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.: PRINTED BY CAMAK [Illegible Text] 18191100 English

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED AT MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION, IN NOVEMBER DECEMBER , 1819 . 18191100 18191200 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. MILLEDGEVILLE. PRINTED BY CAMAK [Illegible Text] STATE-PRINTERS. 1819.

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, Passed in November and December, 1819. AN ACT To repeal an act entitled an act to compel the clerks to keep their offices at the Court-house of their respective counties, or within one mile thereof, passed the seventh day of December, 1807, so far as respects the county of Montgomery. 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of the same, That the before recited act, so far as respects the county of Montgomery be, and the same is hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives, MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819.

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AN ACT To pardon Jonathan Evers, of the County of [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text], at a Superior Court holden in and for the [Illegible Text] of Effingham, at April term last past, Jonathan [Illegible Text], of said county was found guilty of the murder of one James Jones, and received sentence of death, to be executed on Friday, the twenty-eighth day of May thereafter: And whereas, a number of respectable inhabitants of said county have petitioned the general assembly to pardon the said Jonathan Evers. BE it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the said Jonathan Evers be and he is hereby declared to be freely, fully, and entirely pardoned, exonerated and discharged from the pains and penalties of his said conviction and sentence as fully, freely, and entirely, as if such conviction and sentence had never taken place, or the offence been committed. Provided nevertheless, that the said Jonathan Evers shall not be discharged until he shall have paid all costs that may have accrued relative to his conviction and confinement. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 13th December, 1819. AN ACT To repeal an act to regulate the elections of the county [Illegible Text] Glynn, to be held at two several places in said county [Illegible Text] and to impose a fine on any person who shall on the same day vote at more than one of said places.

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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 the above recited act regulating the elections of the county of Glynn, passed the eleventh day of December, 1817, be and the same is hereby repealed. 2. And be it further enacted, That the general law governing the general elections for this state is hereby declared to be in full force in said county of Glynn, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1819. AN ACT Prescribing the form of a Digest or Manual of the Laws of Georgia. BE it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That during the year eighteen hundred and twenty a Digest of the Laws of this state shall be formed and arranged, which shall include all acts and resolutions of the legislature heretofore passed, and which may be passed during the present session, which are public and general and excluding such as are private or local and also such as have been repealed. 2. And be it further enacted, That to said Digest shall be added an appendix which shall contain the Constitution of the United States and of the State of Georgia as amended, the statute of frauds and perjuries, passed in the 29th year of the reign of Charles the 2d; also all acts relating to writs of Habeas Corpus. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the legislature shall by joint ballot appoint some fit and proper person to form and arrange a Digest

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in pursuance of this act, who shall report the same to his excellency the Governor, who, after the same has been examined by a committee appointed for that purpose, shall approve or disapprove the same: And when the work shall be so performed and approved by the Governor, he shall pay out of the contingent fund to the person appointed as aforesaid, a sum which he may deem an adequate compensation for the work. 4. And be it further enacted, That three fit and proper persons shall be appointed by the Governor to examine said work, and on their favorable report he shall be authorized to contract for the printing of three thousand copies in convenient bound volumes, a part to be distributed pursuant to an act of the legislature, passed 12th December 1809, and the remainder reserved for future disposition of the legislature. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate, JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To repeal an act entitled an act for the better regulation and government of the town of Powelton, in the County of Hancock, passed the 13th day of Dec. 1816; and an act entitled an act, amendatory of the aforesaid act, passed the 19th day of December, 1817. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That from and immediately after passing this act, the above recited acts be, and they are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819.

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AN ACT To authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of Montgomery county, to levy and collect an extra county tax for the purpose of building a Jail 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 immediately after the passing of this act, the justices of the Inferior Court of said county, or a majority of them, shall be fully authorized annually to levy and cause to be collected an extra county tax on the citizens of said county of Montgomery, which shall not exceed one third part of their general tax. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said justices shall appoint a fit and proper person to collect said tax, who shall receive two and an half per cent. for collecting the same; and the said justices shall take a bond and sufficient security from him the said collector, for the faithful performance of his duty as such. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the collector of said extra tax, so soon as he has collected the same, to pay the same into the hands of the Clerk of the Inferior Court of said county, and the justices of said court shall deliver the said extra tax when so collected into the hands of the commissioners of the public buildings of said county, by them to be applied to the special purpose of building a jail in said county of Montgomery. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall continue in force until there shall be a sufficient sum of money raised, in aid of the county fund to complete a good and sufficient jail in said county and no longer. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819.

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AN ACT Amendatory of an act entitled an act for the more full and complete establishment of a public seat of learning in this state: Whereas, it is considered that it will be more conducive to the interest of the Richmond Academy, that the Trustees of that Institution should be allowed to use a common seal when acting in their corporate capacity: BE it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful that Nicholas Ware, Freeman Walker, Anderson Watkins, Walter Leigh, L. C. Cantelow, Robert R. Reid, George Allen, A. Cunningham, and Edward F. Campbell, trustees of the Academy of Richmond county, and their successors in office, shall be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to have and use a common seal whenever acting as a corporate body. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts heretofore done by the aforesaid Trustees and their predecessors in office, without using a common seal, which would have been considered legal and binding under the sanction of a common seal, shall be and they are hereby declared as virtual and efficacious as though they had been executed under a common seal. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819.

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AN ACT To increase the Fire Company, of the city of Augusta. WHEREAS the rapid growth of the city of Augusta, require that further means should be provided to insure its preservation against the ravages of fire, produced either by accident, or from the torch of the incendiary, and as the number of those who compose the fire company of that city, is too limited to constitute a force which may be safely relied upon in the event of fires, for its certain and speedy extinguishment: 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 after the passing of this act, the Fire Company of the city of Augusta, shall be composed of one hundred, instead of sixty men, under the same rules, exemptions, and restrictions as heretofore: Provided, nothing in this act shall be so construed as to prevent said company from doing militia duty, in cases of invasion or insurrection, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 14th December, 1819. AN ACT To incorporate the Trustees of the Laurens county 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 John Fullwood, John G. Underwood, Jacob Robinson,

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John Guyton, Amos Love, Lunsford C. Pitts and George W. Welch, and their successors in office, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Laurens county Academy; and the said Trustees and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be able and capable in law, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, and to have, hold and enjoy, real and personal property, for the use, purpose and benefit of said Academy. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees and their successors in office, shall be capable of accepting and be invested with all manner of property real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges and immunities whatsoever, which may now belong to said Academy, or which may hereafter be bequeathed, given, conveyed or transferred to them for the use and benefit of said Academy. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees and their successors in office, shall have power and authority to appoint such officers, as they, or a majority of them may think proper; and remove the same from office for improper conduct or neglect of duty, and that the said Trustees and their successors, shall have power to fill all vacancies that may happen in the board from time to time, by death, resignation or otherwise, and to make such laws and regulations for the government and management of the said institution (not contrary to the laws and constitution of this state) as they, or a majority of them may deem proper. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and they are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 14th December, 1819.

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AN ACT To pardon John Slasser, of the county of Effingham. WHEREAS at a Superior court holden in and for the county of Effingham, at November Term 1818, John Slasser of said county, was found guilty of the murder of his wife, Mrs. Slasser, and received sentence of death, to be executed on Friday the 8th day of January, 1819, and upon the petition of a number of the respectable inhabitants of said county, the General Assembly at their session in 1818, deferred the execution of said Slasser, until their next session. BE it ther fore 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 John Slasser, be, and he is hereby declared to be freely, fully, and entirely pardoned, exonerated and discharged from the pains and penalties of his said conviction and sentence, as fully, freely, and entirely, as if such conviction and sentence had never taken place, or the offence been committed: Provided nevertheless, that the said John Slasser, shall not be discharged until he shall have paid all costs that may have accrued relative to his conviction and confinement. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate, JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 16th December, 1819. AN ACT To alter and amend an act entitled an act to increase the salaries of the public officers of this state, passed the 8th of December, 1818. 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 the public officers hereinafter named, shall receive as a salary or compensation for their services during the political years one thousand eight hundred and twenty and twenty-one, and from thence during the continuance of this act the following sums, that is to say, the Governor three thousand dollars per annum; the Treasurer fifteen hundred dollars per annum; the Comptroller General one thousand dollars per annum; the Secretary of State two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; the Surveyor General five hundred dollars per annum; the Judges of the Superior courts twenty-one hundred dollars each per annum; and to the Attorney and Solicitors General two hundred and twenty-five dollars each per annum; which said sums shall be paid to the said officers quarter yearly, out of any monies which may be in the Treasury not otherwise specially appropriated. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the fees of the several public officers hereinafter named, be and the same are hereby increased at and after the rate of twenty-five per cent on their original fees heretofore established by law, previous to the 1st day of December 1818, viz: Clerks of the Superior and Inferior courts, Clerks of the court of Ordinary, Sheriffs, Receivers of Tax Returns, County Surveyors, Constables, Justices of the Peace, Jailors, Coroners and Tax Collectors. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this law, be, and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 16th December, 1819.

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AN ACT To alter and amend the laws heretofore passed, fixing the site of the public buildings of Laurens county, in the town of Dublin; and more particularly to define the duties of the commissioners 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 John G. Underwood, David Blackshear, [Illegible Text] Munroe, Amos Love, Thomas Moore and [Illegible Text] Griffin, commissioners for the time being, and John Gayton, hereby appointed in place of Noah Stringer, also George W. Welch and Lunsford C. Pitts, hereby added, be, and they are hereby declared to be the commissioners of the court-house and jail of said county; and that they and those appointed by resolutions of the General Assembly, since the passing of an act to make permanent the site of the public buildings in the town of Dublin, county of Laurens, on the 13th December 1811, be, and they are hereby declared to be successors to those appointed by said act, and whatever may have been done by them or either of them, in pursuance of the duties assigned the original commissioners by said act, be held as good and valid in law, as if the same had been done by the said original commissioners. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners for the time being, or a majority of them, or their successors in office, shall have full power and authority to sell and dispose of any number of lots in the town of Dublin, belonging to said county, in such manner as will in their opinion be most conducive to the interest of the county, giving at least twenty days notice of the time and place of such sale, in three or more public places of the county, and in all cases taking special care to secure the purchase money. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, or their successors in

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office, are hereby authorized and required to pay off and discharge any sum that may be owing for the building [Illegible Text] repairing the court-house and jail in said county, out of any monies which may have arisen, or which may hereafter arise from the sale of the said lots; and any balance which may be found remaining on account of such sales, shall be paid over by said commissioners to the trustees of the Laurens county Academy, and become a part of the funds of that institution. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners aforesaid, to lay off a lot of four acres of ground in some suitable situation on the public lands, and convey the same to the trustees of the Laurens county Academyon which to erect an Academy and such other buildings, as may be necessary for that institution. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said commissioners to cause a fair and correct plan of the said town of Dublin, to be made and recorded in the Surveyor General's office; also to cause to be made as far as practicable, a correct account of the sales heretofore made, and to keep a correct account of the sales hereafter made by them, designating each lot by the number, and carry out the amount for which it sold, including the name of the purchaser, and have the same entered into a record book to be provided for that purpose; also to keep fair and regular minutes of their proceedings, and an account of the expenditures and disposition made of any and all funds which may come into their hands, by virtue of any sale of the said lots. 6. And be it further enacted, That in case any of the commissioners for the time being, or their successors in office, who may now, or hereafter be indebted for, or on account of said town lots, either as principal or otherwise, and the sum or sums owing by him or them, being due, and they or either of them being notified and required to pay the same, by any one or more of the commissioners not so indebted, and shall fail to satisfy and pay the amount due by him or them within two months from

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the time of such notice, he or they so offending, are hereby declared to be no longer commissioners; and the remaining commissioners shall be authorized to sue for and collect the amount due and owing by him or them in any court having competent jurisdiction thereof. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws heretofore passed militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 14th December, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the justices of the Inferior court of Jones county to levy an extra tax, for the purpose of building a common jail 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 enacted by the authority of the same, That the justices of the Inferior court of the county of Jones, are hereby authorized to levy an extra tax on the inhabitants of said county, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty, not exceeding fifty per cent on the general tax of the preceding year. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when said tax is imposed as above pointed out, the tax collector of said county for the time being, shall, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect the same; and the said collector shall be bound to the Inferior court of said county, for the collection and paying over the amount so collected to the justices of the Inferior court of said county, to be appropriated by them

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for the purpose of building a common jail in said county; and the tax-collector shall be allowed two and a half per cent for collecting and paying over the same: Provided, the said tax so collected, be paid over on or before the first Monday in July next. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 14th December, 1819. 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. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That there shall be organized in the city of Savannah, on the last Monday in October next, a court of record, to be styled the court of Common Pleas and Oyer and Terminer, for the city of Savannah, which said court shall have cognizance of civil cases, in assumpsit, debt, covenant, trover, and of actions on the case when the damages or cause of action shall not exceed the sum of two hundred nor shall be less than thirty dollars, and the said court shall have criminal jurisdiction of all minor offences committed within the limits of the city of Savannah, and which do not subject offenders to confinement in the Penitentiary. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Judge of said court shall be elected by the Legislature immediately after the passing of this act, and shall hold his office for the term of three years, unless removed therefrom by the

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Governor on the address of two thirds of both houses of the General Assembly for that purpose, and the said Judge shall have power and authority to hear and determine all civil cases of which the said court has jurisdiction, and to give judgment and award execution thereon: Provided always, that either party in any such cause shall be entitled to a trial by jury upon entering a demand thereof in writing on the docket of the said court before the opening of the court on the first day of the term to which the said cause is returnable, and upon giving security for the payment of the eventual condemnation money and costs, as upon the entry of appeals under the judicial statute of this state. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said court is empowered to compel the production of books, papers and writings, in the possession of any party to a suit in said court, containing evidence pertinent to the cause in question, conformably to the sixth section of the judicial statute of this state. 4. And be it further enacted, That the process in civil suits in said court shall be conformable to the eighth section of the judicial statute of this state, excepting that the process to all suits in said court shall be annexed by the Clerk of the court, and served by the Sheriff of the same, ten days before the return thereof; and for conducting proceedings in said court, the provisions contained in the ninth section of the judicial statute shall be in force, to carry to trial any suit in said court, according to the mode prescribed in the second section of this act. 5. And be it further enacted, That when any defendant shall have been served with process, he shall file his answer in writing in the terms of the judicial statute, on or before the opening of the court at the term to which the same is returnable; if the defendant shall fail to file his answer in manner aforesaid, the Judge of the said court shall note the default on the docket, and shall in such case and in all cases which are not docketed for trial by a jury in terms of the proviso of the first section of this act, proceed to give judgment and award execution

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thereon at the same term, upon due proof of the plantiff's claim; but in all cases which are so docketed, an imparlance shall be allowed until the next succeeding term. 6. And be it further enacted, That in all cases in said court in which bail is required, that the bail and proceedings thereon shall be conformable to the laws of this state, or to such statutes upon the same subject, as may be hereafter enacted by the General Assembly. 7. And be it further enacted, That the nineteenth, twentieth, twenty-first, and twenty-second sections of the judicial statute of this state, shall be in force in the said court, excepting that writs of subpoena shall be issued by the Clerk of said court, and served by the Sheriff of the same, a city Constable, or some private person; and that the provisions of the act passed the 16th December, 1811, to alter and amend the twenty-third section of the judiciary law of this state, passed the 16th February, 1799, shall likewise be of full force in said court, excepting that it shall not be necessary to give more than three days notice of an intention to take testimony by commission, which commission it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the said court to issue upon application therefor. 8. And be it further enacted, That the twenty-fourth, twenty-fifth, twenty-eighth, twenty-ninth, thirtieth, thirty-first and thirty-second sections of the judicial statute of this state, shall be in full force in said court, excepting that all claims to property made under the provisions of the thirty-second sections aforementioned, shall be returned by the Sheriff of the court to the Clerk of the Superior court of Chatham county, in ten days after the institution of such claim, to be decided upon by a jury at the ensuing term of the Superior court of said county. 9. And be it further enacted, That no confession of judgment shall be entered up in said court, unless the defendant resides within the city of Savannah, and unless the cause has been regularly sued out and docketed, nor until such cause is called in order by the court for trial. 10. And be it further enacted, That all sales of property taken under execution by the [Illegible Text] of said court,

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shall be made conformably to the laws of the state regulating sheriffs sales. 11. And be it further enacted, That in all cases in which a verdict shall be returned in said court, the party in whose favour it may be, shall be allowed to enter and sign judgment thereon at any time within three days after the adjournment of the court at the clerk's office, for the amount of such verdict and all legal costs, and no execution shall issue on such verdict until such judgment shall be entered by the party or his attorney. 12. And be it further enacted, That the Clerk and Sheriff hitherto of the Mayor's Court of Savannah, shall be the Clerk and Sheriff of the Court created by this act, but such Clerk and Sheriff shall continue to perform all the duties required of them by the ordinances of the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, and the said clerk and sheriff are hereby declared to be entitled to the same fees as are by law allowed to the clerks and sheriffs of the Superior and Inferior Courts of this State. 13. And be it further enacted, That the recorder of the city of Savannah, shall in the event of the absence of the Solicitor General of the district, prosecute all delinquents for crimes and offences cognizable by said court, and the said recorder, in all criminal prosecutions conducted by him, shall be entitled to receive the same fees as by law are allowed to the Solicitors General of the state, reserving to the Solicitor General of the district the right to conduct such prosecutions, and to receive the same fees as are allowed by law in the Superior courts of this state. 14. And be it further enacted, That the clerk of said court shall copy into a book of record to be provided by the Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah, all the proceedings in all the civil cases in said court, which entry of record shall be made within twenty days after the determination of any cause, and the said clerk shall be allowed ten cents for every hundred words of recording such proceedings, to be taxed in the bill of cost; and the said clerk shall keep from day to day, regular minutes of the proceedings of said court, which shall be signed by the Judge.

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15. And be it further enacted, That all the duties and liabilities attached to the clerks of the superior and inferior courts, and to the sheriffs of the counties, are hereby attached to the clerk and sheriff of this court, and the judge of said court is empowered to exercise the same authority over the clerk and sheriff, as is legally exercised by the judges of the superior courts over the clerks of the superior courts, and over the sheriffs of the counties. 16. And be it further enacted, That all persons residing in the city of Savannah, and who are liable to serve as jurors in the superior court, shall be liable to serve as jurors in this court; and it is hereby declared to be the duty of the said court to conform to the laws in force in this state, pointing cut the mode of selecting, drawing and summoning jurors for the superior court; and the forty-fourth section of the judicial statute is hereby declared to be in full force in said court; and the oath to be administered to all juries in said court upon the trial of civil causes shall be the same as is by law administered to the petit jurors in the superior courts. 17. And be it further enacted, That the judge of the said court shall, previous to the adjournment of either of the terms of the same, draw, conformably to the laws of this state, twenty-four persons to serve as an inquest or grand jury for said court and city, and twenty-four persons for the trial of all civil and criminal cases of which the said court has jurisdiction, but no inquest or grand jury for the said court shall consist of less than eighteen persons; though twelve persons of any grand jury may find a bill or make a presentment; and it is hereby declared that the mode of proceeding and trial in all criminal cases in said court shall be the same as is pursued in the superior courts of this state; and that the oath to be administered to jurors and witnesses upon the trial of criminal cases, shall be the same as is administered to jurors and witnesses in criminal cases in the superior courts. 18. And be it further enacted, That the clerk and sheriff of the court created by this act, shall respectively take the oath required by the judicial statute of this state,

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to be taken by the clerks of the superior and inferior courts, and by the sheriffs of the counties, excepting that in the clerk's oath, the following words shall be substituted (after the words and other proceedings)of the Court of Common Pleas and of Oyer and Terminer for the city of Savannah, and in the sheriffs oath the same style of the court shall be inserted after the words as sheriff, and the said oaths the judge of said court or the mayor of the city of Savannah, is hereby empowered to administer. 19. And be it further enacted, That there shall be twelve terms of the said court in each year, and that the times of holding the same shall be on the last Monday in each month, and the first term thereof shall be holden on the last Monday in October 1820. 20. And be it further enacted, That the salary to be allowed the Judge of the said court shall be thirteen hundred dollars, to be paid quarterly by the Treasurer of the city of Savannah, out of the funds of the corporation of said city; and the said judge before he enters upon the duties of his office, shall take the following oath or affirmation, either before the governor or before commissioners by him for that purpose appointed, to wit: I do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will administer justice without respect to persons, and do equal right to the poor, and to the rich, and that I will faithfully and impartially discharge and perform the duties incumbent upon me as Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and of Oyer and Terminer for the city of Savannah, according to the best of my abilities and understanding, and agreeably to the constitution of this State and the constitution of the United StatesSo help me God. 21. And be it further enacted, That the attorney's fee in each cause brought in said court, shall be one half of the fee allowed upon cases commenced and tried in the superior courts, and upon all cases brought in the said court, there shall be assessed the sum of three dollars, to be paid upon the institution of the same, to the clerk of the court, who shall make quarterly returns of

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the fees so received by him, and pay over the amount to the Treasurer of the city of Savannah, under the penalty of five hundred dollars, to be enforced by attachment against the clerk as for a contempt. 22. And be it further enacted, That when either party to a cause in said court shall take exceptions to any proceedings in a suit affecting the real merits of the same, it shall be the duty of the said judge to cause to be made and filed of record in said court, a just and true statement of the facts relating thereto, and of all legal points arising therein, and the said party after a full compliance with the law of the estate, regulating the granting of certiorari, may apply to the judge of the Eastern district for a writ of certiorari, who shall issue the same if he shall deem the exceptions taken to be sufficient. 23. And be it further enacted, That all suits and other processes which have been instituted or ordered in the Mayor's Court of Savannah, and which shall remain undecided and unexecuted on the last Monday in October next, shall be transferred to the court created by this act; and it shall be the duty of the court to proceed to the determination and trial of all such suits, conformably to the provisions of this act; and the records of the said Mayor's court are hereby declared to be a part of the records of the court created by this act; and the clerk of this court shall, upon motion first made to the court for that purpose, issue execution upon all judgments which have been or may be obtained in the said Mayor's court. 24. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws of this state, militating with this act, shall be, and they are hereby repealed, so far as the same may operate to defeat the provisions of this act. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1819.

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AN ACT Amendatory and revisory of an act passed the 15th day of December, 1818, to dispose of and distribute the late cession of land obtained from the Creek and Cherokee Nations of Indians, by the United States, in the several treatiesone concluded at Fort Jackson on the ninth day of August in the year 1814, and one concluded at the Cherokee Agency on the 8th day of July, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, and one concluded at the Creek Agency on Flint river the 22d day of January in the year of our Lord 1818; and to dispose of the Territory lately acquired of the Cherokee Indians, by a treaty held by the honorable John C. Calhoun, at the City of Washington, on the 27th day of February, in the year of our Lord 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 all that part of the Territory aforesaid, which lies in the fork of the Chatahouchee and Chestatee rivers, and south-west of a line beginning on the Chatahouchee river, where the line dividing the counties of Hall and Habersham corners on the same, and running thence a due west course, until the same strikes the Chestatee river, be added to and become a part of Hall county, and that the same be laid [Illegible Text] into three districts as nearly equal as practicable; and that all of the said Territory which lies north-east of the before recited line, and north-west of the Chatahouchee and Blair's line, until the same strikes the top of the Blue Ridge, be, and the same is hereby added to and become a part of Habersham county, which shall be laid out into six districts as nearly equal as practicable; and all the balance of the said Territory shall form one county, to be called and known by the name of Rabun, and be laid off into five districts as nearly equal as practicable. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,

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That the districts, numbers five and six in the county of Habersham, and districts numbers one, three, four and five, in the county of Rabun, be laid off into tracts of seventy chains each way, containing four hundred and ninety acres each, by lines running north and south, intersected by others at right angles. The districts numbers ten, eleven and twelve, in the county of Hall, and the districts numbers one, two, three and four, in the county of Habersham, and district number two, in the county of Rabun, be laid off into tracts of fifty chains each way, containing two hundred and fifty acres, by lines running due north and south, intersecting others at right angles; and that all tracts or lots which shall contain less than one hundred and sixty acres, and lying on the Chatahouchee, the Chestatee, the Chetauga and the Terrura rivers, shall be considered fractional tracts and disposed of accordingly; and that all other tracts or fractions lying on the dry lines, containing less than full squares, shall be considered fractions, and shall be disposed of accordingly; and all other fractions containing above one hundred and sixty acres, except on the dry lines, shall be drawn for as squares, and all the squares and such fractions shall be put into the wheel and drawn at the same time as the squares and fractions in the act to which this is a supplement. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the surveyor-general shall give each district surveyor instructions in conformity with those given agreeably to the act recited by this act in the caption of the same. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be elected by joint ballot of the Legislature during the present session, three surveyors, who shall lay off said acquired territory into fourteen districts, as nearly equal in size as practicable, agreeable to the provisions of this act, and who shall receive four dollars as a compensation for each mile run by them in laying out said districts, and running the county lines agreeable to the provisions of this act.

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5. And be it further enacted, That there shall be elected fourteen surveyors in the manner above pointed out, who shall lay off the districts aforesaid into lots and fractions agreeable to the provisions of this act, and who shall receive four dollars as a compensation for each mile run by them in laying off said districts into lots and fractions as aforesaid. 6. And be it further enacted, That the persons appointed agreeable to the provisions of this act, to lay off said territory into districts, shall give bond and security to his Excellency the Governor in the penal sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful performance of their duty in three months from the date of their appointments, and who shall take the oath prescribed by the before recited act. 7. And be it further enacted, That the persons elected agreeable to the provisions of this act, to check off said territory into lots, c. shall give bond and security to his Excellency the Governor, and take the oath prescribed by the before recited act, and perform their duties in strict conformity with the same, and for any failure shall incur the same penalties. 8. And be it further enacted, That the surveyors respectively appointed by this act, shall be allowed the same sums in advance, and under the same restrictions contained in the before recited act. 9. And be it further enacted, That the labour of the three district surveyors to be elected agreeable to the provisions of this act, shall be as nearly equalized as can conveniently be by the surveyor-general of this state, and the person having the highest number of votes at said election, shall be entitled to first choice of parts, and in that order agreeable to the number of votes they may receive. 10. And be it further enacted, That no ticket shall be counted, unless it shall contain the full number of persons to be elected either as district or checking surveyors, out of the number of candidates; and each surveyor elected to check off districts, shall be entitled to choice agreeable to the provisions of the before recited act.

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11. And be it further enacted, That said territory when surveyed, shall be distributed by lot in the same manner as prescribed by the 13th section of the before recited act, with the exceptions hereinafter made. 12. And be it further enacted, That the lists of persons who may now be entitled to a draw or draws in conformity with the provisions of this act, shall be taken in and made out within three months after the passing of this act, by fit and proper persons to be appointed by the inferior court in each county for that purpose, under the provisions of the 14th section of the before recited act. 13. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall have failed to give in for the full number of draws to which they may have been entitled under the thirteenth section of the act of the 15th December 1818, to which this act is a supplement, such person on making oath that he or she, had no knowledge of the provision so made in his or her favor, shall be authorized to give in for said draws under the same rules and regulations as pointed out by said 13th section. 14. And be it further enacted, That the persons appointed as aforesaid to take in the names of those persons entitled to draws, shall be qualified and paid in the same manner prescribed by the before recited act, and the qualifications of persons entitled to draws shall in all instances be the same; and the same oath or affirmation shall be administered: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed to prevent any person or persons from giving in for a draw or draws, who may have become entitled to the same since the passage of the before recited act, by marriage, citizenship or otherwise: Provided, they were citizens of this state three years immediately preceding the passing of this act, or prevent any person or persons from such draw or draws, who may have removed upon the territory acquired under any treaty after the ratification of the same: And provided also, that no person or persons shall be entitled to any draw or draws, who shall have resided upon said territory previous to the extinguishment of the Indian title to

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the same; and that all persons before they be permitted to give in for draws shall be sworn accordingly. 15. And be it further enacted, That his Excellency the Governor is hereby authorized and required forth-with to issue his proclamation, and cause the same to be published in any of the Gazettes of Milledgeville, Savannah, Augusta and Washington, setting forth the outlines of this act for the information of citizens entitled to the benefits thereof. And whereas, it may so happen that persons have surveyed lands in the territory now contemplated to be disposed of, contrary to law, and on which grants may have been issued: BE it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all such surveys or grants are hereby declared to be null and void to all intents and purposes as though the same had never been made or issued, nor shall any survey or grant in the aforesaid cession be admitted to a jury as evidence of title to the lands in this act described, except those obtained by virtue and under the authority of this act, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. 16. And be it further enacted, That the territory before laid out and defined agreeable to the provisions of this act, and that said territory shall be disposed of in same manner, and under the same restrictions as contemplated by the before recited act. 17. And be it further enacted, That should there be more districts than there is contemplated in this act, and surveyors appointed for; that the Governor shall in all such cases be authorized to appoint a surveyor for each and every such district as well in the present contemplated land lottery, as the former, and to fill all vacancies that may occur in any of the appointments of surveyors as well those who were authorized to lay off the counties and districts, as those to check the districts. 18. And be it further enacted, That this act is in full conformity with the before recited act, except as

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herein before excepted, any law, usage or custom to the contrary, notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 16th December, 1819. AN ACT To alter and fix the time of holding the Superior and Inferior Courts in the several judicial circuits in this State, and to add the county of Madison to the Northern, and the county of Bulloch to the Eastern, and the county of Columbia to the Middle Circuits. 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 times for holding the Superior and Inferior Courts in the several circuits in this state, shall be as follows: WESTERN CIRCUIT. In the counties of Rabun, on the third Monday in February and August. Habersham, on Thursday after the 3d Monday in February and August. Franklin, on the 4th Monday in February and August. Walton, on Thursday after the 1st Monday in March and September. Gwinnett, on 2d Monday in March and September. Hall, on 3d Monday in March and September. Jackson, on 4th Monday in March and September. Clark, on 1st Monday in April, and Tuesday after 1st Monday in October.

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NORTHERN CIRCUIT. In the counties of Lincoln, 4th Monday in April and October. Elbert, 2d Monday in March and September. Madison, 3d Monday in March and September. Warren, 1st Monday in April, and Tuesday after 1st Monday in October. Hancock, 2d Monday in April and October. Oglethorpe, 3d Monday in April and October. Wilkes, 3d Monday in February and July. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. In the counties of Laurens, 1st Monday in March and September. Montgomery, 2d Monday in March and September. Appling, Thursday thereafter. Telfair, 3d Monday in March and September. Irwin, Thursday thereafter. Early, 1st Monday in April and October. Pulaski, 2d Monday in April and October. Twiggs, 3d Monday in April and October. OCMULGEE CIRCUIT. In the counties of Morgan, 1st Monday in February and August. Greene, 2d Monday in February and August. Putnam, 3d Monday in February and August. Baldwin, 4th Monday in February and August. Wilkinson, Wednesday after 1st Monday in March; and on 1st Monday in September. Jones, 2d Monday in March and September. Jasper, 3d Monday in March and September. MIDDLE CIRCUIT SPRING CIRCUIT. 2d Monday in March, in the county of Columbia. 4th Monday in March, in the county of Washington. Thursday after the 1st Monday in April, in Tattnall. Monday thereafter, in Emanuel. Monday thereafter, in Scriven. Monday thereafter, in Burke. Monday thereafter, in Jefferson. 3d Monday in May, in Richmond.

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FALL CIRCUIT. 2d Monday in September, in the county of Columbia. 4th Monday in September, in the county of Burke. Wednesday after the 1st Monday in October, in Jefferson 2d Monday in October, in Washington. 3d Monday in October, in Emanuel. 4th Monday in October, in Tattnall. 1st Monday in November, in Scriven. 2d Monday in November, in Richmond. EASTERN CIRCUITSPRING CIRCUIT. In the county of Wayne, on the 2d Tuesday in March. On the Monday thereafter, in Camden. On the Monday thereafter, in Glynn. On the Monday thereafter, in M'Intosh. On the Monday thereafter, in Liberty. On the Thursday thereafter, in Bryan. On the Monday thereafter, in Bulloch. On the Thursday thereafter, in Effingham. And in Chatham, on the 4th Monday in May. EASTERN CIRCUITFALL CIRCUIT. On the Thursday before the last Monday in October, in Wayne. On the Monday thereafter, in Camden. On the Monday thereafter, in Glynn. On the Monday thereafter, in M'Intosh. On the Monday thereafter, in Liberty. On the Thursday thereafter, in Bryan. On the Monday thereafter, in Bulloch. On the Thursday thereafter, in Effingham. And in Chatham, on the 1st Monday in January. INFERIOR COURTSNORTHERN CIRCUIT Lincoln, 1st Tuesday in January, 1st Monday in July. Elbert, 2d Monday in January and July. Madison, 3d Monday in January and July. Warren, 2d Monday in February and August. Hancock, 1st Monday in February and August. Oglethorpe, 3d Monday in January and June. Wilkes, 3d Monday in May and October.

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OCMULGEE CIRCUIT. Morgan, 1st Monday in May, and 1st Tuesday in Oct. Greene, 2d Monday in May and October. Putnam, 3d Monday in May and October. Baldwin, 4th Monday in May and October. Wilkinson, 2d Monday in June and December. Jones, 3d Monday in June and December. Jasper, 4th Monday in June and December. MIDDLE CIRCUIT. In the counties of Columbia, 3d Monday in June and December. Richmond, 4th Monday in June and December. Burke, 1st Monday in January and July. Scriven, 2d Monday in January and July. Jefferson, 3d Monday in January and July. Washington, 4th Monday in January and July. Emanuel, 1st Monday in February and August. Tattnall, 2d Monday in February and August. WESTERN CIRCUIT. Rabun, Thursday after 2d Monday in May Nov. Habersham, 3d Monday in May and November. Franklin, 4th Monday in May and November. Walton, 1st Monday in June and December. Gwinnett, 2d Monday in June and December. Hall, 3d Monday in June and December. Jackson, 1st Monday in February and July. Clarke, 4th Monday in January and July. SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. Laurens, 1st Monday in June and December. Montgomery, 2d Monday in June and December. Appling, 3d Monday in June and December. Telfair, 1st Monday in February and August. Irwin, 1st Monday in January and July. Early, 2d Monday in January and July. Pulaski, 3d Monday in January and July. Twiggs, 4th Monday in January and July.

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EASTERN CIRCUIT. Liberty, 3d Monday in May and December. Wayne, last Monday in May and December. Camden, 1st Monday in January and June. Glynn, 2d Monday in January and June. M'Intosh, 3d Monday in January and June. Bryan, 4th Monday in January and June. Bulloch, 1st Monday in February and July. Effingham, 2d Monday in February and July. Chatham, 3d Monday in February and July. 2. And be it further enacted, That petitions, processes, bills, summons, subpoenas, and all other processes whatsoever, returnable heretofore to said courts at any other times than those hereinbefore mentioned, be, and the same are made returnable to the courts, and at the times above stated, and all parties, jurors, witnesses and other persons required to attend at any other times, are required to appear as herein appointed. 3. And be it further enacted, That the county of Madison, be, and the same is hereby attached to the Northern Circuit. 4. And be it further enacted, That the county of Bulloch be, and the same is hereby added to, and become a part of the Eastern Judicial Circuit, any law to the contrary notwithstanding; and the county of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby added and restored to the Middle Circuit. 5. And be it further enacted, That the changes in the times of holding the Inferior courts of the counties of Greene and Columbia, shall not take effect until the end of the ensuing term of the said Inferior courts of said [Illegible Text], to be holden on the third Monday in this [Illegible Text] any thing in the said act to the contrary notwithstanding Provided nevertheless, that the 1st Inferior court in the county of Lincoln, shall be held on the second Monday in February; in Elbert, on the 1st Monday in February in Jasper, on the 4th Monday in June next; and [Illegible Text] nothing herein contained, shall effect or alter the time [Illegible Text]

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holding the next term of the Inferior court of Morgan county. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Clerks of the Superior and Inferior Courts of the several counties of this State, to advertise once, at some public place in each captain's district of their respective counties, any alteration that may be made by this act, in the times of holding the courts of which they are acting as clerk. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 14th December, 1819. AN ACT To establish a ferry across the Altamaha river, at the place commonly called Linder's ferry, and to establish the rates 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 from and immediately after the passing [Illegible Text] act, the ferry across the Altamaha river at the [Illegible Text] commonly called Linder's ferry, be, and is hereby established for the term of six years in the proprietors of the land on each side of the river, and the following rates for conveyance shall be received, and no more by those that keep said ferry: For a loaded waggon and four horses one dollar, for an empty waggon and four horses seventy-five cents, for all other four wheel carriages seventy-five cents, for a cart and one horse thirty-seven and a half cents, for other two wheel carriages fifty cents, for a man and horse twelve and a half cents, for each led horse the same, for foot passengers six and a quarter cents, for each head of hogs, sheep or goats two [Illegible Text].

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2. And be it further enacted, That when the river shall be so high as to compel the person or persons keeping said ferry to go long ferry, they shall receive the following rate, to wit: for a loaded waggon and four horses four dollars, for an empty waggon and four [Illegible Text] three dollars, for all other four wheel carriages three dollars, for a cart and one horse one dollar and fifty [Illegible Text] for all other two wheel carriages two dollars, for man and horse one dollar, for led horses twenty-five cents each for every foot person twenty-five cents. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT For the relief of William Williams. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted, That the justices of the inferior court of [Illegible Text] county of Jones, shall be, and they are hereby [Illegible Text] if they think proper so to do, to release the above named William Williams, from the [Illegible Text] which he has incurred in consequence of his failing to deliver Melchi Wadsworth, agreeable to his [Illegible Text] at August term 1819, on his paying costs. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819.

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AN ACT To amend an act entitled an act to amend the third section of an act, entitled an act pointing out the duty of [Illegible Text] in selling lands under execution, passed the 22d December, 1818. 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, so much of the above recited act as requires the sheriff of the county of Jackson to advertise his sales in one of the public papers in Milledgeville, be, and the same is hereby repealed. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sheriff of the county of Jackson, be, and he is hereby required to advertise his sales in any public paper printed within the Western Circuit, or in one of the public papers printed in Milledgeville, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT To incorporate the wharf company of Augusta. WHEREAS the city council of Augusta, did lately convey unto Henry Shultz of said city, a certain lot or parcel of ground extending from Washington street to M'Intosh street, on the margin of the Savannah river in said city, for the purpose of erecting a wharf or wharves, and whereas the said Henry Shultz, after having erected thereon an extensive range of wharves, did release and [Illegible Text] all his right, title and interest therein, to James

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[Illegible Text] as president of an association or company, who have styled themselves The Wharf company of [Illegible Text] and for the use of said company: [Illegible Text] it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of [Illegible Text] State of Georgia, That the several stock or share [Illegible Text] in said range of wharves, and their successors, [Illegible Text] shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of The Wharf Company of Augusta, and under that name and style may sue and be sued, defend and be defended in any court of law [Illegible Text] equity in this state; and shall moreover be entitled to all the privileges of a corporation or body politic: Provided, any rules or regulations they may make or establish, be not repugnant to the laws or constitution of this state, or the United States. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the property, rights and privileges, which were given and conveyed by the said city council of Augusta, to the said Henry Shultz, be, and the same are hereby vested in The Wharf company of Augusta aforesaid: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent any future Legislature from [Illegible Text] the whole or any part of this act: Provided [Illegible Text] that nothing herein contained shall be so [Illegible Text] as to authorize the said corporation to issue [Illegible Text] commonly called bank bills or change bills. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1819. AN ACT Of incorporation of the Wilkes Agricultural Society. WHEREAS a number of persons in the county of [Illegible Text] have associated under the name of The

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Wilkes Agricultural Society, for the purposes of improvement in the knowledge and practice of agriculture; now in order that said society may assume a becoming respectability, and that the objects of its institution may be furthered: BE it enacted [Illegible Text] 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 Porter, Matthew Talbot, David P. Hill-house, Samuel Barnett, John Graves, sen'r, Bolling Anthony, Wm. A. Grant, Wm. Jones, Dancan G. Campbell, John H. Pope and John Walker, Officers, and all such other persons as now are, or shall hereafter become members of said society, shall be and are hereby ordained, constituted and declared a body corporate in fact and in name, by the title of The Wilkes Agricultural Society, and by that name and title, they and their successors forever hereafter, shall and may have succession, and by that name and title, shall and may be persons in law capable of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all courts and places whatsoever, in all manner of actions, suits, complaints, matters and causes whatever; and they and their successors by their said name, shall be forever hereafter capable in law to purchase, take, receive, hold and enjoy any estate, real or personal of whatever nature or kind whatsoever, to the use of said society and their successors; and all donations, gifts, grants, purchases, bequests, privileges and immunities whatsoever, which belong or appertain, or shall or may hereafter be given, granted, sold, conveyed, assigned, bequeathed or devised to, or confered upon the said society. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said society shall forever hereafter have the power and authority to hold such regular and extra meetings, to elect such officers, and to enact such by-laws and regulations as may be necessary for the government.

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and proper management of the said society, and the affairs thereof. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall be construed liberally and favourably for every beneficial purpose hereby intended; nor shall non uses of the privileges hereby granted, create or produce a forfeiture of the same. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT To incorporate the Axe and Firemen, of the city of St. Mary's. WHEREAS an association of an Axe and Fire Company has been established in said city, known by the name of The Fire and Axe Company: 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 John Stotesbury, principal director, and M. H. Hebbard, John Bachlott, J. Bachlott, Lewis Bachlott, Tho's C. Randolph, Daniel Mickler, Edward John Shearman, Harman Courter, William Proctor, Robert Ripley, Edward D. Courter, Izrael Geer, George Long, Charles H. Deshon, S. B. Fitzpatrick, Alexander Bachlott, Francis Randolph, W. H. Williams and Isaac Bailey, members, are appointed and their successors in office, shall have full power to make, alter, amend and change such by-laws as may be agreed on by the same: Provided, such by-laws be not repugnant to the laws of this state, or of the United States.

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2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have full power under the style and name before recited, to sue for and recover all such sum or sums of money as now are or that may hereafter become due, and owing to the said company, in any court of law having jurisdiction thereof, and the rights and privileges of said company to defend in any court or tribunal whatever to defend; and also to recover, take and apply any donation or bequest that may be made to and for the uses and purposes intended by the doner for the benefit and advantage of said association or company. 3. And be it further enacted, That the number of individuals in the above named incorporated body, shall not exceed (officers included) the number of twenty-five: Provided however, that nothing in this law shall be so construed as to entitle the said corporation to hold lands in its own name, or in the name of another to and for the use of said corporation. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT To make adequate compensation to Archibald Clark, collector of the port of St. Mary's, and the revenue officers under him, for the seizure of five African negroes. WHEREAS by an act passed on the 19th day of [Illegible Text] 1818, it was provided that for the encouragement of those who have used, or shall use their efforts to [Illegible Text] the traffic in Africans, by informing against and [Illegible Text] the slaves so imported, they shall on final [Illegible Text] of the same as forfeited to the state, receive

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one tenth of the amount of the nett proceeds of the sales of the same; and whereas five Africans seized by Archibald Clark, Esq. collector of the port of St. Mary's, and the officers under him were delivered on the 28th day of December, 1818, to the agent of the State of Georgia, and as no claim has been put in for the said Africans, nor any expected to be so, and consequently no condemnation can ensue: BE it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the sum of two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby awarded to the said Archibald Clark, Esq. and the revenue officers under him as a compensation to them for their services in seizing and informing against the said Africans; and that the Treasurer be hereby authorized to pay over the same into the hands of the said Archibald Clark, Esq. out of any monies now in the treasury not otherwise appropriated. 2. And be it further enacted, That said sum of two hundred dollars, shall be in full of all claims now, or which hereafter may be exhibited by said officers, for the seizure of the Africans herein before named. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, [Illegible Text] December, 1819. AN ACT To legalize certain deeds made by John Brown, President of the University of Georgia. WHEREAS by an act entitled an act to authorize the Trustees of the University of Georgia, to sell the lands

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belonging to the said University, and to systemize the funds belonging thereto, passed the sixteenth day of December 1815, the said Trustees did sell said lands in [Illegible Text] of said act, and by their then President John Brown, did make deeds to the respective purchasers, and whereas some doubts have arisen whether the said deeds are legally executed: BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the said deeds shall be taken, held and deemed to all intents and purposes as legal and valid, and admitted to evidence in any of the superior courts in this state, in their present form, and without any other documents to support them. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT To alter and amend an act entitled an act supplementary to, and more effectually to enforce an act entitled an act prescribing the mode of manumitting slaves in this state, to prevent the future migration of free persons of color thereto; to regulate such free persons of color as now reside therein, and for other purposes, passed the 19th December, 1818. WHEREAS by the fifth section in the above recited act, all free persons of color residing or being within this state at the time of the passing of said act, and continuing therein on the first day of March thereafter, were required under certain provisions and restrictions on the said

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first day of March, and annually on the first Monday in March thereafter, to make application to the clerk of the inferior court of the county in which they reside, and register themselves according to the provisions of said act; and whereas also, the sixth section in the before recited act provides, that all such free persons of color who should be found on the first Monday in May after the passage of said act, within the limits of this state, whose names had not been duly registered according to the provisions of said act, should be deemed, held and taken as slaves, and might be subject to arrest and sale under certain restrictions therein contained; and whereas further, many such free persons of color residing in this state, were unable to avail themselves of the provisions contained in said act, by reason of the said act not being sufficiently promulgated by the said first Monday in March last: 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 all free persons of color contemplated in the above recited act, who failed to comply with the provisions therein contained, shall be and they are hereby declared to be exonerated, released and discharged from all pains or forfeitures to which they were thereby subjected: Provided, they do on or before the first Monday in July next, and annually thereafter on the first Monday in July, comply with the provisions contained in said act: Provided, that this act shall not extend to any case where there has been an actual forfeiture and sale. 2. And be it further enacted, That all property held by any free persons of color, at the time of the passing of the above recited act, shall not be deemed or considered as forfeited; but that [Illegible Text] same shall remain in the owner, or in his or her descendants after his or her death. 3. And be it further enacted, That the 8th section of the act aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to real estate, except in the cities of Savannah, Augusta and Darien.

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4. And be it further enacted, That the above recited act shall not extend to, and operate upon free persons of color who are minors, and bound out according to law. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1819. AN ACT To add a part of the county of Appling, to the county of Telfair. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That from and after the passing of this act, all that part of the county of Appling known and distinguished in the plan of said county, by district No. 1, shall be, and the same is hereby declared to be a part of the county of Telfair. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 14th December, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the military officers of the county of Jackson, to consolidate the two regiments therein, and to lay off the battalions and company districts. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the senior colonel commandant in the county

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of Jackson, shall without delay proceed to convene the commissioned officers in said county, at the town of Jefferson in said county, by giving at least twenty days notice of the time and place at which such convention is to be held, by advertising the same at the said town of Jefferson, and at one or more of the most public places in each battalion, and it shall be the duty of the said commissioned officers or a majority of them when so convened, and they are hereby authorized to proceed to consolidate the two regiments in said county, and lay off the battalions not exceeding three, and to lay off the company districts, taking due care that the said districts shall not contain a less number of men capable of bearing arms, than is required by the militia law now in force. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 29th November, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the justices of the Inferior court of the county of Jasper, to levy an extra tax for the purpose of building a bridge across Murder Creek, at a place called Gammage's ford on said creek; and to authorize the inferior court of Greene county, 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 court of the county of Jasper, or any three of them, are hereby authorized to levy an extra tax on the inhabitants of said county, for such sum as they may deem necessary, not exceeding one third of the general tax, for the purposes above mentioned.

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2. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the inferior court of the county of Greene, shall be authorized to levy an extra tax of 25 per centum on the amount of the state tax, in addition to the amount they are authorized by law to levy for county purposes. 3. And be it further enacted, That when said tax is imposed, the tax-collectors of said counties for the time being, shall collect the same, and shall be bound to the inferior courts of said counties in a bond with ample security for the collection and paying over the amount so collected to the justices of the inferior courts of said counties, to be applied by them to the purposes above mentioned; and the collectors shall be allowed the usual per centum for collecting and paying over the same. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To prevent the introduction of passengers, who are aliens into the port of Savannah, during the months of July, August, September and October. WHEREAS it has been the practice of masters of vessels to bring numbers of passengers, natives of foreign countries into the port of Savannah, during the sickly months, thereby exposing to almost certain death individuals whose constitutions are but illy adapted to the insalubrious climate of that city, and thereby subjects the community to an onerous expense: BE it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That any master or commander of any ship or vessel arriving

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between the first of July and last day of October, inclusive, from a foreign country or from any other part of the United States, who shall enter his vessel at the custom house in the city of Savannah, shall within twenty-four hours after such entry, make a report in writing on oath to the Mayor of said city, of the age, name and occupation of every person, who shall have been brought as passenger in such ship or vessel on her last voyage, upon pain of forfeiting for every neglect or omission to make such report, the sum of seventy-five dollars, for every alien neglected to be so reported aforesaid. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Mayor, or in his sickness or absence, any person legally authorized to act in his place, to require every such master of such ship or vessel, to be bound with two sufficient sureties to the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, in such sums as the Mayor [Illegible Text] such person so legally authorized as aforesaid, may [Illegible Text] proper, not exceeding three hundred dollars for each passenger, to indemnify and save harmless, the said Mayor and Aldermen, and the commissioners of the poor-house and hospital, and their successor from all and every expense and charge which shall or may be incurred for the maintenance and support of any such person so introduced, and for the maintenance and support of the child or children of any such person which may be born after such importation, in case such person so imported, or any such child or children, shall at any time within six months after the said importation become chargeable to the said city, and if any such person so brought as aforesaid, and not being a citizen of the United States, shall be permitted or suffered to land within the said city from any such ship or vessel, before such bond shall have been given, and without a permission in writing from the said Mayor, or person so legally authorized as [Illegible Text] the master or commander of such ship or vessel shall [Illegible Text] subject to the penalty of three hundred dollars for every person so suffered or permitted to land as aforesaid. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person

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who may have been a passenger in any such ship or vessel, and not being a citizen of the United States, shall be suffered to land from such ship or vessel at any place within the distance of fifty miles from the said city, with intent to proceed to the said city, otherwise than in the said ship or vessel, the master or commander thereof shall be liable to the like penalty of three hundred dollars for every such person so suffered or permitted to land. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any householder in said city shall, knowingly, entertain in his house or family, any alien so landed as aforesaid, and shall not report such alien to the said Mayor, or in case of his sickeness or absence, any person legally authorised to officiate in his place, within the twenty-four hours after such entertainment commenced, he or she shall forfeit and pay the sum of fifty dollars for every such alien so entertained. 5. And be it further enacted, That all and singular the said penalties and forfeitures arising in said city, shall and may be sued for and recovered with full costs of suit by action of debt in the Superior Court of this state, in the name of the said Mayor and Aldermen, and when recovered by them shall be applied towards the support of the poor of the said city, and the defendant in every such suit shall be held to special bail, and upon every such trial for any penalty or forfeiture supposed to be incurred by the landing of any such persons as aforesaid within the said city, the same landing shall be presumed unless the defendant shall prove that the said person was taken or sent to some foreign country without having been suffered to land as aforesaid. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for the said Mayor and Aldermen to compound for the said penalties and forfeitures or any of them, either before or after suing for the same upon such terms as the circumstances of the defendant or of the case may in their judgment require. 7. And be it further enacted, That every ship or vessel from which such alien shall have been so landed

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without permission in writing from the said Mayor [Illegible Text] person so legally authorized as aforesaid in his place, shall be liable for the said penalties, and may be proceeded against by attachment or any other mode in similar cases allowed by law, unless the owner thereof or their agents shall give bond with sufficient sureties to the sheriff or his deputy in the name of the Mayor and Aldermen, for the payment of the said penalties and every of them which may have been incurred during or since the last voyage of the said ship or vessel, or for paying the value of such ship or vessel towards the satisfaction of such penalties as may have been so incurred by suffering any alien to land as aforesaid, and such value shall be ascertained by the wardens of the port of Savannah, or any two of them. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the corporation of Savannah to advertize this law in one or more Gazettes of all the sea-port towns in this state, for the information of all those who may be concerned, at least three months before this law shall go into effect. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1819. AN ACT To incorporate the Augusta Female Asylum. Whereas, a Society has been formed in the city of Augusta, for the education and maintenance of Female Orphans, and whereas it is desirable to encourage benevolent Societies of that nature: BE it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly

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met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Hannah Longstreet, Ann Cumming, Eliz. Reid, A. F. E. Slaughter, Kezia Arnold, Mary Murren, Mary Smelt, C. M. Cashin, F. Moore, Priscilla Sims, Mary C. Carmichael, Lucretia Moore, C. Watkins C. Beach Directresses of the Augusta Female Asylum, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby created a body corporate, to be known by the name and style of the Augusta Female Asylum, with full power and authority by that name to contract and be contracted with to sue and be sued or plead or be impleaded. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation, by its said corporate name, shall have full power and authority to acquire and hold estate, real and personal, by gift, grant, alienation, or devise, or in any other mode whatsoever, according to the laws of this state. 3. Be it furteer enacted, That all contracts, gifts, or grants heretofore made, with the Directresses of the Augusta Female Asylum, shall be deemed valid in law to enure to the benefit of said Augusta Female Asylum, as if the same had been made by the present corporate name. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT To appoint Commissioners for the Washington County Academy, and to make them a body corporate. 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 Skrine, Henry Crowell, Tilman Dixon, Morgan Brown, Frederick Cullens, John Irwin, James

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Kendrick, Nathaniel G. Rutherford and John Williams, be appointed Commissioners of Washington County Academy, and that they or their successors in office be declared a body corporate, to be known by the style and denomination of the Commissioners of the Academy of Washington County, and they shall have full power and authority under the style and name aforesaid, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law in this state, and to fill all vacancies which may happen in their bodyAnd they, or a majority of them are hereby vested with all power and privileges which may be most conducive to the benefit of said institution for the promotion of literature. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners or a majority of them, shall as soon as convenient, at or after their first meeting hereafter appoint some fit and proper person of their own body as a treasurer, who shall enter into bond with good and sufficient security in the sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful performance of the trust reposed in him, whose duty it shall be to collect and take care of the funds of said institution, and pay them out in such a manner as he may be required. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners shall in the first instance receive titles in fee simple for the tract or lot of land whereon the Academy shall be placed, before they shall proceed to any other contribution, for or towards the building of said Academy. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws, heretofore passed, contrary to this law, be and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 30th November, 1819.

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AN ACT Appropriating the fines and forfeitures arising from criminal prosecutions in the counties of Morgan, Greene and Wilkes, to the use and benefit of the Academies of said counties. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this act, that all fines and forfeitures arising from prosecutions on the criminal side of the courts of said counties, and also all other forfeitures arising from violations of the penal statutes of this state within said counties, be and the same are hereby vested in the commissioners of the Academies at the court-houses in said counties and directed to be paid over accordingly, to be applied to the use and benefit of said Academies: Provided, that from said fines and forfeitures be retained all costs arising in the prosecution and collection thereof. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To vest in Augustin Lewis, a legacy left him by his deceased father. WHEREAS, John Lewis, by his last will and testament, did convey to William Lewis, for the maintenance of Augustin Lewis, a certain portion of property, the said Augustin being at that time in a state of seperation from his familyAnd whereas, the said Augustin has again become reunited with his family and is desirous

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to receive his legacy, and William Lewis the trustee consenting thereto. Be it enacted by the Legislature 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 said legacy in and by the will aforesaid conveyed to William Lewis in trust, or for the maintenance of the said Augustin Lewis, be and the same is hereby vested in the said Augustin Lewis, his heirs and legal representatives. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 13th December, 1819. AN ACT To be entitled an act to divorce and separate William Whitfield and Jane Whitfield, his wife. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Georgia, in general assembly met, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the matrimonial contract entered into by and between the said William Whitfield and Jane Whitfield his wife shall be, and is hereby dissolved and set aside, in conformity to the constitution and laws of said state governing divorces. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. Assented to, 18th December, 1819. AN ACT To establish a certain ferry herein mentioned. 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 passing of this act, that the right of a public ferry, generally known by the name of Barksdale ferry, now upon the land of Henry Jones in Lincoln county, and from thence across the Savannah river to his land in Carolina, be and the same is hereby vested in the said Henry Jones, his heirs, executors, administrators or assigns, for and during the term of thirty years from the passing of this act. 2. And be it further enacted, That this right of public ferry shall be under the same rules and regulations that other ferries are upon the same river, and receive the same rates for ferriage as have been heretofore received at the said ferry. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT To provide for the taking and recording of the evidence given in on all trials for capital offences, and also in all other cases where the party convicted may be sentenced to confinement in the penitentiary for one or more years. BE it enacted by the Legislature of the state of Georgia, 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 Judges of the Superior Courts presiding in any of the cases aforesaid to take or cause to be taken down in writing a memorandum of the testimony of all witnesses who may testify in said cases, which said memorandum taken as aforesaid in the event of conviction

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and sentence of the party charged, shall be approved by the court, and ordered to be recorded. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of application for pardon or reprieve a certified copy of such evidence shall accompany such application. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT To incorporate the Sunbury Female Asylum. WHEREAS, by a petition from a number of ladies in the town of Sunbury, it is represented that they, together with their associates, have founded a society for the humane purpose of relieving, protecting and instructing orphan children of their own sex, and have prayed to be incorporated. Therefore be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Georgia in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That all such persons of the female sex as now are or shall hereafter become annual subscribers to the amount of three dollars per annum to the said association, shall be and are hereby constituted a body corporate and politic in fact and in name by the denomination of the Sunbury Female Asylum, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and be in law capable of suing and being sued, defending and being defended in all courts of law and places, and in all manner of actions and cases whatsoever, and may have a common seal, and change the same at their pleasure, and shall by that name and style be capable in law of purchasing, holding and conveying any estate real or personal for the use of said corporation.

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2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the estates and concerns of the said corporation shall be managed, directed and disposed of by a board of trustees to be composed of a first and second directress, a treasurer, secretary and seven trustees, to be elected by a plurality of ballots of the members resident in the county of Liberty, being annual subscribers as aforesaid and present at such elections yearly on such day and at such time as the board of trustees may from time to time appoint. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said board may from time to time make such bye-laws, ordinances and resolutions relative to the management and dispositions of the estate and concerns of said corporation and the regulation of the persons exercising the offices aforesaid, not contrary to law, and may appoint such other officers, agents and servants as they may deem necessary to transact the business of said corporation and designate their duties. 4. And be it further enacted, That all contracts, gifts or grants heretofore made with the directresses of the Sunbury Female Asylum, shall be deemed valid in law and inure to the benefit of said association as if the same had been made by the present corporate name. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT For the relief of John Ruis. WHEREAS, it appears from the petition of the said

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John Ruis and others, of the inhabitants of the county of Emanuel, that the said John Ruis unfortunately became security for the appearance of one Henry Turner, before the Superior Court of the county of Emanuel, for which he gave his bond to the amount of one thousand dollars; and notwithstanding the said Henry Turner and his prosecutor came to an understanding, and neither of the parties attended court, and the warrant was returned to the attorney-general, therefore judgment was entered against the said John Ruis for the amount of his bond. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That the said John Ruis is hereby fully and completely exonerated and discharged from said judgment on his bond, on payment of all costs incurred by the courts giving said judgmentany law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT To alter and change the names of certain 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 aforesaid, That the name of James Harp M'Cullens of the county of Laurens be and the same is hereby altered and changed to that of James Harp. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid That the name of Andrew Jackson Culpeper of the county aforesaid, the reputed child of Ransom E. Deen, [Illegible Text]

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[Illegible Text] the same is hereby altered and changed to that of Andrew Jackson Deen. 2. And be it further enacted, That the name of Nancy Robson of Wayne county be changed from that of Nancy Robson to that of Nancy Dredding. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That the name of Jesse Bird of Wayne county be [Illegible Text] to that of Jesse Davis. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 14th December, 1819. AN ACT To authorise the Inferior court of Wilkinson county to transcribe the records of that county in bound books and to confirm the same in the Courts of Record. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, That the justices of the Inferior Court for the county of Wilkinson, or a majority of them be and they are hereby authorized and empowered to cause to be fairly transcribed into bound books the whole or any part of the records of said county. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the officers of said court or any person having charge of any of the records of said county to deliver them up to the court, and the said court or a majority of them are hereby required to appoint a fit and proper person or persons to transcribe the records aforesaid and take bond with good and sufficient security for the faithful execution of the duties aforesaid, who shall also take and subscribe an [Illegible Text] to that effect.

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3. And be it further enacted, That after the manuscript copy shall be finished, the Inferior Court shall appoint two fit and proper persons to compare and correct the manuscript copy, and when corrected as aforesaid the copy and original shall be received by the aforesaid court and deposited in the offices to which they respectively belong. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said duplicate records shall be considered by the officers of court as original records, and shall be received as such in all or any court of record, nor shall they or any of them be barred in evidence by the courts of record throughout this state, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said court shall be and they are hereby authorised to defray the expenses of transcribing the said records out of the county funds. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 30th November, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the Inferior Court of Hancock county to levy an extra tax for building a jail, and for other 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 from and immediately after the passing of this act, the justices of the Inferior Court of Hancock county, or any three or more of them, are hereby authorized to levy from year to year (as they in their judgment may deem needful) an extra tax on the inhabitants of said county, not exceeding in any one year, one half of the state tax,

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as charged in the receive's book: And the said justices shall be authorized to collect the said extra tax as levied, and the same, when collected; they shall apply to the building a jail and other county purposes. 2. And be it further enacted, That the tax-collector of said county of Hancock, shall, so soon as the justices of the Inferior Court of said county shall so direct them, give bond and approved security to said justices and their successors, for the collecting of said extra tax, and shall immediately proceed thereto; and the same, when so collected, shall pay over to the justices of the Inferior Court of said county, and the said tax-collector shall be allowed the usual commissions and fees for collecting the said tax. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT For the relief of Betsey Stewart of Jasper county, (Capt. Abner Bartlet's district,) and Lydia Williamson of 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 the said Betsey Stewart shall be entitled to two draws in the Land Lottery, and that the Executive of this state shall cause her name so to be enrolled upon the book of names, returned to that office from the district aforesaid. 2. And be it further enacted, That any land which may be drawn by the said Betsey Stewart, be, and the same is hereby secured to the said Betsey and her two

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daughters Louis and Mary, to be sold or otherwise disposed of by the said Betsey Stewart, for the benefit of herself and her daughters aforesaid, free from any control that the husband of the said Betsey Stewart may, at any time, attempt to exercise in regard thereto. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Executive of this state shall cause the name of Lydia Williamson of the county of Emanuel, to be enrolled upon the book of names returned to the executive office from the county of Emanuel, for two draws in said Land Lottery. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1819. AN ACT To cede jurisdiction over five acres of land on [Illegible Text] Island, or part thereof across the creek at the west end of said Island, for the purpose of erecting a Light-House or Beacons. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly [Illegible Text] and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That from and after the passing of this act, the jurisdiction to and over five acres of land on Wolf Island, in the county of M'Intosh, for the purpose of erecting a Light-House or Beacons be, and the jurisdiction thereof is hereby ceded to the United States of America: Provided [Illegible Text] United States has or shall erect a Light-House or Beacons on the same. 2. And be it further enacted, That the United States of America may take a part of the said five acres of land across the creek at the west end of Wolf Island, in the

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same manner and on the same terms prescribed above for Wolf Island. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 14th December, 1819. AN ACT To amend an act, to render navigable that part of the Oconne river, situated between the mouth of Fishing creek in Baldwin county and Hudson's Ford, at or near Barnett's shoal in the county of Clarke, passed in the year 1818. WHEREAS, Messrs. Reid and Terrell are authorized by an act of the Legislature to render navigable the Oconee river from the mouth of Fishing creek to Barnett's shoal, and as experience has pointed out some imperfections in said act: BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assemly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, any person or persons who may throw any obstruction to the passage of boats in the channel of the Oconee river made by Messrs. Terrell and Reid, or in any part of said river, necessary to the passage of boats, shall pay a fine of two hundred dollars to such person as will give information of the same and prosecute the case to conviction before any tribunal of the state, having cognizance of such cases. 2. And be it further enacted, That any person who shall fall any tree of one foot or more in diameter into the Oconee river, between the mouth of Fishing creek and Garner's Ferry, or as far on said river as the navigation may have been rendered practicable by said undertakers,

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shall, for every such offence, pay the sum of twenty dollars, to be levied, collected, and disposed of as in the last section. 8. And be it further enacted, That the said undertakers are authorized to carry their channel of navigation through any part of the river that may appear to them most practicable; and the owners of mills who may have erected their dams across the course of such channel, shall, in every case, be bound to erect a lock of sufficient size to admit of the passage of such boats as are used in the transportation of produce on the section of the river on which such mill may be erected. The lock to be so erected to be placed in a proper situation under the direction of the undertakers, and liable to the same mode of inspection as other parts of the river. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Tomlinson Fort, Hines Holt, Henry Branham, Warren Jourdan, James Ware, Peter J. Williams, George Heard and Robert Rea, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners in addition to those heretofore appointed by the before recited act, with power to appoint a chairman and convene the said commissioners by public advertisement, and that any three of said number shall be sufficient to form a board for inspecting the work agreeable to the provisions of the before recited act. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1819. AN ACT To convey to the commissioners of Milledgeville the square of said town, known as a reserve for public uses. 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 passage of this act the square of Milledgeville, known as a reserve for public uses, and now used as a public burying ground, shall be and it is hereby conveyed to the commissioners of the town of Milledgeville, their successors in office, or other legal representatives of the corporation of said town. The said square to be held by them as a place of public interment and so disposed of by them as to be rendered convenient for this purposeAnd the above named commissioners are hereby invested with full power and authority to carry this law into effect, according to the spirit and meaning thereof. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be nothing in this act so construed as to authorize the corporation or intendant of Milledgeville to sell any part or parts thereofand that it shall be known as the public burial ground, and the rents of any part thereof which may not be employed as above stated, shall be applied to repairs of said burial ground. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1819. AN ACT To regulate the admission of evidence in certain cases, in the several courts of law and equity in this state, and to provide for the recording of conveyances of personal property. 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 all laws and resolutions, as published by authority, shall be held, deemed and considered public laws and resolutions, and the several courts of law and equity of this state, shall take notice thereof as such, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the certificate or attestation of any public officer, either of the state, or of any county thereof, shall give sufficient validity or authenticity to any copy or transcript of any record, document or paper of file in the respective offices under their control, management or to which they may be lawfully attached, to admit the same as evidence, before any court of law or equity of this state: Provided nevertheless, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent any of the judges of the superior or inferior courts to require the original, or that it be accounted for. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all conveyances of personal property duly executed and bearing date after the passage of this act, may be recorded, and shall be admitted as evidence, under the same rules and regulations as govern in cases of real property. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To alter and define the line dividing the counties of Jackson and Gwinnett and to alter the line dividing the county of Gwinnett and the county of Hall. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly

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met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the line dividing the counties of Jackson and [Illegible Text], commencing at the point where the line dividing the [Illegible Text] of Walton and Gwinnett strikes the Hog mountain road, and thence along the road which passes Thompson's mill, shall extend from said mill along an old road to Langston's mill on the Mulberry fork of the Oconee river, thence up said fork to where the line dividing the counties of Hall and Gwinnett crosses the same, [Illegible Text] and the same is hereby declared to be the line dividing the counties of Jackson and Gwinnett. 2. And be it further enacted, That the line dividing the counties of Hall and Gwinnett, shall commence at the mouth of Shoal creek, thence by a direct line to a point three and three fourth miles north east of a stake the present corner of Hall and Gwinnett counties, on the Chatahoochee ridge, and on the line running from thence [Illegible Text] William Clements, thence along said line to the [Illegible Text] fork of the Oconee river. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the inferior courts of Hall and Gwinnett counties, [Illegible Text] employ a fit and proper person to run said line, and the expenses to be equally paid out of the county funds by said counties. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws [Illegible Text] against this law, be and the same are hereby [Illegible Text]. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 29th November, 1819. AN ACT To organize the counties of Early, Irwin and Appling. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

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of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly [Illegible Text] and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same That it shall be the duty of any three or more of the commissioners herein after named, not being themselves candidates, in each of the counties aforesaid, to advertise and superintend an election for five justices of the inferior courts for each of the aforesaid counties, giving [Illegible Text] least fifteen days notice when said elections shall be held at the places pointed out by this act for holding the Superior courts in said counties, until a permanent place [Illegible Text] fixed on, and the said commissioners shall certify from under their hands to his excellency the Governor the five persons having the highest number of votes, who shall be commissioned by the Governor, and hold their offices until the next general election for justices of the inferior courts throughout this state, unless their offices shall sooner become vacant by the laws of this state; and that the following persons be and they are hereby appointed commissioners for superintending said elections in the counties aforesaid, to-wit: for the county of Early, Alexander Watson, Robert Jackson, John Brockman, Richard Grimsley, John M'Rae, Alsey Harris, Thomas Harvey Hartwell Tarver, Thomas Carter and Isaac Ledbetter for the county of Irwin, John Lutton, jun. John Lutton [Illegible Text]. Joshua Calloway, Willis King, Samuel Boyd, [Illegible Text] Mobley, David Williams, Redding Hunter, Burrell Bailey and Greene Graham; and for the county of Appling John Johnson, William Tomlinson, Frederick [Illegible Text] Philemon Bryant, Joseph Dayal, Eli Bassett, John Austin, Joseph Jenkins, Jesse Measles and Richard [Illegible Text] 2. And be it further enacted, That the justices [Illegible Text] the inferior courts of the counties aforesaid, when commissioned as aforesaid, are hereby appointed commissioners of the court-houses and jails of their [Illegible Text] counties, and they are hereby vested with full power [Illegible Text] authority to fix on the site for the public buildings in [Illegible Text] said counties, which shall be as near the centre [Illegible Text] as convenience will admit, at which places the courts and general elections shall be held as soon as suitable buildings

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are erectedand they, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to purchase as much land as they may deem sufficient to erect said buildings: Provided nevertheless, they shall not purchase more than one lot for the use of any one county, and they are hereby authorized to lay off any portion of said land, purchased as aforesaid, in town lots, and dispose of the same for the use of the county, and to contract with any person or persons for building a court-house and jail in the aforesaid counties. 3. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the justices of the inferior courts of the counties aforesaid shall lay off the military districts in their respective counties, agreeable to the provisions of this act, they or any two of them, shall advertise and superintend an election in each captain's district, for two justices of the peace, in each captain's district, giving fifteen days notice thereof, who shall be commissioned by the Governor and remain in office until the next general election for justices of the peace throughout this state, unless their offices shall sooner become vacant by the laws of this state. 4. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the inferior courts of the counties aforesaid, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and required to advertize at least fifteen days, at three or more public places in the county, and hold elections in the counties aforesaid respectively, for clerks of the Superior and Inferior courts, sheriffs, coroners, tax-collectors, receivers of returns of taxable property and county surveyors, which said elections shall be held at the places hereinafter named, until the commissioners aforesaid fix permanently on the site of the public buildings respectively. 5. And be it further enacted, Until suitable courthouses are erected, the Superior and Inferior courts for the county of Early, shall be held at Richard Grimsley's in the 28th district, in the county of Irwin at David Williams', and in the county of Appling at John Johnson's.

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6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of his excellency the Governor to commission all officers, civil and military, in the counties aforesaid, who may be hereafter elected, agreeable to the provisions of this act. 7. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the justices of the inferior courts in the counties aforesaid, are commissioned and qualified, they shall proceed to [Illegible Text] grand and petit jurors for said counties respectively, agreeable to the laws now in force in this state, regulating the drawing of jurors. 8. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the inferior courts of the counties aforesaid, shall have full power and authority to lay off the said counties respectively, into as many captain's districts as they, in their discretion may think proper, and whenever said districts shall be so laid off and defined, and the justices of the peace are elected and commissioned agreeably to the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of said justices of the peace so as aforesaid elected and commissioned in their respective districts, to advertize the elections of captains and subaltern officers, as required by the militia laws in force in this state, and the said elections to be superintended and certified agreeable to the provisions of said laws. 9. And be it further enacted, That whenever the officers in each captain's district in said counties, are elected and commissioned agreeable to the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the justices of the inferior courts of the counties aforesaid to advertize the elections of the field officers of each county, giving 20 days notice, and it shall be the duty of the justices of the peace or any two of them in said counties to superintend said elections and certify the same as required by the militia laws in force in this state. 10. And be it further enacted, That whenever the

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militia of the aforesaid counties are organized agreeable to the provisions of this act, they shall be attached to the fifth division and the second brigade of said division. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To compensate the collector of Brunswick, for his [Illegible Text] in seizing and delivering up to the state, certain Africans illegally introduced. WHEREAS, certain Africans illegally introduced into this state, were by the exertions of the collector of Brunswick, seized and delivered up to the state; and have been sold for the benefit of the same: 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 his excellency the Governor shall be, and he is hereby authorised to pay to the said collector of Brunswick, out of the contingent fund, ten per centum on the amount of the proceeds of the sales of the said Africans. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws repugnant to the same, be and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819.

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AN ACT Amendatory of the laws regulating the Internal Police of the Penitentiary: 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, that the guard for the Penitentiary shall be employed by the Board of Inspectors at such pay and of such number as may in their opinion be most conducive to the interest of the Institution and State, and the guards thus employed, shall be subject to the rules and regulations governing the militia of this state, when in service. 2. And be it further enacted, That the principal keeper shall have a general superintending power over the Institution, and shall be responsible for the conduct of all officers and superintendants under his command. 3. And be it further enacted, That the guard, the underkeepers, and all other persons attached to the Institution (the Board of Inspectors excepted) shall be subject to the orders of the principal keeper, who shall have power of arresting, and with the consent of the governor of discharging and of appointing all officers and superintendants under his command. And in all cases, should the Governor believe the crime which the officer thus arrested is charged, merits a higher degree of punishment than bare dismissal, he shall order a board, consisting of two of the Board of Inspectors, and the attending Physician to convene at the Penitentiary building for his or their trial, and this board shall have power to punish the offender by fine or imprisonment, at their discretion. 4. And be it further enacted, That the principal keeper shall, on the order of the physician, furnish such articles of diet as he may direct for the use of the sick. 5. And be it further enacted, That the rations of the convicts shall, from and after the passing of this act, consist of, if bacon, eight ouncesif of pork, twelve ouncesif of beef, sixteen ouncesthe bread and other rations

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to be as they have hitherto beenand no provisions or fruit other than the lawful ration shall be admitted into the Penitentiary for the use of the convicts, except by the particular direction of the physician for the use of the sick. 6. And be it further enacted, That a Physician for the institution shall be appointed by the Governor and Board of Inspectors, and shall receive a salary of five hundred dollars per annum. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Physician to visit the convicts and guards every day before nine o'clock A. M. to inspect once in every week, the Institution generally, and report all delciences and delinquencies, so far as belongs to his department weekly to the visiting inspectors. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the Justices of the Inferior Court of Oglethorpe county to levy an extra tax, for the purpose of building a Court-House 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 Justices of the Inferior court of the county of Oglethorpe, are hereby authorized to levy an extra tax on the inhabitants of said county, in the year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, not exceeding seventy-five per cent. on the general tax of the preceding year. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when said tax is imposed as above pointed

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out, the tax-collector of said county, for the time being, shall, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect the same, and the said collector shall be bound to the Inferior court of said county for the collection and paying over the amount so collected to the justices of the Inferior court of said county, to be appropriated by them for the purpose of building a court-house in said county; and the tax-collector shall be allowed two and a half per cent. for collecting and paying over the same. Provided, the said tax so collected, be paid over on or before the third Monday in June next. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 30th November, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the Justices of the Inferior court of Morgan county to levy and collect an extra tax on said county for the purpose of building a jail. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the Inferior court of Morgan county or a majority of them shall be and they are hereby authorized to levy a tax on said county, not exceeding twenty-five per cent. on the amount of the general tax, in addition to any tax that they are now authorized to levy for county purposes. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said court shall be, and they are hereby authorized to levy the aforesaid tax for the space of two years, if in their judgment it should be necessary.

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3. And be it further enacted, That the said tax shall be collected by the tax-collector of said county for the time being, who shall receive two and a half per centum on the amount for so collecting. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Inferior court shall be, and they are hereby authorized to take of the said tax-collector the necessary bond, requiring him to collect and pay over to the clerk of the Inferior court [Illegible Text] amount of taxes so levied and to be collected. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the justices of the Inferior court of Wilkes county to levy an extra tax for the purpose of completing the court-house and jail 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 immediately after the passing of this act the justices of the inferior court of Wilkes county, or a majority of them are hereby authorized, and the same shall be lawful for them to levy an extra tax on the inhabitants of said county, which shall not exceed fifty per cent. on the amount of the state tax now imposed, which [Illegible Text] extra tax shall by said justices or a majority of them, be imposed yearly until a sufficient sum shall be raised [Illegible Text] defray the expenses of building said court-house and [Illegible Text]. 2. And be it further enacted, That when said tax shall be imposed as above pointed out, the tax-collectors

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of the county of Wilkes for the time being, shall and they are hereby authorized and empowered to collect the same, and the said collectors shall be bound to the inferior court of said county in a bond with ample security, for the collection and immediately paying over the amount so collected, to the clerk of the inferior court of said county, to be paid by said court to the undertakers of the court-house and jail, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to discharge their just demands against said county, and the balance, if any, shall be appropriated to county purposes. 3. And be it further enacted. That the tax-collector of said county, shall receive for his services, the usual per centum, on the sums by him so collected and paid over. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 29th December, 1819. AN ACT To incorporate the village of Riceborough, in the county of Liberty, and for the appointment of commissioners for the better regulation and government of said village. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, [Illegible Text] it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, [Illegible Text] William Roberts, William Baker, James E. Hines, [Illegible Text] Mell, jun. and E. S. Kempton, be commissioners [Illegible Text] said village, and they or their successors in office, or a [Illegible Text] of them, shall have full power and authority to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] bye-laws and regulations which may be necessary, [Illegible Text] inflict or impose such fines, penalties and forfeitures, and [Illegible Text] such other incorporate acts, as in their judgment shall be [Illegible Text] to the good order and

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government of the said village, and for the prevention of [Illegible Text] and other immoralities: Provided, such bye-laws [Illegible Text] regulations, be not repugnant to the constitutional laws of this state. 2. And be it further enacted, That the [Illegible Text] shall hold their respective appointments hereby [Illegible Text] them, until the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and twenty-two, at which time, and on every [Illegible Text] year thereafter, the citizens of the village of Riceborough, entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall choose by ballot, five persons to succeed them as commissioners, at which election, two justices of the peace or two justices of the inferior court of said county, shall preside as judges of said election: Provided always, that nothing herein contained, shall be so [Illegible Text] as to prevent the present named commissioners, or their successors in office, from being eligible to serve if [Illegible Text]and in case any vacancy shall be occasioned [Illegible Text] death, resignation or otherwise, the vacancy shall be [Illegible Text] by election, ten days previous notice being given in [Illegible Text], by two or more of the commissioners, at one or more of the most public places in said village. 3. And be it further enacted, That the powers [Illegible Text] to this incorporation, shall not exceed or extend [Illegible Text] the limits of the said village, and the lands [Illegible Text] thereto. 4. And be it further enacted, That any laws [Illegible Text] against this act, be, and the same are hereby [Illegible Text]. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to. 21st December, 1819.

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AN ACT More effectually to provide for the collection of the [Illegible Text] arising from the sales of escheated property within this state, and to apply the same to literary purposes. WHEREAS the provision beretofore made for the collection of the funds arising from the sale of escheated property, has been found inadequate and unproductive. 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, it shall be the duty of the Attorney and [Illegible Text] general, at the first term of the Superior courtin every year, in each and every county in this state, by rule [Illegible Text] order of the said Superior court, to require the [Illegible Text] in the said counties respectively, to pay into the hands of the said Attorney or Solicitors General for the purposes herein mentioned, all such sum or sums of money as may be in the hands of the [Illegible Text] under the several escheated laws of this state; and in case of a default or refusal by any such escheator, the Superior courts aforesaid shall have power to punish such escheater in the same manner as if such escheater was a defaulting officer of such court. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That it shall be the duty of the Attorney or Solicitors General, immediately upon the receipt of any sum or sums of money, under and by virtue of this act, to pay the same into the treasury of this state, where the same shall constitute a fund to be disposed of, and distributed in the manner herein provided. 3. And be it further enacted, That all such sum or sums of money as may arise under the several laws of this state, upon the subject of escheats, shall be distributed among the several county academies of this state, which have not received the amount of one thousand pounds as contemplated by the act of 1792, making provision for the county academies in such proportions [Illegible Text] may yet be due.

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4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed, except so far as relates to the county of Chatham, where the said funds shall be applied as [Illegible Text]. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To relieve certain persons who are in default as change bill issuers herein mentioned, from the penalties incurred by the acts of eighteen hundred and sixteen and eighteen hundred and seventeen. 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 Mark Donald Clark, who petitions for self and Matheson to be relieved from the penalty imposed upon them as change bill issuers in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen, and as defaulters in the year of eighteen hundred and seventeenthat from and after the passing of this act, the said Mark Donald Clark and Matheson are fully exonerated, released and discharged from the fine or fines which they have incurred under either or both of the acts as above mentioned, upon the payment of twenty per centum upon the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, with eight per centum interest on the same from the time of first incurring such penalty or penalties. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That all the property which has or may now be seized, or that has become subject by execution or otherwise, under the laws of eighteen hundred and sixteen and

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eighteen hundred and seventeen, belonging to the said Clark and Matheson, shall be restored to them upon the payment of all costs which have accrued, and the receipt of the Treasurer of this State, or of the tax-collector in such county, where they have become subject as defaulters, being produced to the officer having such property in possession: any law or resolution to the contrary notwithstanding, be, and the same are hereby repealed, with respect to the persons herein mentioned. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT To keep open that part of Broad-river, commonly called the Middle river, running between Coleman and Anthony'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 passing of this act, all that part of Broad-river, commonly called the Middle river, running between Coleman and Anthony's Mills, shall, before and after its junction with either of the rivers on which the said mills are erected, be, and is hereby declared to be, a free passage for fish, boats, or rafts; and to be clear of all and every obstruction whatever, to the final junction of all its parts with the main river aforesaid. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and every person or persons whatever, obstructing or causing the same to be obstructed, shall be subject to the fines and forfeitures imposed in the 14th section of an act, passed on

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the 8th of December, 1815, to authorize Shailer Hilyer to build a mill dam across Broad-river, at Muckle's Ferry Shoals, and for other purposes. 3. And be it further enacted, That Ruphes Christian, of Elbert county, is hereby appointed a commissioner on said Broad-river, in lieu of William Redwine, refusing to act. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1819. AN ACT To legitimatize Bramleigh Bedgood, and to change her name to that of Martha Bramleigh Wynne. 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 Bramleigh Bedgood, an illegitimate child of Mary Bedgood and R. W. W. Wynne, be, and she is hereby made and declared legitimate, so far as to entitle her to all the rights and privileges which she would have had, had she been born in lawful wedlock, and that she be put upon the same footing in every respect, as any other child or children which the said R. W. W. Wynne, may now or at any future time have. 2. And be it further enacted, That the name of Bramleigh Bedgood, be, and the same is hereby declared to be changed to that of Martha Bramleigh Wynne. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819.

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AN ACT To alter and amend an act entitled an act to alter so much of an act entitled an act to regulate the general elections in this state, and to appoint the time of the meeting of the general assembly, so far as requires all general elections to be held at the place of holding the Superior courts, passed the 18th December, 1816And to repeal an act to alter and amend an act entitled an act to alter so much of an act entitled an act to regulate the general elections in this state, and appoint the time of the meeting of the general assembly, so far as the same requires all general elections to be held at the place of holding the Superior courts, passed 27th November 1817. 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 above recited acts, as requires the general elections to be held at each of the battalion muster grounds in the county of Jackson, be, and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 29th November, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the justices of the inferior court of Glynn county to levy an extra tax for the purpose of building a jail 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,

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That immediately after the passing of this act, the [Illegible Text] of the inferior court of Glynn county are hereby authorized to levy an extra tax upon all the taxable property of said county, for the purpose of building a jail in said countythe tax so levied shall not exceed one fourth of the general tax of said county; and the tax collector of said county shall be allowed two and a half per cent. for collecting the said tax, and paying it over to the justices of the inferior court, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 13th December, 1819. AN ACT To remove the Academy in Camden county, from St. Mary's to the town of Jefferson. 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 commissioners of the Academy in said county, or a majority of them, should they deem it expedient, be fully empowered and authorised to remove the same from St. Mary's to the town of Jefferson. 2. And be it further enacted, That such part of the funds of said Academy, already invested in Bank Stock, be in no wise resorted to by the commissioners, but that all expenses incurred, shall be paid out of the interest arising from said stock, and from any other funds belonging to said Academy; and also, that two commissioners be, and the same are hereby added to the original number, and that Daniel Tomkins and Joseph Thomas, be appointed those commissioners.

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3. And be it further enacted, That any law or laws heretofore enacted, so far as they militate against this [Illegible Text] be, and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT To repeal the fourth and tenth sections of an act, passed the 19th December, 1818, organizing the counties of Walton, Gwinnett, Hall and Habersham, and to authorize the Justices of the Inferior courts of the counties of Walton, Gwinnett, and Habersham, to appoint temporary places of holding courts and elections in said counties. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly [Illegible Text], and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That the fourth and tenth sections of an act, passed the nineteenth of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, organizing the counties of Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, and Habersham, be, and the same are hereby repealed, as fully and effectually as though the same had never been passed, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the justices of the Inferior courts or their successors in office, or a majority of them, in the [Illegible Text] of Watton, Gwinnett, and Habersham, be, and they [Illegible Text] hereby authorized to appoint some fit and proper place as near the centre of their respective counties as may be practicable, and have erected such temporary buildings as they may think suitable for the purposes of [Illegible Text]

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[Illegible Text] and elections in, and pay for the same out of the county funds. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when said justices shall make such appointments, it shall be lawful that all suits and recognizances, [Illegible Text] made returnable to the same, and that the sheriffs [Illegible Text] their deputies in the above recited counties, shall [Illegible Text] all jurors and witnesses who may be [Illegible Text] to attend the courts in said counties, at the place so appointed in term time. 4. And be it further enacted, That all elections for members to congress and members of the general assembly, justices of the inferior courts, and all county officers shall be held at and in the places so appointed. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall not be so construed as to authorize the before recited justices to make any of the places [Illegible Text] appointed permanent, until the land in said counties is drawn for, and the centre of each county properly [Illegible Text] and defined. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall repeal all laws or parts of laws militating against the same; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 14th December, 1819. AN ACT To appropriate monies for the political year eighteen hundred and twenty. 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 enacted by the authority of the same, That for the support of government for the political year one thousand eight hundred and twenty, the following sums of money be, they are hereby appropriated, viz. the salary of his excellency the Governor, shall be three thousand dollars per ann. Secretaries of the Governor, not exceeding three, one thousand dollars [Illegible Text] per ann. the Secretary of State, two hundred and fifty dollars; the Treasurer, fifteen hundred dollars; the Surveyor-General, five hundred dollars; the Comptroller-General, one thousand dollars; the Clerk of the House of Representatives, six hundred dollars; the Secretary of the Senate, six hundred dollars; the Judges of the Superior Courts, twenty-one hundred dollars each; the Attorney General and five Solicitors General, two hundred and twenty-five dollars each; which said several sums shall be, and they are hereby appropriated for their use, to be paid quarter yearly by warrant from the Governor on the Treasurer, out of any money, not specially appropriated. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the compensation of the Members of the Legislature, four dollars each per day, during their attendance, be appropriated, and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles, in coming to, and going from the seat of government; and 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 each for every twenty miles in coming to, and going from the seat of government; to the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and Secretary of the Senate, during the sitting of the Legislature, six dollars each per day, and the sum of sixty dollars for contingent expenses each; to the two engrossing Clerks, and an Assistant Clerk in the House of Representatives, and two Engrossing Clerks in the Senate, six dollars each per day; to the Clerk of the committee on Finance and the Clerk of the committee on the state of the Republic, eighty dollars each; to the Messengers and Door-Keepers of the Legislature, four dollars

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each per day, during the session; to the Adjutant-General, eighteen hundred dollars, to be paid quarter yearly; to Alexander Greene, one hundred and twenty-five dollars, for airing, scouring and taking care of the State-House, desks and carpets, in the recess of the Legislature, and making fires on wet days; to Peter Fair, one hundred and twenty-five dollars, for winding up the Clock, keeping clean the stair cases, passages, c. 3. Be it further enacted, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated and set apart as a contingent fund, subject to the orders of the Governor. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Governor be, and he is hereby required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer, in favour of the executors of Col. Bedney Franklin, for the sum of five per centum on the amount actually collected and paid into the Treasury by said Col. Bedney Franklin, or by any other person for him, which shall be in full of his services as to the amount paid into the Treasury, and until a final settlement with the Treasurer of this state, on account of bonds received by the said deceased for collection. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, viz: to Abraham P. Jones, the sum of four hundred and sixty dollars, agreeably to a concurred resolution; to Thomas M. Bradford, thirteen hundred and seventy-five dollars, agreeably to a concurred resolution; and the sum of two hundred dollars to the honorable John M. Dooly, and fifty dollars to Duncan G. Campbell, in pursuance of a concurred resolution; also, the sum of two thousand dollars, for the purpose of erecting a Grammar school-house at Athens, in pursuance of a concurred resolution; to Caty Thrift, widow of Wm. Thrift, and her three children the sum of ten dollars each, agreeably to a concurred resolution; and that the sum of one hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to and for the use of Martha Lyon and her nine children, widow and orphans of John Lyon, late of Elbert county,

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deceased, agreeable to a concurred resolution of both branches of the General Assembly; to Messrs. Camak and Hines, seventy dollars for extra printing, agreeable to a concurred resolution; to Daniel Sturges, ten dollars for drawing the map of the late acquired territory, for the information of the land committee; to Joseph Cook, two hundred dollars, agreeable to a concurred resolution; and four thousand dollars to close the accounts of the building commissioners of the Penitentiary, it being a sum that has been heretofore appropriated, but drawn for other purposes; to A. Summers, jailor of Twiggs county, the sum of seventeen dollars sixty-two and a half cents, for apprehending and bringing to jail the body of Henry Goff, and attending the prosecution and imprisonment of said Goff; and a sufficient sum to provide for the necessary improvements and repairs on the house and lot owned by the state, and occupied by the Governor, to be drawn for by the Governor, out of the contingent fund, for that object; which said several sums, are appropriated out of any monies in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives, MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 20th December, 1819. AN ACT To amend an act, passed on the 19th December, 1818, amendatory of the several acts incorporating and regulating the town of Louisville. BE it [Illegible Text] 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 commissioners of the town of Louisville shall

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annually, on the third Monday in January, or at their first meeting thereafter, elect by ballot, one of their body to be chairman of the said board, which board shall be a body corporate, and known by the name and style of The Chairman and Commissioners of the town of Louisville. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event of the failure of the citizens to [Illegible Text] commissioners on the day pointed out by law, that then and in that case, the last acting commissioners shall continue in office, and the exercise of their duties until their successors are elected and qualified. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the first section of the said before recited act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT To incorporate the trustees of the Ocmulgee Academy in the county of Twiggs. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Georgia, in general assembly [Illegible Text], and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Benjamin Dupree, Edmund Dupree, William W. Williamson, Henry Bann, and Robert Glenn, 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 Ocmulgee Academy in the county of Twiggs, by which name and style they shall be capable in law of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded,

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and they and their successors in office are hereby authorized to use a common seal. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the trustees above named, and their successors in office, or a majority of them shall be, and they are hereby authorized to make such bye laws and regulations as are necessary to the government of an academy. Provided, such bye laws and regulations are not [Illegible Text] to the constitution and laws of this state; and that they shall be invested with all manner of property, both real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges and immunities whatsoever which may belong to the said institution at this time, or which may hereafter be made, 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 the said academy. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should any vacancy happen by death, resignation or otherwise, of any of the trustees of the said academy, the survivors or remaining trustees shall fill the same in such manner as shall be pointed out by the bye-laws of said institution. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT To repeal so much of the thirty-second section of an act to alter and amend the road laws of this state, so far as respects the county of Jefferson, passed on the 19th December, 1818. 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 from and immediately after the passing of this act, [Illegible Text] said thirty-second section of the before recited act be repealed, so far as relates to the county of Jefferson. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To amend an act passed the 12th December 1809, to regulate the town of Eatonton, in the county of Putnam. 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, if any commissioner or commissioners that may be elected agreeable to the above recited act, shall refuse to accept, or when any vacancy shall happen by death, resignation or otherwise, it shall be the duty of the justices of the inferior court of said county to order an election to fill such vacancy or vacancies by giving ten days notice, in three or more public places in said town, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819.

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AN ACT To raise a Tax for the support of government for the political year 1820. 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 the 19th day of December, 1817, entitled an act to raise a tax for the support of government for the political year 1818, except as relates to the tax on change bills, and bills issued by unchartered banks, which said change bills, and bills issued by unchartered banks, shall pay thirty one and a quarter cents for each hundred dollars, issued and in circulation; together with all acts and parts of acts which said act revives or continues, be and the same are hereby continued in force, for and during the political year eighteen hundred and twenty. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st November, 1819. AN ACT To make valid the proceedings of the commissioners of Jefferson, Camden county, and to repeal an act passed December 19th, 1818, relative to 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 an act passed on the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled an act to authorize the justices of the inferior court of Camden county to lay off such street or streets as they may think proper, in the town of Jefferson, agreeably to the plan of said

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own, for the health and prosperity of the same, be, and the same is hereby repealed. 2. And be it further enacted, That in future the management and entire control of the laying off streets, improving or repairing the same in the said town, be, and the same is hereby vested in the commissioners that now [Illegible Text] or hereafter may be in office, as commissioners of [Illegible Text] town. 3. And be it further enacted, That the proceedings [Illegible Text] and carried on by the former commissioners of said [Illegible Text], under an ordinance passed by them the thirty-first of January, eighteen hundred and nine, be, and the same [Illegible Text] hereby confirmed and made valid in law. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 30th November, 1819. AN ACT To legalize and make valid the returns for draws in the present contemplated Land Lottery, which have been received by the Inferior courts in this state. WHEREAS, under the act disposing of the territories lately acquired from the Creek and Cherokee nations of Indians, several of the inferior courts of the different counties in this state felt themselves authorized to receive the returns for draws in said lottery, in their own persons and did accordingly receive returns and make their returns to the Executive in terms of the said lawAnd whereas, some doubts have been entertained whether the said returns were according to the true intent and meaning of the said act, authorizing said lottery.

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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 all returns for draws in said lottery, which have been received by the members of any of the inferior courts in this state (instead of appointing other persons to receive them) and which have been returned to the Executive office of this state, shall be taken, held and considered as good and valid in law, as though they had been taken and returned by any person or [Illegible Text] (other than the inferior court) who might have been appointed by any inferior court, under the aforesaid [Illegible Text] for the aforesaid purposes, any law or construction of [Illegible Text] to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT To alter and amend an act to incorporate the [Illegible Text] Episcopal Society of Augusta and county of Richmond, and to authorize the Trustees of the Richmond Academy to convey a lot of land in the city of Augusta, to said Protestant Episcopal Society. 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, that Richard Tubman, John Carter, Samuel Hale, Valentine Walker, George Walton, Thomas Watkins, John A. Barnes, Edward F. Campbell, Augustin Slaughter, Freeman Walker, James C. Winter, L. C. Cantelou, [Illegible Text]

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Galphin, Patrick Carnes and John Course, at present known as trustees of the Protestant Episcopal Society in the city of Augusta and county of Richmond, and their successors in office, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Church Wardens and Vestrymen of the Episcopal Church in Augusta, called St. Paul's Church, and that John Carterand Augustin Slaughter as Church Wardens, and Richard Tubman, Samuel Hale, Valentine Walker, George Walton, Thomas Watkins, John A. Barnes, Edward F. Campbell, Freeman Walker, James C. Winter, L. C. Cantelou, Milledge Galphin, Patrick Carnes and John Course, as Vestrymen, shall be invested with all manner of property, both real and personal, all monies due, donations, gifts, grants, hereditaments, privileges and immunities whatever, which may belong to the said Church; all monies that have been granted for building a new Church, or which may hereafter be given, granted, conveyed or transferred for the completion of said Church in Augusta, or which may be transferred to them or to their successors in office, to have and to hold the same, for the proper use, benefit and [Illegible Text] of said Church: and the said Church Wardens and Vestrymen, and their successors in office, are hereby authorized to have and use a common seal, and they are hereby declared capable of suing and being sued, and of using all necessary legal steps for recovering and defending any property whatever, which the said Church may hold, claim or demand, and is herein secured or otherwise; and also with power to make all necessary rules and regulations, and to recover in their own name or otherwise, as well the said monies as other property, with all rents, issues and profits of the same, or of any lands, monies or other estate belonging thereto, or of any part thereof. 2. And be it further enacted. That the said Church Wardens and Vestrymen, shall hold their offices until Easter-Monday next, and on that day, and on every other Easter-Monday annually thereafter, the pew-holders, and all male persons who shall have joined the congregation,

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as members in full communion in St. Paul's Church, as aforesaid, shall convene at the Church aforesaid, and there, between the hours of ten and two o'clock, elect by ballot from and among the pew-holders and communicants of said Church, two discreet persons as Church Wardens, and eight other discreet persons as Vestrymen for the said Church, who shall be and are hereby declared to be vested with all powers to carry the purposes intended by this act, fully into effect. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing contained in this act shall be so construed as to prevent the alteration or repeal of the whole or any part of this act by a future General Assembly. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws conflicting with this act be, and they are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT For the relief of Catharine McMurphey, formerly Catharine Bransford, and daughter of James Bransford, of Clark 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 passing of this act, it shall be the duty of his excellency the Governor to cause to be entered on the list of persons entitled to draws returned by Ransom Nichols, and George Y. Farrar, Esquires, in major Newton's battalion, and county of Clark, the name of Catharine McMurphy, who shall

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be as justly and legally entitled to any land she may draw in the contemplated land lottery as if her name had been entered in the usual manner, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 29th November, 1819. AN ACT To amend an act entitled an act to amend and consolidate the several acts for the better regulation and government of the town of Milledgeville, passed the 9th December, 1818. WHEREAS doubts have arisen whether the expense of erecting and keeping in repair the several bridges over Fishing creek, within the corporate limits of Milledgeville should be paid by the said corporation or the county of Baldwin: And whereas the said corporation is entitled to receive certain profits arising from the rent of town commons, fisheries, c. creating a fund separate and apart from the county fund. It is but just and reasonable that the said corporation should keep the bridges in repair within the limits of the same without any expense attached to the county for the same. 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 from and after the passing of this act, it shall be the duty of the Intendant and commissioners of the town of Milledgeville to have erected or repaired, (when the same may be necessary) any bridge or bridges over any creek within the corporate limits of said town on the most faverable terms for said corporation, they may be able to

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contract, and the expense of erecting and keeping in repair the said bridge or bridges, shall be paid by said corporation; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws that militate against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To create the office of Topographical and Civil Engineer, in and for this state. WHEREAS the Legislature of this State hath frequently since the revolution passed more or fewer laws, and made greater or smaller appropriations for opening and improving the navigation of our numerous rivers, without producing thereby in any commensurate degree good or benefit to the citizens; 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 immediately after the passing of this act, it shall be and is hereby declared to be the duty of the Governor of this state to proceed to select, appoint and commission a fit and competent person for topographical and civil engineer of the state of Georgia; which officer, upon his being so appointed, and on his acceptance of such appointment shall forthwith enter upon the discharge of his duties, and shall continue in office until the tenth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty; at which time the Senate and House of Representatives

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shall proceed by joint ballot to elect a topographical and civil engineer of the state of Georgia, and the person elected shall be commissioned by the Governor, and hold his office for and during the term of three years, but may be removed therefrom by the Governor on the address of each branch of the general assembly. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said topographical and civil engineer shall have a competent salary provided and established by law, which said salary shall not be encreased or diminished during the period for which he shall have been appointed. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the duties of the said topographical and civil engineer shall consist in surveying the rivers of this state, and their important tributary streams; in exploring the obstructions of the same; reporting the best plans for removing them; suggesting the practicability and utility of internal improvement; in directing the application of such appropriations as the legislature may from time to time make for the purpose of internal improvement, and shall place under his direction; in rendering an annual report to the general assembly at its meeting in each year of his transactions in his department; and in such other duties as are usually imposed upon such officers, and as may be imposed upon him from time to time by law. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1819. AN ACT To amend an act to establish a ferry over the river Altamaha, at Fort Barrington. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives

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of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly [Illegible Text] and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the [Illegible Text] That from and after the first day of January next, [Illegible Text] proprietors of the said ferry shall receive for short [Illegible Text], for a man and horse, eighteen and three [Illegible Text]; for swimming cattle, four cents per head. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the before recited act, and all other acts so far as they [Illegible Text] against this actbe, and the same are hereby [Illegible Text] DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of [Illegible Text] MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the [Illegible Text] JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT For the relief of the City Council of Augusta, and other change bill issuers therein mentioned. BE it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the [Illegible Text] That the city council of Augusta be, and they are [Illegible Text] liberated and exonerated from all the pains and [Illegible Text] of an act passed 16th day of December, 1815, and [Illegible Text] amendatory acts to said act, laying a tax on [Illegible Text] change bills, any thing in the said acts to the [Illegible Text] notwithstanding. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Change company of Augusta, and [Illegible Text] Dickinson of said city, be, and they are hereby [Illegible Text] from the penalties of said before recited acts: [Illegible Text] they shall, on or before the first day of January [Illegible Text] make a statement on oath to the receiver of tax returns the county of Richmond in conformity to the law [Illegible Text]

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in 1818, and in ten days thereafter, pay to the tax-collector of said county, the tax as required by said law. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate JOHN CLARK, Governor Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT Making a donation to the Savannah Poor-House and Hospital. 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 five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby given, to the institution, known by the name of the Savannah Poor-House and Hospital, and that the Treasurer do, upon the application of the commissioners of the said institution, pay over the said sum out of any monies in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate JOHN CLARK, Governor Assented to, 22d December, 1819. AN ACT To alter and amend the 8th section of an act, passed the 12th day of December 1815, regulating roads in the county of Glynn. 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 [Illegible Text] That from and immediately after the passing of this [Illegible Text] the treasurer of the Academy of Glynn county, shall pay over all monies that have been placed in his [Illegible Text] for safe keeping, by the commissioners of the public road in the county of Glynn, or that may be hereafter [Illegible Text] in his hands by the said commissioners, to the orders [Illegible Text] the justices of the inferior court of said county, and [Illegible Text] all laws, militating against the provisions of this act, [Illegible Text] and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To secure to John Colby the right and privilege of running a line of stages from Madison in Morgan [Illegible Text] via Greenesborough to Powelton in Hancock county for the term of 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 [Illegible Text] That the said John Colby, his heirs, assigns or [Illegible Text] representatives, shall have the privilege of running a [Illegible Text] of stages for the conveyance of persons and their [Illegible Text] and for other purposes, between the said town of [Illegible Text] in Morgan county, via Greenesborough to [Illegible Text] in Hancock county, for the term of ten years. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person [Illegible Text] presume to run within the said term of ten years, [Illegible Text] stage, carriage or carriages for the aforesaid [Illegible Text] without the consent of the said John Colby, he shall [Illegible Text]

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and pay to the said John Colby, his heirs or assigns, double the amount charged for the conveyance of any person or persons so conveyed, to be recovered in any court having jurisdiction thereof. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said John Colby shall commence running the said line of stages on or before the first of August next, and shall not discontinue the same until two months public notice is given in some public paper within this state. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said John Colby shall run or cause to be run, between the places aforesaid, at least twice every week: Provided nevertheless, that if the said John Colby should not put in operation the said line of stage carriages, as before stated, the justices of the inferior court of Greene county shall have the power to authorize some other person to run the said line of stages, and this act shall be applied to him in as full a manner as it is to John Colby. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the justices of the inferior court of [Illegible Text] county to levy an extra tax, (if needed) for the purpose of assisting the poor, and defraying the public expenses 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 immediately after the passage of this act, the justices of the inferior court of Lincoln county, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized, and the same

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shall be lawful, to levy an extra tax which in their opinion may be necessary, on the inhabitants of said county, for the support of the poor, and defraying the public expenses in said county, not exceeding one fourth part of the state tax now imposed. 2. And be it further enacted, That when said tax is imposed as above pointed out, the tax-collector of said county, for the time being, shall, and he is hereby authorized and empowered to collect the same, and the said tax-collector shall be bound to the inferior court of said county in a bond with ample security for the collection and paying over the amount so collected, to the justices of the inferior court of said county, to be appropriated by them for the purposes above specified, and the said tax-collector shall be allowed the usual per centum for collecting and paying over the same. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT To appoint commissioners for the better regulating and government of the village of Mallorysville, and for incorporating 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, the following persons, viz. William Mallory, Benjamin Wootton, Simeon Fisk, Israel Kieth and Thomas Barnes, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners of the village Mallorysville in the county of Wilkes, and that they or majority of them, shall have the power to convene at any

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time after the passage of this act, and proceed to the appointment of a clerk and such other officers as they may deem necessary to carry this act into execution. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners shall hold their respective appointments hereby given them, until the second Monday in January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, at which time, and on every subsequent year thereafter, the citizens of the village of Mallory, entitled to vote for Members of the General Assembly, shall choose by ballot, five persons to succeed them as commissioners of said village, and they shall have, and they are hereby invested with full power and authority to make such bye-laws and regulations, and to inflict such pains, penalties and forfeitures, and do all other incorporate acts as in their judgment shall be most conducive to the good order and government of the said village of Mallory: Provided, that such bye-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the laws and constitution of this state: And provided also, that the punishment of slaves shall not extend to the affecting of life, limb or member. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said incorporation shall extend one half mile from the centre of the corporation each way, which centre is fixed on the Augusta road, where Mr. Mallory's and John W. Freeman's lands cross said road. 4. And be it further enacted, That any two or more justices of the peace for the county of Wilkes, are hereby authorized and required to preside at such election for commissioners as aforesaid, that nothing herein contained shallbe construed so as to prevent the re-election of any commissioner pursuant to this act. 5. And be it further enacted, That should there be no election held on the day pointed out by this act, for that cause, this act of incorporation shall not be void, but an election may be held, on any other day within three

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months, a justice of the peace first advertising in said village, ten days before said election. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT To alter and amend an act passed in December, [Illegible Text] to incorporate the town of Carnesville, in the county of Franklin, and to extend the limits 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 from and immediately after the passing of this act, there shall be five commissioners for the incorporation of the town of Carnesville, viz: Green Smith, Frederick Bell, Hensly M. Payne, Nathaniel Holley, and George Prickett, Esquires, who shall continue in office until January 1821, at which time, in that month, they shall elect five commissioners, either out of their own body, or any one else, and so on annually, for every year thereafter; they shall give ten days notice previous to such an election, and all male white persons entitled to vote for members of the Legislature, living in the district, shall be entitled to vote at such an election. Two justices of the peace living in said district may preside, and the said commissioners shall have full power and authority to make and ordain all such laws, rules and regulations as they may in their wisdom deem necessary, for keeping [Illegible Text] repair the public streets, and having all obstructions removed, and having the public spring kept in good order, Provided, that such laws are not repugnant to the laws

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of this state, and of the United States; they shall not inflict corporeal punishment on any white person, but may inflict corporeal punishment on people of color, but not to dismember or take life. The commissioners shall have full power to impose a tax on all show-men that may come into the corporation in order to make money, and shall have full power to extend the limits of said corporation six hundred yards every way from the court-house, and have the public streets designated, and all obstructions removed, and may impose a tax on the citizens of said incorporation, not to exceed more than one dollar for the term of one year; they may appoint a clerk or any other person to keep a record of all proceedings which they may adopt under the authority of this act; and that the commissioners of the said village of Carnesville be requested and authorized to have the plan of said town of Carnesville recorded in the clerk's office of the superior court of Franklin county. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws that militate against this act, be, and they are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the justices of the inferior courts of the counties of Gwinnett, Hall, Walton and Habersham, to levy an extra tax. 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

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Gwinnett, Hall, Walton and Habersham, are hereby authorized to levy an extra tax on the inhabitants of said counties, not exceeding fifty per cent. on the general tax of the preceding year. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when said tax is imposed as above pointed out, the tax-collectors of said counties, for the time being, shall, 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 for collecting and paying over the amounts so collected to the clerks of the inferior courts of said counties, to be appropriated by the said inferior courts for the purposes of defraying in part, the expense of building court-houses and jails in said counties; and the tax-collectors of said counties shall be allowed two and a half per cent. for collecting and paying over the same. Provided, the said tax so collected, be paid over on or before the first Monday in September annually, during the continuation of this act, which shall continue in force until the completion of said several buildings, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 30th November, 1819. AN ACT More effectually to define the line dividing the counties of Franklin and Habersham from Tugalo river, to Tate's Bridge on Broad river. 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,

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That from and after the passing of this act, that part of the line which divides the counties of Franklin and Habersham from Tugalo river to Tate's Bridge on Broad river, shall begin on Tugalo river at the mouth of Walton's creck, and run a direct line to the Bridge above named, which line shall be run under the superintendance of two justices of the peace, one from each county, in the adjoining districts, by a fit and proper person whom they may appoint, who shall run and plainly mark the same, and the expense for running said line shall be equally discharged out of the county funds, by the commissioners certifying that the person so appointed has run and marked the line as above contemplated. 2. And be it further enacted, That this law shall repeal all laws or parts of laws militating against the same, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To add a part of Elbert and Franklin counties to the county of Madison. 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, all that part of Elbert and Franklin counties which would be included by a line commencing on the north bank of the North Broad river, at the upper end of the Scull Shoal on said river and running a straight line to the dividing ridge between the two first forks of Shoal creek,

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so as to leave James Dudley's and David Staples's plantations or places of residence in the county of Elbert, thence up said dividing ridge to Elias Hendrick's so as to include said Hendrick's plantation, thence a [Illegible Text] line to William Brown's old place at the cross roads on the Franklin county line, thence to the mouth of Hudson's fork of said North Broad river, thence down said North Broad river, including William Redwine's plantation, to the place of beginning, shall be added to and become a part of the county of Madison. 2. And be it further enacted, That the county surveyor of the county of Madison, be, and he is hereby directed and required to run and plainly mark the lines herein contemplated, and that the said surveyor be paid for such service out of the county funds of Madison, by the inferior court, a reasonable compensation. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To authorize the judge of the superior courts of the southern circuit to hold an extra court in the county of Pulaski. 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 judge of the superior courts for the southern circuit be, and he is hereby authorized to hold an extra court on the third Monday in January next, in the county of Pulaski, and that all processes, recognizances and

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other matters, which were returnable to October term last, be, and the same are hereby made returnable to the said extra court; and all jurors who were summoned to attend the said October term, shall be compelled to attend the said extra court, they being respectively notified of the same, by the sheriff of said county, at least twenty days before the sitting of said court: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to legalize any acts or doings of the sheriff nominated by the justices of the inferior court of said county. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To divorce and separate Abner Glore and Nancy Glore, (formerly Nancy Swinney) his wife. 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, there shall be a divorce between Abner Glore and Nancy Glore (formerly Nancy Swinney) his wife, according to the laws of this state regulating divorces. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 13th December, 1819.

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AN ACT For the relief of Benjamin Cole and Exum Webb. 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 Wilkinson county shall be, and they are hereby authorized to release the said Benjamin Cole and Exum Webb from the penalties incurred, in consequence of their failing to produce the body of Ezekiel Cole, before the honorable the superior court of Wilkinson county, agreeable to the terms of their recognizance, entered into at October term, eighteen hundred and eighteen, on their paying all costs which shall have accrued on the same. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT Amendatory of the several laws now in force, extending the powers of the commissioners of the town of Greenesborough. WHEREAS, it has been found impracticable for the commissioners of said town of Greenesborough to preserve good order and government within the corporate limits thereof, for the want of more extensive and salutary powers, 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 the commissioners of said town, who are appointed.

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and who may be hereafter appointed by the provisions of former laws now in force, shall have full power and authority to make such bye-laws and regulations, and to inflict or impose such pains and penalties as shall be conducive to the good order and government of said town: Provided. that such bye-laws and regulations he not [Illegible Text] to the laws and constitution of this state or the United States. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the said commissioners or a majority of them, annually or oftener, if occasion may require, to make, lay or assess one or more rate or rates, assessment or assessments, upon all and every person or persons, who do or shall inhabit, hold, use or occupy, possess or enjoy, any lot, ground, house or place, building, tenement or hereditament, in any square, street or place, within the corporate limits of the town of Greenesborough, aforesaid, for raising such sum or sums of money, as the said commissioners or a majority of them, shall in their discretion judge necessary, for or towards carrying this act into execution, and in case of refusal or neglect to pay such rate or assessment, the same shall be levied and recovered in the manner herein [Illegible Text] directed: Provided, that no such rate or assessment shall be appropriated to the payment of the president or commissioners for their services, but they shall serve in their said appointments without fee or reward. 3. And be it further enacted, That all rates and assessments, pains, penalties, or forfeitures laid or incurred under this act, shall be levied and recovered by warrant of distress and sale of the offender's goods, under the hands and seals of the president, or a majority of the commissioners of said town of Greenesborough. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said President and commissioners, by their secretary, advertize twice a year in said town, an account of the expenditures of all monies which they shall receive by virtue of this act, for the information of the inhabitants of said town. 5. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners

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of said town, for the time being, and their successors in office, are hereby vested with the powers and authority of justices of the peace within the limits of said town of Greensborough, during the time that they act as commissioners. 6. And be it further enacted, That on all sales made by vendue masters within the corporation of the said town of Greensborough, such vendue master or masters shall pay over to the commissioners of the Greene county Academy, one per centum on the amount of such sales made by them for the use of said Academy. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this law be, and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 29th November, 1819. AN ACT To organize the county of Rabun. 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 any three or more of the commissioners, hereinafter named, not being themselves candidates in the county aforesaid, to advertise and superintend an election for five justices of the inferior court for the county aforesaid, giving at least fifteen days notice where said election shall be held, at the place pointed cut by this act, for holding the superior and inferior courts in said county until a permanent place is fixed; and the said commissioners shall certify from under their hands to his excellency the Governor, the five persons

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having the highest number of votes, who shall be commissioned by the Governor and hold their offices until the next general election for justices of the inferior courts throughout the state, unless their offices shall sooner become vacant by the laws of this state; and that the following persons be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for superintending said elections in the county aforesaid, viz: Cleveland Coffee, Joseph Jones, Chesly M`Kinsey, Willis Gilly, Ralph Cobb, James Jones, William Jones, Shadrick Morris, and John White. 2. Be it further enacted, That the justices of the inferior court of the county aforesaid, when commissioned as aforesaid, are hereby appointed commissioners of the court-house and jail of said county, and they are hereby vested with full power and authority to fix on the site for the public buildings in said county, which shall be as near the centre thereof as conveniency will admit, at which place the courts and general elections shall be held as soon as suitable buildings are erected; and they or a majority of them are hereby authorized to purchase as much land as they may deem sufficient to erect said buildings: Provided nevertheless, they shall not purchase more than one lot for the use of said county; and they are hereby authorized to lay off any portion of said land purchased as aforesaid into town lots, reserving a sufficient square for a court-house and jail in said county, and to dispose of the same for the use of the county, and to contract with any person or persons for building a court house and jail in the aforesaid county. 3. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the justices of the Inferior court of the county [Illegible Text] shall lay off the military districts in the [Illegible Text] county agreeable to the provisions of this act, they or any two of them shall advertise and superintend an election in each captain's district for two justices of the peace in each captain's district, giving fifteen days notice thereof, who shall be commissioned by the Governor, and remain in office until the next general election for justices of the peace

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throughout this state, unless their offices shall sooner become vacant by the laws of this state. 4. And be it further enacted, That the justices [Illegible Text] the inferior court of the county aforesaid, or a majority [Illegible Text] them, are hereby authorized and required to advertise [Illegible Text] least fifteen days at three or more public places in the county, and hold elections in the county aforesaid for clerks of the superior and inferior courts, sheriff, [Illegible Text] tax-collector, receiver of tax returns and county surveyor, which said elections shall be held at the place [Illegible Text] named, until the commissioners fix permanently on the site of the public buildings aforesaid. 5. And be it further enacted, That until a suitable court-house is erected, the superior and inferior [Illegible Text] and elections for the county aforesaid, shall be held [Illegible Text] the house where Daniel Love now lives. 6. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of his excellency the governor to commission all officers, civil and military, in the county aforesaid, who may be hereafter elected agreeable to the provisions of this act. 7. And be it further enacted, That as soon as the justices of the inferior court in the county aforesaid are commissioned and qualified, they shall proceed [Illegible Text] select grand and petit jurors for said county agreeable [Illegible Text] the laws now in force in this state regulating the drawing of jurors. 8. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the inferior court of the county aforesaid shall have full power and authority to lay off the county into as many captains districts as they in their discretion may [Illegible Text] proper; and whenever said districts shall be so laid [Illegible Text] and defined, and the justices of the peace are elected and commissioned agreeable to the provisions of this act, [Illegible Text] shall be the duty of said justices of the peace so as aforesaid elected and commissioned in their respective [Illegible Text]

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to advertise the elections of captains and subaltern officers as required by the militia laws in force in this state, and the said elections to be superintended and certified agreeable to the provisions of said militia laws. 9. And be it further enacted, That whenever the officers in each captain's district in said county are elected and commissioned agreeable to the provisions of this act, it shall be the duty of the justices of the inferior court of the county aforesaid, to advertise the election for the field officers of said county, giving twenty days notice thereof; and it shall be the duty of the justices of the peace or any two of them in said county to superintend said elections and certify the same as required by the militia laws of this state. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT For the relief of William G. Springer. WHEREAS, it appears by the presentments of the Grand Jury of the county of Hancock at August Term 1819, that the receiver of tax-returns, made a mistake in setting down the amount of change bills returned by William G. Springer, as taxable for the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, whereby he stands charged with the tax on eleven hundred dollars, instead of one hundred and twenty dollars, the sum actually returned, wherefore, 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,

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That the Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required to remit to William G. Springer the sum of twenty-four dollars and fifty cents, that being the amount of state tax over charged by the receiver of tax-returns. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, that the inferior court of the county of [Illegible Text] be, and they are hereby authorized and required to remit to William G. Springer, the sum of fourteen dollars and seventy cents, it being the amount of county tax over charged by the receiver of tax returns. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819. AN ACT To amend the judiciary of this state, so far as [Illegible Text] justices of the peace. 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 all and every justice of the peace in this state on application of any non resident of the county or state, for any civil process, to require non residents to deposit the cost or give sufficient security for the same, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819.

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AN ACT To alter and change the name of Seney Crumbley to that of Seney Mitchell, and to make her the legal heir of Isaac Mitchell. 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 name of Seney Crumbley, the reputed illegitimate daughter of Isaac Mitchell of Wilkinson county, shall be, and the same is hereby altered and changed to that of Seney Mitchell, by which name she shall hereafter be known and called. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Seney Mitchell shall be, and she is hereby put upon an equal footing in law, with the other children of the said Isaac Mitchell, and entitled to the same advantages and privileges in law, as if she were to all intents and purposes the lawfully begotten child of the said Isaac Mitchell, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To amend an act, entitled an act to amend the Penal Code of this state, passed on the 20th day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen. 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,

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That from and after passing of this act, the punishment of manslaughter, where the same shall be voluntary, shall be confinement and hard labour, or solitude in the Penitentiary, for the times prescribed in the seventh section of the fourth division of the before recited act, and that in all cases of commitment to the Penitentiary, labor or solitude shall compose a part of the punishment. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any person may be convicted of the aforesaid offence, or any other offence which may subject him or her to confinement in the Penitentiary, it shall be the duty of the judge presiding, by his sentence to order the convict into custody, and also to require that such convict, within a reasonable time to be limited in such sentence, shall, under a suitable guard, be conveyed to the Penitentiary and deposited therein. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor Assented to, 18th December, 1819. AN ACT To alter the mode of electing a Clerk of the Market for the city of Savannah. 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 Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah shall, at their first regular meeting in the month of October next, and at their first regular meeting in the month of October in each succeeding year, proceed by ballot to elect a Clerk of the Market for the city of Savannah.

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2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Mayor and Aldermen shall give public notice by advertisement in one of the Gazettes published in the said city of Savannah, for the space of ten days, of the time at which the election for the officer aforesaid will take place. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all acts, or parts of acts, heretofore passed on this subject which shall militate against the provisions of this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1819. AN ACT To establish a Ferry across the Oconee river, at the place known as Trammel's Ferry in Laurens 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, a public ferry be, and is hereby established across the Oconee river, at the place formerly known as Trammel's ferry, in the county of Laurens, to continue for and during the term of ten years, and that the rates now allowed at said ferry be, and remain until altered by the inferior court of said county. 2. And be it further enacted, That the legal representative of Jared Trammel, deceased, is hereby entitled to all the proceeds and benefits arising from the use of the ferry, landing on the north-west side of said river, for the use and benefit of the heirs of said Trammel, deceased; and that James Beaty, Esq. of Laurens county, or his legal

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representatives, be, and they are hereby entitled to [Illegible Text] the proceeds and benefits arising from the use of the said [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] on the south-east side of said river: Provided, the representative of said Trammel, and the said James Beaty, Esq. shall each give [Illegible Text] to the inferior court of said county of [Illegible Text], in terms of the law, to keep a sufficient flat with good attendance. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case either the said James Beaty, or the representative of the said Trammel, or the person or persons employed by them, or either of them, shall, at any time neglect to give prompt and due attention to said ferry, the proprietor thus offending shall be liable to suit on his bond, and the recovery of adequate damages by the person injured, and the other proprietor or person acting for him, be at liberty to convey the person or persons thus delayed, and receive the ferriage due therefor, any thing in this act to the contrary notwithstanding. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case the said James [Illegible Text], Esq. or the representative of the said Jared Trammel, shall refuse to accept and comply with the provisions of this act, the other party, by complying, shall be entitled to use and receive the full and entire occupancy and benefit of the same, during the obstinacy [Illegible Text] non-compliance of the other as aforesaid. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To amend the several laws now in force relative to vendues. 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 it shall not be lawful in future for the corporation of the city of Savannah to appoint more than six; that of Augusta more than four; that of St. Mary's more than two; that of Darien more than two; and that of Milledgeville more than two, vendue masters for said places. 2. And be it further enacted, That after the expiration of the time for which vendue masters may have been appointed by the corporations of the aforesaid places, agreeably to the existing laws in this regard, the following shall be the manner of appointing and licensing vendue masters thereinthat is to say, the respective corporations of said places may annually on the first Monday in December, appoint the number of vendue masters allowed to each place by this act, and shall take bond in the sum of five thousand dollars, with two good and sufficient securities for each vendue master so appointed, payable to the Governor of the state for the time being, and his successors in office, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of vendue masters in and by an act of the Legislature, passed the eighth day December, seventeen hundred and ninety-four, entitled, [Illegible Text] act for the better regulation of vendue masters within this state,' and shall immediately cause such bonds to be forwarded to the treasurer of this state, who upon the receipt thereof, and the payment of one hundred dollars by each vendue master in Savannah, twenty-five dollars by each in Augusta, fifty-dollars by each in St. Mary's, fifty dollars by each in Darien, and twenty-five dollars by each in Milledgeville for the use of the state, shall issue to each person so appointed, provided he is not in arrears to the state on account of any prior appointment as a vendue-master, a license authorizing him to act as a vendue master in the place for which he may have been appointed for one year, to commence on the first day of January next ensuing, the time of said appointment. Provided nevertheless, that if vendue-masters have not been appointed in any of the aforesaid places for the ensuing

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year, it shall be lawful for the corporation of any such place to make such appointment at any time after the passage of this act, and previous to the first day of February next, and for the treasurer to issue a license to any person so appointed for one year, to expire on the thirty-first December, eighteen hundred and twenty, upon the foregoing conditions, as to bond and payment of premium for license, being complied with. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall sell or attempt to sell any goods, wares or merchandize, or any other property whatever as a vendue-master, or at public auction, in any of the aforesaid places, without having first obtained a license from the treasurer as aforesaid, he shall forfeit and pay for every sale or attempt to sell, the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered of him in any court of competent jurisdiction, and to be applied, one half to the use of the state, and the other half to the person giving information and suing for said fine: Provided [Illegible Text] that nothing contained in this section shall be construed to extend to sales made by lawful officers, under executions issuing from the proper authority; or to sales made by or under the authority of executors, administrators or guardians. 4. And be it further enacted, That every vendue-master in this state shall keep a book, in which shall be entered every article by him sold at public auction, and the price at which the same was sold, and shall quarter yearly on the last days of the months of March, June, September, and December in every year, cast up the amount of his sales, and prepare a return thereof, to be made to the treasurer of this state, which return shall be sworn to by him before some judge, justice of the inferior court or justice of the peace of this state, as containing the true and accurate amount of his sales at auction, of every description whatever, during the quarter or time therein expressed. And if any vendue-master shall fail or neglect to make a return, sworn to in the manner above pointed out to the treasurer within thirty days after the expiration of either of the said quarters, or having made

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the same, shall, within that time fail to pay to the treasurer the tax or duty of one per centum on the amount of such return, it shall be the duty of the treasurer as soon as he thereafter can cause to be published in one of the gazettes of the town or city in which such delinquent may be a vendue-master; and in case of no gazette being published therein, in the gazette of the nearest town or city thereto, a notice of such failure to make a return or to pay said duty; and if any such delinquent vendue-master shall, after the publication of such notice sell, or attempt to sell any goods, wares and merchandize, or property of any kind whatever at public auction, or as a vendue-master, he shall incur a penalty equal to that mentioned in the preceding section, to be recovered of him in the manner and for the purposes therein expressed. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the treasurer, and it is hereby made lawful for him when returns are made, as in the preceding section directed, and the tax or duty thereon not paid within the time required, to issue his execution against the vendue-master so in default and his securities, for the amount of the tax or duty accruing to the state on his return; and the sheriff in whose hands such execution may be placed, shall be bound to collect and pay over the same within the time therein required, and in case of failure so to do, to be proceeded against in the manner pointed out by law for failing to collect and pay over the amount of any executions against a tax-collector; and in case no return shall have been made, the treasurer shall immediately [Illegible Text] the bond of any vendue-master so delinquent to the attorney or one of the solicitor's general to be put in suit. 6. And be it further enacted, That every vendue-master shall, at the time of transmitting a return of the amount of his sales, for any quarter, to the treasurer, deliver to the clerk of the corporation of the palce for which [Illegible Text] is a vendue-master, a duplicate thereof, which the [Illegible Text] clerk is hereby required to file in his office; and if [Illegible Text] quarter shall expire during which a vendue-master

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may have made no sales at auction, it shall be the duty of each vendue-master to state the same on oath to the treasurer, and on failing so to do, shall be prohibited from further acting as such in the [Illegible Text] prescribed by the fourth section of this act, for failing to make his return or pay the duty on his sales, and shall incur the same penalties as that therein pointed out [Illegible Text] disregarding such prohibition, to be recovered and applied as therein directed. 7. And be it further enacted, That if any vendue-master shall make a fraudulent [Illegible Text] to the treasurer of the amount of his sales for any quarter, or shall return a less amount than that actually sold by him, he shall, upon due conviction thereof, before any court of competent jurisdiction be deemed and held guilt of perjury; and his securities shall moreover be liable for any loss which may accrue to the state or any individual, by reason of such fraudulent or improper return. 8. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws which oppose the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. 9. And be it further enacted, That his Excellency [Illegible Text] Governor cause this act to be published as early as possible, in one of the gazettes of Milledgeville, Augusta Savannah and Darien. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TA BOT, President of [Illegible Text] Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To carry into effect the fourth and fifth [Illegible Text] of the third article of the Constitution of the state of Georgia. 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 there shall be five Justices of the Inferior Court in and for each county of this state, who shall be elected on the third Tuesday in October, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, who shall be commissioned and hold their respective offices until the first Monday in January, in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified; on which said first Monday in January, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, the Justices of the Inferior Courts shall be again elected, and from thence on the first Monday in January in every fourth year thereafter, by the electors entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly; which elections shall be held and conducted in the same manner as pointed out by law for the election of clerks and sheriffs; and the persons so elected shall be commissioned by the Governor, and continue in office for the term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, unless removed by impeachment for mal practice in office, or by the Governor on the address of two-thirds of both branches of the General Assembly; and when any vacancy shall happen, by death, resignation or otherwise of any of the Justices of the Inferior Court, it shall be the duty of two or more of the Justices of the Inferior Court or Justices of the Peace of the county in which such vacancy or vacancies shall happen, to give at least twenty days notice, by advertisement at three or more public places in such county, previous to the election, to fill such vacancy or vacancies; which election shall be held and conducted in the same manner as by this act expressed. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be two Justices of the Peace in each Captain's district in the several counties of this state, who shall be elected on the first Saturday in January, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, and on the first Saturday in January every fourth year thereafter, by the citizens

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of the district to which they respectively belong entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly; which election shall be superintended by three freeholders of the district, whose duty it shall be to take the following, oath, to be administered by the Captain or commanding officer of said district, or any magistrate of the county, (to-wit:) I, A. B. do solemnly swear, that I will, to the best of my abilities, superintend the election of Justices of the Peace for this districtSo help me God. And said freeholders shall transmit a return of said election, within twenty days, to his Excellency the Governor, who is hereby authorized to commission the person or persons so elected accordingly; and the said Justices of the Peace shall hold their appointments during the term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, unless they shall be removed by conviction on indictment in the Superior Court for mal practice in office, or for any felonious or infamous crime, or by the Governor on the address of two-thirds of each branch of the General Assembly; and when any vacancy or vacancies shall happen, by death, resignation or otherwise of any Justice or Justices of the Peace, it shall be the duty of one Justice of the Peace and two freeholders, which said freeholders previous to holding said election shall take the oath above prescribed, to advertise in three of the most public places in the district where such vacancy or vacancies may happen, the time of holding an election for the purpose of filling such vacancy or vacancies, and give at least fifteen days notice of the time and place when such election shall be held; and it shall be the duty of the said Justice and freeholders to superintend such election, and certify the [Illegible Text] under their hands to his Excellency the Governor, who shall, within ten days after receiving the same, commission the person or persons having the highest number of votes: Provided, the election is not contested. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all elections for Justices of the Inferior Court shall be holden at the place of holding the Superior

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Courts in the respective counties, and all elections for Justices of the Peace shall be holden at the usual place of holding the Justices' Courts in the respective company districts. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That where any person or persons shall be elected to fill the vacancy of any Justice of the Inferior Court or Justice of the Peace, the person so elected and commissioned shall continue in office only for the time for which their predecessors were elected. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 21st December, 1819. AN ACT To repeal an act, passed on the 18th day of December, 1818, (so far as relates to the county of Jefferson) entitled an act to authorize the Inferior courts of the counties of Richmond and Jefferson, to adopt such measures in relation to the roads and bridges of their counties, as they may think proper, and to levy an extra tax, when in their opinion, it may be necessary, for repairing and keeping in repair, the said roads and bridges, and to repeal the 6th section of said 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 from and after the passage of this act, so much of the before recited act as relates to Jefferson county, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and its operation from this date declared null and void.

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2. And be it further enacted, That the sixth section of the above recited act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 30th November, 1819. AN ACT To alter and amend an act entitled an act to impose an additional tax on pedlars and other itinerant traders, passed the 10th December, 1817. 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 be the duty of every pedlar or itinerant trader, who shall wish to vend any goods, wares or merchandize in this state, to apply to the clerk of the inferior court of each county in which he may be disposed to vend goods, wares or merchandize, and procure a license under the seal of the county court, with an annexed copy of the oath which shall be administered to him by the clerk of the inferior court, (as follows:) That I, A. B. now applying for license to vend goods, wares or merchandize in the county inserted in such license, do solemnly swear or affirm, as the case may be, that I will use this license in no other county than the one for which it is granted, nor transfer or suffer any other person or persons, in mine or their name or names, to use the sameSo help me God. And that the clerk shall record such oath and license in a book to be kept by him for that purpose; and such license, when obtained, with the copy of the oath thereto subscribed, from under the hand and seal the clerk of the inferior

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[Illegible Text], to whom such application shall be made, shall entitle him or them to the privilege of vending any goods, wares or merchandize for the term of twelve months, within the limits of said county, and shall pay upon their obtaining such license, the sum of six hundred dollars to the clerk of the inferior court in each county where such license shall be granted, one half for county purposes and the other half for the use of the state; the one half of which sum or sums when so collected, shall be paid over by the clerk to the treasurer of this state within six months thereafter. They shall also pay to such clerk for the granting of such license with the copy of the oath and county seal attached thereto, the sum of five dollars for his own use: Provided nevertheless, that there shall be one license for every waggon, cart or other vehicle employed or used in vending such goods, wares or merchandize, which they shall be bound to shew to any sheriff, deputy sheriff, constable, justice of the peace, and to any civil or military officer whatever, when demanding an exhibit of the same, and on failure or refusal thereof, shall forfeit and pay the sum of twelve hundred dollars, one half to the informant, the other half to be paid over to the clerk of the inferior court and applied to county purposes. And that in all cases where the said pedlars shall take out such license and pay over to the clerk the amount of taxes, and the clerk shall neglect to pay over to the treasurer agreeably to the provisions of this act, he shall be subject to indictment, and if found guilty shall be fined in a sum not less than double the amount received by him. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the clerk issuing license as aforesaid to describe as nearly as he can, in said license, the age, size, complexion, c. of the person to whom such license is granted. 3. And be it further enacted, That on oath being made before any judicial officer of this state, justice of the inferior court or justice of the peace, that a violation of this law has been committed, it shall be his duty to [Illegible Text] a warrant from under his hand, directed to any sheriff,

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deputy sheriff, constable or marshal of any twon or city, commanding them or each of them to arrest the offender or offenders, seize and bring him or them and the goods, wares or [Illegible Text] which they may have in their immediate possession, before any Judge of the Superior court in term time, or before any of the justices of the inferior court or justices of the peace, and if on [Illegible Text] before any of them it shall appear from the evidence that the charge or charges are malicious or unfounded, [Illegible Text] she or they shall be discharged without cost; otherwise he, she or they shall be bound with one or more [Illegible Text] securities, in the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars, in a joint and several bond, for his, her or their appearance at the next Superior court to be held in the county where such [Illegible Text] shall have been committed, and on failing to give such security shall be committed to jail; at which court the [Illegible Text] or Solicitor General shall prefer a [Illegible Text] of indictment against the party so offending, who shall, if convicted, be fined by the court in the sum of not less than six hundred [Illegible Text] more than twelve hundred dollars for each and every violation of this law, and the party so offending shall stand committed until such fine or fines be paid. 4. And be it further enacted, That the fine or [Illegible Text] which may be incurred for each and every violation of this law shall be collected as all other fines or penalties are: Provided [Illegible Text] that this act shall not prevent the corporation of any town or village from exacting from such pedlar or other itinerant trader a sum not exceeding five dollars per day: And provided, that nothing herein contained shall prevent any person from trading on the [Illegible Text] of this state. 5. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts that [Illegible Text] against this act, shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819.

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AN ACT For the relief of persons who were entitled to a draw or draws in the land lottery, agreeable to an act entitled an act to dispose of and distribute the late cession of land obtained from the Creek and Cherokee Nations of Indians by the United States in the several [Illegible Text] c. passed the fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen. WHEREAS, it appears that a number of the good citizens of this state, by not being properly apprised of the provisions of the before recited act, or were [Illegible Text] from the state on lawful business, and the time limited therein for giving in their names, although duly qualified and entitled to a draw or draws, are now prevented from doing to in consequence of the Justices who took in names [Illegible Text] made their returns to the Executive office as the law directs. BE it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Georgia [Illegible Text] General Assembly met and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That all persons duly entitled to a draw or draws in the said lottery, who shall, on or before the thirty-first day of May next, go before the Inferior Court of their county, or any Justice of the same out of court, and take the oath prescribed by said act, shall receive from such court, or Justice out of court, (he, she or they paying twenty-five cents for each draw or draws he, she or they may be entitled to) a certificate of the same; which certificate being transmitted to his Excellency the Governor, he shall cause the same to be entered on the list of names [Illegible Text] to him from the district where such person or persons resided; and such person or persons whose names are so entered, shall be as fully entitled to their draw or draws as if they had been taken in the first instance. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority [Illegible Text], That all those certificates returned to the Executive office by those persons who were appointed to take he list of names of persons entitled to a draw or draws, or

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by any Justice of the Inferior court or Justice of the Peace, previous to the passing of this act, shall be considered valid, and shall be enrolled in their proper places accordingly, and such persons entitled to said draw or draws as though they had given in as prescribed by said act. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 13th December, 1819. AN ACT To amend an act entitled an act to revise and consolidate the militia laws of this state and to repeal the Cavalry laws now in force, passed 19th December 1818. 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 nothing in the fourth section of the above recited act, shall prevent regimental and battalion districts from embracing parts of two or more counties, where such arrangement cannot be conveniently avoidedand that at all elections authorized by said act, Justices of the Peace may preside. 2. And be it further enacted, That when a vacancy shall happen by death, resignation or otherwise of any officer of regiment or major of battalion, such vacancy shall be filled in the manner pointed out by the eighth section of said act, except in the case of lieutenant-colonel, whose vacancy shall be filled by the senior major commanding, who shall take rank and be commissioned accordingly. 3. And be it further enacted, That the fortieth section of the act aforesaid be, and the same is hereby repealed.

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4. And be it further enacted, That where there may be two or more regiments in any county, and but one artillery company, said company may be raised out of any or all of said regiments: Provided, that no company is reduced to less than sixty-four rank and file, or the number recruited does not exceed every eleventh man in each company; and said company shall be attached to the regiment where the captain of said company resides. 5. And be it further enacted, That in the cities of Savannah and Augusta, no removal of any commissioned officer, except it be beyond the corporate limits of said cities, shall vacate the commission of said officer. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Independent Troop, in the county of Liberty, be permitted to continue under the like privilege granted in the before recited act to the Darien Volunteer Guards. 7. And be it further enacted, That where a regiment shall consist of three battalions, there shall be two majors, and that nothing in the before recited act shall be so construed as to prevent the existence of the two volunteer troops in the counties of Jefferson and Wilkes. 8. And be it further enacted, That the twenty-first section of the aforesaid act, be amended so far, as to make it lawful for the sergeant to distribute all orders verbally to each person in his squad, three days previous to any muster. 9. And be it further enacted, That so much of the militia law as gives the Brigadier-General, or officer ordering a court-martial, the power of approving, be and the same is hereby repealed, and that all sentences amounting to cashiering of any officer passed by a brigade court, shall be laid before the Major-General of the division for his final approval. 10. And be it further enacted, That all officers arrested, shall have at least twenty days notice in writing, of the time and place of the sitting of the court for his or their trial, and be furnished with a list of the officers detailed to sit on said courtand it shall be the duty of the field officers issuing an arrest to give the adjutant or

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officer serving the same, authority to summon all such witnesses on both sides as may be pointed out by the parties. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Laurens Troop of Light Dragoons be permitted to exist and retain their accustomed privileges, subject only to be disbanded by the commander in chief: Provided, they do not arm and equip within such time as he may be disposed to allow. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 22d December, 1819. AN ACT To alter and amend the second and third sections of an act, passed in 1811 and 1812, entitled an act, to amend the fourth and fifth sections of the third article of the constitution of this state, which said second and third sections are adopted in lieu of the said fourth and fifth sections of the third article of the constitution. WHEREAS the said second and third sections as aforesaid, are in the following words, to wit: 2. That the justices of the inferior courts shall be elected on the third Tuesday in October eighteen hundred and thirteen, and on the third Tuesday in October, in every fourth year thereafter, by the electors entitled to vote for members of the general assembly, which election shall be held and conducted in the same manner as pointed out by law, for the elections of clerks and sheriffs, and the persons so elected, shall be commissioned by the governor, and continue in office for the term of four years, unless removed by impeachment for mal-practice in office, or by the governor, on the address of two thirds of both branches of

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the general assembly; they may be compensated for their services in such manner as the legislature may by law direct; and there shall be five justices for each county, who shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified, and when any vacancy shall happen, by death, resignation or otherwise, of any justice of the inferior court, it shall be the duty of two or more of the justices of the inferior court or justices of the peace, to give at least twenty days notice by advertisement, at three of the most public places in the county, previous to the election to fill such vacancy, which election shall be held in the same manner as is by this section before expressed. 3. That there shall be two justices of the peace in each captain's district in the several counties of this state, either or both of whom shall have power to try all cases of a civil nature, within their district, where the debt or liquidated demand does not exceed thirty dollars, in such manner as the legislature may by law direct; they shall be elected on the first Saturday in January eighteen hundred and thirteen, and on the first Saturday in January in every fourth year thereafter, by the citizens of the district to which they respectively belong, entitled to vote for members of the general assembly, which election shall be superintended by three freeholders of the district, whose daty it shall be to take the following oath, to he administered by the captain or commanding officer of said district, to wit: I, A. B. do [Illegible Text] swear, that I will to the best of my abilities, superintend the election of justices of the peace for this district, so help me God; and they shall transmit a return of said election, within twenty days to his excellency the governor, who is hereby authorized to commission the persons so elected accordingly; and they shall hold their appointments during the term of four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, unless they shall be removed by conviction or indictment in the superior court for malpractice in office, or for any felonious or infamous crime, or by the governor on the address of two thirds of each branch of the legislature; and when any vacancy shall

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happen by death, resignation or otherwise, of any of the justices of the peace, between the time of such election, and the expiration of the time for which such justice or justices were elected, it shall be the duty of two of the justices of the peace, in any of the adjoining districts, where such vacancy or vacancies may happen, to advertise in three of the most public places in the district where such vacancy or vacancies may happen, the time of holding an election for the purpose of filling such vacancy or vacancies, and give at least fifteen days notice of the time and place where such election shall be held, which shall be in the district where such vacancy or vacancies shall have happened; and it shall be the duty of the said justices to superintend such election, and certify the same under their hands to his excellency the governor; who shall within ten days after receiving the same, commission the person having the highest number of votes: Provided, the same is not contested; and whereas it has been found from experience, that the said two before recited sections, have not those beneficial effects which it was designed they should produce: 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 as soon as this act shall have passed, agreeably to the requisitions of the constitution, that then the sections above recited shall be repealed, and the following adopted in lieu thereof: 2. 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 shall be elected by the persons entitled to vote for members to the legislature, in such manner as the legislature may by law direct. 3. And be it further enacted. That the justices of the peace throughout this state, shall be elected by the persons residing in their respective districts, entitled to

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vote for members of the general assembly, under such rules and regulations as the legislature may by law direct. BENJAMIN WILLIAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. WILLIAM RABUN, Governor. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 19th December, 1818. Assented to, 23d November, 1819. AN ACT Providing for the payment of instalments now due, and hereafter to become due on stock in the Bank of Darien, and vesting certain funds in the stock of said Bank. 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 authorized and required to vest in said stock the sum of one hundred thousand dollars of the fund heretofore set apart for the establishment and support of free schools; and that his excellency aforesaid be, and he is authorized and required to vest in said stock, the sum of one hundred thousand dollars of the fund heretofore set apart for the improvement of the internal navigation of this state. 2. And be it further enacted, That the further sum of one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be drawn for from [Illegible Text] to time as future instalments shall be required.

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DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 18th December, 1819. AN ACT To regulate and establish an uniform practice in Justices' courts. 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 proceedings in the justices' courts shall be uniform throughout the state. 2. Be it further enacted, That the first term shall be deemed and considered as the appearance term, when the case shall be docketed on what shall be called the appearance docket, and on the defendant failing to appear, judgment shall be entered by default as in the superior court, and at the second term, unless there is a sufficient shewing, judgment shall be entered up: Provided nevertheless, the party or parties shall be entitled to an appeal agreeably to the judiciary law now in force in this state. 3. Be it further enacted, That all justices of the peace shall have power, in all cases of debt or liquidated demand, to give judgment for any sum not exceeding thirty-dollars, exclusive of interest and cost. DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. MATTHEW TALBOT, President of the Senate. JOHN CLARK, Governor. Assented to, 9th December, 1819.

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RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN SENATE. In Senate, 30th November, 1819. WHEREAS his [Illegible Text] the late governor Rabun, in conformity to the provisions of a resolution, approved the 19th December, 1818, authorized a draft on the militia of the state of Georgia, to escort commissioners appointed in conformity to the provisions of said resolution, to ascertain the true head of the St. Mary's river and report thereon: And whereas no provision has hitherto been made to pay the officers and privates detailed from said militia for said service: Be it therefore resolved, That his excellency the governor of said state be, and he is hereby directed to pay out of the contingent fund to the order of the paymaster of the regiment on which such draft was made, a sum of money, which shall be equal to the claims of the officers and privates detailed as aforesaid; to be exhibited in pay rolls duly attested, including subsistence conformable to the arrangement of the commissioners aforesaid; and that the governor do also pay to the order of major-general John Floyd, any and all claims on accounts examined, approved and certified by him on charges and expenditures incurred by and resulting from a discharge of the duties imposed on the commissioners aforesaid. And be it further resolved. That the said paymaster do pay the money by him so received to the persons and purposes aforesaid, according to the rules and regulations in such cases by law provided. Approved, 13th December, 1819. In Senate, 4th December, 1819. The joint committee on finance, to whom was referred a resolution from Senate in regard to the treasurer's executions

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issued against John Cooper, late tax-collector for M`Intosh county, and George White and James Mulryne as his securities for the years 1803, 1804 and 1805, beg leave to REPORT, That they have investigated the subject, and have endeavoured to procure the necessary information relating thereto, as well from the treasurer's books and papers as from personal [Illegible Text] given by that officer, and discover that the executions for the years aforesaid have been issued; but from what appears on the books of the treasurer have never been returned to that department either satisfied or unsatisfied. Your committee further beg leave to report that, on a further examination of the treasurer's books, that an execution issued from that department against said John Cooper, and James Pelot, and George White, as securities as a defaulting tax-collector on the 12th April, 1813, for the tax due in the year 1807, and another execution issued for the tax of 1808, against the said John Cooper, George White, and Bright Baker; that the two last executions were issued from the treasurer's department after the death of the said John Cooper, and that subsequently the treasurer issued his executions against the securities for the last mentioned years, which have not been returned to that officer satisfied. Your committee therefore recommend the following resolution. Resolved. That the solicitor-general of the eastern district be directed to ascertain whether the executions issued by the treasurer against John Cooper, George White and James Mulryne, for the default of the said John Cooper as tax-collector of M`Intosh county for the years 1803, 1804, and 1805, have been collected, and if collected, by what sheriff, and if not collected, who has possession of the same, and what is the situation of the parties, and that the said solicitor-general be directed to enquire who has possession of the execution issued by the treasurer against James Pelot and George White as securities of the said John Cooper as a defaulting collector for said county for the year 1807; and another execution

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issued from said department for the default of said John Cooper as tax-collector aforesaid against George White and Bright Baker as his securities for the year 1808. And that the said solicitor general be further requested to take such measures as he may deem proper for the collection of said several executions, and report to the treasurer his actings and doings thereon, and if the solicitor-general shall be of opinion after such examination had, that it is advisable the treasurer is hereby authorized and required to issue a new execution or executions accordingly, without delay. Approved 18th December, 1819. In Senate, 10th December, 1819. 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 cause the intendant and officers of the corporation of the town of Milledgeville, within six months from the passing of this resolution to make out a full and accurate account of all the lots of land that the general assembly has vested in the corporation, and also all such as they have authorized them or any of them [Illegible Text] sell, the amount of sales, the number of lots that they have heretofore been authorized to lease, and who was the leasor, the amount of money received, due or to become due for the lots leased, and the rent of all the cleared land that they have been authorized to rent, and generally the receipts and expenditures of all and singular the property and money received and arising from such as has accrued from or upon the said property to the benefit of the said corporation, and all other measures that he may deem expedient for the furtherance of [Illegible Text] in the premises, and that he report thereon to the next general assembly. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In Senate, 29th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor be requested to furnish information to this legislature on the

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subject of a contract made between the state of Georgia and the steam-boat company for certain shares of steam-boat stock, the number of shares, the amount of purchase, the monies paid; the dividend received, the terms of the contract, together with such other circumstances as he may deem important to communicate. Approved, 9th December, 1819. In Senate, 16th November, 1819. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the following persons be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to superintend the improvements of the navigation of Savannah river, between the city of Augusta and town of Petersburgh, that is to say, Wm. Jones, (of Little River) in the place of Marshall Keith, resigned, Thomas H. Penn, in the place of Henry Shultz, resigned. And be it further resolved, That Mark Anthony and Dredziel Pace, sen. be added to the said board of commissioners. Approved, 25th November, 1819. In Senate, November 29, 1819. RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor be requested to forward to the inferior courts of the counties of Early, Irwin and Apling, copies of the laws of this state, from the year 1811 to the year 1818, inclusive, together with Marberry and Crawford, and Clayton's digests, Provided, a sufficient number of copies of said laws remain subject to such disposition. Approved, December 13, 1819. In Senate, 19th November, 1819. The committee of conference to whom was referred the report of the joint committee, appointed to contract for printing the laws, journals, c. of the present session of the general assembly, beg leave to report, that they have had the subject matter of disagreement under consideration,

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and recommend the following resolution in place of the original report, to wit: Resolved, That Messrs. Camak Hines be, and they are hereby appointed printers for the state, and that they be allowed 2 cents per sheet for printing the journals, and 2 1-8 cents per sheet for printing the laws and resolutions of the present session of the legislature, and that his excellency the governor be, and he is hereby required to take a bond of Camak [Illegible Text] in a sufficient penal sum to do said printing, in a manner not inferior to the style in which it has been heretofere done by the Messrs. Grantlands, and ready for delivery, the laws and resolutions by the 1st of February next, and the journals by the first day of March next. Approved, 27th November, 1819. In Senate, 15th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor be, and he is hereby authorized to have furnished and forwarded to the respective clerks of the inferior courts of the counties of Walton, Gwinnett, Hall and Habersham, a sufficient number of Crawford's Marbury's and Clayton's Digests; also the Acts of the General Assembly from the year 1811 until the year 1819, inclusive; to be distributed agreeably to the law making provision in those cases for the laws and journals of this state. Provided, there are such remaining on hand; and one copy of the law of executors and administrators for the use of the inferior court of each county. Approved, 25th November, 1819. In Senate, 10th December, 1819. The joint military committee to whom was referred a communication from his excellency the governor, covering a letter addressed from Thomas M. Bradford, have the honor to REPORT, That whereas satisfactory evidence has been submitted to your committee of the existence of a contract heretofore entered into by and between the late governor

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Rabun on the part of the state of Georgia, and Thomas M. Bradford, in which it is stipulated that the said Thomas M. Bradford should deliver to the governor of said state, five hundred copies of Scott's military discipline, neatly bound and printed, at the price of two [Illegible Text] and seventy-five cents per volume: and your committee having had submitted to their examination one volume thereof as a specimen of the whole, beg leave to recommend to his excellency the acceptance of the said five hundred copies, they corresponding particularly with the sample submitted to your committee. Your committee also recommend the adoption of the following resolution: RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor of said state be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay unto Thomas M. Bradford the sum of thirteen hundred and seventy-five dollars out of any monies in the treasury not otherwise appropriated for, and in consideration of five hundred copies of Scott's military discipline, neatly bound and printed, to be examined and approved of by his excellency, according to a verbal contract entered into by and between the late governor Rabun on the part of said state, and the said Thomas M. Bradford. Approved, 20th December, 1819. In Senate, 27th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor of the State of Georgia, be requested to enter into a correspondence with [Illegible Text] excellency the governor of the state of [Illegible Text], for the purpose of procuring a speedy co-operation of the two states in improving the navigation of the Savannah river. Approved, 13th December, 1819. In Senate, 8th December, 1919. RESOLVED, That John Cauper, sen. William W. Hazzard, Edmond Mathews, John Burnett, and Barnard [Illegible Text] of the [Illegible Text] of Glynn be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to investigate and enquire

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into the legality of the late sales of the town lots in Brunswick and Frederica, in the county of Glynn, and make a due report to the next legislature. Approved, 8th December, 1819. In Senate, November 23, 1819. RESOLVED, That the executive appointments for trustees of the Chatham Academy, of Rev. Walter Cranston vice Hon. William Stephens, deceased; James M. Wayne vice Noble W. Jones, deceased; William T. Williams vice John Bolton, removed; James Morrison vice Matthew M`Allister, removed; be and hereby are confirmed. Approved, 6th December, 1819. In Senate, 4th December, 1819. RESOLVED, As the sense of this legislature, that the sum of two thousand dollars be appropriated for erecting an edifice for the grammar school of Franklin University. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In Senate, 13th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That Nathan Crawford, William [Illegible Text], Gasaway Davis, Isaac Bryan, and Juriah Harris be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners of the Columbia County Academy, in addition to those heretofore appointed, residing in the county and choosing to act as such; and a majority of the commissioners, whenever convened, shall be competent to proceed to business, and are clothed with all the power and authority that was given to the original (and any subsequent) commissioners appointed for said Academy. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In Senate, 15th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor be, and he is hereby requested to transmit to our senators and representatives in Congress, a copy of an act, passed on the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled an act to grant certain powers to the

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commissioners of pilotage for the port of Darien, and [Illegible Text] authorize them to collect a tonnage duty on vessels, with a request that they would endeavor to get an act of Congress passed to carry the said act into effect. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In Senate, November , 1819. RESOLVED, That the sum of two hundred dollars be paid to the former judge of the western circuit, and the sum of fifty dollars be paid to the solicitor of the western circuit, as a compensation for their services in holding courts in the counties of Walton, Gwinnett, Hall and Habersham. And be it further resolved, That the same be placed in the appropriation law for the present year, and be drawn accordingly. Approved, 6th December, 1819. In Senate, 10th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That the commissioners of the town of Milledgeville do lease to Mary Knight, three acres of land out of the town commons, adjoining the lot she now lives on for the term of seven years. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In Senate, 11th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That his excellency the governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to have recorded in the surveyor-general's office of this state, the maps of the lines as run, dividing this state and the states of Tennessee and North-Carolina, with the certificates thereunto annexed, and pay for the same out of the contingent fund. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In Senate, 15th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That James Scott, esq. be, and he is hereby appointed notary public for the town of Jefferson, in the county of Camden. Approved, 18th December, 1819.

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In Senate, 7th December, 1819. The joint committee to whom was referred a resolution originating in the House of Representatives relative to the state of the arsenal and magazine REPORT, That they have inspected the arsenal and magazine, and as far as the circumstances of the examination would permit them to discover, they have found the annexed return in every respect correct. They further report, that the arms and other articles were in good order, and bore every appearance of proper attention to their preservation having been paid to them. The committee, cannot [Illegible Text] declare that they would have been much better satisfied with the arrangements of the store-keeper, if the arms had been separated and placed apart according to their peculiar manufacture. Instead of this, English, French and American arms were indiscriminately mixeda circumstance, which, from the difference of their calibres, might be productive of the most disastrous consequences, were an unexpected and sudden call for arms made upon the executive. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In Senate, 15th December, 1819. The joint committee of finance, to whom was referred the message of his excellency the governor, in regard to a communication made to him by Adam G. Saffold, Esq'r. solicitor-general of the Ocmulgee circuit, in obedience to a resolution of last year, and the year 1817, recommend the following resolution: RESOLVED, That Adam G. Saffold, esq. solicitor-general of the Ocmulgee circuit be allowed until the meeting of the next general assembly to furnish his return and close the account of the late Bedney Franklin, Esq. dec. and Col. Seaborn Jones, shewing the amounts received and paid into the treasury by each of them, and what he has received and paid over, and what appears to be the amount uncollected on bond and judgment, and also the probable prospect of its collection. Approved, 18th December, 1819.

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In Senate, 16th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That Michael Shelman and William N. Harman be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to join such as have heretofore been appointed to carry into effect the opening of Schedeway narrows near the mouth of Ogechee. Approved, 20th December, 1819. In Senate, 12th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That Clem. Bryan. Moses Daniel and James M'Land, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners for the Academy of Montgomery county. Approved, 23d November, 1819. In Senate, November 19th, 1819. The joint committee on Finance to whom was referred the petition of Joseph Attaway, beg leave to report that they have had said petition under consideration, and after a due investigation of the subject are of opinion that so much of the tax of 1817, as accrued after the 24th February, should be remitted. the committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution. RESOLVED, That the sum of eighty-three dollars and thirty-four cents, be returned to Joseph Attaway, being the sum overpaid into the Treasury, for the tax of the year 1817, for two Billiard tables, and that the same be provided for in the appropriation act of the present session. Approved 27th November, 1819. In Senate, 10th November, 1819. The committee to whom was referred the petition and affidavit, relative to the claims of the widow and orphans of John Lyon, late of Elbert county, dec. have the honor to report that they have had the same under consideration.

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and are of opinion that the said Martha Lyon, with her orphan children (as the widow and children of John Lyon, who died on his return march from the prosecution of the war against the Seminole Indians of disease contracted in the service of his country) are entitled to the sums (or similar sums) which have been given by the Legislature to others heretofore placed, by the fate of war, in like circumstances. Your committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution. RESOLVED, That the sum of ten dollars each, be appropriated to and for the relief of Martha Lyon and her nine children, to be paid by his Excellency the Governor, to the order of the said Martha Lyon, and that the said appropriation be incorporated in the general appropriation act of this session. Approved, 23d November, 1819. In Senate, 4th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That Major Jacob Wood and James Smith, Esquire, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners of the Academy of M'Intosh county, in the place of Thomas Spalding, resigned, and Col. James E. Houston, deceased. Approved, 10th November, 1819. In Senate, 4th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That Mathew B. Hooper, be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner of the Franklin County Academy, in the place of Col. James Blair, who resides out of the county. Approved, 10th November, 1819. In Senate, 6th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That P. Le Chatier be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner of pilotage for the port of Darien and Sapelo river, in the place of Joshua A. Coffee, resigned. Approved, 23d November, 1819, In Senate, 6th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That Barnard C. Heard, of the county of Elbert, be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner to

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superintend the improvement of the navigation of that part of the Savannah river from the town of Petersburg in said county, to the town of Andersonville, at the confluence of the Tugalo and Seneca rivers, in lieu of Samuel Rembert, who refuses to act; and that Robert Hackett be and he is hereby appointed a commissioner to superintend the improvement of the navigation of the Tugalo river, from the confluence of said river and Seneca river to the mouth of Panther creek on said Tugalo river, in lieu of Robert Barton, who refuses to act. Approved, 23d November, 1819. In Senate, 19th November, 1819. WHEREAS it is expedient that the several members of the General Assembly should be well acquainted with the finances of this state, in order to enable him to husband the funds of the same, therefore the joint committee on finance recommend the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved, That the joint committee appointed to contract with a printer for printing the laws and journals of the present session, be requested to contract with a printer to print, without delay, as many copies of the treasurer's abstract as will furnish each member of this legislature with two copies. Approved, 27th Nov. 1819. In Senate, 24th November, 1819. WHEREAS the late acquired territory, under the treaty of the honorable J. C. Calhoun, held at the city of Washington in the present year, it appears that the river Chestatee forms the southern boundary, and the line run under the superintendance of Mr. Lumpkin, from the head or main source of the Chestatee to the Unaca road from part of the north-western boundary, from thence the Blue Ridge for the balance of said boundary between the Cherokee Indians and this state, it therefore becomes necessary that there should be a line run, and plainly marked on the summit of said ridge, meandering through the same, until the line so run intersects the line run by

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Col. James Blair in March last, which line, when so run, shall form the north-western boundary of the territory before mentioned. It is therefore resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby fully authorized and empowered to appoint a commissioner, surveyor, and such number of chain and axemen as he may deem necessary, to proceed to the point of Unica road where the line terminates, which was run under the superintendance of the honorable Wilson Lumpkin, and the commissioner so appointed, shall, under his superintendance have said line run and plainly marked on the top of the Blue-ridge, meandering the same, until it intersects the line commonly called Blair's line. And be it further resolved, That the commissioner, surveyor, and axe and chain men so appointed by his excellency the governor, shall be entitled to receive for their services the same compensation as has been allowed on former business of this kind; and that his excellency the governor be and he is hereby authorized to draw upon the contingent fund for any sum that may be found necessary to defray the expenses of this service. Approved, 6th December, 1819. In Senate, 17th December, 1819. The committee on Public Education and Free Schools, report, that it being ascertained that only a small [Illegible Text] of the Free School fund has been made active, it is evidently altogether impracticable at this moment, to put in operation the Free School institution. It therefore only remains to recommend to the consideration of succeeding Legislatures and of the citizens of this state, the system best adapted to the circumstances of the country. That most suitable system appears to your committee to be the system of South-Carolina. As the impracticability of giving effect to the institution results from the reserved fund not having been active, it is recommended that the executive be advised of the expediency of vesting the fund as speedily as advantageously can be done in some

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profitable stock. Your committee therefore submit the following resolutions. RESOLVED, That the law of the state of South-Carolina establishing free schools in that state, be published in one of the public gazettes of this state for the consideration of its citizens. RESOLVED, That his Excellency the Governor be requested to carry into effect, as speedily as advantageously can be done, the second section of an act passed 18th December, 1817, entitled an act to create and establish a fund for the support of Free Schools throughout this state, and also to vest in profitable stock, such sums as may have accrued on interest, or may hereafter accrue from stock belonging to this fund. Approved, 20th December, 1819. In Senate, 17th December, 1819. The joint committee to whom was referred the letters of Seaton Grantland, esq. proposing to furnish the state with the Georgia Justice for the use of justices of the inferior court, justices of the peace, and clerk of the court of ordinary, recommend the following resolutions. RESOLVED, That his Excellency the Governor be authorized to receive from Seaton Grantland, esq. five hundred [Illegible Text] of the Georgia Justice, and that he cause the same to be distributed without delay, as follows; one to each members of the inferior court of this state; one copy to each captain's district for the use of the justices of said district, and one copy to each clerks of the court of ordinary; and that upon the death, removal or resignation of said officers or any of them, said books to be for the use of their successors. RESOLVED further that his Excellency the Governor [Illegible Text] for said books at and after the rate of four dollars and seventy-five cents per copy, by warrant upon the contigent fund. Approved, 20th December, 1819.

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RESOLUTIONS, Which originated in the House of Representatives. To his Excellency the President of the United States. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 11th December, 1819. The memorial, remonstrance and protest of the Senate and House of Representatives of the state of Georgia in General Assembly met, Your memorialists are impelled by a sense of duty which they owe themselves and the people of Georgia again to call the attention of your excellency to a subject in which they consider their best and most permanent interests involved. It has been the unfortunate lot of our state, to be embroiled in the question of territorial right, almost from the commencement of her existence. The feelings excited by such warmth and succession of contest, have been hightened and aggravated by inconveniences and exposures incident to our frontier situation. To alleviate this conditionto circumscribe our extent of settlement and become more defensible; and finally, to settle the questions of territory, limits and boundaries, were the prevailing inducements to the vast relinquishment made by Georgia to the United States in the articles of agreement and cession of 1802. Abstractedly from these inducements, it will not be contended that other considerations could have produced the effect.The period has now arrived, when in the opinion of your memorialists, the subject is no longer to be regulated by the rules of policy and convenience, but has assumed the more definite and substantial shape of positive right. It has long been the desire of Georgia, that her settlements should be extended to her ultimate limitsthat the soil within her boundaries should be subjected to her control, and that her police, organization and government should be fixed and permanent. For the fulfilment of these desires, we have waited the tide of events.

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and observed the march of time for seventeen years.Within this period, we have witnessed with much gratification the spread of the Union, and the accession of states and territories, greater in extent than the original confederation. Two of the members of this vast family are the descendants of Georgia, yet Georgia loses her strength and influence as a member of the Republic, retarded as she is, in her growth and population, and denied the fostering aid of her common parent. The stipulation contained in the articles of agreement and cession of 1802, is the principal point to which your memorialists would invite your attention. This contract, from the time it was entered into, has been subject to be performed whenever the same could be done on peaceable and reasonable terms. By the treaty of Fort Jackson, an opportunity was presented to the United States, of performing her contract with us, and also to have acquired for herself any extent of territory which she might have thought proper to dictate. It is now ascertained that Georgia obtains by that treaty a tract of country scarcely sufficient to invite our attention thither, or to authorize the process of organization. This treaty having heretofore been made the subject of communication to your Excellency, in which the people of Georgia have expressed their opinions and feelings, it only remains for us again to adopt the like sentiments, and repeat our protest and remonstrance against said treaty, so far as it relates to the extinguishment of Indian title within the limits of Georgia. In 1817, Commissioners acting under the authority of the United States, treated with the Cherokee Nation [Illegible Text] Indians, some of whom resided within our limits. By this treaty, the interests of Georgia were more regarded, and we believe a plan laid which would have resulted in the speedy extinction of the Indian claim within our limits, and upon terms not only peaceable and reasonable, but convenient and beneficial to the Union. It was already ascertained, that a considerable portion of the Indians had emigrated beyond the Mississippi, and

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excepted land in exchange for that which they had abandoned. The state of Georgia claims a right to the jurisdiction and soil of the territory within her limits. She admits however that the right is inchoate, remaining to be perfected by the United States in the extinction of the Indian title; the United States, pro [Illegible Text] vice, acting as our agents. The signing of this treaty by authorized agents, and the after [Illegible Text] confirmed our title. The cession made by the first article is acknowledged to be absolute in conveying for the use of Georgia, the territory which it defines. Tennessee acquires the like title by the second article, and both states acquire a further vested interest in the [Illegible Text] lands within their respective boundaries, [Illegible Text] in extent to the number of natives that had or was about to emigrate. The provisions of this treaty were accepted on the part of Georgia; and on such acceptance your memorialists humbly conceive, that her title and her possession were so strongly vested, that without her consent she could not be affected by subsequent negotiation. If a census of the nation had been taken in 1818, in conformity to the provisions of the treaty, Georgia would have come into the immediate and uninterrupted possession of at least one third of that part of her territory originally occupied by Cherokees. How we can be defeated of the interest, and divested of the title which resulted from the treaty, becomes a point of enquiry and of feeling importance. Your memorialists acknowledge the legality of no measure which seeks thus to defeat or divest them. On the contrary, they insist upon the validity and execution of that contract in all instances in which it conveys a benefit.But on the face of this treaty is contained a feature, against which your memorialists remonstrate and protest. The grant of reserves in fee simple to Indians is an act, which your memorialists view as not only violatory of the compact between the United States and Georgia, but an infringement of our rights, and an exposure of our citizens. To the grant of fee simple title we attach technical definition. One of the consequences

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of such grant, is power of alienation. Then in the event of alienation by the reserve, where is the power of the United States to extinguish for the use of Georgia the title to such reserve? Your memorialists beg leave further to call in question the articles of convention between the United States and the Cherokee Nation of Indians, concluded on the 27th February, 1819. We consider these articles as furnishing a fair subject for the animadversion of Georgia.They profess to nullify in a great degree the provisions of the treaty of 1817, and to set up their own provisions as substituted therefor. As objectionable as the original was, this substitute is the more so. If the grant of reserves in the first, furnished grounds of complaint, those in the last are much more offensive; for the possibility of reversion is not retained. Shall we be told that all these measures find their justification in policy, and their apology in benevolence? Shall this treaty be passed upon us in the imposing form of humanity, and we compelled to subserve its views, and pay blind obedience to its commands? We trust that we may be heard; and that if in uttering our complaints we shall speak with an unbecoming boldness, our excuse may be found in the extended catalogue of Indian aggression, and the aggravated series of frontier suffering. This last treaty purports to be founded upon a sufficient consideration, to amount to a fair equivalent for the interest relinquished. This may be true, and still injustice done. If upon the ratification of the first treaty, no interest had vested in Georgia, or if no party had been connected with the contract except the United States and the Cherokees, it might be granted that the same parties had a right to revise, alter or even set aside such contract. But situated as we are, we claim to have been benefited, by a positive, vested interest, and we complain of the attempt to defeat that interest by the second treaty. The consideration of this treaty, is in fact paid by the state of Georiga, and yet she does not receive a fair equivalent. A territory is secured, inconsiderable in point

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of extent, more inconsiderable in point of value, and still more inconsiderable by reason of being mutilated and crippled by the grant of reserves. By this same treaty, the United States acquired for Tennessee, a tract of country great in extent, and still greater in value and importance. The growth and prosperity of a sister state, affords gratification to Georgia. We are excited by no jealousies, actuated by no feelings of competition. But when favors are dispensed we hope to see them administered by the steady hand of impartial justice. Such admeasurement would have afforded us a better interest, and been in furtherance of a solemn contract. Your memorialists respectfully solicit, that Commissioners acting under the authority of the United States, may treat with the Creek and Cherokee Nations of Indians, for further cessions of territory for the use of Georgia. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 11th Dec. 1819. Resolved, That a copy of this remonstrance be forwarded to the President of the United States, one to the Senate of the United States, one to the House of Representatives, and one to each of the members of Congress from this state. Resolved, That the members of Congress from this state be requested to make use of the necessary exertions for carrying into effect the objects of this remonstrance. Approved, 22d December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 30th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That Charles Beall be, and he is hereby appointed a Notary Public for the county of Wilkinson, in the place of Paul M'Cormick, removed. Approved, 14th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 27th November, 1819. The joint committee on the state of the republic, to

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whom was referred the petition of sundry citizens of Walton county, beg leave to REPORT, That they have had under their consideration the petition of sundry citizens of what was formerly Walton county in this state, and the accompanying documents, and are of opinion that it would be unreasonable and improper for the state of Georgia to compensate the said petitioners for their alleged losses of land and other property. Approved, 14th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 10th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That William Morel and Robert Raiford be, and they are hereby appointed Notaries Public in and for the county of Chatham. Approved, 23d November, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 17th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That Thomas Hardeman be, and he is hereby appointed a Notary Public for the county of Putnam. Approved 6th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 11th November, 1819. WHEREAS a resolution of the General Assembly of this state was passed and approved the 7th day of December, 1812, appointing David Blackshear and Noah Stringer, Esq'rs. commissioners for the county of Laurens in the room of Benjamin Adams and Jethro B. Spivey, resigned; and further appointing Amos Love and Neil Munroe, Esq'rs. commissioners for the county of Laurens; without defining the duties required of the said Amos Love and Neill Munroe: And whereas the said Amos Love and Neill Munroe have taken upon themselves and performed the duties of commissioners of the court-house and other public buildings for the county of Laurens under the assurance of the then representation

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of the said county, that such was the true intent of the said resolution: Be it therefore resolved, that the appointment of the said Amos Love and Neill Munroe, commissioners for the county of Laurens, by the resolution aforesaid, be received and construed to be commissioners of the court-house and other public buildings for said county as fully and effectually as though the same had been therein expressly named. Approved, 23d November, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 25th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That John Morell and Wm. W. Gordon be, and they are hereby appointed Notaries Public in and for the county of Chatham. Approved, 6th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 26th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That the Governor be authorised to appoint two commissioners, with necessary assistants, to explore the Oquafenoco swamp, and to report to the next Legislature the probable quantity, the quality and situation of said swamp, and that his excellency pay the charges that may accrue thereby, out of the contingent fund. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 27th November, 1819. RESOLVED, That James P. Holmes be and he is here by appointed a Notary Public for the town of Monticello and county of Jasper. Approved, 14th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 27th November, 1819. The joint committee of Finance to whom was referred the petition of Caty Thrift, beg leave to report that they have performed the duty assigned them, and after [Illegible Text]

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investigation of the subject, are of opinion that the prayer of the petitioner is just and reasonable and ought to be granted. Your committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution: RESOLVED, That the sum of forty dollars be appropriated to Caty Thrift, the widow and relict of William Thrift, deceased, and the three orphan children of said Thrift, in conformity to a law passed in favor of the [Illegible Text] children of the unfortunate and deceased soldiers. Approved, 14th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 27th November, 1819. The joint committee on the state of the Republic, to whom was referred the communication of his excellency the Governor of the 26th inst. and documents relating to molestations offered by the Indians to the surveyors now employed in surveying the territory lately acquired of the Creek Indians, recommend the following resolution. RESOLVED, That his excellency the Governor be authorized and requested, without delay, to remedy the evils complained of, by the removal of all Indians from the territory now under survey, and that he give facility and protection to the operations of the surveyors by procuring the aid of the federal troops, if possible, if not, by detachments of militia. RESOLVED further, that his excellency the Governor communicate to the agent of Indian affairs for the Creek nation the information received, and the foregoing resolution, requesting that he aid in the removal of said Indians as speedily as possible, and that he use every and all the means within his control to prevent further [Illegible Text] or molestation. Approved, 6th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 2d December, 1819. The committee appointed to take into consideration the [Illegible Text] of Joseph Cook, after considering the same, are

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of opinion his prayer is reasonable in part, therefore beg leave to offer the following resolution: RESOLVED, That his excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and requested to pay Joseph Cook the sum of two hundred dollars out of any money that now is, or may hereafter be in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated; and that the same be placed in the appropriation law. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 3d December, 1819. RESOLVED, That in consequence of the ill health of Charles Smith and of Daniel F. M'Neal, (who were appointed to survey districts during the last session of the Legislature) a farther time of three months from the first day of January next be granted them for the purpose of accomplishing the objects of their appointments. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 7th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That his excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and requested to have published in one or more newspapers of this state, such laws and resolutions of the present session as he may deem expedient. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 11th December, 1819. The joint committee to whom was referred the consideration of a communication from the Treasurer, relative to the tax act of this state, so far as it affects the Branch Bank of the United States beg leave, from various considerations, to recommend the adoption of the following resolution, viz: RESOLVED, That the law imposing a tax on the chartered Banks, and offices of Discount and Deposit, within this state, do continue in force and operation, but that the

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Treasurer do suspend, for the present, any execution [Illegible Text] executions liable to be issued under the same, so far as respects the office of Discount and Deposit of the Bank of [Illegible Text] United States. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 14th December, 1819. The committee of Finance, to whom was referred the communication of James Bozeman, Esq. Comptroller-General, with the accompanying documents relative to the petition of Mariah F. Bixby, Administratrix of the estate of Nathan Bixby, dec'd. of the county of Camden, beg leave to report, that they have taken the same into consideration and believe the prayer of the petitioner is reasonable and ought to be grantedThey therefore 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 favor of Mariah F. Bixby, Administratrix of Nathan Bixby, deceased, late of Camden county, for the sum of thirty-seven dollars and ten cents, to be paid out of any monies not otherwise appropriated, and that the same be provided for in the appropriation law. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 14th December, 1819. The committee to whom was referred the communication from the treasurer relative to the neglect or omission of the Planters' Bank of the State of Georgia, to make a return agreeably to the requisitions of the tax act of this state, recommend the adoption of the following resolution, viz: RESOLVED, That the treasurer be authorized to receive the return under the tax act of this state, of any bank or banks which may not have made their return or returns within the time required by law: Provided, such return be made on or before the last day of January next, and that it should appear to the said Treasurer, that the

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omission or neglect to make such regular return has not arisen from any spirit of opposition or non-compliance with the law requiring it. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 13th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That his excellency the Governor be authorized to draw upon the contingent fund for a sum sufficient to provide for the necessary improvements and repairs on the house and lot owned by the state and occupied by the Governor. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 13th December, 1819. The joint committee on the state of the Republic, to whom was referred the communication of his excellency the Governor, and accompanying letter from the honorable John Quincy Adams, both upon the subject of claims in behalf of the citizens of Georgia against the Creek and Cherokee Indians, beg leave to recommend the following resolutions: RESOLVED, That his excellency the Governor do appoint three fit and proper persons as commissioners on the part of this state, to proceed under the directions of the President of the United States, to the Creek and Cherokee Nations of Indians, and demand satisfaction of all claims in behalf of the citizens of Georgia, for which satisfaction has been promised in the several treaties of Augusta, Galphinton, Shoulder Bone, New-York, Colerain, Hopewell and Holston. And that said commissioners may be the better enabled to effect the important objects of their mission, BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That his excellency be requested to procure and furnish said commissioners all the evidence of said claims which can be procured in any of the offices of state; and that he be further requested, if possible, to procure from the President of the United

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States, an authority, that said commissioners, with any others that the President may think proper to appoint, may treat with said tribes of Indians for territory, the consideration to be retained to sufficient extent to satisfy the claims of our citizens. AND BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED, That in the event of failure to procure for said commissioners an authority to treat for territory, that said commissioners insist upon a restoration of all property now in the hands of the Indians, belonging to the citizens of Georgia, and upon an equivalent for all property taken by said Indians from Georgians, which cannot now be found or identified.And that such equivalent may be secured, that the commissioners be directed to insist upon drafts upon the annuities due by the United States to said tribes of Indians. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 13th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That the sum of seventeen dollars sixty-two and a half cents be appropriated, out of any money in the treasury of this state not otherwise appropriated, to A. Summers, jailor of Twiggs county, for the apprehension and bringing to jail the body of Henry Goff, for horse-stealing in the adjoining unlocated territory, and attending the prosecution and imprisonment of the said Goff, in conformity to an act of the Legislature of 1814, as applicable to the commission of criminal acts in the unlocated territory of this state. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 13th December, 1819. The joint committee on internal improvement having taken into consideration the various documents referred to them, REPORT, That in the investigation they have made, they have been compelled to remark, that the want of science and experience has been severely felt in almost every attempt which has been made to improve the navigation

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of our water courses. We hope, therefore, that the present session of the Legislature will not be suffered to pass by without some attempt being made to call in to our aid the talents and experience of the most enlightened persons on this subject. At the same time, we would remark, that much good appears to have resulted from the efforts of some of our commissioners, and indeed, in a few cases, there appears little to be desired. We have experienced much difficulty in forming our opinions on the reports we have received. The accounts of work done, and of the obstacles still to be overcome, have been too much in the gross. More detail on these subjects, and on the subject of expenditure, are very essential in reports of this kind. With regard to the Savannah river from Augusta down, we have the pleasure of stating, that an efficient use of machinery appears to have been introduced into their system of operations. Much has also been done towards ascertaining the present existing obstacles to the navigation of this river. From Augusta to Petersburg there appears to have been little done. Some partial surveys, however, appear to have been made, and several ineffectual attempts to procure the counsel and aid of the state of South Carolina. Skill and industry appear to have been used in the work from Petersburg to Andersonville. From Andersonville to Panther creek they appear to have done well. They ask no additional appropriation. On the Altamaha, from Darien to the conffuence of the Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers, we have a report of some length, with a request of a further appropriation of money, From our ignorance of the obstacles to be removed, and our uncertainty with regard to the system pursued by the commissioners, we are induced to recommend that a further appropriation be put off till a future day, when a better knowledge of the subject will enable a future Legislature to act more effectually with regard to it. The Oconee river, from its mouth to Holt's ferry, is represented as being in a state of progressive improvement,

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With regard to the survey directed to be made from the Altamaha to Turtle river, we have to remark, that the object intended to be accomplished by this measure appears to us very important. But the survey made does not appear sufficiently accurate to authorize the large appropriation requisite to effect the opening of a canal.And this is the more confirmed as the commissioners appear in doubt whether the Turtle or Sapelo river afford the best destination for such canal. It may also be desirable to receive from individuals proposals for executing this project in consideration of some certain tolls. From the Ocmulgee river, we have a report, from which it appears that considerable improvements are going on in that stream. The plan of buying slaves with a part of their capital, appears to have been pursued by the commissioners engaged in this undertaking. Approved, 22d December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 14th December, 1819. The joint committee of Finance, to whom was referred the petition of William Foard, having taken said petition into consideration are of opinion that the branch of government to which he has applied is not the one authorized to grant the sought for relief, beg leaye to recommend the adoption of the following resolution: RESOLVED, That William Foard be permitted to withdraw his petition and accompanying documents. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 17th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That Peter F. Jaillett be, and he is hereby appointed a Notary Public for the county of Baldwin. Approved, 20th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 15th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That John Hardin and Arthur C. Perry

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be appointed commissioners of the Marion Academy in Twiggs county, in addition to those already appointed. Approved, 20th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 17th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That his Excellency the Governor be and he is hereby authorized and required, at the earliest practicable time after the returns of the names of persons entitled to draw in conformity to the act regulating the disposition of the last acquired territory, shall be completely made to the executive office, and previous to the time, when the lottery (the drawers in which have already enlisted) shall go into operation, minutely to examine or cause to be examined, the returns from the several counties of this state, of persons entitled to a draw or draws by any law since the passage of the act of the 15th December, 1818, disposing of and distributing the cession of land obtained from the Creek and Cherokee Indians, and to cause all such draw or draws to be placed and arranged to his, her or their name or names, as exhibited upon the first returns. Approved, 20th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 14th December, 1819. The joint committee of Finance, to whom was referred the communication of James Bozeman, Esquire, to the House of Representatives, relative to the tax-collectors who are in default in this state beg leave to REPORT, that they have taken the subject matter into consideration, and find that the tax-collectors are in arrears to a very considerable amount. This committee view it as an evil in the community, that while the tax-collectors of many counties, who feel the strong obligation of duty in the faithful and strict compliance with the conditions of their bonds under the law, so many other public officers of that description seem totally regardless of law, justice and duty Your committee in receiving the formidable

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list of defaulters, are imperiously called by duty to [Illegible Text] that view of the subject which will reflect light thereon, while the equitable principle of equality in taxation is kept in view. While many of the most populous and wealthy counties in this state, through their officers make returns of their taxes, there are found a goodly number, both of the upper and lower sections of the state, who have been wanting in their duty. Your committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolutions, with a special view of enforcing the strictest conformity to the laws now in existence on the subject. RESOLVED, That the Comptroller-General and the Treasurer of [Illegible Text] state do forthwith issue executions against all defaulting tax-collectors within this state, and their securities, and cause the same to be placed in the hands of the sheriffs of the respective counties in which said defaulting tax-collectors may reside, and that it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to inform the Attorney-General and the Solicitors-General in their respective circuits, of the names of such defaulting tax-collectors, and their securities, and that executions for the same have been issued and placed in the hands of the sheriffs of their respective counties for collection. RESOLVED, That it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to give to the Attorney or Solicitors-General of their respective districts, a list of such defaulting tax-collectors or their securities, against whom Treasury executions have issued, and have not been returned satisfied: And it shall be the duty of of said Attorney or Solicitors-General to ascertain and enquire whether the same have been collected, and if collected, by whom, and to take such legal steps for the enforcement of this resolution as he may deem proper. RESOLVED, That it shall be the duty of the Attorney or Solicitors-General, as the case may be, to whom said list is furnished by the treasurer, to report to said treasurer on or before the meeting of the next Legislature, the state and condition of each and every execution, and the probability of collecting the same, and if the amount of

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any such execution or executions shall be collected by the Attorney or Solicitor-General, he shall on or before that time pay the same over to the treasurer. RESOLVED, That it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to make his report to the next Legislature whether there should be any default with the Attorney or Solicitors General in reporting to him in conformity with the provisions herein contained. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 4th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That his excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to appoint two fit and proper persons to meet the same number appointed by Messrs. Bivins and Cook, to ascertain the value of the Arsenal built by them for the state, and that the persons so appointed be authorized and required to take under their consideration the account now rendered by Messrs. Bivins and Cook, as it appears to be enormous in the extreme. The commissioners so appointed to have power to call in a fifth person in case of their disagreement.And the Governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasury for so much of the contingent fund of this state, as may be necessary to close the accounts of Messrs. Bivins and Cook, in conformity with said valuation. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 13th December, 1819. The joint committee on the state of the Republic, to whom was referred the report of the Agent of the State in regard to Africans illegally introduced into this State, having examined such report and the accompanying documents, recommend the following resolution. RESOLVED, That as far as the said report relates to Africans now under claim in the Court of Admiralty, that his Excellency the Governor cause the case to be prosecuted in the most energetic and efficient manner possible

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for the benefit of the State of Georgia; and that as regards the custody of the negroes, he adopt the course which he may deem best calculated for their security, and attended with the least expense. RESOLVED FURTHER, That in relation to those negroes to which no claim has been put in, his Excellency communicate with he counsel employed in the other cases, as to the necessity of said negroes being libelled and condemned previous to any disposition being made thereof, and in case such proceeding be thought necessary, that his Excellency cause the same to be instituted without delay. The committee have examined the account of expenses incurred by the Agent in the prosecution of his duty, and find that the same is supported by proper and corresponding vouchers. Approved, 18th December, 1819. In the House of Representatives, 18th December, 1819. RESOLVED, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to settle out of the contingent fund, the accounts of Dr. William Greene, who was employed as a Surveyor by the late Governor Rabun, provided any thing should appear to be due, and that the propriety of said accounts be left to two men selected by the parties, which referees shall have the power of umpirage. Approved, 20th December, 1819. [NOTE.In section 7, of the act to organize the counties of Early, Irwin and Appling, the justices of the inferior courts shall proceed to ELECT grand and petit jurors, c. The enrolled copy has ELECT, which is evidently a mistake. We presume the word was intended to be SELECT.] ERRATUM.Page 35, line 4, for 1818, read 1808.

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INDEX. Augusta An act to increase the Fire Company of the city of, Page 9 To incorporate the Wharf Company of, 35 Female Asylum incorporated, 48 To alter and amend an act to incorporate the Protestant Episcopal Society of, 92 Academy The Laurens County, to incorporate the Trustees of, 9 Washington County, the Comm'rs of, incorporated, 49 Fines and forfeitures arising from criminal prosecutions, appropriated to the use of the, in the counties of Morgan, Greene and Wilkes, 51 To remove the, in Camden county, from St. Mary's to the town of Jefferson, 81 Ocmulgee, the Trustees of the, incorporated, 87 Chatham, Executive appointments of Trustees for the, confirmed, 145 Columbia County, Commissioners of, appointed, lb. Of Montgomery county, Comm'rs for the, appointed, 148 Of M'Intosh county, Comm'rs of, appointed, 149 Commissioners appointed for the Marion, 166 Appling Part of the county of, added to Telfair, 48 The county of, organized, (see counties) 65 Appropriation of monies for the year 1820, 83 Arsenal and Magazine, respecting the, 147 Attaway Joseph Resolution in favor of, 148 Abstract Treasurer's Ordered to be printed, 150 Africans Illegally introduced, resolutions respecting, 169 Bulloch County of, added to the Eastern circuit, 82 Brown John To legalize certain deeds made by, 40 Bird Jesse Name of changed to Jesse Davis, 57 Brunswick The Collector of the port of, compensated for seizing Africans, 69 And Frederica, Comm'rs appointed to investigate the legality of sales of lots in the towns of, 144 Broad river To keep open that part of, called the Middle river, 78 Bedgood Bramleigh An act to legitamize, and change her name to Martha Bramleigh Wynne, 79 Bank of Darien Providing for the payment of instalments, c. 137 Bradford Thomas M. Resolution in favor of, 148 Bank Branch of the U.S. Resolution respecting tax on the, 161 Bixby Mariah F. Resolution in favor of, 162 Bank Planters Resolution respecting the, ib. Baldwin county Notary Public for appointed, 166 Clerks An act to repeal an act respecting their offices, so far as respects the county of Montgomery, 3 Court of Common Pleas, and of Oyer and Terminer for the city of Savannah, organized, 16

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Courts To alter and fix the time of holding the Superior and Inferior, in the several circuits, 28 Inferior, when the changes in the times of holding them is to take effect, 32 To regulate establish an uniform practice in Justices' 138 Columbia County of, added to the Middle Circuit, 32 Clark, Archibald Collector of St. Mary's compensated, 39 Culpepper, Andrew Jackson Name of, changed to Andrew Jackson Deen, 56 Conveyances of versonal property the recording of, provided for, 64 Chatham county Notaries Public for, appointed, 158 159 Cook Joseph Resolution in favor of, 160 Counties Of Early, Irwin and Appling, an act to organize the, 65 Commissioners of the, appointed, and duties defined, 66 Justices of the Inferior Courts of the, appointed commissioners of the court-houses jails, ib. Justices of the inferior courts of the, authorized to purchase land, c. 67 Justices of the inferior court of, shall advertise and superintend the elections of justices of the peace, ib. Justices of the inf. court shall advertise and hold elections for clerk of the superior and inferior courts, ib. Superior and inferior courts of the, where to be held, ib. Officers, civil and military of the, to be commissioned by the Governor, 68 Justices of the inferior courts of the, shall select grand and petit jurors, ib. Justices of the inf. court shall lay offcaptain's districts, ib. Justices of the peace of the, shall advertise the elections of captains, c. ib. Justices of the inferior courts of the, shall advertise the elections of field officers, ib. Militia of the, attached to the 5th division 2d brigade, ib. Change Bills To relieve certain persons who are in default as issuers of, 77 For the relief the City Council of Augusta, c. 98 Colby John To run a line of stages from Madison to Powelton, 100 Carnesville To alter amend an act to incorporate 104 Cole Benjamin For the relief of, 110 Crumbley Seney Name changed to Seney Mitchell, 117 Code Penal To amend an act, entitled an act to amend the, ib. Constitution of Georgia To carry into effect the 4th and 5th sections of the, 124 To alter and amend the 2d and 3d sections of an act, altering and amending the 4th and 5th sections of the 3d article of the, 134 Camak and Hines Appointed State Printers, 142 Chatier P. Le Appointed commissioner of pilotage for Darien, 149 Cooper John Resolution respecting, 139

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Digest of the laws of Georgia An act to prescribe the form of, 5 Evers Jonathan An act to pardon, 4 Evidence To provide for taking and recording the, given in on trials for capital offences, 53 To regulate the admission of, in courts of law equity, 63 Early An act to organize the county of, (see counties) 65 Eatonton To amend an act regulating the town of, 89 Engineer, Topographical and Civil To create the office of, 96 Elbert Franklin To add part of the counties of, to Madison, 107 Ferry To establish one across the Oconee in Laurens county, 119 Barksdale, vested in Henry Jones, 52 To amend an act to establish one across the Altamaha at Fort Barrington, 97 To establish one across the Altamaha river, 33 Frederica and Brunswick Commissioners appointed to investigate the legality of sales of lots in the towns of, 144 Franklin University Appropriation to, 145 Free Schools Resolutions respecting, 151 152 Foard William Resolution respecting, 166 Glynn County To repeal an act regulating the elections of 4 To alter and amend the 8th section of an act regulating roads in, 99 Inferior Court of, authorized to levy an extra tax 80 Gwinnett Certain sections of an act organizing the county of, repealed 82 Authorized to levy an extra tax 105 Glore Abner and Nancy, to divorce 109 Greensborough Amendatory of the several laws now in force, extending the powers of the commissioners of the town of 110 Governor Directed to pay the militia drafted to escort the commissioners appointed to ascertain the true head of St. Mary's river 139 Requested to furnish information respecting contract with Steam Boat Company 142 Requested to forward copies of the laws, c. to the Inferior Courts of certain counties 142 143 Requested to correspond with the Governor of South Carolina 144 Requested to transmit to our Senators and Representatives in Congress a copy of a certain act 145 Requested to have certain maps recorded in the Surveyor General's office 146 Authorized to appoint commissioner, surveyor, c. to run a certain line 151 Authorized to receive copies of the Georgia Justice from S. Grantland, 152 Authorized to appoint commissioners to explore the Oquafenoco Swamp, 159

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Authorized to remove Indians from territory now under survey, 160 Authorized to have laws published; 161 Authorized to draw on the contingent fund to pay for repairs on house and lot occupied by him, 163 Authorized to appoint commissioners to demand of the Creek and Cherokee Indians satisfaction, c. and requested to procure an authority that said commissioners may treat for territory, c. ib. Duty of with regard to returns for draws in land lottery, 167 Authorized to appoint commissioners to settle the accounts of Bivins and Cook, 169 Authorized to pay Dr. William Greene, 170 Hall Certain sections of an act organizing the county of, repealed 82 The Inferior Court of, authorized to levy an extra tax 105 Habersham Certain sections of an act organizing the county of, repealed 82 Inferior Court of, authorized to levy an extra tax 105 Hospital and Poor House of Savannah A donation made to the, 99 Hancock County Inferior Court of, authorized to levy an extra tax, 58 Heard Barnard C. Appointed commissioner to superintend the improvement of navigation of Savannah river, 158 Hackett Robert Do. Tugaloriver, ib. Irwin An act to organize the county of, (see counties) 55 Internal Improvement Report of the joint committee on, 164 Jones County The Inferior Court authorized to levy an extra tax to build a jail, 15 Jasper County The Inferior Court of, authorized to levy an extra tax, 44 Jackson County The military officers of, authorized to consolidate the two regiments therein, and to lay off the battalions and company districts, 43 So much of certain acts as require the general elections of, to be held at each of the battalion muster grounds, repealed, 80 Jefferson To repeal so much of the 32d section of an act to alter and amend the road laws, so far as it respects the county of, 88 To repeal an act respecting roads and bridges, so far as relates to the county of, 127 Jefferson, Camden county to make valid the proceedings of the commissioners of, 90 Camden county, Notary Public for, appointed, 146 Judiciary To amend the, so far as respects justices of the peace, 116 Judge of the Western Circuit 200 dollars to be paid to the, 146

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Knight Mary Resolution in favor of, 146 Learning An act amendatory of an act for the more full and complete establishment of a public seat in this state, 8 Laurens county To alter and amend the laws fixing the public buildings of, in Dublin, 13 Land An act amendatory and [Illegible Text] of an act to dispose of and distribute the late cession of, obtained from the Creek and Cherokee Indians, [Illegible Text] Lewis Augustin To vest in him a legacy left by his dec'd father, 51 Line The, dividing Jackson and Gwinnett counties, altered and defined, 64 The, dividing Gwinnett and Hall counties, altered and defined, ib. More effectually to define the, dividing the counties of Franklin and Habersham, 106 Louisville To amend an act amendatory of the several acts incorporating and regulating the town of, 86 Land-Lottery To legalize make valid returns for draws in the, 91 For relief of persons who were entitled to draws in the, [Illegible Text] Lincoln county Inferior Court of, authorized to levy extra tax, 101 Lyon John Resolution in favor of the widow and [Illegible Text] of, 148 Laurens county Resolutions respecting the commissioners of, [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] An act [Illegible Text] the form [Illegible Text], 5 Madison County of, added to the Northern circuit, [Illegible Text] Part of [Illegible Text] and Franklin added to, 107 [Illegible Text] Cullens James Harp name of, [Illegible Text] to James Harp, 56 [Illegible Text] To convey to the commissioners of, a certain square of land, [Illegible Text] To amend an act entitled an act to amend and consolidate the [Illegible Text] acts for the better regulation of the town of, 95 Resolution respecting the Intendant and officers of, 141 [Illegible Text] Catherine For the [Illegible Text] of, 94 [Illegible Text] Incorporated, and commissioners of appointed, 102 [Illegible Text] county Inferior Court of, authorized to levy an extra tax, 7 [Illegible Text] Voluntary, punishment of, 118 [Illegible Text] county Inferior Court of, authorized to [Illegible Text] an extra tax, 72 [Illegible Text] Laws To [Illegible Text] an act [Illegible Text] and consolidating the, 132 Magazine and arsenal respecting, 147 [Illegible Text] Notary Public for, [Illegible Text], 159 M Neal Daniel F. [Illegible Text] in favor of, 161 [Illegible Text] river An act to amend an act to render that part of the, between Fishing Creek and [Illegible Text] Ford, [Illegible Text], 61 Oglethorpe County Inferior Court of, authorized [Illegible Text] levy an extra tax, 71 [Illegible Text] To repeal an act for the better regulation and government of [Illegible Text] Property, personal [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of, provided for, 64 Escheated An act more effectually to provide for the collection of the [Illegible Text] arrising from the sales of, and to apply the same to literary purposes, 76 Penitentiary To amend the laws regulating the [Illegible Text] police of the, 70 Pulaski The Judge of the Superior Courts of the Southern Circuit authorized to hold an extra court in the county of, 108 Penal Code To amend an act entitled an act to amend the, 117 [Illegible Text] To alter and amend an act to impose an additional tax on, [Illegible Text] Putnam County Notary Public for, appointed, [Illegible Text] Remonstrance To the President of the United States, [Illegible Text] Resolutions respecting, [Illegible Text] Ruis John An act for the relief of, 55 [Illegible Text] Nancy Name of changed to Nancy Dredding, [Illegible Text]

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[Illegible Text] Village of, incorporated and commissioners appointed, [Illegible Text] Rabun To organize the county of, 112 Smith Charles resolution in favor of, 161 Summers A. jailor resolution in favor of, 164 [Illegible Text] John An act to pardon, 11 [Illegible Text] of the public officers To alter and amend an act [Illegible Text] the, ib. [Illegible Text] To organize a Court of Common [Illegible Text], and of Oyer and Terminer in the city of, 16 To prevent the introduction of passengers, who are aliens, into the port of, during the months of July, August, September and October, 45 Duty of the masters of vessels arriving at the port of, 46 Duty of the Mayor with regard to vessels arriving at the port of, ib. Duty of householders in the city of, 47 [Illegible Text] and [Illegible Text] under this act, how collected and disposed of, ib, [Illegible Text] Aldermen may compound for penalties and forfeitures, ib. [Illegible Text] House and [Illegible Text], making a [Illegible Text] to, 99 To alter the mode of electing the clerk of the market for the city of, 118 Sheriffs To amend an act entitled an act to amend the 3d section of an act pointing [Illegible Text] their duty in selling hands under exceution, 45 St. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] and [Illegible Text] of the city of, incorporated, 33 Cottector of the port of, [Illegible Text] for the seizore of five Africans, 39 Slaves To alter and amend an act supplementary to, and more effectually to [Illegible Text] an act [Illegible Text] the mode of manumiting, 41 Sunbury Female Asylum incorporated, 54 [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] An act for the relief of, 59 [Illegible Text] William G. For the relief of, 115 Savannah river Comm'rs appointed to superintend the improvements in the navigation of. 142 Solicitor of the Western circuit Fifty dollars to be paid to the, 146 [Illegible Text] Adam G. Allowed time to close the accounts of the late Solicitors, 147 [Illegible Text]-Narrows Additional comm'rs for opening the, appointed, 148 Telfair Part of Appling added to the county of, 43 Tax To raise a, for the year 1820, 90 Collectors in default, resolutions respecting, 167 168 Thrift Caty Resolution respecting, 159 160 University of Georgia To legalize certain deeds made by J. Brown, Pres't of the, 40 Vendues To amend the several laws now in [Illegible Text] relative to, 120 Vendue-Masters Mode of appointing and licensing, 121 Penalties incurred by, for [Illegible Text] without license, 122 Duty of, pointed out, ib. Duty of the Treasurer, [Illegible Text] regard to, 123 Shall deliver to the clerk of the corporation a duplicate of his return, ib. Penalties in curred by, for making a fraudulent return, 124 Williams, William An act for the relief of, 34 Wilkes [Illegible Text] Society of, incorporated, 36 Interior Court of, authorized to levy an extra tax, 73 Whitfield William and Jaue To divorce, 52 Wilkinson county The records of, to be transcribed in bound books, 57 Notary Public appointed for, 157 [Illegible Text] Lydia For the relief of, 59 [Illegible Text]-Island To cede the jurisdiction over five acres on, for the purpose of erecting a light-house or [Illegible Text], 60 Walton Certain sections of an act organizing the county of, repealed, 82 Inferior Court of, authorized to levy an extra tax, 105 Report on the petition of citizens of, 157 158 Webb Exom For the relief of, 110