and sheriff shall be entitled each to the sum of one dollar for the entry and service of such rule or order as is prescribed in the first section of this act, which fees each garnishee shall be compelled to pay before his answer is received by the court; and when the garnishee shall answer to the summons of garnishment, in compliance with the said rule or order, the same proceedings shall be had as if he had answered in due time without the passing of any such rule or order by the court. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all cases whatsoever, either at law or in equity, the plaintiff or complainant shall be permitted to issue summonses of garnishment upon complying with the terms of the law now of force, regulating the issuing of the same, whether the subject matter of the suit be a debt or not. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to make all cases returned to the September term of the Superior Court for the county of Elbert, for the year 1834, triable at the March term, 1835. Whereas, in consequence of the death of the Judge of the Superior Court of the Northern circuit, there was no Superior Court held at the regular September term for the year 1834 in the county of Elbert; therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all cases returned to the September term of the Superior Court for the county of Elbert, for the year 1834, shall stand for trial at the March term of said court for the year 1835: Provided, that all pleas that should have been entered shall then plead the same nunc pro tunc, under the same rules and regulations as if there had been no failure of a court, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 9th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to alter and change the time of holding the Inferior Court of the county of Henry. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the time of holding the Inferior Court of Henry county shall be on the fourth Monday in January and July in each and every year, instead of the third Monday in June and December as heretofore. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons summoned, subp[oelig]naed, or bound s suitors, witnesses, jurors, or in any other capacity, to attend said courts at the time which by the laws now in force are holden, shall be bound by virtue of said summons, subp[oelig]na, or other process heretofore issued, to attend said courts as altered by this act. SEC. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all writs, precepts, and processes of any kind or nature whatsoever shall be made returnable to the terms heretofore recited. SEC. 4. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1834.

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AN ACT to change the time of holding the Superior Courts in the Chatahoochee circuit. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act the time of holding the Superior Courts in the several counties of the Chatahoochee circuit shall be as follows, to wit:in the county of Stewart, on the first Mondays in February and August; in the county of Randolph, on the second Mondays in February and August; in the county of Early, on the third Mondays in February and August; in the county of Baker, on the fourth Mondays in February and August; in the county of Lee, on the Thursday after; in the county of Sumter, on the first Mondays in March and September; in the county of Marion, on the second Mondays in March and September; in the county of Talbot, on the third Mondays in March and September; in the county of Harris, on the second Mondays in April and October; and in the county of Muscogee, on the third Mondays in April and October. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all writs, precepts, or processes, that have been or shall be made returnable to the courts as they were directed to be held before the passage of this act, shall be held and deemed returnable to the courts held in pursuance of this act, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to alter and fix the time for holding the Inferior Courts for the county of Randolph. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the Inferior Courts of the county of Randolph shall be held on the second Monday in May and November. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to appoint a time of holding the Inferior Courts of Walker county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Inferior Courts for the county of Walker shall be held on the first

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Monday in March and September in each and every year; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, December 20, 1834. AN ACT to alter the times of the session of the Superior Courts of the Southern Circuit, and the county of Houston in the Flint Circuit. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the times of holding the Superior Courts of the Southern circuit shall hereafter be as follows, to wit: In the county of Laurens on the second Monday in March and September; In the county of Twiggs on the second Monday in April and October; In the county of Pulaski on the third Monday in April and October; In the county of Telfair on the fourth Monday in April and October; In the county of Irwin on the Thursday thereafter; In the county of Appling on the first Monday in May and third Monday in November; In the county of Ware on the Thursdays thereafter; In the county of Lowndes on the Mondays thereafter; In the county of Thomas on the Mondays thereafter; In the county of Decatur on the Mondays thereafter; In the county of Dooly on the Mondays thereafter.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Superior Courts of Houston county shall hereafter be held on the fourth Monday in April and October in each and every year; and that the Inferior Courts of said county shall be held on the fourth Monday in February and August in each and every year. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to alter and amend an act entitled An Act to alter the time of holding the Superior and Inferior Courts in the Flint Circuit, and in the counties of Jasper, Jones, and Heard, so far as respects the time of holding the Inferior Court in the county of Heard. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall and may be lawful for the Inferior Court of Heard to be held on the fourth Mondays in May and November in each year. SEC 2 Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all

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laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834. AN ACT to authorize the Courts of Ordinary of the different counties of this State to issue commissions of lunacy, and to regulate the proceedings thereon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act the Courts of Ordinary of the different counties of this State shall, upon the petition of any person, supported by his or her affidavit, setting forth that any other person is an idiot, lunactic, or insane person, and incapable of managing his or her affairs, issue a commission, directed to any twelve discreet and proper persons, requiring them to examine, by inspection, the person alleged to be an idiot, lunatic, or insane person, and to hear and examine witnesses upon oath, if necessary, as to his or her state of mind, and to make return to the Court of Ordinary whether or not the said person be an idiot, lunactic, or insance person; and if the said persons, so appointed, shall return the said person to be an idiot, lunatic, or insance person, the Court of Ordinary shall appoint a guardian for such person in time of the law now of force: Provided, always, that the commissioners appointed by the court, as aforesaid, shall take an oath before they enter upon the discharge of the duty enjoined upon them before some proper magistrate of this State, or of the State where the examination may take place, well and truly to execute the said commission to the

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best of their skill and ability: and provided, also, that one of the commissioners acting under the said commission shall be a physician. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the person applying for said commission shall give at least ten days' notice in writing of his or her intended application to the nearest adult relative or relations of the person alleged to be an idiot, lunatic, or insane person, not exceeding three in number, before the court shall issue said commission; but if there be no relative of such person within this State, the court may issue such commission without such notice being given. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case the person making the application aforesaid, or any relation or friend of the person alleged to be an idiot, lunatic, or insane person shall be dissatisfied with the report made by the said commissioners, such person may, upon paying all costs, and giving security for all future costs, within four days after such report is acted upon by the Court of Ordinary, enter an appeal to the Superior Court of the county, where the sanity or insanity of the person shall be tried by a special jury, selected as in other cases; but the guardian appointed by the Court of Ordinary shall act as such till the matter is determined in the Superior Court. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the commissioners shall report the person an idiot, lunatic, or insance person, the costs of the proceeding shall be fixed by the Court of Ordinary in their discretion, and shall be paid out of the estate of such person; but if the commissioners report that the person is neither an idiot, lunatic, nor insance person, the costs shall be borne by the person who applied for said commission. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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AN ACT to require the Justices of the Inferior Courts of this State, while sitting for ordinary purposes, to declare an Intestacy in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in all cases when a person, after having made a will, shall marry or have born a child or children, and no provision shall be made in said will for the wife after married, or child or children after born, and shall depart this life without revoking said will, or altering it subsequent to said after-marriage, or subsequent to the birth of said after-born child or children, the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county, while sitting as a court of ordinary, having jurisdiction of the case, shall pass an order declaring that such person died intestate; and his estate shall be distributed under the laws of this State regulating the distribution of intestates' estates: Provided, nevertheless, that either party, being dissatisfied with the decision of the said court, may enter an appeal to the Superior Court, as in other cases. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to extend the civil jurisdiction of certain Justices of the Peace in the county of Richmond over the city of Augusta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act the civil jurisdiction of each of the Justices of the Peace for the six hundredth, three hundred and ninety-eighth, one hundred and twentieth, and one hundred and twenty-second districts, in the county of Richmond, shall extend over the whole of the corporate limits of the city of Augusta; and each of the Justices for the aforesaid districts may award judgment and issue process and execution in all cases of debt or contract not exceeding in amount the ordinary jurisdiction of the magistrate's limits where the defendant resides, in any part of the city of Augusta, in the same manner as if the defendant resided in the district of the Justice of the Peace issuing such process or execution. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to repeal the act organizing a Mayor's Court in the town of Columbus, and the act to establish a Court of Common Pleas in the city of Macon, and for the organization of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this law, the law constituting and organizing a Mayor's Court in the town of Columbus, and an act to establish a Court of Common Pleas in the city of Macon, and for the organization of the same, be, and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the individuals who are now the officers of said courts shall hold their appointments respectively until the business now before said courts shall be completed, and no longer. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled An Act for the organization of a Court of Common Pleas and of Oyer and Terminer for the City of Savannah, and for repealing the Civil Jurisdiction given by the laws of this State to the Mayor and Aldermen or to the Mayor of said City, passed December 18th, 1819. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act the salary to be allowed the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and of Oyer and Terminer for the city of Savannah shall be one thousand dollars, to be paid quarterly to the said Judge out of the funds of the corporation of said city. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the proviso contained in the second section of said act, passed on the 18th December, 1819, as requires a party to a suit in said Court, before he can be entitled to a jury trial, to give security for the payment of the eventual condemnation money, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this law be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to amend the several acts in relation to the Court of Common Pleas of Augusta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act the following fees shall be collected by the clerk of said court, of the persons and in the manner that may be pointed out by rule or order of said court, and shall be taxed in the bill of costs in the cases in which they are paid, viz.On all suits brought in said court where plaintiff's demand shall not exceed one hundred dollars, the sum of two dollars shall be taxed; on all suits where the plaintiff's demand shall exceed one hundred, and not exceed two hundred dollars, the sum of three dollars shall be taxed; and on all suits where the plaintiff's demand shall exceed two hundred dollars, the sum of four dollars shall be taxed; and on each claim case, on each traverse of an answer to a summons in garnishment, on each appeal cause, and on each suggestion of fraud (where any debtor shall apply for the benefit of the insolvent laws), the sum of three dollars shall be taxed: which fees shall be paid by the clerk to the Judge of said Court (as the compensation of the Judge for the discharge of the duties of his office), at such time or times as said court may by rule or order direct; and on failure to pay the same, the clerk may be attached as for a contempt, and the same may be recovered in an action upon the bond given by the clerk, against him and his securities. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said court shall have jurisdiction in all cases in garnishment, as well when the debt of the garnishee to the defendant shall exceed, as when it shall fall short of, the sum of three hundred dollars. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws of force in the Superior Courts of this State in relation to the taking of evidence by interrogatories under commission or de bun esse, and in relation to subp[oelig]nas

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duces tecum, shall be of force in the Court of Common Pleas of Augusta. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to define the mode in which costs under the act entitled An Act to revise and amend an act for ascertaining the fees of the public officers of this State, passed 18th Dec. 1792, shall be taxed and collected in future. Whereas, in some circuits of this State a variety of practice, in relation to the taxation and collection of costs, has obtained under the above recited act; for the purpose of rendering the mode uniform and consistent with the design of the Legislature in said enactment Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act suitors shall not be required to pay the court costs, or any part thereof, at the several progressive steps or stages of their suits, as has been required by the decision of some of the courts;but that the mode heretofore practised in other courts, viz. the taxation of the costs which plaintiffs were supposed to have paid to the entering up of judgment, in the judgment of the plaintiffs,be, and the same is hereby declared to be the true intent and

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meaning of the act of 1792 upon this subject; and that the officers of courts be, and they are hereby prohibited from demanding or receiving the cost or fees which the said fees bill or the acts amendatory thereof prescribes, until after judgment, and then to be raised by the execution of plaintiffs from defendants, if enough can be collected for such purpose; if not, then by a fi fa, or ca sa, issued under the order of the court first had and obtained, out of plaintiffs. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against any of the provisions or directions of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to revive and continue in force An Act to admit certain deeds to record, and to authorize the same, or copies thereof, to be read in evidence, and also the copies of certain other deeds, assented to the 23d of December, 1826. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act the act above recited be, and the same is hereby revived. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all deeds executed in the manner pointed out by the foregoing recited act between the limitation of the same and the passage of this

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act, shall be on the same footing as those therein recited; and that the aforesaid act, so revived, shall be and remain in full force and virtue for twelve months from the passage of this act. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to authorize Executors, Administrators, and Guardians to have recorded all receipts showing a final settlement with all or either of the heirs and distributors of the estates they may represent, and to regulate their admission in evidence. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of the clerks of the Superior Courts of the respective counties in this State to record all receipts showing a final settlement between any executor, administrator, or guardian, and the heirs, wards, or distributors of the estate the said executor, administrator, or guardian may represent: Provided, said receipt has been attested by two witnesses, one of whom must be a Justice of the Peace, a Judge of the Inferior or Superior Court in this State; and such receipt, so recorded, shall be received in evidence, without further proof, in any of the Courts in this State. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever any executor, administrator, or guardian

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shall make it appear that said original receipt is lost or destroyed, and that the same is not in his, her, or their power, custody, or control, then a copy of said receipt, certified to by the clerk where the original was recorded, shall be admissible as testimony in any of the courts of law or equity in this State. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in the provision of this act shall be so construed as to prevent any executor, administrator, or guardian from giving in testimony any receipt, after legal proof of its execution, though the same may not have been recorded. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the clerk shall receive as a fee for the recording of said receipt the sum of fifty cents. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to repeal an act passed 23d Dec. 1833, entitled An Act to authorize the clerks of the Superior and Inferior Courts and Court of Ordinary of Montgomery county to keep their offices in any part of said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That an act passed 23d Dec. 1833, entitled An Act to authorize the clerks of the Superior and Inferior Courts and Court of Ordinary of

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Montgomery county to keep their offices in any part of said county be, and the same is hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 9th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize the Inferior Court of the county of Murray to transcribe the minutes of the Superior Court of said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Murray be authorized and required to have the minutes of the Superior Court transcribed in a bound book, such as they may deem necessary and competent to secure said minutes, or such other minutes as may hereafter be necessary to have recorded in said office. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Justices of the Inferior Court cause to be paid the necessary expenses out of the county funds to carry the foregoing section into effect; and that all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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DIVORCES. AN ACT to separate and divorce Sarah Sandiford and James Sandiford her husband, Andrew Parke and Mary Parke his wife, William Fuller and Jane Fuller his wife, Robert Harnett and Rebecca Harnett his wife, William Johnson and Linney Johnson his wife, and Cynthia Strickland and Hilliard Strickland her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the matrimonial connection, or civil contract of marriage, made between the said Sarah Sandiford and James Sandiford her husband shall be completely annulled, set aside, and dissolved as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Sarah Sandiford and James Sandiford shall in future be held as distinct and separate persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union or civil contract whatever. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act the matrimonial connection, or civil contract of marriage, made and entered into between Andrew Parke and his wife Mary Parke, and William Fuller and his wife Jane Fuller, and Robert Harnett and Rebecca Harnett his wife, and William Johnson and Linney Johnson his wife, and Cynthia Strickland and Hilliard Strickland her husband, shall be completely set aside, and dissolved as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between the aforesaid parties; and they shall in future be considered as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any

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mystical union or civil contract whatever heretofore made and entered into between them. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Eliza Dotson, formerly Eliza Strain, from her husband David Dotson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the verdict of the special jury in the Superior Court of Chatham county, at the instance of Eliza Dotson against her husband David Dotson, be, and the same is hereby ratified and confirmed; and that the contract of marriage made and entered into by and between the said Eliza, formerly Eliza Strain, and her said husband be, and the same is hereby annulled and dissolved; and the said Eliza shall be entitled to all the benefits, privileges, and immunities of an unmarried woman. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate.

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ELECTIONS. AN ACT to amend an act entitled An Act to make Constables elective by the people, and the mode of taking their bonds, and to point out their duty in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Peace in the several militia districts in this State, or either of them in the absence of the others, to appoint Constables for special purposes or to meet sudden emergencies, in cases where the Constable elected by virtue of the act aforesaid shall be absent from the district for which he was elected, or shall from providential causes be disabled or prevented from discharging the duties of his office. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize Justices to appoint or deputize Constables in any case or cases whatever except those before specified. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize and permit elections for Majors and Colonels to be held at the various election precincts in the counties of Paulding, Floyd, Murray, Walker, Cass, Cobb, Cherokee, Forsyth, Gilmer, Lumpkin, Union, and Gwinnett. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for all elections for Majors and Colonels to be held at the various precincts in the counties of Cass, Cherokee, Cobb, Floyd, Forsyth, Gilmer, Gwinnett, Lumpkin, Murray, Paulding, Union, and Walker, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize the elections for Colonels and Majors to be held at the different parade grounds and precincts established by law in the county of Monroe for the election of members to the General Assembly of Georgia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is

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hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act the elections for Colonels and Majors of the Georgia militia for the county of Monroe shall be held at the several parade grounds and precincts established in the different regiments and battalions of said county for the election of members to the General Assembly of Georgia. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when an election for Colonel or Major shall be held in said county, the managers of the election, if it is for a Colonel, shall meet the day after the election at the parade ground of the regiment, and if the election has been held for a Major, the managers of the election shall meet the day after such election at the parade ground of the battalion, for the purpose of consolidating the votes given at the parade ground and precincts, and making a return to the Executive Department. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1834. AN ACT to establish election precincts in the several counties hereinafter named, and to repeal certain laws passed for establishing election precincts, and to provide for the punishment of persons who may commit frauds at said elections. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is

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hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act it shall and may be lawful for elections of Governor, elections of President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives to Congress, members to the Legislature, and county officers, to be held at the places hereinafter named, to wit:at the house of James M'Donald, in the five hundred and twentieth militia district in the county of Bibb; at the house of Arthur Sheffield, in the original sixth district of the county of Early; at the house of William Fussells, in the fourth district of Irwin county; at the place of holding justices' court in Persimmon creek district in the county of Rabun; at the place of holding justices' court in the seven hundred and fifth militia district in the county of Merriwether, instead of at lot number twenty-six in the ninth district of said county; at Dykes's store, in the tenth district of Merriwether county, instead of the one heretofore established at George Griffin's in the eleventh district of said county last aforesaid, and also at the house of Jesse Roberts, in the eleventh district of Merriwether county; at the house of George W. Turrentine, in the six hundred and ninety-third militia district, in the county of Heard; at the house of Cornelius Cooper, in the sixth district of the second section of Cherokee, now Gilmer county; at the house of Newman Pounds, in Captain Russell's district in the county of Monroe, instead of William Turner's in said county, now the place for said precinct; at the house of Ralph Hicks, in the sixteenth district of originally Early now Decatur county; at the place of holding justices' court in the house owned by Lewis Green, in the forty-fifth militia district in the county of Bullock; at the house of Ephraim Renfroe, in the sixth district of originally Houston now Crawford county; at the house of Jeremiah Cox in the county of Jasper, on the road leading from Monticello to the Indian Springs; at the house of Josiah A. Christie in the county of Upson, or at such place as the justices' court may be hereafter held in said district; at the house of David D. Nelson, in the tenth district of originally Early now Baker county; at the house of Ephraim Sanders, leading to Tinsley's ferry, in the county of Jones, instead of that heretofore established at Swepson Taylor's in said county; at the house of Benjamin Wamack in Captain Jones's district, Thomas county, under the same rules and regulations of other precincts in said county: and that the precinct at Roddy's old store in Carroll county be removed to Hickstown in said county; and that the precinct at Marshal Liggons, in the third district of Coweta county, be removed to the house of Henry Kellers, in the second district of said county; and that the precinct at Lewis Wiggins's, in the

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county of Forsyth, be removed to lot number eight hundred and seventy-seven, in the second district and first section of originally Cherokee county: and also that the election precinct for the eight hundred and forty-second district Georgia militia be held at the places of holding the justices' courts in said district in said county; and at the house of Nathan Lands, in the seventh district of the county of Irwin; and also at the place of holding justices' courts in the sixth district in said county, under the laws and regulations governing precinct elections in said county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That a Justice of the Peace or Justice of the Inferior Court and two freeholders, or two Justices of the Peace or of the Inferior Court and one freeholder, may preside at said several election precincts, each freeholder first taking an oath faithfully and impartially to superintend the elections superintended by him, and to make a just and true return thereof according to law and to the best of his ability; and that all elections hereafter to be held at the court-house in the county of Marion may be superintended by a Justice of the Inferior Court, or Justice of the Peace, and two freeholders. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of each of said district elections shall, and they are hereby required, on the day of said elections, to count out the ballots by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the polls, and one or more of the superintendents of said election shall meet one or more of the superintendents of the election held at the court-house in the county in which said election may be held, on the day next after the said election, and then compare and add the returns of votes together, and transmit a true statement of the same to the Executive office, agreeably to the laws of the State now in force. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote or attempt to vote at either of said election districts after having previously voted at any other place on the same day, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed by the twenty-ninth section of the tenth division of the penal code of this State. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any superintendent of any of said district elections shall violate the trust to him or them committed by this act, such superintendent shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof before the Superior Court, shall be fined in a sum not less

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than fifty nor exceeding one hundred dollars, and shall moreover be imprisoned at the discretion of the court. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the polls at said election districts shall be openedand closed at the same times prescribed by law for opening and closing elections; and that any lawful constable, or, in the absence of a constable, some fit and proper person appointed by the superintendents, shall open and close the polls, and shall also attend and keep order at said elections. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That in all other respects the said district elections shall be held and conducted in the same manner, and at the same times, as is prescribed by the laws now in force in this State regulating elections. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the law establishing an election district at the house of Christopher Brown in the county of Heard; the law establishing an election district on lot number twenty-six in the ninth district of originally Troup but now Merriwether county; the law establishing an election district at the house of Abigail M'Duffie, in the fourth district of Irwin county; and the law establishing an election district at the house of William Turner in Captain Ross's district in the county of Monroe; and the law establishing election precincts at Powelton, Sylvan Hill, Poplar Hill, and Medlox's, in the county of Hancock; and the law establishing an election precinct at the house of John Grear, in the third district of originally Troup now Merriwether county, be, and the same are hereby repealed. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws that militate against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to create additional Election Precincts in the county of Henry, and the several counties therein named, and to change the places of several Election Precincts in the several counties therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for all elections for governor, members of Congress, members of the State Legislature, electors of president and vice-president, and for all county officers in the county of Henry, to be held at the house of Augustus Y. Adamson, in the eight hundred and eighty-eighth district of Georgia militia in said county, under all the rules, regulations, and restrictions that are now by law pointed out in the act of the General Assembly of the State, passed on the 23d day of December, 1830, prescribing the mode of holding elections at the several election precincts in the several counties of this State. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That under the provisions aforesaid it shall and may be lawful for elections for governor, elections for electors for president and vice-president of the United States, representatives to Congress, members of the Legislature, and county officers to be held at the houses of the following persons and following places hereinafter named, in the following counties, under the same rules and regulations as govern other election precincts therein, to wit: In the county of Madison, there shall be an election precinct established at the store of Thomas A. Brewer; In the county of Cobb, at a place called Lebanon, in the eight hundred and forty-fifth district of Georgia militia; In the county of Bullock, at the muster-ground club-house of the forty-fifth district of Georgia militia; In the county of Crawford, at the house of Ephraim Rentfroe, in the sixth district of Georgia militia; In the county of Houston, one at the place of holding justices' courts in the lower fifth district, and one at the place of holding justices' courts in the newly created or sixth district of said county, and one in the thirteenth district; In the county of Lowndes, one at the place of holding justices'

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courts in Captain Ganus's company district, one at the place of holding justices' courts in Captain Bell's company district, and one at the place of holding justices' courts in Captain M`Cranie's company district, and at the place of holding justices' courts in Captain Gaulding's district; In the county of Stewart, at the house of Turner Evans; And in the county of Thomas, at the house of Benjamin Warmacks; In the county of Carrol, at Villarica, at the Carrol Gold Mine, in lieu of that held at the house of William H. Mallory, which is hereby abolished; In the county of Cherokee, one on lot number twelve hundred and thirty-three in the fifteenth district and second section of said county, at such house as the presiding managers may select, in lieu of that held at the house of John Tate, which is hereby abolished; one at the house of Jesse Greene, at Long Swamp, in lieu of that held at the house of Suny Eaton, which is hereby abolished; and one at the house of Randal M`Donald; In the county of Decatur, at the house of Whiteman H. Owens, in the fourteenth district, in lieu of that at the house of Lyman Shepherd, in the twenty-first district, which is hereby abolished; In the county of Forsyth, at Hickory Grove, on lot number two hundred and ninety-eight in the third district and first section of originally Cherokee, now Forsyth county, in lieu of that held at the house of Leonard B. Jones, which is hereby abolished; In the county of Gwinnett, at the house of Thomas M`Guire, in lieu of that held at the house of Charles Gordian, which is hereby abolished; And in the county of Telfair, at the house of Archibald Campbell, in lieu of that held at the house of Duncan M`Rae, in Captain Robinson's district, which is hereby abolished; In the county of Sumpter, at Danville, in lieu of that held at the house of Hortense Anna Harris, which is hereby abolished; That the election now held at the house of Louis Laniers, formerly Alexander Bird's, in the nineteenth district of Bryan county, shall hereafter be held at the house of John Rogers in said district; That the election precinct heretofore established at the house of William Lawless in Cherokee county be removed to lot number six hundred and sixty-one, second district and second section of said county, to be held on said lot at such place as the superintending managers may select.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. And that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to release the several managers at the several precincts hereby removed from the liability to meet at the court-house on the several subsequent days following elections; but this act shall be construed in affirmance thereof under all the laws, restrictions, compensations, and immunities entailed under the general law, and all local county laws governing the same. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, December 20th, 1834. AN ACT to establish additional election precincts in the counties of Irwin and Early, and to establish an election precinct in the county of Laurens, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act it shall and may be lawful to hold all elections for electors of president and vice-president of the United States, governor, members to Congress, members to the Legislature, and for all county and regimental officers for the county of Irwin, at Bowen's mills in said county; and for the county of Laurens at the house of Henry Morffort, in the eighty-seventh district of Georgia

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militia; and for the county of Early at the house of William Wilson, in the thirteenth district. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said elections shall be held, managed, and conducted in all respects agreeable to the laws now of force regulating precinct elections in this State. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize the Inferior Court of Decatur county to lay off and alter the militia districts, and to establish two additional precincts in said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for the Inferior Court of Decatur county to lay off any new militia district that shall be required for the public good; or alter and change any district already laid off in said county: Provided, that said court shall be governed by all the restrictions and regulations of the militia laws now in force.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be two additional election precincts established in said county; one to be held at the house of Ralph Hicks in the sixteenth district of formerly Early county, and one at the house of Robert Thomas in the twenty-first district of formerly Early county: Provided, that the elections to be held at said precincts shall be superintended and consolidated in the same manner and under the same restrictions that govern the elections held at the other precincts established in said county. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws that militate against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to repeal so much of the act to lay off the county of Lee into election districts as relates to the second district, and to establish other election precincts in said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of the act entitled An Act to lay off the county of Lee into election districts as relates to the establishment of an

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election precinct in the second district at the house of Reuben Wheeler be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That two additional election precincts be, and the same are lereby established in said county; one at the house of Isaac O. Edwards in the twelfth district of said county, and the other at the house of Samuel Berry in the third district of said county, subject to the same rules and regulations in all respects as the other election precincts established by said act in said county. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to compensate the managers of Elections at the different precincts in the counties of Gwinnett, Elbert, Decatur, Early, Franklin, Carrol, Houston, Glynn, Merriwether, Cobb, Stewart, and Baker, for carrying up the returns of said precincts. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in all elections for governor, members of Congress, members of the Legislature, and electors of president and vice-president of the United States, and for all county officers, the persons carrying up the returns from each and every precinct in the

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counties aforesaid to the Court-house in said counties shall be entitled to receive a compensation of one dollar each per day for their services for the same, to be paid out of the county fund: Provided, that not more than one person shall be paid for carrying up the same from each precinct. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to provide for the compensation of the bearers of the returns of the polls of the respective election precincts in the county of Tatnall. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the persons employed to convey the returns from the several precincts of elections in the county of Tatnall to the Court-house of the said county, at any general election, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be, entitled to receive the sum of one dollar each for such service as compensation therefor, which shall be allowed and paid by the county treasurer upon the presentation of a certificate, signed by the managers and judges of the elections, or a majority of them: Provided, nevertheless, that not more than one person shall be employed or compensated for any one precinct. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts

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of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to compensate one of the Justices of the Peace who may be a superintendent of the elections at either of the election precincts in the county of Jackson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of one of the Justices of the Peace who may be a superintendent at each of the election precincts in the county of Jackson, to meet at the Court-house and compare and consolidate the returns according to law heretofore made and provided for in such cases; for which services each of the above Justices of the Peace, superintending as aforesaid, shall for each return so made be entitled to receive the sum of one dollar and fifty cents, to be paid out of the county fund. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That each of the said Justices of the Peace shall make out their accounts agreeably to the first section of this act, setting forth the day and date, and cause the same to be laid before the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county; upon which it shall be the duty of the Inferior Court of said county to issue their order

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requiring the county treasurer to pay the same out of any money in the county treasury not otherwise appropriated. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to compensate one of the Justices of the Peace who may be a superintendent of the elections at the several election precincts in and for the county of Burke, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of one of the Justices of the Peace who may be a superintendent at each of the several election precincts established by law in and for said county, to meet at the Court-house and compare and consolidate the returns according to law heretofore made and provided in such cases; for which services each of the above-named Justices shall be allowed for each return so made the sum of two dollars, to be paid out of the county funds. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each of the above-recited Justices shall make out their accounts agreeably to the first section of this act, setting forth the day and date, and cause the same to be laid before the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county.

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SEC. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county to issue their order requiring the county treasurer to pay the same out of any moneys belonging to the county not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, if any slave or slaves, or any free person or persons of colour, in the county of Laurens, shall sell or give to any other slave or slaves, or free person or persons of colour any ardent spirits, unless the owner, or overseer, or employer of such slave or slaves be present and consenting and agreeing to the same, such slave or slaves, or free person or persons of colour, so offending, on conviction thereof shall receive on his bare back not less than twenty and not more than one hundred lashes: offenders against this act to be tried and punished under the same rules and regulations as are now pointed out by law for the trial and punishment of slaves and free persons of colour in this State. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall at all times be lawful for any three or more freeholders in the county aforesaid to go into any negro house or other place where they may believe any slave or slaves, or free person or persons of colour, shall or may keep any spirits to give or sell to negroes or any other person or persons whatever, and make diligent search for the same; and if on such search they shall find in the possession or under the control of any slave or slaves, or free person or persons of colour, any ardent spirits so kept to be sold or given away to any negroes or other persons, it shall be lawful and the duty of such freeholders to take such ardent spirits from such slave or slaves or free persons of colour, and destroy it and the article or thing in which it may be contained, provided such article or thing belongs to the offender; and moreover to give such slave or slaves, or free person or persons of colour, not less than twenty and not more than one hundred lashes on his bare back. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons in the county aforesaid shall knowingly and wilfully allow or permit his, her, or their slave or slaves to keep, to sell, or give away any ardent spirits, any such person or persons so offending shall be considered guilty of a crime against the laws of this State, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine or imprisonment, or both, at the discretion of the court.

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SEC. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Superior Court of said county to lay before the grand jury, at the opening of every Superior Court, a list of all persons who may have lawful license to retail or sell ardent spirits, together with the date or dates of such license or licenses, and it shall be the duty of the Judge to charge the jury to present all who sell without license. SEC. 8. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to compensate one of the Justices of the Peace who may be a superintendent of the elections held at the several election precincts in the counties of Floyd and Walker. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of one of the Justices of the Peace who may be a superintendent at each of the several election precincts established by law in and for said counties, to meet at the court-house and compare and consolidate the returns according to law heretofore made and provided in such cases; for which services each of the above-named Justices shall be allowed for

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each return so made the sum of two dollars, to be paid out of the county fund. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each of the above-recited Justices shall make out their account agreeable to the first section of this act, setting forth the day and date, and cause the same to be laid before the Justices of the Inferior Court of said counties. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Inferior Courts of said counties to issue their orders requiring the county treasurer to pay the same out of any moneys belonging to the county not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to amend an act passed the 23d day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, to compensate one of the Justices of the Peace who may be a superintendent of the elections at the several election precincts in and for the county of Warren. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is

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hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of one of the Justices of the Peace, or one of the Justices of the Inferior Court, who may be a superintendent at each of the several election precincts established by law for said county, to meet at the court-house and compare and consolidate the returns according to the law governing such cases; for which services each of the above-named Justices shall be entitled to receive for each return so made the sum of one dollar and fifty cents, to be paid out of the county fund. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each of the above-mentioned Justices shall make out their accounts agreeable to the first section of this act, setting forth the day and date, and lay the same before the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county to issue their order requiring the county treasurer to pay the same out of any money belonging to the county not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to compensate one of the Justices of the Peace who may be a superintendent of the elections at the several election precincts in the county of Twiggs. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act it shall be the duty of one of the Justices of the Peace who may be a superintendent at each of the several election precincts established by law in said county, to meet at the court-house and compare and consolidate the returns according to law heretofore made and provided in such cases; for which services each of the above-named Justices of the Peace shall be allowed for each return so made the sum of two dollars, to be paid out of the county fund. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each of the said Justices shall make out their accounts agreeably to the first section of this act, setting forth the day and date, and cause the same to be laid before the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county. SEC. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Inferior Courts of said county to issue their order requiring the county treasurer to pay the same out of any moneys belonging to the county not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th Dec. 1834.

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FEES. AN ACT to regulate the fees on grants for lots 10 and 100, heretofore set apart for academic purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act the fees for grants on lots 10 and 100, heretofore reserved by the State for academic purposes, shall be two dollars, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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FERRIES. AN ACT to authorize the establishment of a ferry across the Alatamaha, between the land of Reuben Nale on the west side and the land of Elijah Sapp on the east side of the said river; and to secure the right of the same in the said Reuben Nale and Elijah Sapp, and their heirs and assigns, perpetually. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Reuben Nale and Elijah Sapp be, and they are hereby authorized to establish and maintain a ferry across the river Alatamaha, in the county of Tatnall, between the land owned by the said Nale on the west and the land owned by the said Sapp on the east side of the said river, at such points as they may deem most advisable; the exclusive right and privilege to have, use, and employ the same shall be, and the same are hereby vested in them, their heirs and assigns, for ever. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said proprietors, and their successors in the possession, shall be authorized to receive toll at the several rates established by the following table, to wit:for each foot-passenger, six and a quarter cents; for each horse and rider, twelve and a half cents; for each two-wheel carriage, twenty-five cents; for road-wagon, fifty cents; for pleasure four-wheel carriages, thirty-seven and a half cents; for all loose horses, mules, and cattle, three cents; for all hogs, sheep, and goats, two cents. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the said proprietors and their successors in the possession to keep at all times ready to be plied at the said ferry a good, strong, and sufficient flat for the transportation of passengers, wagons, carriages, horses, mules, and cattle, and a constant and convenient attendance at all times, under such pains and forfeitures as are provided in such cases for neglect or detention.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the proprietors aforesaid, as soon as the said ferry goes into operation, to fix a board in a conspicuous situation on each landing-place thereof, which board shall be painted black, with white legible characters written on the same, noting the different rates of ferriage as herein allowed; and in case of refusal or neglect so to do, they shall incur the forfeiture pointed out by law in the 12th division of the chapter of Prince's Digest relating to roads, bridges, and ferries. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to alter and amend the fourth and fifth sections of an act entitled An Act to establish a ferry on Coosa river on lot No. 181, fourth district fourth section, in the county of Floyd, and a ferry across the Etowah river on lot No. 181, twenty-first district second section, and on lot 167, fourteenth district second section, Cherokee county, and to regulate the toll of the same; passed December 23d, 1833. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the privileges vested by the fourth and fifth sections of the aforesaid act in John Brewster, his heirs and assigns, to establish a public ferry on lot No. 181, twenty-first district second section of Cherokee county, be extended, upon the same terms as expressed in the aforesaid sections, to lot No. 216, fifteenth district second section: Provided, that nothing in this act

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shall be so construed as to hinder the said John Brewster, his heirs or assigns, from locating said ferry on lot No. 181, twenty-first district second section, when the Indian claim to the same shall have been extinguished, should it be deemed by the proprietor to be expedient. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize and empower Daniel N. Pitman of Gwinnett county to establish a ferry across the Chatahoochee river, on his own land. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, Daniel N. Pitman of the county of Gwinnett be, and he is hereby fully authorized and empowered to establish a ferry across the Chatahoochee river, on his own land: Provided, it does not interfere with the rights of any other person. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Daniel N. Pitman, his heirs and assigns, be fully authorized and empowered to demand and receive the same rates of ferriage which have been allowed to other owners of ferries on said river: Provided, also, that the said Daniel N. Pitman shall be responsible for all accidents which

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may occur in passing said ferry on account of the negligence or inability of the ferryman,any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize John W. Sutlive to keep a ferry across the Chatahoochee river, on fraction No. 395, in the fifth district of the county of Early, and to regulate and prescribe the amount of toll to be taken at said ferry; also, to authorize Richard Mathias to establish a ferry across said river opposite the town of Roanoke, and to regulate the rates of toll at the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, John W. Sutlive, his heirs and assigns, be, and they are hereby vested with the privilege of keeping a ferry across the Chatahoochee river, on fraction number three hundred and ninety-five in the fifth district of the county of Early. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for the said John W. Sutlive, his heirs and assigns, to charge and receive the following rates of toll for ferriage at said ferry, to wit:For each loaded wagon, team, and driver, one dollar; for each empty wagon, team, and driver, seventy-five cents; for each four-wheel

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pleasure-carriage, seventy-five cents; for each two-wheel pleasure-carriage, thirty-seven and a half cents; for each loaded cart, team, and driver, fifty cents; for each empty cart, team, and driver, thirty-seven and a half cents; for each Jersey wagon, horse, and driver, fifty cents; for each man and horse, twelve and a half cents; for each footman, six and a fourth cents; for each led or loose horse, five cents; for each head of neat cattle, three cents; for each head of hogs, sheep, and goats, one cent. And whereas the frequent freshets in said river render the transportation of travellers and passengers dangerous and expensive to the keeper of said ferry SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said John W. Sutlive, his heirs and assigns, be, and they are hereby authorized to charge and receive fifty per centum on the amount of said tolls, in addition to the charges allowed in ordinary cases, whenever the water in said river shall be fifteen feet above low water mark. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to establish a ferry on said river within half a mile of said ferry: Provided, the said John W. Sutlive shall, previous to taking or deriving any exclusive benefit under this act, enter into bond, with good security, to the Inferior Court of said county, in the sum of one thousand dollars, to be void on condition that the said John W. Sutlive shall at all times keep a sufficient flat at said ferry, and pay all damages which may accrue by reason of the negligence or inattention of the ferryman. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Richard Mathias shall be, and is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a ferry across the Chatahoochee river immediately opposite the town of Roanoke, on his own land, in the county of Stewart. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Richard Mathias shall be authorized to charge and receive the same amount of ferriage as is received at other established ferries across the same river. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Richard Mathias or his heirs shall have the exclusive privilege for one half a mile above and below said ferry.

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SEC. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and they are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to establish a ferry across the Edahwah (Hightower) river, in the county of Cherokee, on lot number four hundred and seventy-eight in the twenty-first district of the second section, and to vest the right of said ferry in Jonathan J. Johnson and his assigns; and to authorize Devereaux Jarrett to erect a toll-bridge across Tugalo river in Habersham county, for ten years. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, a ferry be, and is hereby established across the Edahwah (Hightower) river, upon the land of Jonathan J. Johnson, to witlot number four hundred and seventy-eight in the twenty-first district of the second section, and that all the rights and immunities of said ferry be confirmed to and established in said Jonathan J. Johnson and his assigns. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Jonathan J. Johnson have the right to demand and receive the

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same rates of toll as are allowed to John Brewster at his ferry, established by act of the Legislature on the twenty-third day of December eighteen hundred and thirty-three: Provided, said Jonathan J. Johnson and his assigns shall in all respects comply with the requirements made of said Brewster by said act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That Devereaux Jarrett shall have the right for ten years to erect a toll-bridge across the Tugalo river in Habersham county, at or near the place now known as Willies' Ferry: Provided, it be built on the said Devereaux Jarrett's own land, or with the consent of any other person or persons on whose land it may be built. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Devereaux Jarrett, his heirs and assigns, be fully authorized to demand and receive the same rates of toll which are allowed to the owners of ferries on said river, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to establish and make permanent the ferry across the Ocmulgee river in the county of Monroe, known by the name of Pope's Ferry in said county, and to vest the right thereof in Cullen Pope and his heirs, and to fix the rates of toll for said ferry. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

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of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, Cullen Pope be, and he is hereby authorized to keep open the ferry across the Ocmulgee river known as his ferry, in the county of Monroe, on his own land, and that he be entitled to demand and receive the following rates of toll or ferriage, to wit:for a loaded wagon and team, fifty cents; for a four-wheel carriage and two horses, fifty cents; for a gig and horse, twenty-five cents; for a Jersey wagon and horse, thirty-seven and a half cents; for a cart and oxen, twenty-five cents; for a man and horse, twelve and a half cents; for each foot-passenger, six and one-fourth cents; for each head of neat cattle, three cents; for each head of hogs, goats, and sheep, two cents; and for a led or loose horse, six and one-fourth cents. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Cullen Pope shall be held liable for all losses or damages which may be sustained in consequence of negligence or other improper conduct at said ferry. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to establish a ferry on the Oostanaulee river, on lot number fifty-seven, fourteenth district and third section in the county of Murray, and to regulate the toll of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

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of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, William J. Tarvin, his heirs and assigns, are hereby vested with the privilege of keeping a ferry across Oostanaulee river, on lot number fifty-seven, in the fourteenth district of the third section in the county of Murray: Provided, the said William J. Tarvin, his heirs and assigns, do keep a good and sufficient flat or ferry-boat for the conveyance of passengers, and give due attention to said ferry. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the following rates of toll shall be lawful to be received for ferriage at said ferry, viz.For each loaded wagon, team, and driver, one dollar; for each empty wagon, team, and driver, fifty cents; for each four-wheel pleasure carriage, fifty cents; for each two-wheel pleasure carriage, twenty-five cents; for each cart, team, and driver, twenty-five cents; for each man and horse, twelve and a half cents; for each footman, six and a quarter cents; for each head of neat cattle, four cents; for each led or loose horse, six and a fourth cents; for each head of hogs, sheep, or goats, two cents. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said William J. Tarvin, his heirs and assigns, shall be bound to make good any damage that may be sustained by his or their neglect. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize John Bethune to establish and keep up a ferry across Oostanaulee river, at Newtown, on lot of land number ninety-two, in the fourteenth district of the third section of Cherokee, now Murray county, and to regulate the same; and to authorize Louis M. Cantclow of Talbot county to establish and make permanent a ferry across Flint river, at the place formerly known by the name of Hooten's Ferry. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, John Bethune, his heirs and assigns, are hereby authorized to establish and keep up a ferry across the Oostanaulee river on lot number ninety-two, in the fourteenth district and third section of Cherokee, now Murray county, at Newtown. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the following rates of toll shall be lawful to be received for ferriage at said ferry, to wit:For each loaded wagon drawn by four horses, seventy-five cents; for each empty wagon drawn by four horses, fifty cents; for each four-wheel pleasure carriage, seventy-five cents; for each two-wheeled carriage, thirty-seven and a half cents; for each loaded cart, thirty-seven and a half cents; for each empty cart, twenty-five cents; for each man and horse, twelve and a half cents; for each footman, six and a quarter cents; for each led or loose horse, six and a quarter cents; for each head of neat cattle, three cents; for each head of sheep, goats, or hogs, two cents. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said John Bethune, his heirs or assigns, or managers under their authority, shall give due attention and observe careful management, and be governed by the laws usual in such cases. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passage of this act,

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Louis M. Cantelow of Talbot county be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to establish a public ferry across Flint river, on his own land, at the place formerly known on said river by the name of Hooten's Ferry. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Louis M. Cantelow, his heirs or legal representatives, are authorized to ask, take, and receive from all person or persons crossing at said ferry the same rates of toll or ferriage that are by law allowed or established at other public ferries on said river: Provided, he shall at all times keep in good repair a ferryflat sufficient to convey with safety across said river a loaded wagon and team,any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. INCORPORATIONS. AN ACT to incorporate the Fire Company of the city of Savannah in the county of Chatham. Whereas, a memorial has been presented to the General Assembly of the State of Georgia by the members of the Savannah Fire Company, stating that said company is now in possession of the sum of thirteen hundred dollars, obtained from fines and admission fees of members; which said memorial

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prays an act of incorporation to said company to enable it to hold real and personal estate, the interest and rents of which are intended to be appropriated to the relief of disabled or distressed members of said company and their families Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, George A. Ash, Benjamin E. Stiles, Thomas Pense, John W. Long, Daniel Potter, John Gardner, W. W. Holton, Benjamin Snider, William Waters, L. Baldwin, M. Eigle, Hanford Knapp, William Remshart, Cyrus B. Carter, James Folker, William Herb, Gilbert Butler, William Rahn, J. J. Waver, J. G. Falligant, P. K. Wait, S. Little, S. D. Corbett, and W. K. Gaston, members of said Fire Company, and their successors, be, and they are hereby incorporated, under the name, style, and title of the Savannah Fire Company; and shall have power under their corporate name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered to, in any and all the courts of this State, and to have, exercise, and enjoy all the powers herein granted not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States and of this State. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said corporation be, and is hereby invested with power to purchase with said fund now in its possession, and such additions to it which may hereafter be derived from the same sources, real and personal estate: and also, to receive all donations, legacies, and bequests which may be made to it, to be held, used, and enjoyed for the purposes hereinafter mentioned; that is to say, that the rents, interests, and profits of all such property which said corporation may purchase or be interested in, and the interest of all loans which it shall make, shall be used and applied to the purpose of relieving the distresses of its members, and to and for no other use or purpose whatsoever. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said corporation shall elect their officers in the manner pointed out in the ordinances of the City Council of Savannah, and that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to make said Fire Company independent of the City Council, but that it shall continue to be subject to the same control of the City Council as that body has heretofore exercised over it.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Fire Company hereby incorporated shall, on the first Monday of January, annually, report to the City Council of Savannah what property they have purchased or become interested in, what loans they have made, the state of their funds, what disbursements they have made, and for what benevolent purposes. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the Georgia Lumber Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Stephen Chase, William Willis, Henry Goddard, Enoch Paine, and their associates who now are, and such other persons as may hereafter become, stockholders or subscribers in and to said company, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of the Georgia Lumber Company; and the persons so incorporated are hereby authorized and empowered to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure; and by their corporate name aforesaid to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law and equity,any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That the said company shall have full power to make, establish, and ordain all such rules, by-laws, or ordinances for their own government as to them shall seem necessary and expedient; Provided, the same be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State: and the said company shall have power and be capable of receiving and holding, by purchase, gift, grant, or otherwise, all such lands and tenements, or other real or personal property, as may be necessary and convenient for the proper transaction of their business, or for the investment of any surplus funds belonging to said company. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the private property of the stockholders shall be bound and held liable for all contracts made by said company during the time that the individual shall be a stockholder in said company. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 17th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to extend an act heretofore passed entitled An Act for the incorporation of the Steamboat Company of Georgia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the act of the General Assembly of this State, passed on the 19th day of December, 1837, entitled An Act for the incorporation of the Steamboat Company of Georgia, be, and the same is hereby extended to, for, and during the full end and term of twenty years from and after the 19th day of December, 1837; to have vested in the said corporation, and to receive, possess, and enjoy, during such term of

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twenty years, all and singular the advantages, profits, and emoluments, with power and authority to hold, possess, and enjoy real and personal estate, and to be fully subject to all the conditions, limitations, and restrictions contained in the said act: Provided, that the exclusive privileges contained in the fourth section of the said act, and the pains, penalties, and forfeitures therein prescribed, shall not, after the said 19th December, 1837, obtain or be in force, and that the said fourth section of said act shall be thereafter repealed and of no effect. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the Atlantic and New-Orleans Seaboard Line Company. Whereas, Joseph Cumming, Samuel B. Parkman, George Hall, Robert Habersham, Anthony Porter, Ralph King, William Duncan, and others, have by their petition represented that, with a view to establish a shorter, more safe, and expeditious route from the Atlantic seaboard to New-Orleans than the one round the Cape of Florida, they have formed themselves into an association, under the name and style of the Atlantic and New-Orleans Seaboard Line Company; and in order to ensure and establish their said association in a parmanent and effectual manner, so that the attainment of their object may be more facilitated, have prayed the Legislature to grant them an act of incorporation Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the

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said Joseph Cumming, Samuel B. Parkman, George Hall, Robert Habersham, Anthony Porter, Ralph King, William Duncan, and their associates, be, and they are hereby declared a body corporate, by the name and style of the Atlantic and New-Orleans Seaboard Line Company; and by the said name shall have perpetual succession of officers and members, with power by their said corporate name to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and of using all necessary and lawful means for recovering or defending any property, debts, or demands which they may have or claim in behalf of said Company; to hold real and personal estate, to have a common seal, and the same at pleasure to alter or change; and with power to make, alter, change, and amend such by-laws as may be necessary and agreed on by the said Company; Provided, such laws be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State: and the said corporation are hereby invested with all the usual privileges, powers, advantages, and rights of incorporated companies. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said Company shall be the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of five hundred dollars each, with liberty to increase the said capital stock to one million of dollars. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That subscriptions for constituting and collecting the stock of said company shall be opened in the city of Savannah on the third Monday in January next, under the direction and superintendence of Samuel B. Parkman, Joseph Cumming, and Ralph King, a majority of whom shall be competent to discharge the duties hereby devolved upon them: the books of subscription shall be kept open for one month, if that time shall be required for filling up said subscriptions; and the sums subscribed for shall be payable in manner following, i.e. ten per cent. at the time of subscribing, and the balance of the sum so subscribed at such time or times as the directors of said Company may require and direct: Provided, that sixty days' notice of the time at which payment be required to be made shall be given in one of the gazettes of Savannah. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if there should be a failure in the payment of any sum subscribed when the same is or may be required to be paid as aforesaid, the share or shares on which such failure should happen shall be forfeited, and may be again sold and disposed of as the directors shall order and provide, and the sum

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which shall have been paid shall accrue to the benefit of said corporation. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the well ordering of the affairs of said corporation there shall be five Directors elected by the Stockholders of said company, under the superintendence of said Commissioners at Savannah, so soon as ten per cent. of the capital stock of said company shall have been received on account of subscriptions of said stock; of which thirty days' notice shall be given by the above-named Commissioners: and the persons duly chosen shall continue in office until the first Monday in February next ensuing the time of such election; and the same number of Directors shall be elected annually at the city of Savannah on the said first Monday in February in each and every year thereafter by the Stockholders; and the said Directors at their first meeting after such election shall choose one of their number as President, and in case of his death, resignation, or removal from the State or from the Board of Direction, the said Directors shall proceed to fill the vacancy by a new election for the remainder of the year: Provided, that in case it should happen at any time that an election of Directors should not be made at any day when pursuant to this act it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not for that cause be deemed to be dissolved, but it shall and may be lawful to hold an election of Directors on any other day in such manner as shall have been regulated by the by-laws or ordinances of said corporation. SEC. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Directors for the time being shall have power to appoint such officers, clerks, and servants as they may deem necessary, and to allow them such compensation for their services respectively as they may deem reasonable. SEC. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the election for Directors each Stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of the capital stock held by him or them; Provided, that no Stockholder shall be entitled to more than one hundred votes: that the Stockholders may vote by proxy; but no person but a Stockholder shall be eligible as a Director. SEC. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a majority of the Directors shall constitute a Board for the transaction of business, of whom the President shall be one, except in cases of sickness or necessary absence, in which

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case his place may be supplied by any Director, to be elected President pro tem. by a majority of the Board present. SEC. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Treasurer of said company shall give bond and security to the satisfaction of the Directors, and for such amount as they may deem proper. SEC. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Directors shall have power to issue to the subscribers their certificates of stock, which shall be transferrable on the books of the Treasurer only by the personal entry of the Stockholder, or his legal representative or attorney, duly authorized by special power for that purpose. SEC. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no contract or engagement whatever shall be binding upon the said corporation, unless the same shall be signed by the President, and countersigned by the Secretary of said corporation. SEC. 12. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That dividends of the profits of the corporation, or so much as shall be deemed expedient, shall be declared and paid half yearly, the amount of such dividends to be determined from time to time by a majority of the Directors at a meeting to be held for that purpose, but shall in no case exceed the nett profits actually acquired by said corporation; so that the capital stock shall never be impaired. SEC. 13. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Directors shall keep fair and regular entries of their proceedings, which shall be produced at any meeting of the Stockholders of said company, which meeting may be called at any time by the persons owning one-third of the capital stock of said company, giving sixty days' notice of the time and place of such meeting in one of the public gazettes of Savannah; and at any such meeting the persons owning a majority of the shares of the capital stock of said company may determine that the business of the said corporation shall be closed and its affairs wound up. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to incorporate certain persons under the name and style of The Richmond Factory. Whereas, William Schley, Daniel Hook, Philip Thomas Schley, Daniel Hack, and George Schley, Jr. have formed themselves into a company by the name and style of The Richmond Factory, for the purpose of manufacturing cotton and wool, and making the machinery necessary and proper for the manufacture of those articles; and whereas the said company have invested a large sum of money in prosecution of their design by purchasing a tract of land and water-power on Spirit creek, in the county of Richmond and State of Georgia, and the purchase of machinery which they now have in full operation; and whereas, for the more conveniently carrying on the operations of the said company, the said persons desire an act of incorporation Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said William Schley, Daniel Hook, Philip Thomas Schley, Daniel Hack, and George Schley, Jr., and such persons as may hereafter become subscribers and stockholders in said company, and their successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby created and constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of The Richmond Factory, and by that name shall be, and they are hereby made able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain, to them and their successors and assigns, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, and effects, of whatsoever kind, nature, or quality the same may be, and the same to sell, grant, demise, alien, and dispose of; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in any court of law or equity, or any other place whatsoever; and also to make and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter, or amend at their pleasure; and also to ordain, establish, and put in execution such by-laws, rules, and regulations as shall be necessary and proper for the government of said corporation, provided they be not repugnant to the laws and constitution of this or the

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United States; and generally to do and perform all and singular such acts, matters, and things as corporations may legally do and perform for the purpose of carrying into effect the objects of the association. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to amend the fourth section of an act passed the 21st day of December, 1833, entitled An Act to incorporate Franklin Factory in the county of Upson, and the Camak Manufacturing Company of Clark County, so far as to change the name of the latter to that of Princeton Factory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the corporate name and style of the Camak Manufacturing Company of Clark County be changed to that of Princeton Factory; and that all the corporate rights and powers granted to the corporation under its former name by the act to which this is amendatory, be, and the same are hereby declared to continue, attach, and belong to the same under its aforesaid latter name.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the Skull-shoals Manufacturing Company in the county of Greene. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Thomas N. Paullain, Stephens Thomas, Thomas Wray, Ephraim S. Hopping, and Albert G. Wray, with all such persons as may hereafter become interested in said company, be, and they are hereby incorporated and made a body politic, by the name and style of the Skull-shoals Manufacturing Company; and by that name shall be, and are hereby made able and capable in law to have, purchase, and receive, and retain, to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, goods, chattels, and effects of what kind soever, and the same to sell and dispose of; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered, defend and be defended, in courts of record or any other place whatsoever, and to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure; the said company may also make such by-laws as they may deem necessary for their interest, provided they are not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State; and to select and appoint all such agents, officers, or

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servants as may be necessary for the discharge of the business of said company. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall be, and they are hereby fully authorized to make all contracts which may be necessary for the benefit of said company, in their corporate name; and that all judgments which may be obtained against said corporation for any liability which they may incur may be enforced and collected out of the property belonging to said corporation, or the property of any or all of the individuals composing said company, as though the same had been obtained against every member of said company in their joint and several names as individuals. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each and every member of said corporate body may at any time sell and convey their interest in the property of said corporation, both real and personal, under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by said corporation; and upon the death of any of the members of the corporation, their interest in the corporate property shall pass to the legal heirs of said member, or his legatee or legatees; and that such purchaser, legal heirs, or legatee or legatees, shall have all the power and privileges as are hereby conveyed to the above-named corporators. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case of the death of any member of the said corporation, the survivors shall be authorized to continue and transact, and carry on the affairs of said corporation as though said death had not happened; and whoever shall be entitled to the interest of said deceased person shall, if he be administrator or executor, heir or legatee, hold the same in the same manner that said deceased did during life. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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AN ACT to incorporate the Pigeon-roost Mining Company and the Belfast Mining Company of Lumpkin county. Whereas, it is represented that Allen Matthews and others concerned with him are possessed of the following lots of land containing gold therein, to wit:lots number seven hundred and twenty-seven, eight hundred and seventeen, and six hundred and sixty-two, in the twelfth district of the first section in Lumpkin county, and also lot number one hundred and sixty-three in the eleventh district of formerly Hall, but now Lumpkin county, together with mills, machinery, and other property connected with the mining business carried on in said mines; and whereas it is proposed by said company to enlarge the said business of said mining operations; therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Allen Matthews and company, and such others as may hereafter be concerned with them, and their successors, heirs, and assigns, be, and they are hereby created a body politic, by the name and style of The Pigeon-roost Mining Company o Lumpkin County; and that as such they may be capable of suing and being sued, may plead and be impleaded, contract and be contracted with, and may establish and use a common seal. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That as soon as practicable after the passage of this act, said company may and are hereby authorized to establish a constitution, prescribing the fundamental rules for their government and action; which constitution shall not be altered or varied at any time thereafter without the unanimous consent, in writing, signed by all the stockholders: and said company may appoint a competent number of directors for conducting said business, and prescribe their duty and authority; which said constitution, rules, laws, and regulations established by said company, or under their authority, shall be good, valid, and binding: Provided, that the same be not contrary to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case said company wish to enlarge said business, they have full power and authority to open books of subscription for stock in the same, under such rules and regulations as they may establish. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That should said company create or cause to be created any debt or debts, the private property of the shareholders therein, as well as the property of said corporation, shall be held and absolutely bound for the payment thereof. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Alfred B. Holt, John Humphries, James P. Haynes, John Madden, Josiah Shaw, Richard S. Perssee, and John M`Leod, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby incorporated, under the style of The Belfast Mining Company; and as such are vested with all the powers and privileges, and subject to all liabilities common to incorporated companies. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said directors shall open books for subscription for stock in said company at such time and places as they may deem advisable: the capital stock of said company shall be five hundred thousand dollars, divided into five thousand shares of one hundred dollars each. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the directors of said company shall be elected annually, on the first Monday in August, by the stockholders, each share having one vote; elections of directors to be superintended by one Justice of the Peace and one freeholder, and to be held at Dahlonega, Lumpkin county: the directors shall elect one of their body president, and make all by-laws for their regulation: Provided, they be not repugnant to the laws and Constitution of this State or the United States. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the individual property of the shareholders, as well as the property of the company, shall be bound and held liable for all debts contracted by said company. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to incorporate the Walthourville Union Institute in Liberty county, and appoint Trustees for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That B. A. Busby, George W. Walthour, Raymond Harris, William P. M`Connell, William Roberts, William N. Way, and Richard S. Baker, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Walthourville Union Institute in the county of Liberty; and as such are made and declared to be a body corporate, with power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have, hold, and convey property belonging to said Institute, now or hereafter, and do all other things appertaining to the same. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees of the Union Institute aforesaid shall have power to adopt such by-laws as they may deem necessary and proper for the government and prosperity of the same: Provided, such by-laws are not repugnant to the laws and constitution of this State. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when a vacancy shall occur in the Board of Trustees of said Union Institute, by death, resignation, or otherwise, the remaining Trustees shall have power to fill such vacancy in the manner pointed out by the by-laws of said Union Institute. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees of said Institute, as a body corporate, shall, and they are hereby declared to be, capable of receiving, having, and holding all gifts, grants, and donations, whether real or personal, which may be given, granted, or bequeathed for the benefit of said Institute, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees shall be, and are hereby declared to be, entitled to a fair proportion of the academic fund for the use of the Union Institute, which may be appropriated for the use of acemies

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in said county for the year 1834 or any subsequent period. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That all laws contravening this act are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1834. AN ACT to amend an act entitled An Act to incorporate the Savannah Saint Andrew's Society. Whereas, the title of the Savannah Saint Andrew's Society as it appears in the act of incorporation and that used on its seal and in its certificate of membership are at variance Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the charitable association in the city of Savannah incorporated in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-five under the title of the Savannah Saint Andrew's Society, shall be known under the name and style of the Saint Andrew's Society of the city of Savannah. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to incorporate the Savannah Lyceum. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Joseph Cumming, Joseph Habersham, Timothy G. Barnard, John J. Mitchell, Washington Baird, Robert M. Charlton, John Millen, William Miller, William H. Stiles, Ralph King, and their associates, be, and they are hereby enacted a body corporate, by the name and style of the Savannah Lyceum; with power to hold and convey real and personal estate for the use and convenience of said Lyceum, to hear and be heard, implead and be impleaded, by their said corporate name, and with such other powers as are usually incident to corporate bodies, and especially to appoint such officers and to establish such constitution, by-laws, and regulations for the management of the said institution as the majority of the members may from time to time deem expedient: Provided, the same be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to incorporate a Volunteer Company of Infantry, at Stalling's Store, Monroe county, known as the Monroe Blues. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Company of Infantry at Stalling's Store, Monroe county, commanded by Captain Archibald A.Gaulding, be, and are hereby incorporated under the style of the Monroe Blues; and that the members thereof are hereby authorized and empowered to form such rules and regulations and pass such by-laws for their own government and regulation as they may think proper; which by-laws and regulations, when formed and passed, shall be binding on the members of such company to all intents and purposes: Provided, that such by-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the laws of this State or of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a board of the officers of said company, of three or more, two of which must be commissioned officers, shall be competent to form a court of inquiry, and try and fine defaulters for non-attendance or other defaults and misconduct as members of said company; which court shall be governed by the laws and regulations governing courts of inquiry in this State. SEC. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall enjoy and exercise the corporate powers and privileges with which it is invested by virtue of this act, so long as said company shall contain thirty men in uniform. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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AN ACT to incorporate a Volunteer Company of Riflemen in the county of Habersham, to be called the Clarksville Union Rifle Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the company of riflemen in Clarksville, Habersham county, commanded by Captain John T. Carter, be, and are hereby incorporated under the title of the Clarksville Union Rifle Company; and that the members thereof are hereby authorized and empowered to form such rules and regulations and pass such by-laws for their own government and regulation as they may think proper; which by-laws and regulations, when formed and passed, shall be binding on such company and each individual thereof to all intents and purposes; Provided, that such by-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the laws of this State or the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a board of the officers of said company, of three or more, two of whom shall be commissioned officers, shall be competent to form a court of inquiry, and to try and fine delinquents for non-attendance or other defaults or misconduct, as members of said company; which court shall be governed by the laws and rules regulating company courts of inquiry in this State. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to incorporate the Georgia Conference Manual Labour School, in the county of Newton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That Ignatius A. Few, Andrew Hamill, Lovick Pierce, John Howard, Charles Hardy, William J. Parks, Elijah Sinclair, Charles H. Sanders, David P. Hillhouse, Hope H. Tignor, and William P. Graham be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for the Georgia Conference Manual Labour School in the county of Newton. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid Trustees, and their successors in office, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to make such by-laws and regulations as may be necessary for the government of said school: Provided, such laws and regulations be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees, and their successors in office, under the name and style aforesaid, may use a common seal, and shall be, and are hereby declared to be, capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, contracting and being contracted with, and of using all means necessary and lawful for securing and defending any money, property, debts, or demands which do now or may hereafter belong to said institution; and for receiving all grants, gifts, bequests, devises, or conveyances of property of any and all descriptions whatever. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees, and their successors in office, shall be intrusted with and entitled to all manner of property, both real and personal, all donations, grants, gifts, bequests, legacies, privileges, and immunities whatever, which may now belong to said institution or which may hereafter be made or conveyed to it; and no misnomer of the corporation shall prevent its rights from vesting wherever it appears or can be ascertained that it was the intention of the party or parties to sell, give, or bequeath any property real or personal, or any right or interest to the said corporation. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees

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may appoint and remove all their officers, and compel them to give security according to the by-laws of the institution; and that the said board of Trustees, and their successors in office, shall have power to remove any member from the board for a violation of their by-laws: Provided, that no one shall be removed until he is sufficiently indemnified for all responsibilities for the payment of money which he may have incurred as a Trustee aforesaid. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancies may happen in said board of Trustees by resignation, removal, or otherwise, the ministers and preachers of the Methodist Episcopal Church composing the Georgia Annual Conference, when in conference assembled, shall have the privilege of filling such vacancy as may occur in the trust now filled by the first seven named incumbents, viz. Ignatius A. Few, Andrew Hamill, Lovick Pierce, John Howard, Charles Hardy, William J. Parks, and Elijah Sinclair, so that at all times seven of the eleven members of the board shall hold their office by the appointment of the aforesaid conference, whose certificate, signed by the president (for the time being) of said conference, and witnessed by the secretary thereof, shall be sufficient evidence of such appointment; and that the said board of Trustees shall fill up any vacancy that may occur in the four remaining trusts. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834.

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INDIANS. AN ACT to amend an act entitled An Act more effectually to provide for the government and protection of the Cherokee Indians residing within the limits of Georgia, and to prescribe the bounds of their occupant claims; and also to authorize grants to issue for lots drawn in the late Land and Gold Lotteries, in certain cases, and to provide for the appointment of an agent to carry certain parts thereof into execution, and to fix the salary of such agent; and to punish those persons who may deter Indians from enrolling for emigration; passed 20th December, 1833. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint such agent or agents as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act, and of the act of which it is amendatory, who shall take an oath and give bond as required by the aforesaid act. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the agent or agents appointed by his Excellency the Governor, under the authority of the act of which this is amendatory, to report to him the number, district, and section of all lots of land subject to be granted by the provisions of said act, which he may be required to do by the drawer or his agent, or the person claiming the same; and it shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor, upon the application of the drawer of any of the aforesaid lots, his or her special agents, or the person to whom the drawer may have bona fide conveyed the same, his agent or assigns, to issue a grant therefor; and it shall be the duty of said agent or agents, upon the production of the grant so issued as aforesaid, by the grantee, his or her agent, or the person, or his or her agent, to whom said land, so granted as aforesaid, may have been bona fide conveyed, to deliver possession of said granted lot to the said grantee, or person entitled to the possession of the same under the provisions of this act, or the

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act of which this act is amendatory; and his Excellency the Governor is hereby authorized, upon satisfactory evidence that the said agent is impeded or resisted in delivering such possession by a force which he cannot overcome, to order out a sufficient force to carry the power of said agent or agents fully into effect, and to pay the expenses of the same out of the contingent fund: Provided, nothing in this act shall be so construed as to require the interference of said agent between two or more individuals claiming possession by virtue of a title derived from a grant from the State to any lot. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person entitled to the possession of a lot of land under the provisions of this act, or the act of which this is amendatory, shall make application to said agent or agents for such possession, and exhibit to him his or her grant, or the grant of the drawer, and a regular chain of titles, recorded according to law, from the drawer to the person so applying, the said agent or agents shall, without regard to any previous application or proceedings had thereon, deliver possession of said lot to the person entitled to the same. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person dispossessed of a lot of land under this act, or the act of which it is amendatory, shall go before a Justice of the Peace or of the Inferior Court, and make affidavit that he or she was not liable to be dispossessed under or by any of the provisions of this or the aforesaid act, and file the said affidavit in the clerk's office of the Superior Court of the county in which said land shall lie, such person, upon giving bond and security in the clerk's office for the costs to accrue on the trial, shall be permitted, within ten days from such dispossessing, to enter an appeal to said Superior Court; and at said Court the Judge shall cause an issue to be made up between the appellant and the person to whom possession of said land was delivered by either of said agents; which said issue shall be in the following form:A. B., who was dispossessed of a lot of land by an agent of the State of Georgia, comes into court, and admitting the right of the State of Georgia to pass the law under which such agent acted, avers that he was not liable to be dispossessed of said land by or under any of the provisions of the act of the Genral Assembly of Georgia, passed the 20th of December, 1833, more effectually to provide for the protection of the Cherokee Indians residing within the limits of Georgia, and to prescribe the bounds of their occupant claims; and also to authorize

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grants to issue for lots drawn in the Land and Gold Lotteries, in certain cases, and to provide for the appointment of an agent to carry certain parts thereof into execution, and to fix the salary of such agent; and to punish those persons who may deter Indians from enrolling for emigration;or the act amendatory thereof, passed at the session of the Legislature of eighteen hundred and thirty-four. In which issue the person to whom possession of said land was delivered shall join, and which issue shall constitute the entire pleadings between the parties; nor shall the court allow any matter other than is contained in said issue to be placed upon the record or file of said court; and said cause shall be tried at the first term of the court, unless good cause shall be shown for a continuance, and the same party shall not be permitted to continue said cause more than once, except for unavoidable providential cause; nor shall said court, at the instance of either party, pass any order or grant any injunction to stay said cause, or permit to be ingrafted on said cause any other proceedings whatever. After said appeal is entered according to the provisions of this act, the persons so dispossessed shall be by the said agent restored to possession, and protected in the same until said appeal is tried and determined; and if the verdict on such appeal shall be against the appellant, the sheriff of the county shall deliver possession of said land to the respondent. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the jury shall, on the trial of said issue, find the same in favour of the appellant, they shall assess such damages against the respondent as they may deem reasonable and just, for which the court shall award judgment. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each of the said agents shall receive, as a full compensation for his services, the sum of three dollars per day for the time he shall be engaged in the duties required by this act to be paid by his Excellency the Governor out of any moneys in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful for a Judge of any of the Superior Courts of this State to issue any writ of injunction, or other process, or direct any injunction or other process to be issued, to restrain, hinder, or obstruct the said agent in executing his duties under this act, or the act of which this is amendatory. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That it shall not be lawful for any Judge of the Superior Courts of this State to issue a writ of injunction, or other process, hindering, enjoining, or restraining, in any manner whatsoever, an application to said agent for possession, or other proceedings under this act, or the act of which this act is amendatory, or to entertain any suit in Chancery for the restoration of the possession of any lot of land to any person whomsoever, the possession of which shall have been delivered under this act or the act of which it is amendatory. Nor shall any Judge sanction any writ of injunction or other process, or sustain any injunction which may have already been sued out, or other process, at the instance of any person claiming the mere occupancy of said land, and not holding either directly or mediately from the State, restraining or enjoining waste or trespass on any lot of land the possession of which hath been or may be delivered under the before recited act or this act, or the possession of which the said agent is authorized to deliver upon application by the express letter of either act. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall make application to the said agent for the possession of a lot of land under this act, or the act of which it is amendatory, and shall produce a fraudulent title or conveyance for the same, or title with a reasonable notice of a pre-existing title to the same lot, valid in law and equity, or shall by any fraud or circumvention procure a grant to be issued, when it ought not rightfully to be issued, under this act or the act of which it is amendatory, or any other statute of the State, the person so offending shall be subject to indictment, and on conviction he or she shall be imprisoned in the penitentiary for any term of time not less than six months nor longer than two years; and if any person shall have been ousted of his or her possessions by reason of such fraudulent title, or the grant thus fraudulently procured to be issued, the said person ousted shall also on said conviction be restored to his or her possession. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the said agent or agents shall wilfully make any fraudulent report to the Governor, that any lot of land, or fraction, ought to be granted under the provisions of this act, or the act of which it is amendatory, or shall oust any person of the possession of a lot of land, when such ouster is not authorized by this act or the act of which it is amendatory, such agent shall be prosecuted for said offence, and on conviction shall be removed from office, and shall moreover be fined in

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a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and shall be imprisoned until such fine shall be paid; and if any person shall have been ousted of the possession of his or her land by the said fraudulent or wrongful act of the said agent or agents he or she shall, on said conviction, be restored to the possession of his or herland. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize the Cherokee Indians to sell and dispose of their improvements for public purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That whenever it may occur that any Cherokee Indian has an improvement allowed him by the laws of this State, and the lot upon which such improvement is may be desired for any county site, the building of an academy, a meeting-house for any religious denomination, or for any other public use, such Cherokee Indian shall have authority to sell and convey his or her interest in said lot, and such sale and conveyance shall not operate so as to deprive such Indian of any right he or she may have in the Cherokee country, any law heretofore passed to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize any Indian occupant to dispose of his occupant right to any person but the drawer of the lot which he may

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occupy, or the legal representative or representatives of such drawer. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. JURORS. AN ACT to compensate the grand and petit jurors of the county of Decatur, and to provide for the payment of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the grand and petit jurors of the Superior and Inferior Courts of the county of Decatur shall receive each, while engaged in or detained on the business of said courts, the sum of one dollar and twenty-five cents per day as compensation for their services: Provided, to entitle a juror to receive the compensation aforesaid, he shall produce the certificate of the sheriff, countersigned by the presiding Judge or Justice, of the time which he has served, which certificate shall be a warrant for the sum allowed and a voucher for the officer paying the same. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the clerks of the Superior and Inferior Courts be required to collect all the fees now paid the juries for confessions and verdicts, and pay the same as hereinafter directed.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county be, and are hereby authorized to levy an extra tax, which, added to such sums of money as may be received by the clerks from jury fees, shall be equal to the amount to be paid the jurors in ordinary cases, and that the said Justices be authorized to require the payment of such sum or sums of money of the tax collector, collected under this act, as he may have collected, and to compel the collection of such tax at such time or times as they may deem necessary to carry this act into full effect. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the jury fees and the tax collected under this act be placed in the hands of the clerk of the Inferior Court of said county, by whom all disbursements shall be made; and that the said clerk be required to keep a regular account of the same, subject at all times to the inspection of the said Inferior Court. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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LANDS. AN ACT to authorize and permit such persons as may have drawn lots in the late Land and Gold Lotteries in this State, which may be in the occupancy of Cherokee Indians, or other persons claiming in right of Indian families, to test the same for gold and operate thereon, under certain restrictions, either by themselves or persons legally authorized thereto by said drawers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for such persons as may have drawn lots in the late Land and Gold Lotteries of this State which may be in the occupancy of Cherokee Indians, or other persons claiming in right of Indian families, either by themselves or their agents to test the same for gold: Provided, such tests shall not interfere with the cultivation of said lots by the occupants, nor with their right of occupancy. SEC. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the drawers as aforesaid, or persons thereto legally authorized by them, to operate for gold on said lots above referred to: Provided, that said operations shall in no case interfere with the actual cultivation or use of said lots by said Indians or other persons claiming as aforesaid, and shall not affect the occupant rights of said Indians or other persons referred to. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to sell, with the consent of the informer, all lots of land drawn in the Gold Lottery in the Cherokee territory returned and condemned as fraudulently drawn. Whereas, it has been found impracticable to make an equal division between the State and informer of lots of land returned and condemned as fraudulently drawn in the late Gold Lottery, by the ordinary mode of partition and division as prescribed by the act in that case made and provided Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, where any lot or lots of land drawn in the gold districts of the [Illegible Text] territory in the late Land Lottery have been or shall hereafter be condemned as fraudulently drawn, it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Superior Court of the county wherein the said lot or lots shall have been or may be condemned, to order the sheriff of the county to sell the same at public sale to the highest bidder: Provided, the informer will give his consent, which shall be in writing under his hand and seal, attested by two witnesses as in cases of deeds to real estate, and filed in office at or before the granting of said order.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the sheriff to proceed, in obedience to said order, to advertise and sell said lot or lots as in cases under execution, and to pay over to the informer the one half of the nett proceeds of the sale of the lot or lots after paying expenses of sale, and the other half to be paid to the Treasurer of the State, to be attached to and form a part of the academic fund of this State. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the sheriff shall execute to the purchaser a deed in due form for said lot or lots, which shall vest in him the absolute and entire legal interest in and to said lot or lots sold as aforesaid. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834. AN ACT to sell and dispose of two acres of the State's interest to the western bank of the Oconee river, near Milledgeville, and to vest in the purchaser certain privileges therein mentioned. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, his Excellency the Governor cause a notice to be given in the public gazettes of Milledgeville, for the term of thirty days, that on a certain day therein specified will be sold at public outcry to the highest bidder two acres at the west end of Farish Carter's bridge, the said bridge to be considered in the centre of the two acres, and to run west from said bank their full width; and to grant and confer upon said

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purchaser the full privilege and right of erecting a bridge and receiving toll at the same across said river, so far as the State's interest and right may be concerned: one-fifth of the purchase-money to be paid in cash, the balance to be paid through the Central Bank, according to the usages of said Bank as heretofore established: the note to have such securities as may be satisfactory to the directors of said Bank. And the purchaser, on the payment of the purchase-money into the treasury of the State, and procuring a certificate from the directors of the Central Bank that they have complied with the provisions of this act, shall be entitled to receive a grant for the same free of office fees: Provided, the purchaser shall not be entitled to go into possession thereof until the expiration of the lease under which Farish Carter now holds the same; and provided, that said note shall not bear interest or run in said Bank until said lease shall have expired. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the purchaser of the said western bank shall by virtue of said purchase be entitled to the privilege of the western bank of said river for one mile above and below the purchased land, so far only as to prevent the erection of any bridge or ferry within the distance of one mile of said land: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to impair the rights heretofore granted to Peter J. Williams or others of the use of the water-powers on the Oconee river for the purpose of erecting and propelling mills or factories; and provided, that nothing shall be construed in this act to authorize the construction of a dam or dams across said river which shall obstruct the free passage of fish. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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AN ACT to vest the title of a tract of land known and distinguished by lot number one hundred and ninety-seven in the second district and third section, Troup county, in Anthony Lizenby of Wilkinson county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the title to the said tract of land number one hundred and ninety-seven, in the second district and third section, Troup county, shall be vested in and become the property of the said Anthony Lizenby of Wilkinson county. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. MILITARY. AN ACT to exempt the volunteer company of cavalry known by the name of the Upson Light Dragoons from liability to appear at any musters, reviews, and inspections other than such as are ordered by the commander-in-chief, and the voluntary parades and drills of the said company; as also to exempt the members thereof from further military duty after a certain term of service in said company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

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of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the officers and members of the volunteer company of cavalry, in the county of Upson, known as the Upson Light Dragoons shall be, and they are hereby exempted from the duty of appearing at any musters, except their own voluntary company parades and drills, and such muster, review, and inspection as shall be ordered by the commander-in-chief of this State. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person who shall have served as a member of said company from the time of its first organization to the present time, continually, regularly, and faithfully, shall immediately after the passing of this act be exempted from all further militia duty in time of peace, except in cases of riot or insurrection; the names of such persons to remain on the muster roll of said company; and the evidence necessary for such exemption shall be a certificate of such term of service, signed by the commanding officer of the said company, and countersigned by the first sergeant thereof. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every person of and over twenty-one years of age, who shall serve as a member of said company for and during the term of five years, successively, regularly, and faithfully, from the time of his enrolment in the same, shall be exempted thereafter from further militia duty in time of peace, except as herein before excepted; and the names of such exempts shall remain enrolled, and the evidence of their exemption shall be the same as is required under the second section of this act. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to extend to the Bibb County Cavalry the same exemptions and privileges that are now enjoyed by the corps of cavalry in the city of Savannah known as the Georgia Hussars. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the officers and members of the corps of cavalry in the county of Bibb known as the Bibb County Cavalry shall have and be entitled to claim and enjoy all the privileges, exemptions, and benefits under and upon the like conditions and restrictions that are granted to the corps of cavalry in the city of Savannah known as the Georgia Hussars, by an act of the Legislature passed the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-two. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Baker to alter and regulate the bounds of the militia districts in said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the

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Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Baker, or a majority of them, be, and they are hereby vested with full power to alter and regulate the bounds of the militia districts in said county, in the same manner and to the same extent as heretofore exercised by the militia officers of said county,any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. PENITENTIARY. AN ACT to authorize the Inspectors of the Penitentiary to place the debts due that institution into the hands of any attorney in this State for collection, as they may deem expedient. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the Board of Inspectors of the Penitentiary be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to place the notes and accounts of the Penitentiary, which they may from time to time deem it advisable to commence suit upon, in the hands of any attorney in this State for that purpose, and that such fees be allowed such attorney as he and the Inspectors may agree upon: Provided, that this act shall not militate against the appointment of the present collecting attorney for said institution

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. POOR SCHOOLS. AN ACT to amend the several laws of this State on the subject of the Poor-school Fund so far as relates to the times of disbursement by the Trustees. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for the Trustees of the Poor-school Fund of the several counties of this State to pay the teachers of the poor children their respective accounts against said fund annually; and the several teachers shall, during the month of December in each year, render in their accounts to the several trustees of the different counties, and at the expiration of said year, and within ten days thereafter, the said trustees shall proceed to pay the same: Provided, that the said funds are sufficient; and in the event of the same not being sufficient the said trustees shall pay the proportionable share to which each teacher is entitled; and in no event shall any remaining arrears be paid out of the funds of the next succeeding year, unless after paying the teachers of the then current year there shall be a surplus of fund; and at the end of each year, and in case the fund allotted to each

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county shall not be sufficient to pay all the demands for each year, then and in that case said trustees shall pay to each teacher his proportionable part of the fund on hand at the expiration of each year. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to prevent any teacher of the poor children in the counties of Telfair and Franklin from receiving payment out of the Poor-school Fund of said counties, unless such teacher shall have been examined and found qualified by the Justices of the Inferior Court, or a majority of them. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That no teacher of the poor children in the counties of Telfair and Franklin shall in future receive any moneys out of the poor-school fund of said counties, unless such teacher shall have been examined and found qualified by the Justices of the Inferior Court of said counties respectively. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on application of any person to said Justices, or a majority of them, the said Justices shall examine said person, and if found qualified, shall give such person a certificate from under their hand.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of the poor-school fund of said counties of Telfair and Franklin respectively shall not pay any person out of said fund unless such person produce to the Treasurer the certificate above described,any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to alter and amend an act passed the twenty-second day of December, 1828, respecting the bond to be given by the trustees of the Poor-school Fund, so far as relates to the county of Emanuel. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior Court for the county of Emanuel to notify the present trustee of the Poor-school Fund of said county, requiring him to appear at the Court-house in said county at any time they may deem convenient, and to require him the said trustee to give bond and security in double the amount of all funds which may be due said county; and if he the said trustee refuses to comply with the terms aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the said court to appoint some fit and proper person to perform the duties required under the existing law of this State. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834. AN ACT to appropriate a part of the county funds of Camden county to aid in the education of the poor children of said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars of the taxes of said county be added to the Poor-school Fund of said county; and it shall be the duty of the tax-collector to pay over the sum aforesaid annually to the treasurer of the Poor-school Fund of said county; and his receipt shall be received by the Judges of the Inferior Court of said county, and be entered as a credit in favour of the said tax-collector; and the said sum of money so raised shall be laid out by the Judges of the Inferior Court of said county in the education of poor children of said county, in any manner they may deem most proper and advantageous. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and

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parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834. AN ACT to consolidate the Poor-school and Academy Funds of the county of Wayne, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act the funds set apart and known as the Academy Fund for the county of Wayne shall no longer be known as a fund for that purpose, but shall be attached to and become a part of the Poor-school fund for said county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of said Academy to pay over all moneys or other effects belonging to said Academy into the hands of the sole trustee for the Poor-school Fund for said county, and by him to be applied to the education of the poor, agreeably to the provisions of the law; having due regard to bestow in each district in said county an equal part of said fund, in proportion to the poor children in each district. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid trustee shall make application and receive from time to time any moneys in the treasury which may be set apart for the Wayne County Academy. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the following

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persons are hereby appointed to fix upon and to point out the place or places in each of the several districts in said county where the schools or seminaries of learning shall severally be held:in the three hundred and thirty-fifth district, Jesse Lewis, James Robson, Jun., and Evan Jones; in the three hundred and thirty-fourth district, John Sanders, Thomas Purdam, and John Ammon; in the three hundred and thirty-third district, Moses S. Harris, John Brown, and Caleb Pendaros. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That on the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, and on the first Monday in January annually thereafter, it shall be lawful for the citizens in each district severally in said county to meet and elect suitable persons for the purpose expressed in the fourth section of this act; and all persons entitled to vote for members of the Legislature shall be entitled to vote at such elections severally in each district; said election to be superintended by one Justice of the Peace and two freeholders in said district; which said Justice and freeholders, or a majority of them, shall certify the persons having the highest number of votes, whose duty it shall be to act according to the fourth section of this act. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Justices of the Inferior Court in said county, or a majority of them, shall, if they deem it proper, require a further bond and good security of the sole trustee of the said Poor-school for the faithful performance of his duty: Provided, that said bond shall not exceed two thousand dollars. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 9th Dec. 1834.

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RELIEF. AN ACT for the relief of John W. Carter of Elbert county. Whereas, at the late sale of the public hands of this State, the said John W. Carter became the purchaser of one of said hands by the name of Jef; and whereas said slave Jef, on the day of public sale, and before his delivery to the said John W. Carter by the agent of the State, absconded and remained out of the possession of the said John W. Carter from the 17th March until the 27th May, to the manifest loss and injury of the said John W., without his default Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the cashier of the Central Bank of Georgia be, and he is hereby authorized and required to enter a credit of twenty-four dollars on the promissory note of John W. Carter of Elbert county, held by said bank. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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AN ACT to relieve Asa Hill from the payment of a judgment rendered on a penal bond. Whereas, it appears that Asa Hill became bail for the appearance of William Burk at the Superior Court of the county of Muscogee, charged with the offence of assault and battery; and by reason of his failing to appear that judgment was rendered against the said Asa Hill for the sum of five hundred dollars, besides cost; and whereas the said judgment is in nowise graduated to the offence, and is likely to oppress and materially injure the said security; for remedy whereof and for the relief of the said security Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Asa Hill be, and he is hereby discharged from the payment of said judgment, or any further liability from any proceedings issuing therefrom; and that the said judgment and execution are hereby declared to be no longer binding or of any effect whatever: Provided, the said Asa Hill shall pay all the costs which have accrued in said case; and provided further, that the Inferior Court of Muscogee county consent to release the said Asa Hill from his liability as aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws, or so much thereof as militate against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834.

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AN ACT for the relief of Felix Lewis. Whereas, Felix Lewis was cited by a summons of garnishment, issued at the instance of Wilson Lumpkin, Governor, for the use of the Central Bank, to answer what effects, moneys, or demands, if any, he had, of Hugh M`Lane, against whom the said plaintiff held a demand; and whereas the said Lewis was providentially prevented from attending said court at the term at which said summons of garnishment should have been answered; in consequence of which, by the order of said court judgment was entered against him for the sum of fourteen hundred and ninety-nine dollars and six and one-fourth cents principal, and the further sum of six hundred and twenty-nine dollars interest, up to the 28th day of March, 1834, and the further sum of nine dollars and fifty cents cost; and whereas the said Lewis was not indebted to the said Hugh M`Lane any thing at the time of the said summons of garnishment, nor at any time since that period; and whereas the State of Georgia desires not an improper collection of her debts from any of her citizens: for remedy whereof, and for the relief of the said Felix Lewis Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Felix Lewis be discharged from all liability on said judgment, and that all proceedings thereon be perpetually stayed, and that said Felix Lewis be now permitted to file his return on or before the first day of the next term of the Superior Court of said county to said summons of garnishment; and that the court proceed in said cause in the same manner as though the said return had been made in due time and no judgment had been entered thereon: Provided, the said Felix Lewis shall pay the costs accruing in the said judgment against himself. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts

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of laws militating against this law be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT for the relief of Edward J. Black, Curtis Humphries, and John G. McCall. Whereas, Edward J. Black of Scriven county did, in the month of February of the present year, bring into this State, from the State of South Carolina, certain negroes which were settled on his wife, without having made the oath prescribed by the first section of the thirteenth division of the penal code, which omission is represented and shown to have been from inadvertence on his part, and from no intention to evade the laws of this State; and the said Edward J. Black has sought relief from the pains and penalties of the said law Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing this act, the said Edward J. Black be, and he is hereby relieved and exonerated from the pains and penalties of the first section of the thirteenth division of the penal code incurred by him by bringing into this State, in February, 1834, certain negroes, named old Grace, Braner and her children Jef, Crusy, George, Sally, Lucy, Vicey, Hampton, Dibilah, Revanna, Charity and her children Peter and John, Linda and her children Liza, Adeline, Polly, Lydia, Helena, Hatkin, Moses, and Nancy, Mitey and her

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child Maria, Elsey and her child Patsey, Grace, and her children Susan, Randolph, and Alfred, without having made the previous oath of his intention so to do, as prescribed by the said act: Provided, that the said Edward J. Black, on or before the first day of February, 1835, shall make the oath of his actually having brought the said negroes into the State, and his views and intentions in so doing, as prescribed by the said section and in conformity thereto, and file the same according to law. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Curtis Humphries and John G. McCall of Scriven county be, and they are hereby relieved from all the pains and penalties of the thirty-second section of the penal laws of 1817, incurred by them by the introduction of certain slaves,viz.by the former, Daniel, Mary, Green, Quaco, and Emily, by the latter, Milly and Fitz,into this State from the State of South Carolina, without complying with the requisitions of said section: Provided, the said Curtis Humphries and John G. McCall, on or before the first day of February, 1835, shall make oath of their actually having introduced the said slaves into the State, and their views and intentions in so doing, as prescribed by the said section and in conformity thereto, and file the same according to law. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834. AN ACT for the relief of Elizabeth Clinch. Whereas, Elizabeth Clinch, late of Habb's district, in the county of Laurens, gave in for a draw in the Gold Lottery in Whitehead's district in said county, and through mistake

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or inadvertence of the receiver of draws, it was not designated either as a gold or land draw; and it appearing that the same was returned as a land draw, and that the said Elizabeth Clinch has drawn a prize in the late Land Lottery, and that the same has been returned as fraudulently drawn Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the draw of the said Elizabeth Clinch in the late Land Lottery of this State be, and the same is hereby legalized and made valid; and that the lot of land drawn by the said Elizabeth Clinch be, and the same is hereby vested in the said Elizabeth Clinch and her heirs as fully and completely as if the said Elizabeth Clinch had been legally entitled to a draw in said Land Lottery, and had given in for the same: Provided, the said Elizabeth Clinch or her heirs shall take out the grant for the same and pay the usual fees: any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT for the relief of the tax-collector and tax-receiver of Henry county for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and for other purposes. Whereas, by an act of the Legislature of the State of Georgia, passed in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, the general tax levied on the citizens of said State was reduced at and after the rate of twenty-five per cent.; and whereas, the receiver of tax returns of the county of Henry made out his digest without regard to said reduction, and

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the said digest so made out was placed in the hands of the said tax-collector; and the said tax-collector having collected from the citizens of said county twenty-five per cent. more than by law he was authorized to collect, by reason of said erroneous digest; for remedy whereof Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be lawful for the said tax-collector to pay over to the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Henry, for county purposes, the excess of taxes so by him collected as aforesaid: Provided, the said Justices of the Inferior Court of said county shall enter into a bond with security satisfactory to the said tax-collector and receiver, to indemnify and save them harmless from all suits at law and sums of money and costs which may be recovered from them by any person whomsoever, on account of the taxes so illegally collected, or for the error in said digest. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no suit shall be brought in any of the courts of this State against the said tax-collector or his legal representatives for the amount of taxes so overpaid, after the expiration of four years from the time the taxes were so paid; and that no admission or promise by the said tax-collector shall be received in evidence to take the case out of this limitation. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That no suit shall be maintained in any of the courts of Georgia against the receiver to tax returns of said county for or on account of the errors by him committed in making out his digest as aforesaid, after the expiration of four years from the time he made out his digest as aforesaid. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1834.

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AN ACT for the relief of certain persons who drew land in the late lottery as orphans of David Hudgins. Whereas, in the late Land and Gold Lottery a certain lot of land in the gold region, tract number twelve hundred and fifteen in the twelfth district of the first section of the Cherokee country now Lumpkin county, was drawn by certain children of one David Hudgins, as orphans of David Hudgins of Taylor's district in Putnam county, the names of said children having been given in for draw or draws in said lottery by some person under the belief that they were orphans from the long and continued absence of their father for the space of ten or twelve years, and who was supposed to be dead, which is since ascertained not to be the fact,it having been made appear that he is still living, or was at the time said draw was given in. And whereas said lot of land has been returned as fraudulently drawn, and may probably be condemned as such, although it was in the spirit if not the letter of the section of the act which was made for the benefit of such destitute children as were in the condition of orphans Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That half and entire interest in the said lot be, and the same is hereby vested absolutely in the said children as orphans as aforesaid, in case the same shall be condemned as fraudulent; and the State doth hereby disclaim, release, and relinquish all right, title, and interest which she has or may have in and to said lot, or any part or parcel thereof, to said children who drew said lot as orphans as aforesaid: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prejudice the right or rights of the informer to his part of said lot, provided the said lot shall be condemned as fraudulently drawn. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to change the names of James Thompson Felts and Granville Felts of Scriven county to James Thompson Bevill and Granville Bevill, Jr., and to legitimatize the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act the names of James Thompson Felts and Granville Felts of Scriven county be, and they are hereby changed to James Thompson Bevill and Granville Bevill, Jr. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said James Thompson Bevill and Granville Bevill, Jr. be, and they are hereby made lawful heirs of Granville Bevill, Sen. of said county, and are hereby declared to be joint and equal heirs with the other legal heirs of the said Granville Bevill, Sen., and entitled to all the rights and privileges to which they would have been entitled had they been born in lawful wedlock,any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to change the name of John Golphin Wiggins of Emanuel county to that of John Golphin Paulett. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the name of John Golphin Wiggins of Emanuel county be changed to that of John Golphin Paulett,any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to change the name of John Mershon to John Tompkins. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the said John Mershon shall be known in law by the name of John Tompkins,any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 10th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to change the name of and legitimatize William S. Smith, and other persons therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the name of William S. Smith be changed to that of William S. Crosby, and that he be hereby declared to be fully and completely legitimatized and entitled to all the rights and privileges that he would have been entitled to had he been born in lawful wedlock, and be fully capable of inheriting and receiving all manner of property by virtue of the statute of distributions now in force or which may hereafter be in force in this State, so far as relates to estate, real and personal, of Silas Crosby of Appling county, the reputed father of the said William S. Smith, to all intents and purposes as though he had been born in lawful wedlock. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the name of the person known by the name of Elizabeth Crafton be, and the same is hereby changed to that of Elizabeth Cobb; Barzilla Crafton to Barzilla Cobb; Bathsheba Crafton to Bathsheba Cobb; Mary Ann Crafton to Mary Ann Cobb; and Jincy Ann Crafton to Jincy Ann Cobb. And be it further enacted, That the said Elizabeth Crafton, Barzilla Crafton, Bathsheba Crafton, Mary Ann Crafton, and Jincy Ann Crafton are hereby declared to be fully and completely legitimatized and entitled to all the rights and privileges to which they would have been entitled had they been born in lawful wedlock; and fully capable of taking, inheriting, and receiving all kinds of property by virtue of the statute of distribution of this State, so far as regards the estate, both personal and real, of James Cobb, their reputed father: Provided, this act shall not extend to the exclusion of any child or children of the said James Cobb born, or who may be hereafter born, in lawful wedlock. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the name of Hiram W. Zachery of Washington county shall be changed, and in future be known and called by the name of Hiram W. Burner.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the name of James M. Akin of the county of Hall shall be changed to that of James M. McAfee, and in future he shall be known and called by that name. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to alter the name of Lurena Elizabeth Smith to Lurena Elizabeth Redding, and adopt and make her a lawful heir of James P. Redding of Monroe county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the name of Lurena Elizabeth Smith shall be changed to that of Lurena Elizabeth Redding, and she be the adopted heir of James P. Redding of Monroe county; and that she be capable in law to inherit and take by descent from the said James P. Redding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d 1834.

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AN ACT to change the name of Sarah Logan to that of Sarah Johnson, and to change the name of Jane Thompson to that of Jane Brown, and to legitimatize them. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the name of Sarah Logan be, and the same is hereby changed to that of Sarah Johnson, and as such she shall be called and known in law; and the said Sarah is hereby declared to be fully and completely legitimatized, and entitled to all the rights and legal privileges that she would have been had she been born in lawful wedlock; and be fully capable of taking, inheriting, and receiving all manner of property by virtue of the statute of distributions of this State, so far as relates to the real and personal estate of Jeremiah Johnson, her reputed father: Provided, the same shall only be construed to place the said Sarah on equal ground with, and not to the exclusion of, any others the legitimate heirs of the said Jeremiah Johnson. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the name of Jane Thompson of Coweta county be changed to that of Jane Brown; and that she is hereby declared to be fully and completely legitimatized, and entitled to all the rights and privileges that she would have been had she been born in lawful wedlock; and be fully capable of taking, inheriting, and receiving all manner of property, by virtue of the statute of distribution now in force, or which may hereafter be in force in this State, so far as relates to the real and personal estate of Isaac Brown of Coweta county, her reputed father, to all intents and purposes as though she had been born in lawful wedlock. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts

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laws militating against the true intent and meaning of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to admit certain persons therein named to plead and practise law in the several courts of law and equity in this State, and to prescribe their liability touching the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, James Monroe Randle, John Elliott Ward, John James Flournoy, Paul J. Semmes, Howell Cobb, William A. Quigley, Philip Clayton, William H. Connelly, John T. Dearing, John F. Crews, John Gibson, George V. Neal, William A. Holland, Harris C. Hudson, Thomas J. Johnston, Thomas M. Cobb, and John Dawson be, and they are hereby authorized and admitted to plead and practise law in the several courts of law and equity in this State, upon their undergoing an examination in open court according to the laws of this State. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said James Monroe Randle, John Elliott Ward, John James Flournoy, Paul J. Semmes, Howell Cobb, William A. Quigley, Philip Clayton, William H. Connelly, John T. Dearing, John F. Crews, John Gibson, George V. Neal, William A. Holland, Harris C. Hudson, Thomas J. Johnston, Thomas M. Cobb, and John Dawson shall, upon their undergoing said examination and admittance, be held,

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deemed, and considered liable and responsible for all their acts and contracts in the same manner and to the same extent as if they were of full age. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834. AN ACT to give to masons and carpenters an encumbrance for debts due on account of work done and materials furnished in building or repairing houses, on such houses and the premises to which they may be attached; and to repeal all laws on this subject, so far as relates to the counties of Richmond and McIntosh, and in the cities of Savannah, Macon, and Columbus. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all debts which may hereafter become due to any mason or carpenter in the counties of Richmond and McIntosh, the cities of Savannah, Macon, and Columbus in this State, for work done or materials furnished for building or repairing any house, in all cases when said mason or carpenter shall not have taken personal security for said debts, shall constitute and be an encumbrance on such house and the premises to which it shall be attached superior in dignity to and of higher claim than any other encumbrance whatever, no matter of what nature or sort the same may be, and without regard to the date of such other encumbrance. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every mason or carpenter building or repairing any house shall, within three months from the time the same is completed, cause to be recorded in the clerk's office of the

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counties hereinbefore named, and the counties in which the cities of Savannah, Macon, and Columbus severally lie, where such building shall be erected or repaired, his claim thereon, which said claim shall be in substance as follows:--A. B., a mason or carpenter (as the case may be), claims an encumbrance on the house and premises on which it is erected of C. D., adjoining the lots or lands of E. F. and G. H., for the building or repairing (as the case may be) of said house; for which service he shall pay said clerk fifty cents: and on the failure so to record said claim, the said house and premises shall stand discharged from said encumbrance, so far as respects any older lien on or any subsequent bona fide sale or assignment of the same. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any mason or carpenter shall not build or repair any house by him undertaken to be built or repaired according to his contract, the debt or demand for building or repairing the same shall constitute no encumbrance on the house so built or repaired, or the premises. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any mason or carpenter having an encumbrance on a house and premises for the debt due for the building or repairing of the same shall, within twelve months from the time said debt shall become due, institute a suit for the recovery of such debt in a court having jurisdiction of the cause, and shall in his declaration describe the house and premises on which the work was done; and on the trial of said cause the jury shall find the amount due according to the evidence, and shall moreover find specially that the same shall be levied on the property described and proved in preference to any other claim whatsoever, Provided, the claim of the plaintiff shall have been recorded according to law; and the court shall award judgment and execution accordingly: and on the failure so to sue on said debt and prove the same to judgment, the said debt shall be placed on the same footing of any other simple contract or claim, and the said house and premises shall stand discharged from the encumbrance created by this act. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the building or repairing of any house, the same shall be delivered over to the possession and enjoyment of the person for whom the same was built or repaired, without affecting the lien created by this act. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That whenever any house and lot, or house and lands, subject to the encumbrance herein created, shall be seized and sold by authority of any process or decree of any court in this State, the same shall pass to the purchaser free from such encumbrance, which encumbrance shall attach to the proceeds of the sale in the hands of the officer making it, on a notice as in cases of claim to money raised under execution, which notice with the money shall be returned to the court by the said officer. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That whenever a claim of money made under the foregoing section shall be disputed by either the plaintiff or defendant in the execution, process, or decree on which the money was raised, the court to which the return is made shall retain the amount thereof in the hands of the clerk, and order an issue to be made up to try the validity of the claim; upon the trial of which issue, should it be determined against the claimant, he shall be adjudged to pay damages to the person entitled to the money, not exceeding twenty per centum, as the jury may assess, with interest from the date of the notice to retain and costs. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons holding a lien on the premises on which any building is about to be erected or repaired may give notice to the mason or carpenter about to build or repair a house on said premises, before the said building or repairs shall be commenced, not to proceed therewith; and if the said mason or carpenter after having received such notice shall proceed with said building or repairs, the said mason or carpenter shall hold his lien on the said house and premises, subject to the encumbrance of the person thus notifying him. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws giving master masons and carpenters or masons and carpenters liens or encumbrances on houses erected or repaired, or materials found by them, be, and the same are hereby repealed: Provided, however, that liens and encumbrances created or attached by any of the aforesaid laws shall be held good and valid in law and equity. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834.

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RIVERS. AN ACT authorizing any person to apply to a Justice of the Peace for the speedy removal of obstructions to the free passage of fish in Broad and Savannah rivers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall be lawful for any person to apply to a Justice of the Peace for the more speedy removal of obstructions to the free passage of fish in Broad and Savannah rivers. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Justice, upon application as aforesaid, to appoint five fit and disinterested persons as commissioners, whose duty it shall be to repair within three days to the place where the obstructions complained of are, and examine the nature and extent of the same; and if said commissioners shall report that said obstructions are contrary to the laws now in force for the keeping open said rivers for the free passage of fish, it shall be the duty of said Justice to grant an order for the removal forthwith of said obstructions to the person thus complaining: Provided, that no order shall be granted for the removal of said obstructions unless the party in interest shall be notified of the time the commissioners intend examining said obstructions. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the party in interest shall molest said commissioners in the execution of the said order, or shall prevent the execution of the same, he shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, before any court having jurisdiction of the same: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to

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exempt any person from the penalty now annexed by law made and provided in such cases. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to keep open Notley river for the free passage of fish, so far as respects the county of Union, and to appoint trustees for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Headrick, James M. Jones, and Moses Anderson be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to keep open Notley river for the free passage of fish, so far as respects the county of Union. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should it so happen that either of the aforenamed commissioners shall fail or refuse to serve, it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior Court, or a majority of them, and they shall have full power, to appoint some fit and proper person to fill such vacancy; and before they enter on the duties required of them, they shall take the following oath or affirmation:I, A. B., do solemnly swear (or affirm), that I will, to the best of my ability and understanding, discharge the duties required of me by this act, without favour or affection to any person, so help me God.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a majority of said commissioners in said county shall have full power to form a board, and to do and perform all and singular the duties required by this act. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to obstruct more than two-thirds of said Notley river by dams, fish-traps, or other obstructions to prevent the free passage of fish: that when any obstruction shall be placed in said river of Notley as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of the sheriff of said county, upon application made to him by any person or persons informing him of the place or places where such obstruction or obstructions may be located, with the name or names of the person or persons who have obstructed or caused the obstruction in said river, to proceed without delay to cause the same obstruction to be removed; the expense of removing such obstruction to be recovered out of the party by whom the same was made, in any court having jurisdiction over the same; and the aforesaid commissioners shall be the judges of the expense which may have occurred in consequence of removing said obstruction. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That when the said expense does not exceed the amount of thirty dollars, a suit shall be brought to recover the same in the name of the commissioners aforesaid against the offending party in the Justice Court where such offence shall be committed, or in the district where such offender shall reside; and shall be collected in the same manner as all other debts within the same jurisdiction. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to keep open the Central Hatchie creek in Heard county, from its junction with the Chatahoochee river to Tompkins's mills on said creek, for the free passage of lumber-boats, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Bailey Bledsoe, John B. Ghent, John Hendrick, Solomon Long, and Ephraim West be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners of said creek, from its junction with the Chatahoochee river to Tompkins's mills on the same, with full power and authority to remove obstructions from and keep open the said Central Hatchie creek, from the mouth of said creek to Tompkins's mills, for the free passage of lumber-boats and other water-craft. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any vacancy shall happen, by death, resignation, or otherwise, in the aforesaid Board of Commissioners, it shall and may be lawful for a majority of said Board of Commissioners to fill such vacancy. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall attempt to obstruct the passage of such lumber-boats, or other water-craft, in the Central Hatchie creek, by building fish-dams or fences across, or felling trees in said creek,every person so offending shall be subject to pay a fine not exceeding twenty dollars for every such offence, to be collected in any court having competent jurisdiction of the same; one half to be paid to the informer and the other half to be paid into the county treasury for county purposes.

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SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, December 20, 1834. AN ACT to prevent persons from poisoning water-courses within this State for the purpose of killing fish, and to punish those who violate the same. Whereas, it is a practice in several of the counties in this State for persons to procure large quantities of buck-eye root and other poisonous matter, and putting the same in the water-courses, thereby destroying all the fish for many miles, and in many instances killing cattle and other stock; for remedy whereof Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of June next, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to put buck-eye or other poisonous matter in any water-course for the purpose of killing fish. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person violating the first section of this act shall for each offence forfeit and pay the sum of fifteen dollars, to be recovered upon due proof thereof before any Justice of the Peace in the county where such offence may be committed; one half to the informer and the other half to be returned to the Inferior Court of the county, to be applied to county purposes.

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SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LIMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18th 1834. ROADS AND CANALS. AN ACT to amend the Road Laws of this State so far as to authorize the Commissioners of Roads of Chatham county to audit its own accounts, and to receive from the Inferior Court of said county in advance the money which, on due estimate, shall be necessary for the year. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Justices of the Inferior Court of Chatham county be, and they are hereby authorized to direct to be paid in advance, at the beginning of each year, to the chairman of the Board of Commissioners of the roads of the said county, such sum of money as by the said Board of Commissioners shall, on due estimate, be deemed to be requisite and necessary for keeping in good order the roads and bridges of said county: Provided, that the said Justices of the said Inferior Court shall be satisfied with the correctness and propriety of said estimate, and that

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the sum so required shall be consistent with the finances of said county. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Board of Commissioners be, and it is hereby authorized and required to audit the accounts appertaining to its duties, and that the same be received and recorded on the certificate of the chairman of said board. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to open and keep in repair the road leading from the three runs of Sandy Creek, in the county of Twiggs, to the city of Macon, by the way of Harvey's and McCall's mills. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners appointed by the Inferior Courts of the counties of Twiggs, Jones, and Bibb, to appoint overseers and direct them to open and keep in repair the road leading from the three runs of Sandy Creek, in Twiggs county, to the city of Macon, by the way of Harvey's and McCall's mills. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the overseers neglecting or refusing to open and keep open said road shall be liable to the same penalties and

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forfeitures as they would be for neglect of duty on any public road authorized by said counties,any law or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 10th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to alter and amend the Road Laws of this State, so far as relates to the county of Glynn. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the commissioners of the roads for said county shall be elected at the same places and by the same persons who are entitled to vote for members of the State Legislature, members of Congress, and all county officers: three road commissioners shall be elected from the twenty-fifth district, three from the twenty-sixth, and three from the twenty-seventh district, on the first Monday in January: the said commissioners to serve for the term of four years. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners so elected shall form and constitute a board of road commissioners for the county of Glynn; and they or a majority of them shall meet annually at Brunswick, and as often as they may deem it necessary, giving sufficient notice thereof; and also to appoint other commissioners in the room of any dying, departing the State, declining, refusing, or neglecting to act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners

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elected at their annual meeting in Brunswick shall appropriate the hands in the several districts, except the twenty-fifth district, as they or a majority of them shall agree upon; and they are also authorized to appoint overseers for the different roads in the said districts. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners at their annual meeting, or a majority of them, may appoint proper persons for the purpose of collecting roadfines. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to extend the benefits of an act entitled An Act to authorize and empower the Inferior Courts of Stewart and Talbot counties respectively, on application, to grant roads or settlement cart-ways to private individuals to go from and return to his, or her, or their farm or place of residence, passed 20th of December, 1833, to the county of Jasper. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the benefits of the above recited

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act shall be, and they are hereby extended to the county of Jasper. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Courts of the several counties in this State to grant the right of private ways in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Inferior Courts of the several counties in this State are hereby authorized and empowered, on application (whenever in their opinion it shall seem reasonable and just), to grant settlement-roads or private ways to individuals to go from and return to his, her, or their farm or place of residence. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever application is made to the Inferior Court by any individual for a road or way as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said court to appoint three disinterested men in the district where the applicant wishes the road or way to run, whose duty it shall be to go and mark out a suitable road or way, having due regard to the least possible injury to the land through which said road or way is intended to be run, and return to the next Inferior Court for county purposes the situation and nature of the case. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when said return

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is made, it shall be the duty of said court to grant such order to the applicant as they may think proper; so as to allow to him, her, or them a way to pass out and in from and to his, her, or their farm or place of residence. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall violate the provisions of this act by obstructing in any manner any road or way marked out as herein before directed, he, she, or they shall be subject to indictment and fine in the Superior Court of the county in a sum not less than one dollar per day for each day such obstruction shall continue in said road. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to incorporate the Auraria and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company, and the Union Turnpike Company, and to grant certain privileges to the same. Whereas, the construction of good roads by individual enterprise is laudable and ought to be encouraged, therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That for the purpose of constructing a turnpike-road from Auraria, in Lumpkin county, to some eligible point on the northern

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boundary of this State, in a direction towards Athens in the State of Tennessee, that Samuel King, Thomas King, and William I. King of M`Intosh county, and Reuben Hutchinson of Lumpkin county, and Woody Jackson of Oglethorpe county, and such other persons as they may associate with them, and their assigns, shall hereafter be a body corporate by the name and style of the Auraria and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company; and by said corporate name shall be capable in law to buy, hold, and sell real and personal estate, make contracts, sue and be sued, to make by-laws, and to do all lawful acts properly incident to a corporation, and necessary and proper to the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated; and to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter and destroy at its pleasure. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said corporation be, and it is hereby authorized and empowered to make, construct, and maintain a turnpike road of suitable width in the most proper and practicable route from the village of Auraria in the county of Lumpkin to a point to be by them ascertained and selected on the northern boundary line of this State, in or near the direction towards Athens in the State of Tennessee: Provided, that in all and every case where land or timber or other materials necessary for the construction of said road or the repairs thereof, and the same cannot, for want of agreement of the parties as to price, or for any other cause, be purchased from the owner or owners thereof, the same may be taken at a valuation to be ascertained in the following manner, viz.the corporation shall choose one person, the owner or owners of the land or materials one, and the Inferior Court of the county in which the property may be one; all of whom shall be freeholders: and in case either the corporation or the owner of the land or other property shall fail or refuse to select a person, then the Inferior Court to make the selection; and said persons, when selected, shall be notified of the time when and the place where they are to meet, which place shall be at or upon the property in dispute; and said arbitrators, before entering upon the duties assigned them, shall take and subscribe the following oath:I, A.B., do solemnly swear that I will render a true verdict according to the circumstances of the case now submitted to me, taking into consideration the benefit arising to the owner or owners of the property by the construction of said road in his, her, or their neighbourhood, as well as the damage done thereby. The award of whom shall operate

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as a judgment for the amount against the party cast by it, and shall be enforced by an execution from the Inferior Court: Provided, nevertheless, that either party shall have the right of appeal to be tried by a special jury at the next term thereafter of the Superior Court of the county, and the decision shall vest in the company the fee-simple, if it be land: Provided, that the company may abandon the right to the property condemned, at any time within twenty days after the final decision of the special jury, by filing a notice to that effect in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court, in which case the judgment shall be void, except as to costs. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporation shall, as soon as they have surveyed and marked the route for said road, give thirty days' notice in at least one paper published in Savannah, Athens, and Macon of said survey, describing as nearly as may be the route fixed upon; which advertisements shall be a sufficient notification to the owners of land upon said route, and no claim for indemnity shall be allowed unless made previous to the construction of the road. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have full power and authority to carry said road across all rivers, creeks, waters, or water-courses that may lie in the route thereof, by bridges or other proper means: Provided, that if said road shall cross any navigable water-course, the same shall be so constructed as not to impede the navigation thereof. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said turnpike road and the appurtenances thereto shall not be subject to be taxed higher than one per centum upon its annual nett income. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person injuring the property of said company, or who shall throw earth, stones, trees, logs, rubbish, or any other matter or thing whatever, upon said road or its appurtenances, or shall dig up or in any manner destroy said road or any of its bridges, gates, houses, or other appendages of the same, shall be punished by indictment for a misdemeanor, and on conviction may be fined and imprisoned at the discretion of the court, and shall also be liable for such damages as may be occasioned thereby, to

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be recovered by action at the suit of said company, or of any person aggrieved, in any court having jurisdiction. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have power to erect such a number of toll-gates upon said road and at such places as they may judge best and most convenient for the collection of toll upon said road, and may charge, demand, and collect the following rates of toll, viz.For every wagon denominated a wheel-wagon drawn by four or more horses or oxen, two cents per mile; for every four-wheel carriage denominated a stage or pleasure-carriage, three cents per mile; for every Jersey wagon, or wagon drawn by two horses, and all pleasure-carriages having but two wheels, one and a half cents per mile; for every cart drawn by oxen, one cent per mile; for each man and horse, five mills per mile; for each horse, mule, or jack, led or driven, two and a half mills per mile; for each head of neat cattle, one and a half mill per mile; for each head of sheep or hogs, one mill per mile. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the turnpike road authorized and granted by this act shall vest in said company, their heirs and assigns, in fee-simple: Provided, however, that the State reserves the right to purchase said road at a fair valuation, after the lapse of twenty years from its completion; the valuation to be ascertained by agreement between the company or agents appointed by them, and agents or commissioners appointed on the part of the State for that purpose. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the turnpike road authorized and granted by this act shall be commenced within one year from the first day of January next, and shall be finished within three years after the aforesaid first day of January next; and on failure thereof this charter shall be forfeited. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no other turnpike road, railroad, or canal, running laterally, and within ten miles of this turnpike road, shall be granted during the term of fifteen years from its completion. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That John Lyon, Joel Dickinson, and company shall hereafter be a body corporate, by the name and style of the

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Union Turnpike Company, for the purpose of constructing a turnpike road from Landsville, in Habersham county, through the Tesintee Gap on the Blue Ridge, by the way of Blairsville, to some eligible point on the northern boundary of this State, in a direction towards the Tellico Plains in the State of Tennessee. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the said Union Turnpike Company shall be governed in all things by the provisions and stipulations of this act, and be entitled to all the privileges, benefits, and immunities in the same manner and on the same conditions and liabilities as the said Auraria and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company are or may be in and by this act. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to establish a turnpike road commencing at that point on the Tennessee State line where the old Federal road intersects it, thence running on to the eastern bank of the Hightower river, and to vest the rights and emoluments in a company incorporated by this act. Whereas, it is highly important to the people of Georgia to have a good road communicating with the State of Tennessee over which heavy articles may be transported without difficulty; and whereas, in a sparsely populated and mountainous country, the roads cannot be kept in good repair by the application to them of all the labour now required by the road laws of this State Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met,

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and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Robert S. Brashears, Greene K. Cessna, and Charles H. Nelson be, and they are hereby incorporated and enacted a body politic, by the name and style of The Western Turnpike Company; and they and their successors and assigns are authorized to have and use a common seal, and in their corporate name to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in the several courts of law and equity in this State, and shall fill all vacancies which may occur in said company; and that said company shall be, and they are hereby vested with the exclusive privilege for the term of thirty years from the time the road hereinafter named and described shall be completed, of keeping the said road in repair, and of demanding the tolls authorized by this act. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall, within four months from the passing of this act, proceed to lay out and work upon a road to commence on the Tennessee line where the old Federal road intersects the same at or near McNair's, and pursue the said Federal road in its present course and direction as nearly as practicable to high-water mark on the eastern bank of the Hightower river, at or near the point where the said Federal road crosses the same; the said road to be opened to the width of twenty feet, and at no place to be of an elevation of more than eight degrees. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall remove or cause to be removed from said road all trees, stumps, grubs, roots, rocks, and other obstructions, and shall complete the said road in three years from the time the same is required to be commenced by this act; and shall moreover erect good and substantial bridges over all water-courses, over which a bridge shall be necessary in the opinion of the commissioners or their successors appointed by this act. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall be liable to pay all damages which may be occasioned to travellers or other persons by the said road or any bridge on said road being out of repair, and for all delays and hindrances occasioned in the same way; and any person aggrieved may, after notifying in writing any member of said board or company of his or her intention to apply to a magistrate for that purpose, go before a Justice of the Peace and make affidavit of the delay he or she has suffered, and the expense in repairs he or she may have been

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at; and the said Justice shall issue an execution thereon for the amount, unless the said member of the company shall controvert on oath the facts stated in the applicant's affidavit, in which case the said Justice shall order to be summoned forthwith a jury of five persons to try the said cause; and if the jury shall find in favour of the plaintiff, they shall increase their verdict by the amount of compensation to which they may believe the party to be entitled by reason of the additional delay occasioned by such jury trial; and in all cases the officers shall be entitled to the same fees that are allowed on trials in a Justices' court. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any execution issued against said company may be served on said road, and the privileges granted under and by virtue of this act, or such portion of it as may be within the county where such levy shall be made; and if made by a constable, he shall return the same to the sheriff, who shall advertise and sell as in cases of the sale of real estate; and the private property of the members of said company shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be subject to the payment of all debts contracted or liabilities incurred while they were so members. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company in laying out said road shall do it with the least possible injury to individual property; and when any person's enclosed land shall be injured thereby, the said company shall pay to such person before the said road shall be opened such damages as the said person may be entitled to, to be ascertained as hereinafter directed. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint five fit and proper persons as commissioners, to hold their appointment until the expiration of the charter hereby granted; whose duty it shall be to supervise said road, and to declare when the same shall be complete under this act, and to hear all complaints of injuries to enclosed land by the said company, and to cause a jury of five disinterested freeholders of the county where the lands injured shall lie to be summoned and sworn to assess the damages; which damages so assessed shall be paid as provided for by the foregoing section. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall be authorized to erect on said

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road four toll gates, at such places as the commissioners authorized to be appointed by this act shall designate, and as soon as the road shall be completed from the place pointed out for the first gate to the place for the second, one gate shall be erected and toll collected thereat, and so on till the whole road is completed: Provided, nevertheless, it shall not be lawful for the said company to collect tolls at any gate unless the work on said road shall be continued in good faith, and for the purpose of completing said road. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever the supervising commissioners, or a majority of them, shall declare the said road or any of the bridges to be out of repair, and after ten days' notice thereof to the said company, unless the said road shall be immediately repaired, it shall not be lawful to collect tolls at any of the gates on said road. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any of said commissioners should die, resign, or fail or refuse to discharge the duties required of them by this act, the Governor shall appoint some fit and proper person to fill the vacancy; and for each day's service of said commissioners, not exceeding ten days in each year, each of them shall receive two dollars, to be paid by the said company. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each of said commissioners, before he shall enter upon the duties required of him, shall take the following oath:I, A. B., do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be), that I will faithfully and impartially discharge all the duties required of me by law as commissioner of the road of `the Western Turnpike Company:' so help me God. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall be authorized to collect at each of the gates authorized to be established by this act the following tolls, to wit: For each six horse wagon, $1 00 For each four horse do. 75 For each ox team do. 75 For each ox cart, 25 For each horse cart, 25 For each four-wheel pleasure carriage drawn by two horses, 1 00 For each four-wheel do, do. drawn by one horse, 50

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For each two-wheel pleasure carriage, $0 37 For each two horse wagon, 50 For each one do. do. 37 For each rider and horse, 12 For each loose horse, 6 For each cattle and hogs, each 1 Foot passengers free. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company are authorized to use any timber on said road for the erection of bridges and other necessary purposes, upon paying a fair value therefor to the owner. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the members of said company, their servants or agents, shall collect any tolls beyond what are authorized to be collected by this act, they shall be subject to indictment, and on conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than ten nor more than fifty dollars; one-half to be paid to the informer. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the persons herein incorporated shall, by the first day of April next, notify to his Excellency the Governor their acceptance of this charter; and on their failure, any persons to the number herein mentionedmay file their names in the Executive department, and succeed to all the privileges and liabilities granted by this act: Provided, they shall within one month thereafter proceed with said work. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to establish a turnpike road, and for constructing and keeping up the same, from Dahlonega in Lumpkin county, by the way of Ellijay in Gilmore county, to Tennessee line, so as to intersect the old Federal road at or near where said road crosses the State line. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Benjamin L. Goodman and John Clark be, and they are hereby incorporated and created a body politic, by the name and style of The Ellijay Turnpike Company; and they and their successors, and assigns and heirs, or legal representatives, are authorized to have and use a common seal, and in their corporate name to contract and be contracted with, sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in the several courts of law and equity in this State; and shall fill all vacancies which may occur in said company; and by said corporate name shall be capable in law to purchase, accept, hold, sell, and convey real and personal estate, and to do all lawful acts properly incident to a corporation and necessary and proper for the transaction of the business and for the construction of the work for which it is incorporated: and that said company, and their successors and assigns, their heirs and legal representatives, shall be, and they are hereby vested with the exclusive privilege, for the term of twenty-two years from the time said road hereinafter named and described shall be completed, of keeping said road in repair, and of demanding and receiving the tolls authorized by this act. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have the liberty of erecting on said road two toll-gates, at such places as the company may choose, and at such time as shall be hereinafter stated, to wit:said company shall commence constructing said road within twelve months from the passage of this act, and shall proceed to open it so as to make it passable for wagons; and so soon as that shall be done, said company shall be privileged to erect one gate, and take and receive

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the following rates of toll, to wit: for each loaded wagon, team, and driver, one dollar; for each empty wagon, team, and driver, fifty cents; for each four-wheel pleasure carriage, fifty cents; for each two-wheel pleasure carriage, twenty-five cents; for each four-wheel wagon, cart, or carriage of any description not above described, and drawn by two horses, fifty cents if loaded, and if empty twenty-five cents; for all ox-carts, team, and driver, if drawn by less than four oxen, twenty-five cents; for each man and horse, twelve and a half cents; for each head of neat cattle, three cents; and each head of hogs, sheep, or goats, two cents; and for each footman, six and a fourth cents: Provided, it shall not be lawful for said company to charge the citizens of Gilmer county, when passing to and from on said road, alone or with their stock, wagons, teams, carts, c., in and through said county, any of the above rates of toll. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company is hereby required within three years from the passage of this act to put said road in the following order, to wit:they shall make it at least twenty feet wide wherever the ground will admit of it, and make it as level as the form of the country will permit; as soon as this shall be done, and it shall be considered by the commissioners hereinafter named to be completed, done, and finished as contemplated by this act, upon a view and examination of said road, said company shall have the privilege of erecting another toll-gate on and across said road, and of receiving at it the same rates of toll as those before mentioned: Provided, that the said toll-gates be erected in the county of Gilmer. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That Clement Quillian, John Choice, and James Edwinson shall be, and they are hereby constituted commissioners of said road; and that they shall immediately after the passage of this act proceed to lay out said road from Dahlonega, by the way of Ellijay, to the old Federal road, at or near where the same crosses the State line; and that it be, and the same shall be established a turnpike under the conditions and terms herein prescribed. SEC. 5. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said company to keep said road open and in good repair; and on failure of said company to keep up said road in good order and repair, it shall be the duty of said commissioners, and their successors, to pull down the gates that shall have been erected or that may be erected by said company; and it shall not be lawful for said company to

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change the tolls, or any of them, herein before mentioned, or to interrupt or prevent the free passage of all persons, wagons, carriages, stock, c. on and along said road; but the same shall go free of toll while the said company shall put said road in good order and repair, and shall be authorized by said commissioners to put up their gates again and to receive the tolls thereat as herein before authorized; and, moreover, the individuals composing said company shall be subject to be indicted and prosecuted in the Superior Court of the counties respectively in which said road shall be suffered to become out of repair, for nuisance, and on conviction shall be fined, at the discretion of the court, in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars; and shall also be liable to an action on the case for damages, at the instance of any person or persons who may have sustained any damage or loss by reason of the negligence of said company to keep open and in good repair said road. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commissioners, or a majority of them, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to fill all vacancies that may occur in their board by death, removal, resignation, or otherwise. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to aid and assist the opening of the port of Brunswick to the central and interior of Georgia. Whereas, it is due to the people of the middle and western counties of this State that the Legislature should grant equal

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aid and encouragement to their agricultural and commercial prosperity Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the president of the Central Bank be, and he is hereby authorized and required, immediately after the passage of this act, to subscribe, in the name of the said Central Bank, on account and for the benefit of the State, for five hundred shares, at one hundred dollars each, of the capital stock of the Brunswick Canal and Railroad Company. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the president and directors of the Central Bank be, and they are hereby authorized and required to pay the instalments on the aforesaid five hundred shares of stock, out of any moneys in the said bank on the part of the State, as they may be called for on the part of the individual stockholders of the aforesaid Canal and Railroad Company,all laws or parts of laws in relation to the said Central Bank to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, that the Commissioners or Board of Directors of the said Canal and Railroad Company shall exhibit a certificate that the individual stockholders, on their part, shall have first paid their instalments when called for, agreeable to the terms of the act of incorporation. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That John Rawls and H. H. Tarver be, and they are hereby appointed directors, and empowered to represent the above interest of the State at the Board of Directors of the aforesaid company, and to hold their office for three years from and after the passage of this act; and that thereafter two directors shall be elected annually by the General Assembly, in joint ballot, to represent the State as aforesaid. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to amend and consolidate the acts granting chartered rights and privileges to William B. Davis, Urbanus Dart, and their associates, to establish a company to construct a canal or railroad, or both, from the Altamaha to Turtle river, in Glynn county, or to Brunswick, passed 20th of December, 1826, and the 14th of December, 1830. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Thomas Butler King, Stephen C. King, and William W. Hazard, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby incorporated, with vested powers, rights, and privileges as a body politic, by the name and style of the Brunswick Canal and Railroad Company. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said company to create a stock to the amount of two hundred thousand dollars, to be increased, if necessary, one-third, for the purpose of carrying the said canal and railroad into full effect; that is to say, they are authorized and empowered to cause books of subscription to be opened at such places and in such manner as they may deem most conducive to the obtainment of the stock required. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of the said company shall consist of two thousand shares, of one hundred dollars each,but the number of shares may be increased one-third; and that upon subscribing to the aforesaid stock the subscribers shall pay the sum of five dollars upon each share. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all amounts paid in by the stockholders shall be deposited in one of the incorporated banks in the city of Savannah; and before the State or the officers of the Central Bank of Georgia shall pay any amount on the stock authorized to be subscribed for by any existing law of this State, or any law which may hereafter be passed, the certificate of the cashier of the bank in which the same shall be deposited shall be produced to them, that the same amount on each share has been paid and deposited in said bank by the individual stockholders as is demanded of the State or Central Bank.

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SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the individual property of the said company shall stand pledged to the State for the amount which shall be subscribed and paid in by the State (should the State authorize any subscription), and that all amounts subscribed and paid in by the State and said stockholders shall be applied to the objects contemplated by this act: Provided, that nothing in this section shall be so construed as to hold the individual property of any stockholder or director liable for the application of any part of said fund which was or may be paid in at a time that he was not a stockholder or director. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said company, by the name and style aforesaid, shall be capable in law as a body politic, and as such may sue and be sued, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended, in all courts of the Stage of Georgia, or any place whatsoever having competent jurisdiction over any matter, dispute, or transaction touching the business-affairs or well-being of the said company; and that the stockholders may appoint or elect five members annually, who shall constitute and form a Board under the name and style of the President and Directors of the Brunswick Canal and Railroad Company, who shall be competent to make all necessary by-laws, rules, and regulations they may deem most conducive to the good order, faith, and harmonious government of the said company: Provided, such by-laws, rules, and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State or of the United States. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid company shall be allowed seven years, from and after the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty-seven, in addition to the time allowed by the above last recited act, to complete their canal or railroad, or both; and the said company shall be entitled, and they are hereby empowered, to demand and collect, by way of freight or toll, on all goods, wares, merchandise, and productions of the country, or upon all rafts of lumber, logs, or ranging timber, steam or other boats, and cars or vehicles of any description, conveyed through said canal, or over and upon said railroad, such rates of toll or freight as the Board of Directors of the said company may find necessary to adopt from time to time in their regulations of toll: Provided, that during any twelve months together the nett amount shall not exceed twenty-five per cent. per annum upon the aggregate amount of money they shall have actually expended in making, constructing, and keeping in good repair the said canal or railroad,

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or both; to ascertain which, the aforesaid Board shall cause two accurate sets of books to be kept, one for the canal, and the other for the railroad, showing the amount of stock paid in for each, and also all the expenditures and cost of each, together with all the repairs and income of tolls or freight of each; which books shall always be liable to the inspection of a committee appointed by the Legislature, to the end that the said company shall not abuse the remunerating privilege of this act. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors of the aforesaid company shall have power to select and take, or receive as donation, such strip or strips of land from the Altamaha to Turtle river, or their branches, and of such width and shape as they may deem necessary for the construction, accommodation, and protection of their canal or railroad, or both; and in case of disagreement between the owner or owners and the Board of Directors of the aforesaid company, in regard to the damages or price of the necessary strip or strips of land required for the purposes aforesaid, it may and shall be lawful for the company to appoint two competent and disinterested freeholders, and the owner or owners of such land shall appoint two competent and disinterested freeholders, all of whom shall be sworn by a magistrate, or one of the Justices of the Inferior Court, to do equal justice between the parties; and they shall then proceed upon the premises as a committee of arbitration and appraisement; and they shall make their award of valuation of damages in writing, to be approved and signed by them, or a majority of them, which amount the said company shall pay unto the owner or owners of such strip or strips of land in lawful money, and the fee-simple right thereof shall vest in the said company for ever; and the award shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the Superior and Inferior Courts of Glynn county, in the same manner as deeds. In case the committee aforesaid cannot agree upon the amount of damage and valuation, they shall choose a fifth man, who shall be sworn as aforesaid, and be added to said committee; and in case either party be dissatisfied with the award of said committee of arbitration, they shall have the right of appeal to a special jury, to be tried at the term of the Superior Court of Glynn county next thereafter held in said county; and the decision, in which way soever finally thus made by the said jury, shall vest in the Brunswick Canal and Railroad Company the fee-simple of the strip or strips of land in question; and in the other party a judgment for the value thereof thus ascertained and determined.

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SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That no canal or railroad shall be permitted hereafter to be cut or constructed between the Altamaha and Turtle rivers, or their branches, and Brunswick, within twenty miles of the route or routes the aforesaid company may select, without their consent. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That the said company shall build good substantial bridges across their canal or railroad wherever they may cross a public road or way; and the stock of the aforesaid company shall be exempt from all taxes, duties, and impositions whatever, unless it be such a tax and no more as is now imposed on bank stock in this State. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That no stockholder of the said company shall be eligible as a director unless he shall hold at least ten shares of the stock in his own right, or as administrator, executor, or guardian: the Board shall be competent at all times to call an extra meeting of the stockholders, when by them deemed necessary; and the directors shall choose one of their own body as president, who, together with the directors, shall be entitled to and receive such compensation for their services as may be allowed by the owners and lawful representatives of a majority of shares of the capital stock of the institution, to be determined by ballot or otherwise at the annual regular meeting of the stockholders; and in all cases the stockholders shall be allowed to vote either in person or by proxy,that is to say, any stockholder who may be absent at any meeting as aforesaid may authorize, by power of attorney under seal, any other person to vote for him, her, or them. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the number of votes of each stockholder, administrator, executor, or guardian shall be according to the number of shares he, she, or they shall holdthat is to say, each share to be entitled to one vote. The Board to be competent to appoint and fix the salaries of a Secretary and Treasurer, and as many clerks, agents, engineers, and labourers as they may deem necessary and expedient to despatch the business of the said company. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall have power to call in such ratio, from time to time, of the subscription of stock upon the books of said company, by way of instalments, as they may deem necessary for the prompt progress and execution of the work; first giving notice to the stockholders respectively sixty days previous

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to the time required for the payment of such instalment; and in case any stockholder should refuse to pay his, her, or their instalments when called on in manner aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the board to declare such shares of stock forfeited to the use and benefit of the company; but the defaulting party shall have the right of appeal to the stockholders at their next regular meeting thereafter, and by the consent of the owners and representatives of two-thirds of the capital stock of the institution the previous instalments which may have been paid upon the shares so forfeited may be refunded, and the said shares offered by the board for re-subscription, as if the same had never been subscribed for. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall wilfully and maliciously damage, injure, or obstruct, or in any manner destroy, or shall wilfully and maliciously cause, or aid and assist, or counsel or advise, any other person or persons to destroy, or in any manner to hurt, damage, injure, or obstruct the aforesaid canal or railroad, or any bridge or other appurtenance connected therewith, or any vehicle, edifice, right, or privilege granted by this act, and constructed for use under the authority thereof, such person or persons so offending shall be liable to be indicted, and, on conviction thereof, shall be imprisoned at hard labour in the penitentiary, at the discretion of the court, not less than four years, and shall be further liable to pay all damage and expenses of rebuilding or repairing the same, the one half of which shall be paid by the company to the informer. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That the shares of stock of the aforesaid Brunswick Canal and Railroad Company shall be taken, considered, and held in law as real estate, and may be sold and transferred upon the books of the company by scrip, or assigned and bequeathed by the proprietors thereof as such. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That any subscriber of stock in the aforesaid company shall have the right to subscribe for shares in the railroad or the canal separately and distinctly, or conjointly in both, as he, she, or they may choose at the time of subscribing; and their certificates and scrips of stock shall be issued and entered upon the books of the company, and kept accordingly; and the dividends shall be declared by the Board of Directors upon the nett income of the railroad and the canal also separately and distinctly from the two sets of books, as directed by the fifth section of this act.

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SEC. 17. And be it further enacted, That, with the consent and petition of the grantees William B. Davis, Urbanus Dart, and their associates, the two recited acts in the preamble of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize and empower the City Council of Augusta and the Trustees of Richmond County Academy to convey to the Athens Railroad Company, in fee-simple, ten acres of the town common lots of Augusta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the city council of Augusta and the trustees of Richmond County Academy are hereby fully authorized and empowered to convey to the Athens Railroad Company, in fee-simple, ten acres of the town common lots of the city of Augusta, to be located and fixed upon by the said city council and trustees of the academy, or a majority of each. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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AN ACT supplementary to and amendatory of An Act to grant to Thomas Spalding and his associates the right of constructing a railroad of wood, or digging a canal, from the Ocmulgee to the Flint river, with certain privileges; assented to December 22d, 1827. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Thomas Spalding, and such persons as he may now associate with himself, being citizens of the United States, be authorized to construct a railroad of wood, or such other road deemed by themselves best adapted for the running or passage of locomotive steam-engines, from the Ocmulgee to the Flint river, from and to such points on said rivers as they may deem most proper and fit, under the same provisions and restrictions (excepting such of them as shall be by this act altered or amended) granted to the said Thomas Spalding and his associates by act of the General Assembly assented to December 22d, 1827. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the term of ten years (to commence from the passage of this act) be allowed to the said Thomas Spalding and his associates to complete said road; and if at the expiration of the time thus specified the said work shall not have been completed, then and in such case this charter of incorporation, and all the rights, privileges, and immunities hereby granted to the said Thomas Spalding and his associates shall cease and be void, to all intents and purposes. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all so much of the above recited act of the 22d December, 1827, incorporating the said Thomas Spalding and his associates as the Ocmulgee and Flint Railroad and Canal Company, be made and held to embrace the amendments contained in this act, as if the same were specially and literally embraced in said title of incorporation. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the third section of said recited act as provides that the State may at any time within two years

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take an interest in the said railroad or canal, not exceeding one-half, shall not be held or deemed as accruing to the State from any railroad or road for the running of locomotive steam-engines which the said Thomas Spalding and his associates are by this act authorized to construct: Provided, nothing contained in this charter shall deprive the State of the power to grant a charter from any point on the Ocmulgee river to the town of Columbus, on the Chatahoochee river, for a canal or railroad, or both, or from the city of Macon to Flint river. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against the spirit and intention of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. SALES. AN ACT to repeal an act passed the 18th of December, 1829, entitled An act to authorize the Sheriffs of Campbell and Lee counties to advertise their sales in any public gazette published in Macon, so far as the same respects the county of Campbell. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is

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hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the aforesaid act, so far as the same respects the county of Campbell, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That the sheriffs of the Coweta circuit be, and they are hereby authorized to publish their sheriff sales in any of the public gazettes of Milledgeville, Macon, or Columbus. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against the same be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to repeal in part an act entitled An Act to authorize the clerks, sheriffs, and otherofficers in any of the counties in the Southern, Flint, Ocmulgee, and Western circuits, and of the county of Warren, to insert their advertisements in any gazette published in Milledgeville, c., assented to the 17th Dec. 1825; and to compel the clerks, sheriffs, and other officers in the county of Gwinnett to insert their advertisements in the Southern Banner. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, so much of the above recited act as relates to the county of Gwinnett be, and the same is hereby repealed.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, the clerks, sheriffs, and other officers of the county of Gwinnett be, and they are hereby authorized and required to insert their advertisements in the Southern Banner, published in Athens, Georgia. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the sheriffs of the counties of Cobb and Paulding to advertise the sale of property levied on in their counties in the Recorder and Spy, published at Auraria; and all sales by the sheriffs of said counties heretofore advertised in the Cassville Gazette, or the Recorder and Spy, shall be held and deemed to have been sufficiently advertised. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this section be, and they are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to amend an act to exempt from sale for debts contracted after a given time certain articles, chiefly necessary for the subsistence of the debtor's family. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this bill, in addition to the articles exempt from sale in the above recited act shall be added the family Bible of all debtors who may be entitled to the benefits of the said act.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. SHERIFFS AND CONSTABLES. AN ACT to legalize and make valid certain acts of the present sheriff of Paulding county and his deputy. Whereas, it appears that the bond given by the present sheriff of Paulding county was approved and attested by only two of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Paulding, and the said bond and the oath administered to the said sheriff when he was qualified into office have never been recorded on the minutes of the court, as prescribed by law: for remedy whereof Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all official acts of the present sheriff of Paulding county and his deputy are hereby legalized and made valid to all intents and purposes as if the bond had been approved by a Judge of the Superior Court, or a majority of the Justices of the Inferior Court, and the said bond and the oath administered to the said sheriff, when he was qualified into office, had been entered on the minutes of the court according to law; and that the

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said bond and oath be now entered on the minutes of the said court. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 20th, 1834. AN ACT to reduce the amount of the sheriff's bond in Baker county. Whereas, from the small amount of business transacted in the courts of said county, and no reasonable expectation of its increasing to any great extent; and whereas the amount of the bond as now required by law to be given is oppressive, and believing a less amount will answer all the purposes for which it is intended Therefore be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Justices of the Inferior Court, or a majority of them, for the county of Baker are hereby authorized, and shall cause to be executed by the present sheriff of said county and his successors in office a bond in the same form and words as the present bond, except as to the amount thereof, and with such securities as the said Justices may approve; the new bond shall be in the sum of ten thousand dollars; and upon the execution of the said new bond the old one shall be cancelled: Provided, nothing herein contained shall exempt the said sheriff from any liabilities on his bond up to the execution of said new one. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19th, 1834.

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AN ACT to reduce the Sheriffs' bond of this State, so far as respects the county of Union. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the sheriffs hereafter in the county of Union shall only be required to give bond and security in the sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful performance of their duty, in place of twenty thousand dollars as heretofore required. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to make valid Constables' bonds in certain cases. Whereas, many constables' bonds have been made payable to the Governor and his successors in office instead of having been made payable to the Justices of the Inferior Court, in pursuance of the law passed 22d December, 1829; for remedy whereof

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That any bond or bonds which may have heretofore been given by any constable or constables of this State under the law above referred to, and made payable to the Governor, shall be and are hereby considered and taken as good and valid as if the same had been taken and made payable to the Justices of the Inferior Court, in compliance with the law aforesaid. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. SLAVES AND FREE PERSONS OF COLOUR. AN ACT to make it penal for the owners of slaves or persons having charge of slaves, in the counties of Morgan, Putnam, and Greene, to hire to such slaves their own time, or to permit such slaves to labour for themselves, or carry on or transact any business for themselves, except upon the premises of such owner or person having charge of them. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is

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hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of February next, any owner of slaves within the counties of Morgan, Putnam, and Greene, or executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, or agent, having charge of or control over any slave or slaves within the counties aforesaid, who shall hire to any slave or slaves under their respective charge or control his or their time, or shall permit such slave or slaves, for consideration or otherwise, to have, hold, and enjoy the privilege of labouring or otherwise transacting business for him or themselves, except upon the premises of such owner, executor, administrator, guardian, trustee, or agent, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof before any court of competent jurisdiction in this State shall be punished by a fine not exceeding three hundred nor less than thirty dollars,any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to alter and amend an act assented to the 23d December, 1833, entitled An Act concerning free persons of colour, their guardians, and coloured preachers. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, Henry Adams, a free person of colour, who is now residing without the limits of the State of Georgia, but who is a native of the same, and a regularly ordained preacher of the Gospel, of the

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Baptist order, be, and he is hereby permitted to labour in the ministry within the limits of the State of Georgia, wherever he may be called to do so, without being required to undergo the penalties and provisions of the foregoing recited act, so long as the said Adams shall be subject to the discipline and in good standing in the church to which he is attached. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this law shall be void so far as respects said Henry Adams. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to regulate free persons of colour in the town of Greenesborough in the county of Greene, and in the town of Madison in the county of Morgan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of February next, no free person of colour shall be permitted to occupy any house in the town of Greenesborough, or in the town of Madison in the county of Morgan, unless their legal and duly appointed guardian shall first apply to and obtain from the board of commissioners of said towns respectively a special permission in writing; and which said permission shall be at the will of said commissioners, and subject to be revoked at any time by them.

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SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no free person of colour shall have and maintain or occupy any house in the town of Greenesborough, or in the town of Madison, for the purpose of keeping and maintaining a public eating-establishment; nor shall any free person of colour be permitted to trade or traffic in any article or articles, thing or things, which slaves are not permitted to trade in in this State. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any free person of colour shall in any instance violate the provisions of this act, and information shall be given to the board of commissioners of said towns respectively, it shall be the duty of said board to inquire into said violation of this act in such manner as they in their discretion may deem most just and correct; and if said board shall be of the opinion that the said free person of colour has violated the provisions of this act, the said board may inflict such punishment as the circumstances of the case may justify; in no case exceeding a fine of ten dollars, nor in any case more than twenty-five lashes; said fine to be collected by the marshals of said towns respectively, and any other punishment directed shall be inflicted by said marshals: and that all laws militating against this act be repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to emancipate Sam, a negro slave. Whereas, by a concurred resolution of both branches of the General Assembly of this State, passed at the last session of the Legislature, the Governor of this State, in consideration of the important services rendered by Sam, a negro

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man slave, in extinguishing the fire on the State-house, was authorized and required to purchase said negro Sam of his owner for the purpose of his emancipation; and his purchase having been effected Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, said negro man Sam, formerly the property of John Marler, be, and he is hereby emancipated and set free; and that he enjoy all the privileges and immunities given by the laws of this State to free persons of colour in such manner as if he were born free,any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834. AN ACT to manumit and set free certain persons therein mentioned. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this act, Fanny Hickman, who is, and has been for more than thirty years, the wife of Paschal Hickman of the county of Burke, shall be, and she is hereby declared to be free, and entitled to all the privileges and immunities appertaining to free persons of colour generally in this State. And whereas the said Paschal Hickman since his intermarriage with his said wife Fanny has had several children,

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and whereas by the laws of this State the said children follow the condition of their mother SEC. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That all said children heretofore born,to wit, John, Grove, Henry, William, Hetty, Eliza, and Frank,by and in consequence of said intermarriage between the said Paschal Hickman and Fanny his wife, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be free, and placed on the same footing that free persons of colour are usually placed in this State, and entitled to inherit from the said Paschal, as their father, any property which by the laws of this State would go to his children should he die without a will. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1834. AN ACT to emancipate Patsy and Cyrus, the wife and father of Solomon Humphries, a free person of colour; and Edmund, late the property of Theophilus Hill's estate, of Oglethorpe county. Whereas, Solomon Humphries, a free person of colour, has paid to the former owners of Patsy and Cyrus, his wife and father, the price asked for them Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the said Patsy and Cyrus, the wife and father of Solomon Humphries, and

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Edmund, late the property of Theophilus Hill's estate, of Oglethorpe county, shall be emancipated and set free, and shall be entitled to all the rights, immunities, and privileges of free persons of colour, as though they had been born free. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. TAX. AN ACT to impose, levy, and collect a tax for the political year 1835, on property real and personal, and to inflict penalties for refusing or neglecting to comply with the provisions thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the act passed on the 24th December, 1833, for imposing, levying, and collecting a tax, together with all acts and parts of acts which said act revived and continued in force, shall be, and the same is hereby continued in force as the tax act for the political year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-five, except the fifth section thereof. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the fifth section

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of the before recited act be, and the same is hereby repealed; any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to alter and amend an act regulating the commissions of tax-receivers and collectors in the several counties in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the tax-receivers and collectors in the several counties in this State, whose tax does not amount to fifteen hundred dollars, shall receive twenty-five per cent. as an additional compensation on what they are now allowed for their services. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of Baldwin county to levy an extra tax for the purpose of erecting a new Court-house. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Justices of the Inferior Court of Baldwin county be, and they are hereby authorized to levy an extra tax for the years 1835, 6, 7, and 8, for the purpose of erecting a new Court-house. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of Morgan and Elbert counties to levy an extra tax for the purpose of building a good and sufficient jail in said counties. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the Justices of the Inferior Courts of Morgan and Elbert counties, or a majority of them, respectively, are hereby authorized to levy an extra tax on the inhabitants of said counties respectively, which tax shall not exceed fifty per cent. on the amount of the

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State tax now imposed on the inhabitants of said counties, which said extra tax shall by said Justices respectively, or a majority of them, be imposed yearly hereafter, without another act of the Legislature for that purpose, until a sufficient sum shall be raised to defray the expenses of building said jail. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when said tax shall be imposed as above pointed out, the tax-collectors for the time being shall be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to collect the same; and the said collectors shall be bound to the Inferior Courts of said counties respectively, with good and sufficient security, in a sum double the amount to be collected in each year; which bonds the said courts are hereby authorized to demand and take, for the collection and immediate paying over the amount of said tax to the clerks of the said Inferior Courts of said counties, subject to be paid out by order of said courts, as may be necessary from time to time for defraying the expenses of building said jails in said counties. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said tax-collectors of said counties shall be allowed two and a half per cent. upon the amount of tax each year levied by the said Inferior Courts, and collected and paid over by said collectors to the clerks of the Inferior Courts of said counties. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of Upson county to impose and levy an extra tax for the purposes therein mentioned. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the Justices of the Inferior Court of Upson county, or a majority of them, shall be and are hereby authorized to levy annually for the term of three years, upon the citizens of the said county, an extraordinary tax, not at any time exceeding fifty per centum for any one year upon the usual State tax, according to the sound discretion of the said Justices; and the said extraordinary tax, when collected, shall be exclusively applied to the repair of the court-house, the building of a jail, and construction of necessary bridges in and for the said county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Justices aforesaid to secure the collection of the said tax in the same manner as is provided by law for securing the collection of other county taxes, and that the collector of the said county be allowed the same per centage as is allowed by law on other taxes,any law to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize the Inferior Courts of the counties of Jefferson and Bibb to levy an extra tax for county purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Justices of the Inferior Courts of the counties of Jefferson and Bibb be, and they are hereby authorized to levy an extra tax on the inhabitants of said counties respectively subject to taxation, which shall not exceed in the whole fifty per cent. on the general tax, to be applied to county purposes at the discretion of said courts. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said extra tax shall be collected by the tax-collectors of said counties for the time being, they having given satisfactory obligation to the said courts for the faithful performance of this duty; whose duty it shall be to pay over the same when collected to the said courts, to be appropriated by them respectively for the purposes aforesaid, after deducting the usual per centum for collection. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1834.

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AN ACT to enable the Justices of the Inferior Court of Campbell county to levy and collect extra taxes for county purposes. Whereas, divers citizens of the county of Campbell have memorialized the General Assembly praying the passage of a law to levy and collect, for a term of years, extra taxes by the Justices of the Inferior Court thereof, for the purpose of extinguishing the debt now owing by said county for building a court-house and other public buildings therein Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same it is hereby enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Inferiour Court of the county of Campbell annually to levy and collect from the citizens thereof an extra tax, not to exceed fifty per centum per annum on the amount of the State tax, in addition to the taxes now allowed by law, until the same shall be sufficient to defray the expenses incurred in building a court-house and jail in said county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against the true intent and meaning of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of Fayette county to levy and collect an extra tax for county purposes, not exceeding one hundred per cent. on the general tax, for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-five, thirty-six, and thirty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Inferior Court of Fayette county, or a majority of them, to levy an extra tax upon the citizens and taxable property of said county, for county purposes, for the years eighteen hundred and thirty-five, thirty-six, and thirty-seven: Provided, that said extra tax shall not exceed one hundred per cent. on the general tax heretofore levied and collected by authority of the laws now of force in this State. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the aforesaid tax shall be levied according to the provisions of this act, the same shall be collected in the same manner and under the same regulations as is prescribed by the existing laws of this State; and when collected shall be applied in discharge of the several debts now due from said county. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as respects the said county of Fayette. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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TOWNS. AN ACT to lay out the city of Macon into wards, and to amend the several laws for the incorporation of the city of Macon, and to prevent the erection of nuisances on the town common. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act the following persons to wit, Daniel Flanders, Luke Ross, Ambrose Baker, Isaac G. Seymore, Robert W. Fort, Nathan C. Monroe, and William B. Cone, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be to divide, or cause to be divided, the whole of the city of Macon into four wards,east Macon to constitute one ward, and to be entitled to one member in the City Council; and the other three wards to be so laid out as that each may contain as nearly as practicable an equal number of voters, and each of the said three last mentioned wards shall be entitled to two members in the City Council. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That no person shall be eligible as the Mayor of the city of Macon unless he be a free white man of the age of twenty-five years, a citizen of the United States, and shall usually have resided in said city two years immediately preceding his election; and no person shall be eligible as a member of the City Council unless he shall have attained the age of twenty-one years, and shall have the other qualifications prescribed in the case of the Mayor, and shall be at the time of his election a resident of the ward for which he shall be chosen. SEC. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an election for the Mayor and members of the City Council of the city of Macon shall be held on the first Monday in January of each and every year, within the limits of each ward, and that the male white citizens of each ward qualified to vote for members of the State Legislature, and who shall have paid all taxes legally imposed and demanded,

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and shall have resided six months within the jurisdiction of said corporation, and no other person, shall be entitled to vote for a member or members of such ward, and also for Mayor; and the polls of said election shall be opened at nine o'clock in the forenoon, and closed at four o'clock in the afternoon. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor shall be voted for in each ward; and after the polls are closed, one or more of the managers of the election in each ward shall convene at the court-house in said city, and consolidate the votes for Mayor given in the several wards; and the person having the highest number of votes for Mayor shall be declared duly elected. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That five days before the next election, and thirty days before each subsequent election, a book shall be opened by the city treasurer (of which he shall give due notice), in which the names of all persons in each ward who have not paid a tax to the city for the preceding year shall be inscribed, and no person whose name is not found in the taxbooks for the preceding year, or on the register or book hereby directed to be opened, shall be permitted by the managers to vote at such elections; and the said treasurer shall furnish to the managers of the election in each ward, before the opening of the election, an alphabetical list of all persons residing in that ward whose names appear upon said tax-book or register; and the said managers are hereby empowered and required, in all cases where there is a reasonable doubt of the qualification of a voter, to administer the following oath, viz.You do solemnly swear that you have attained the age of twenty-one years, that you are a citizen of the United States, and have resided for six months last past within the jurisdiction of the corporation of the city of Macon, and have paid all taxes legally imposed and demanded of you, both by the State of Georgia and by the City Council of the city of Macon: so help you God. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That any person to whom the said oath may be administered shall be liable to indictment and punishment for perjury, upon his conviction of having sworn falsely, in the same manner as if said oath had been administered by a Justice of the Peace. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted; That the persons having the highest number of votes in the respective wards shall be declared duly elected a member or members of the City

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Council for the ward in which he or they is or are voted for: and in case a member of council shall remove from the ward for which he may be elected, or shall otherwise vacate his seat as a member of the City Council, the Mayor shall advertise a new election to fill his vacancy, and the citizens of that ward alone shall vote at said election. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners herein named at least five days before the next election, and the Mayor and council of the city of Macon five days before each subsequent election, to appoint three freeholders in each ward to conduct said elections, who shall appoint some fit and proper persons to keep and preserve order at said elections, who for this purpose shall be vested with the power and authority of a constable for the time being. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the votes are counted, and the votes polled for Mayor are consolidated, the managers convening to consolidate the votes as aforesaid shall cause two certified copies of the result of the elections to be made out, one to be handed over to the Mayor for the time being, and the other to be retained by the managers; and as soon as the Mayor as aforesaid shall be informed of the result of said election, he shall cause the persons elected to be notified of the same, and the persons elected as aforesaid shall attend on the first Wednesday thereafter, qualify before a Justice of the Peace, or Justice of the Inferior Court of the county of Bibb, and forthwith enter on the duties of their office. And that in all cases when an election shall not take place in any of the wards as herein before provided for, the Mayor shall forthwith issue a summons for an election, giving five days' notice thereof in the gazettes of said city. SEC. 10. And be it further enacted, That in case of the death of the Mayor, his resignation, removal from office, or absence from the State, the City Council shall order an election for filling the vacancy, giving ten days' notice thereof in the public gazettes of said city. SEC. 11. And be it further enacted, That in case the Mayor or any member of the City Council, while in office, shall be guilty of any wilful neglect, malpractice, or abuse, he shall be subject to indictment before the Superior Court of the county of Bibb, and on conviction shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, and shall moreover be

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removed from office; and the fine paid shall be handed over to the city treasurer for the use of said city. SEC. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Mayor and members of the City Council shall be ex officio Justices of the Peace, so far as to enable them to issue warrants for offences committed within the jurisdiction of the corporation, and to commit or bail offenders for their appearance before the Superior Court; and the said members are further empowered and required to keep the peace and good order within their respective wards. SEC. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the marshal and clerk of said city shall be elected at the same time and in the same manner prescribed for the election of Mayor, and shall each hold his office for the term of one year. SEC. 14. And be it further enacted, That the marshal elect shall, before he enters upon the duties of his office, give a good and sufficient bond in the sum of two thousand dollars, with two securities, who shall be freeholders in said city, and whose property shall be bound, from the time they sign the said bond, for his good conduct and the faithful discharge of the duties of his office; and that the clerk elect shall, before he enters on the duties of his office, give bond with like security in double the amount of the funds likely to come to his hands, whose property shall also be bound as aforesaid for the faithful discharge of the duties of his office: and the said marshal and clerk shall each, before he enters upon the duties of his office, take and subscribe an oath or affirmation, as the case may be, that he will well and faithfully, to the best of his ability, execute and discharge all the duties of his office, without favour or affection; and to the best of his knowledge support the Constitution of the State of Georgia, and the Constitution of the United States. SEC. 15. And be it further enacted, That the marshal shall receive as a compensation for his services, and the services of such deputy or deputies as it shall become necessary for him to appoint, not exceeding two, under the direction of the Mayor and Council of the city of Macon, one thousand dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly; and at no time during his term of office shall his pay be increased, either by way of perquisites or otherwise: and the clerk shall be entitled to receive for his services four hundred dollars per annum, to be paid quarterly; and at no time during his term of office shall

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his pay be increased, either by way of perquisites or otherwise. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor and Council shall have no authority to take up or impen any loose horse or other live stock running at large within the jurisdiction of said corporation, except under the stray laws of this State, if the owner of said stock shall reside in the country, or if the owner of said stock shall have a farm out of the limits of said corporation where said stock is usually kept. SEC. 17. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any of the officers of said corporation who may be sued for any act done in his official character may justify under this act. SEC. 18. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor and Council of the city of Macon shall not be authorized to raise or levy any tax on any real or personal estate, or on any article, thing, profession, or calling, exceeding the amount of the State tax, nor shall any tax be levied or raised on any article or thing not the subject of taxation by the laws of this State. SEC. 19. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor and Council of the city of Macon shall have power and authority to impose a tax, not exceeding the sum of three dollars, on each person within the jurisdiction of said Corporation subject to road duty, which shall be in lieu of said duty: Provided, nevertheless, any person subject to said tax may relieve himself therefrom by doing six days' labour on the streets or roads subject to the order of the marshal of the said city. SEC. 20. And be it further enacted, That the said Mayor and Council of the city of Macon shall pay one-third of all sums raised upon the lease or sale of any part of the town-common to the Trustees of the Bibb County Academy for the use of said Academy; that they shall appropriate one-third of said sum to the education of such poor children within the jurisdiction of said corporation whose parents are unable to defray the expenses of their education, and who are willing to avail themselves of the benefit of this provision; and the other third shall be appropriated to such other purpose as the Mayor and Council shall deem most beneficial to the interest of the city.

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SEC. 21. And be it further enacted, That David B. Butler, Henry G. Ross, and John Hunter be, and they are hereby appointed trustees to receive from the county [Illegible Text] that amount of the funds raised under the provisions of the foregoing section for the benefit of the poor, and to ascertain the number of children entitled to the provisions of said section, and to make the necessary arrangements for their education, and to employ a suitable teacher for their special instruction, or send them to other schools, as they may deem most advisable. SEC. 22. And be it further enacted, That in case the said trustees, or any of them, shall refuse to accept said trust, or, having accepted, shall resign the same, his Excellency the Governor shall appoint some fit and proper person to fill the vacancy thus occasioned. SEC. 23. And be it further enacted, That any person erecting or keeping up a brick-yard or other nuisance on the town reserve, as described in the first section of an act to preserve the timber in the vicinity of the town of Macon for the preservation of the health of the inhabitants thereof, passed the 23d of December, 1826, shall be prosecuted for the same before the Superior Court of Bibb county by the marshal of the city of Macon, and on conviction shall be fined in a sum of not less than one hundred nor more than five hundred dollars; and each day the said nuisance is kept up shall constitute a new and distinct offence. SEC. 24. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to repeal in part the second section of an act passed on the twenty-first of December, 1822, entitled An Act to confirm certain conveyances of the town-common of Savannah, made by the Mayor and Aldermen; and to vest in the Inferior Court and Sheriff of Chatham county the direction of the county Court-house and jail, and to constitute the said Mayor and Aldermen the commissioners of the jail of said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of January next, the direction, management, and control of the jail of Chatham county shall be vested in the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah and the hamlets thereof, who are hereby constituted the commissioners thereof, with all the rights and duties thereto appertaining, with power to them to appoint a jailer and other necessary officers for a term of years, not exceeding three years; which said jailer and other officers shall respectively give such bond and be allowed such compensation as the said Mayor and Aldermen shall by ordinance prescribe; and which said jailer and other officers, or any of them, shall be removable from office by the said Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah for any misconduct which shall in their opinion furnish sufficient cause. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for the Justices of the Inferior Court of Chatham county, in their discretion, to appropriate and apply any county funds in the treasury of said county, or which shall hereafter come to the said treasury, to the erection of a new jail, which, when so erected, shall become the jail of said county, under the direction of the said Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in the same manner and with the same rights, powers, and duties as are provided by the first section of this act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said jail shall be subject at all times to the visits and inspection of the Justices of the Inferior Court of Chatham county, and of the grand inquest of said county and

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city, who may or shall report to the City Council of said city any misconduct in the officers thereof, or evils existing therein; and recommended to the said City Council any mode of redress or remedy therefor. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 8th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to incorporate and make permanent the county site in the county of Gilmer at the town of Ellijay, and to appoint commissioners for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That William P. King, Henry K. Quillian, B. L. Goodman, Nathan Smith, and Joshua Bourn be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the town of Ellijay in the county of Gilmer, with power and authority to make all such by-laws for the government and good order of the said town of Ellijay as may be necessary: Provided, such by-laws are not repugnant to the constitution of this State, or the constitution of the United States. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the

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same, That the county site of Gilmer is hereby made permanent at the town of Ellijay. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, December 20th, 1834. AN ACT to name and incorporate the public site in Murray county, and to appoint commissioners for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the public site in the county of Murray shall be called Spring Place, and the corporate authority and jurisdiction of Spring Place shall extend to all lots now laid off or hereafter to be laid off for said town. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That William N. Bishop, John J. Humphries, John S. Bell, Seaborn Lenter, and Burton M`Gee be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the town of Spring Place; and they, or a majority of them, or their successors in office, shall have full power and authority at any time to convene and pass all by-laws, rules, and regulations which may be necessary for the good order and government of the same; and shall have full power and authority to appoint such officers as they may deem necessary to carry such bylaws, rules, and regulations into effect: Provided, such bylaws, rules, and regulations be not repugnant to the laws and constitution of the State. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners shall continue in office until the first Saturday in January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-six, or until their successors are elected; on which day, and on the first Saturday in January annually thereafter, all free white males within the corporate limits of said town, who are entitled

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to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall assemble at the Court-house in said town, and choose by ballot five commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, or until their successors are elected, and shall be re-eligible; and that said election shall be held by any of the Justices of the Peace or Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Murray; and on counting out the votes given, those having the highest number of votes shall be commissioners of said town, agreeably to the provisions of this act. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That in the event that there shall be no election held on the day and manner pointed out by this act, the commissioners of said town, or any two of them, may, and they are hereby empowered to order an election for commissioners, to be held in the Courthouser or at some convenient place in said town at any time; ten days' notice by advertisement being given of said election upon the Court-house door and two other the most public places of said town; and all vacancies which may occur in said board of commissioners shall be filled in like manner, agreeably to the provisions of this act. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners and their successors in office shall be, and they are hereby empowered to use a common seal, and to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this State. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners shall have the entire control of the persons and hands within the limits of said corporation, so far as it regards road-duty; and may apportion and assign said hands to work on all the streets in town and the roads one mile out from the town, in such manner as they may think proper, agreeably to the road-laws in force in this State. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to remove the public buildings of the county of Floyd from the town of Livington, and locate them permanently at Rome in said county, and to incorporate the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the site of the public buildings of the county of Floyd shall be removed from the town of Livingston, and permanently located on lot number two hundred and forty-five, in the twenty-third district of the third section, at the head of the Coosa river; and that place shall be hereafter known by the name of Rome. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the first Saturday in February, in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and in each and every year thereafter, all free white male persons in the corporate limits of said town of Rome, as hereafter prescribed and limited, who are entitled to vote for members to the State Legislature, shall assemble at the Court-house in said town, and by ballot elect five commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, and until their successors are elected; at which election one or more magistrates shall preside: and in case of resignation, removal, or death of any of said commissioners, the remaining commissioners shall have power to fill such vacancy for the time being. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That the corporate authority and jurisdiction of said commissioners shall include the whole of lot number two hundred and forty-five, all of that part of lot number two hundred and forty-four east of the Oostanaulee river, and all that part of lot number two hundred and seventy-six north of Hightower river. SEC. 4. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to pass any by-laws and ordinances which they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary and expedient for the well government and good order of said town, to lay and collect a tax for the support of said town, to appoint such subordinate officers as they may consider necessary, and do all other acts and things as

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bodies corporate which may not be repugnant to the Constitution of this State, or the United States, or the laws thereof. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the said election for commissioners on the first Saturday in February next, or in any subsequent year thereafter, should not take place as prescribed by this act, it shall be lawful for said election to be held on any other day; ten days' notice of the same being given by a Justice of the Peace or one of the commissioners. SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to exempt William Smith, Daniel R. Mitchell, Philip W. Hemphill, and Zachariah B. Hargrove from a full and perfect compliance with their contract, entered into with the Inferior Court of the county of Floyd and the people of said county, relative to the removal of the site for public buildings from Livingston to Rome. SEC. 7. And be it further enacted as aforesaid, That the contract as aforesaid alluded to, and of file in the office of the clerk of the Inferior Court of said county of Floyd, be and remain binding upon the said parties thereunto, their assigns, c. SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county, as a condition of the removal of the site of the public buildings from Livingston to Rome, be, and they are hereby bound to refund to purchasers of lots in Livingston the sums of money severally paid by each, with interest from the day of sale. SEC. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an act to make permanent the site of public buildings in the town of Livingston, and the incorporation of the same, in said county of Floyd, is hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to make permanent the site of the public buildings at the village of Marietta in the county of Cobb, and to incorporate said village. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the court-house and jail of the said county of Cobb be, and the same are hereby declared and required to be permanently located upon lot number twelve hundred and eighteen, in the sixteenth district and second section in said county, as surveyed originally in the territory lately acquired from the Cherokee nation of Indians, and at a place now known as the town of Marietta. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Leonard Simpson, Washington Winters, James Anderson, George W. Cupp, and Lemma Kerkly be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners of the said village of Marietta; and they, or a majority of them, and their successors in office, shall have power and authority to pass all by-laws and ordinances which they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary and expedient for the well governing and good order of said village, and for keeping the streets and public springs of the same in repair. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate authority and jurisdiction of said commissioners shall extend to and be exercised over all lots which now are or which may be hereafter laid out within said village. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the inhabitants of said village entitled to vote for members of the Legislature be, and they are hereby authorized, on the first Saturday in January, 1836, and on the first Saturday in January in each and every year thereafter, to elect five commissioners, with the like powers of those herein before named; ten days' notice of said election being first given by the commissioners for the time being by publication at the court-house door; at which said election one

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or more magistrates shall preside. And should no election take place at the time herein specified, the same may be held on any subsequent day on giving ten days' notice as aforesaid. And the said commissioners herein appointed, or their successors in office, shall severally continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified,any custom to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834. AN ACT to make permanent the public buildings in the town of Cumming in the county of Forsyth, and to incorporate the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the public buildings in the town of Cumming in the county of Forsyth be, and the same are hereby declared the permanent seat of justice for said county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and on the first Saturday in February in every year thereafter, all free white male persons in the corporate limits of said town of Cumming as hereafter prescribed, who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall assemble at the court-house in said town, and by ballot elect five commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, or until their successors are elected; at which election one or more magistrates shall preside: and in case of resignation, removal, or death of any of said commissioners, the remaining

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commissioners shall have power to fill such vacancy for the time being. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the corporate authority and jurisdiction of said commissioners shall be extended to and be exercised over all lots which now are or which may hereafter be laid out within said town. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to pass all by-laws and ordinances which they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary and expedient for the well government and good order of said town, and do all other things as a body corporate which may not be repugnant to the constitution of this State, or the United States, or the laws thereof. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if said election for commissioners on the first Saturday in February next, or on the first Saturday in February in any subsequent year thereafter, should not take place as prescribed by this act, it shall be lawful for said election to be held on any other day, ten days' notice of the same being given by a Justice of the Peace or one of the commissioners. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to incorporate the town of Cumming in the county of Forsyth, and to make permanent the site of the public buildings of said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Jolly, Daniel M'Coy, John H. Russell, Daniel Smith, and William Martin, and their successors in office, shall have full power and authority to pass all by-laws and regulations which may be deemed necessary for the improvement and repairing the streets, springs, and internal police of said town: Provided, nevertheless, that such by-laws, rules, and regulations shall not be repugnant to the constitution of the United States and the constitution and laws of this State; and that penalties thereby imposed shall not extend to corporal punishment, except to people of colour; nor shall any tax upon the people of the town be imposed which shall exceed one dollar on each poll for the same year. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall continue in office until the second Tuesday in January in the year 1836, on which day, and on the second Tuesday in January in each and every year thereafter, all free male white citizens of the said town who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly shall assemble at the court-house of said county, and by ballot elect five commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year; at which election any two Justices of the Inferior Court or Justices of the Peace may preside. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy in the commissioners of said corporation shall happen, by resignation or otherwise, the commissioners in office shall appoint some other person within the limits of said corporation to fill such vacancy; and the person appointed shall continue in office the same length of time his predecessor would have done had no such vacancy taken place. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners and those hereafter appointed, or a majority of them,

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have power to appoint a clerk and such other officers as they may deem necessary to carry into effect all proceedings which they may deem necessary to adopt, under the authority of this act; and the said commissioners shall be ex officio Justices of the Peace, so far as respects the carrying into effect the said act of incorporation; and they may impose fines for violations of their corporate rules, issue executions for fines and penalties, and for taxes, and shall have power to exact a tax on all public shows which may be at any time exhibited or exposed to view for money within the limits of said corporation, which shall be collected by the marshal in the same manner as executions from the Justices' Courts. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said town of Cumming be, and the same is hereby declared to be the permanent site of the public buildings and of the administration of justice in said county. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1834. AN ACT to amend an act entitled An Act to make permanent the site of the public buildings in the county of Henry, and to incorporate the village thereof under the name of McDonough; passed the 17th of December, 1823. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, whenever it shall so happen that

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the free white inhabitants of said town of McDonough, and residing within the corporate limits of the same, shall fail to elect commissioners thereof on the day pointed out in the third section of the act aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for said citizens to assemble and elect said commissioners at any subsequent time thereafter which may by said inhabitants be deemed advisable under all the forms, restrictions, and immunities pointed out in said section. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in addition to the authority vested in said commissioners by virtue of the fifth section of the act aforesaid, the said commissioners shall further be empowered, by virtue of their office, to suppress and disperse all riots, routs, or unlawful assemblages of any persons whatever which may happen within said corporate limits; and also to suppress assaults, batteries, and other offences which by law are indictable, and which may happen within the limits of said corporation; and may bind over the offender or offenders for their appearance at the subsequent term of the Superior Court to be held for said county, to answer touching the same, under all the rules, restrictions, and formalities that are by law prescribed for the government of magistrates in relation to such offences, and may commit offenders for failing or refusing to give such security: and said commissioners may, moreover, in the absence of the Justices of the Inferior Court, or a majority of them, exercise such supervisory powers in relation to the Court-house, jail, and other public property, real or otherwise, of said county and within said corporate limits, as to suppress any disorderly conduct, routs, rescues, or other misdemeanors which may happen touching the same; and in all such cases shall cause their clerk duly to register the same, and the causes thereof, and their actings and doings in relation to such public property; and shall certify the same to the Justices of the Inferior Court of said county, to be held next thereafter for county purposes, for their information and supervision: and in case any contagious or infectious disease should originate within the jail of said county, whereby said inhabitants of the town aforesaid and others may be endangered, said commissioners shall have power to employ the assistance and opinion of any regular practising physician touching the same and the nuisance thereby occasioned; and on the opinion of said physician that said jail is contagious, said commissioners shall notify the Justices of the Inferior Court and sheriff of said county of the existence of the same, which said Justices shall, together with such sheriff, assemble together with said

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commissioners as soon thereafter as convenience will permit, and make such order thereon as they, or a majority of them, may deem most advisable to remove the same, and ensure the health of said inhabitants. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this act, or the act to which the same is amendatory, shall be so construed as to disparage, but to affirm, the general superintendence by law given to Justices of the Inferior Courts of said county in relation to Courthouses and jails, at any time said Justices may think proper to assemble for the same. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That such parts of the act to which this is amendatory, together with all other acts and parts of acts, militating against the true intent and meaning of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1834. AN ACT to repeal the fourth section of an act entitled An Act to amend the several acts incorporating the town of St. Mary's,assented to on the 24th December, 1825. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the fourth section of an act passed on the 24th of December, 1825, entitled An Act to amend

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the several acts incorporating the town of St. Mary's be, and the same is hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to repeal the 7th section of an act entitled An Act to define the duties and authority of the commissioners of the town of Washington, Wilkes county, passed 7th December, 1821, together with so much of the 5th section thereof as relates to the town limits; and to extend the said limits, and the duties and authority of the commissioners imposed and conferred to be exercised therein, to the corporate limits mentioned in said act; and to make the phrases corporate limits and town limits, wherever occurring in said act, of equivalent import. Whereas, the above recited act restricts the town limits within the corporate limits, and confers power on the commissioners therein named to impose more onerous taxes on the citizens residing within the town limits than those residing without these, and within the corporate limits, which is believed to be unjust, since those enjoying in common the benefits of a municipal regulation should bear and contribute equally for its maintenance and support; for remedy whereof Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the 7th section of an act entitled An Act to define the duties and authority of the commissioners

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of the town of Washington, Wilkes county, passed 7th December, 1821, be, and the same is hereby repealed. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the 5th section of said act as relates to the town limits be, and the same is hereby repealed: and that the town limits mentioned and defined in said act be, and they are hereby declared to be extended and enlarged to the corporate limits specified in said act. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That all the authority and duties required of and vested in the commissioners of said town to be exercised and discharged within the town limits, as heretofore laid off by said act, shall henceforth be construed to extend to, and be discharged within, the present enlarged limits of said town as defined in this act. SEC. 4. Be it further enacted, That whenever in the residue of said act the phrases corporate limits and town limits shall occur, they shall be held and taken to be of identical and equivalent import. SEC. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all acts and parts of acts militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to alter and amend an act entitled An Act to incorporate the town of Lincolnton, in the county of Lincoln, assented to Dec. 19th, 1817. Whereas, the second section of the above recited act reading thus, That when any vacancy in the commissioners of said corporation shall happen by resignation, removal, or otherwise, the commissioners in office shall appoint some other person or persons within the limits of said corporation to fill such vacancy. And whereas some doubts exist as to the power of one commissioner to fill the vacancies that have happened, where two vacancies had occurred at the same time; for remedy whereof Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of he State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the second section of the before recited act be, and the same is hereby repealed, and the following section be enacted in lieu thereof:That when any vacancy shall happen in the commissioners of said incorporation by death, resignation, or otherwise, that the commissioner or commissioners in office shall have power to fill such vacancy or vacancies,any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 9th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to repeal an act to incorporate the town of Marion in the county of Twiggs, and to vest certain powers in the commissioners thereof, passed on the 12th December, 1816, and all other acts passed as amendatory to the above recited act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the act to incorporate the town of Marion in the county of Twiggs, and to vest certain powers in the commissioners thereof, passed on the 12th of December, 1816, and all other acts passed as amendatory to the above recited act, be, and they are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 10th Dec. 1834. AN ACT to open and keep open the streets in the town of McIntosh. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be illegal to shut or in anywise to obstruct the passage through the streets of the said town of McIntosh; and in the event of such streets being or having been obstructed, it shall be the

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duty of any alderman of the city of Darien, or a Justice of the Inferior Court or Justice of the Peace of the county of McIntosh, to cause the said obstruction to be removed; and all the ministerial officers of said county are charged to carry such order into effect. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1834. AN ACT to change the name of the town of Etowah in Cherokee county to that of Canton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the county site in the county of Cherokee shall be known by the name of Canton instead of Etowah. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners appointed for the town of Etowah shall be vested with the same authority to act as commissioners for the town of Canton as they would have had had the name of the town not been changed. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any laws operating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834.

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AN ACT to make permanent the public buildings in the town of Cuthbert in Randolph county, and to incorporate the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the public buildings in the town of Cuthbert in the county of Randolph be, and the same are hereby declared the permanent seat of justice for said county. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and on the first Saturday in February in every year thereafter, all free white male persons in the corporate limits of said town of Cuthbert, as hereafter prescribed, who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall assemble at the court-house in said town, and by ballot elect five commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, or until their successors are elected; at which election one or more magistrates shall preside; and in case of resignation, removal, or death of any of said commissioners, the remaining commissioners shall have power to fill such vacancy for the time being. SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the corporate authority and jurisdiction of said commissioners shall be extended to and be exercised over all lots which now are or which may hereafter be laid out within said town. SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to pass all by-laws and ordinances which they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary and expedient for the well government and good order of said town, to lay and collect a tax for the support of said town, and do all other things as bodies corporate which may not be repugnant to the constitution of this State, or the United States, or the laws thereof. SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if said election for commissioners on the first Saturday in February next, or on the first Saturday in February in any subsequent year thereafter, should not take place as prescribed by this act, it shall

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be lawful for said election to be held on any other day, ten days' notice of the same being given by a Justice of the Peace or one of the commissioners. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834.

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RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE SENATE. IN SENATE. Resolved, That both branches of the Legislature meet in the House of Representatives on Wednesday next, the 19th Nov. at ten o'clock, for the purpose of electing two Senators to represent the State of Georgia in the Senate of the United States; one for the term of six years, commencing the 4th March, 1835; and also one to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Hon. John Forsyth. In Senate, agreed to, 13th Nov. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In House of Representatives, Concurred in, 18th Nov. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Nov. 19th, 1834.

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IN SENATE. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be requested, and he is hereby authorized to appoint two Attorneys to assist the Attorney General in prosecuting the scire facias which has been instituted, by the order of this State, against the Merchants' and Planters' Bank of the city of Augusta. In Senate, agreed to, 21st Nov. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, read and Concurred in, 27th Nov. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Nov. 29th, 1834. IN SENATE. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin F. Johnson, praying remuneration for injury sustained in receiving bills on the Bank of Macon in payment for services rendered as Surveyor of the twelfth district, in the second section of Cherokee county, have had the same under

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consideration, and beg leave to report, that in their opinion the prayer of your petitioner is reasonable and ought to be granted, and recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to issue his warrant on the Treasury in favour of Benjamin F. Johnson for one hundred and six dollars, and that the said sum be provided for in the appropriation act of the present session for that specific purpose. Read and agreed to, Dec. 11th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Dec. 19th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834. IN SENATE. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to pay out of the contingent fund all the expenses attending the interment of the Hon. Jonathan Lewis, a Senator from the county of Burke; McLin Lundy, Esq. a member from the county of Scriven; and Aaron Jones, Esq. of the county of Lee. And be it further resolved, That in testimony of the respect

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due to the memory of our associates, his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to have their graves enclosed in a decent and appropriate manner, and that he pay for the same out of the contingent fund. Read and agreed to, Nov. 27th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Dec. 18th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834. IN SENATE. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to transmit, with the Laws and Journals of the present session, the following books to the counties hereinafter named, viz. To the county of Bullock, two copies of Clayton's Georgia Justice, and two copies of Dawson's Compilation. To the county of Cherokee, six copies of the Georgia Justice, six copies of Dawson's Compilation, and six copies of Prince's Digest. To the county of McIntosh, six copies of the Georgia Justice. To the county of Houston, three copies of Prince's Digest, three copies of Dawson's Compilation, and three copies of the Georgia Justice. To the county of Wayne, three copies of the Georgia Justice.

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To the county of Liberty, six copies of Prince's Digest. To the county of Campbell, six copies of Prince's Digest, and six copies of Dawson's Compilation. To the county of Coweta, four copies of Prince's Digest, four copies of Dawson's Compilation, and four copies of the Georgia Justice. To the county of Walton, six copies of Prince's Digest. To the county of Rabun, six copies of Clayton's Georgia Justice and six copies of Prince's Digest. To the county of Talbot, six copies of Dawson's Compilation, six copies of Prince's Digest, and six copies of the Georgia Justice. To the county of Lee, five copies of Prince's Digest and five copies of Dawson's Compilation. To the county of Merriwether, three copies of the Georgia Justice, To the county of Carrol, four copies of Prince's Digest and four copies of the Georgia Justice. To the county of Union, five copies of Prince's Digest. To the county of Baker, three copies of the Georgia Justice and three copies of Dawson's Compilation. To the county of Early, two copies of the Georgia Justice, two copies of Prince's Digest, and two copies of Dawson's Compilation. To the county of Camden, two copies of Prince's Digest, two copies of Dawson's Compilation, and two copies of the Georgia Justice. To the county of Stewart, five copies of the Georgia Justice and five copies of Dawson's Compilation,for the use of the officers of said counties respectively. Read and agreed to, 14th Nov. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in 18th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834.

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IN SENATE. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be authorized and respectfully requested to have forwarded, with the Laws and Journals of the present session, to the county of Henry, one copy each of Scott's Military Tactics and a copy of the compilation of the Militia Laws of the State, together with such other laws as are usual for the use of the commandant of the eighty-fifth Regiment; to the one hundred and ninety-first battalion, and to the commandant of the eight hundred and eighty-eighth District Company in said county, together with laws and regulations, and other orders to which said regiment, battalion, and company district are by law entitled. Resolved further, That his Excellency be requested as aforesaid to have forwarded to the county aforesaid, and at the time aforesaid, one copy each of Prince's Digest, the Georgia Justice, and of Dawson's Compilation of the Laws of the State, for the use of the newly-created eight hundred and eighty-eighth district company of Georgia Militia; and also, one copy of Prince's Digest, one of the late Georgia Justice, and one of Dawson's Compilation, for the use of the five hundred and twenty-fifth district company in the county aforesaid. Resolved further, That in case a sufficient number should not now be on hand, his Excellency be requested to contract and pay for the same out of the contingent fund, and forward as aforesaid. Read and agreed to, 16th Nov. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Dec. 18th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 19th Dec. 1834.

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IN SENATE. The committee on the State of the Republic to whom was referred the communication of his Excellency the Governor, and the accompanying documents on the subject of the claim of the State of Georgia against the United States growing out of services rendered, and moneys paid by the State during the revolutionary war, report: That from said documents it appears that this State has a claim for said services and moneys paid, ascertained by an agent of the Government of the United States, as long ago as the year seventeen hundred and eighty-five, and for which the said agent issued his certificate. This claim at that time amounted to one hundred and twenty-three thousand two hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy cents. Subsequently to the issuing of said certificate, an act of Congress was passed for the appointment of commissioners to settle the accounts between the United States and the States of the Union; and the commissioner appointed under the authority of said act made a report, which was submitted to the Congress in seventeen hundred and ninety-three, and in which Georgia was admitted to be a creditor of the Government of the Union, to the amount of nineteen thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars. It does not appear that the commissioner who made said report took into consideration the amount due the State as ascertained by the agent in seventeen hundred and eighty-five, so that this large debt seems now to be due to this State. This claim has been repeatedly urged upon the consideration of the Government until it was finally rejected, upon the inequitable plea of the statute of limitations, as long ago as seventeen hundred and ninety-five. Your committee cannot believe that the Government of the Union will persist in a defence so discreditable to itself, against a just claim. The payment of this claim has been postponed by the Government itself, while claims of a similar nature have long since been discharged to other States. It is therefore a debt on which interest is not only legally but equitably demandable, and on which your committee cannot believe the Government will hesitate to pay the interest. The evidence necessary to the

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close investigation of this claim, is to be found in the records of the General Government; and it must require much labour and research to exhibit in a favourable aspect so antiquated a demand. Your committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be authorized to employ some fit and proper agent to prosecute, before the General Government, the claim of the State of Georgia against the United States for services rendered and moneys paid by the State during the Revolutionary War; and that his Excellency the Governor be authorized to stipulate with the said agent, that he shall receive a sum not exceeding ten per cent. on the amount received, as a full compensation for his services. Read and agreed to, 19th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834. IN SENATE. The Joint Committee on Banks report, That they have made full and satisfactory examination of the situation of the Central Bank of Georgia. Every thing evidences to the

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Committee that said Bank is managed with the ability which has characterized the institution from its establishment, and they accord to the Directors and officers of the Bank unqualified approbation for their able and faithful administration of its affairs. The circulation of the Bank amounts to $226,246, to meet which, it has in specie $132,134, and in bills of the Bank of the United States and local banks, $124,227. Your Committee have observed with regret the great want of punctuality in some of the debtors of the Bank, and that more than $200,000 of discounted paper is lying unattended to; and your Committee learn from the directors that it may be beyond the power of the bank to make its accustomed annual distribution among the counties of this State, unless these papers be renewed, and the reductions due on the same paid. To compel the parties to attend to their notes, and to ensure punctuality hereafter, your Committee earnestly recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the President and Directors of the Central Bank be, and they are hereby authorized to place in suit any note or bill of exchange which shall lie unattended to for the space of three months after the same shall become due and payable, unless satisfactory reasons be assigned to said board of directors for neglect to renew or pay such papers. Read and agreed to, Dec. 20th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Dec. 20th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834.

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IN SENATE. Resolved, That a committee be appointed by the Senate, to join such committee as shall be appointed by the House of Representatives, whose duty it shall be during the recess of the present Legislature, at such time as may suit their convenience, to repair to the town of Columbus and examine into the state, condition, and management of the Farmers' Bank of Chatahoochee, with a view to ascertain whether said bank has at any time done any thing to forfeit its charter; and that said committee make such report of its examination as the facts may justify to the Governor, with such recommendations as it may deem advisable; and that if, in the opinion of the Executive, it shall appear that the bank has forfeited its charter, he be authorized and requested to cause a scire facias to be sued out against the said bank for the purpose of annulling and setting aside its charter. Resolved, That said committee shall have power, in the discharge of its duties aforesaid, to send for persons and papers, and to examine witnesses on oath. Resolved, That said committee, before proceeding to the discharge of their said duties, shall give reasonable notice to the officers of the institution of the time of their assembling in Columbus for the purposes aforesaid. Agreed to, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, 20th December, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834.

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IN SENATE. Resolved, His Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to draw his warrant on the treasurer for all moneys due the county of Appling on account of the Poor-school Fund appropriated for said county. Read and agreed to, Nov. 21st, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives. Concurred in, 18th December, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 19th December, 1834. IN SENATE. Whereas, it appears that the county of Tatnall stands charged with having purchased at the sales of confiscated property in 1810, to the amount of five hundred and four dollars seventy and a half cents, and it further appearing, that

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the General Assembly at its annual session in the year 1825, upon the affidavit of Daniel Brinson, formerly a representative from said county, and a letter of Col. Hugh Montgomery, adopted a resolution in which, among other things it was resolved, that the county of Tatnall was not concerned or interested in the purchase of confiscated property in the year 1810; and the treasurer was instructed to correct the charge against the county of Tatnall for the amount of five hundred and four dollars seventy and one half cents, and that the county of Tatnall was declared to be entitled to her full share of the funds heretofore set apart for the use of county Academies; and whereas it appears that said charge against the county of Tatnall has never been corrected, and that said sum of five hundred and four dollars seventy and a half cents has not been paid to the county of Tatnall Be it therefore resolved, That the treasurer is hereby authorized and required to correct the charge against the county of Tatnall for the aforesaid sum of five hundred and four dollars seventy and a half cents, charged to said county on account of the purchase of confiscated property in the year 1810. And be it further resolved, That the county of Tatnall is hereby declared to be entitled to her full share of the funds heretofore set apart for the county Academies, and that the trustee of the poor-school of the said county be, and he is hereby authorized to receive the same by warrant on the treasurer. Read and agreed to, Nov. 28th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives. Concurred in, Dec. 6th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 9th December, 1834.

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IN SENATE. The joint committee to whom was referred the resolution directing them to inquire into the expediency of making an appropriation for the purpose of encouraging the schools established and to be established in this State, combining the improvement of the mind with manual labour, have taken the same under their most deliberate consideration, and having maturely reflected upon the subject, beg leave to report that they consider the plan of combining labour with study one of great importance to the rising generation, and well deserving public patronage. Your committee believe it will be attended with the most beneficial results to the moral and physical as well as mental powers of the subjects of this system of education, while it will greatly diminish the costs and expenses of education; so much so that it is believed that if these schools shall be put in operation and general use, which may be done, your committee believe, by the aid and fostering care of the Legislature in the employment and proper use of the means set apart for the encouragement of learning, and for the establishment of schools and academies, it would be in the power of all classes of children to receive the benefits of the most useful and even liberal education. Instead of having our young men brought up and educated in idleness and dissipation, with mind and body enervated by indolence and luxury, these schools would send them out into society well educated, industrious, practical business men, not useless drones and idling loungers, but hardy, enterprising, active, and useful members of the community. These schools, under proper regulations, will educate our young men for the real business of life, and prepare them for any occupation they may wish to follow, for farmers, mechanics, and all other pursuits and professions. And which is of still greater importance in the opinion of your committee, this system of education, it is believed, is calculated to exert the most salutary influence over the morals of our youth, while in the pursuit of education, and in preserving them from being contaminated with those vices and habits of dissipation to which our young men are so liable in our academies and colleges at this day under the present system of education. Believing, therefore, as your committee do, that this system is deserving at least a fair experiment,

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and perceiving that it has attracted the attention of the three principal denominations in the State, to wit:the Baptist, Methodist, and Presbyterian, and that they have each established, and are making an effort to put into operation, schools upon this plan, your committee believe it to be the duty of the Legislature to aid them and other societies or associations, having for their object such laudable purposes; they therefore beg leave to offer the following resolution: Resolved, That this Legislature feel a lively interest in the establishment of such schools in this State upon the manual labour system, and believing it to be their duty to foster them and encourage all attempts that have been or may be made for their establishment, and especially to aid the efforts now making by said denominations to bring them into operation in this State. Resolved, That a bill be introduced in the Representative branch of the Legislature for the purposes of carrying into effect the foregoing system of education. Agreed to, 28th November, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, 8th December, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ATTESTJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Assented to, 12th Dec. 1834.

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IN SENATE. The committee on public education and free-schools, to whom was referred that part of the Governor's message relative to the establishment of an institution for the education of the deaf and dumb in Georgia, having availed themselves of all the documents and correspondence furnished by that department as well as other sources of information; and having given the subject the reflection which its importance required, beg leave to submit the following report: In order to awaken in this General Assembly a lively interest in behalf of this unfortunate class of our fellow-citizens, it will only be necessary to show, from satisfactory data, the number of deaf and dumb persons in our State, and the extent to which their unfortunate condition may be ameliorated by a proper system of instruction. It has been satisfactorily ascertained by careful enumeration, both in Europe and in this country, that about one in every two thousand persons is of the class denominated mutes, or deaf and dumb; and farther to excite the exertions of the benevolent and elicit governmental aid for their relief, it has been demonstrated by calculations, and the fact confirmed by reference to all the institutions for their relief, that the larger portion of them are in circumstances requiring the aid of institutions for their instruction free of expense to themselves or their friends. By the census of 1830, it appears, that in the United States, in a population of about 13,000,000, there are about six thousand two hundred deaf and dumb persons; and in the State of Georgia, in about 300,000 white inhabitants, one hundred and forty-five of all ages, viz.fifty under the age of fourteen years, fifty-one between fourteen and twenty-five, and forty-four over the age of twenty-five years. The proportion of mutes, as ascertained by the census of the United States in 1830, your committee would remark, is found to agree with that of a similar enumeration in Europe, where the subject has, for the last twenty years, received the careful attention of the benevolent and enlightened. These facts, which it is believed may be certainly relied on as correct, afford strong grounds, in the opinion of

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your committee, for an appeal to this enlightened Legislature for relief in behalf of so large a portion of their fellowcitizens, whose condition, under Providence, has been thus unfortunate and dependent. That the circumstances and condition of this unfortunate class admit of great amelioration and the most astonishing improvement, is clearly manifested by reference to the enlarged faculties and the multiplied enjoyments of those who have been subjects of instruction in institutions which the enlightened bene volence and philanthropy of the present age have established for their education. More than twenty years ago the attention of enlightened and philanthropic individuals in France was turned to this subject; and under the distinguished Abb L'Eppee the system of instruction received a substantive form, which was improved and perfected by the scientific skill of the able Sicard, to whom mainly we owe the blessings of the system as now practised in Europe and America. It was introduced into the United States as early as the year 1817, and established by the pupils of these eminent philosophers and benefactors of mankind. Those institutions, so far as your committee can ascertain, have had their origin in associations of benevolent individuals, and received from several of the States charters and endowments; and in one instance a donation from the Congress of the United States. The American Asylum for the deaf and dumb in Hartford, Connecticut, was endowed with a grant of twenty-three thousand acres of the public lands; besides which, it receives regular appropriations from six different States for the education of the indigent deaf and dumb. There is an institution of the same character at Philadelphia, endowed by three or four different States; and as your committee are informed, another in each of the States of Kentucky, Ohip, and North Carolina. Under the benign influence of these institutions, the unfortunate deaf and dumb have been transported from intellectual darkness to all the light of cultivated intellect; and the gloomy lot, the mental inanition of the mute has been exchanged for the pleasure of society, the delight of social converse, and the gratification of epistolary correspondence; his benighted mind illumined by the rays of science and philosophy, and his soul lighted up with the truths and cheered with the hopes of the religion of a Saviour. Not less than six or seven hundred have received the benefits of education since the introduction of the system into the United States; and such is its progressive success here and abroad, that recent accounts give information of the startling fact that the dumb have been taught to

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speak articulately which is rendered, however, less to be doubted from its having been ascertained that one-half of the mutes are born with the usual senses and faculties, but are reduced to their condition by the loss of hearing in early infancy. And while benevolent associations and enlightened legislatures are vieing with each other in exertions thus to ameliorate the condition of the unfortunate, will the proud State of Georgia, with her rich resources, refuse her contribution? But while your committee would thus invoke the aid of the Legislature in behalf of this class of our citizens, they cannot recommend the plan of establishing an institution for their benefit from the funds of the State. From all the information within their reach, and reports from the managers of the deaf and dumb asylums, it satisfactorily appears that six institutions will be sufficient for many years to educate all the deaf and dumb of the United States, even with the progressive increase of population. Having ascertained the fact, that one in two thousand is deaf and dumb, it follows that in a population of thirteen millions, there will be something more than six thousand of this class, it is well ascertained that the births in the United States are nearly as one to twenty of our population annually; and estimating the white population of Georgia at three hundred thousand, there would be less than ten deaf and dumb children born annually in the State, deducting the proper proportion of those who would die before the age of ten (the earliest period for the commencement of their instruction), there would remain a number annually requiring the benefits of the institution, far too small to render its establishment, in the opinion of your committee, a measure of sound policy, as respects economy of expenditure; especially when the fact already mentioned is adverted to, that fully one-half are indigent, and unable to defray any portion of their expense. By the treasurer's report, it appears that the salaries of the necessary officers and instructors in the Philadelphia institution, for seventy-two scholars, amount alone to more than three thousand dollars; and the purchase of land and erecting of suitable buildings could not be estimated at less than ten thousand dollars. The amount received from pupils, able to defray their own expenses, could bear no proportion to this expense, even should the manual labour system be introduced, which has been connected with such institutions in the Northern States for more than ten years past, and which your committee would deem a most important part of the plan.

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Instead of establishing such an institution in our own State at an expense so disproportionate to the cost of instruction elsewhere, your committee would recommend to the Legislature the propriety of appropriating for the present such a sum of money from the Treasury of the State as will be sufficient to educate all the indigent mutes in the State, between the ages of twelve and twenty years at the Institution at Hartford, the one in Philadelphia, or such other, elsewhere established, as the interest of the State and of the beneficiaries of its bounty may require. From documents before them, the committee would estimate the probable number of mutes to be educated by the donation of the State at twenty-five, and the annual expense at one hundred and fifty dollars. An objection may probably present itself, growing out of the extreme reluctance of parents and children to separation by so great a distance; but your committee feel assured, that on no other plan which can immediately be adopted, would the funds of the State be productive of so much benefit to this class of its citizens, so eminently entitled to her liberal donations. Your committee would therefore repectfully submit for adoption the following resolutions: 1. Resolved, That the sum of three thousand dollars be, and it is hereby appropriated for the education of the indigent deaf and dumb of this State between the ages of twelve and twenty years, in such manner as the General Assembly may deem best calculated to effect the benevolent object of the appropriation: and that the foregoing appropriation be inserted in the appropriation bill. 2. Resolved, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be requested to make every effort for the purpose of procuring for each State a township of the public land, or such other quantity as they may be able to obtain, with a view of creating a fund in each State, the interest of which shall be appropriated to the education of the indigent deaf and dumb, and that his Excellency the Governor be requested to forward to our Senators, and to each of our Representatives and Representatives elect in Congress, a copy of these resolutions. 3. Resolved, That this State will appropriate the sum of ten thousand dollars, so soon as two or more of her neighbouring States will co-operate with her, and contribute in a ratio proportioned to the number of their free white inhabitants, for the purpose of endowing a Southern Institution for the education of the deaf and dumb, to be located at such place and organized in such manner as may hereafter be determined

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on when such proposition is adopted; and that his Excellency the Governor be requested to forward to the Executive of such of the neighbouring States as may be deemed most likely, from their situation, to unite with this State in such an establishment, copies of this report and resolutions, with a request that they be submitted to their respective Legislatures at their next session for their consideration. Agreed to, 10th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Dec. 19th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834. IN SENATE. The military committee to whom were referred the reports of the military store-keepers at Savannah and Milledgeville, beg leave to report:That they have carefully examined the arsenal and magazine, in the care of Mr. John H. Currie, at this place, and have much pleasure in stating that they found them in good order. Mr. Currie has with much labour cleaned all the arms, and put them in good order for service, except four hundred and twenty-five muskets, which require the services of a gunsmith. The boxes containing the arms have been placed by him on stands with the tops off, so that they can be easily inspected, or given out for service. There

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being no racks to place them on, this is the best arrangement that could be adopted. The report of Mr. Stone, the military store-keeper at Savannah, says nothing of the state of the arms in the arsenal; at that arsenal your committee, however, observe, that there is a deficiency of cartridge-boxes, and other equipments. This is the case here, and is a matter which in their opinion ought to be remedied by the purchase of such articles as may be necessary to give as many full sets of equipments as there are muskets and rifles in the arsenals; and they therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and required to purchase as many cartridge-boxes, and other articles of military equipment, as shall be necessary to make up as many full sets as there are muskets and rifles in the arsenals at Milledgeville and Savannah; and also, that he employ a gunsmith to repair the muskets and rifles in the arsenal at this place. Resolved, Further, that the Governor is hereby authorized and required to appoint three fit and proper persons to examine the arsenals at Savannah and Augusta, who shall report to him the state of the arms in those arsenals. Read and agreed to, Dec. 2d, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Dec. 18th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834.

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IN SENATE. Whereas, by the act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia providing for the improvement of the public roads, rivers, c., directed that accounts created by the superintendents of the several sections of the State, for provisions for the support and materials, c. furnished for the support of the public hands, and performing of the work assigned to them, required that such accounts should be presented to the said superintendents for their approval and payment by those having such claims. And whereas, there is yet outstanding accounts which, from neglect or want of knowledge of the provisions of the law requiring that they should have been presented to the said superintendents while in office, which are correct, and ought to be paid, many of which have been presented to his Excellency the Governor for payment Be it therefore resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer for the payment of such claims as may be presented to him: Provided, such accounts are considered just, and in terms of the law, to be paid out of the contingent fund, provided the fund heretofore set apart for such purposes has been exhausted. Agreed to, 7th Nov. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, 10th November, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. ATTESTJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, November 14th, 1834.

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IN SENATE. The standing committee to whom was referred so much of the Governor's message as relates to internal improvement, from the nature of the subject committed to it, feels bound at this early stage of the session to call the attention of the Legislature to an investigation of, and determination on, those measures which shall be proper to give to the good citizens of this State the necessary facilities to a market for their products and for their supplies. The state of Georgia has a large extent of territory, with a climate so diversified that she can, if need be, produce, not only the great staples of the south, but also all such necessaries, comforts, and luxuries as may make her wholly independent of the world beside for any of them. In one section, sea island cotton, the most valuable in the world, and rice, are the natural products of the soil and climate. In another, cotton of an inferior quality, but in far greater quantities, is grown; in another, grain is more congenial; and in all, the growth of the whole world may with a little care be naturalized. The lands of the seaboard are worked so profitably in the growth of rice and sea island cotton, to which they are so peculiarly adapted, that the section in which they lie can better afford to buy its supplies of grain, meat, c., than to produce them; and unable to draw these supplies from the interior of the State from the want of a means of conveyance, thousands and hundreds of thousands are paid to the grain growing countries of the north for those supplies, which in the interior, for the want of a market, are rotting in the hands of the grower. In the interior, short staple cotton is made in abundance, and would be a mine of wealth to the planter, but that he must incur an expense of at least ten per cent. in getting it to market. Grain of all sorts is also grown in the interior in quantities more than is necessary to supply the wants of the seaboard, but the grower is paralyzed by the difficulty of getting this article to market. Indian corn, the great article of food in the low country, and of which not less than 300,000 bushels are annually imported into the city of Savannah alone from the north, at an outlay of $200,000, can be and will be grown in the interior in quantities sufficient for this supply, whenever it can be made an article of profit to the grower; and this can be done by giving him a means of conveyance,

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in which the cost will not consume the profits. The State then, as a whole, can be made independent of the world for its supplies; but this can only be done by enabling each part to derive what it cannot advantageously grow, from those sections which can most profitably produce what is thus elsewhere wanted. This can be done by a great scheme of internal improvement. Preceding legislatures have been aware of this fact, and the committee feel that they are asserting facts which will not be controverted. But the committee have for object to show, that the past measures of the State, in partial and local legislation, have not been of a character to remedy the evil. The many appropriations for improving the navigation of rivers, and the opening of roads to a market, have been of a laudable character from the motive which has actuated the measures; but they have been of mistaken policy, as the result has shown. Our rivers are of such a character as that efforts to affect any permanent improvement in the navigation of them have been and must continue to be abortive. The shoals in them, when removed from one point immediately accumulate in another; and the experience of the past shows plainly that the whole annual revenue of this State, if applied to this purpose alone, could not accomplish the object. Roads may be opened and kept in order, but still they do not afford the facilities which the exigency of the times requires. Our sister States, older and more experienced than ourselves in the arts, commerce, and agriculture, have shown us the means by which to make our great resources available; the experiment has been made by them. At first, like ourselves, they left to the enterprise of individuals and private corporations the opening those channels of communication; but soon it was discovered that the wants of the country could not be satisfied in this way. The want of means in some instances, the clashing of interests in others, and the slow progress in all, showed that the country to be benefited must be so by state action. A great man in New-York had the sagacity to discover this truth, and patriotism and firmness to stake his high character on a new scheme, which for a while met with so much opposition as to prostrate him, but which in the end vindicated his views, placed him in the class of benefactors of mankind, and gave to his native State that command of her resources which has made her the shining star in our constellation. Pennsylvania and other States followed this great example; and we now see the state of Ohio, one of the progeny of the old thirteen, with gigantic strides assuming a rank which, without her system of internal improvements, she never could

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have attained. It may be said that the state of Pennsylvania has involved herself in an immense load of debt, and that her canals and her railroads have as yet been insufficient to pay the interest on the debt incurred by them. This may be admitted, and yet the argument lose its force; if it be recollected that the state at once entered on a scheme of the largest scale, and attempting every thing at once, the result, as a matter of profit, is not to be known until the whole is complete. And if also it be recollected that though the work may never pay to the state the money expended, the advantages to the citizens have been and will continue to be more, infinitely more, than sufficient to counterbalance the cost. Her works have not been profitable, because her rates of toll have been low to counteract the competition of neighbouring states, and because her citizens have preferred to pay in taxes what a low rate of toll might make necessary. In our own neighbourhood, our sister states are awake to the subject; and projects are on foot in every quarter to draw from the state her products, and to make us dependent on them for our supplies: and it is now a question, whether there is that pride of state which will alarm our jealousies of being made tributary to another, or whether we are supinely to submit to the degrading condition of dependence on them. For years past, acts of private incorporations for these purposes have been granted, and we have hoped that there was sufficient of individual enterprise and capital in the state to effect some work of internal improvement. Experience has, however, shown these hopes to be delusive, although there is still a show of an attempt at this work through individual or private enterprise. This committee believes that the state in general can only be permanently benefited by some great work on the resources of the state, and as a state undertaking wholly. By the adoption of this course, under the direction of an intelligent board of public works, a base may at once be established on which the state may hereafter build a superstructure not surpassed by any other state; the interior may find a ready outlet for their superabundant products; the seaboard may find its supplies from the interior of the state; itself may acquire a capital which will hereafter render taxation unnecessary; build up our schools, and all other institutions tending to the happiness, welfare, and comfort of its citizens, and make them dependent on each other only for the supplies. Deeply impressed with the correctness of these views, and with a sense of the importance of action on them before the trade of the state shall have made for itself a channel from which it may be difficult to divert it, the committee have

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studied the question as to the mode of raising the means necessary for this purpose. The committee is aware of the reluctance of the Legislature to encroach on the stocks held by the State in the different banks, and that the funds of the Central Bank are now so diffused among the citizens that they cannot readily be called in, and have therefore come to the conclusion that a loan of money on the credit of the State will be more advantageous than any other course. The resources of this State are so amplefree as it is from debt, there can be no difficulty in raising from capitalists any amount that might be necessary at a low rate of interest, on a term of years which would admit of repayment from the profits of the work. The advantages of this course would be not only withdrawing none of the capital now employed in this State from commerce, but in actually introducing into the State an additional capital to be diffused among her citizens. The committee, influenced by these considerations, respectfully recommend to the Legislature the adoption of such measures as will, through a board of public works authorized to obtain money on the credit of the State, establish a base of internal communication from our seaboard to some central point in our State, on which hereafter can be extended those branches which, like the veins of the human system, may pervade every part of the State, and give a healthy action to the wholeand therefore offer the following resolution: Resolved, That the times require, and the resources of the State authorize a scheme of internal improvement from the seaboard of this State to the interior by railroad, on the faith and credit of the State, and as a great State work. Agreed to, Nov. 29th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives. Concurred in, December 29th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th December, 1834.

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IN SENATE Whereas, from the commercial importance of the cities of Savannah and Macon, it is highly necessary that the citizens of each place should have the means of a direct, frequent, and speedy correspondence and intercourse with the other; and whereas there is no direct mail route from one of those cities to the other Be it resolved by both branches of the General Assembly, That our Senators and Representatives in Congress be respectfully and earnestly requested to use all the means in their power to cause to be established and carried into effect, as soon as practicable, a mail route from one of those cities to the other, to be carried in a four horse stage-coach three times a week from each one of those places to the other. Resolved further, That his Excellency the Governor be requested to forward to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress a copy of these resolutions. Agreed to, 2d December, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate, AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives. Concurred in, Dec. 19th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834.

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IN SENATE. Whereas, at the October term, 1834, of the Superior Court of the county of Walker, John Hog Smith, a Cherokee Indian, was convicted of the crime of murder; and whereas from threats and the circumstances of the case, it is probable there will be an attempt to rescue the said John Hog Smith by his friends, and oppose by force the sentence of the law Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the Sheriff of Walker county be, and he is hereby required to employ such guard as he may deem necessary to resist any probable force which may be opposed to him in the execution of his duty as sheriff in carrying into execution the sentence of the law upon said Indian: Provided, the guard shall not exceed thirty men. Resolved, That the said Sheriff make out and present to the Governor a statement of the expenses incurred by the employment of such guard, and that the Governor be authorized to draw a warrant upon the Treasurer for the amount of such account in favour of said sheriff, to be paid out of the contingent fund. And whereas, at the September term, 1834, of the Superior Court of the county of Murray, James Graves, an Indian, was convicted of the crime of murder, and is now confined in the Jail of the county of Cass; and whereas, there is also danger to be apprehended from the friends of the said James Graves, when he may be conveyed from the county of Cass to the county of Murray for execution Be it therefore resolved, That the Sheriff of Murray county be also authorized to employ a guard, to consist of thirty men, to convey the said James Graves from said Jail in Cass county to the place of execution, and to be employed until he may be so executed. And be it further resolved, That the said Sheriff of the county of Murray be required to make out his account for the payment, as is directed in the case of John Hog Smith; and that the Governor be authorized to pay the same, as is also directed in said case.

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Resolved, That a copy of these resolutions be forwarded to the said Sheriff of Walker county. Agreed to, 7th Nov. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Nov. 10th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Nov. 12th, 1834. IN SENATE. Whereas, sometime in the spring of the present year, Eli Hicks, a Cherokee Indian, was murdered in the county of Floyd by two Cherokee Indians, Duck and Swimmer; and whereas, all attempts to apprehend the said Duck and Swimmer have proved to be unsuccessful; and whereas, the known friendship of the said Eli Hicks to Georgia and her citizens renders it peculiarly desirable that his said murderers should be arrested; and whereas, there is just cause to believe that this will not be done unless there should be some interference upon the part of the State Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That his Excellency the Governor be requested and authorized to offer a reward, in such sum as he may deem necessary, for the arrest and confinement of either the said

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Duck or Swimmer in any Jail in this State; and that the same be paid for out of the contingent fund. Agreed to, 12th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Dec. 18th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834. IN SENATE. Whereas, one of the first principles on which our government, State and Federal, is founded, is the right of the constituent to instruct his representative, and the correlative duty of the latter to obey the will of the former, when distinctly expressed to him, or to resign the trust delegated to him if he cannot conscientiously represent and advance such will; And whereas, our Senators in Congress, elected by the Legislature, and responsible to the people through this body, cannot, on principles of reason, good sense, or honesty, disregard the expression of the will of the people, made through the Legislature, on subjects to which public and general attention has been called; and it is therefore only proper and right that this General Assembly express to our Senators

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the will of the people, and instruct them to use their best efforts, in their proper sphere, to advance said will; And whereas, also, the expression of this body, immediately connected as it is with the people, may serve as a guide to the members of the House of Representatives in Congress in their action on several subjects of great general interest to which the people are sensitively alive; And whereas, it is unwise and inexpedient to place in the hands of a few wealthy individuals, who are irresponsible to the people, an immense moneyed power, such as the Bank of the United States, enabling it to control the commerce of the country, to fix the price of labour and the value of products at its pleasure, at its will to spread distress and ruin through the whole country, and in a season of public calamity to control the government. The course pursued by the bank in its endeavours to compel a re-charter, and in the attitude which it has assumed towards the government of the United States, is sufficient to demonstrate that it is an institution fraught with danger to our liberties. That in placing its funds at the disposal of its president for the purpose of securing its re-charter; in spending immense sums avowedly to disseminate information, but in fact to influence elections; in its extravagant loans to editors of newspapers, whereby strange changes have been wrought; in transacting its business in such a manner, through the medium of committees, as to exclude the government directors from a knowledge of what was actually done, and thereby to defeat the object of their appointment; in using its immense means to produce commercial embarrassment; and through the fear of wide-spread ruin to extort a re-charter; in its refusal to deliver up to the government the pension-funds and books relating thereto; in its refusal to pay the dividends on the government stock, on the ground of a claim for damages on a bill of exchange drawn on the French government, which claim had no foundation on any principle of law or justice, and making itself the judge in its own cause; in substituting an illegal kind of branch drafts in lieu of its notes, and exporting the specie of the country, and thereby preventing a metallic currency in the United States; in refusing to a committee of the House of Representatives that examination of its books and papers which the many imputations of corrupt management made necessary and proper,has violated

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its charter in several of these particulars, and in all has shown clearly that it cannot with safety, independent of other considerations, be suffered to continue its existence. For these reasons, among others, the people of Georgia, through this Legislature, resolve 1st. By the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the Bank of the United States ought not to be re-chartered on any terms; and that our Senators in Congress be, and they are hereby instructed, and our representatives requested to vote against the re-charter of said bank in any form or shape in which it may be presented. 2d. That the bold, patriotic, and constitutional course pursued by the President of the United States to arrest the powerful efforts made by that bank to compel a re-charter; which must, if successful, have resulted in the destruction of the liberties and happiness of the American people, deserves and has the unqualified approbation of the people of Georgia, who pledge to him their support, while he steadily moves onward in his course to arrest, and finally to destroy this mammoth of aristocracy. And whereas the power of Congress, under the constitution, to charter a bank is denied by a large portion of the people of this State, and is acknowledged by another portion, who assert the power to be of too disputable a character to admit its exercise without an amendment of the Constitution expressly granting it; and the opinion of this General Assembly being that Congress should exercise no such power, not expressly granted, or necessarily flowing from one so granted, and that the right to charter a bank is not one of this character 3d. Be it further resolved, That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives requested, to use all proper means to prevent the charter of any Bank of the United States, at least until an amendment of the constitution in this particular shall have been submitted to the States, and by them ratified. And whereas the constitution has clearly defined the duties of the two Houses of Congress, and has made the one the accuser in cases of impeachment, and the other the court for the trial of impeachments, the General Assembly, expressing

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the feelings of the people of Georgia, views the course of the Senate of the United States in the adoption of the resolution of the 28th March last by that body, and its subsequent refusal to enter on its journals the Protest of the President thereto, as unprecedented, unjust to the President, and unbecoming the dignity of that body, and adopting the language used by the Legislature of New-Hampshire on this subject 4th. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the late Protest of the President of the United States against the extraordinary and unprecedented resolution of the Senate of the United States, pronouncing him guilty of a most flagrant offence, without either hearing or trial, was a measure justified by his personal rights to vindicate his own character from unmerited reproach, and by his imperative duty to defend the Executive branch of the government, while in his charge, from all intemperate assaults and unconstitutional encroachments; and that the Senate in passing such a resolution violated the first principles of ordinary justice; and those who voted for the adoption of that resolution deliberately unfitted themselves for the proper discharge of those official duties which by the Constitution (if the charges in it were true) they were bound to believe the House of Representatives would soon invoke them to perform. 5th. Be it further resolved, That our Senators be instructed to vote that the resolution adopted in the Senate, on the 28th of March last, declaring That the President, in the late Executive proceedings in relation to the public revenue, has assumed upon himself authority and power not conferred by the Constitution and Laws, but in derogation of both, be expunged from the journals of the Senate. And whereas the people of this State have sensibly felt and fully appreciated the efforts of the present Executive of the United States to do justice to them in their relations to their Indian population, and in the protection of our territorial rights, according to the compact of 1802 6th. Be it further resolved, That this General Assembly esteems the efforts of the President of the United States to relieve us of our Indian population as founded in feelings of enlarged philanthropy towards the Indians, and in a sense of the justice due to the State of Georgia, and a determination to do her that justice.

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7th. Be it further resolved, That copies of these resolutions be forwarded to the President of the United States, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Agreed to, 11th December, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, December 12, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, December 13th, 1834. IN SENATE. The Joint Standing Committee on Banks, report, that they have carefully examined the annual and semi-annual returns of the Bank of Darien which have been referred to them, and report that they find the institution has been faithfully administered, and that it is in a safe and flourishing condition; and that from a comparison with the returns of former years, your committee does not hesitate to pronounce that its present condition entitles it to the confidence of the public in a degree equal to that to which any other institution of the kind in the State may claim. We conceive that it stands above suspicion, an expression your committee the more readily make, from the fact that suspicions unjust and unfounded have been made against it; and as a large amount of funds of this State is invested in the stock of said bank, which investment your committee

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believe to be safe and profitable; and as the charter of said bank has now but two years to run, would recommend the passage of an act, at the present session of the Legislature, rechartering said bank with such modifications and limitations as may be thought proper. Your committee have examined the semi-annual and annual returns of the State Bank of Georgia which have been referred to them, and report that they find the said bank in a sound state, and entitled to the confidence of the Legislature; and that the report of said bank exhibits a very flourishing condition. And they further report, that on a careful examination of the semi-annual returns of the Planters' Bank of Savannah, and of the Marine and Fire Insurance Bank of Savannah, your committee beg leave to report, that they can discover nothing which tends to impair public confidence in either institution. They appear to have been conducted with a proper circumspection and due regard to their safety and permanent usefulness as moneyed institutions of our State, and to deserve the continued favour of her citizens. They further report, that they have given to the return of the Mechanics' Bank the necessary consideration, and are of opinion that said bank is in a sound and flourishing condition, and entitled to the confidence of the community. Read and agreed to, 19th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 22d Dec. 1834.

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RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Nov. 5, 1834. Resolved, That both branches of the General Assembly will convene in the Representative Chamber at half-past 10 o'clock on Thursday next, to elect seven Judges of the Superior Court of this State, to wit:one for the Western circuit, one for the Northern circuit, one for the Ocmulgee circuit, one for the Flint circuit, one for the Southern circuit, one for the Middle circuit, and one for the Eastern circuit; and also, on Friday next at half-past ten o'clock, for the purpose of electing an Attorney-general for the Middle circuit, and a Solicitor-general for each of the other circuits. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 5th Nov. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 6th Nov. 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, That both branches of the Legislature will convene in the Representative Chamber at the hour of three o'clock, on Wednesday next, for the purpose of electing a Major-general of the first division to fill the vacancy of David Taylor, resigned; and a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and Oyer and Terminer for the City of Savannah, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Hon. John C. Nicoll, resigned. Agreed to, 8th Nov. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, Nov. 10th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Nov. 12, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, That both branches of the Legislature will convene in the Representative Chamber at the hour of 3 o'clock to-morrow (Friday), for the purpose of electing seven directors on the part of the State for the Bank of Darien, two

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for the Planters' Bank, and four for the Bank of the State of Georgia. Agreed to, 18th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 18th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, December 19th, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, That both branches of the General Assembly convene in the Representative Chamber on Friday next at 10 o'clock, A. M., and proceed to the election of a Brigadier-general for the 2d brigade of the 6th division G. M., to fill the vacancy of General John Coffee, resigned. Agreed to, 20th Nov. 1834. JOSEPH DAY, Speaker, pro tem. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 20th Nov. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Nov. 21st, 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to have immediately forwarded to Camden county six copies of Prince's Digest, six of Lamar's edition of Clayton's Justices of the Peace, two of Marbery's and Crawford's, and one of the late Rules of the Superior Court. Read and agreed to, 1st Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 2d Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 10th, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, That his Excellency Wilson Lumpkin, Governor of this State, be, and he is hereby authorized and required to offer a suitable reward for the apprehension of the Cherokee Indians, Santoosca, or Log-in-the-Water, Johnson,

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and Titus, who escaped from the jail of Gwinnett county, where they were confined under sentence of confinement in the penitentiary of this State. Read and agreed to, 17th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 20th Dec. 8134. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Whereas the dividend of the Poor-school fund due to the county of Columbia, has not been drawn for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three and eighteen hundred and thirty-four, owing to the decease of the trustee for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and the resignation of the trustee of eighteen hundred and thirty-four Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay to the Justices of the Inferior Court the Poor-school fund of Columbia county, the dividends apportioned

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to that county for the said years of eighteen hundred and thirty-three and eighteen hundred and thirty-four. Agreed to, Dec. 10th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred, Dec. 19th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to cause to be paid to the several academies which have reported from the county of Monroe, for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, all such sums as may be due said county by distributions made of the fund appropriated for county academies previous to the year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, to be appropriated to said academies, agreeable to the number of pupils respectively taught therein. Agreed to, Dec. 17th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, Dec. 20th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor for the time being, shall appoint one commissioner, who shall be authorized to draw for the fund appropriated annually, as it may be needed for the purposes of the trust, for the support of the indigent deaf and dumb of this State;and whose duty shall be to receive applications for the benefit of said appropriation, and to judge of their claims, to be placed on the list of beneficiaries according to the intention and meaning of these resolutions. Resolved, That said commissioner shall, and he is hereby required to keep a list of all such persons that he may receive as beneficiaries, designating the names, places of residences, and age of each; and also to keep a fair and correct account of his receipts and expenditures, together with all the vouches for his expenditures, and to make a full and particular report of the same, together with all such information as may be called for by the Legislature from time to time touching his trust. Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the said commissioner to make all necessary arrangements for conveying such of the indigent deaf and dumb of this State, to the American Asylum at Hartford, Connecticut, and for their expenses at said institution, having at the same time watchful care that they be placed on the most economical scale. Resolved, That said commissioner be required to give bond, with good and sufficient security, to be made payable to the Governor and his successors in office; and which bond his Excellency is hereby required to take for the faithful performance of the duties of said commissioner during his continuance in office, and which commissioner shall be entitled to and receive such compensation for his services as each Legislature may judge to be reasonable and right. Agreed to, 20th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, Dec. 20th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The select committee to whom was referred the Governor's message communicating the information that the small-pox had made its appearance in Coweta county, and the claim of the corporation of Savannah for disbursements made under the quarantine laws of this State, have had the same under consideration; and on the first branch of the communication beg leave to report:That from the respectable source from which the information emanates, no doubt is entertained by the committee of the appearance of this dreadful pestilence in Coweta county; and that unless prompt and efficient measures be taken to prevent its spread, it will soon be so disseminated through the country as to defy the possibility of arrest; that the only measure which this committee can consider adequate to the exigency is to authorize the Inferior Court of that county to provide, at the expense of the State, a temporary hospital in some isolated house, to which to remove all who have been or may be affected, and to employ a competent nurse and physician, and a guard to prevent communication of the sick and their attendants with others; and further to authorize and request his Excellency the Governor to procure vaccine matter, to be by him distributed in Coweta county and its neighbourhood. On the second branch of the subject submitted, the committee has examined the fourteenth section of the act of 1793, and is satisfied that the claim of the corporation of Savannah to reimbursement of the money expended by it, amounting to the sum of $1511, 16 is just, and ought to be paid out of the funds of the State. By a reference to the quarantine laws it will be obvious that those laws are not intended for the particular protection of any section of the State, but to prevent the entrance in or spread of any malignant or contagious disease over the State; and power to enforce these laws is given to particular bodies, not because those bodies are instructed with the safety of any particular section, but because of the necessity of vesting this power where the exercise of it may first be required, and where that exercise may smother and extinguish the evil on its first appearance: the power to enforce these laws is vested in the Governor, but if it were confined to him the ravages of disease might be great, and the country generally infested before he could be informed of the necessity of action: those powers have been therefore wisely confided also to other bodies, and more especially

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to the corporations of our seaboard towns, where the entrance of pestilence is most likely to be made; but it was never contemplated that the expense of this protection, intended for all, should fall on and be exclusively bound by that particular spot, which, unfortunately for itself, should be the point first attacked; if this were the case, a general quarantine law would be unnecessary, if not entirely inefficient; for no corporation or town would feel under obligation to do more than expel from its limits the subjects of the disease; the principles of humanity would be outraged, and the safety of the State would not be secured. The act of 1793 and subsequent acts show the views entertained by preceding Legislatures, and therefore the appropriation from the contingent fund by that law for the payment of any such disbursements. This committee have learned from another source, and feel bound to communicate the fact, that the small-pox now in Coweta county was taken from Savannah to that county, and that it was introduced into the city of Savannah under circumstances that ought to be known to the Legislature. A ship from New-York arrived at Savannah with a number of passengers on board; in a few hours after her arrival it was discovered that there was or had been a case of small-pox on board; the passengers were immediately compelled to return on board of the ship; and then it became a matter of serious consideration with the corporate authorities what disposition were to be made of the passengers and crew of this vessel. They could not be sent to the poor-house and hospital without danger of infection to the patients, then the occupants of that building; the objections of confining them on board of the ship at the most unhealthy season of the year was as strong, as it exposed them to almost certain death; and the fear of infection made it difficult to provide suitable accommodation for them in the country. Under those circumstances the committee is informed that the corporation adopted the only course in its power, consistent with a due regard to humanity, to prevent the spread of the disease. Isolated buildings at a distance from the city were hired; those infected or believed to be liable to the disease were removed; nurses, physicians, and guards were employed, and the rest of the passengers were discharged, as that corporation had no suitable receptacle for them; and it is believed that the disease was conveyed to Coweta county by one of the passengers so discharged. The committee has felt itself obliged to go into this detail to show how this disease was introduced into the State, how its introduction might have been prevented, or in what manner it might have been prevented, or in what manner it might at least have been

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confined to the spot where it first made its appearance. Had there been a lazarretto in or near the city of Savannah to receive the passengers and crew, the disease must have been arrested then; and the great expense now incurred, and probably to be increased before we shall be rid of the disease, would have been avoided. This committee is informed that the ordinary expenses of the city of Savannah, in the enforcement of the health and quarantine laws, are heavy; and that as these expenses are borne by the citizens, it is but reasonable that a lazarretto for the reception of such cases for the future protection of the State, should be built at the expense of the State, to be afterward maintained and kept up at the expense of said corporation. So indespensable is such a receptacle considered, that the health officer of Savannah, Dr. Habersham, as this committee is informed, resigned his office, declaring that the enforcement of the quarantine laws was utterly impraticable without it, and that he would not hold an office, the duties of which, for the want of this receptacle, he could not discharge. The committee is informed that such a receptacle would increase the expenses of the corporation, as the employment of a resident physician, nurses, and domestics would ensue; but that that corporation, with the means thus afforded of rendering effectual protection to her citizens and the State, would not object to such additional expense. This committee have taken into consideration the probable cost of such a building and the necessary out-buildings, and having regard to the object to be attained, believe that the sum of $15,000 would not be too large a sum for the purpose; and therefore beg leave to offer for adoption the following resolutions: 1st. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor be authorized and requested to procure a sufficient quantity of vaccine matter to be distributed among such physicians of Coweta and the neighbouring counties as will use it gratuitously. 2d. Be it further resolved, That the Justices of the Inferior Court of Coweta, and also of any other county in which the disease may appear, be, and they are hereby authorized and empowered to provide a temporary hospital, to which to remove all who have been or may be infected by small pox, and to employ suitable attendants and a guard to prevent the communication of the sick and their attendants with others, the expense of which shall be paid from the treasury of the State on the warrant of the Governor.

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3d. Be it resolved further, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to direct to be paid from the treasury of the State the sum of one thousand five hundred eleven dollars and sixteen cents, to the corporation of the city of Savannah, in satisfaction of its claim for disbursements in the enforcement of the quarantine laws during the past year. 4th. Be it further resolved, That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the erection of a lazarretto, for the reception of such persons as under the quarantine laws are fit subjects, at or near the city of Savannah, at such place as shall be designated by the mayor and aldermen of said city; and that the said building shall be erected on such plan as by the said corporation shall be determined, and under the superintendence of such person as that corporation shall appoint, who shall be compensated for his services, as superintendent, by the said corporation; and the said building, when so erected, shall be under the charge and control of said corporation, who, at its expense, shall maintain and support the establishment, attendants, and supplies. And be it further resolved, That should the aforesaid disease make its appearance in an adjoining state, immediately on or near the line of any county in this State, the Inferior Court of said county is hereby authorized to employ a suitable guard, and to take such precautionary measures as they may deem best calculated to prevent its extension into this State. Resolved, That the foregoing sums be inserted in the general appropriation bill for the purpose therein specified. Agreed to, 3d Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, 4th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 6th December, 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Whereas the duty of the agent for the Cherokees has been very arduous, and his expenses considerably more than was apprehended when he received the appointment; and whereas the compensation allowed is quite inadequate to the labour performed and the money expended by him. And whereas it is not, nor ever would be, the desire of the State that her agents should not receive a fair equivalent for whatever services they may render Be it t herefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the sum of five hundred dollars be allowed to William G. Springer, agent for the Cherokees, in addition to the amount of what is at present allowed him, and that the said sum of five hundred dollars be placed in the appropriation bill which may be passed at this session of the Legislature. Agreed to, 10th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, Dec. 19th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The select committee to whom was referred the petition of James Wood, both in behalf of himself and as administrator at law of Captain Edward Wood, deceased, have had the same under consideration, and respectfully report thereon: That the said James Wood did apply to the proper officers, and obtained land warrants for himself and Captain Edward Wood, in virtue of an act entitled An Act for opening the land office, and for other purposes therein mentioned, passed at Savannah on the 17th day of February, 1783 (M. and C. Digest, page 323), and that the same was located and surveyed in conformity with the act passed on the 25th of February, 1784. Your committee, on examining the law passed on the 25th of February, 1784, find that the lands lying between the north and south forks of the Oconee river are declared and deemed to be a reserve, to make good the engagements to the officers, seamen, and soldiers entitled to lands in Georgia; and in conformity with the above-mentioned acts, the surveys and locations were made with the most candid and scrupulous regard to the laws before mentioned, and by surveyors whose individual characters this committee believe were a guarantee of the fairness and correctness of their transactions (so far as they were concerned in making the surveys on what they deemed to be the continental reserve); at least, no blame can possibly be attached to the petitioner for the locations of the warrants, as your committee are informed that he was at that time on business in the State of Virginia, and did not attend the locations of his warrants personally. But by a treaty made in New-York in 1790 with the Creek Indians, the lands (set apart for quieting the claims of the officers, seamen, and soldiers entitled to lands in Georgia, and in which the warrants of your petitioner were located) were excluded from our limits; consequently the well-earned portion of your petitioner was lost. The said lands were obtained from the Indians by a subsequent treaty, lotteried off, drawn for, and granted to other citizens. In examining the evidence touching this petition, your committee believe that the locations of the warrants of

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your petitioner, on lands which surveyors thought at that time to belong to the State, but subsequently found to be without the limits, ought not in justice to exclude or bar the payment of the claim; and your committee believe that there is another circumstance that entitles this claim to the additional regard of this House. Agreeably to a statement made by the Hon. Peter Crawford, late of Columbia county (which statement accompanies this report), it appears that, after the conclusion of the revolutionary war, Mr. Wearet, in unison with the Hon. Abraham Baldwin, made a settlement between the government of the United States and the State of Georgia, and that all the lands granted to her officers, seamen, and soldiers, agreeably to the before-mentioned acts, were credited at our treasury at the rate of two dollars per acre. Your committee, after a careful investigation of said petition, consider it was constituting one of the class of the fair and just claims for which no satisfaction has ever been made by the State of Georgia, and are therefore of opinion that the prayer of the petitioner is just and right to be granted, and beg leave respectfully to submit the following resolution: Resolved, That twenty-two hundred dollars be allowed to the said James Wood, for the loss of the two tracts of land granted to himself and brother Capt. Edward Wood, deceased, by the State of Georgia for their services as officers during the revolutionary war, and that the same be provided for in the appropriation bill. Read and agreed to, Nov. 15th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The joint standing committee on finance, to whom was referred the memorial of Pearson Petitt have had the same under consideration, and being of opinion that the prayer of your memorialist is reasonable and just, recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the said Pearson Petitt be allowed the sum of seventy-one dollars and forty-one cents; and that the same be placed in the appropriation bill. Agreed to, Dec. 13th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 19th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The committee to whom was referred the petition of William Grant report,

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That they have had the petition and accompanying documents under consideration, and beg leave to report that they believe the prayer of the petitioner to be reasonable and just, and ought to be granted; and therefore recommend the adoption ofthe following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the sum of one hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to William Grant for his services and expenses in arresting and bringing to justice James Graves, who was convicted at the last term of Murray county Superior Court for the murder ofBates; and that the said sum be placed in the appropriation bill for the present year. Agreed to, Dec. 17th,1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 19th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Committee to whom were referred the claims of John H. Lowe, administrator on the estate of John Sillman make the following report: It appears to your Committee, that on the 9th day of August, 1821, John Sillman became the purchaser of fraction No. 18, in pursuance of an act of the Legislature, passed the 22d of December, 1820, for the sum of $84; one-fourth of said purchase-money was paid in cash at the time of purchase, in accordance with the provisions of said act; the balance was to have been paid in three annual instalments of $21 each. It appears to your Committee, by the accounts of George R. Clayton, treasurer, endorsed upon the back of said bond, that the two first instalments, together with the interest thereon, were paid at the time they became due, leaving the last instalment on said bond due the State, viz.$21 on the 9th day of August, 1824. And it further appears to your Committee, that on the 11th day of August, in the year 1821, under and by virtue of an act, the said John Sillman became the purchaser of fractions No. 170, 286, 288, for the sum of $699; one-fourth of which being paid in cash, left due three instalments of $174 75. It appears to your Committee, by the receipts of George R. Clayton, treasurer, endorsed upon the back of said bond, that the two first instalments, with interest thereon, were paid when they fell due. It also appears by the receipt of William Triplett, comptroller-general, that on the 18th day of April, 1825, the interest of the last instalment was paid up to that date, and $110 63 principal, which left a balance due upon last-mentioned bond at that date $64 12; which, together with the last instalment, with interest up to the last-mentioned date, due upon the first-mentioned bond, makes the sum of $86 24 due by the said John Sillman to the State of Georgia on said bonds. It appears further to your Committee, that the executions issued upon said bonds for more than was due thereon, and appears by the receipts of Ethon Melton, sheriff of Walton county, that on the 2d day of May, 1825, the said John Sillman paid said sheriff on said executions the sum of $205 93; which amount overpaid the State

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of Georgia, as appears upon said bonds, in the sum of $119 69. This last-mentioned sum your Committee believe to be justly due the heirs of the said John Sillman, with interest from the 2d day of May, in year 1825; which makes the sum of $211 69. Your Committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That John H. Lowe, administrator of John Sillman, deceased, be paid out of the treasury of the State of Georgia the sum of two hundred and eleven dollars sixty-nine cents; and that the same be inserted in the appropriation bill. Read and agreed to, 13th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 22d Dec. 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the proceedings had against Jeremiah S. Chastain, on a note given by him for the rent of an Indian improvement, be stayed; and as he could not get possession of the said

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improvement, he be released from all liability and responsibility on said note, or the judgment obtained thereon. Agreed to, 20th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor Approved, December 20th. 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Whereas, it appears that for the interest of the State many town-lots have been sold a second time by mistake, by which the second purchasers have been injured to the amount by them paid in to the State; for remedy whereof Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to issue a warrant on the treasury for the amount or amounts of money which have been improperly raised by exposing to sale a second time town-lots for the benefit of the State, when the same had not been forfeited to the State, in favour of

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said second purchasers or their agents, upon their exhibiting satisfactory evidence of the amount so paid. Read and agreed to, 6th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th December, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Whereas the Legislature by a resolution in 1825 vested in Samuel Gibson the right of fraction number one hundred and sixty-seven in the twelfth district of Habersham county, during his life, and after his death until his youngest child should marry or arrive of lawful age; and whereas the said Samuel Gibson has departed this life, and whereas his youngest child has arrived at lawful age Resolved therefore by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That it shall be the duty of the sheriff of Habersham county, as early as practicable, to give notice by advertisement as in cases of land sales under execution, and proceed to sell the said fraction on a sale-day during the usual hours of sale at Clarksville, in Habersham county.

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And be it further resolved, That the said sheriff execute titles to the highest bidder, on his paying the amount bid in money, or one-fifth of the amount in cash and a note for the balance made sufficiently strong, and endorsed according to the rules of the Central Bank in discounting notes. And be it further resolved, That the said sheriff shall, within twenty days after sale, transmit the money, or money and note, to the Central Bank, retaining five per cent. on the amount of sale for his fees, and also the advertising fees. Read and agreed to, 17th December, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, December 20th, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Whereas the sheriff of Habersham county, agreeable to a concurred resolution of both branches of the General Assembly in 1825, offered to sale all the fractional parts of surveys then unsold in the county of Habersham; and whereas Jonathan D. Chastain became the purchaser of fraction number one hundred and eight in the thirteenth district of said county; and whereas the said Jonathan D. Chastain makes oath that he paid the full consideration bid

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for the said fraction to the sheriff at the time of sale, and received of said sheriff a certificate to that effect; and that he has lost or mislaid said certificate, so that he cannot produce it, but that he has not transferred the said certificate to any person or persons whatsoever; for remedy whereof Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the surveyor-general and the other proper officers be, and they are hereby authorized and required to issue to the said Jonathan D. Chastain a plat and grant to the said fraction number one hundred and eight in the thirteenth Habersham, upon his paying into the treasury the usual fees for grants for fractions in said county of Habersham. Read and agreed to, 6th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor Approved, 20th December, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The joint standing military committee beg leave to make the following report: That they have examined the reports of the military storekeepers at the seat of government and at Savannah, as well

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as into the condition of the arms and munitions of war in the arsenal at this place, and take pleasure in stating that the neatness and correctness in which those reports were made are creditable to their authors; and that though the condition of a good portion of the arms at this place are now in a ruinous condition, yet the committee cannot charge the same to the neglect of the present military store-keeper at this place. Your committee further report, that the military code made under authority of a resolution of the last Legislature, and reported to this branch of the Legislature at its present session, was submitted to the joint standing committee on the military, and by them reported to the Senate; which military code has been by that body laid upon the table until the next session of the Legislature; we, therefore, as part of that committee, beg leave to be discharged from the further consideration of said subject. In conclusion, we beg leave to offer for the adoption of this House the following resolution: Resolved, That the three individuals who acted by Executive appointment under the authority of the resolution in reporting said military code, to wit,John A. Cuthbert, Philip Schley, and James H. Merriwether, shall be entitled to the sum of five hundred dollars as compensation for said services; and that said sum be incorporated in the appropriation bill. Agreed to, 12th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, 19th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Treasurer's report and abstract, with a list of warrants drawn by the Governor for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, report:that they have attentively and critically discharged the duties assigned them, and find the various books and papers, and entries therein made, correctly kept and supported by proper vouchers, and agreeing with his report and abstract. They therefore beg leave to request that the Treasurer's report and abstract, with a list of warrants drawn by the Governor for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-four, may be taken as a part of this report. They feel it to be a pleasant duty to state, that the office of the Treasury is kept in a business-like and satisfactory manner, which reflects credit on the incumbent. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Comptroller-general's statement of the account of the Treasurer with the State of Georgia, report:That they have carefully examined the different items and calculations of this account, and find them carefully made, showing the receipts into the treasury from all sources $288,509 90, during the political year 1834; and disbursements in conformity to warrants, drawn for various services, amounting to $239,599 85; leaving a balance on hand of $48,910 08. Your committee further report, that they carefully examined into the general order of the office and condition of the records, and find all things in a condition reflecting credit on this officer, except a considerable amount unposted items arising from the necessity of arranging the affairs of the office after the confusion produced by the late fire on the State-House during the last winter. They recommend the appropriation of $400 as compensation for that service: all of which is respectfully submitted. Your committee find on the Treasurer's books, and chargeable to that officer, the sum of two thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy-three cents, in paper medium; but on examining the contents of a packet, the

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envelope of which was endorsed with that amount, they found it to contain five thousand six hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-one cents of paper medium, which never can be of any value, and which is believed to be an unnecessary encumbrance of useless paper, not required by sound policy longer to be kept in the treasury of the State. They also find twenty-one dollars of counterfeit money, and a ten-dollar bill on the Bank of the State of Georgia, which appears to have been raised. Your committee therefore offer the following resolution: Resolved, That the Treasurer be, and he is hereby required to cancel the bill supposed to have been raised for its true value, and charge himself with that amount; and that the counterfeit money and paper medium be burnt in the presence of the Committee on Finance; and that the Treasurer have credit for two thousand seven hundred and eighty-seven dollars and seventy-three cents of paper medium, and thirty-one dollars of counterfeit money. Read and agreed to, 10th December, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 19th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The select committee to whom was referred the consideration of the transactions of the Board of Directors of the Central Bank in regard to the renewal of the charter of the Bank of Darien, and also to the increase of stock in the Bank of Augusta, have investigated the subject, and [Illegible Text] report: That the shares in the different banks, the property of the State, having been transferred to the Central Bank, the Board of those banks were properly the representatives of the State during the recess of the Legislature, on all questions arising in relation to them; that all communications on the subject can properly be addressed to that Board, whose duty thereupon was to act on such communications in their best judgment; and in their annual report to mention all prominent events which had in the course of the year come before it officially. That accordingly, when that Board was applied to to concur in the application of the Darien Bank for a renewal of its charter, it was its duty to express its assent or dissent to such application, and in its annual report to state that their concurrence had been asked and their action thereon: this it has done, and no more; and this committee cannot but approve the course of the Board in its report, in which no disposition is manifested or attempt made to give direction to the application; and the committee report, that on this subject there is no ground for censure; that the Board did but its duty, and would have been reprehensible had it done less. In regard to the increase of the stock of the Bank of Augusta, the act of 1826 had authorized the increase when the stockholders should determine it. In December, 1833, they did determine on an increase, leaving to the directors as to the time of the sale of such increased stock: the law made the increase dependent on the resolution of the stockholders, and immediately on the adoption of that resolution the increase was by the law made. The fourth resolution recognises the action of the stockholders on that day to be an increase; and insomuch as no further action of the stockholders was necessary, the committee considers that the stock of that bank was then increased, subject alone to the direction of the directors as to the time

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of sale. The act of the Legislature reserves to the State the right to one-sixth of such increase until the end of the session next after such increase. On this construction of the act and the resolutions it became the duty of the Board of the Central Bank, on its annual report, to state the part of such increase, and to call the attention of the Legislature to the necessity of an appropriation, if the right assured was to be taken advantage of. Had that Board failed so to do, and the [Illegible Text] of the State been forfeited, that Board would not have discharged its duty, and would justly have been reprehensible; if, on the other hand, this construction be not correct, and if the increase of stock is not made until a sale, still this committee can find no ground of censure on this ground of its report; for even were the suggestion for an appropriation immature, it evinced on the part of the Board only a sensitive anxiety for the interest of the State, laudable and correct, and such as should actuate every public officer, who, if he [Illegible Text] should do so rather in too close a regard for the welfare of the State [Illegible Text] otherwise. The committee on this branch of the subject can find no ground for the imputation of a disposition in that Board to interfere unnecessarily with the other moneyed institutions of the State.The committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: Resolved, That the Board of the Central Bank, in its annual return, did but its duty in informing the Governor, and through him the General Assembly, of its action in relation to the Bank of Darien and the Bank of Augusta. Resolved, That the Directors of the Bank of Augusta have acted in conformity with the law in relation to the increase and sale of the stock of said Bank. Read and agreed to, 12th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The committee on finance, to whom was referred the correspondence and documents in relation to disposing of the public hands, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to report, that from the document submitted it appears that the negroes, mules, horses, wagons, carts, tools, and implements sold by William C. Lyman, superintendent of the Eastern Division, in pursuance of an act of the last Legislature, sold for sixty-three thousand nine hundred and thirty-six dollars. That the State's property of the above named description disposed of by N. B. Powell, superintendent of the Western Division, sold for forty-four thousand one hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty-seven cents; that the State's property of the same description attached to the railroad station, sold by Thomas King, amounted to nine thousand three hundred and twenty-eight dollars and fifty cents: amounting in the aggregate to one hundred and seventeen thousand four hundred and sixty-four dollars and thirty-seven cents. It further appears, from the correspondence referred to, that several of the State's hands had run away, or were otherwise absent, at the time of sale, and, so far as your committee know, have not yet been sold. On examining the accounts of the superintendents, filed in the Central Bank, it appears that William C. Lyman and N. B. Powell, Esqrs. in their settlement with the bank retained for their services in selling the State's property a commission of two and one-half per cent. on the amount of sales by them made. It does not appear that any thing was retained by Thomas King, or allowed him for his services, in selling that part of the State's property attached to the railroad station. Your committee therefore offer the following resolution: Resolved, That the officers of the Central Bank be directed to allow Thomas King a commission of two and a half per cent. on the amount of sales of the State's property by him made, in pursuance of the act of the General Assembly,

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passed the 22d December, 1833, with such other compensation for overseer's hire and services rendered as superintendent of the railroad station, as may appear reasonable and just. And that when the remaining portion of the State's property shall have been sold, and a settlement made with the bank for the same, the same commissions, with such other reasonable charges as may seem just, shall be allowed the persons employed for that purpose. Read and agreed to, 13th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, 19th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th December, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The joint committee on the penitentiary, to whom was referred the examination of the institution and its concerns, report, that they have carefully discharged the duties assigned them, and take great pleasure in saying that the institution appears to be in a prosperous condition. The neatness and good order of the institution give evidence of great care and attention on the part of its officers, and the specimens of work exhibited show much skill; indeed, the present condition and prospects of the institution justify the expectation

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that the penitentiary will not only be a corrective but a preventive of evil; and will, at no distant period, prove to be a source of income to the State. In looking over the reports of the several officers of this institution, the attention of your committee was specially arrested by a suggestion made by the principal keeper. That officer intimates the propriety of providing a stock of wagon and carriage timber, which shall be sufficient to last the institution three or four years; so that the institution may at all times have a sufficiency of seasoned timber for that kind of work. Your committee, being well aware of the necessity of having seasoned timber for that kind of work, and knowing that work of that kind made of unseasoned timber must soon come to pieces, and injure the character of the institution, would respectfully recommend an appropriation for that purpose, as the present resources of the institution cannot afford it. Your committee can give evidence to the truth of a statement made in the report of the inspectors, in regard to the necessity of altering and enlarging some of the work-shops. It is stated in that report that some of the work-shops should be so altered as to enable some of the assistant keepers to have the workmen more in view, and that some of the shops are too small. Your committee coincide with the inspectors in the above opinion: some of the shops are evidently too small for the present number of workmen, and we may reasonably calculate on an additional number of convicts under the new penal code: your committee would therefore respectfully recommend an appropriation for that purpose. Your committee have endeavoured to ascertain the propriety of covering the new building in the penitentiary with copper, as instructed by a resolution from the Senate, and have come to the conclusion that it is unnecessary, as the building has at this time a new and good roof; and even if the roof should by any means be caught on fire, no damage can accrue further than the destruction of the roof, the balance of the building being completely fire-proof. It appears from the report of the inspectors that the institution suffers some inconvenience, because the law requires that all the debts due to the institution, when put out for collection, should be placed in the hands of the collecting attorney for the penitentiary, and it frequently happens that debts become due from persons living out of the circuit in which he practises. Your committee apprehend the difficulty, and would respectfully suggest the propriety of obviating it.

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It appears from the report of the inspectors that the sum appropriated last year for constructing the cell buildings has proved insufficient; therefore a further appropriation for that purpose will be necessary. In conclusion, your committee would respectfully recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars be placed in the appropriation act of the present session for the purpose of completing the new cell building, and for altering and enlarging the work-shops; and the sum of seven hundred dollars be likewise placed in the appropriation act for procuring a stock of wagon and carriage timber for the institution. Agreed to, 18th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 19th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Report of the select committee to whom was referred an investigation of the conduct and accounts of William B. Davis, in relation to the public hands lately under his charge. By the resolution of 1832, William B. Davis is intrusted as superintendent of the public hands, while they are at

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Railroad Creek station, without any compensation. In 1833, this House by resolution appropriated $500 for his services; this resolution was not concurred in by the Senate, and of consequence he was not entitled to compensation. By the act of 1833, the public hands are directed to be sold by the superintendents: after this act was passed, it was discovered that the act had omitted to require from the superintendents a bond to account for the funds of such sale. A resolution to supply that omission was adopted; and by that resolution the Governor was authorized to appoint a competent person to take possession, in behalf of the State, of the slaves and other public property, whenever his Excellency might deem it expedient for the interest of the State, and to sel lthem under this resolution. The Governor. believing that the interest of the State required the appointment of a person other than William B. Davis, appointed Thomas King to this duty; and it thereby became the duty of said Davis to surrender the negroes, c. to King. From the documents submitted it appears he did not do so, but left King to get possession of them as he could. King succeeded in getting possession of the negroes; and a few days after some one or more of them absconded, or were enticed away; and finally, on the day appointed under the law for the sale, one of said negroes, by the name of Solomon, was not forthcoming; and from a letter from said Davis to the Central Bank, it appears that said negro was in the possession of Davis, and was afterward sold by him; but in what manner, whether at public or private sale, does not appear. The Committee refrain from the expression of any opinion which might affect the criminal prosecution now pending in the Superior Court of Glynn county against said Davis, for inveigling said negro; but that the conduct of said Davis was most improper and highly censurable in possessing himself of said negro after the appointment of King; and that his subsequent sale was without proper authority, and that said sale is wholly void, this Committee cannot doubt. The Committee have examined the accounts submitted, which appear to be sustained by the vouchers, except one charge, and that of so great a nature that it cannot be passed without notice; and the charge alluded to is one for $500 for his services as superintendent, when, by the resolution of 1832, it appears that his services were to be gratuitous, and so considered by himself, as is shown by his continuing to perform those duties, and when a resolution of this House in 1833, to give him $500, had been rejected by the Senate.

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That this charge was most unaccountable and unauthorized was within the knowledge of said Davis. The Committee therefore respectfully offer the following resolutions: 1st. Resolved, That the conduct of William B. Davis, in failing to deliver the public hands to Thomas King, was censurable and improper. 2d. Resolved, That the sale of the negro Solomon, made by William B. Davis, was contrary to law and void, and his conduct in selling said negro highly censurable. 3d. Resolved, That the said negro be reclaimed for the State whenever found; and on recovery of him by the State, that he be sold as is ordered by the act of 1833. 4th. Resolved, That the solicitor-general of the Eastern Circuit be instructed and required to institute actions against said William B. Davis, to compel him to account for the public money in his hands; and if the negro Solomon be not recovered, to compel said William B. Davis to pay to the State the full value of said negro. 5th. Resolved, That the charge of $500, made by said William B. Davis for his services, is unauthorized and unwarrantable, and in the opinion of this House highly censurable. Read and agreed to, 13th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, Dec. 20th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Whereas some of the negroes lately belonging to the State were runaway at the time appointed for the sale of them, and were subsequently apprehended and sold by Francis M. Stone by order of the Executive, and it is but justice that the said Francis M. Stone receive the same compensation for his services which was paid to the other agents of the State Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That two and one-half per cent. on the amount of sales made by the said Francis M. Stone be paid to him, and that his Excellency the Governor be authorized and requested to draw his warrant on the treasury for the same. Agreed to, 20th December, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, Dec. 20th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, December 20th, 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The select committee to whom was referred the communication of his Excellency the Governor of the 6th instant, accompanied by a letter from Benjamin F. Curry, have had both those papers under their most deliberate consideration, and, as the result of which, they present the following report: Your committee deem it wholly unnecessary at this time to enter into a formal defence of the policy of the State which has been adopted for the settlement and government of that portion of the country now partly inhabited by Cherokees. It was not to have been expected that the Cherokees would yield a cheerful acquiescence in those measures which have been considered expedient by the State; but your committee learn with exceeding regret from the communication of the Governor now under consideration, as well as from his message delivered at the commencement of the present Legislature, that the discontents of this unfortunate people have been greatly aggravated by some of our own citizens; those whose highest obligation and most sacred duty was to guard the interest and advance the policy of the State. It is with exceeding regret that your committee learn from the letter of Major Curry, as well as from various sources of information corroborative of his statements, of the actual existence of the most alarming disorders and disturbance in the Cherokee country; and that those of a much more serious character are justly apprehended, unless some effectual measures are adopted to prevent them. It is also with the most unfeigned regret that your committee are informed by the same gentleman of the danger to which our own citizens, and those few Cherokees who have entered into the support of the laudable views and philanthropic purposes of the government, are exposed. Our enterprising and public-spirited citizens who have ventured into the country upon the invitation of the State have the strongest claims upon her for protection; and she would be recreant to every principle of justice if she was not to shield them against the possibility of injury from the quarter alluded to. Those of the Cherokees also who have, with the patriotic view of advancing the best interest of their people, espoused the cause of the

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government, have an equal right to demand protection and security. Your committee have entire confidence in the energy, watchfulness, and discretion of the Governor, and consider that the most ample means should be left within his control of rendering immediate assistance to our own people and the friendly Cherokees, whenever such assistance may become necessary. For these purposes your committee recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized, when he may deem the exigency to demand it, to call out such force, under such command, and for the time he may consider necessary for the security, relief, and protection of our own citizens and the friendly Cherokees. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be authorized to draw upon the contingent fund for the payment of all expenses which may be incurred by the foregoing resolutions. Agreed to, 18th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The select committee to whom was referred the Executive communication of the 7th inst., with accompanying documents, report: That the writ of citation which has been served upon his Excellency the Governor at the instance of James Graves, convicted before the Superior Court of Murray county of the crime of murder, as detailed in his Excellency's message, is, in the view of your committee, an attempt to abuse the process of the Supreme Court of the United States for the purpose of interfering with the ordinary criminal jurisdiction of this State, which, by the Constitution thereof, is vested exclusively in the Superior Courts. The right to enforce the criminal laws of the State within her own limits is one of local character, essential to the preservation of peace and good order within her borders, clearly belonging to that residuary mass of sovereignty which is inherent in each State, and the exercise of which, although of vital importance to such State, does not interfere with the essential rights or interests of the other States in the confederacy. Your committee need not pause to show, by historical reference, that other States having an Indian population within their bounds have afforded a practical exposition of the right of a State to punish the perpetrators of crimes (whether Indian or white) committed within her limits. Your committee need only to refer to the recent case of George Tassels, in which our own State successfully carried out the principle in question. Your committee briefly remark, that by reason of the government under which we live being partly federal and partly national, two distinct classes of cases arise, and that a just appreciation of the difference which exists between them will lead to a maintenance of the just rights of each State, while a due observance of those which belong to the United States will be preserved. The right to regulate the interior police of a State is one of a local domestic character, belonging to that class of cases the legislation over which is exclusively vested in the State, and

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which should be asserted with that firmness, dignity, and moderation which should mark the deliberations of the representatives of the people. Your committee observe, that from the letter of William G. Springer, the agent of the State, which accompanies the Executive message, they learn that from the course pursued by his Honour Judge Hooper (upon the propriety of which they disclaim the right of passing), a general determination has been excited among the Indians to maintain themselves against the policy and laws of this State; and your committee apprehend that some obstacle may be interposed by that determination between the sheriff of Murray county and the execution of the laws in the case of James Graves. They have therefore endeavoured to provide for such exigencies, by recommending the adoption of a resolution authorizing the sheriff, should he deem it necessary, to employ such force as will ensure the execution of the sentence in the above case. Your committee, impressed with these views, respectfully recommend for adoption the following resolutions: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That they view with feelings of deep regret another attempt to interfere with the administration of the criminal laws of this State, by the use of the process of the Supreme Court of the United States. Resolved, That the right to punish the perpetrators of crimes committed within the jurisdiction and chartered limits of this State is one of those residuary rights, the exercise of which is of vital importance to the domestic peace and internal economy of such State, and the practical operation of which can in nowise conflict with the essential rights or interests of her co-States. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to communicate by express to the sheriff of Murray county the determination of this State to enforce her criminal laws; and that such orders be issued by him to that officer as will ensure the execution of the laws in the case of James Graves, convicted of murder in said county. Resolved, That the sheriff of said county be, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to employ a guard of

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armed men, if he shall deem the same necessary, to carry into execution the said sentence. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, and all other officers of this State, be, and they are hereby required to avoid any step by which the State of Georgia may be made a party to the case sought to be made before the Supreme Court of the United States, by the said process of citation. Read and agreed to, Nov. 15th, 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Read and concurred in, Nov. 15th, 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Nov. 20th, 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, That the proposals of Messrs. P. L. and B. H. Robinson to print the Laws and Journals of the present session of the Legislature being the lowest proposals to do the same, they have the same on the terms proposed by them, which are herewith submitted, and are as follows: The Laws and Journals to be printed as in 1830. The Laws in small pica and the Journals in long primer, at seven mills for each copy-sheet of eight octavo pagesrule and

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figure work double that price. The Laws to be delivered on the 15th of February, and the Journals on the 15th of March, 1835. Resolved further, That the proposals of Messrs. Cuthbert and Hunt for the job-printing being the lowest proposals to do the same, they have the same on the terms proposed by them, which are herewith submitted, and are as follows: For the job-printingfor each sheet of eight octavo pages, five cents per sheet for the first hundred sheets, and two and a half cents per sheet after the first hundred; and for jobs exceeding eight octavo pages, four cents for the first hun dred sheets; after the first hundred sheets, two cents per sheet; after the first sheet, 25 per cent. lower. Rule and figure work double those prices. Securities in both contracts to be approved by the Governor. Agreed to, 19th Nov. 1834. JOSEPH DAY, Speaker pro tem. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, Concurred in, 20th Nov. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, Nov. 27th, 1834.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be authorized and required to have published, in such of the public gazettes of this State as he may select, such acts of the present Legislature as may be of a public or general character. Agreed to, 18th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approved, 20th Dec. 1834. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The Joint Standing Committee on Banks, to whom were referred the semi-annual statements of the Bank of Augusta, the Insurance Banking Company of Augusta, the Bank of Hawkinsville, and the Commercial Bank at Macon, have given them all the consideration which their importance requires; and from the exhibit made they appear to have been conducted

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with fidelity, and are entitled to the continued confidence of the community. Read and agreed to, 20th Dec. 1834. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AttestJOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. AttestJOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. WILSON LUMPKIN Governor. Approved, Dec. 20th, 1834.

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APPENDIX. An Abstract of the Treasury of the State of Georgia on the 31 st day of October, 1834, inclusive. DR. For amounts paid into the Treasury between the 1 st of November, 1833, and the 31 st of October, 1834, inclusive, and placed to the credit of the after-mentioned accounts. General tax of 1810, 40 41 General tax of 1830, 60 00 General tax of 1831, 211 07 General tax of 1832, 49,422 84 General tax of 1833, 630 00 General tax under Resolution, December, 1833, 1,000 00 State Stock, 100,798 07 Dividend on Bank Stock, 88,900 00 Tax on Bank Stock, 4,660 26 Sale of fraudulently drawn lots, 1,606 40 Reverted fractions and islands, 46 25 Reverted lots 1st district Muscogee, 76 54 Reverted fractions in Early, 110 80 Reverted Macon lots and reserves, 385 20 Reverted relinquished lots, 154 01 Vendue tax, 1,425 37 Funds for fees on head right grants, 584 50 Funds for fees on copy grants, 144 00 Funds for fees on testimonials, 157 50 Funds for fees on Macon lots and reserves, 238 50 Funds for fees on fractions lottery of 1822 and 1823, 203 75 Funds for fees on fractions lottery of 1827, 504 00 Funds for fees on lottery of 1820, 950 00 Funds for fees on lottery of 1821, 840 00 Funds for fees on lottery of 1827, 8,904 00 Funds for fees on gold lottery of 1832, 9,50 500 Funds for fees on Cherokee land lottery, 1832, 9,238 00 Amount carried over. $280,796 47

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Amount brought forward, $280,796 47 Funds for fees on gold fractions, 780 00 Funds for fees on Cherokee land fractions, 90 00 Funds for fees on lots fraudulently drawn, 80 00 Funds for fees on Columbus lots, 67 50 Funds for fees on McIntosh reserves, 18 00 Funds for fees on lots 10 and 100, 4 00 Funds for fees on first district Muscogee, 36 00 Funds for fees on reverted lots in B. W. and W., 6,630 00 288,501 97 Of the above amount there was received by John Williams, Esq., late Treasurer, from the 1st to the 23d of November, 1833, inclusive, the sum of $42,988 91 $245,513 06 CR. By amount of President's and Speaker's warrants, Governor's warrants, c., drawn and chargeable to the following accounts, taken at the Treasury between the 31 st of October, 1833, and the 1 st of November, 1834, inclusive, viz. Contingent fund of 1833, 3,581 52 Military fund of 1827, 528 00 Civil establishment of 1833, 10,831 25 Special appropriation of 1833, 583 50 Printing fund of 1833, 852 61 Poor-school fund 18,401 18 Appropriation for county academies, 18,710 27 Road and river fund, 1833, 4,700 00 Appropriation for the Penitentiary, 7,500 00 Special appropriations of 1834, 42,186 31 Land fund of 1832, 504 75 Contingent fund of 1834, 11,433 38 Appropriation for improving State-house, 7,540 00 Special appropriations for 1821, 1,000 00 Redemption of the public debt, 3 65 Printing fund of 1834, 13,779 08 Civil establishment of 1834, 25,951 62 Road and river fund of 1834, 3,899 00 Amount carried up, $171,986 12

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Amount brought forward, $171,986 12 President's and Speaker's warrants for the pay of the members and officers of the last Legislature, 67,751 00 239,737 12 Of the above amount there was paid out by John Williams, Esq., late Treasurer, from the 1st to the 23d of November, 1833, inclusive, the sum of 14,985 59 224,751 53 Balance in the Treasury, $20,761 53 Respectfully submitted, T. HAYNES, Treasurer. STATEMENT OF THE COMPTROLLER GENERAL. COMPTROLLER GENERAL'S OFFICE, [UNK] Milledgeville, 3 d Nov. 1834. To the Hon. the President and Members of Senate I have the honour herewith to present to the Senate a statement of the receipts and disbursements at the Treasury during the political year 1833, which is Most respectfully submitted, WM. W. CARNES, Comptroller General. Thomas Haynes, Esq. Treasurer, in account current with the State of Georgia, for receipts and disbursements at the Treasury during the political year 1834, viz.from the 31 st of October, 1833, to the 31 st of October, 1834, inclusive. DR. For amount received on the following accounts, viz. For General Tax for 1810, $40 41 For General Tax for 1830, 60 00 For General Tax for 1831, 211 07

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General Tax for 1832, 49,422 84 General Tax for 1833, 630 00 General State Stock, 100,798 00 General Vendue Tax, 1,425 37 General Dividend on Bank Stock, 88,900 00 General Fund from Tax on Bank Stock, 4,660 26 General Sale of Lots fraudulently drawn, 1,593 15 General Sale of Fractions and Islands, 46 25 General Sale of Lots first District Muscogee, 89 79 General Sale of Fractions in Early county, 110 80 General Sale of Lots and Reserves at Macon, 385 20 General Sale of Relinquished Lots, 154 01 General Joint Resolution of the General Assembly of this State, assented to 19th December, 1833, 1,000 00 General Fund from fees on Grants for land drawn in 1820, 950 00 General Fund from fees on Grants for land drawn in 1821, 840 00 General Fund from fees on Grants for land drawn in 1827, 8,912 00 General Fund from fees on Grants for land drawn in 1832, 9,238 00 General Fund from fees on Grants Gold Lots, 1832, 9,505 00 General Fund from fees Fractions sold under act of 1832-3, 203 75 General Fund from fees Fractions sold under act of 1827, 504 00 General Fund from fees Land Fractions drawn for in 1833, 90 00 General Fund from fees Gold Fractions drawn for in 1833, 780 00 General Fund from fees Lots and Reserves at Macon, 1827, 238 50 General Fund from fees Lots and Reserves at Columbus, 1827, 67 50 General Fund from fees McIntosh Reserve, 1827, 18 00 General Fund from fees first District Muscogee, 1828, 36 00 General Fund from fees Lots fraudulently drawn, 80 00 General Fund from fees Reverted Lots in B. W. and W. 6,630 00 General Fund from fees Head Rights, 584 50 General Fund from fees 10 and 100, 4 00 General Fund from fees Copy Grants, 144 00 General Fund from fees Testimonials, 157 50 288,509 90 CR. By amount paid to Governor's Warrants chargeable to the following accounts, viz. By Fund for the redemption of the Public Debt, $3 65 By Appropriation for County Academies, 18,710 27 By Appropriation for Penitentiary, 7,500 00 By Appropriation for Improving State-house, 7,540 00 By Military Fund for 1827, 528 00 By Civil Establishment of 1833, 10,831 25 By Civil Establishment of 1834, 25,951 62 By Road and River Fund of 1833, 4,700 00 By Road and River Fund of 1834, 3,899 00

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By Special appropriation of 1833, 583 50 By Special appropriation of 1834, 42,049 04 By Contingent Fund of 1833, 3,581 52 By Contingent Fund of 1834, 11,433 38 By Printing Fund of 1833, 852 61 By Printing Fund of 1834, 13,779 08 By Land Fund of 1832, 504 75 By Poor-school Fund of 1832, 18,401 18 By Special Approptiation of 1821, 1,000 00 By Appropriation for Legislature of 1834, 67,751 00 By Balance, 48,910 05 288,509 90 COMPTROLLER GENERAL'S OFFICE, [UNK] Milledgeville, 3d Nov. 1834. The foregoing statement is most respectfully submitted. WM. W. CARNES, Comp. General. A STATEMENT OF WARRANTS Drawn on the Treasurer during the political year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four, or between the first Monday in November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-three, and the first Monday in November, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four. MILITARY FUND, 1827. No. Date. In whose favour drawn. For what purpose drawn, and to what fund chargeable. Amount. 1833. 1 Nov. 5, William Turk, For twelve days' services as Inspector of the Second Brigade of the Fourth Division Georgia Militia, 48 00 14 Nov. 16, David Dobbs, For twenty days' services as Inspector of the Fourth Division Georgia Militia, 80 00 43 Dec. 12, Nimrod W. Long, For ten days' services as Inspector of the Sixth Division Georgia Militia, 40 00 66 Dec. 20, William E. Wilson, For twenty-seven days' services as Inspector of the First Brigade of the Seventh Division Georgia Militia, 108 00

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1834. 149 Feb. 3, Francis M. Stone, For his first quarter salary as Military Store-keeper at Savannah, 60 00 192 May 3, P. T. Schley, For eight days' services as Inspector of the Second Brigade of the Second Division Georgia Militia, 32 00 $368 00 PRINTING FUND, 1833. 1833. 2. Nov. 5, E. De La Motta, For printing done for the public in the Savannah Republican to January, 1833, and for subscription to said paper to January, 1834, 129 87 12 Nov. 13, C. E. Bartlett, For do. in the Columbus Democrat, between June 1st and August 3d, 1833, 82 00 18 Nov. 23, M. Bartlett, For do. in the Macon Telegraph, and for subscription to said paper to 1st November, 1833, 131 37 19 Nov. 23, Rockwell Raiford, For printing done for the office of Secretary of State, at the office of the Times, up to 23d November, 1833, 90 62 22 Nov. 26, Howell Cobb, For publishing proposed amendments to, and acts providing for altering the Constitution, 135 00 46 Dec. 14, Polhill Cuthbert, For advertisements in the Federal Union, and for job-work done at said office for the Legislature, up to December 12, 1833, 245 00 55 Dec. 18, William A. Mercer, For publishing in the Washington News an act for the call of a Convention, and a notice to tax-collectors in relation to receiving merchants' and planters' bills, 38 75 $852 61

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PRINTING FUND, 1834. 1834. 96 Jan. 24, L. D. Buckner, For the purpose of paying the Executive subscription to the American Farmer, for the year ending March next, 5 00 104 Feb. 1, Fort Polhill, For an advance to them as contractors to print the Laws and Journals of 1833, 2,000 00 151 Feb. 3, William S. Rockwell, For printing done for the public at the office of the Times, 24 75 157 Feb. 18, Cuthbert Hunt, For printing done for the Legislative and Executive Departments at the office of the Federal Union, 207 00 165 Mar. 11, Howell Cobb, For publishing sundry acts of the late General Assembly in the Cherokee Intelligencer, 47 93 169 Mar. 21, Prince Ragland, For job-printing done for the Legislature previous to the late contract with [Illegible Text]. Cuthbert and Hunt, 760 62 173 Mar. 25, Proprietors late Georgia Gazette, For advertisements published in that paper between August, 1832, and January, 1833, 53 00 176 April 3, Fort Polhill, For a further advance to them as contractors for publishing the Laws and Journals of 1833, 1,000 00 184 April 22, Fort Polhill, For the balance due them as do. do., 4,000 00 186 April 23, M. Bartlett, For publishing sundry acts of the late Legislature and Executive Proclamations, between Nov. 1833, and Feb. 1834, 258 87 266 May 23, S. W. Minor, For publishing proposed amendments to the Constitution, and for subscription to his newspaper, ending 31st December, 1834, 66 50 268 May 26, Campbell Guerry, For publishing Bank Reports for April, 1834, and advertisement for proposals to repair the State House, 328 12

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1834. 280 June 2, A. Chase, For publishing Bank Reports for April, 1834, c., and for subscription to Southern Banner, ending Nov. 1st, 1833, 318 62 283 June 3, P. L. Robinson, For do. do. and for printing done for the public offices, and for subscription to Standard of the Union to Feb. 1834, 426 25 295 June 11, Grieve Orme, For printing done for the public in the Southern Recorder, to 21st May, 1834, and for 391 copies Princes' Digest, per Resolve General Assembly, 2,080 62 317 June 21, George Oates, Agent, For subscription to Richmond Enquirer to Dec. 1834, Niles' Register to March, 1835, National Intelligencer to August, 1834, and Globe to August, 1834, 50 00 332 July 1, Prince Ragland, For printing advertisements in the Journal to June, 1834, blanks for public offices, and for subscription to said Journal to Nov. 1834, 572 12 335 July 1, P. C. Guien, For printing done for the public in the Constitutionalist, and for subscription to said paper, to 19th June, 1834, 325 25 337 July 1, M. Bartlett, For do. Telegraph, including Bank Reports for April, 1834, 317 37 341 July 2, Cuthbert Hunt, For do. Federal Union to May, 1834, including do., 596 31 342 July 3, Cobb Gathright, For do. Miner's Recorder, including do., 311 00 417 Aug. 12, John Forsyth, For the Executive subscription to the Albion, which was charged to, and paid by him individually, while Governor, c. 12 00 435 Sept. 9, O. P. Shaw, For printing done for the public in the Athenian to 23d April, 1833, 17 75 $13,779 08

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CONTINGENT FUND, 1833. 1833. 4 Nov. 6, Peter Strickland, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of Bryan county for the year 1831, 24 20 10 Nov. 11, William Hicks, For bearing express from United States' enrolling agent in Cherokee to the Executive, 50 00 11 Nov. 12, A. Stevens, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of Wilkinson county for the year 1832, 22 81 13 Nov. 16, T. F. Greene, For articles of stationery furnished for the use of the General Assembly of 1833, 29 00 15 Nov. 19, R. A. Greene, For the purpose of paying servants who were active in extinguishing the fire on the State-House on Saturday last, and for services in returning books and papers to the public offices thereafter, 100 00 16 Nov. 21, John Jolly, For certified bill of cost due him as Sheriff of Cherokee, in cases of criminal prosecutions in that county, 84 50 20 Nov. 23, John Bethune, For six days' services of three hands in arranging papers in his office after the fire, for servants' hire advanced by him in collecting cases, desks, c., and for stationery furnished for his office, 88 62 21 Nov. 25, C. C. Mills, P. K. P., For sundry articles manufactured and repaired at the Penitentiary for the Legislative chambers and Executive offices, 716 09 23 Nov. 26, Joseph B. Greene, For stationery furnished for the use of the Legislature and the Executive departments, 87 00 24 Nov. 27, John Williams, For postage and other incidental expenses incurred by him as late Treasurer of the State, 50 29 25 Nov. 27, T. B. Howard, For postage incurred by him as Comptroller-General during the political year 1833, 34 19

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1833. 26 Nov. 27, R. A. Greene, For the purpose of paying for blankets and other articles injured and destroyed in extinguishing the late fire on the State-House; the amount of sales of said injured articles, sold by Executive order, having been found insufficient to pay their cost by this sum, 315 00 27 Nov. 27, R. A. Greene, For the amount paid out by him (in addition to the sum of $100 heretofore drawn and expended) in rewarding servants for activity in extinguishing the late fire on the State-House, replacing desks, c., 36 00 29 Dec. 4, William Nichols, For services as Civil Engineer in examining and reporting upon the practicability and probable expense of opening a commercial communication between West Point, in Troup county, and the town of Columbus; which sum is in addition to the sum of $32 86, the unexpended balance of an advance made him for an outfit in said service, 1,047 14 31 Dec. 5, James McCowan, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of Early county for the year 1830, 17 62 48 Dec. 14, Lewis H. Furgason, For do Henry 1831, 42 77 54 Dec. 17, Joshua Gnann, For do Effingham 1832, 9 53 56 Dec. 18, David Mathis, For do Lowndes 1832, 5 16 61 Dec. 20, Wm. H. Scruggs, For do Scriven 1832, 10 30 62 Dec. 20, Peter Strickland, For do Bryan 1831 and 1832, 17 45 72 Dec. 21, James Alderman, For do Thomas 1832, 13 13 $2,800 80

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CONTINGENT FUND, 1834. 1834. 79 Jan. 3, Thomas B. Stubbs, For various articles of stationery furnished for the use of the Legislative and Executive departments, 777 96 80 Jan. 7, John G. Polhill, For postage on letters, c. to and from the Executive department during the quarter ending 31st ultimo, 339 00 82 Jan. 8, J.M. B.T. Bethune, For selecting, arranging, and furnishing list of all the improved lots in Cherokee for the use of the Indian Agent, 92 00 85 Jan. 11, R. A. Greene, For the purpose of paying small incidental expenses against the Executive department, 100 00 88 Jan. 14, William G. Lane, For articles of stationery for the use of the Legislative and Executive departments, 131 44 92 Jan. 23, Nathan McGehee, For record books furnished for the office of the Comptroller-Gen'l, and one do. for the late Convention, 23 75 94 Jan. 23, Henry Duncan, For furnishing at the State-House 73 cords of oak and hickory wood, and 12 cords of light wood, per contract, 204 88 97 Jan. 27, David Bell, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of Chatham county for the year 1832, 89 12 98 Jan. 28, R. A. Greene and Peter Fair, [UNK] For transcribing the drawing of the fraction lottery (returned by the Commissioners in unbound books) into the numerical books of the Land and Gold Lotteries, 40 00 101 Jan. 30, Peter Fair, For preparing copies of acts of the late General Assembly for publication, as directed by an Executive order issued to the Secretary of State at a time when other and indispensable official duties prevented that officer from discharging that duty, 10 88

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1834. 145 Feb. 3, Peter Fair, For his first quarter salary as Messenger to the Executive department, 100 00 146 Feb. 3, Chas. D. Hammond, For the first quarter pay of the State-House Guard, and for candles, 376 50 147 Feb. 3, Gov.'s Secretaries, For their fees on grants passed during the first quarter, 180 20 148 Feb. 3, John H. Currie, For his first quarter pay as Military Store-keeper at Milledgeville, the Military Fund having been exhausted, 100 00 156 Feb. 14, John Collins, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of Hall county for the year 1831, 29 97 158 Feb. 20, John G. Polhill, For postage on letters, c. to and from the Executive department, from 1st Jan. 1834, to date, 373 64 159 Feb. 20, John Marlor, For repairs made to the roof and other parts of the State-House, and furniture in the public offices after the fire, 79 62 162 Mar. 3, William W. Pool, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of Baldwin county for the year 1832, 16 86 166 Mar. 11, John H. Currie, For articles procured for suitably arranging and for cleaning the public arms in the Arsenal at Milledgeville, 80 00 167 Mar. 14, J. Bethune, Surveyor-General, [UNK] For amount expended for attorney's fees in defending an action instituted against him in Baldwin Superior Court, for alleged abuse of power in the discharge of his official duties, by John M. More, a district surveyor, 200 00 174 Mar. 28, Julius Driver, For the apprehension of Samual McDaniel, charged with the murder of R. C. Beasley, per Executive Proclamation of Jan. 1834, 300 00 [Illegible Text] April 9, John A. Cuthbert, For legal services as counsel employed by the Executive to defend the interest of the State in the cases of injunctions served upon the State's agent appointed to superintend the rights of the Indians, c., under the act of 20th December, 1833, 500 00

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1834. 180 April 15, John G. Polhill, P.M., For postage on letters, c. to and from the Executive department, from 20th February, 1834, to 1st April, inst., 228 90 182 April 18, James Gladden, For repairing and cleaning two hundred muskets in the arsenal at Milledgeville, 200 00 183 April 19, Turner Hunt, For services as Sheriff of Monroe county, in selling the State's half of lot No. 43, in the 6th Monroe, under resolution approved 21st December, 1833, 29 00 185 April 22, A. M. Horton, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of Hancock county for the year 1832, 100 26 188 April 24, E. Rogers, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of Henry county for the year 1832, 49 99 191 April 29, G. W. Trammell, For carrying the Laws and Journals of 1833 to the counties composing the Northern Circuit, per contract, 70 00 193 May 3, Stroud Melton, For do. do. Western Circuit, per contract, 95 00 231 May 5, Peter Fair, For his second quarter salary as Messenger to the Executive Department, 100 00 232 May 5, Charles D. Hammond, For the second quarter pay of the guard kept at the State-House, and for lights, c. 376 50 233 May 5, Governor's Secretaries, For their fees on grants passed during the second quarter, being chiefly reverted lost in old Baldwin and Wilkinson, 417 45 234 May 5, John H. Currie, For his second quarter salary as Military Store-keeper at Milledgeville, 100 00 235 May 5, F. M. Stone, For his do. do. at Savannah, 60 00 236 May 5, F. V. Delauney, For carrying the Laws and Journals of 1833 to the counties composing the Middle Circuit, per contract, 124 00

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1834. 237 May 6, Caswell Peurifoy, For do. do. Flint Circuit, per contract, 54 50 238 May 8, Edward Meadows, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of the county of Taliaferro for the year 1832, 9 25 240 May 10, Owen H. Kenan, For legal services as counsel employed by Wm. G. Springer, State Agent, c., under the instructions of the Executive, to defend the State's interest in cases of injunctions served on him, the said agent, to distrain him for executing the law of 20th December, 1833, 500 00 241 May 12, J. C. F. Clarke, For binding books of record for the office of Secretary of State, 5 25 242 May 13, R. A. Greene, For the pay of persons employed in reorganizing the files of the Executive department after the derangement occasioned by the late fire on the State-House, and preparing an index to the same, as per estimate of John Bethune and Henry W. Malone, Esquires, 1,000 00 243 May 13, R. A. Greene, For the purpose of procuring the annual supply of stationery for the Legislative and Executive Departments, and carpeting for the Legislative Halls, 1,000 00 244 May 13, H. W. Railey, For carrying the Laws and Journals of 1833 to the counties composing the Southern Circuit, per contract, 115 00 250 May 15, Moses Brain, For bringing express from Brig. Gen. McConnell, and other citizens of Cherokee county, in relation to the disturbances with the Indians, 30 00 251 May 16, Pleasant Purdee, For carrying the Laws and Journals of 1833 to the counties composing the Coweta circuit, per contract, 117 00

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1834. 254 May 19, James Swearingen, and Willard Boynton, [UNK] For the reward offered by Executive proclamation under date of the 9th instant, for the apprehension and delivery of Joseph Sawyer, charged with the murder of John Hatcher, 200 00 255 May 19, A. Stevens, For carrying the Laws and Journals of 1833 to the counties composing the Chatahoochee Circuit, per contract, 65 00 258 May 19, James Gladden, For repairing and cleaning 50 muskets in the Arsenal at Milledgeville, 75 00 264 May 20, Adam Jones, For carrying the Laws and Journals of 1833 to the counties composing the Ocmulgee Circuit, per contract, 41 00 316 June 21, Wm. B. Key, For do. do. Cherokee Circuit, 199 00 348 July 7, George W. Jennings, For do. do. Eastern Circuit, and to Ware county of the Southern Circuit, 114 00 353 July 9, John G. Polhill, For postage on letters, c. to and from the Executive department from 1st April to 1st July, 1834, 262 25 356 July 12, Jacob Fogle, For articles of stationery furnished the Executive department, and for making a seal for the Secretary of State's office, 23 75 362 July 18, Cowles Daggett, For blank record books furnished for the offices of the Treasurer and Comptroller-General, 59 06 408 Aug. 4, C. D. Hammond, For the third quarter pay of the State-House guard, and for lights, c., 376 50 409 Aug. 4, Governor's Secretaries, For their fees on grants passed during the third quarter, 69 00 410 Aug. 4, John H. Currie, For his third quarter pay as Military Store-keeper at Milledgeville, 100 00 411 Aug. 4, Francis M. Stone, For do Savannah, 60 00 412 Aug. 4, Peter Fair, For his third quarter pay as Messenger to the Executive department, 100 00 429 Aug. 28, John J. McCrary, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of Twiggs county for the year 1832, 36 09 433 Sept. 5, John A. Cuthbert, For legal services in defending the State's interest in cases of the Cherokee bills of injunction, argued before the late convention of Judges, 200 00

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1834. 434 Sept. 8, John A. Winn, For the carriage of 120 muskets, c., to the county of Lumpkin, for the use of the Lumpkin county Volunteers, 37 50 436 Sept. 13, John H. Currie, For expenses incurred by him in cleaning and arranging guns in the Arsenal at Milledgeville, 28 75 440 Sept. 18, Isaac Newell, For 184 pounds bees-wax furnished the office of Secretary of State for making seals, 34 04 441 Sept. 23, Henry Darnell, For an advance to him for labour and hire of hands in cleaning up and repairing State-House square, and for making carpets for the Senate and Representative chambers, 50 00 443 Oct. 1, Solomon D. Betfon, For postage on letters; c. to and from the Executive department from 1st July to 1st October, instant, 232 40 444 Oct. 2, James Burdett, For his insolvent list as tax-collector of the county of Wilkes for the year 1832, 42 12 490 Nov. 1, Peter Fair, For his fourth quarter salary as Messenger to the Executive department, 100 00 491 Nov. 1, C. D. Hammond, For the fourth quarter pay of the guard kept at the State-House, 428 50 492 Nov. 1, Governor's Secretaries, For their fees on grants passed during the fourth quarter, 1834, 67 60 493 Nov. 1, John H. Currie, For his fourth quarter salary as Military Storekeeper at Milledgeville, 100 00 494 Nov. 1, Francis M. Stone, For do. do. Savannah, 60 00 $12,189 48

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APPROPRIATION FOR COUNTY ACADEMIES. 1833. 3. Nov. 6, Carrol Co. Ac's. For the proportion of the Academy Fund due the county by a distribution made in January, 1833, $148 00 8. Nov. 9, Greene, For do do do do 415 00 17. Nov. 22, Walton, For do do do do 403 50 30. Dec. 4, Telfair, For do do 1832 '33 302 00 32. Dec. 5, Lincoln, For do do do do 203 00 39. Dec. 9, Early, For do do do do 302 00 41. Dec. 11, Montgomery, For do do do do 52 00 45. Dec. 12, Bryan, For do do do do 97 50 51. Dec. 16, Burke, For do do do do 401 50 53. Dec. 17, Effingham, For do do do do 110 00 57. Dec. 18, Troup For do do do do 305 00 64. Dec. 20, Merriwether, For do do do do 209 00 74. Dec. 23, Columbia Acad. For their proportion of the fund apportioned for the county of Jackson in January, 1833, 167 66 1834. 99. Jan. 29, Crawford Co.A's. For the proportion of the Academy Fund due the county by a distribution made in January, 1833, 171 00 164. March 6, Centreville Acad. For their proportion of the apportionments made to the county of Talbot in the years 1832 and 1833, 171 60 181. April 16, Randolph Co. A. For the proportion of the Academy Fund due the county by a distribution made in January, 1833, 39 50 190. April 28, Oak-ridge and Washington Academies, [UNK] For their aggregate proportions of the Academy Fund due the county of Talbot by a distribution made in 1832 and 1833, 293 40 246. May 15, Chatham Co. Ac. For the proportion of the Academy Fund due the county by a distribution made 10th May, 1834, 534 00 248. May 15, Houston, For do do 1834, 318 00 249. May 15, Jackson Acad. For their proportion of the Academy Fund due the county of Monroe, agreeably to a distribution made 10th May, 1834, 106 66 252. May 17, Corinth, For do Baldwin, do 88 00 253. May 17, Midway, For do Baldwin, do 171 00 257. May 19, Muscogee, For do Muscogee, do 193 00 259. May 20, Salem, For do Clarke, do 179 00 260. May 20, Wilkinson, For do Wilkinson, do 262 00 262. May 20, Hall, For do Hall, do 543 00 269. May 26, Jefferson, For do Newton, 5th Jan. 1833, 222 25 270. May 26, Jefferson, For do Newton, 10 May, 1834, 148 33

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272. May 29, Bethlehem, For do Washington, do 216 00 275. May 31, Taliaferro, For do Taliaferro, do 212 00 277. May 31, County Acad'y and Female Seminary, [UNK] For do Newton, do 296 66 279. June 2, Forsyth, For do Monroe, do 143 56 284. June 3, Fayette, For do Fayette, do 241 00 287. June 4, Coweta, For do Coweta, do 227 00 288. June 6, Columbiana, For do Jackson, do 146 00 289. June 6, Heard, For do Heard, do 83 00 291. June 7, County, For do Clarke, do 178 00 292. June 9, Richmond, For do Richmond, do 418 00 293. June 10, Habersham, For do Habersham, do 493 00 296. June 14, Jefferson, For do Jefferson, do 258 00 297. June 14, Mount Zion, For do Hancock, do 280 50 299. June 16, Liberty, For do Liberty, do 182 00 300. June 16, De Kalb, For do De Kalb, do 456 00 304. June 16, Madison, For do Madison, do 185 00 307. June 18, Bullock, For do Bullock, do 102 00 309. June 18, Jefferson, For do Putnam, do 104 00 310. June 18, County Line, For do Monroe, do 86 15 312. June 19, Floyd, For do Floyd, do 48 00 314. June 20, Campbell, For do Campbell, do 174 00 318. June 23, Lumpkin, For do Lumpkin, do 198 00 319. June 23, Meson, For do Oglethorpe, do 443 00 321. June 23, Managhan, For do Warren, do 59 00 322. June 24, Wilkes, For do Wilkes, do 478 00 324. June 24, Lafayette Hall, For do Greene, do 148 00 325. June 25, Jackson, For do Butts, do 73 00 327. June 26, Cool Spring, For do Butts, do 123 00 328. June 26, Lake, For do Bibb, do 285 00 330. June 28, Oak-grove, For do Morgan, do 157 00 331. June 30, Cass, For do Cass, do 58 00 336. July 1, Eatonton, For do Putnam, do 237 00 343. July 3, Harmony, For do Putnam, do 104 00 345. July 5, Camden, For do Camden, do 149 00 350. July 8, Clinton, For the whole amount apportioned to the county of Jones, agreeably to a distribution made 10th May, 1834, 466 00 352. July 9, Cicero, For their proportion of the Academy Fund due the county of Monroe agreeably to a distribution made 10th May, 1834, 108 75 355. July 12, Davisborough, For do Washington, do 82 00 357. July 12, Wood-lawn, For do Monroe, do 102 75 359. July 16, Greenesborough, For do Greene, do 267 00 361. July 17, Social Circle, For do Walton, do 404 00 363. July 18, Buckeye, For do Laurens, do 99 00 364. July 21, McIntosh, For do McIntosh, agreeably to distributions made in 1832, 1833, and 1834, 528 00 366. July 24, Laurens County, For do Laurens, agreeably to a distribution made 10th May, 1834, 99 00 368. July 28, Male, For do Elbert, do 187 00

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369. July 30, Warrenton, For do Warren, do 78 00 416. August 11, Female, For do Elbert, do 255 00 418. August 12, Hamilton and Jenkins, [UNK] For do Harris, do 174 00 420. August 14, Male Female, For do Morgan, do 175 00 426. August 27, Decatur, For do Decatur, do 163 00 427. August 28, Mount Carmel Knoxville, [UNK] For do Crawford, do 171 00 428. August 28, Gwinnett county, For do Gwinnett, do 554 00 431. Sept. 4, Jasper, For do Jasper, do 461 00 442. Sept. 24, Thomas, For do Thomas, 5th Jan. 1833, '34, [UNK] 288 00 449. Oct. 24, Henry, For do Henry, do 449 00 $18,710 27 POOR SCHOOL FUND. 1833. 5. Nov. 8, Heard county, For the proportion of the Poor School fund due said county agreeably to a distribution made 4th Jan. 1832, $ 90 00 9. Nov. 11, Tatnall, For do Jan. 1833, and bal. of distribution, 1832, 116 50 37. Dec. 7, Walton, For do 5th Jan. 1833 417 00 42. Dec. 11, Montgomery, For do do do do 55 50 44. Dec. 12, Bryan, For do do do do 43 00 50. Dec. 16, Burke, For do do do do 306 00 52. Dec. 17, Effingham, For do do do do 101 00 65. Dec. 20, McIntosh, For do do do do 102 00 67. Dec. 21, Marion, For do do do do 63 50 73. Dec. 23, Greene, For do do do do 287 00 1834. 91. Jan. 16, Elbert, For do do do do 376 50 155. Feb. 13, Randolph, For do do do do 41 00 163. March 6, Laurens, For do do do do 177 00 187. April 23, Sumpter, For do do do do 37 00 245. May 14, Rabun, For do made 10th May, 1834, 178 92 247. May 15, Houston, For do do do do 336 06 256. May 19, Coweta, For do do do do 248 76 261. May 20, Wilkinson, For do do do do 287 10 263. May 20, Hall, For do do do do 670 62 265. May 23, Morgan, For do do do do 305 58 267. May 24, Richmond, For do do do do 333 48 273. May 30, Bibb, For do do do do 268 50 276. May 31, Taliaferro, For do do do do 186 30 278. June 2, Monroe, For do do do do 583 52 281. June 2, Chatham, For do do do do 300 24 282. June 2, Franklin, For do do do do 451 00 285. June 3, Fayette, For do do do do 275 34 286. June 4, Hancock, For do do do do 301 32 290. June 6, Clarke, For do do do do 308 04 294. June 10, Habersham, For do do do do 615 72 301. June 16, De Kalb, For do 4th Jan. 1830 1834, 1,087 76 302. June 16, Elbert, For do do do do 383 34 303. June 16, Madison, For do do do do 201 90

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305. June 16, Muscogee, For do in the years 1831, 1832, 1833, and 1834, 649 00 306. June 18, Bullock, For do 10th [Illegible Text], 1834, 110 82 311. June 19, Jones, For do 10th May, 1834, 371 76 313. June 19, Talbot, For do do do do 268 50 315. June 20, Campbell, For do do do do 203 88 320. June 23, Carrol, For do do do do 184 00 323. June 24, Wilkes, For do do do do 312 60 326. June 25, Butts, For do do do do 202 02 329. June 26, Newton, For do do do do 486 06 334. July 1, Upson, For do do do do 235 26 338. July 1, Washinton, For do do do do 348 72 339. July 2, Jasper, For do do do do 391 86 340. July 2, Jackson, For do do do do 404 04 354. July 10, Crawford, For do do do do 165 84 358. July 14, Henry, For do do do do 503 32 360. July 17, Pulaski, For do do do do 179 76 365. July 22, Decatur, For do do do do [Illegible Text] 00 367. July 25, Merriwether, For do do do do 219 18 413. August 4, Pike, For do do do do 282 78 414. August 7, Gwinnett, For do do do do 660 75 415. August 7, Heard, For do do do do 88 86 419. August 12, Harris, For do do do do 250 92 421. August 14, Lincoln, For do do do do 169 30 422. August 15, Marion, For do in Jan. 1831 and 1834, 161 17 423. August 15, Lumpkin, For do 10th May, 1834, 263 58 424. August 26, Warren, For do do do do 302 58 425. August 27, Troup, For do in Jan. 1831 and 1834, 493 99 432. Sept. 4, Jefferson, For do 10th May, 1834, 210 84 438, Sept. 16, Wilkinson, For do 4th Jan. 1832, 261 00 445. Oct. 13, Oglethorpe, For do 10th May, 1834, 323 29 $18,401 18 ROAD AND RIVER FUND, 1833. 1833. 7 Nov. 8, William B. Davis, For the support of the public hands heretofore employed under his superintendence at Railroad Creek, 500 34 Dec. 7, William C. Lyman, For the support of the public hands attached to the Eastern division, 1,500 1834, 84 Jan. 10, William C. Lyman, For do do do 2,500 100 Jan. 30, William C. Lyman, For the purpose of paying draft drawn by him in favour of J. Liddell, dated at Watkinsville, 27th December, 1833, 200 $4,700 00

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ROAD AND RIVER FUND, 1834. 1834. 161 March 3, Thomas King, For the support of the public hands stationed near Railroad Creek, 250 177 April 9, William C. Lyman, For the purpose of closing out-standing accounts against him as Superintendent of the public hands in the Eastern division, 2,000 179 April 14, William C. Lyman, For do do do 750 239 May 9, N. B. Powell, For do Western Division, 500 333 July 1, William C. Lyman, For the payment of out-standing accounts rendered subsequently to the date of his last warrant against him as Superintendent, c. 300 349 July 7, William C. Lyman, For the purpose of paying Dr. B. A. White's bill for medical services to public hands, rendered since the close of Superintendent's account, 53 351 July 8, William C. Lyman, For do Holt and Jones' printing bill for advertising sale of public hands, do 46 $3,899 09 SPECIAL APPROPRIATION, 1821. 1833. 6 Nov. 8, Trustees of University, For supplying the deficiency of the dividend declared in October last on Bank stock granted to said Universitythe said dividend being deficient by this sum in making the sum of $4,000, authorized to be paid to the Trustees semi-annually by the act of the twenty-first of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, 1,000 1,000

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LAND FUND, 1832. 1833. 49 Dec. 14, Wm. Searcey, Ch'n, For the pay of himself and associate commissioners appointed to superintend the drawing of the late fraction lottery, and for the pay of clerks, boys, and doorkeeper, as per accounts filed, 504 75 $504 75 PENITENTIARY FUND, 1833. 1834. 77 Jan. 1, Inspectors of the Penitentiary. For an advance to them from the fund appropriated by the act of 22d December, 1832, for the erection of additional cells, 2,500 175 April 2, Inspectors of the Penitentiary. For the balance of said appropriation, 2,500 $5,000 PENITENTIARY FUND, 1834. 1834. 439 Sept. 17, Inspectors of the Penitentiary. For an advance to them from the fund appropriated for the Penitentiary by the act of 21st December, 1833, 2,500 $2,500 APPROPRIATION FOR THE IMPROVEMENT OF THE STATE-HOUSE, 1834. 1834. 170 Mar. 24, Orris Paine, For preparing model and sundry drawings for the new roof and cupola for the State-House, 100 171 Mar. 24, Orris Paine, For an advance to him as contractor, to procure materials for covering

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1834. with copper the new roof to the State-House, 2,940 172 Mar. 25, John Marlor others, For an advance to them as contractors to make repairs and improvements to the State-House, 1,100 298 June 18, Orris Paine, For a further advance to him as contractor to cover the new roof of the State-House, 600 430 Aug. 29, John Marlor, et. al., For a further advance to them as contractors to make repairs and improvements to the State-House, 1,500 437 Sept. 13, Orris Paine, For a further advance to him as contractor to cover the new roof of the State-House, 200 447 Oct. 23, Smith, Tucker, and Marlor, For an advance to procure paints, c., as contractors to improve the State-House, 500 448 Oct. 24, C. J. Paine, administrator of O. Paine, deceased, For a part of the balance due said deceased for coppering the roof of the State-Houseas reported by persons selected to measure the work, 600 450 Nov. 1, John Marlor, et. al., For part of the balance due them as contractors to improve the State-House, 4,000 $11,540 FUND FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. 1834. 274 May 30, George R. Clayton, For audited certificate No. 411, at one-eighth of its nominal value, 3 65 $3 65 CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, 1834. 1834. 105 Feb. 3, Wilson Lumpkin, For his first quarter salary as Governor and Commander-in-chief, c. 750 106 Feb. 3, Wm. J. W. Wellborn, For do. Secretary of the Executive department, 250

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1834. 107 Feb. 3, R. A. Greene, For do do 250 108 Feb. 3, L. D. Buckner, For do do 250 109 Feb. 3, E. Hamilton, For the part of do. Secretary of State, 109 59 110 Feb. 3, Wm. A. Tennille, For do do 390 41 111 Feb. 3, John Williams, For the part of do. Treasurer of the State, 109 59 112 Feb. 3, Thomas Haynes, For do do 390 41 113 Feb. 3, John Bethune, For his first do. Surveyor-General, 500 114 Feb. 3, T. B. Howard, For the part of do. Comptroller-General, 109 59 115 Feb. 3, Wm. W. Carnes, For do do 390 41 116 Feb. 3, John A. Cuthbert, For his first do. Secretary of Senate, 150 117 Feb. 3, Joseph Sturgis, For do. Clerk of the House of Representatives, 150 118 Feb. 3, Wm. H. Crawford, For do. Judge of the Superior Courts, 525 119 Feb. 3, [Illegible Text] Dougherty, For do do 525 120 Feb. 3, G. E. Thomas, For do do 525 121 Feb. 3, Lott Warren, For do do 525 122 Feb. 3, Wm. W. Holt, For do do 525 123 Feb. 3, Wm. Law, For do do 525 124 Feb. 3, C. B. Strong, For do do 525 125 Feb. 3, L. Q. C. Lamar, For do do 525 126 Feb. 3, John W. Hooper, For do do 525 127 Feb. 3, Hiram Warner, For the part of do 262 50 128 Feb. 3, Charles J. Jenkins, For his first do. Attorney-General, 56 25 129 Feb. 3, Edward Y. Hill, For do. Solicitor-General, 56 25 130 Feb. 3, Daniel Chandler, For do do 56 25 131 Feb. 3, Washington Poe, For do do 56 25 132 Feb. 3, Turner H. Trippe, For do do 56 25 133 Feb. 3, Wm. H. Stiles, For do do 56 25 134 Feb. 3, S. F. Miller, For do do 56 25 135 Feb. 3, Wm. Ezzard, For do do 56 25 136 Feb. 3, J. P. H. Campbell, For do do 56 25 137 Feb. 3, Young J. Long, For that part of do do 28 12 194 May 5, Wilson Lumpkin, For his second quarter salary as Governor and Commander-in-chief, c. 750 195 May 5, Wm. J. W. Wellborn, For do Secretary of the Executive department, 250 196 May 5, R. A. Greene, For do do 250 197 May 5, L. D. Buckner, For do do 250 198 May 5, Wm. A. Tennille, For do. Secretary of State, 500 199 May 5, Thomas Haynes, For do. Treasurer of the State, 500 200 May 5, John Bethune, For do. Surveyor-General, 500 201 May 5, Wm. W. Carnes, For do. Comptroller-General, 500 202 May 5, John A. Cuthbert, For do. Secretary of Senate, 150

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1834. 203 May 5. Joseph Sturgis, For do. Clerk of the House of Representatives, 150 204 May 5. Wm. H. Crawford, For do. Judge of the Superior Courts, 525 205 May 5. Charles Dougherty, For do do 525 206 May 5. G. E. Thomas, For do do 525 207 May 5. Lott Warren, For do do 525 208 May 5. Wm. W. Holt, For do do 525 209 May 5. Wm. Law, For do do 525 210 May 5. C. B. Strong, For do do 525 211 May 5. Lucius Q. C. Lamar, For do do 525 212 May 5. John W. Hooper, For do do 525 213 May 5. Hiram Warner, For do do 525 214 May 5. Charles J. Jenkins, For do Attorney Gen'l, 56 25 215 May 5. Edward Y. Hill, For do Solicitor do 56 25 216 May 5. Daniel Chandler, For do do 56 25 217 May 5. Washington Poe, For do do 56 25 218 May 5. Turner H. Trippe, For do do 56 25 219 May 5. Wm. H. Stiles, For do do 56 25 220 May 5. Stephen F. Miller, For do do 56 25 221 May 5. Wm. Ezzard, For do do 56 25 222 May 5. James P. H. Campbell, For do do 56 25 223 May 5. Young J. Long, For do do 56 25 370 Aug. 4, Wilson Lumpkin, For his third do. Governor and Commander-in-chief, c., c., 750 371 Aug. 4, Wm. J. W. Wellborn, For do. Secretary of the Executive department, 250 372 Aug. 4, R. A. Greene, For do do 250 373 Aug. 4, L. D. Buckner, For do do 250 374 Aug. 4, Wm. A. Tennille, For do Secretary of State, 500 375 Aug. 4, Thomas Haynes, For do Treasurer of the State, 500 376 Aug. 4, John Bethune, For do Surveyor Gen'l, 500 377 Aug. 4, Wm. W. Carnes, For do Comp. General, 500 378 Aug. 4, John A. Cuthbert, For do Secretary of Senate, 150 379 Aug. 4, Joseph Sturgis, For do Clerk of the House of Representatives, 150 280 Aug. 4, Wm. H. Crawford, For do Judge of the Superior Courts, 525 381 Aug. 4, Charles Dougherty, For do do 525 382 Aug. 4, G. E. Thomas, For do do 525 383 Aug. 4, Lott Warren, For do do 525 384 Aug. 4, Wm. W. Holt, For do do 525 385 Aug. 4, Wm. Law, For do do 525 386 Aug. 4, C. B. Strong, For do do 525 387 Aug. 4, John W. Hooper, For do do 525 388 Aug. 4, L. Q. C. Lamar, For that part of do do 364 389 Aug. 4, John G. Polhill, For that part of do do 161 390 Aug. 4, Hiram Warner, For his third do do 525 391 Aug. 4, Charles J. Jenkins, For do Attorney-General, 56 25 392 Aug. 4, Edward Y. Hill, For do Solicitor-General, 56 25 393 Aug. 4, Daniel Chandler, For do do 56 25

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1834. 394 Aug. 4, Washington Poe, For do Solicitor-Gen'l, 56 25 395 Aug. 4, Turner H. Trippe, For do do 56 25 396 Aug. 4, Wm. H. Stiles, For do do 56 25 397 Aug. 4, Stephen F. Miller, For do do 56 25 398 Aug. 4, William Ezzard, For his third quarter salary as Solicitor-General, 56 25 399 Aug. 4, J. P. H. Campbell, For do do 56 25 400 Aug. 4, Young J. Long, For do do 56 25 451 Nov. 1, Wilson Lumpkin, For his 4th quarter salary as Governor and Commander-in-chief, c., 750 00 452 Nov. 1, W. J. W. Wellborn, For do Secretary to the Executive department, 250 00 453 Nov. 1, R. A. Greene, For do do 250 00 454 Nov. 1, L. D. Buckner, For do do 250 00 455 Nov. 1, Wm. A. Tennille, For do Sec'y of State, 500 00 456 Nov. 1, Thomas Haynes, For do Treasurer, 500 00 457 Nov. 1, John Bethune, For do Surveyor-Gen'l, 500 00 458 Nov. 1, Wm. W. Carnes, For do Compt'r-Gen'l, 500 00 459 Nov. 1, John A. Cuthbert, For do Secretary of the Senate, 150 00 460 Nov. 1, Joseph Sturgis, For do Clerk of the House of Representatives, 150 00 461 Nov. 1, Wm. H. Crawford, For that part of do. Judge of the Superior Court, 274 00 462 Nov. 1, Garnett Andrews, For that part of do. do. 251 00 463 Nov. 1, Charles Dougherty, For do do 525 00 464 Nov. 1, G. E. Thomas, For do do 525 00 465 Nov. 1, Lott Warren, For do do 525 00 466 Nov. 1, William W. Holt, For do do 525 00 467 Nov. 1, William Law, For do do 525 00 468 Nov. 1, C. B. Strong, For do do 525 00 469 Nov. 1, John W. Hooper, For do do 525 00 470 Nov. 1, John G. Polhill, For do do 525 00 471 Nov. 1, Hiram Warner, For do do 525 00 472 Nov. 1, C. J. Jenkins, For that part of do. Attorney-General, 12 50 473 Nov. 1, Ebenezer Starnes, For that part of do. do. 43 75 474 Nov. 1, Edward Y. Hill, For do do 56 25 475 Nov. 1, Daniel Chandler, For do do 56 25 476 Nov. 1, Washington Poe, For do do 56 25 477 Nov. 1, Turner H. Trippe, For do do 56 25 478 Nov. 1, William H. Stiles, For do do 56 25 479 Nov. 1, Stephen F. Miller, For do do 56 25 480 Nov. 1, William Ezzard, For do do 56 25 481 Nov. 1, J. P. H. Campbell, For do do 56 25 482 Nov. 1, Young J. Long, For do do 56 25 $38,159 37

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RECAPITULATION. Military Fund, 1827, 368 00 Printing Fund, 1833, 852 61 Printing Fund, 1834, 13,779 08 Contingent Fund, 1833, 2,800 80 Contingent Fund, 1834, 12,189 48 Academy Fund, 18,710 27 Poor-school Fund, 18,401 18 Road and River Fund, 1833, 4,700 00 Road and River Fund, 1834, 3,899 00 Special Appropriation, 1821, 1,000 00 Special Appropriation, 1833, 109 50 Special Appropriation, 1834, 20,498 29 Appropriation to pay Officers and Members of the Convention, 22,000 00 Land Fund, 1832, 504 75 Penitentiary Fund, 1833, 5,000 00 Penitentiary Fund, 1834, 2,500 00 Appropriation for improving the State-House, 1834, [Illegible Text] 00 Fund for the redemption of the Public Debt, 3 [Illegible Text] Civil Establishment, 1834, 38,159 37 $177,015 98 EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, GEORGIA, Milledgeville, 4 th Nov. 1834. Certified by RHODAM A. GREENE, Secretary Executive Department.

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CONDITION OF ACADEMIES. County. Name of Academy. Branches of Education. Number of Students. Receipts. Expenditures. On hand. M. F. T't'l. Appling, No Report. Baker, Baldwin, Bibb, Macon, Various, 32 35 67 5663 40 5445 69 There remains to be provided for, on salary of teacher, $600; and a balance due for erecting the academy building, $1482. Bibb, Lake, Various, 25 285 00 132 33[frac34] 152 66[frac34] Bryan, Bullock, Burke, Waynesborough, Various, 22 19 41 401 50 283 00 118 50 Butts, Cool Spring, Lower, 27 18 45 Camden, County, English, 26 232 00 240 37 Campbell, County, Carrol, Carrol, Various, 15 11 26 70 00 210 00 Cass, Chatham, County, 314 3191 49 1927 87 1263 62 Total number instructed in 1834. Chatham, Savannah free scl, English, 100 534 06 600 50 Flourishing. Cherokee, Clark, Watkinsville, English, 64 615 22 289 48 325 22 Cobb, Columbia, Oak Hill, Various, 39 Columbia, County, 41 20 61 988 25 927 90 60 35 Coweta, Newman, average 50. Indebted $50 after all accounts are liquidated. The report made by the trustees of this academy was lost. The clerk's information is taken from a letter relative to this academy of George Scott's written to Senator. Return not legal.

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Crawford, Mount Carmel, Lower. 19 12 34 249 00 360 00 Decatur, De Kalb, County, Male, Various. 51 99 756 00 506 00 250 00 at interest. De Kalb, County, Female, English. 48 Dooly, Early, Fort Gains, Various. 26 34 60 215 45 460 75 Early, Blakely, 151 00 151 00 at interest. This academy has not been in operation recently. Effingham, County, Various. 56 9 65 17,462 06 1510 05 15,951 95$520 66 cashbalance in notes, bank stock, c. Return illegal. Elbert, Eiberton, Male, Various. 42 2 Elbert, Eiberton, Female, English. 16 60 185 00 185 00 This academy is flourishing. Emanuel, Fayette, County, Various. 12 17 29 210 00 Expenditures not definitely stated. Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Gilmer, Glynn, County, The resources of this institution for the present year have gone in support of a manual labour school; at which 36 scholars were instructed. During the year 1833 this academy was not in operation. Its funds were distributed among four District Schools; at which were 25 pupils. Greene, Greenesboro', Male, Higher branches. 48 81 2107 30 948 00 1159 30 Flourishing. Greene, Greenesboro', Female, Higher branches. 33 Gwinnett, Washington, English. 74 29 103 187 00 57 00 194 57 Gwinnett, Lawrenceville, Various. 69 47 116 546 50 528 72 17 78 Flourishing. The report of the finances of this academy extends only to the 21st February, 1834.

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Habersham, Hall, Hancock, Mount Zion, Various. 88 23 111 280 00 280 00 Hancock, Farmers,' 18 20 38 Hancock, Sparta, Male, 36 29 65 The dividend received has been expended on academic buildings, c. Hancock, Sparta, Female Model, 142 Harris, Jenkins, 40 7 47 82 50 82 50 Harris, Union, The dividend going to this academy has not been applied for. Harris, Hamilton, Male, Various. 38 74 429 50 Expenditures not definitely stated. This academy has not been in operation since the end of the first quarter of the second term. Harris, Hamilton, Female, English. 36 Heard, Henry, Houston, Irwin, Jasper, Constitution Hall, English. 65 197 50 102 50 Jasper, Shady Dale, Lower branches. 48 20 68 This academy has received no dividend of academic fund. Jasper, Hillsboro', Various. 35 42 77 144 88 467 93[frac34]. $402 in notes and accounts due this academynett amount after payment of debts. Jasper, Monticello Union, Various. 33 277 20 159 25 117 95 Jackson, Jefferson, Louisville, Various. 32 24 56 258 00 503 05 Jones, Clinton, Various. 37 1551 97 301 31 Laurens, Buck Eye, English. 23 13 36 99 00 133 33 This academy commenced operations last July.

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Lee, County, average 22 Indefinite. Return illegally made. Lincoln, Goshen, Various. 25 10 35 326 10 127 31 198 79 Prospering. Liberty, Sunbury, 17 16 33 Liberty, Walthourville, Various. 35 49 84 127 50 127 50 Lincoln, Double Branch, Lower. 18 12 30 200 00 Flourishing. Lincoln, Lincolnton, Various. 16 14 30 1287 90 219 60 1068 50 Flourishing. Lowndes, Lumpkin, Dahlonega, 198 00 195 00 The trustees of this academy have contracted in the sum of $772 for an academic building. The $195 expended went in part liquidation of this amount. Madison, County, 185 00 44 66 143 14 This school has not been in operation since April. Marion, McIntosh, Merriwether, County, 30 15 45 943 72 110 00 833 72 Flourishing. Monroe, Rock Spring, Lower. 25 13 38 146 00 75 00 Monroe, Cicero, Lower. 26 17 43 345 87 242 87 149 82 Monroe, Jefferson, English. 31 29 60 None. None. This academy has received no part of the academic fund. Monroe, Wood Lawn, 230 75 2 00 228 75 Monroe, Hill, Various. 27 20 47 None. None. Monroe, County Line, Various. 21 14 35 86 15 71 50 78 52 Monroe, Jackson, Various. 36 26 62 217 47 45 80 171 67 Monroe, Forsyth, Male, Various. 25 86 143 52 140 52 Monroe, Forsyth, Female, Various. 61 Morgan, Evansville, Various. 32 7 39 73 00 73 00 Morgan, Madison, Male, Various. 40 8 118 175 00 140 24 34 76 Tuition money teacher's salary. Morgan, Madison, Female, Various. 10 60 70

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Muscogee, Upatoie, The trustees of this academy report that they are without funds to erect an academic building, or pay a teacher any salary over tution money; they have never received a dividend of the academic fund. Murray, Newton, Covington, Higher branches. 50 1298 98 1298 98 Newton, County, Male, English. 57 148 33 None. Oglethorpe, Cherokee-corner, Various. 39 Oglethorpe, Mount Pleasant, Lower. 25 15 40 Flourishing. Paulding, Pike, Zebulon, Various. 41 12 53 1835 28 Pulaski, Putnam, Eatonton, Various. 51 37 88 236 00 89 43[frac34] 146 56 Flourishing. Putnam, Jefferson, Various. 41 247 30 30 81 216 49 Putnam, Harmony, English. 24 104 00 89 30 14 70 Rabun, Randolph, Richmond, County, at Augusta and Sand Hills, Higher branches. 313 2547 00 2909 00 Scriven, County, 2847 80 2847 80 At interest. No academy building. Stewart, Sumpter, Talbot, Antioch, English. 22 10 32 Talbot, Washington, Various. 114 1881 26 1821 00 60 [Illegible Text] Talbot, Oak Ridge, Higher branches. 30 30 60 Talbot, Centreville, Lower. 32 20 52

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Tatnall, Taliaferro, Crawfordville, Various. 49 33 82 1939 45 1302 78[frac34] 636 66 Thomas, Thomasville, Various. 33 23 56 2480 50 1922 73 557 77 $217 of which are uncurrent bank-notes. Troup, West Point, 25 206 75 76 96 129 79 Troup, La Grange, Male, Various. 45 105 average. 1835 28 Troup, La Grange, Female, 60 Twiggs, Ocmulgee, English. 25 10 35 Finances as at last annual report. Twiggs, Planters', Lower. 25 15 70 Flourishing. Twiggs, Marion, 48 76 16 50 32 26 No dividend since last report. Twiggs, Stone Creek, English. 29 19 48 20 62 No dividend since last report. Union, Upson, Union, 37 23 60 No dividend received by this academy. Upson, Union Hill, 35 27 62 Upson, Thomaston, 40 22 62 This academy has neither received nor expended any thing since its last report. Upson, Oakchumpka, English. 38 33 71 Flourishing. Upson, Lafayette, 9 14 23 This academy has received no dividend. Upson, Franklin, Lower. 33 17 50 This academy has received no dividend for two years past. Upson, Walton, Social Circle, Various. 96 Ware, Warren, Locust Grove, English. 34 15 49 58 81 This academy has received no dividend for two years past. Warren, Monaghan, 30 16 46 Some accounts against this academy which have not been presented. Warren, Brier Creek, English. 37 18 55 This academy has received no dividend. Warren, Warrenton, 20 21 41 126 58 286 24

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Washington, Bethlehem, English. 36 23 60 216 00 44 62 171 37 at interest.Prospering. Washington, Davisborough, Various. 21 10 31 82 00 6 00 Wayne, Wilkes, Washington, Various. 42 58 100 478 00 549 82 This academy owes on judgment $420. Wilkes, Mallorysville, Various. 17 16 33 155 14 85 31 Wilkinson, County, Lower. 25 11 36 1168 30 536 50 631 80 A Consolidation of the Reports of the Trustees of Academies in the several counties. PAUL J. SEMMES, Clerk. December 5 th, 1834.

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CONDITION OF POOR-SCHOOLS. County. Trustee. No. entitled. No. instructed. Branch of Education. Receipts. Expenditures. On hand. Appling, John Graham, 105 441 45 441 45 The expenditures include $35 Macon money, and $8 due by former trustee. Baker, Baldwin, Bibb, William B. Cone, 225 264 00 264 00 Bryan, Bulloch, Joseph Hagin, 76 110 82 110 82 Burke, J. G. Baduly, 149 Various. 306 00 309 33 $3 33 due trustee. Butts, Charles Bailey, 95 48 English. 224 62 110 30 114 34 Camden, Campbell, Carrol, William L. Parr, English. 201 00 110 69 90 30 $17 on Bank of Macon. Cass, Chatham, Cherokee, Clark, Joseph Ligin, 308 50 145 85 162 64 Columbia, Cobb, Coweta, Crawford, P. M. Calhoun, 34 165 85 156 50 9 35 The amount on hand will go in liquidation of two old accounts when presented. Decatur, S. Scarborough, 104 280 05[frac34] 299 31 $19 25 due trustee. De Kalb, E. B. Reynolds, 381 1087 00 1087 00 Dooly,

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Early, Effingham, Elbert, William B. Nelms, 399 320 817 93[frac34] 779 93[frac34] 38 00 Emanuel, John Love, 924 55 None. Two judgments, viz.one against Stephen Swain for $1820, and one against James Walea for $236 76. Fayette, William McBride, 184 275 34 275 34 Floyd, Forsyth, Franklin, Thomas King, 420 Lower. 451 00 452 56 1 56 due trustee. Gilmer, Glynn, Greene, Thomas W. Grimes, 168 1001 88[frac34] 580 66[frac34] 421 22 Five districts failed to returnsome accounts against the fund. Gwinnett, William Wattbrie, 157 660 75 660 75 Habersham, Thomas Busk, 874 1153 83 914 23 239 59 Hall, George Hawpe, 351 English. 674 45 673 85 59 Hancock, Henry Rogers, 91 301 32 193 56 107 75 Harris, William C. Osborn, 250 92 67 00 183 92 Accounts against the fund far exceeding the amount in hand. Heard, Baily Bleasoe, 26 Lower. 92 48 119 01 Henry, Amasa Spencer, 357 English. 503 32 519 92 $16 60 due trustee. Houston, Arthur A. Morgan, 861 Lower. 654 06 396 96 257 10 Return illegally made. Irwin, William Stone, 52 English. 2985 80 356 68 Jasper, Jackson, Jefferson, Samuel B. Tarver, 328 50 329 97

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Jones, Charles McCarthy, 234 371 76 225 43 146 37 Laurens, Lee, Liberty, Lincoln, Elijah Frazer, 142 391 25 625 29 None. $234 04 due on disbursements. Lowndes, Lumpkin, M. P. Quillian, 121 263 56 257 30 6 26 $62 09 due trustee. Three districts made no returns. Madison, William Sanders, 121 130 Lower. 201 90 263 99 Marion, McIntosh, Merriwether, Elijah Reeder, 219 18[frac34] 205 22 Monroe, Elias Beall, 111 Various. 689 79 608 05 81 79 $10 of which is Macon money. Return illegally made. Montgomery, Alex. C. McClennan, Lower. 2686 71 168 18 2518 53 Morgan, John W. Porter, 477 47 508 46[frac34] Due trustee $30 99 Muscogee, Hudson A. Thornton, 45 649 10 91 50 557 60 Amount on hand to be divided among teachers. Murray, Newton, Oglethorpe, Henry Britian, 104 323 30 321 94 135 00 Paulding, 308 65[frac34] Pike, William V. White, 102 496 90 Pulaski, Putnam, William B. Carter, 107 22 83 07[frac34] 188 24 $23 on Macon BankHas received no dividendNo poor children have been returned since October, 1833. Rabun, Richmond,

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Randolph, Scriven, Stewart, Thomas M. Dennis, 2 33 Received no dividend of Poor-school Fund. Sumpter, Jacob W. Cobb, 37 62 88 56 Poor-school Fund indebted $50 94. Telfair, G. R. McCall, 65 Lower. 206 38 502 39 $210 uncurrent bank-notesno dividend received since last report. Talbot, William S. Goss, 58 268 50 268 93 0 43 due trustee. Tatnall, S. Knight, 2491 44 310 30 2173 63[frac34] $155 on Macon BankNo returns made by Justices. Taliaferro, Quinea O'Neal, 69 English. 186 30 186 56 Thomas, Malcolm Ferguson, 59 Returns from three districts only. Troup, Henry Perkins, 164 Lower. 498 99 498 62[frac34] Twiggs, Union, Upson, Thomas F. Bethel, 113 223 25 223 27 Accounts for $493 57 due. Walton, Jesse Mitchell, 159 Lower. 568 64 388 50 180 14 Ware, Warren, Washington, Sherrod Sessions, 162 162 435 13 342 45 92 68 Wayne, Robert Howe, 13 Lower. 225 43[frac34] 225 68[frac34] Balance due $7 50 Wilkes, Wilkinson,

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INDEX TO THE LAWS. A. ACADEMICUS, Senatus, late acts of, legalized, Page 23 ACADEMIES. Baldwin, Commissioners of County Academy to be elected, 15 Baldwin, Commissioners of County Academy to sell certain lots, 15 Bibb, Bibb Academy incorporated, 7 Bibb, Marion Academy incorporated, 7 Burke, Bark-camp Academy incorporated, 5 Burke, entitled to a portion of the Academy fund, 5 Cass, Cassville Academy, Trustees added to, 17 Cherokee, Etowah Acad., Trustees added to, 14 Forsyth, Jackson Academy incorporated, 9 Greene, White Plains Academy incorporated, 63 Habersham, Clarkesville Academy, Trustees added to, 7 Harris, Prospect Academy, incorporated, 5 Henry, Henry County Acad., Trustees added to, 4 Jackson, Prospect Academy, incorporated, 6 Jasper, Pleasant Academy, incorporated, 3 Jones, Blountsville Academy, incorporated, 6 Madison, Madison County Academy, Trustees added to, 11 Madison, incorporation of, amended, 11 Marion, Hamburgh Academy, incorporated, 12 Marion, Camp Creek Academy, incorporated, 12 McIntosh, Commissioners of County Academy to be elected, 22 Merriwether, Male and Female Academy, incorporated, 64 Monroe, Female Academy (at Cullodensville), incorporated, 4

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ACADEMIES. Morgan, Buckhead Academy, incorporated, 18 Morgan, Evansville Academy, Trustees added to, 63 Morgan, Union Academy, incorporated, 7 Muscogee, Trustees of Academy in Columbia authorized to lay off lot, c. 21 Paulding, Cedar Town Academy, incorporated, 8 Paulding, Pleasant Grove Academy, Trustees added to, 13 Pike, Union Academy, incorporated, 6 Putnam, Jefferson AcademyCertain provisions of law relating to, repealed, 19 Putnam, Pace's Academy, incorporated, 4 Richmond County Academy, Trustees of, authorized to join in a certain conveyance of land, 218 Stewart County Academy, Trustees appointed for, 14 Twiggs, Stone Creek Academy, new board of Trustees created, 20 Union, Blairsville Academy, Trustees appointed for, 8 Upson, Blountsville Academy, incorporated, 6 Walton, Walton County Academy, Trustees added to, 6 Washington, Union Academy, incorporated, 5 Washington, County Academy, Act authorizing a Lottery for, amended, 16 Wayne, Academy and Poor-school funds of, consolidated, 171 ADMINISTRATORS. Final receipts of, to be recorded, and how, 95 AKIN. James M., name of, changed, 184 APPROPRIATIONS. For the support of Government for the year 1835, 25 For a Military fund, 29 For a Road from Columbus to St. Mary's, 29 For the Locust-stake Road and Bridge across Telulah River, 31 In favour of James B. Hanson, 35 In favour of John H. [Illegible Text] administrator, c. 35

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APPROPRIATIONS. In favour of John Selman, 35 In favour of H. H. Howard and James Hollingsworth, 34 In favour of William Lasseter, 33 In favour of Edmund Gresham and Lancelot Johnson, 36 ASYLUM. Authorized to be established in the county of Clark, 38 Authorized to be established in the counties of Bibb, Decatur, Glynn, Greene, Houston, and Talbot, 40 Authorized to be established in the counties of Elbert and Wilkinson, 42 ATTACHMENTS. May issue on the Sabbath-day in certain cases, 77 AUGUSTA. City council authorized to convey one acre of ground, 218 Act in relation to Court of Common Pleas amended, 92 B. BAIL. Process may be served on the Sabbath-day in certain cases, 77 BANK. Of Darien, charter of, extended, 44 Repeal of the last section of act 1832 in relation to, 45 BELFAST. Mining Company incorporated, 143 BIBLE. Of debtors exempted from sale under execution, 222 BLACK. Edward J., relieved, 176 BONDS. Of constables made valid, 225 Of sheriff of Union reduced, 225 Of sheriff of Baker reduced, 224 BRIDGES. Authorized to be erected across Chatahoochee river, 47

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BRIDGES. Authorized to be erected across Flint river (by Seaton Grantland), 48 Authorized to be erected across Flint river (by William Towns), 49 Authorized to be erected across Oconee river, 51 Authorized to be erected across Savannah river, at Augusta, 46 Authorized to be erected across Telulah river, 31 Authorized to be erected across Tugalo river, 127 BRUNSWICK. Canal and railroad company, incorporation of, amended, 213 Stock to be subscribed for on certain conditions, 213 C. CAMAK. Manufacturing company, name of, changed, 62 CAMP-GROUNDS. Rock-spring, in Putnam, incorporated, 62 Mossy Creek, trustees added to, 62 CANALS. Brunswick company, incorporation of, amended, 213 Subscription for stock in, authorized, 213 CANTON. Name of Etowah, changed to, 263 CARPENTERS. Lien on premises on which they erect buildings, in certain counties, 187 CARTER, John W., relieved, 173 CAVALRY. Privileges of, company of, in Bibb county, defined, 165 CENSUS. Authorized to be taken in the county of Walker, 52 CENTRAL BANK. President and directors of, authorized to subscribe for certain stock, 213 CENTRAL HATCHIE CREEK, To be kept open for the passage of lumber-boats, 193 CHURCHES INCORPORATED. First Particular Baptist Church in Darien, 56 Baptist Church at Concord, 55

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CHURCHES INCORPORATED. Baptist church at Mars Hill, 57 Baptist church at Providence, 59 Baptist church at Heaborn, 58 Baptist church at Macedonia, 64 Baptist church at Zebulon, 65 United Baptist church in Pike county, 65 Methodist E. C. at Culloden, 54 Methodist E. C. at Crowell's meeting-house, 61 Protestant E. C. at Columbus, 53 Presbyterian C. at New-Hope, 55 Presbyterian C. at Salem, 59 CITIES. Augustarespecting Court of Common Pleas, 92 Maconlaid out into wards, c. 240 SavannahMayor and Aldermen to have charge of the Court-house and Jail, 246 CLERKS. Respecting offices of, in Montgomery county, 96 CLINCH. Elizabethrelieved, 177 COLUMBUS. Mayor's Court in, abolished, 90 Trustees of Academy in, authorized to sell certain lots, 21 COLLECTORS OF TAX. Commissions of, increased in certain counties, 233 CONSTABLES. Bonds of, made valid, 100 To be appointed in certain cases, 100 CONSTITUTION. Act to abolish property qualification of Members of General Assembly, 69 Act to, establish Court of Errors, 66 COUNTIES. BakerInferior Court authorized to alter Militia districts, 165 BaldwinInferior Court authorized to levy an extra tax, 234 BibbInferior Court authorized to levy an extra tax, 237 Camdenpart of county tax added to Poor-school fund, 170 CampbellInferior Court authorized to levy an extra tax, 238 Carrolpart of, added to Heard, 73 ChathamInferior Court to advance funds to road commissioners, 195

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COUNTIES. Cobbcounty site incorporated, 252 Decaturcompensation of grand and petit jurors, 157 Decaturnew militia districts to be laid off, 119 Elbertrespecting cases returnable to Superior Courts, 80 ElbertInferior Court authorized to levy extra tax, 234 FayetteInferior Court authorized to levy extra tax, 239 Forsythcounty site located, 253 Gilmercounty site located, 247 Glynnroad laws in relation to, amended, 197 Greenerespecting slaves and free persons of colour in, 22 Henryrespecting tax improperly collected, 178 JasperInferior Court authorized to grant private roads, 198 JeffersonInferior Court authorized to levy extra tax, 237 Jonespart of, added to Bibb, 71 Lowndescounty site authorized to be removed, 75 Montgomeryrespecting the location of clerk's offices, 96 MorganInferior Court authorized to levy an extra tax, 234 Murraycounty site located, 248 Newtonpart of, added to Jasper, 72 PauldingInferior Court to hold election for county site, 74 Pauldingacts of sheriff legalized, 223 TwiggsInferior Court to assist in opening a certain road, 196 Unionbond of sheriff legalized, 225 UpsonInferior Court authorized to levy an extra tax, 236 Waynerespecting the election of school-district commissioners, 171 COSTS. Mode of taxing and collecting, regulated, 93 Incurred by certain officers of Bibb county, provided for, 237 COURTS. For the establishment of, for the correction of errors, 66

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COURTS. Jurisdiction of certain Justices in Richmond county extended, 89 Respecting, of Common Pleas and Oyer and Terminer in Savannah, 91 Respecting, of Common Pleas in Augusta, 92 Minutes of Superior Court in Murray county to be transcribed, 97 Mode of taxing and collecting cost regulated, 93 Mayor's Court in Columbus, repealed, 90 Of Common Pleas in Macon, repealed, 99 Session of, changed in the Southern Circuit, 84 Session of, changed in the Chatahoochee Circuit, 82 Session of, Inferior, of Henry county changed, 81 Session of, Inferior, of Randolph county changed, 83 Session of, Inferior, of Walker county, appointed, 83 Of Ordinary may declare an intestacy in certain cases, 88 Of Ordinary may issue commissions of lunacy in certain cases, 86 COURT-HOUSES. Provision for, in the county of Lowndes, 75 COURT-HOUSES AND JAILS. Management of, in Chatham, vested in the Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah, 246 See Counties and Tax. CRAFTON. Several persons of the name of, to be in future known by the name of Cobb, 183 CROFT. Anderson, relieved, 37 CUMMING. Town of, incorporated, 253 Town of, incorporated, 255 D. DEBTORS. Family Bible of, exempted from sale under execution, 222 DEEDS. Respecting the record of, and admission thereof as evidence, 94 DIVORCE. Of sundry persons, 98 , 99

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DRAGOONS. Company of, in Upson county, exempted from certain duties and liabilities, 163 E. ELECTIONS. Manner of holding, for school-district commissioners in the county of Wayne, 172 Manner of holding, for academy commissioners in the county of McIntosh, 22 Places of holding, for colonels and majors in Monroe county, defined, 101 To be held, for county site, in Paulding county, 74 ELECTION PRECINCTS. Various, established and others abolished in sundry counties, 101 , 102 , 103 , 104 , 105 , 106 , 107 Established and one abolished in Lee county, 110 Established in the county of Decatur, 109 Established in the counties of Early, Irwin, and Lowndes, 108 Established in the county of Heard, 73 Bearers of returns from, in Tatnall, to be compensated, 112 Bearers of returns from, in the counties of Baker, Carrol, Cobb, Decatur, Early, Elbert, Franklin, Glynn, Gwinnett, Houston, Merriwether, and Stewart, to be compensated 111 Compensation for superintendents at, in Jackson county, provided for, 113 Compensation for one of the presiding Magistrates at, in the county of Burke, provided for, 114 Compensation of the presiding magistrates at, in the county of Warren, provided for, 117 Superintendents at, in the counties of Floyd and Walker, to be compensated, 116 Superintendents at, in Twiggs, to be compensated, 119 ELLIJAY. Turnpike Company incorporated, 209 Town of, incorporated, 247 EMANCIPATION. Of Sam, late the property of Mr. Marlor, 229 Of Fanny Hickman and her issue, 230 Of the wife and father of Solomon Humphries, 231 Of Edmund, late the property of, 232

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ERRORS. Act for establishing court for correction of, 66 ETOWAH. Changed to Canton, 263 EVIDENCE. Act respecting the admission of certain deeds to record, c. revided, 94 Copies of the record of administrator's, executor's, and gurdian's receipts admitted as, 95 EXECUTORS. Respecting the record of final receipts of, 95 FACTORY. Princeton, named, 140 Richmond, incorporated, 139 FARMERS' SCHOOL. Incorporated, 7 FEES. On grants for lots 10 and 100 established, 120 Mode of taxing and collecting court cost, regulated, 232 Of receivers and collectors of tax in certain counties increased, 233 FELTS. Name of, changed, 181 FERRIES. Right of, across Alatamaha vested in R. Nale and E. Sapp, 121 Right of, across Chatahoochee vested in Daniel N. Pittman, 123 Right of, across Chatahoochee vested in John W. Sutlive, 124 Right of, across Chatahoochee vested in Richard Mathias, 125 Right of, across Flint vested in Louis M. Cantelow, 130 Right of, across Hightower vested in J. J. Johnson, 126 Right of, across Ocmulgee vested in Cullen Pope, 127 Right of, across Oostanaulee vested in John Bethune, 130 Right of, across Oostanaulee vested in William J. Tarvin, 128 FIRE COMPANY. Incorporated in the city of Savannah, 131

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FISH. Killing of, by poisoning water-courses prohibited, 194 GARNISHMENT. The several acts in relation to, amended, 79 Act making bank and other corporations subject to, repealed in part, 45 GLYNN. Road laws in relation to, amended, 197 GOLD. Drawers or owners of lots in Cherokee authorized to test for, on certain conditions, 159 GRANTS. Fees on, for lots 10 and 100 established, 120 Registered by Hamilton B. Gaither legalized, 24 GRESHAM. Edmund, et al. provided for, 36 GUARDIANS. Mode of recording final receipts of, 95 HANSON. James B. appropriation in favour of, 35 HICKMAN. Fanny, and her issue manumitted, 230 HILL. Asa, relieved, 174 HOLLINGS WORTH. James, relieved, 34 HOWARD. Harman H., relieved, 34 HUDGIN. David, orphans of, relieved, 180 HUMPHRIES. Curtis, relieved, 176 Solomon, wife and father of, emancipated, 231 I. INCORPORATIONS. Atlantic and New-Orleans Steamboat Company, 135 Brunswick Canal and Railroad Company, 213 Steamboat Company of Georgia, 134 Georgia Lumber Company, 133 Georgia Conference Manual Labour School, 150 Auraria and Blue Ridge Turnpike Company, 200 Ellijay Turnpike Company, 209 Union Turnpike Company, 200

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INCORPORATIONS. Western Turnpike Company, 204 Belfast Mining Company, 143 Pigeon-roost Mining Company, 143 Skull Shoals Manufacturing Company, 141 Richmond Factory, 139 Savannah Lyceum, 147 Savannah Fire Company, 131 Walthourville Union Institute, 145 Clarkesville Union Rifle Company, 149 Monroe Blues, 148 And see Churches and Towns. INFANTRY. Company of, in the county of Monroe, 148 INFERIOR COURT. (See Counties and Courts. ) INTESTACY. May be declared on the estate of a testator in certain cases, 88 J. JOHNSON. Launcelot, appropriation in favour of, 36 JONES. Part of, added to Bibb, 71 JURORS. Compensation of, in the county of Decatur, provided for, 157 JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. Jurisdiction of certain, in Richmond county, extended, 89 L. LANDS. Ten acres of, on the common of Augusta, authorized to be conveyed to the Athens Railroad Company, 218 One-half of lot drawn to the orphans of Hudgins to vest in them conditionally, 180 Gold lots, condemned as fraudulently drawn, authorized to be sold on certain conditions, 160 State's interest in two acres at the west end of Carter's Bridge to be sold, 161 Title to lot No. 197, second district Troup, vested in Anthony Lizenby, 163

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LANDS. Drawers or owners of gold lots authorized to test the same, and operate thereon under certain restrictions, 159 Grant fees on lots 10 and 100 established, 120 LASSETER. William, relieved, 33 LAW. Certain persons admitted to plead and practise, in this State, 186 LEWIS. Felix, relieved, 175 LINCOLNTON. Town of, incorporation amended, 261 [Illegible Text]. Name of, changed to Rome, 250 LOGAN. Sarah, legitimatized and name changed, 185 LOCUST STAKE ROAD. To be put in order, and bridge built across Tolula river, 31 LOTTERY. Act authorizing for Washington County Academy, amended, 16 LOWE. John H., appropriation in favour of, 35 LUMBER. Company incorporated, 133 LUMBER-BOATS. Free passage of, in Central Hatchee Creek, provided for, 193 LUNACY. Courts of Ordinary may issue commission of, in certain cases, [Illegible Text] LYCEUM. Incorporation of, in the city of Savannah, 147 M. MACON. Laid out in wards, and incorporation amended, 240 Act establishing courts of Common Pleas, repealed, 90 M'CALL. John G., relieved, 176 M'DONOUGH. Incorporation of, amended, 256

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M'INTOSH. Streets of the town of, to be kept open, 262 MANUAL LABOUR. Incorporation of, school in Newton county, 150 MANUFACTORY. Incorporation of Skull Shoals Company, 141 Name of Camak Company in the county of Clark changed, 140 MARIETTA. In the county of Cobb, incorporated, 252 MARION. Incorporation of the town of, repealed, 262 MASONS AND CARPENTERS. Lien of, on buildings erected by them in certain places, 187 MESNE PROFITS. Recovery of, authorized without a separate action, 78 MERSHON. John, name of, changed, 182 MILITARY. Clarksville Union Rifle Company incorporated, 149 Monroe Blues incorporated, 148 Bibb County Cavalry, privileges of, defined, 165 Union Light Dragoons, privileges of, defined, 163 MILITIA. Places of holding elections for certain officers defined, 101 MILITIA DISTRICTS. To be altered in the county of Baker, 165 To be laid off in the county of Decatur, 165 MILITARY FUND. Appropriation for, 29 MINING. Pigeon-roost Company incorporated, 143 Belfast Company incorporated, 143 MINUTES. Of Murray Superior Court to be transcribed, 97 MURRAY. Part of, added to Cass county, 71 N. NOTLEY RIVER. Obstructions to the free passage of fish to be removed, 191

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O. OCONEE RIVER. Samuel Buffington authorized to build a bridge across, 51 OCMULGEE RIVER. Right of ferry across, vested in Cullen Pope, 127 OCMULGEE AND FLINT. Railroad Company, incorporation amended, 219 P. PENITENTIARY. Notes and accounts of, may be placed in the hands of any attorney, 166 Appropriation in favor of (See appropriation for support of government), 25 PIGEON-ROOST Mining Company incorporated, 143 POISON. The placing of, in water-courses prohibited, 194 POOR-SCHOOLS. Number of commissioners for, in McIntosh, reduced, 22 Time and manner of settling accounts of teachers of, defined, 167 Teachers of, in certain counties, not to be paid for teaching but upon certain conditions, 168 Manner of holding elections for school district commissioners in the county of Wayne, 172 POOR-SCHOOL FUND. The county of Walker to be entitled to part of, upon the return of the census, 52 Trustee of, in the county of Emanuel, required to give a new bond, 169 Of the county of Wayne consolidated with the academy fund, 171 Part of the county tax in Camden added to the, 170 POOR. Asylums to be provided for, in the counties of Bibb, Decatur, Glynn, Greene, Houston, and Talbot, 40 Ditto in the county of Clarke, 38 Ditto in the counties of Elbert and Wilkinson, 42 PRINCETON FACTORY. Named, 140 PRECINCTS. See Elections.

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R. RAILROADS. Athens company authorized to receive a conveyance of ten acres of the common of Augusta, 218 Incorporation of Brunswick company, amended, 213 Stock to be subscribed for on certain conditions, 211 RECEIPTS. Of executors, administrators, and guardians, how recorded, 95 RECEIVERS. Of tax-returns, commissions of, in certain counties, increased twenty-five per cent. 233 RELIEF. See names of persons relieved. REPEALED STATUTES. Creating Mayor's Court in Columbus, 90 Establishing Court of Common Pleas in Macon, 90 Respecting the location of clerk's office in Montgomery county, 96 Making bank and other corporations subject to garnishment, in part, 45 So much of the act respecting Jefferson Academy, in Putnam county, as relates to the conditions prescribed for its participation in the academy fund, 19 Fourth section of the act incorporating the town of St. Mary's, 258 Act incorporating the town of Marion in Twiggs county, 262 REVIVED STATUTES. Act of 1826, to admit certain deeds to record, c. c., 94 RICHMOND FACTORY. Incorporated, 139 RIVERS. Bridge to be built across Telulah river, 31 Obstructions to the free passage of fish in Notley river to be removed, 191 Obstructions to the free passage of fish in Savannah and Broad rivers, 190

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ROADS. Inferior Court authorized to grant private ways, 199 Inferior Court of Jasper county authorized to grant private ways, 198 Laws in relation to Glynn county, amended, 197 Inferior Courts of Bibb, Jones, and Twiggs authorized to have opened and kept in repair a certain road, 196 Commissioners of, in Chatham county, to receive from the Inferior Court estimated portion of road fund, 195 Commissioners appointed to have put in order the road from Columbus to St. Mary's, 29 Locust Stake to be put in order, 31 Ellijay Turnpike Company incorporated, 209 Western Turnpike Company incorporated, 204 Ocmulgee and Flint Railroad Company, charter amended, 219 ROME. Town of, named and incorporated, 250 S. SABBATH-DAY. Attachments and bail process may be served on, in certain conditions, 77 SAINT ANDREW'S. Society, incorporation of, amended, 146 SALES. Sheriffs of Cobb and Gwinnett to advertise in certain papers, 222 Heretofore advertised in the Cassville Gazette and the Recorder and Spy, legalized, ib. Family Bible of debtors exempted from, ib. Act requiring the Sheriff of Campbell county to advertise in certain papers, repealed, 220 Sheriff of Coweta county authorized to publish in certain gazettes, 221 Of State's interest in two acres of land at the foot of Carter's Bridge authorized, 161 SAM. Emancipated. 229 SAVANNAH. Act organizing City Court, amended, 91 Fire Company incorporated, 131

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SAVANNAH. Respecting the management of the Courthouse and Jail in, 246 SAVANNAH RIVER. Obstructions to the free passage of fish to be removed, 190 SELMAN. John, deceased, estate of, allowed certain sum of money, 35 SENATUS ACADEMICUS. Late acts of, legalized, 23 SHERIFFS. Respecting advertisements of, in the counties of Gwinnett, Cobb, and Paulding, 222 Respecting advertisements of, in the county of Campbell, 220 Respecting advertisements of, in the county of Coweta, 225 Of Baker county, bond of, reduced, 224 Of Union county, bond of, reduced, 225 Of Paulding, acts of, legalized, 223 SLAVES. Penalty incurred by certain persons for illegally introducing, remitted, 226 Respecting the government of, in certain counties, ib. SCULL SHOALS. Manufacturing Company incorporated, 141 SMITH. Lurena Elizabeth, name of, changed, 184 William S., legitimatized and name changed, 183 SPRING-PLACE. Made the public site of Murray county, 248 STEAMBOAT COMPANY. Of Georgia, incorporated, 134 Atlantic and New-Orleans Steamboat Company, incorporated, 135 ST. MARY'S. Repeal in part of the acts of incorporation, 258 T. TAX. For the support of Government for 1835, 232 Receivers and Collectors allowed additional compensation in certain counties, 233 Unlawfully collected in the county of Henry, how disposed of, 178

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TAX. For Poor-school purposes, in McIntosh county, reduced, 22 Collector of Bruke county, relieved, 33 Part of county tax in Camden added to Poor-school fund, 170 TAX, EXTRA. To be levied in the county of Baldwin, 234 To be levied in the county of Bibb, 237 To be levied in the county of Campbell, 238 To be levied in the county of Elbert, 234 To be levied in the county of Fayette, 239 To be levied in the county of Jefferson, 237 To be levied in the county of Morgan, 234 To be levied in the county of Upson, 236 THOMPSON. Jane, legitimatized and name changed, 185 TOWNS. Cantonnamed, 263 Cummingincorporated, 255 Cuthbertincorporated, 264 Ellijayincorporated, 247 Greenesboroughrespecting free persons of colour in, 228 Lincolntonincorporation amended, 261 Livingstonname changed, 250 Madisonrespecting free persons of colour in, 228 McDonoughincorporation amended, 256 McIntoshstreets to be kept open, 262 Romenamed and incorporated, 250 Washingtonincorporation amended, 259 TOWN LOTS. Unsold in Milledgeville, to be sold by commissioners of county academy, 15 TURNPIKES. Ellijaycompany incorporated, 209 Westerncompany incorporated, 240 U. UNION. Turnpike Company, incorporated, 200 W. WALKER COUNTY. Census to be taken, 52

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WALTHOURVILLE. Institute, incorporated, 145 WASHINGTON. Incorporation of, amended, 259 WATER-COURSES. Poisoning of, prohibited, 194 WESTERN. Turnpike Company, incorporated, 204 WIGGINS. John Golphin, name changed, 182 Z. ZACHERY. Hiram W., name changed, 183

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INDEX TO THE RESOLUTIONS. A ACADEMY FUND To be paid certain Academies in Monroe County, 306 To be paid to the county of Tatnall, 278 ACCOUNTS, contracted by late road superintendents to be paid, and how, 287 APPLING, Poor-school fund due to, to be drawn, 277 ARSENALS, Report on the condition of, 285 Report on the condition of, 286 ATTORNEY GENERAL, election of, 301 ATTORNEYS, to be appointed to assist in prosecuting Sci. Fa. against Merchants' and Planters' Bank, 263 B BANKS Two Attorneys to be appointed to assist in prosecuting the Sci. Fa. against the Merchants' and Planters' Bank, 268 Report, c. of committee in relation to affairs of Central Bank, 275 Report, c. on the conduct of the board in relation to the re-charter of the Darien Bank, and the increase of stock in the Bank of Augusta, 299 , 326 Report, c. in relation to the re-charter of the Bank of the U. S. 295 Committee raised to examine into the affairs of Farmer's Bank of Chatahoochee, 276 Report of committee in relation to certain local Banks, 341 Directors of, elected, 302 BOOKS, various law books to be sent to certain counties, 270 , 272 , 304 C CENTRAL BANK, Report, c. in relation to condition and management of, 275

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Report, c. on the conduct of the board in relation to certain other Banks, 299 , 326 To make certain [Illegible Text] in settling with agents who sold the public hands, 334 CHASTAIN, Jeremiah S. relieved from the payment of a certain note, 318 CHASTAIN, Jonathan D. to receive a grant for a certain fraction, 321 CLAIMS, of the State against the General Government to be investigated and prosecuted by an agent, 274 COMMISSIONER, to be appointed to disburse the fund appropriated to educate the deaf and dumb, c. 307 COMP. GENERAL, Report, c. respecting, 324 D DAVIS, Wm. B., Report, c. in relation to the contract of, 331 DEAF AND DUMB, Report, c., in relation to education of, 281 Commissioner to be appointed to disburse the fund appropriated for their education, c., 307 DIGEST, c. to be sent to various counties, 270 E ELECTIONS Of two Senators in Congress, 267 Of Judges of Superior Courts, and Attorney and Solicitors-general, 301 Of Judge of Court Common Pleas for the city of Savannah, 302 Of Major-general, 302 Of Brigadier-general, 303 Of Bank Directors, 302 EXECUTION Of certain Cherokee Indians,resolved, 293 F FUNERAL expenses of certain members, to be paid from the public treasury, 269 G GENERAL Election for Major-general, 302 Election for Brigadier-general, 303 GIBSON, Samuel, disposition of land heretofore vested in him, 320

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GOVERNOR To pay funeral expenses of deceased members, 269 To send various [Illegible Text], c., to certain counties, 270 To send certain books to the county of Henry, 272 To send certain books to the county of Camden, 304 To employ a suitable ngent to investigate and prosecute a claim of the State against the General Government, 274 To draw a warrant for the Poor-school fund due Appling county, 277 To cause a sci. fa. to be sued out against the Farmers' Bank of Chatahoochee, 276 To transmit the report and resolutions on the subject of educating the deaf and dumb to certain public officers, 285 To purchase certain military accountrements, and have certain public arms repaired, 286 To appoint persons to examine the public Arsenals at Augusta and Savannah, 286 To pay outstanding accounts, contracted by the late superintendent of the public hands, 287 To transmit to Senators and Representatives in Congress a copy of preamble and resolutions on the subject of establishing a mail route between Macon and Savannah, 292 To transmit to the Sheriff of Murray county copy of resolutions relative to the execution of certain Cherokee Indians, and pay the expenses of a guard, c., 293 To offer a reward for the apprehension of the murderers of Eli Hicks, 294 To offer a reward for the apprehension of certain Indians who escaped from Gwinnett Jail, 304 To pay the Poor-school fund due to Columbia county, 305 To pay certain fund to the Academies in Monroe county, 306 To appoint a Commissioner to disburse the fund appropriated for the education of the deaf and dumb, and take his bond, c., 307 Various duties assigned, in making provision for arresting the spread of small-pox, 368 To refund, by warrant on the treasury, any moneys improperly raised by a second sale of town lots, 319

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GOVERNOR. To pay F. M. Stone certain commissions for selling public hands, 334 Authorized to call out a force for the protection of citizens of new counties, 335 To communicate by express the resolutions in relation to the execution of James Graves, 337 To have published, in such gazettes as he may select, the laws of a general nature, 341 GRANT. To issue to J. D. Chastain, for certain fraction, 321 GRANT. William, report, c. upon the petition of, 315 GRAVES. James, citation of the Supreme Court in the case of, 337 James, execution of, resolved, 338 I INDIANS. Resolutions in relation to the execution of John Hog Smith, 293 Resolutions in relation to the execution of James Graves, 338 Reward to be offered for apprehension of the Indians who murdered Eli Hicks, 294 Reward to be offered for apprehension of the Indians who escaped from the jail in Gwinnett county, 304 INFERIOR COURT. Of Coweta, to provide temporary hospitals and a guard, to prevent the spread of the small-pox, 308 INSTRUCTIONS. To Senators, c., in Congress, in relation to the re-charter of the U. S. Bank, and the support of the Federal administration in opposition thereto, 295 Report and resolutions on the subject, 288 J JOHNSON. Benjamin F., relieved, 269 JUDGE. Court of Common Pleas, election of, 302

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JUDGES. Superior Courts, election of, 301 L LAND. Heretofore vested in Samuel Gibson, to be sold, and how, 320 Fraction in Habersham to be granted to J. D. Chastain, 321 LAWS. Of a public nature to be published in gazettes, 341 LAW-BOOKS. To be sent to certain counties, 270 To be sent to Henry county, 272 To be sent to Camden county, 304 LOWE. John H. administrator, c., report on the claim of, 317 M MAIL ROUTE. Proposition to establish, between Macon and Savannah, 292 MANUAL LABOUR. Report, c., in relation to, 279 MILITARY CODE. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of those who drafted it, 322 MILITARY COMMITTEE. Report of, on the state of the Arsenals, 285 Report of, on the state of the Arsenals, 286 P PENITENTIARY. Report, c., in relation to, 329 PETITT. Pierson, report, c., on the memorial of, 315 POOR-SCHOOL FUND. To be paid to the county of Columbia, 305 To be paid to the county of Appling, 277 PRESIDENT U. S. Resolutions approbating the conduct of, in relation to U. S. Bank, 297 PRINTING. Proposals of Messrs. Robinson accepted, 339 Proposals of Messrs. Cuthbert and Hunt accepted, 340

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PUBLIC HANDS. Report, c. in relation to the sale of, and compensation of agents, 328 Certain sale of a, by William B. Davis, declared to be void, 333 Relative to sale of, by F. M. Stone, and his compensation, 334 S SALE. Of public hands by agents, report, c. in relation to, 328 Of public hands subsequently made by F. M. Stone, 334 SENATORS, in Congress, election of, 267 SHERIFF. Of Habersham, to sell a certain lot of land heretofore vested in Samuel Gibson, 320 SMALL-POX. Resolutions, c. in relation to the existence and spread of, 308 SMITH. John Hog, execution of, resolved, 293 SPRINGER. William G., allowed additional compensation, 312 SOLICITORS-GENERAL. Election of, 301 SOLICITOR-GENERAL. Eastern circuit, directed to institute action against W. B. Davis, 333 STONE. Francis M., compensation of, for selling certain public hands, 334 SUPREME-COURT. Citation of, in the case of James Graves, 337 T TATNALL. To be paid certain Academy-fund, 278 TOWN LOTS. Money improperly raised by a second sale of, to be refunded, 319 TREASURER. Report upon statement of the condition of the treasury, 324 Certain credits allowed on account of old paper medium and counterfeit money, 324 5 W WOOD. James, report upon petition of, 313