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ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED AT THE REGULAR JANUARY SESSION, 1875. 18750100 COMPILED AND PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. J. H. ESTILI, PUBLIC PRINTER 1875.

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TABLE OF TITLES. PART I.PUBLIC LAWS. TITLE I.AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS. TITLE II.APPROPRIATIONS. TITLE III.BONDS. TITLE IV.CODE AMENDMENTS. TITLE V.CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. TITLE VI.GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. TITLE VII.HEALTH. TITLE VIII.JUDICIARY. TITLE IX.MAIMED SOLDIERS. TITLE X.MILITARY ORGANIZATION. TITLE XI.NEW COUNTY. TITLE XII.REPORTS OF OFFICERS. TITLE XIII.RIPARIAN RIGHTS. TITLE XIV.STATE SCHOOL FUND. TITLE XV.TAX. PART II.LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS. TITLE I.CORPORATIONS. TITLE II.COUNTIES AND COUNTY REGULATIONS. TITLE III.PRIVATE LAWS. PART III.RESOLUTIONS.

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STATUTES OF GEORGIA, PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1875. PART I.PUBLIC LAWS. TITLE I. AGRICULTURAL STATICS. SECTION. 1. Comp. General need not consolidate returns. 2. Statement of acreage in different crops. 3. Commissioner of Agriculture to furnish blanks. 4. Returns to be [Illegible Text] etc. 5. Separate returns of white and colored persons. No. I. (O. No. 114. An Act to relieve the Comptroller General of the duty of consolidating and taking care of agricultural returns, and publishing the same. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That all laws now in force requiring the Comptroller General to consolidate and take care of agricultural returns, and of publishing the same in his annual report, or otherwise, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Agricultural returns. [Illegible Text] need not consolidate. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. II. (O. No. 231.) An Act to amend an Act to provide for the annual collection and publication of statistics of agricultural products and resources of the State, approved February 20, 1873. 2. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the Receiver of tax returns, or the person acting as such, in each county in this State, by the fifteenth day of July in each year, to obtain from every tax payer in his county a statement, under oath, of the acreage planted by him or her, in the different crops grown in the county; also, the products of any manufactories, in which he or she may be interested, and other statistics, agricultural and mechanical, which may be valuable, as showing the material resources of the Statethe acreage planted to be taken for the current year, and the productions for the preceding year. Said statement by the tax payer, shall be obligatory upon him. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 3. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture of this State, to furnish the Tax Receivers of the several counties with the necessary books or blanks for taking these returns; and the duties hereby required shall be performed under his instructions, and said returns forwarded to the Commissioner on or before the first day of August in each year. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 4. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioner of Agriculture, annually to consolidate and publish said returns, for public information, in such manner and at such time as he may deem expedient; and shall also keep on file, in his office, one or more copies of said consolidated returns of each county in the State. [Illegible Text] 5. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in taking the foregoing statistics, the crop or farm statistics, as given in by the white and colored population, shall be kept distinct, and so returned by the Receivers. [Illegible Text] SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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TITLE II. APPROPRIATIONS. SECTION. 1. Salaries of the Executive and State House officers. 2. Secretary of Senate, Clerk of House, etc. 3. President of Senate, Speaker of House, members of General Assembly, and others. 4. Judges, Solicitors General, Reporter and Clerk of Supreme Court. 5. Lunatic Asylum, Principal Keeper of Penitentiary, Asylum for Blind, and for Deaf and Dumb, interest on public debt, etc., etc. 6. Clerks in Executive Department, etc. 7. Contingent fund. 8. Printing fund. 9. Incidental expenses of Senate and House. 10. Chemical Laboratory. 11. Stationery for General Assembly. 12. Interest on certain bonds. 13. J. F. Jones for maps. 14. Books for State Library. 15. Arthur Hood. 16. College of Agriculture and [Illegible Text] Arts. 17. North Georgia Agricultural College. No. III. (O. No. 31.) An Act making appropriations for the Executive Legislative and Judicial expenses of the Government, and for other purposes herein mentioned, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby, appropriated to the persons and for the purposes, respectively, hereinafter mentioned: Appropriations. For compensation of the Governor of the State, four thousand dollars For compensation of the Secretary of State, two thousand dollars. Salaries. For compensation of the Comptroller General, two thousand dollars. For compensation of the State Treasurer, two thousand dollars. For compensation of Clerk for Secretary of State, Clerk for State Treasurer, and of two Clerks for Comptroller General, sixteen hundred dollars each. For compensation of the State Librarian, twelve hundred dollars. For compensation of the Attorney General, two thousand dollars. For compensation of two Secretaries of the Executive Department, eighteen hundred dollars each. 2. SEC. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of five hundred dollars, in addition to the salary of five hundred dollars allowed by the Code, is appropriated to each

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the Secretaries of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives, and neither shall receive any per diem or mileage. In consideration of which they shall each bring up all the unfinished business of their respective offices, and shall, within twenty days after they are finished, deliver to the Public Printer a full and complete index to the printed Journals of their respective houses; and neither of said officers shall receive from the State Treasury any other emoluments or pay whatever. Secretary of Senate and Clerk of House. For compensation of the Journalizing Clerks of the House and Senate, seven hundred and fifty dollars each, and the Assistant Secretary of the Senate, and the Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, seven hundred and fifty dollars each. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] For compensation of the Constitutional Clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives, for services actually rendered, eight dollars per day, and authorized Clerks, seven dollars per day, without mileage to either, upon the certificate of the Chairman of the Committee of Enrollment of the Senate and House of Representatives, respectively, of the number of days of service each Clerk has performed. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the compensation of the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives, ten dollars per diem, each, during the session of the General Assembly, and the mileage now allowed by law. [Illegible Text] For compensation of the members of the General Assembly, during the session, seven dollars per diem, each, and the mileage now allowed by law; of the Doorkeeper of the Senate and Doorkeeper of the House, and Messenger of the Senate and Messenger of the House of Representatives, the same per diem allowed to the members of the General Assembly. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] For compensation of the Assistant Door and Gallery Keepers, seven dollars per diem, without mileage. [Illegible Text] For compensation of two porters, for sweeping and cleaning the hall and galleries of the Senate and House of Representatives, and attendance on committees, four dollars per diem, each. [Illegible Text] For compensation of one Page of the Senate, and two Pages of the House of Representatives, three dollars per diem, each. [Illegible Text] For compensation of Isaac Hill, colored, for services in keeping the water closets at the Capitol, three dollars per diem. [Illegible Text] Be it further enacted, That for compensation of Chaplains of the Senate and House of Representatives, one hundred and fifty dollars for each House, to be divided amongst officiating ministers of the gospel. [Illegible Text] 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the compensation for the Judicial Department shall be as follows: For compensation of the Judges of the Supreme Court, thirty-five hundred dollars each. [Illegible Text] Judges.

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For compensation of the Judges of the Superior Courts, twenty-five hundred dollars each. Superior Court [Illegible Text] For compensation of the Solicitors General for the several Circuits, two hundred and fifty dollars each. Solicitors General. For compensation to the Reporter of the decisions of the Supreme Court, one thousand dollars. Supreme Court Reporter. For compensation to the Clerk of the Supreme Court, for printing, stationery, purchase of record books, and binding the opinions of the Court, six hundred dollars. [Illegible Text] 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the appropriation for miscelianeous purposes shall be as follows: [Illegible Text] For compensation of the Trustees of the Lunatic Asylum, three hundred dollars each. [Illegible Text] For compensation of the Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary, two thousand dollars. Principal Keeper Penitentiary. To defray the expenses of the Academy of the Blind, and for salaries of its officers, and for the repair of its buildings and out houses, fences, etc., thirteen thousand dollars. [Illegible Text] For support of the Institution of the Deaf and Dumb, sixteen thousand and five hundred dollars. [Illegible Text] For the support and maintenance of the State Lunatic Asylum and its inmates, one hundred and ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the Governor is authorized to make, at the commencement and middle of each quarter, a safe advance to cover the cost of supplies and incidental expenses needed for that quarter: Provided, that the Governor shall require of the Superintendent and Resident Physician a quarterly itemized statement of all the expenditures, which statement shall be furnished the Board of Trustees for the Asylum. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] For compensation of the resident physician of the State Lunatic Asylum, twenty-five hundred dollars. [Illegible Text] For compensation of the Superintendent of Public Works, fifteen hundred dollars. [Illegible Text] For the maintenance and care of the public buildings in Milledgeville, the State House and Governor's Mansion, in Atlanta, for coal, wood, gas and insurance, and the hire of servants, twelve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and that the Superintendent of Public Works is hereby required to render to the Governor, annually, an itemized statement of expenditures under this appropriation. [Illegible Text] For the payment of the interest on the public debt, and to redeem maturing bonds, seven hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. [Illegible Text] That the sum of twenty dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the expenses of each member of the Joint Committee on the Lunatic Asylum, for visiting that institution during the present session, and the sum of fifteen dollars to pay the expenses of each of the Joint Committee on the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, for visiting that instition

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during the present session, to be paid out on an itemized account of actual expenses. [Illegible Text] of Joint [Illegible Text] 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of seven thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, [Illegible Text] appropriated for expenses of the clerical force in the Executive Department. Clerical force Ex. Departme't. That twelve hundred dollars be annually appropriated to pay clerk in Wild Land office. Clerk Wild Land [Illegible Text] That the sum of seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, on an itemized account of actual expenses, be appropriated to pay the expenses of the Committee visiting the Academy of the Blind. Expenses of Committee on Asylum for Blind. 7. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars be appropriated for the [Illegible Text] fund. [Illegible Text] fund. 8. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated for the printing fund. Printing fund. 9. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of seventy-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay the incidental expenses of the House of Representatives, and a similar amount be appropriated to pay the incidental expenses of the Senate during the present session of the General Assembly; said sums to be drawn upon the warrant of the Governor, on presentation to him by the Clerk of the House and Secretary of the Senate, respectively, an itemized account of said incidental expenses. Incidental expenses of Senate and House. 10. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of five hundred dollars be appropriated for the purpose of [Illegible Text] the apparatus of the Chemical Laboratory of the Department of Agriculture, and supply chemicals for soil and mineral analysis, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Chemical [Illegible Text] 11. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of five hundred and seventy dollars and twenty-five cents is hereby appropriated, to pay the bill for stationery for the General Assembly. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] General Assembly. 12. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated to pay the interest due on the bonds of the North and South Road, endorsed by the State. Interest on certain bonds. 13. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of three hundred and eighty dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to pay J. F. Jones and A. T. Barnett for seventy-six maps furnished the Comptroller-General's Department, and that the Governor be, and he is hereby, authorized to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the same. Appropriation to J. [Illegible Text] Jones for maps. 14. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to purchase books for the State Library. Books for State library.

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15. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That the sum of nine hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for compensation of Arthur Hood, for professional services in representing the State of Georgia in the case of the State of Georgia, et al., against the Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company, et al., in Glynn Superior Court: Provided, the same shall be in full satisfaction for all claims he has against the State, in said case. Arthur Hood. Proviso. SEC. XVI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 18, 1875. No. IV. (O. No. 150.) An Act to appropriate funds to the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and to the North Georgia Agricultural College. WHEREAS, The Congress of the United States did, by an act approved July 2, 1862, appropriate to the State of Georgia scrip for 30,000 acres of public lands for each Senator and Representative in Congress, from said State, for the purpose of establishing in Georgia a college, or colleges, whose chief object should be to teach such branches of learning as relate to agriculture and the mechanic arts; and WHEREAS, the proceeds arising from the sale of this land scrip, amounting to [Illegible Text] was, by the order of the Executive of this State, dated March 30, 1872, made subject to the order of the Trustees of the State University for the purpose of establishing the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, at Athens, in connection with said University; and WHEREAS, said Trustees did proceed to organize said State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and subsequently did appropriate $2,000 per year of the income arising from the landscrip fund to organize the North Georgia Agricultural College at Dahlonega; and WHEREAS, the city of Athens has donated to the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, for the purpose of constructing a laboratory for said college, the sum of $25,000; therefore, [Illegible Text] 16. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the sum of $15,000 is hereby appropriated to the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, at Athens, to be used exclusively in the purchase of apparatus, models and other equipments, including fixtures of the laboratory required for teaching and illustrating the different branches of science taught in said college: Provided, that this amount shall be paid in three years, $5,000 each year, upon a warrant drawn on the Treasurer of the State by the Treasurer of the college, approved by the President of the Board of Trustees. [Illegible Text] to College of Agriculture and [Illegible Text] 17. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the sum of $3,000 is hereby appropriated to the North Georgia Agricultural College, at

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Dahlonega, to be used in repairs of the building of said college, and for the purchase of apparatus, which amount shall be subject to the order of the Treasurer of the college when approved by the President of the Board of Trustees of said North Georgia Agricultural College. Appropriation to College at Dahlonega. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. TITLE III. BONDS. SECTION. 1. Registration of Bonds, payment presumed, etc. 2. Books for registration; continuous ownership and affidavit of holder. 3. Payment prohibited. 4. Book of record to be presented to Governor. 5. Provisions of act to be published. 6. Bonds of Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad endorsed by the State. Payment by the State prohibited. 7. Governor may purchase railroads having State endorsement. 8. Directors to manage purchased road. 9. Road may be run, leased or sold. No. V (O. N. 217.) An Act to protect the people of the State of Georgia against the repayment of past due bonds. WHEREAS, divers bonds of the State of Georgia which matured prior to the 1st day of January, 1872, are now in circulation; and WHEREAS, it is believed that all of said bonds have been paid, and have been illegally and fraudulently re-issued and negotiated, and the extent and amount of said bonds so re-issued and negotiated is unknown to this General Assembly, Preamble. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That all persons holding bonds of the State of Georgia, which matured prior to the 1st day of January, 1872, are hereby required to present the same to the Treasurer of the State for registration on or before the first day of August, 1875, and upon failure so to present said bonds, and to submit the same for registration, the same shall be deemed prima facie to have been paid, and to have been illegally or fraudulently re-issued and negotiated. Certain bonds to be registered. Before what term. Payment presumed, when. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Treasurer of the State to provide and keep a suitable record book in which to register the bonds required to be registered under this act, and it shall be his duty to record the same thereon, and to require

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that the persons presenting the same shall establish continuous ownership for the last five years by the affidavit of each [Illegible Text] holder, through whose hands they shall have passed, showing from whom the bonds were bought and to whom they were sold, giving number of bond presented, date of issue, when due, denomination, time, amount, by whom presented, when presented, character of issue, and the reason for having delayed their presentation for payment so long after maturity, and such other information as will enable the General Assembly fully to identify the same. Book for registration. [Illegible Text] to keep. Continuous ownership of bonds. Holder to make [Illegible Text] What the [Illegible Text] must contain. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the Treasurer be, and he is hereby prohibited, from paying any of the bonds of the State which matured prior to the 1st day of January, 1872, or any interest thereon, except as hereinafter provided. Treasurer prohibited from [Illegible Text] certain [Illegible Text] 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That at the expiration of the time mentioned in this act for the registration of the bonds aforesaid, to-wit: the 1st day of August, 1875, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer to present the record book thus kept to the Governor, who is hereby authorized to allow and direct the Treasurer to pay such past due bonds so recorded as shall appear to him, from all the circumstances connected therewith, to be properly chargeable to the State and entitled to payment. Treasurer to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of record to Governor. Gov. may direct payment of bonds. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Treasurer, immediately upon the passage of this act, to give notice of the provisions, thereby publishing the same at least two months in two newspapers published in the city of Atlanta, and two in the city of New York. Provisions of this act to be published. SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. VI. (O. No. 147.) An Act to [Illegible Text] the State's endorsement on the bonds of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company. WHEREAS, It clearly appears from the testimony taken by a joint special committee of the last General Assembly, appointed under resolution approved February 28, 1874, and authorized to investigate the liability of the State of Georgia upon the endorsed bonds of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company, that the bonds of said Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company endorsed by Rufus B. Bullock, late Governor, under the alleged authority of an act approved March 20, 1869, are second mortgage bonds, and upon their face expressly recognize the existence of a prior and first mortgage and lien upon the property of said Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company; and WHEREAS, the endorsement of the State's guaranty upon the second mortgage bonds

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of any railroad company is a violation of paragraph 5, section 6, of Article III, of the Constitution of this State; therefore, Preamble. 6. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Governor, Treasurer, and all other officers, be, and they are hereby, forever restrained from paying any of the bonds of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company, bearing the endorsement of the State of Georgia, as authorized by an act approved March 20, 1869, or any interest which has accrued or may accrue on said bonds. Bonds of Ala. Chattanooga. R. R.endor'd by Statepayment by State prohibited. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. VII. (O. No. 353.) An Act to provide for the further protection of the State where its [Illegible Text] has been obtained upon railroad bonds, and enable the Governor to appoint Commissioners to manage or otherwise dispose of the same under his authority. WHEREAS, It is provided in the acts authorizing the State to endorse the bonds of certain railroads, and upon the happening of certain contingences therein specified, to seize and sell the same; and WHEREAS, there is no authority given by law to protect the State in case any of the said roads were likely to be sacrificed under said sales, for remedy whereof, [Illegible Text]. 7. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That whenever any railroad having the State's endorsement upon its bonds shall be brought to sale under the laws of force touching the same, the Governor shall be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered, in the name of the State, to bid for and to buy the same, if at such sale the said railroad is likely to be [Illegible Text] or sold for an amount less than its [Illegible Text] value, and of which he shall be the judge: Provided, the Governor shall in no case bid a larger amount for said road than the State's legal liability. R.R. Companies having State endorsementGov. may buy. When the Gov. may purchase. Price limited. 8. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That if any one or more of the railroads so having the State's endorsement upon its bonds shall be purchased by the State under the foregoing section, then it shall be the duty of the Governor to appoint for each of said railroads three [Illegible Text] and responsible persons, who shall take charge thereof as a board of directors, with full and ample power to manage the same. Board of Directors in manag' purchas'd ro'ds. 9. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said board, when so appointed, if in their soundest discretion shall deem it best for the interest of the State to sell, to lease, or run the same, they are hereby authorized and intrusted with plenary power therefor, upon such terms and time as will yield the greatest amount of money

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wherewith to relieve the State from its liability: Provided, however, that no sale or lease shall be binding upon the State until the same shall have the approval in writing of the Governor endorsed thereon. Road may be run, leased or sold. Proviso. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. TITLE IV. CODE AMENDMENTS. SECTION. 1. (110.) Fees of Comptroller General in tax fi. fas. against railroad companies. 2. (154.) Time for filing bonds of county officers. 3. (399.) Admission of lawyers from other States. 4. (402.) Attorneys from other States may be examined. 5. (708.) Railroad engineers may ring bell at crossings. 6. (1423.) Selling liquor to minors. 7. (1430.) Advertisement of estrays. 8. (1579.) Fees of Inspectors of kerosene oil. 9. (1599.) Weighing cotton and rice. 10. (1600.) Oath of weighers, and penalties. 11. (1700.) Prohibited degrees of marriage. 12. (1876.) Binding out of certain minors. 13. (1978.) Liens of landlords. 14. (2016.) Applications for homestead. 15. (2676.) Holding land by [Illegible Text]. 16. (3554.) Garnishment of daily wages. 17. (3586.) Sale of property [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] for [Illegible Text]. 18. (3698.) Fees of [Illegible Text] for turning keys. 19. (3879.) Residence of witness to be interrogated. 20. (1082.) Levy of distress warrants [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 21. (1097.) Juries in cases of [Illegible Text] 22. (1252.) Bills of exceptions. 23. (4372.) Opprobrious words and abusive language. 24. (4401.) Hog stealing made felony. 25. (4437.) Unlawful intrusion on railroad tracks. 26. (4600.) [Illegible Text] to sell personal property under certain liens. 27. (4620.) Private burying grouads. No. VIII. (O. No. 227.) An Act to amend section 110 of the Code of 1873. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That nothing in said section contained shall allow the Comptroller General to receive, retain, or charge, on the tax executions issued under the Act of 1874, against incorporated railroad companies, the ten per cent. specified in said section, but he shall only retain, for such execution, the cost of issuing said fi. fas. Tax executions [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. IX. (O. No. 156.) An Act to repeal the proviso annexed to section 154 of the Code of 1873, enlarging the time for filing the official bonds of all County officers therein named. 2. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, the proviso annexed to said section 154 of the Revised Code of 1873, be and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, that nothing contained in the provisions of this Act shall apply to or affect officers already elected. Bonds to be [Illegible Text] within [Illegible Text] days alt'r election or [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. [Illegible Text]. The proviso to the section amended, allowed certain officers named therein, until June following their election, to file their official bonds. No. X. (O. No. 153.) An Act to amend section 399 and 402 of the Code of 1873, in relation to the admission of Lawyers from other States to practice law in this State. 3. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the second clause of section 399 of the Code of 1873 be amended by adding at the close of said section, the following words: And by submitting to, and undergoing such examination as to the laws of this State as the Judge of the Superior Court where such application is made may require. Lawyers from other States may be examin'd as to laws of Ga. 4. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That section 402 of the Code of 1873 be amended by striking out all after the word State in the last line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof, the words by submitting to and undergoing such examination as to the laws of the State as the Judge of the Superior Court where the application is made may require. Lawyers from other States who become residents of Ga. may be examined on laws of this State. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. NOTE.Attorneys who have been admitted in other States could, heretofore, be admitted in this State without any examination.

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No. XI. (O. No. 53.) An Act to amend section 708 and 710 of the Revised Code of Georgia, so far as the same are applicable to crossings and public roads within the limits of incorporated cities, towns and villages of this State. 5. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That within the corporate limits of the cities, towns and villages of this State, the several railroad companies shall not be required to blow the whistle of their locomotives, on approaching crossings or public roads in said corporate limits, as now required by law, but in lieu thereof, the engineer of said locomotives shall be required to signal the approach of their trains to such crossings and public roads in said corporate limits, by tolling the bell of said locomotive, and on failue to do so, the penalties of section 710 of the Revised Code shall apply to such offense. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 23, 1875. No. XII. (O. No. 73.) An Act to amend section 1424 of the Code of Georgia. 6. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 1423 of the Code of Georgia of 1873, in regard to selling or furnishing spirituous liquors to an intoxicated or drunken person, be, and is hereby, amended by striking out the word retailer in said section, and inserting in lieu thereof, seller. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. NOTE.The penalties imposed by the section of the Code amended, could only be imposed on retailers. No. XIII. (O. No. 151.) An Act to amend section 1430 of the Code of 1873 by adding a proviso thereto. 7. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the following proviso be added to section 1430 of the Code of 1873, to-wit

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Provided, That if such estray or estrays be a sheep, hog or goat, it shall only be necessary for the Ordinary to advertise the same at the court house door of the district where taken up, and at the Court-house door of the county site for ten days without advertising the same in a public gazette, etc. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. NOTE.[Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] required advertisement in public gazette. No. XIV. (O. No. 315.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act entitled an act to [Illegible Text] the people of this State in the sale of kerosene oil, assented to [Illegible Text] 24, 1870. 8. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the above [Illegible Text] Act be amended by making the fee of the Inspector of oil one half of one cent for every gallon, in lots of more than four hundred gallons. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the fifth section of the above recited Act be, and the same is hereby, repealed. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. NOTE.This Act amends section 1579 of the Code, and reduces fees one-half. No. XV. (O. No. 46.) An Act to repeal sections 1599 and 1600 of the New Code of Georgia, in relation to the weighing of cotton and [Illegible Text], and to relieve [Illegible Text] parties from all penalties for violating the same. 9. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That sections 1599 and 1600 of the New Code of Georgia, (of [Illegible Text],) relating to the weighing of cotton and rice, and fixing penalties for violating the same, are hereby repealed. [Illegible Text]. 10. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all persons or parties against whom proceedings have been instituted in any of the courts of this State for violating or failing to comply with the terms of

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said sections of the Code, are hereby relieved from all penalties or liabilities incurred thereby. [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 22, 1875. NOTE.The section repealed required weighers of cotton and [Illegible Text] to take an [Illegible Text] that they would [Illegible Text], impartially, and without [Illegible Text], weigh all [Illegible Text] parties concerned. No XVI. (O. No. 197.) An Act to alter and amend section 1700 of Irwin, Lester and Hill's Revised Code. 11. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, section 1700 of Irwin, Lester and Hill's Revised Code be so amended as to strike therefrom the following words, to-wit: or widow of his uncle. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. NOTE.The marriage of a man to the widow of his uncle was, by the [Illegible Text] incestuous. No. XVII. (O. No. 130.) An Act to amend section 1876 of the Revised Code, in relation to the binding out of certain miners, by adding a provision thereto, requiring notices to be given, and for other purposes. 12. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That section 1876 of the Revised Code, be, and the same is hereby amended, by adding the following words to the same: Provided, that before the Judge of the County Court of Ordinary shall bind out any such minor, such Judge or Ordinary shall give fifteen days' notice, by a plainly written citation, calling upon all persons interested, to show cause why such minor should not be bound out, and specifying the time and place when he will pass upon the same, one of which citations shall be posted on the court house door of the county, and the other at some public place in the militia district in which said minor may then be, and shall also cause copies of said citation to be served upon the next of kin of said minor, if any be found in said county, at least ten days before

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the hearing, and if no next of kin are found in the county, then the citation to be published once a week for four weeks in the paper in which the legal advertisements are published; and in all such cases the Judge or Ordinary shall appoint for such minor a guardian ad litem, before binding him or her out, which guardian ad litem shall not be the applicant, nor any relative of his. After a full hearing, such Judge or Ordinary may bind out such minor or minors, if no blood kin of said minor or minors appear, who are willing and competent to undertake his support and maintenance, and if no other good cause to the contrary be shown by such guardian ad litem, or any other person. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. Publication in newspaperwhen. Guardian ad litem. Minor may be bound out. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. NOTE.The section amended did not require a guardian ad litem, or the notice herein required. No. XVIII. (O. No. 96.) An Act to amend so much of section 1978, of the Code of 1873, as relates to the liens of Landlords. 13. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, section 1978, of the Code of 1873, be so amended that the liens of landlords therein provided for, shall arise by operation of law from the relation of landlord and tenant, as well as by special contract in writing, whenever the landlord shall furnish the articles enumerated in said section, or any one of them, to the tenant for the purposes therein named, and that said liens may be enforced in the manner provided in section 1991 of said Code. Liens of landlords arise by operation of lawwhen. Liens to be enforced, how. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That whenever said liens may be created by special contract in writing, as now provided by law, the same shall be assignable by the landlord, and may be enforced by the assignees in the manner provided for the enforcement of such liens by landlords. Liens in writing may be transferred. Enforc'm'nt by [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. NOTE.This Act makes landlords' liens assignable, and provides for the existence of the lien by the operation of law.

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No. XIX. (O. No. 215.) An Act to amend section 2016 of the Revised Code of 1873. 14. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 2016 of the Revised Code of 1873, be amended by adding to said section the following, to-wit: Provided further, That the foregoing shall also apply in all cases in which the Ordinary is disqualified by reason of interest, connection, or relation, as set forth in section 205 of this Code. Application for [Illegible Text] when ordinary is applicant or [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. NOTE.The section amended provides that when the Ordinary applies for the homestead, the Clerk of the Superior Court shall receive the application, and set the [Illegible Text] apart. No. XX. (O. No. 107.) An Act to repeal section 2676 of the Code of 1873 prescribing the manner in which aliens may hold lands in Georgia. WHEREAS, there is a conflict between sections 2676 and 1661 of the Code of 1873; and WHEREAS, it has been, and is, the policy of this State to secure to aliens, the subjects of governments at peace with the United States and this State, so long as their government remain at peace, all the rights of citizens of other States, resident in this State, which rights are restricted and abridged as to aliens by the provisions of section 2676, for remedy whereof, Preamble. 15. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, section 2676 of the Code of 1873, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Code repealed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. NOTE.The section repealed required an alien before he could hold land, to take an oath, in writing, that it is his intention, bona fide, to improve the same, etc. No. XXI. (O. No. 60.) An Act to amend section 3554 of the Code of 1873. 16. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, section

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3554 of the Code of 1873 be, and the same is hereby, amended, by adding to the proviso of said section the following words, to-wit: [Illegible Text] when the consideration of said debt is services rendered by any physician, or surgeon, to the employe, or his family, or medicine furnished by any physician, surgeon, druggist, or apothecary, to said employe, or his family. Wages subject to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] bills, etc. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting law Approved February 24, 1875. NOTE.The section amended made daily or weekly wages subject to garnishment only for [Illegible Text] or provisions. No. XXII. (O. No. 148.) An Act to alter and amend section 3586 of the Code of 1873. 17. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 3586 of the Code of 1873 be so altered and amended as to read, after the word cases, in next to the last line in said section, as follows: Notice of the levy shall be given by the levying officer to the holder of the bond for titles, and also to the maker of the bond, and in case of death to his legal representatives. Property sold under bond for titles [Illegible Text] to whom to be given. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. NOTE.The [Illegible Text] amended only required notice to be given to the holder of the bonds for [Illegible Text]. No. XXIII. (O. No. 218.) An Act to [Illegible Text] section 3698 of Code of 1873, as far as it relates to the fees of Jailer for turning the key or discharging the prisoner by virtue of [Illegible Text] corpus, etc. 18. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, section 3698 of the Code of 1873, relating to the fees of Jailer, the words therein, for turning the key, or discharging the prisoner by virtue of habcas corpus, by order of the Court, Judge or Justice, shall be construed as follows: That the Jailer is allowed sixty cents for

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turning key when he receives the prisoner, and when he brings him or them before court for trial, and said prisoner has been tried, but in no way shall he receive any fees for turning keys more than once for a prisoner; that is to say, only for turning the key when he receives the prisoner, and when he finally discharges him. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. NOTE.The section amended did not limit the number of times a [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] or taking a prisoner before the Court under writ of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. No. XXIV. (O. No. 66.) An Act to amend section 3879 of the Code. 19. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 3879, of the Code of Georgia of 1873, [Illegible Text] amended by striking out the words, if known, in the fifth and sixth lines of said section. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. NOTE.The section amended [Illegible Text] that the party [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] should state the residence of the witness, if known. No. XXV. (O. No. 135.) An Act to amend section 4082 of the Code of Georgia, to [Illegible Text] Constables, as well as Sheriffs and their deputies to levy distress warrants when the amount claimed exceeds one hundred dollars. 20. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, section 4082 of the Code of Georgia be so amended that the last clause of said section shall read as follows: Provided, if the sum claimed to be due exceeds one hundred dollars, and said warrant shall be levied by a Constable, it shall be his duty to deliver the warrant, with a return of the property levied upon, to the Sheriff of said county, or his deputy, who shall advertise and sell as now provided by law for Sheriff's sales. [Illegible Text] warrantsConstables may levy when over [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. NOTE.Before the passage of this Act, Constables could not levy distress warrants where the [Illegible Text] claimed was over one hundred dollars.

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No. XXVI. (O. No. 226.) An Act to amend section 4097 of the Revised Code of 1873, so as to prescribe the manner of obtaining a jury in cases of nuisance, when the nuisance complained of is a grist or saw mill, or other water machinery. 21. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That in all cases of nuisance, when the nuisance complained of is a grist or saw mill, or other water machinery of valuable consideration, and application has been made to have said nuisance abated, as is provided in section 4097 of the Revised Code of 1873, it shall be the duty of the Ordinary of the county to take from the jury list of file in the Clerk's office of the Superior Court of said county, one hundred names, to be written upon separate pieces of paper, and placed by him in a box, and from said box he shall draw twelve jurors, and make out a list of the jurors so drawn, and deliver a copy thereof to the Sheriff, or his deputy, who shall summon said jurors at least two days before the time set for the hearing of said case in the same manner that jurors are now summoned in the Superior Court, said jurors so summoned shall attend at the court-house of said county, at the time specified in said summons; and if any of said jurors should be disqualified from serving for any legal cause, it shall be the duty of the Sheriff, or his deputy, under direction of said Ordinary, to summons a sufficient number of tales jurors to complete the jury for the trial of said nuisance. [Illegible Text] in certain cases of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. Who shall summon. How [Illegible Text]. Where to [Illegible Text] Tales jurors SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the jurors serving under the first section of this act shall be entitled to the same per diem allowed jurors in the Superior Court of the county where such trial is had. Per diem [Illegible Text] of such jurors. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. NOTE.The section amended did not prescribe that the jury should come from the jury list, etc. No. XXVII. (O. No. 79.) An Act to amend the law of tendering and certifying bills of exceptions, as contained in section 4252 of the new Code of 1873, and to prescribe the time in which bills of exceptions shall be tendered. 22. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, section

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4252 of the new Code of 1873 be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: Such bill of exceptions shall be tendered to the Judge who presided in the cause within thirty days from the adjournment of the court, or the date of the decision at chambers, and in the event that the court shall not adjourn within thirty days from the date of the organization and opening of the court, then such bill of exceptions shall be tendered to the Judge who presided in the cause within sixty days from the date of the decision, judgment, verdict or decree rendered; and if the same is true, and contains, in connection with the transcript of the record, all the facts necessary to the understanding and adjudication of the alleged error, the said Judge shall sign and certify the same substantially as follows: Bills of exceptionwhen to be tendered. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the form prescribed for a substantial compliance by the Judge with the requirements of section 4252, as to certificates, be, and the same is hereby, re-enacted and continued. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. NOTE.Before the passage of this Act the bill of exceptions might be tendered within thirty days from adjournment, and in some counties where the terms continued several months, the delay was considerable, and often unnecessary. No. XXVIII. (O. No. 121.) An Act to amend section 4372 of the Code of 1873. 23. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 4372 of the Code of Georgia, published in 1873, be so amended that the proviso to said section shall read as follows, to-wit: Provided, That no Court in this State shall have jurisdiction to inquire into the offenses set forth in this section, except upon presentment made or indictment found by the grand jury of the county in which the offenses have been committed. Superior Court stricken [Illegible Text] of the [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. NOTE.By this section amended no Court, except the Superior Court, could enquire into or try cases of misdemeanor for using opprobrious words, etc.

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No. XXIX. (O. No. 50.) An Act to amend Section 4401, of the Code of Georgia, defining the punishment of hog-stealing. 24. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That section 4401, of the Code of Georgia, be so amended as to strike out so much of said section as defines the punishment of hog-stealing, and that the penalty for the said offense shall be the same as is now prescribed in section 4399 for the offense of cattle stealing. Hog [Illegible Text][Illegible Text] in certain cases. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 23, 1875. NOTE.Under the section amended by this Act, [Illegible Text] was a [Illegible Text]. This Act makes it a felony, [Illegible Text] the [Illegible Text] recommend to merey. No. XXX. (O. No. 223) An Act to amend section 4437 of the Code of 1873, by striking therefrom the word chartered. 25. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the word chartered, in said section 4437 of the Code of 1873, be stricken therefrom. Intruding unlawful y on any rail road track. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. NOTE.The law before made it a misdemeanor to intrude unlawfully on the track of chartered railroad companies. This Act makes it apply to all railroad tracks. No. XXXI. (O. No. 48.) An Act to amend section 4600 of Irwin's Revised Code, relating to [Illegible Text] sales of personal property, while under mortgage, by extending the same to fraudulent sale or purchase of crops, while under landlords' lien for rent or other cause. 26. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the said

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section 4600 of Irwin's Revised Code be amended so that the provision of said section (4600) of the Code of 1873 be extended to and include liens for rent and advances made upon crops by landlords, employers, or others, as authorized by law. [Illegible Text] to sell personal prope'ty under liens for rent or advances on crops. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 22, 1875. No. XXXII. (O. No. 323.) An Act to amend section 4620 of the Code of 1873, so as to make the same apply to any private grave yard [Illegible Text] burial ground. 27. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 4620 of the Code of 1873 be amended by inserting between the words public and grave yard, in the third line of said section, the words or private, so that the same shall read any public or private grave yard or burying ground. Penalty for injuring or destroying private burying [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. NOTE.The section amended relates to punishment for injuring fences around grave yards. TITLE V. CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS. SECTION. 1. Additional clause prohibiting payment of certain [Illegible Text]. 2. Proclamation by the Governor. 3. Homestead reduced. 4. Proclamation by the Governor. 5. Residence of voters. No. XXXIII. (O. No. 97.) An Act to amend the Constitution of this State. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the following be added as an amendment, and an

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additional clause, to the sixth section of the third article of the Constitution of this State, to-wit: Neither the General Assembly, nor any other authority or officer of this State, shall ever have power to pay, or recognize as legal, or in any sense valid or binding upon the State, any direct bonds, gold bonds, or currency bonds, or the State's alleged guaranty or endorsement of any railroad bonds, or any other bonds, guaranties or endorsements heretofore declared to be illegal, fraudulent or void by act or resolution of the Legislature of the State, or that may be declared illegal, fraudulent or void by act or resolution of the Legislature originating this amendment, viz: the State gold bonds, issued under the act of October 17, 1870, in aid of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company; the currency bonds, issued under the act of August 27, 1870; the quarterly gold bonds, issued under the act of September 15, 1870, which are enumerated in the act of August 23, 1872; the endorsement of the State upon the bonds of the Brunswick and Albany Railroad Company, made under the act of March 18, 1869; the endorsement of the State upon the bonds of the Cartersville and Van Wert Railroad Company, and of the Cherokee Railroad Company; the endorsement of the State upon the bonds of the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus Railroad Company; and all other bonds, guaranties or endorsements declared illegal, fraudulent, or void, as herein provided. Nor shall any General Assembly ever have power to provide for the reendorsement of such railroad bonds, or to place the State's guaranty upon the same; or to provide for the endorsement or guaranty by the State of any new bonds issued in lieu of, or to pay off, or retire such railroad bonds by any railroad company; or to issue bonds of the State to such railroad companies, or other persons, in payment or in lieu of such endorsed bonds, or other bonds herein declared illegal; or to lend the aid or credit of the State by any act, resolution or law, to such railroad companies, or to other incorporated companies, or persons acquiring or succeeding to the rights and [Illegible Text] of said companies; or to buy the railroads of such companies, or to submit the question of the liability of the State upon any of the bonds, or endorsements upon bonds, or other guaranty herein declared illegal, fraudulent and void, or upon any claim for money advanced upon said bonds, endorsements or guaranties, or expended by said companies or other person, in and about the construction of said railroads, to the decisions of any court, tribunal, or person whatever; or to pay, assume or secure, directly or indirectly, by any act, resolution or law, any money advanced, or claimed to have been advanced, on the bonds, endorsements or other guaranties herein declared to be invalid. Additional clause. Bonds heretofore declared illegal and voidshall ever be paid. Bonds enumerated. No General Assembly shall have power to pay off or provide for re-endorsement of such bonds. Or to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] in lieu thereof. Or to buy such R. Rs. Or submit liability to [Illegible Text] of any court, tribunal or person. Or to pay or secure any money advanced on such bonds, etc. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That so soon as this Act shall have been passed by the requisite vote of two-thirds of two successive Legislatures, in the manner required by the Constitution, His Excellency, the Governor, be, and he is hereby, authorized

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and directed to provide by proclamation for submitting the amendment herein proposed to the qualified voters of said State for final ratification, upon a day to be fixed by the proclamation; the manner of voting and conducting the election to be such as is, or may be prescribed by law for the election of members to the most numerous branch of the Legislature. Gov. to issue [Illegible Text] submitting the amendment to people. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. NOTE.This Act must be passed by the next [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text], and then ratified by the people, before it becomes part of the Constitution. No. XXXIV. (O. No. 75.) An Act to amend the Constitution of this State. 3. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That so soon as this Act shall have passed two successive Legislatures, and been ratified by the people, the following be incorporated in section first of the seventh Article of the Constitution of this State, to-wit: Realty of the value of seven hundred dollars, in specie, and personal property to the value of three hundred dollars, in specie, in lien of Realty of the value of two thousand dollars, in specie, and personal property to the value of one thousand dollars in specie. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 4. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That as soon as this Act shall have been passed by the requisite vote of two successive Legislatures, as required by the Constitution, His Excellency, the Governor, be authorized and directed to provide by proclamation for submitting the same to the qualified voters of the State for final ratification. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. NOTE.This Act must be passed by the next [Illegible Text] Legislature, and then be ratified by the people before it becomes a part of the Constitution.

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No. XXXV. (O. No. 67.) An Act to alter and amend second section of Article II of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, so far as it relates to the residence of voters. 5. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That so soon as the requirements of the Constitution as to constitutional amendments shall have been complied with, the words, six months, contained in second section of second article of said Constitution be stricken out, and the words, one year, be substituted in lieu thereof, and the words, thirty days, contained in said section second article second of said Constitution, be stricken out, and the words, six months, be inserted in lieu thereof, so that the clause of said section second article second of the Constitution of this State, in relation to the time required for the residence of voters in this State, shall read: Who shall have resided in this State one year next preceding the election, and shall have resided six months in the county in which he offers to vote. Electorsresidence in State one year in county six months to be required. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. NOTE.This Act has been passed by two successive Legislatures, and only needs ratification by the people to [Illegible Text] a part of the [Illegible Text].

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TITLE VI. GEOLOGICAL SURVEY. SECTION. 1. Duties of State Geologist. 2. Assistants to State Geologist. 3. Repeal of sixth section of original act. No. XXXVI. (O. No. 183.) An Act to amend an act to create the office of State Geologist, and to provide for a geological, [Illegible Text] and physical survey for the State of Georgia, approved February 27, 1874, and further to define the duties of the State Geologist and his assistants, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, and as soon as the State Geologist shall have performed the duties required in the third section of the act entitled an act to create the office of State Geologist, and to provide for a geological, mineralogical and physical survey of the State of Georgia, and for other purposes, approved February 27, 1874, that it shall be the duty of the State Geologist, and of his assistants therein named, to commence the prosecution of their duties on the eastern or western boundary of the State, taking in each of the sections to be known as North, Middle and South Georgia, the most [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of the counties in these respective sections, and to examine, survey and report upon the same, in accordance with the requirements of the provisions of said act, and afterwards to take the next most [Illegible Text] or westerly tier of counties running from north to south, and so on, until all the counties in each one of the three sections in this State shall have been fully surveyed, examined and reported upon, as is provided for in said act creating the office of State Geologist. [Illegible Text] 2. SEC. II. The General Assembly do enact, That section 3 of said original act be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out first clause of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof, that the State Geologist shall have three assistants to be appointed or removed by the Board of Advisement on his recommendation, and that said section be further amended by striking from the tenth line the words, enter upon one of these sections, and so that said section, when amended, shall permit said State Geologist to assign

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one assistant to each geological section of the State, he having general supervision of the whole work. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] each Geological section. 3. SEC. III. The General Assembly do enact, That section 6 of the original act, approved February 27, 1874, be and the same is hereby, repealed. Sec. VI original act repealed. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. NOTE.The section (VI) of the original act prescribed the pay of the Geologist and his assistants. TITLE VII. HEALTH. SECTION. 1. [Illegible Text] of State Board of Health. 2. [Illegible Text] of office, oath, and place of meeting. 3. Vacancies. 4. President and Secretary. 5. [Illegible Text] of Board. 6. [Illegible Text] of information, reports, etc. 7. Health Officers and Commissioners of [Illegible Text]. 8. Registration of marriages, births and deaths. 9. Annual Report. 10. Annual and Special meetings. 11. Physicians to report deaths and births. 12. Parents to report cause of death. 13. Coroners to report cause of death. 14. Ordinaries to keep records, etc. 15. FormsBoard to prepare. 16. Appropriations to carry this Act into effect. 17. Existing Medical Boards. 18. Board of Examining Physicians to meet in Atlanta. No. XXXVII. (O. No. 76.) An Act to [Illegible Text] a State Board of Health for the protection of life and health, and to prevent the spread of discases in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes. 1. SEC. I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That within ninety days after the passage of this Act, the Governor shall appoint nine physicians, of skill and experience, who shall have been regular graduates of medicine, and practitioners of not less than ten years, one from each Congressional District in the State, who, for the time being, shall be Sanitary Commissioners for the said Districts, and the said Sanitary Commissioners, together with the Comptroller General and Attorney General and State Geologist, shall constitute a Board of Health to be called the Board of Health of the State of Georgia, five members [Illegible Text]

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which, at any regularly called or adjourned meeting, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Nine physiciansGov. to appoint, Qualifications. One from each Congressional district. Sanitary Commissioners. Board of Health of [Illegible Text]. Quorum. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the said nine physicians, so appointed, shall hold office as such Sanitary Commissioners respectively for the terms following, namely: Three for two years, three for four years and three for six years, and until their successors are appointed and qualified. After the appointment of said nine physicians as aforesaid, they shall meet in the office of Secretary of State, upon notice from him of the day of meeting, and shall proceed, under his direction, to determine by lot which of them shall hold for the respective terms of two, four and six years, the said office of Sanitary Commissioners. Immediately, and before entering upon the duties of the office, they shall take the oath prescribed for State officers by the Constitution of the State, and shall file the same in the office of Secretary of State, who, upon receiving the said oath of office, shall issue to each of said Commissioners a certificate of appointment for his respective term of office, so determined as aforesaid; upon receiving which, they shall severally be and become Sanitary Commissioners, and shall possess and exercise the powers, and perform the duties of said Board, as defined in this Act. Terms of office. [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text], where Oath of [Illegible Text] Certificates of appointment. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the term of office of said Sanitary Commissioners, after the expiration of the terms aforesaid, shall be six years, and they shall be appointed by the Governor. Any vacancies that may occur by reason of death, removal from office or otherwise, shall be filled in like manner. Terms six years. [Illegible Text]how [Illegible Text]. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That immediately after the nine appointed Sanitary Commissioners shall have taken the oath of office as above provided, they shall meet with the Attorney General, the Comptroller General and the State Geologist, and organize as a Board of Health, by electing one of said Board to be President, and by appointing a proper person, who shall be a physician, to be Secretary of said Board, and the successive Presidents of said Board of Health shall be annually elected by said Board from the members thereof. The Secretary shall continue in office, as such, until removed, by the election of a successor, or otherwise, and shall be executive officer of said Board, and shall receive an annual salary not to exceed one thousand dollars. The Sanitary Commissioners shall receive no salary; but the actual personal expenses of any member, while engaged in the duties of the Board, shall be allowed and paid. President and [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] Salary of [Illegible Text]. No salary for [Illegible Text]. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Board shall take cognizance of the interest of health and life among the people of the State; they shall make inquiries in respect to the causes of diseases, and especially of epidemics, and investigate the sources of mortality, and the effects of localities, employments, and other conditions upon the public health. Duties of Board. 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of

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said Board to obtain, collect and preserve such information relating to deaths, diseases and health, as may be useful in the discharge of its duties, and contribute to the promotion of health, or the security of life in the State of Georgia; and it shall be the duty of all health officers, and Boards of Health in the State, to communicate to said State Board of Health copies of all their reports and publications; also, such sanitary information as may be useful, and said Board shall keep record of its acts and proceedings as a Board, and it shall promptly cause all proper information in possession of said Board to be sent to the local health authorities of any city, village, or town in the State which may request the same, and shall add thereto such useful suggestions as the experience of said Board may supply, and it is hereby made the duty of said health authorities to supply like information and suggestions to said State Board of Health, and said State Board of Health is authorized to require reports and information (at such times, and of such facts, and generally of such nature and extent, relating to the safety of life and the promotion of health, as its by-laws or rules may provide) from all public dispensaries, hospitals, asylums, prisons and schools, and from the managers, principals and officers thereof; and from all other public institutions, their officers and managers, and from the proprietors, managers and lessees and occupants of all places of public resort in the State; but such reports and information shall only be required concerning matters or particulars in respect of which it may, in its opinion, need information for the proper discharge of its duties. Said Board shall, when requested by public authorities, or when they deem it best, advise officers of the State, county or local governments in regard to sanitary drainage, and the location, drainage, ventilation and sanitary provisions of any public institution, building or public place. Board to collect and preserve information concerning diseases, c. To communicate copies of reports, c. Sanitary [Illegible Text]. To keep record of acts, etc. To furnish information in cities and towns. To require [Illegible Text] from hospitals, [Illegible Text], c. Also, from other public institutions. Board to advise concerning sanitary drainage, etc. 7. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the State Board to give all information that may reasonably be requested concerning any threatened danger to the public health, to the health officers of the ports of Savannah, Darien, Brunswick and St. Marys, and to the Commissioners of Quarantine of said ports, and all other sanitary authorities in the State who shall give the like information to said Board; and said Board and said officers, said Quarantine Commissioners, and said sanitary authorities shall, as far as legal and practicable, co-operate to prevent the spread of diseases, and for the protection of life, and the promotion of health within the sphere of their respective duties. Board to advise health [Illegible Text] of certain ports. Also, Commissioners of Quarantine. Sanitary authorities to co-operate with Board. 8. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the State Board to have the general supervision of the State system of registration of births, marriages and deaths. The said Board shall recommend such forms and amendments of law, as shall be deemed to be necessary for the thorough organization and efficiency of registration of vital statistics throughout the State. The Secretary of said Board shall be the Superintendent

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of Registration of Vital Statistics, as supervised by said Board. The clerical duties and safe-keeping of the Bureau of Vital Statistics thus created, shall be provided for by the Comptroller General of the State, who shall also provide and furnish such apartments and stationery as said Board shall require in the discharge of its duties. Board to supervise registration of births, marriages and deaths. Forms. [Illegible Text] to be Supt. of registration of vital statistics. Apparatus and stationery. 9. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said Board, on or before the first Monday in December in each year, to make a report in writing to the Governor of this State, who shall lay the same before the next General Assembly thereafter, upon the vital statistics and the sanitary condition and prospects of the State; and such report shall set forth the action of said Board, of its officers and agents, and the names thereof for the past year, and may contain other useful information, and shall suggest any further legislative action or precaution deemed proper for the better protection of life and health. Board to make annual report to Governor. Report to [Illegible Text]. What rep'rt [Illegible Text] contain. 10. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That said Board shall meet at least every twelve months, and may also hold special meetings as frequently as the proper discharge of its duties shall require, the same to be convened by order of the President, and the rules or by-laws shall provide for the giving of proper notice of all such meetings to the members of the Board. Annual meeting. Special meeting. 11. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That all physicians in the practice of medicine in this State shall be required, under penalty of ten dollars, to be recovered in any Court of competent jurisdiction in the State, at the suit of the Ordinary, (the amount so recovered to be appropriated to a special fund for the carrying out of the objects of this law,) to report to the Ordinary, in the forms to be provided, all deaths and births which may come under his supervision, with a certificate of the cause of death, etc. Physicians to report deaths and births. Penalties and disposition thereof. 12. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That where any birth or death shall take place, no physician being in attendance, the same shall be reported to the Ordinary, with the supposed cause of death, by the parents, or, if none, by the next of kin, under penalty of ten dollars, at the suit of the Ordinary, as provided in section [Illegible Text] of this Act. Parents to report deaths when no physician attends. 13. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That the Coroners of the several counties shall be required to report to the Ordinary all cases of deaths which may come under their supervision, with the cause and mode of death, etc., under the penalty of ten dollars, the same to be recovered, and the proceeds applied as in section [Illegible Text] of this Act. Coroners to report deaths and causes. Penalties for neglect. 14. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That the Ordinaries of the several counties in the State shall be required to keep separate books to record all births, marriages and deaths which take place in their counties. Said books shall always be open to the inspection of the public without fee. And the said Ordinaries shall be required to render a full and complete report of all such births, marriages

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and deaths to the Secretary of the said Board of Health, at such time or times as the said Board may direct. Ordinaries to keep books of records. To make reports. 15. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the said Board of Health to prepare such forms for reports of deaths and births as they may deem proper, the said forms to be furnished by the Secretary of said Board to the Ordinaries of the several counties, whose duty it shall be to distribute them to such persons as are required by this Act to make such reports. Board to prepare forms 16. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That the sum of fifteen hundred dollars is hereby appropriated for the purposes of this Act, to be drawn by the warrant of the Governor, as occasion may require, upon proper certificate and vouchers of the said Board. Appropriation. 17. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be construed to be in conflict with the two existing Medical Boards of the State of Georgia. Two Boards now existing. SEC. XVIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. XXVIII. (O. No. 230.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to constitute an Eclectic Board of Physicians to examine and license young men to practice medicine npon the Eclectic System, and to locate the same in the town of Athens, Georgia, approved December 19, 1861. 18. SEC. I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, an act entitled an act to constitute an Eclectic Board of Physicians to examine and license young men to practice medicine upon the Eclectic system, and to locate the same in the town of Athens, Georgia, approved December 19, 1861, be so amended as to change the place of meeting of said Board from Athens to Atlanta, Georgia. Board to meet in Atlanta. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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TITLE VIII. JUDICIARY. CHAPTER I.Attorneys. CHAPTER II.Contracts. CHAPTER III.City Courts. CHAPTER IV.County Courts. CHAPTER V.Criminal Courts. CHAPTER VI.Justices' Courts. CHAPTER VII.Mayors' Courts. CHAPTER VIII.Ordinary's Court. CHAPTER IX.Superior Court. CHAPTER X.Supreme Court. CHAPTER XI.Fines and Forfeitures. CHAPTER XII.Garnishment. CHAPTER XIII.Holidays. CHAPTER XIV.Homestead. CHAPTER XV.Jurors and Jury Duty. CHAPTER XVI.Law of Dower. CHAPTER XVII.Misdemeanors. CHAPTER XVIII.Names. CHAPTER XIX.Quo Warranto. CHAPTER XX.Rewards. CHAPTER XXI.Usury. CHAPTER XXII.Verdicts. CHAPTER XXIII.Weights.

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CHAPTER I. ATTORNEYS. SECTION 1. Graduates of Mercer University Law School may practice as attorneys. No. XXXIX. (O. No. 55.) An Act to authorize the graduates of the Law School of Mercer University to plead and practice in the several Courts of law and equity in this State. 1. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act any person having from the proper authorities of Mercer University, in this State, a diploma of graduation in the Law School of said University, shall be authorized to plead and practice in all the courts of law and equity in this State, without further examination, upon payment of the usual fees, and upon the taking of the oaths and receiving the license prescribed by law, and said graduates shall have the same rights, privileges and liabilities as are conferred and imposed by law on the graduates of the Law School of the University of Georgia. Graduates of law [Illegible Text] of Mercer University allowed to practice law. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. CHAPTER II. CONTRACTS. SECTION. 1. Letting out contracts by County officers. 2. Publication of specifications. 3. Contractsillegal, when. 4. Malpractice to violate this Act. No. XL. (O. No. 71.) An Act to regulate the letting-out of contracts to the lowest bidder, by county authorities, and for other purposes therein named. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That whenever, by law, it becomes the duty of the proper officer in any county of this State to let to the lowest bidder the building or repairing of any court-house, jail, bridge, or other public work, that notice of the same shall be advertised for at least four weeks for

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bids for the same, by written advertisement posted at the court-house, which shall embrace a complete specification of the proposed public work; and it shall be further the duty of such public officer to deposit in the office of the officer whose duty it is to let out the contract, on the same or before that day that the advertisement for bids is made, a complete and minute specification of the proposed public work, which shall be open to the inspection of the public, as other public records are by law; and if a newspaper is published in such county, it shall be the duty of the officer so authorized to have such work done, advertise for bids in such paper, and make reference to the fact of the specifications being deposited in the proper office, where they can be seen. Contracts by county officers how to be let out. Advertisement. Complete specifications. Specifications to be depositedwhere. Advertisement for bids in newspaper. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That in all cases of such notices, advertisements or publications, there shall be included a minute, detailed, and full description or specification of the work to be done, which description or specification shall, in all cases, be fully and distinctly set forth and published in the advertisement for bidders, as provided in the first section of this Act. [Illegible Text]. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the letting of any such public work without a compliance with the provisions of the foregoing section of this Act, shall be illegal, and the contractors, or other person performing the same, shall not be entitled to recover the price thereof. [Illegible Text]. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That any Ordinary, County Judge, County Commissioners, or other officer who shall knowingly and willfully let out to the lowest bidder the building of any court-house, jail, bridge, or other public work, without advertising the description or specification required in section second of this Act, shall be guilty of malpractice, and, upon conviction, shall be dealt with as is prescribed by law in other cases of malpractice in office. County officers violating this [Illegible Text] guilty of malpractice. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875.

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CHAPTER III. CITY COURTS. SECTION. 1. City Court of Atlantacriminal jurisdiction. 2. Transfer of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Superior Court. 3. Insolvent costs. 4. Appointment and salary of Judge. 5. New trials in City Courts of Atlanta and Savannah. 6. Errors of Judges may be corrected. 7. Name of prosecutor on warrants. 8. Malicious prosecution. No. XLI. (O. No. 312.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to establish a City Court in the city of Atlanta, approved December 15, 1871, approved February 25, 1874. WHEREAS, the above entitled act, approved February 25, 1874, was unintentionally repealed by certain sections in the new charter of the city of Atlanta, approved February 28, 1874, 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That said act be re-enacted in the following words, to-wit: From and after the passage of this Act, the criminal jurisdiction of the City Court of Atlanta shall extend to, and embrace the whole of the territory of, the county of Fulton. Jurisdiction extended. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Superior Court of said county of Fulton, and he is hereby required, without delay, to transfer all the indictments for misdemeanors now pending, and hereafter to be found, in said Superior Court, to the City Court of Atlanta for trial. Transfer of cases from Superior Court. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all cost hereafter accruing of the Solicitor General, Clerk and Sheriff, in criminal cases in the Superior Court, shall be paid out of the fines and forfeitures in said court, if a sufficiency is realized therefrom, and if any deficit exist, the same to be paid out of the county treasury upon an itemized account of said costs, being audited and approved by the presiding Judge, if the grand jury of said county shall in their discretion so recommend. Insolvent costs of Solicitor Gen. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the termination of the present term of office of the Judge of said City Court, the Judges of said court shall be appointed by the Governor, and confirmed, commissioned and sworn as Judges of the Superior Court, mutatis mutendis; and such Judges shall hold the office for four years from the date of appointment; and said Judge to receive a salary of twenty-five hundred dollars, to be paid by the county of Fulton, as Judges of the Superior Court are paid; and in case of a vacancy in the office of Judge, at any time hereafter,

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either before or subsequent to the termination of the present term of office of Judge of said City Court, the vacancy shall be filled as vacancies of office of Judges of the Superior Courts of this State; the salary of said Judge to be paid out of the treasury of Fulton county from the date of appointment. Appointment and salary of Judge. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. NOTE.The Judge, under the act organizing this Court, was elected by the City Council, and the jurisdiction only extended throughout the city limits. No. XLII. (O. No. 90.) An Act to confer on the Judges of the City Courts of Savannah and Atlanta authority to grant new trials. 5. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That the Judges of the City Courts of Savannah and Atlanta shall have the power to grant new trials in all cases, civil and criminal, tried in the said Courts, under the same rules, laws and regulations as are, or may be, applicable to the granting of new trials by the Judges of the Superior Courts. [Illegible Text]. 6. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the powers granted to the Judges of the City Courts of Savannah and Atlanta by this Act, shall not be construed to interfere with the right to have the errors of the Judges of said courts corrected in any case, either in granting or refusing new trial, or otherwise, by writ of error or certiorari. But their judgment, in all cases, shall be subject to review. [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. XLIII. (O. No. 306.) An Act to regulate the trials of criminal cases by the Judge of the City Court of Savannah. 7. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the prosecuting officer of the City Court of Savannah shall endorse the name of the prosecutor upon the accusations, whenever there shall be a prosecutor. [Illegible Text].

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8. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That when the Judge of said court shall hear and determine such accusation, he may find the prosecution to be malicious, if the evidence be sufficient for such finding, and in such event, the prosecutor shall be liable to the payment of the costs of the prosecution, precisely as if the finding had been made by a jury upon indictment. Prosecution may be returned malicious. Prosecutor to pay costwhen. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. CHAPTER IV. COUNTY COURTS. Bibb County. SECTION. 1. Where Judge is disqualified or sick. 2. Request to Judge of other court to preside. No. XLIV. (O. No. 322.) An Act to provide for the holding of the County Court of Bibb county, during the illness, or other disqualification, of the Judge of said Court. 1. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, whenever the Judge of the County Court of the county of Bibb shall, by reason of sickness, or other cause, be disqualified or unable to hold said court, or to discharge the duties thereof, it shall be lawful for the Judge of the County Court of any other county in this State to hold said court and preside in the same, and discharge all the duties appertaining to said court, whenever, for the reasons above stated, he shall be requested so to do by the said Judge of the County Court of Bibb county; and all acts done by said Judge, under such circumstances, in the holding of said court, and in the trial and determining of causes, civil and criminal, in the same, shall be as valid and binding, and of the same effect, as if done and performed by the Judge of the said County Court of Bibb county. When Ju'ge is sick or disqualifiedwho may hold Court. Acts done by Judge so holding Court. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That whenever such disability or disqualification exists, and the said Judge of said County Court of Bibb county shall be absent from said county, or shall, from any cause, be unable to request the attendance and services of the Judge of the County Court of some

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other county, as aforesaid, then, and in that case, it shall be lawful for the Judge of the Superior Court of said county of Bibb to request the Judge of the County Court of some other county to hold and preside in the said County Court of Bibb county, as herein provided. Who may request Judge of other court to preside. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. Calhoun County. SECTION 1. General County Court act extended to Calhoun county. No. XLV. (O. No. 69.) An Act to amend an act to establish a County Court for the county of Calhoun, and other counties, approved March 2, 1870, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the above recited act be, and the same is hereby, amended, so as to include all the provisions of the general County Court law of this State, and the various amendments thereto, so far as they are not inconsistent with the original County Court act, for said county of Calhoun, and other counties, approved March 2, 1870. Gen'l County Court act extended to. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. Campbell County. SECTION. 1. County Court established. 2. Farming out convicts. 3. Costs due officers of court. 4. Fines and forfeitures. No. XLVI. (O. No. 205.) An Act to establish a County Court for the county of Campbell, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That a County Court is hereby established for the

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county of Campbell, and all the provisions of the act entitled an act to create a County Court for the county of Clayton, in this State, and to provide for the disposition of convicts therein, approved February 28, 1874, shall apply to the County Court of Campbell county, hereby created. County Court established. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the authority to farm out convicts, or otherwise dispose of them, which is conferred by the aforementioned act on the Ordinary of Clayton county, shall devolve on and be exercised by the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Campbell. Convictsauthority to farm out. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That section 9 of the aforementioned act be amended by adding after the word him, provided all costs shall have first been paid accruing in said cases, to said court or courts. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. XLVII. (O. No. 104.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to amend an act establishing County Courts in the counties o f DeKalb, Henry, Carroll and Sumter, approved February 22, 1873, and for other purposes, so far as relates to the county of Campbell. 4. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the above recited Act be, and the same is hereby, repealed so far as the same relates to the county of Campbell. Act repealed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. NOTE.The act referred to required the Sheriff or Constables of the Criminal Court of Campbell county to pay over to the County Treasurer all fines and forfeitures, and that no part thereof should be applied to payment of insolvent costs.

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Carroll County. SECTION. 1. Jurisdiction in cases of contract and tort. 2. Suitsmanner of bringing, etc. 3. Compensation of Judge. 4. Solicitorappointment, etc. 5. Fees and duties of Solicitor. 6. County Bailiff. 7. Jurorsmanner of drawing, pay, etc. 8. AttachmentsJudge may issue, when. 9. Writs, processes and orders. 10. Extra sessions may be held. No. XLVIII. (O. No. 339.) An Act entitled an act to create a County Court in each county in the State of Georgia, except certain counties therein named, approved January 19, 1872; to change the jurisdiction of said Court; to create the office of County Solicitor, and for other purposes, so far as relates to the county of Carroll. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this Act, the County Judge of the County Court of Carroll county shall have jurisdiction in matters of contract, except where, by the Constitution, an exclusive jurisdiction is given to the Superior Court, where the principal sum claimed is not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than three hundred dollars, and in all matters of tort, where the amount of damage claimed is not less than fifty dollars nor more than three hundred dollars. [Illegible Text] Judge, jurisdiction matters of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all suits brought before said court shall be brought to the quarterly terms of said court, and shall be commenced by petition and process, which process shall be signed by the County Judge, and shall bear date at least twenty days before court, and shall be served upon the defendant personally, or otherwise, at least fifteen days before the first day of the term of the court to which said process is made returnable. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the County Judge shall receive no salary from the State or county, but shall receive compensation in the way of fees, which fees shall be taxed in his bill of costs. The Judge's costs shall be as follows: In all cases of tort or upon contracts; in all cases where money is not claimed; in all cases for the foreclosure of mortgages, liens, possessory warrants, trespasses, tenants holding over, and intruders, three dollars each; for sitting on a court of inquiry; for trying cases of forcible entry and detainer, and for any bill of exceptions, three dollars and fifty cents; for every criminal case tried, four dollars. In all other cases not herein mentioned, his fees shall be the same as is provided for in Irwin's Revised Code of Georgia, in relation to County Courts. Compensation of Judge. Costs of the Judge.

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4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be appointed by the Governor, by and with the consent of the Senate, a County Solicitor, who shall be sworn as Solicitor General of the Superior Court, by the County Judge, or by the Ordinary of said county, and he shall hold his office four years from the date of his appointment. Said County Solicitor shall be the collecting officer of said court, and shall collect all costs assessed for the County Judge, on the criminal side of the court, and all fines, forfeitures, bonds, etc., and shall pay over the same to the County Judge, as soon as collected, and an account given of the same under oath, at each term of the Superior Court, to the grand jury of said county. If said County Solicitor shall at any time use any of the funds thus collected, except such commission as he is allowed for collecting the same, for his own benefit, or shall fail to turn over the same, he shall be liable, criminally, as County Treasurer, under section 4435 of Irwin's Revised Code. County SolicitorGov. to appoint. Terms of office. Duties. Penalties. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the County Solicitor shall be entitled to the same fees as Solicitors General of the Superior Courts for similar services, and shall be allowed ten per cent. on all collections made by him. It shall be the duty of said County Solicitor to frame all written accusations, as required of the County Judge in section 299 of Irwin's Revised Code, and prosecute the same before the County Court, and shall, in the absence of the Solicitor General of the Superior Court, prosecute all bills of indictment and presentments of the grand jury for misdemeanors, as may be transferred from the Superior Court to the County Court for trial. Fees of Solicitors. Solicitor to draw [Illegible Text] and prosecute offenders. 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said County Judge shall have the right to appoint a county bailiff, under the regulations of section 288 of Irwin's Revised Code, and said bailiff thus appointed shall have the same power, jurisdiction and authority as allowed in said section 288, and shall give bond and security in the sum of one thousand dollars for the faithful performance of his duties, and on failure to discharge the duties of his office, he may be removed from his office by the County Judge. County bailiffJudge may appoint. Powers, c. Bonds and security. Removal from office. 7. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said County Judge shall, and he is hereby authorized and empowered, to summon and empannel jurors under the same law as is provided in section 298 of Irwin's Revised Code, and said jurors shall have for their services the same pay as is now allowed jurors for serving as jurors in the Superior Court in said Carroll county, and shall be paid by the County Judge out of the money paid over to him by the County Solicitor; and said County Judge shall also present to the grand jury of said county, at each term of the Superior Court, a full statement of all moneys received by him from the County Solicitor, with vouchers and statement of how he has disposed of the same; the amount on hand, if any; and shall at any

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time, when there is a surplus of money on hand, pay over the same to the County Treasurer for county purposes. Jurors[Illegible Text] and [Illegible Text]. Per diem. How paid. Statement of money received by Judge. Surplusdisposition of. 8. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the County Judge shall have authority, at chambers, to issue attachments where the amount claimed comes within his jurisdiction; to foreclose mortgages on personal property, foreclose [Illegible Text], issue distress warrants for rent, issue and hear possessory warrant cases; to try, together with a jury, upon ten days' notice, all cases of nuisance, forcible entry and detainer, and also to issue warrants in cases of bastardy, and to hear the same. He may attest contracts or deeds, administer oaths, and exercise all the powers of a Justice of the Peace, in all cases coming within his jurisdiction, and in case of the absence of the County Solicitor, at any time, he may appoint any practicing attorney to perform his duties during his absence. [Illegible Text][Illegible Text] may issue at [Illegible Text]. Mortgages [Illegible Text]Judge may foreclose. [Illegible Text] warrants and other cases. Powers of Justice of the Peace. Solicitor pro tem. 9. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Sheriff and his deputies, when required by the County Judge, shall execute any writ, process or order of the County Court, or Judge, as if from the Superior Court; shall advertise and sell real estate when levy is made by the County Bailiff and returned to said Sheriff. Writs, processes and [Illegible Text][Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] execute. 10. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the County Judge of said court shall have power, whenever he shall deem it necessary for the delivery of the jail, to call extra sessions of said court, for criminal cases only, and shall have power to summon jurors, and cause them to serve in such cases of necessity, the same as at his regular terms of court. [Illegible Text] SEC. XI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. Clayton County. SECTION 1. Jurisdiction, new trial, etc. No. XLIX. (O. No. 189.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to create a County Court for the county of Clayton, approved February 28, 1874. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 3 of the above recited act be amended by striking out the word three in the sixth line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the word five, so as to make said section read five hundred dollars; also, to amend section 38 of said act by adding the following after the words new trial, in

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the third line of said section: during the term at which he was convicted, which motion shall be heard; also, by striking out in section 39 of said bill the words Superior Court, in the fifth line of said section, and inserting in lieu thereof Supreme Court. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. Supreme Court may grant new trials. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. Coweta County. SECTION 1. Civil jurisdiction granted SECTION 2. Civil jurisdiction limited. No. L. (O. No. 62.) An Act to alter and amend an act to establish a County Court in the county of Coweta, approved March 2, 1874. 1. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act the third section of the above recited act be, and the same is hereby, repealed. [Illegible Text] section of act repealed. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the County Court of said county of Coweta shall not have jurisdiction of any civil case where the principal debt is less than one hundred dollars, except in militia districts where there is no Justice of the Peace or Notary Public, who is an ex-officio Justice of the Peace. Civil jurisdiction limited. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. NOTE.The section repealed by the first section of this Act [Illegible Text] civil jurisdiction to the County Court of Coweta county. Dooly County. SECTION. 1. Civil jurisdiction abolished. 2. Civil [Illegible Text] to be transferred. 3. Criminal jurisdiction. 4. Salary of Judge. No. LI. (O. No. 129.) An Act to take away from the Judge of the County Court of the county of Dooly all civil cases, to provide for the transfer of cases from his court to fix his salary, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the first day of July, 1875, the Judge of the County Court of the county of Dooly shall have no

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power or authority to hear or determine any civil case in his said court, but that the jurisdiction of said Judge, in all civil cases, matters of contract and of tort, shall be abolished from and after said date Civil Jurisdiction [Illegible Text]. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all civil cases remaining upon the dockets of said County Judge, undisposed of on the first day of July, 1875, shall be transferred to the Superior Court of said county of Dooly within thirty days thereafter, and be disposed of by said court. Civil cases to be transferred. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the criminal jurisdiction of said County Court of the county of Dooly shall remain as now recognized by law; and the jurisdiction of the County Judge of said County Court over criminal matters, as now provided by law, be, and the same is hereby, affirmed. Criminal jurisdiction to [Illegible Text]. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Judge of the County Court of the county of Dooly shall receive such amount as salary for his services for each year as the Grand Jury, at the Spring term of the Superior Court, may determine upon. Salary of Judge. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. Dougherty County. SECTION 1. Jury list. Juries drawnhow, etc. 2. Jurieswhen demanied in vacation. 3. Compensation of Jurors. 4. Salary of Judge. No. [Illegible Text]. (O. No. 316.) An Act to amend an act amendatory of an act to establish a County Court for the counties of Dougherty and Lee, approved February 5, 1873, so far as relates to the county of Dougherty. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the Judge of the County Court of Dougherty county shall, from the list of persons liable to do jury duty in the Superior Court of said county, [Illegible Text] a list and put their names in a box kept for that purpose, such as is kept and used by the Superior Court of said county, and shall, at the first monthly session for criminal business, draw by [Illegible Text], as provided by law for drawing juries in the Superior Court, [Illegible Text]

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his deputy, be summoned at least three days before the next term of said court. Jury listJudge to make. Juries[Illegible Text] and when to be drawn. And, at the first quarter session of said court for civil business, said Judge shall in like manner draw a jury of twelve persons from said box for the next term thereafter, and who shall in like manner be summoned. Juries for [Illegible Text] termsdrawing of. And, at the close of each term thereafter, said Judge shall, in the manner hereinbefore pointed out, draw juries for each succeeding term. And the striking of the jury in both civil and criminal cases shall be the same as now provided by law. And the Judge of said court shall have power to have summoned instanter tales jurors, when any of the persons summoned do not appear, or when required for the business of the court. Striking the jury. Tales jurors 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if at any time a trial in criminal cases is demanded in vacation, as provided by law, and a jury is demanded, the Judge of said court shall have power to have twelve persons liable to do jury duty in said court summoned instanter, from whom a jury shall be selected as provided by law in other cases. Jurywhen demanded in vacation. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all jurors serving in said court shall be allowed the same compensation as jurors serving from said county in the Superior Court. Compensation of jurors. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the grand jury of said county shall be fully empowered to fix the annual salary, not to exceed one thousand dollars, of their County Court Judge, which salary shall not be increased or diminished during his term of office. Salary of Judge. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. Elbert County. SECTION 1. [Illegible Text] limited. No. LIII. (O. No. 188.) An Act to limit and define the jurisdiction of the County Court of Elbert county in matters of debt. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the County Judge of Elbert county, except in the militia district in which the town of Elberton is located, shall not, from and after the passage of this Act, have authority and jurisdiction

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to try and determine and hear matters of debt, when the amount is less then fifty dollars. [Illegible Text] limited. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. Glynn County. SECTION 1. Solicitor, appointment, fees, duties, etc. No. LIV. (O. No. 43.) An Act to amend an act to create a County Court in each county of the State of Georgia, except certain counties therein mentioned, approved January 19, 1872, so far as the same refers to the county of Glynn, and to provide therein for the appointment of a Solicitor for the County Court of Glynn county. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, that an act to create a County Court in each county of the State of Georgia, except certain counties therein mentioned, approved January 19, 1872, be amended, so far as the same applies to the county of Glynn, in this, to-wit: That there shall be a County Solicitor for said county of Glynn, to be appointed in the same manner prescribed for the appointment of the County Judge, and to hold his office for the same term, whose duties it shall be to represent the State in all criminal cases in the County Court, and the said County Solicitor shall have the same fees as are now allowed by law to the Solicitors General for similar services. County SolicitorGovernor to appoint. Term of office. Duties. Fees. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 22, 1875.

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Greene County. SECTION 1. Concurrent jurisdiction. 2. Suitscommencement, summons, etc. 3. Trial term. 4. Fees and costs. No. LV. (O. No. 145.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to create a County Court in each county in the State of Georgia, except certain counties therein mentioned, approved January 19, 1872, so far as relates to the county of Greene; to increase the civil jurisdiction of said County Court of Greene; to fix the fees of the officers of said court in certain cases; to fix the time for the trial of cases returnable to the quarterly sessions of said court, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the County Court in and for the county of Greene shall have concurrent jurisdiction, at its quarterly sessions, with the Superior Courts of this State in all cases of contract and of tort, where the amount involved, or the damaged claimed, is over one hundred dollars principal, and shall not exceed the sum of one thousand dollars, exclusive of interest and protest fees, except in equity cases and cases involving titles to land. Concurrent jurisdiction in certain cases. Exception. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all suits at the quarterly session of said Court shall be commenced by summons, to be signed by the County Judge, in which the cause of action shall be plainly and distinctly set forth. Said summons shall be issued twenty days before, and a copy of the same shall be served upon the defendant at least fifteen days before the court to which the same is made returnable. Suits to be [Illegible Text]how. Service of summons. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all suits hereafter brought to the quarterly sessions of said Court shall be tried at the first term, unless legal cause for continuance is shown. Suits triable at first term 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the entire court costs in cases of over two hundred dollars, exclusive of Sheriff's or Bailiff's fees, shall not exceed six dollars, and the fees of the Sheriff or Bailiff in such cases shall be the same as are allowed by law for similar services in the Superior Court. The County Judge shall be entitled to receive the same cost for issuing attachments, garnishment at common law and distress warrants, as is now allowed by law for the foreclosure of liens and mortgages on personalty; and the County Judge shall be entitled to two dollars

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for entering an appeal and transmitting the proceeding to the Superior Court. Court costs. Sheriffs. Fees of judge in certain [Illegible Text] SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. Hancock County. SECTION. 1. County Court a Court of Record. 2. Clerkfees, etc. No. LVI. (O. No. 239.) An Act to make the County Court of Hancock county a court of Record, and make the Clerk of the Superior Court Clerk of said Court, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the County Court of Hancock county shall be a Court of Record. County Court a Court of Record. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county shall be ex-officio Clerk of said County Court, and shall receive one-half the fees allowed by law for similar services in the Superior Court. Who shall be Clerk. Fees. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. Jefferson County. SECTION. 1. County Court established. 2. Laws applicable. App'tm't of Judge, etc. No. LVII. (O. No. 179.) An Act to alter and amend an act entitled an act to create a County Court in each county of the State of Georgia, except certain counties therein mentioned, approved January 19, 1872, so as to include the county of Jefferson in said act, and the amendments thereto. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and immediately after the passage of this

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Act, the first section of the act entitled an act to create a County Court in each county of the State of Georgia, except certain counties therein mentioned, approved January 19, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, so altered and amended as to strike the county of Jefferson from the excepting clause of said first section. County Court of [Illegible Text] county. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the above and foregoing recited act, and all amendments thereto, be, and the same are hereby, made to apply to the county of Jefferson: and provided further, that this Act shall go into effect in said county immediately after its passage, and the Governor be, and he is hereby, authorized to appoint a County Judge for said county, without the recommendation of the grand jury. Laws made applicable to said court. This act to take effectwhen Governor to appoint. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. Laurens County. SECTION 1. Civil jurisdiction abolished. 2. Cases to be transferred. No. LVIII. (O. No. 65.) An Act to abolish the civil jurisdiction of the County Court of Laurens county. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the civil jurisdiction of the County Court of Laurens county be, and the same is hereby, abolished. Civil jurisdiction abolished. 2. SECTION II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all civil cases now in said court for claims of one hundred dollars or less, shall be transferred to the Justice Court in the district where the defendant resides, and all cases for claims over one hundred dollars shall be transferred to the Superior Court of said county. Caseswhere to be transferred. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875.

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Marion County. SECTION. 1. Court organizedJudge and Solicitor. 2. Salaries. 3. Powers of Judge, habeas corpus, etc. 4. Regular and special termsjurisdiction. 5. Clerk, duties, etc. 6. Minutes, records, dockets, etc. 7. Place of holding courtJudge's office. 8. Sheriff and deputiesduties, fees, etc. 9. [Illegible Text] bond, etc. 10. Written [Illegible Text]proceedings under. 11. Trials and continuances. 12. Juriesdrawing, number etc. 13. Civil casesdemand for jury. 14. Juries may be empanneledhow. 15. Panel of jurors. 16. [Illegible Text] to Superior Court. 17. Fees of Solicitor and Clerk. 18. Salariestax to pay. 19. Judge and Solicitorqualifications. 20. Docketterm of certain cases. No. LIX. (O. No. 209.) An Act to organize a County Court for the county of Marion, to define its jurisdiction, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That a court shall be organized in the county of Marion to be called the County Court, the Judge of which shall be called the County Judge. There shall also be a prosecuting attorney, who shall be called the County Solicitor. Both the County Judge and the Solicitor shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and shall hold their offices for four years from the date of their commission. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] of [Illegible Text]. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Judge shall receive a salary from the county funds, the sum of four hundred dollars, and the Solicitor the sum of one hundred dollars, per annum, and the Solicitor shall receive such further compensation and costs as shall be hereinafter provided. Salaries. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the County Judge may admit parties to bail in criminal cases; may issue attachments, foreclose mortgages on personal property; issue distress warrants for rent, possessory warrants, writs of habeas corpus, and other writs or warrants not within the exclusive jurisdiction of some other court, or officer, according to the Constitution of this State. He may attest contracts or deeds for registry, administer oaths, exercise all the powers of a Justice of the Peace in criminal matters. Issue warrants requiring all offenders to be brought before him or some other Judge, or Justice, and may sit singly or in conjunction with others, as by law required in a Court of Inquiry. Powers of Judge. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. 4. SEC. IV. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be four regular terms of the County Court, to-wit: On the second Mondays in March, June, September and December, [Illegible Text] said regular terms, the County Court shall have jurisdiction of all criminal offenses less than felony, and of civil cases, whether sounding

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in contract or damages to the sum or amount of two hundred and fifty dollars, and under, and of which exclusive jurisdiction is not, by the Constitution of this State, vested in some other court. Whenever during the vacation of said Court, the number of persons confined in the common jail on criminal charges, and unable to give bond, shall amount to two or more, the Judge may hold a special session or sessions for the trial of criminal cases only. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. In civil cases. Special [Illegible Text]. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, That the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county of Marion shall be ex-officio Clerk of the County Court. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to remain in the office in the absence of the Judge, by sickness or otherwise. The Clerk shall keep a strict account of all fines and forfeitures, and other money which comes to his hands as such Clerk, and shall pay over the same to the County Treasurer, and report such receipts and payments to the grand jury of the county, at [Illegible Text] session of the Superior Court. It shall be the duty of the Clerk to provide a seal for the County Court as soon as practicable, to be used when necessary. Clerk. Duties of. Shall pay over [Illegible Text], etc. Seal of Court. 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Clerk shall keep the minutes of the Court, record its proceedings, issue its orders and processes, and keep proper dockets, to wit: One common law docket, execution docket, claim docket, criminal docket, and any other docket for the sessions of the County Court that the Judge may direct. Minutes records. Criminal docket. 7. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the County Court shall be held at the court house of the county, or at such place as the Judge may direct, when the Superior Court of said county shall be in session. The Judge shall have his office at the court house, or such other place as he shall make notorious to the public. The rules of practice of the Superior Court shall apply, unless especially excepted. Appeals may be taken to the Superior Court, under the same rules and regulations as now govern the taking of appeals from Justices' Courts. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. Appeals. 8. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Sheriff and his deputies, when required by the County Judge, or Clerk, shall execute any writ, process or order of the County Court or Judge, and shall attend the sessions of said Court. For cases in the County Court the Sheriff's fees shall be the same as for like cases in the Superior Court. For summoning jurors for the regular sessions, his fees shall be five dollars; for each special session three dollars. [Illegible Text]. Duties. Fees. 9. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That bailiffs may be appointed by the County Judge, not to exceed four in number, one of whom shall be called special bailiff; they shall each give bond in the sum to be fixed by the County Judge; shall be sworn faithfully to discharge their duties, and be removable at the discretion of the Judge. It shall be the duty of the special bailiff, concurrently with the Sheriff and his deputies, to

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collect all executions for costs, and in default of payment, executions shall issue therefor, and ten per cent. additional as commissions for the collecting officer. One or more temporary bailiffs for particular occasions may also be appointed without bond, but to be sworn as others. A bailiff's fees shall be the same as the Sheriff in like cases. Bailiffs. Special [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. 10. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all offenses of which the County Court has jurisdiction under this Act shall be tried on written accusations, setting forth plainly the offense charged, shall be founded upon affidavit containing the name of the accuser, and be signed by the County Solicitor. The proceedings after the accusation shall conform to the rules governing in the Superior Court in similar proceedings, except that there shall be no jury, unless demanded by the accused, in which case the jury shall consist of seven, to be selected as hereinafter provided. Where any offense is charged, which is within the jurisdiction of the County Court, and upon the trial thereof it shall appear that the crime committed is of a grade beyond its jurisdiction, the trial thus begun shall be regarded as if before a Court of Inquiry, and be disposed of accordingly. [Illegible Text]. Form of. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. 11. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every accusation in the County Court shall be in order for trial at the session at which it is preferred, subject to continuance according to the rules of law practiced in the Superior Courts, but it shall be the duty of the Judge to allow a reasonable time to both parties to summon witnesses, and to the defendant to procure counsel. If the accused has no counsel, and is unable to employ such, it shall be the duty of the Judge to assign counsed for the accused, and issue subp[oelig]nas for such witnesses for his defense, and if necessary compel their attendance. The County Judge shall have power to use the county jail for the detention of the accused parties, and for the punishment of those convicted or guilty of contempt. Commitments by the County Judge shall be lawful warrants to the jailor, and be by him obeyed. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. 12. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, That at the first session of said County Court, the County Judge shall cause to be drawn from the jury box of said county, the names of twelve persons for jurors in criminal and civil cases, seven of whom shall constitute the jury for the trial of criminal offenses, the defendant having the first strike, and six of whom shall constitute the jury for the trial of civil cases, the parties having three strikes each. That said twelve persons drawn as jurors as aforesaid, shall constitute the panel, out of which the jury for the trial of criminal and civil cases, for the second session of said County Court [shall be selected]. And at the second session of said County Court, a like jury of twelve persons shall be drawn for the next session, from which the jury shall be selected, and so on through all the sessions. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text].

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13. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the civil cases shall be tried by the Judge, without the intervention of a jury, unless the same is demanded by one of the parties to the record, and when so demanded, the Judge shall cause a jury of six men to be selected from the panel of twelve, drawn according to the twelfth section of the provisions of this Act, by allowing the parties to strike alternately until they shall have stricken three names each, and the six unstricken names shall constitute the jury for the trial of civil cases. Jurors serving in the County Court shall take the same oath as is provided for like Jurors in the Superior Court, and shall be paid in the same manner, and be paid, each, one dollar and fifty cents per day. All writs returnable to the County Court, shall be governed by, and subject to the same rules and regulations as now practiced in like cases in the Superior Courts, except that the writ may be filed fifteen days before any regular term of the Court, and served by the Sheriff or Bailiff ten days prior to the commencement of the term. Civil caseshow tried. Demand for Jury. Jury strikes Oath of jurors. Compensation. Writsrules and regulations to. Writs to be filedwhen 14. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, that at the first session of the Court, if either of the parties in a civil case, or if the accused in a criminal case, should demand a jury, the Judge shall cause a jury to be made of the by standers or otherwise. Juries [Illegible Text] be empannelled from bystanderswhen. 15. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, That the twelve persons drawn as jurors at the first term of the Court, and at each succeeding term of the Court, according to the twelfth section of this Act, shall constitute the panel from which a jury shall be selected for the trial of criminal offenses at the special sessions of said County Court, as provided in the fourth section of this Act. That whenever the County Judge shall determine to hold a special session for clearing of the jail of criminals, according to said fourth section of this Act, it shall be his duty to issue a process directed to the Sheriff and his deputy, or to any one of the bailiffs of said County Court, commanding and requiring him to notify the jury to be and appear at the court-house of said county on a day to be therein designated, then and there to serve as jurors at said special sessions; and if from any cause the whole of said panel of twelve should fail to appear, or if, at a regular term, there should fail to be a full panel of twelve, the Judge shall cause the panel to be filled by tales jurors, that the Sheriff or Bailiff, as the case may be, shall, in all cases, give each person constituting said jury at least two days notice prior to the session at which he shall be notified to appear, and a verbal notice in person shall be sufficient. What shall constitute a panel of jurors. In special termjury to be notified. Tales jurors. 16. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, That certioraries may be had under the sanction, and order of, the Judge of the Superior Court in all cases, civil and criminal, upon the petition, in writing, to said Judge in ten days after the trial, with notice to the opposite party or his attorney, in criminal cases,

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to the County Solicitor, which petition shall state the grounds and complaints, and give a brief of the material evidence, to be argued upon by counsel or approved by the Court, which writ of certiorari being delivered to the County Judge, it shall be his duty to send up to the Judge of the Superior Court, properly certified, a copy of the proceedings of the County Court in the case, with a statement of the material evidence, and the Judge of the Superior Court shall hear and finally determine the same at Chambers, or the session of the Superior Court, as may by him seem proper; upon hearing the return of the writ of certiorari in criminal cases, the Judge of the Superior Court may either grant a new trial or pass such judgment or sentence as, in view of the whole case, is consistent with justice. The application for the writ or certiorari shall suspend for ten days the sentence in criminal cases, and if the writ is issued then, until the same is decided. That in criminal cases pending an application for certiorari, the defendant shall give bond for his appearance, and, upon failure to give such bond, the sentence shall not be suspended unless the certiorari shall be sanctioned. Certioraries to Superior Court Notice to opposite party. Brief of material evidence. Judge of Superior Court to hear and determine. New trialor final judgment. Application shall suspend sentence. Defendant to give bond. 17. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, That the Clerk's costs in civil cases, in all cases over one hundred dollars, shall be the same as the Clerk of the Superior Court for similar services, and in all cases of less than one hundred dollars and over fifty dollars, one-half the same, and in all cases less than fifty dollars, one-third the same. The County Solicitor shall receive the same fees as are now allowed to the Solicitor Generel of the circuit in the Superior Court for such cases as come within the jurisdiction of the County Court. Clerks cost. Fees of Solicitor. 18. SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, That it shall be the duty of the Ordinary of said county of Marion to assess such tax upon the tax payers of said county, and have the same collected by the Tax Collector as shall be sufficient to pay the salaries of the County Judge and the County Solicitor, which salaries shall be payable to them quarterly, and until such tax shall be assessed and collected, the County Judge and Solicitor shall be paid out of any other funds or money in the county treasury; that the County Judge shall draw his warrant upon the County Treasurer of said county quarterly for the salary of himself and County Solicitor, which shall be paid by said County Treasurer. Tax may be assessed to pay sal'ries. Judge to draw warrants for salaries. 19. SEC. XIX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the qualifications of the County Judge shall be, first, that he shall be a resident of the county at the time of his appointment, and shall have been a practicing attorney in the courts of this State. The qualifications of the County Solicitor shall be the same as for Judge. Qualifications of Judge and Solicitor. 20. SEC. XX. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, That all cases which may be brought in said County Court where

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the amount claimed shall exceed the sum of one hundred dollars, the term of the court to which the same shall be returned, shall be the docket term, and not in order for trial till the next succeeding term. Doc'et term of certain cases. SEC. 21. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. Muscogee County. SECTION. 1. JuryJudge to draw. 2. [Illegible Text] for succeeding terms. 3. Panelif not summoned. 4. Regular terms. No. LX. (O. No. 187.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to organize a County Court for the county of Muscogee, to define its jurisdiction, and for other purposes, approved August 24, 1872. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the fourteenth section of an act entitled an act to organize a County Court for the county of Muscogee, to define its jurisdiction, and for other purposes, be so amended as to read as follows: That as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, it shall be the duty of the County Judge to draw from the jury box of said county the names of nine persons for jurors in civil and criminal cases, five of whom shall constitute the jury for trial, the defendant having the first strike. JuryJudge to draw. Jury to try cases. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the fifteenth section of said act be so amended as to read: That it shall be the duty of the County Judge at the close of every regular term to draw nine jurors for service at the succeeding term of the court in civil and criminal cases, and for service in such special sessions as are provided for in the fourth section of said act. Jurors for succeeding terms. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That if the drawing of the panel of nine jurors, as provided in the first section of this Act, cannot be had in time to have said panel summoned ten days prior to the commencement of the next regular term of said court, the County Judge is hereby empowered to retain any nine of the jurors now drawn for service at said next regular term, and to excuse or discharge the remaining jurors, and the nine so retained shall be empannelled and sworn for service at said term, as provided under this Act. Panelif not summoned. Judge may retain jurors.

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4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the regular terms of said court, for the trial of civil and criminal cases, shall be on the first Mondays in March, June, September and December of each year: Provided, that this section shall not affect the next regular term of said court, to be held on the third Monday in March, 1875. Regular terms. Proviso. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. Picrce County. SECTION. 1. Court abolished. 2. Transfer of cases. No. LXI. (O. No. 61.) An Act to abolish the County Court of the County of [Illegible Text]. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, the County Court for the county of Pierce be, and the same is hereby, abolished. County Court abolished. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Judge of said County Court shall turn over all the criminal papers, of whatever description, in his hands, to the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, and all bonds and processes returnable to said County Court, and conditional for the appearance of parties before said court, are hereby made returnable to the next term of said Superior Court. Criminal papersJudge, to turn over. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875.

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Pike County. SECTION. 1. Court may be established. 2. Laws made applicable. 3. Court to be heldwhere. No. LXII. (O. No. 14.) An Act to amend section 279 of the Revised Code of Georgia, by striking therefrom Pike county, and to declare sections 279, as amended, to 317 inclusive, of the Revised Code, applicable and of force in said county of Pike. 1. SECTION I, Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That section 279 of the Revised Code of Georgia be amended by striking therefrom the words county of Pike. County Court may be established. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That sections 279 to 317 inclusive, of the Revised Code of Georgia, as amended, be, and the same are hereby, declared of full force and effect in the county of Pike. Laws made applicable. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Judge of the County Court of said county of Pike, if said court should be organized, shall be required to hold the sessions of said County Court, alternately, in the towns of Zebulon and Barnesville, in said county. Where to be held. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 11, 1875. Polk and Bartow Counties. SECTION. 1. County Courts abolished. 2. Transfer of cases to the Superior Court. 3. Offices of Judge and Solicitor abolished. 4. County Court of Polk abolished. No. LXIII. (O. No. 309.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to create a County Court for Polk and Bartow counties, approved February 25, 1874. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That an act entitled an act to create a County Court for Polk and Bartow counties, approved February 25, 1874, be, and the same is hereby, repealed: Provided, this Act shall not take effect until after the October term, 1875, of said County Courts. County Court abolished. Proviso.

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2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any case or cases of action shall remain on the docket of said County Courts of Polk and Bartow counties after the October term, 1875, untried or undecided, the same shall be transferred to the respective docket or dockets of the Superior Courts of Polk and Bartow counties. Cases to [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text] Court. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the offices of Judge and Solicitor of said County Courts of Polk and Bartow counties be, and the same are hereby, abolished after the next October term, 1875, of said courts. Offices of Judge an Solicitor [Illegible Text] 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the County Court act, approved 19th January, 1872, as includes the county of Polk be, and the same is hereby, abolished. Provided, this Act shall not go into effect before the first day of February, 1876. County Court of Polk [Illegible Text] abolished. Proviso. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. Pulaski County. SECTION. 1. Concurrent jurisdiction. 2. Mode of commencing suitspractice. 3. Fi. [Illegible Text]issues and illegalities. 4. Jurisdiction as to amount. 5. Cases involving title to land. 6. Court of Record. 7. Seal. 8. ClerkJudge to appoint. 9. Docket and papers. 10. Fees of Clerk. 11. County Bailiffbond, etc. 12. Bench warrantsappearance bonds. 13. AccusationsClerk to signwhen. 14. Trial by jurypanel of jurors. 15. Fees for summoning jury. 16. [Illegible Text] of bonds. 17. Act amendednot repealed in any part. No. LXIV. (O. No. 142.) An Act to alter and amend certain portions of the Code of 1873, embraced in chapter four, title five, part one, relating to the County Court and its officers, so far as relates to the county of Pulaski, to increase the civil jurisdiction of said County Court of Pulaski, to prescribe the powers and duties of the Judge of said Court in certain cases, to provide for the [Illegible Text] of criminal cases in said court, to make said court a Court of Record, as to certain matters, to provide for the appointment of a Clerk of said court, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the

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County Court in and for the county of Pulaski, shall have concurrent jurisdiction, at its quarterly sessions or tersm, to be held on the third Mondays in January, April, July and October, in each year, with the Superior Courts of this State, in all cases sounding in contract or damages, except where, by the Constitution and laws, exclusive jurisdiction is given to some other court, where the amount involved or the damage claimed is over one hundred dollars, and shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, exclusive of interest and protest fees. Concurrent jurisdiction in certain cases with Superior Court. Exception. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That in the quarterly sessions of said County Court, the mode of commencing suits, the process, service and proceedings in general, shall be the same as the Superior Courts, except as to the trial of said civil cases by a jury, and said County Court at said quarterly sessions, shall exercise the jurisdiction under the same rules of practice which obtain in the Superior Courts, unless specially excepted by this Act, and the law of which this is amendatory. Mode of commencing suits. Same rules practice as govern in Superior Court. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all executions or fi. fas. issued, either from the quarterly sessions or from foreclosures of liens or mortgages on personal property, for over one hundred dollars principal, shall be returned to the next succeeding quarterly term or session, unless the same shall be within twenty days of such term, and then to the next term after; and all issues, illegalities, traverses and claims, arising from or growing out of such judgments, executions or foreclosures, shall stand for trial at the first quarterly session after the same is filed or tendered, unless good cause be shown for a continuance; and all continuances in said quarter sessions, shall be from term to term, as in the Superior Court. Fi. fas.when [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the County Judge shall also have jurisdiction without limit as to amount, to hear and determine, according to law, all matters and issues arising out of the relation of master and servant, landlord and tenant, for the eviction of trespassers, intruders, and tenants holding over for the partition of personal property, the trial of forcible entry and detainer, to issue and dispose of possessory warrants, distress warrants, attachments and garnishments, to foreclose all liens and mortgages on personal property, and to try all traverses, issues and claims growing out of the matters contained in this section, where title to real estate is not involved. [Illegible Text]. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That in all cases arising in said County Court, at its quarterly sessions, or its monthly term, by the interposition of a claim, or otherwise involving titles to land, the County Judge shall cause such claim or other issue to be immediately transmitted to the next term of the Superior Court for said county for trial. [Illegible Text] 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said County Court of Pulaski shall be a Court of Record [Illegible Text]

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of its quarterly sessions, and of all criminal cases which may be tried before said court, at any time: Provided, it shall be necessary to record only the orders, judgments, and such other matters pertaining to the quarterly terms of said court, as are required by law to be entered on the minutes of the Superior Courts. Court of Record. [Illegible Text]. 7. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said County Court shall have a seal, to be provided by the County Judge. Seal. 8. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said County Judge shall appoint a clerk of said County Court, who, before entering upon the discharge of his duties as such, shall take and subscribe the oath required of clerks of the Superior Court, so altered as to suit the County Court, and shall give bond with security, to be approved by the Judge of said County Court, in the sum of five hundred dollars, and such Clerk shall be removable from office at any time by said County Judge, for neglect of duty, or other sufficient cause, and the Clerk of the Superior Court shall be eligible to such appointment. [Illegible Text] Oath. Bond. [Illegible Text] Clerk Superior Court eligible. 9. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said clerk shall keep all necessary dockets and minutes of court, and shall record in the books of minutes, all orders, judgments, and other proceedings of said court, as required by law to be so recorded, and shall also carefully file away and preserve all the legal papers connected with such proceedings, so that the same may be used in other courts, and by parties interested therein. [Illegible Text] Papers to be filed away. 10. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That the fees of said Clerk shall be, for each civil case prosecuted to judgment, two dollars, and for each case disposed of before judgment, one dollar. For each foreclosure of a lien or mortgage on personal property, one dollar, and for each traverse, issue or claim founded on judgments, executions or foreclosures, one dollar, and for each criminal case tried by said court one dollar, and for all other service required of him, he shall receive from the party chargeable therewith, one-half of the fees allowed in the Superior Courts for like service. Fees of Clerk. 11. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That the County Bailiff shall give bond, with security, to be approved by the County Judge in the sum of two thousand dollars, and may be removed by the County Judge at any time for neglect of duty, or other sufficient cause. County Bailiff to give bond. Removable. 12. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That the Judge of said County Court shall have power and authority to issue bench warrants, running throughout the State, requiring the person or persons against whom indictments or accusations may be pending in said court, to be brought before him forthwith for trial, or to give bond and security, to be approved by a proper officer, conditioned, for the appearance of the party accused at a future day. In the absence of said Judge, or when convenience shall require it, the

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[Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Bench warrants. [Illegible Text] bonds. 13. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That in case any person shall make the necessary affidavit, and sue out a warrant against any party or parties, charging him or them with an offense against the laws involving moral turpitude, or other offense, which, in the opinion of the County Judge, the ends of public justice demand should be punished, and such prosecutor shall afterwards fail or refuse to sign the accusation made out in such cases, and to further prosecute such case, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of said County Court to sign such accusation, founded on the affidavit made to procure such warrant, and such case shall proceed to trial as though such accusation had been signed by the original prosecutor. When [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to prosecute. Clerk to sign [Illegible Text] 14. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That in case the accused in any criminal case shall demand a trial by jury, it shall be the duty of the County Judge and Clerk, to draw from the jury box, and have served and empannelled twelve jurors, as is now required by law, from which panel the accused shall strike three, and the State two, the accused having the first strike, the seven remaining shall constitute the jury for the trial of such cause. Trial by jury. Panel of [Illegible Text] 15. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That the Clerk shall be allowed one dollar for his services, and the Bailiff three dollars for summoning such jury, to be paid as other criminal costs are paid, and the jury the same fees as are allowed jurors in the Superior Court, to be paid out of the county treasury. Fees for summoning jury. 16. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That the County Judge of said county shall have full and complete power and jurisdiction to forfeit and collect the bond or bonds of any defendant or defendants, who may be bound over to answer for any charge of misdemeanor before said County Judge, without reference to the amount of said bond or bonds. [Illegible Text] and collection of bonds. 17. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act contained shall be so construed as to alter or repeal any part of the County Court law of which this act is amendatory, except so far as is specially provided herein. This act not to repeal any part of act amended. SEC. XVIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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Richmond County. SECTION. 1. Insolvent costspayment of. 2. Civil [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 3. Time of holding Quarterly Sessions. 4. Processes legalized. 5. County Judge to pay [Illegible Text] No. LXV. (O. No. 215.) An Act to amend an act [Illegible Text] the County Court, so far as the same relates to the county of Richmond. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, all insolvent costs now due, or that may become due, to the officers of the County Court of the county of Richmond, shall be paid from the amount received by the County Judge from the hire of convicts from said court. Insolvent [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] paid. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. LXVI. (O. No. 23.) An Act to limit and define the jurisdiction of the County Court of Richmond county, in certain cases. 2. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That from and after the passage of this Act the civil jurisdiction of the County Court of Richmond county, in all cases of tort and contract, involving a sum of one hundred dollars, or less, and over which Magistrates' Courts now have jurisdiction, shall be confined to those cases in which the defendant resides within the limits of the city of Augusta. Civil jurisdiction [Illegible Text] to city limits. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 16, 1875.

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No. LXVII. (O. No. 85.) An Act to change the time for holding the quarterly terms of the County Court of [Illegible Text] county. 3. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the quarterly terms of the County Court of Richmond county shall be held on the first Mondays of April, July, October and January, of each year. Time of holding court. 4. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all processes returnable to the next March term, shall be held and considered as returnable to the April term. [Illegible Text] legalized. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. LXVIII. (O. No. 102.) An Act to authorize the Judge of the County Court of Richmond county to pay the school debt due the school officers and teachers of [Illegible Text] county, for the years 1871 and 1872, and to borrow money to [Illegible Text] the same in the treasury. [Illegible Text] by authority of an act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, entitled, an act to provide for the payment of the claims of school officers and teachers for services rendered in the year 1871, approved March 3, 1874, the grand jury of the county of Richmond did recommend the payment of the sum due the school officers and teachers of Richmond county, out of any funds now in the treasury; and WHEREAS, it may be necessary for the Judge of the County Court to replace the same before the time for levying taxes for the year 1875; Preamble. 5. SECTION 1. Be it therefore enacted, by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Judge of the County Court of Richmond county is hereby authorized to pay said sum so recommended, including the claims held against said fund by Hephzibah High School, for the years 1871 and 1872, and to borrow, in the name of the county, such sum as may be needed to replace the amount he may pay out of the funds now in the treasury to the claims of school officers

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and teachers, for services rendered during the scholastic years 1871 and 1872. Public [Illegible Text] teachersCounty Judge to pay. May borrow money. Services of teacherswhen [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. Thomas, Lowndes, Jefferson and Liberty Counties. SECTION. 1. Solicitorappointment, qualifications, fees and duties. 2. Dockets, minutes and clerks. 3. Transfer of cases from Superior [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] etc. 4. Judge pro [Illegible Text] vicenew [Illegible Text]jury [Illegible Text] etc. No. LXIX. (O. No. 193.) An Act to amend sections two hundred and seventy-nine (279,) two hundred and ninety-one (291,) three hundred and fourteen (314,) and three hundred and [Illegible Text] (317,) of the Code of 1873, so far as the same relates to the counties of Thomas, Lowndes, Jefferson and Liberty. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That section two hundred and seventy-nine (279) of the new Code of this State be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, by inserting immediately after the word years, and before the proviso to said section annexed, the following: The Governor shall appoint in like manner, and for the same time, a County Solicitor, who shall be a resident of the county for which he is appointed, and a practicing attorney in good standing, whose duty it shall be to represent the State in all criminal cases in the County Court, and who shall have the same fees as are now allowed by law to the Solicitor General for similar services in the Superior Court. Vacancies occurring in the office of County Solicitor shall be filled in the manner provided in section 280 of the New Code for filling vacancies in the office of County Judge. But no County Solicitor shall be appointed for any county until such appointment shall have been recommended by a majority of the grand jury thereof. [Illegible Text] Qualifications. Duties. Fees. Vacancies how [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That section 291 of the new Code of this State shall be amended by striking out all of said section after the word Judges, in the first line thereof, and by inserting the following, [Illegible Text] Shall each keep a docket of all civil causes returned to the County Court, and shall cause to be entered upon a book of minutes to be kept for that purpose, a correct account of all civil proceedings had before

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them; they shall also keep execution dockets, as are required to be kept by clerks of the Superior Court. Said Judges shall be ex officio clerks of the several courts over which they preside, but may provide a clerk at their own expense, for whose conduct as clerk the County Judge shall be responsible, and who shall be removable at the pleasure of the Judge. Docket of civil cases to be kept. Book of minutes. Execution dockets. Judgesex officio clerks. May ap'oint clerks. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That section 314 of the new Code of this State shall be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: All presentments or indictments for misdemeanor, now pending in the Superior Courts of this State, or which may be hereafter found by the grand juries therein, shall, at the discretion of the Judge of said court, be transmitted to the County Court for trial, together with all papers connected therewith, and the Judge of the County Court shall have authority to issue bench warrants for the arrest of all persons against whom such presentments or indictments have been found, and to take and attest bonds for the appearance before him for trial, at such time as the said Judge may appoint, of persons against whom presentments or indictments for misdemeanor may hereafter be found, and which have been, or shall be transmitted to the County Court under the provisions of this section. The County Judge shall also have authority to issue writs of scire facias, for the forfeiture of such bonds, returnable to the quarterly sessions of the County Court, and to hear and determine the same under such rules and regulations as govern similar proceedings in the Superior Courts of this State. Cases may be transferred from Superior Courts. Bench warrants and appearance bonds. Scire facias on forfeited bonds. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That section 317 of the new Code of this State be, and the same is hereby amended, by striking out the whole of said section, and substituting therefor the following, to-wit: In all civil causes which are now pending, or which may hereafter be brought in the County Court, in the trial of which the County Judge may be disqualified from presiding, a Judge pro hac vice shall be selected in the manner prescribed by law in the Superior Courts of this State; and whenever such County Court Judge shall be disqualified by law from presiding on the trial of any criminal case pending in the County Court, such case shall be transmitted by the County Judge to the Superior Court of the county for trial. The County Judge shall have full power to grant new trials in all cases adjudicated by him, and his decisions and judgments in all applications for new trials, and on all motions in arrest of judgment, except where the effect of such judgment is to grant a new trial to parties convicted of misdemeanor, or to arrest the judgment of the Court in behalf of persons so convicted, shall be subject to revision by writ of certiorari, or by appeal, as prescribed in sections 286 and 287 of the new Code; but all motions for new trial, or in arrest of judgment, must be made in writing, and within four days from the rendition of the verdict or judgment complained of. Upon the announcement

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of any person brought before the County Judge upon any presentment, indictment, or accusation for misdemeanor, that such person is ready for trial, it shall be lawful for the person charged in such presentment, indictment or accusation, to demand a trial thereon, and the County Judge shall cause such demand to be entered forthwith on the docket of his court, and if the person making such demand is not then tried, it shall be lawful for such person, at the expiration of sixty days from the date of such demand, to appear before the County Judge for trial, and if not then tried, the person against whom such presentment, indictment or accusation is pending, shall be absolutely acquitted of the offense with which he or she is charged; Provided, That no person who has claimed a trial by jury shall be permitted to make such demand, nor be acquitted of such charge, unless, in both cases, juries shall have been empanneled and sworn to try the person accused or indicted; Provided, also, that such acquittal shall in no case be allowed when the County Judge has reasonable grounds to believe that any witness whose testimony is material to the support of such accusation or indictment is absent by the procurement or collusion of the person charged, or from providential cause. Judge pro hac vice. New trials may be granted. Motions in arrest of judgement. Writ of [Illegible Text] Motions to be made in writing. Jury trial may be demanded. Demand for trial and acquittal. Proviso. Proviso. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. Troup and Baldwin Counties. SECTION. 1. Jurisdiction, practice, trial and judgment. 2. Monthly terms, fees, semi-annual terms. 3. Minister'al officers. 4. Pay of jurors. 5. In case Judge is disqualified. No. LXX. (O. No. 377.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to create a County Court in each county of the State of Georgia, except certain counties therein mentioned, approved January 19, 1872, so far as relates to the counties of Troup and Baldwin, and to regulate and prescribe the practice and jury fees and costs in the County Courts of said counties of Troup and Baldwin. 1. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That as to the counties of Troup and Baldwin, said recited act be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as follows: The said County Judges shall have jurisdiction throughout their counties, to hear and determine, subject to the right of appeal

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to the Superior Court, all civil cases founded on contract or tort, (except where provided otherwise by the Constitution,) where the amount sued for exceeds fifty dollars, and does not exceed two hundred dollars; and shall hold their courts at the county court-house, on regular term days, so far as regards such matters of contract or tort; and the practice therein shall be by petition, process, service, and all other matters of mere practice, and form of procedure, exactly as in the Superior Court, or as nigh thereto as practicable, and no final judgment shall be rendered before the second term after service of process perfected; and continuances of causes therein shall, when granted, be from term to term only. Jurisdiction. Petition process. Practice [Illegible Text] as in Superior Courts. Final judgment. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for suits for claims over fifty and not over one hundred dollars, the terms shall be monthly so long as Justices of the Peace hold jurisdiction over equal amounts, and in such cases the entire fees of court, not including fees of Sheriff, or for subp[oelig]nas, or commissions, or for appeals, or for transmitting appeals, shall be the same as now allowed by law to Justices of the Peace in similar cases, and for suits for sums over one hundred dollars the terms shall be twice a year, to-wit; for said county of Troup on the third Mondays of February and August, and for Baldwin county on the third Mondays of May and November in each year; and in such cases the entire court costs, excepting as aforesaid for Sheriffs, subp[oelig]nas and interrogatories, shall be three dollars per case, and no more. Monthly terms. Fees of Sh'riff. Semi-annual terms. Court costs. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Sheriffs, or their lawful deputies, or Coroners, shall be the ministerial officers of said courts, as of Superior Courts. Ministerial [Illegible Text] 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the jurors sworn in said courts shall receive one dollar each per day, and no more. Pay of jurors. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the Judge of said court be lawfully disqualified to sit in any case, his place may be, by written consent of parties on the minutes, supplied as provided by law in latter clause of section 240 of the Irwin Revised Code, and if no consent, then the Judge shall send up the case, and all file papers therein to the next Superior Court forthwith. In case Ju'ge is disqualified, who may preside. SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875.

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Wilkes County. SECTION 1. Solicitor, appointment, term, fees, duties, bond, etc. No. LXXI. (O. No. 337.) An Act to amend an act establishing County Courts in certain counties of this State, so far as the same relates to the county of Wilkes, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above entitled act, be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding the following thereto as an additional section, to be of force in the county of Wilkes; There shall be a prosecuting attorney, who shall be styled County Solicitor, and who shall be appointed by the Governor, with the advice and consent of the Senate, and who shall hold his office for four years, and shall be commissioned and qualified as other county officers; he shall be a practicing attorney, and shall give bond, in the sum of one thousand dollars, and shall be removable from office in the same manner as Solicitors General are removable. In case of vacancy, absence, sickness, or other disability, the County Judge may appoint a Solicitor pro tem. The duties of said County Solicitor shall be the same in said County Court as the duties of Solicitors General in the several Superior Courts of this State, and he shall receive the same fees in said County Court as are allowed to Solicitors General for like services in said Superior Courts. The insolvent costs of said County Solicitor shall be paid out of money arising in said court from fines and forfeitures. County Solicitor. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Bond. Removable from office. Solicitor pro tem. Fees. Insolvent costs. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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CHAPTER V. CRIMINAL COURTS. Butts County. SECTION 1. Criminal Court organized. No. LXXII. (O. No. 244.) An Act to amend an act to organize a Criminal Court for the counties of DeKalb, Henry, Carroll and Sumter, approved February 22, 1873, and also to amend the act entitled an act to amend an act to organize a Criminal Court for the counties of DeKalb, Henry, Carroll, and Sumter, approved February 16, 1874, so far as to make the provisions of said acts of force in, and applicable to, the county of Butts. 1. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the act to organize a Criminal Court for the counties of DeKalb, [Illegible Text], Carroll and Sumter, approved February 22, 1873, and the act amendatory thereof, approved February 16, 1874, in all their, provisions and clauses, be, and the same are hereby, enacted and made applicable and of full force in the county of Butts, in this State. Butts county. Criminal Court for. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. Clay County. SECTION 1. Criminal Court established. 2. Solicitor appointment, duties, etc. 3. Jury trials and appeals. No. LXXIII. (O. No. 274.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to organize a Criminal Court in the counties of Marion, Talbot, Stewart and Chattahoochee, approved February 22, 1873. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the above recited act be so amended as to add thereto the county of Clay,

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and that the provisions of said act shall apply to the said county of Clay, except the proviso in section 248 thereof. County Court established. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the county of Clay there shall be by the Governor appointed for said court, a County Solicitor, whose duty it shall be to prosecute all criminal cases coming before said court, whose term of office shall be two years, and whose pay in each case shall be the same as that of Solicitors-General in similar cases; that all cases transferred by order of the Judge of the Superior Court from the dockets of the Superior Court to said County Criminal Court, shall be prosecuted by said County Solicitor, and that said County Solicitor, at each term of the Superior Court, shall pay over to the Solicitor-General all costs which may be due him in said cases so transferred. County Solicitor. [Illegible Text] of [Illegible Text]. Fees. [Illegible Text]. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the counties of Clay and Randolph, when the defendant demands a jury, the Sheriff or his deputy shall summons twelve legal and competent jurors, from which the State shall strike three and the defendant four; so that the jury shall consist of five jurors. If the defendant is found guilty, he shall be entitled to an appeal to the Superior Court, by giving notice thereof in writing to the officer presiding in the trial, and paying the cost that may have accrued in the said Criminal Court up to that time, not including jail fees, if any. Upon such notice being given, the presiding Justice shall certify the same to the Superior Court, with all the papers; and when transferred it shall be tried upon the papers so transferred, without the necessity of an indictment. The cost in the Superior Court shall be as now provided by law, and shall be assessed and paid under the law as it now stands. Jury trials. Appeals to Superior Court. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. Effingham County. SECTION. 1. Criminal Courtjurisdiction, etc. 2. Trial and continuances. 3. Written [Illegible Text]. 4. Jury trials. 5. Offenders may be committed. 6. Waiver of indictment. 7. Cases may be transferred from Superior Court. 8. In cases of felonyduty of court. 9. Certiorari. 10. [Illegible Text], etc. 11. Fees and [Illegible Text]. 12. Dockets to be kept. 13. Compensationno other allowed. 14. Decisions of cases. 15. Judgmentpower to enforce. No. LXXIV. (O. No. 144.) An Act to [Illegible Text] a Criminal Court in the county of Effingham. 1. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State

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of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act the Justice of the Peace residing in the militia district in which the county town of Effingham is situated, and the Justice of the Peace in any adjoining militia district, shall constitute a Criminal Court, to hold its sessions at the court house of said county, and shall have power to try all offenses committed against the laws of this State, except such offenses as are punishable by death or imprisonment in the penitentiary of this State. Criminal Court. Where to be held. [Illegible Text]. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said officers shall hear and determine such criminal cases as aforesaid immediately, unless good cause be shown for a continuance, and in no event shall a continuance be granted for a longer time than is necessary, with diligence, to procure the attendance of the witnesses for and against the prisoner: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall force the prisoner to trial, if from providential cause he is unprepared. Cases to be triedwhen. [Illegible Text]. Proviso. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all such offenders shall be tried before the court herein established, upon written accusation founded upon affidavit, which accusation shall distinctly set forth the nature of the offense, the time when committed, and shall be signed by the accuser or prosecutor. Offendershow to be tried. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be no jury trial before said court, unless demanded by the accused, in which event the jury shall consist of twelve men, competent to serve as jurors in this State, and when demanded by the accused, said court shall order the bailiffs or attending officers to summon a jury of sixteen men, from the militia district where the offense was committed, from whom said jury of twelve shall be selected by striking, the accused having the first strike. Jury trial[Illegible Text] may demand. Jurors. Strikes. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any Justice of the Peace or Notary Public, ex-officio Justice of the Peace of said county may commit to the court herein established, any offender charged with any offense below the degree of felony. Offenders may be committed. 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the court to have indorsed upon the written accusation, signed by the accuser, prosecutor, the words indictment by the grand jury waived; said indorsement shall be signed by the accused, or his counsel, and in the event that the accused shall fail to sign said waiver, it shall be the duty of said court to proceed to hear evidence, and if probable guilt is made to appear, to commit said prisoner, as heretofore practiced, to the Superior Court of said county. Waiver of indictment. If accused refuses to waive duty of Court. 7. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That where an indictment is pending against any person in the Superior Court of said county for any offense below the degree of felony, the Judge of said Superior Court may, in his discretion, have the case or cases transferred, by special order, either at a regular

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term of said Superior Court, or in vacation, to be tried upon said indictment before the court herein established, in which event it shall not be necessary for the indorsement provided for in the foregoing section to be made, but said court shall proceed to try all such cases without unnecessary delay. Certain cases to be transferred from [Illegible Text]. 8. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any case shall be brought before this court for trial, and after the evidence is heard, it is made to appear that the offense is not below the degree of felony, it shall be the duty of said court, if probable guilt is made to appear, to bind the offender over to the next Superior Court of said county, and on failure to give the bond required, to commit said offender to jail. [Illegible Text]. 9. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the privilege of any defendant to sue out a writ of certiorari from the decisions of the court, or verdict of the jury, or both, under the same rules and regulations as are prescribed in civil cases: Provided, that immediate notice be given of an intention to certiorari: and provided further, that thirty days be given said defendant to obtain the sanction of the writ of certiorari. Certioraridefendant may sue [Illegible Text]. Proviso. 10. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said court shall have power to appoint one Bailiff, who shall take the usual oath prescribed for other ministerial officers, and shall give bond in the sum of five hundred dollars for the faithful performance of his duties: Provided, that the Sheriff or any Constable of said county may act as such Bailiff. BailiffCourt may appoint. Bond. Proviso. 11. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Justice or Justices shall receive four dollars for each case tried, and the Bailiff the same fees prescribed for Sheriffs performing similar services, which sum shall be paid by the accused when convicted, and it is hereby made the duty of the officer arresting the party to seize a sufficiency of the property of the accused to pay the cost, and if personal property, to retain the same in his possession until the accused shall have been acquitted or convicted; and in the event the accused is convicted, and fails to pay the cost, it shall be the duty of the Bailiff, or other officer, to advertise the same for ten days, at the court house, if personal property; if real property, it shall be advertised as in other cases, and shall, on the day of sale specified in said advertisement, sell said property to the highest bidder, and the money thus realized shall be applied to the payment of the cost: Provided, that in every case where it shall be made to appear to the court that the accuser acted [Illegible Text], or where the jury shall so find, then in that event the prosecutor shall pay the cost. Fees of justices. Fees of [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] Property [Illegible Text] for costs may [Illegible Text]. 12. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Justice or Justices shall keep a docket of all cases brought before them, and a book to record all their actings and doings, the amount of fines paid in, and how disposed of, and it shall be the duty of said Justice or Justices to pay over to the County Treasurer,

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immediately, all fine money received, after paying all insolvent cost due, and it shall be the further duty of said court to lay before each grand jury a full account of the disposition of all fine money recovered. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Disposition of fines. Court to account to grand jury. 13. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That none of the officers of said court shall receive any other compensation, nor shall be paid in any other way save as provided for in this Act. No other compensation. 14. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That either of the Justices of the Peace aforesaid, when it is not convenient for both to sit at the same time, may hear and determine the case or cases submitted, and the decision of either Justice alone, or any act done by either as a court, shall have all the legal effect, as if rendered or done by both, and if said Justices, when sitting together as a court, shall fail to agree, it shall be the privilege of the accused to say which one of the officers shall pronounce the decision, which decision, so pronounced, shall be the judgment of the court. One Justice may try cases. Who shall [Illegible Text] when the Justices differ. 15. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said court shall have the same powers in enforcing its judgments or processes, and in preserving order that are given to other courts of law. Powers of Court to enforce judgment. SEC. XVI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. Marion, Talbot, Stewart, Chattahoochee, Randolph, Early and Webster Counties. SECTION. 1. Appearance [Illegible Text] in the Superior Court [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] County Criminal Courts. 2. Bondshow to be taken. No. LXXV. (O. No. 45.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act to organize a Criminal Court in the counties of Marion, Talbot, Stewart and Chattahoochee, approved February 27, 1873, the said amendatory act approved February 28, 1874. WHEREAS, the above recited act was so amended as to add to the counties included therein the counties of Randolph, Early and Webster, and no provision was made either in said original act, or said amendatory act, for the holding of prisoners under bond to the Superior Court, for trial in said County Criminal Court, when

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the said cases are transferred by order of the Judge of the Superior Court, as provided in said amended act; Preamble 1. SECTION 1. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this Act, all appearance bonds of persons charged with misdemeanor, taken in the Superior Courts of said counties included in said act, shall be valid and binding upon said persons, for their appearance before said County Criminal Court, whenever their said cases are transferred from the Superior Court by the order of the presiding Judge thereof, to said County Criminal Court, and that when their said cases are so transferred, the said County Criminal Court shall have power to forfeit the same, as though originally taken to said court. Appearance bonds in Superior Court binding in cases transferred. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all appearance bonds for misdemeanors hereafter taken in either of the counties named in said act, shall be taken for appearance before said County Criminal Court. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 22, 1875. Taylor, Schley, Crawford and Pulaski Counties. SECTION. 1. Criminal Courts established, and laws made applicable thereto. No. LXXVI. (O. No. 341.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to organize a Criminal Court in the counties of Marion, Talbot, Stewart and Chattahoochee, approved February 22, 1873. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the provisions of the above recited act shall be, and they are hereby, extended to the counties of Taylor, Schley, Crawford and Pulaski. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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CHAPTER VI. JUSTICES' COURT. SECTION. 1. Civil [Illegible Text] of Justices' Court of district embracing county site of Clinch county. No. LXXVII. (O. No. 257.) An Act to repeal the civil jurisdiction of the Justices' Court of the district embracing the county site of Clinch county, approved March 2, 1874. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act that section fifteen of said act be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Section fifteen of recited act repealed. SEC. II Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. NOTE.The [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] relates to the civil jurisdiction of the court, and can be found in Compiled Laws [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 89. CHAPTER VII. MAYOR'S COURT. Augusta. SECTION 1. [Illegible Text] officers of Recorder's Court. No. LXXVIII. (O. No. 369.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to organize the Court of Common [Illegible Text] for the city of Augusta, and for other purposes, approved February 15, 1856, by striking from the 20 th section thereof, the words Marshal and Deputy Marshal, and inserting in lieu thereof, the words Chief of Police, and Lieutenants of Police. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the word Marshal be stricken from the twentieth section of the above act, and in lieu thereof, and the word Chief of Police be inserted, and that the words Deputy

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Marshal in said section be stricken, and, in lieu thereof, the words Lieutenants of Police be inserted. Chief of Police Lieutenants of Police. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. Blackshear. SECTION. 1. Mayor may act as Clerk. 2. Fees and costs. 3. Sheriff and deputy to execute process. No. LXXIX. (O. No. 375.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to confer civil and criminal jurisdiction for the county of Pierce on the Mayor of the corporation of Blackshear, approved August 27, 1872. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section third of said above recited act, be amended by striking out from the third section the words, and the Clerk of Council shall be clerk of said corporation court, and substituting therefor the words, and the Mayor shall have the privilege of acting as his own clerk. Mayor may act as Clerk. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That section fifteen of said act be amended by striking out the words, in civil cases where the amount sued for or claimed is over fifty dollars, $3, if settled before trial, $1.50, if under fifty dollars, $2, if settled in vacation, $1, in all other civil cases not herein mentioned, $2, and substituting therefor the words, and in all cases within a Magistrate's jurisdiction, the Mayor shall be entitled to the same fees, and no more than are now allowed by law to Justices of the Peace in like cases. [Illegible Text] 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That an additional section shall be added to said act, to-wit: Section 16. The Sheriff and his deputy of said county are hereby authorized to execute all processes issuing from said court, both mesne and final, and shall receive therefor such fees as Constables are now by law entitled to receive in all cases within a Magistrate's jurisdiction, and in all other cases such fees as Sheriffs are by law entitled to receive for like services in the Superior Courts. [Illegible Text]Sheriff and [Illegible Text] to execute. Compensation. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875.

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Macon. SECTION. 1. Jurisdiction in [Illegible Text] vagraney granted. 2. Trial by jury. No. LXXX. (O. No. 374.) An Act to [Illegible Text] the Mayor's Court of the city of Macon to take jurisdiction of the crime of vagrancy, and to try and punish persons guilty of vagrancy within the limits of the city of Macon. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the Mayor's Court of the city of Macon shall have jurisdiction to try all persons guilty of vagrancy within the limits of the city of Macon, and upon conviction to punish them as prescribed in section 4560 of the Code of Georgia. Jurisdiction of cases of vagrancy. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all cases where persons charged before said court with the offense of vagrancy shall demand a trial by jury, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to send such person before a court having jurisdiction of said offense, and if no such court shall be then in session, then to bind said person in sufficient bond for his appearance before said court for tried, and in default of bail to commit said person to await said trial. Trial by juryhow and when granted. [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. CHAPTER VIII. COURT OF ORDINARY. Liberty County. SECTION 1. Time of keeping open Ordinary's office. No. LXXXI. (O. No. 109.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to alter and change so much of the 7 th section of the act entitled an act to carry into effect the amended Constitution of this State, in reference to the Ordinaries of said State, and for other purposes, so far as relates to the county of Liberty approved February 9, 1851. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, an act entitled

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an act to amend an act entitled an act to alter and change so much of the 7th section of the act entitled an act to carry into effect the amended Constitution of this State, in reference to the Ordinaries of said State, and for other purposes, so far as relates to the county of Liberty, approved February 9, 1854, be altered and amended by striking out the word Friday, in the second section of the above recited act. Time of keeping office open. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. NOTE.The act of which this is amendatory can be seen on page [Illegible Text] Acts of 1853, 1854. It required the Ordinary to keep his office open on [Illegible Text] and Friday of each week, and also, [Illegible Text] such other days as business might require. CHAPTER IX. SUPERIOR COURTS. BaldwinSec. 6. Time of holding court. BartowSec. 12. Time of holding court. CatoosaSec. 12. Time of holding court. DadeSec. 12. Time of holding court. DoolySec. 1. Time of holding court. DouglasSec. 7. Time of holding court. EcholsSec. 9. Time of holding court. GordonSec. 12. Time of holding court. JasperSec. 4. Time of holding court. MurraySec. 12. Time of holding court. TwiggsSec. 10. Time of holding court. WhitfieldSec. 12. Time of holding court. Superior Court ClerksSec. 14. Fees for recording deeds may be charged in advance. No. LXXXII. (O. No. 138.) An Act to change the time of holding the Superior Courts of Dooly county, to extend the time of the same, and to provide for drawing jurors for said extended time, and to change the time of holding the Superior Courts of Jasper and Baldwin counties, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the first day of June, 1875, the Superior Courts of the county of Dooly shall be changed from the third Mondays in March and September to the second Mondays in March and September in each year. Time of holding Superior Court of Dooly county. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the term of said Superior Court of the county of Dooly shall be two weeks, commencing with the second Mondays in September and March, as changed by this Act. Term of court. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at the time prescribed by law for drawing traverse and grand jurors, it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Superior Court of the

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county of Dooly to draw an additional and separate panel of grand and traverse jurors to serve during the second week of said court, and they shall be summoned and served accordingly, and the persons so summoned shall appear and serve as jurors at the second week of said court under the same laws and regulations as are now of force in this State as to jurors for the first week of said court. Additional [Illegible Text] to be drawn for second week 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the passage of this Act, the spring term of the Superior Court for the county of Jasper be, and the same is hereby changed from the second Monday in February to the fourth Monday in April, and the fall term of said court be, and the same is hereby changed from the second Monday in August to the fourth Monday in October of each year; and all writs and processes issuing from and returnable to the said Superior Court of Jasper county, shall be returnable to the said fourth Mondays in April and October, as herein provided. Jasper Superior Courttime of holding spring and full terms. Writs and processes. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the grand and traverse jurors drawn for the August term, 1875, of said Superior Court, be required to attend and serve as such jurors for said October term, 1875, on said fourth Monday in October, 1875. Jurors drawn for August [Illegible Text] to serve, when. 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the passage of this Act, the Superior Court of Baldwin county shall be held on the third Mondays of February and of August in each year, and may continue two weeks in succession, if necessary; and all juries drawn, or orders and processes granted or issued at the February term, 1875, of said Superior Court, and prior to the publication of this Act shall be deemed and considered as for the third Monday of August next, after the approval of this Act by the Governor. Baldwin Superior C'rttime of holding. Termtength of. Juriesprocesses, etc. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. LXXXIII. (O. No. 317.) An Act to change the time of holding the Superior Courts of Douglas County. 7. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Superior Courts of said county shall be held on the fourth Mondays in January and July, in each and every year, next after the passags of this Act: Provided,

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that the first term of said court, after the passage of this Act, shall be held as now provided by law. Douglas Superior Courtterms of. 8. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, That all writs, processes, etc., which may have been returned to said court, shall be legal and binding as though this Act had not been passed. Writs and processes. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. LXXXIV. (O. No. 301.) An Act to change the time of holding the Superior Court in the county of Echols. 9. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Superior Court of the County of Echols shall be held on Tuesday after the third Monday in April and October of each year. Time of holding Superior Court. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. LXXXV. (O. No. 111.) An act to change the time of holding the Superior Court of the county of Twiggs, and for other purposes. 10. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the time for holding the Superior Court of the county of Twiggs shall be changed from the second Mondays in April and October, to the third Mondays in April and October in each year. Time of holding Court. 11. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all writs, processes, orders, summons, and other proceedings returnable to said court prior to the passage of this Act, shall be held and considered as returnable to the term as herein fixed and prescribed. Writs and processes legalized. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. LXXXVI. (O. No. 358.) An Act to fix the time of holding the Superior Courts in the counties of [Illegible Text], Catoosa, Murray, Gordon, Dade and Whitfield. 12. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the Superior Courts in the counties of Bartow, Catoosa, Murray, Gordon, Dade and Whitfield shall convene on the days hereinafter set forth: Bartow Superior Courts on the second Mondays in January and July, Catoosa Superior Courts on the second Mondays in February and August, Murray Superior Courts on the third Mondays in February and August, Gordon Superior Courts on the first Mondays in March and September, Dade Superior Courts on the third Mondays in March and September, Whitfield Superior Courts on the first Mondays in April and October. Bartow, Superior Courtwhen held. Catoosa Superior Cor'ttime of holding. Murray Superior [Illegible Text] Gordon Superior [Illegible Text]. Dade Superior Court. Whitfield Superior Court. 13. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall not go into effect before the first day of May, 1875. To take effect, when SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. LXXXVII. (O. No. 221.) An Act to authorize Clerks of the Superior Court to demand and collect in advance their fees for recording deeds. 14. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the several Clerks of the Superior Court in this State shall be authorized to demand, and collect in advance, their fees for recording deeds. Fees for recording deedsto be paid in advance. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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CHAPTER X. SUPREME COURT. SECTION. 1. Compensation of Clerk. 2. Library fund. 3. Annual statement by Clerk. 4. Purchase of books for Library. 5. Publication of [Illegible Text]. 6. [Illegible Text] of parts of cases by [Illegible Text]. No. LXXXVIII. (O. No. 80.) An Act to fix the compensation of the Clerk of the Supreme Court, to prescribe the manner of its payment, to define his duties in relation to costs, the disposition of said costs, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the Clerk of the Supreme Court shall receive, as compensation for his services, the sum of four thousand dollars per annum, to be paid out of the money arising from costs in cases before the Supreme Court, provided said costs shall amount to said sum of four thousand dollars as aforesaid, and if the costs shall not amount to said mentioned sum, then the difference between the actual amount of costs and said four thousand dollars shall be paid said Clerk from the Treasury of the State, upon the certificate of the Judges of the Supreme Court. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Supreme Court to collect all costs due on cases in the Supreme Court, and to pay over to the Treasurer of the State, all money arising from costs collected as aforesaid, in excess of four thousand dollars, which sums of money so paid shall remain as on deposit in the State Treasury, and constitute a separate and distinct fund, to be styled the Library Fund, and subject only to be paid out as hereinafter provided. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Supreme Court, on or before the first day of January in each and every year, to submit to the Treasurer of the State, in writing, a full and fair statement of each case before the Supreme Court during the year preceding his report, showing the items of cost, amount collected, and amount not collected; and if there shall appear any balance due by said Clerk, not collected (except costs due in pauper criminal cases,) or if collected and not paid over, then said Clerk shall be liable to be ruled by the State Treasurer, in the Supreme Court, in term time, on the same terms that other collecting officers are ruled. [Illegible Text] What the statement shall show. Clerk may [Illegible Text] ruled. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the funds thus arising from costs as aforesaid, in excess of said sum of four thousand

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dollars, shall be subject to the order of the Judges of the Supreme Court, upon a warrant of the Governor, based upon the certificate of the Judges aforesaid, and shall be used and applied solely to the purchase of such books, pamphlets, or other publications as may be selected or directed to be purchased by the Judges aforesaid. Fund to be applied to purchase of books for library. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. LXXXIX. (O. No. 216.) An Act to regulate the publication of the Decisions of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. 5. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That it shall be the duty of the reporter of the Supreme Court to publish the decisions of said court, in such form that all the decisions made during one term shall be printed in one volume, unless it shall become necessary to add any part of the decisions of the succeeding term to make a volume of proper size; but in no event shall more than two volumes be published annually. Decisions of each term to be published together. Only two volumes to be [Illegible Text] annually. 6. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the Judges of said court may direct said reporter to omit the publication in full of such cases as in their opinion may be understood from the written synopsis of the points decided, made by them at the time of the decision; and said reporter shall only publish said synopsis in such cases. Judges may direct reporter to omit parts of certain cases. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. CHAPTER XI. FINES AND FORFEITURES. SECTION I. Lien of officers of court on fines and forfeitures. No. XC. (O. No. 152.) An Act to provide for the distribution of funds arising from fines and forfeitures. 1. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the officers of court shall have a lien upon all

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funds arising from fines and forfeitures, for the payment of their insolvent costs, before any specific appropriation shall be made of said funds for purposes of Sunday-schools, or other educational purposes. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. CHAPTER XII. GARNISHMENT. SECTION. 1. In garnishment for board or provisionsaffidavit must state consideration of debt. 2. Garnishment in County Courtsas to [Illegible Text]. 3. Where garnishee resides in different county from defendant. No. XCI. (O. No. 229.) An Act to amend the garnishment laws of this State, as far as the same relate to the garnishment of the wages of journeymen mechanics and day laborers. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act whenever any person seeks process of garnishment against any journeyman mechanic, or day laborer, such person shall, in addition to the oath now required by law, make affidavit, setting forth specifically the actual consideration of the debt, or judgment sued on, or so much thereof as he may claim the law authorizes the garnishment of wages for. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. NOTE.The wages of journeymen mechanics and day laborers are only subject to [Illegible Text] for board and provisions, physicians' bills, and medicines.See section [Illegible Text] of Code, and [Illegible Text] thereto in this book.

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No. XCII. (O. No. 225.) An Act to confer additional jurisdiction on County Courts in cases of garnishment, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 2. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia That from and after the passage of this Act the County Courts of this State shall have jurisdiction in all cases in garnishment, as well as when the debt of the garnishee to the defendant shall exceed, as when it shall fall short of the jurisdictional amount of said courts. And in all cases of suit on bail or attachment, claim or other obligations, or bonds given by parties to any proceedings issued from, or had in said court, although the penalties of said bonds may exceed the jurisdiction of said court by being in double the sum sworn to, attached, or of the executions issued, or property levied on: Provided, the original cause of action upon which such bonds or obligations were had, or taken, did not exceed the jurisdiction of said court. [Illegible Text]. Proviso. 3. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That in all cases in the County Courts of this State, where any of the persons sought to be garnished reside in a different county from the one where suit is peading, or in which judgment was obtained, the summons of garnishment may be made returnable to the County Court of the county of the residence of the garnishee: Provided, that in the event there be no County Court established in the county of such garnishee's residence, then the same may be made returnable to the Superior Court of the county of the garnishee's residence, and in all other respects to be governed by the regulations prescribed in section 3537, or section 3538 of the Code of 1873. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. Proviso. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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CHAPTER XIII. HOLIDAYS. SECTION. 1. Holidays, as to acceptance of bills. 2. When holidays fall on Sunday. 3. Notes, etc., due Sundaywhen presentable. 4. [Illegible Text] day of grace. 5. Ellect of this Act. No. XCIII. (O. No. 51.) An Act to designate the holidays to be observed in the acceptance and payment of bills of exchange, bank checks and promissory notes. 1. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact as follows: That the following days, viz: the first day of January, commonly called New Years day; the twenty-second day of February, known as Washington's birth day; the twenty sixth day of April, known as Decoration day; the fourth day of July, called Independence day; the twenty-fifth day of December, known as Christmas day; and any day appointed or recommended by the Governor of this State, or the President of the United States, or any municipal authority, as a day of thanksgiving, or fasting and prayer, or other religious observance, shall, for all purposes whatsoever, as regards the presenting for payment or acceptance, and of the protesting and giving notice of the dishonor of bills of exchange, bank checks and promissory notes, made after the passage of this Act, be treated and considered as the first day of the week, commonly called Sunday, and as public holidays; and all such bills, checks, and notes, otherwise presentable for acceptance or payment on said days, shall be deemed to be presentable for acceptance or payment, on the secular or business day next preceding such holidays. [Illegible Text]. Bills, [Illegible Text], etc. presentable day [Illegible Text] such holidays. 2. SEC. II. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do further enact, That whenever the first day of January, the twenty-second day of February, the twenty-sixth day of April, the fourth day of July, or the twenty-fifth day of December, shall fall upon Sunday, the Monday next following shall be deemed a public holiday, for all or any of the purposes aforesaid; Provided, however, that in such case all bills of exchange, checks and promissory notes, made after the passage of this Act, which would otherwise be presentable for acceptance or payment on the said Monday, shall be deemed to be presentable for acceptance or payment on the Tuesday next following. When [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] on Sunday. Proviso. 3. SEC. III. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do further enact, That whenever the day on which any bill of exchange, check or promissory note, made after the passage of this

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Act, would mature shall be Sunday, whether or not such Sunday shall be either of the days named as holidays in the first section of this Act, such bill of exchange, check or promissory note shall be presentable for acceptance or payment on the Saturday next preceding. Notes, [Illegible Text], etc., [Illegible Text] due on sun. day shall be presentable on Saturday before. 4. SEC. IV. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do further enact, That the last day of grace shall be deemed the date of maturity of any bill of exchange, check or promissory note entitled to the three days known as days of grace, for all the purposes of this Act. Last day of grace deemed date of maturity. 5. SEC. V. And it is further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are hereby repealed; but such repeal shall not affect any act done, or proceeding or suit instituted prior to the passage of this Act. Repeal not affect, what SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 23, 1875. CHAPTER XIV. HOMESTEAD. SECTION 1. Homestead and exemption may be waived by head of family. No. XCIV. (O. No. 211.) An Act to enable parties to waive and renounce the homestead and exemptious provided by law. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That it shall be lawful for any head of a family entitled by law to a homestead or exemption, to waive and renounce, for a valuable consideration, by written mortgage, or deed intended to have the effect of a mortgage, the right of homestead and exemption, or homestead or exemption, in any property not already set apart as a homestead or exemption, and so mortgaged or conveyed in favor of the debt or debts of any creditor or creditors, to secure which said mortgage or conveyance shall be executed, and thereafter the person or persons making such waiver, and any person applying in his or their behalf, or in behalf of any others claiming homestead or exemption through his or their title, shall be estopped forever from setting up any claim for a homestead and exemption, or either of them, in any court in this State as against the payment of said debt or debts, so long as the same shall remain unpaid: Provided, this Act shall only be applicable to debts

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contracted in the durchase of plantation and household supplies, and clothing for the family. Homestead and exemptionhead of a family may [Illegible Text]. All parties estopped from applying by said [Illegible Text]. For what the [Illegible Text] may be made. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. CHAPTER XV. JURORS AND JURY DUTY. SECTION. 1. Compensation in Burke and Cobb [Illegible Text]. 2. Compensation in [Illegible Text], Cobb and Haralson counties. 3. Compensation in Dougherty, Worth and Baker counties. 4. Compensation in Early county. 5. Compensation in [Illegible Text], Dooly, Lee and Houston counties. 6. Compensation in Rabun county. 7. Compensation in Sehley county. 8. Compensation in [Illegible Text] and Coffee counties 9. Residents of municipal corporation competent jurors. 10. Clerks in State Department exempt from jury duty. 11. Exemptions in Chatham county repealed. 12. Jury service in Chatham county regulated 13. LaGrange Light Guards exempt from jury duty. 14. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] exempt from jury duty. 15. Millers running public mills exempt. 16. Persons over fifty years old exempt. 17. Second Georgia [Illegible Text] exempt from regular jury duty. 18. Service as talesman. 19. Exempt from jury service [Illegible Text] Superior Courts. 20. List of officers and men. 21. Persons claiming to be members. 22. Jury lists not disturbed. No. XCV (O. No. 308.) An Act to regulate the compensation of jurors of Burke and Cobb counties. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the compensation of jurors of Burke and Cobb counties shall be one dollar per day. Per diem of jurors. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. XCVI. (O. No. 57.) An Act to fix the compensation of jurors in the counties of Butts, Cobb, and Haralson. 2. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State

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of Georgia. That from and after the passage of this Act, the compensation of grand and petit jurors, in the counties of Butts, Cobb and Haralson, shall be one dollar per day. Compensation of jurors. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. No. XCVII. (O. No. 94.) An Act to regulate the compensation of jurors in the counties of Dougherty, Worth and Baker. 3. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That on all actions now pending, or hereafter to be instituted, in the Superior or County Courts of Dougherty, Worth and Baker, the fee of the jurors shall be three dollars on all verdicts signed by them, and one dollar on all confessions or statutory judgments, to be paid by the party taking such verdict, confession, or judgment, which shall be taxed in the bill of cost against the defendant, and no other or further compensation shall be paid to either grand or special jurors of said counties. Fees of Jurors. To be taxed in costs. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. XCVIII. (O. No. 81.) An Act to regulate the pay of jurors for the county of Early. 4. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That on and after the passage of this Act the per diem of jurors for the Superior Court of the county of Early, shall be one dollar and twenty-five cents. Per diem of jurors. 5. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all tales jurors who are summoned by order of the court, and held in hearing of the same, shall receive the same compensation as the regularly empanneled jurors. Of tales jurors. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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No. XCIX. (O. No. 243.) An Act to regulate the pay of grand and petit jurors for the counties of Echols, Dooly, Lee and Houston. 5. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act the grand and petit jurors for the counties of Echols, Dooly, Lee and Houston, shall receive one dollar for each day they may serve. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. C. (O. No. 238.) An Act to provide for the per diem pay of grand and petit jurors of the county of Rabun, and to repeal all laws heretofore passed for said county on the subject of grand and petit jurors. 6. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the per diem pay of grand and petit jurors of Rabun county shall be seventy-five cents per day. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the Tax Collector of Rabun county be, and he is hereby required to take jury tickets for county taxes. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CI. (O. No. 172.) An Act to regulate and fix the per diem pay of jurors in the county of Schley. 7. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the per diem pay or fees of jurors in the county of Schley shall be the sum of one dollar and fifty cents for each juror, and no more. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CII. (O. No. 10.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to abolish the per diem pay of grand and petit jurors of the counties of Wilcox and Coffee. 8. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, an act entitled an act to abolish the per diem pay of grand and petit jurors of the counties of Wilcox and Coffee, approved February 26, 1874, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act repealed. SEC. H. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 5, 1875. No. CIII. (O. No. 154.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to make citizens and residents of municipal corporations competent jurors to try issues in which such corporations are [Illegible Text] or interested, approved February 28, 1874. 9. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the act above recited be amended by striking out of the first section of the same, the following words, to-wit: Provided, the provisions of this bill shall not apply to suits now pending. Proviso stricken from [Illegible Text] act. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the fact of a person being a citizen or resident of a municipal corporation, shall not render him incompetent to serve as a juror in cases in which such municipal corporation is a party or interested. Certain persons made competent jurors in certain [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CIV. (O. No. 59.) An Act to exempt certain persons from jury duty. 10. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, all clerks

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connected with the several State departments at the capital be, and the same are hereby, exempt from jury duty. Clerks in State department exempt [Illegible Text] jury duty. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. No. CV. (O. No. 203.) An Act to repeal all exemptions from jury duty in the county of Chatham and city of Savannah. 11. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That all exemptions from jury duty within the county of Chatham, or the city of Savannah, on account of membership of, or connection with, any fire department, or fire company, or other organization of a special character, are hereby repealed and discontinued, any general or special law to the contrary notwithstanding; Provided, it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Superior Court, presiding in Chatham county, and of the Judge of the City Court of Savannah, to excuse from jury duty in their respective courts, such members of the fire department of Savannahnot exceeding fifteen for each company or organizationas may be recommended by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, and by the Board of County Commissioners of Chatham countysuch recommendation to be renewed or refused in each and every year. [Illegible Text] Proviso. 12. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all other respects, than such as are specified in the first section of this Act, service on juries, and exemptions from such service, shall be regulated and controlled by the general laws of the State of Georgia. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall take effect on and after the second day of April, 1875. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CVI. (O. No. 258.) An Act to exempt members of the LaGrange Light Guards from jury and road duty. 13. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the members of the LaGrange Light Guards, of the county of Troup, be,

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and the same are hereby exempt from all jury and road duty: Provided, that not more than sixty members of said Company shall be so exempt [Illegible Text] from road jury duty. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CVII. (O. No. 228.) An Act to exempt lecomotive engineers in the employment of railroad companies in this State, and millers running public mills, from jury duty. 14. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act all locomotive engineers actually employed in the service of any railroad company in this State, shall be exempt from jury duty, and the certificate of the Superintendent of the railroad in whose employment said engineer may be, that he is actually on duty in the service of said road, shall be sufficient evidence of such employment. Locomotive engineers exempt fr'm jury duty 15. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all millers actually engaged in running any merchant or corn mill which grinds for the public, shall be exempt from jury duty: Provided, that no person shall be entitled to the benefits of this section who is not regularly employed as miller in a mill which grinds for toll. Millers running public mills exempt from jury duty. Proviso. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CVIII. (O. No. 33.) An Act to exempt from jury service as jurors all persons in this State over the age of sixty years. 16. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act all persons in this State over the age of sixty years shall be exempt from service as jurors: Provided, that this Act shall not disqualify such persons from serving as jurors when they are willing to serve. Persons ov'r [Illegible Text] years exempt from jury duty. Proviso. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 18, 1875.

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No. CIX. (O. No. 165.) An Act to define and limit the liability of the officers and men of the Second Georgia Battalion, and of the several companies composing the same in the county of Bibb, to serve as jurors in the courts of said county. 17. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act the duly commissioned and enrolled officers, and men of the Second Georgia Battalion, and of the several companies composing the same, in the county of Bibb, shall not be required to serve as jurors in the Superior Court of said county of Bibb, on the regular panels of petit jurors provided for in section (3932) thirty-nine hundred and thirty-two, and also in the provision of section (3935) thirty-nine hundred and thirty-five of the Code of Georgia. Exempt from jury duty on regular panel. 18. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said officers and men shall be liable in all respects to be drawn, and to serve as grand jurors of said county, and shall also be liable to be summoned and to serve in the Superior Court of said county as tales jurors, in the trial of criminal cases in said county of the grade of felonies. May serve as grand juries. Also, as tales jurors in cases of [Illegible Text]. 19. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said officers and men resident in said county shall not be required to serve as jurors in any other court in said county than the Superior Court of the same, in the manner and capacity herein provided. Exempt from all jury service in courts other than Superior Courts. 20. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the first days of April and October of each year, the officer commanding the said battalion shall cause to be made out, and shall file in the Clerk's office of said Superior Court, a written report of the names of the officers and men of the Seond Georgia Battalion, and of the companies composing the same, who are resident in said county of Bibb, and shall certify that they are active, and not merely nominal or pay members of the said organization, and only such members so certified shall be entitled to the benefits and immunities of this Act. Officers and menlist of names to be filed with Clerk Superior Court. What the [Illegible Text] shall show. 21. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any member of said organization shall, for any reason, cease to be a member of said battalion, or of some one of the companies composing the same, he shall immediately report the name of said person to the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, and said Clerk shall thereupon [Illegible Text] the name of such person from the list of members of said organization, provided for in the preceding section of this Act, and such persons shall no longer be entitled to any of the benefits of this Act. [Illegible Text]

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22. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall not operate to remove the names of the members of said organization from the jury lists or jury boxes of said county, but by virtue of the same, whenever the name of any member of the said organization shall be drawn as a member of the said regular panels of petit jurors, or as a member of any jury in any other court than the Superior Court in said county, said person whose name is so drawn shall not be required to serve as a member of the same, but shall only be required to serve as herein provided. This act not to remove names from jury lists. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. CHAPTER XVI. LAW OF DOWER. SECTION. 1. Dower not allowed in land until money for purchase is paid. No. CX. (O. No. 74.) An Act to regulate the law of dower in this State. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That whenever the vendor of land shall make a deed to land, and at the same time take a mortgage for the purchase money, the widow of the vendee shall not be entitled to dower in said land as against such vendor until the purchase money is paid. And whenever a vendor shall sell land, giving at the same time of such sale a bond for title, or any other instrument in writing having the same effect, the widow of the vendor shall not be entitled to dower in such land. Dower not allowed in land till purchase money is paid. In cases where bond for title is given. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875.

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CHAPTER XVII. MISDEMEANORS. SECTION. 1. Cruelty to animals. 2. Fires on bridgesunlawful to build. 3. Penalties. 4. Damages also recoverable. 5. Sale of liquor to minors. 6. Weighers of cotton and rice to take oath. 7. Penalties. No. CXI. (O. No. 192.) An Act for the prevention of cruelty to animals. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, any person in this State who shall torture, torment, deprive of necessary sustenance, cruelly beat or mutilate, or cause to be so tortured, tormented, deprived of necessary sustenance, cruelly beaten or mutilated, any horse, or other animal, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and for every such offence shall, upon conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not to exceed fifty dollars, at the discretion of the court. Cruelty to animals. Penalty. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CXII. (O. No. 21.) An Act to prohibit encampment and the building of fires upon, within and under public or private bridges in this State, without the consent of the owner, and to punish for a violation of the same. 2. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons whatever, to encamp upon, within, or under any public bridge, or private bridge in this State, without the consent of the owner, or to build a fire upon, within, or under such bridge. [Illegible Text] 3. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons violating the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Penalty.

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4. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That none of the provisions of this Act shall be so construed as to relieve any offender from liability for damages on the civil side of the courts for the injury or destruction of any bridge. Damages may be recovered. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 12, 1875. No. CXIII. (O. No. 72.) An Act to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors to minors, and for other purposes. 5. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That no person or persons by himself or another shall sell, or cause to be sold, or furnished, or permit any other persons in his or their employ to furnish, any minor or minors spirituous liquors of any kind, without first obtaining the authority from the parent or guardian, and such person or persons so offending shall, on conviction, be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Minors[Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text] liquor to. Penalty. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. No. CXIV. (O. No. 222.) An act to regulate the weighing of cotton, rice, and other agricultural products in this State, and to prescribe a penalty for a violation of the same. 6. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any scalesman, salesman, or other person in any of the cities, towns or villages of this State to weigh any bale, bag or packages of cotton, tierce or half tierce of rice, or any other article of produce disposed of by weight, without first taking and subscribing an oath before some person authorized by law to administer it, that he will justly, impartially, and without deduction, weigh all such cotton and all other articles of produce disposed of by weight, that may be shown to him for that purpose, and tender

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a true account thereof to the party or parties concerned, if so required. Cotton, rice and other articles of produceweighers of shall take oath. Oath to be taken. 7. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That such oath, when taken, must be filed in the office of the Ordinary of the county, and a minute made thereof; and if such person weighs such produce without having taken and filed such oath, he, and the factor or person who may employ him, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia of 1873: Provided, that the penalties herein prescribed shall attach only to parties weighing said articles for sale, and not to persons weighing their own produce. Oath to be [Illegible Text] with ordinary. Weigher factor [Illegible Text] of [Illegible Text] Penalty. Proviso. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. CHAPTER XVIII. NAMES. SECTION. 1. Applieant may petition Superior Court to change name. 2. Court may grant order. No. CXV (O. No. 224.) An Act to amend the laws relating to the manner of changing names. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, any person desirous of changing his or her name, and the name of his or her children, may present a petition to the Superior Court of the county of their residence, setting forth fully and particularly the reason why such change is asked, which shall be sworn to by the petitioner, and said petition shall be placed on the proper docket in the Superior Court, and shall be acted on by the presiding Judge any time at or after the second term following its being filed. Change of nameSuperior Court may grant. Petition. May be [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]when. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the said Judge shall on hearing said petition, if the petitioner has made such a case as in his opinion and discretion would be proper, pass an order authorizing said change: Provided, nothing in this Act shall ever operate to authorize any person or persons to change their name, with a view to fraudulently deprive another of any legal right under the law. Judge may [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] order [Illegible Text] petition. Proviso. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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CHAPTER XIX. QUO WARRANTO. SECTION 1. Quo [Illegible Text] shall not apply to the office of Governor of this State. No. CXVI (O. No. 70.) An Act in relation to proccedings by Quo Warranto. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That nothing in the act of 1871-'72, found in sections 3206, 3207 and 3208 of the Code of 1873, shall ever be applied to try the question: Who is the lawful Governor of this State? and so much of said act as applies to all other civil officers of this State is hereby ratified and made valid. Quo Warranto shall not apply to office of Governor. Approved February 24, 1875. CHAPTER XX. REWARDS. SECTION. 1. Governor shall offer rewards for incendiaries when gin houses are [Illegible Text] No. CXVII. (O. No. 379.) An Act to prevent the burning of gin houses in this State by offering a reward for the apprehension of incendiaries, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act it shall be the duty of his Excellency, the Governor of this State, whenever he shall receive reliable information that any gin house has been burned, or set on fire in violation of the laws of this State, to issue his proclamation, offering a reward of not less than five hundred dollars each, for the apprehension of the incendiary or incendiaries, with proof sufficient to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Gov. shall [Illegible Text] reward forwhen gin houses are [Illegible Text] Amount of reward. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 6, 1875.

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CHAPTER XXI. USURY. SECTION. 1. Usury law re-enacted. 2. Forfeiture for charging usury. 3. Amount of forfeit a set-off. 4. Discharge of forfeiture. 5. Limitation of suits for forfeiture. 6. Legal rate. 7. Certain provisions of charters repealed. No. CXVIII. (O. No. 56.) An Act to regulate and restrict the rate of interest in this State, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 1. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person, company, or corporation to reserve, charge, or take, for any loan or advance of money, or forbearance to enforce the collection of any sum of money, any rate of interest greater than twelve (12) per centum per annum, either directly or indirectly, by way of commissions for advances, discount, exchange, or by any contract, or contrivance, or device whatever. Usury [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Not [Illegible Text] than 12 per cent. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person, company, or corporation violating the provisions of the foregoing section of this Act, shall forfeit the interest, and excess of interest, so charged or taken, or contracted to be reserved, charged, or taken. Forfeiture for [Illegible Text] this Act. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the amount of forfeit as aforesaid, may be plead as a set-off in any action for the recovery of the principal sum loaned or advanced by the defendant in said action. Amount of forfeit may be [Illegible Text] as [Illegible Text] 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no contrivance or arrangement between parties to any such unlawful transaction, or their privies, shall have the effect to discharge such forfeiture, except it be an actual and full payment of the amount so forfeited. What alone may discharge [Illegible Text] 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any plea or suit for the recovery of such forfeiture, shall not be barred by the lapse of time shorter than one year. Limitations [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the legal rate of interest shall remain seven per centum per annum, and any higher rate must be specified in writing. Legal rate 7 per cent. 7. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every provision in the charter of any corporation granted

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since the first day of January, 1863, inconsistent with the foregoing provisions of this Act, is hereby repealed. [Illegible Text]. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 21, 1875. CHAPTER XXII. VERDICTS. SECTION 1. Verdict of guilty in capital cases, with [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text]what it shall amount to. 2. In other cases than homicidewhat [Illegible Text] of guilty with recommendation to mercy shall mean. No. CXIX. (O. No. 95. An Act to regulate the mode of taking verdicts in capital cases. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That whenever a jury in a capital case of homicide shall find a verdict of guilty, with a recommendation of mercy instead of a recommendation of imprisonment for life in cases where, by law, the jury may make such recommendation, such verdict shall be held to mean imprisonment for life. If, in any capital case of homicide, the jury shall make any recommendation where not authorized by law to make a recommendation of imprisonment for life, the verdict shall be construed as if made without any recommendation. Verdict of guilty in capital cases with recommendation to mercy, Said verdict shall be equivalent to recommendation of imprisionment for life. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That in all capital cases other than those of homicide, when the verdict is guilty with a recommendation of mercy, such verdict shall be held legal, and to mean imprisonment for life. In other capital cases. What verdict shall mean. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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CHAPTER XXIII. WEIGHTS. SECTION. 1. Standard weights of a bushel of corn, [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text], beans, seeds, buckwheat, peaches, apples, coal, lime, [Illegible Text], etc. No. CXX. (O. No. 42.) An Act to fix by law the standard weight of a bushel of the articles and commodities hereinafter mentioned. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the legal weight of the following articles or commodities per bushel shall be as follows: Of wheat, 60 pounds; of shelled corn, 56 pounds; of corn in the ear, 70 pounds; of [Illegible Text] 60 pounds; of rye, 56 pounds; of oats, 32 pounds; of [Illegible Text] 47 pounds; of Irish potatoes, 60 pounds; of sweet potatoes, 55 pounds; of white beans, 60 pounds; of clover seed, 60 pounds; of timothy seed, 45 pounds; of flax seed, 56 pounds; of hemp seed, 44 pounds; of blue grass seed, 14 pounds; of buckwheat, 52 pounds; of dried peaches, unpeeled, 33 pounds; of dried peaches, peeled, 38 pounds; of dried apples, 21 pounds; of onions, 57 pounds; of stone coal, 80 pounds; of unslaked lime, 80 pounds; of turnips, 55 pounds; of corn meal, 48 pounds; of wheat [Illegible Text], 20 pounds; of cotton seed, 30 pounds; of ground peas, [Illegible Text] pounds; of plastering hair, 8 pounds. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Apporved February 20, 1875. TITLE IX. MAIMED SOLDIERS. SECTION 1. Special provision made for support of maimed and indigent persons who lost [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] in Confederate service. No. CXXI. (O. No. 290.) An Act for the relief of maimed and indigent soldiers. 1. SETION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Ordinary of each county in this State, in each

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year before the county tax is levied, upon application to him, and proof being shown to him by any person that he entered into the military service in defense of the South during the late civil war between the Confederate States and the United States of America, that he served faithfully in said service, and in the same lost both eyes, or two limbs, meaning thereby, arms or legs, that he has not more than one thousand dollars of taxable property, to levy a special tax as a part of the county tax, of one hundred dollars for each of such applicants, when such proof is made to his satisfaction, which tax shall be collected by the County Tax Collector and paid over by him to such applicant, when he is shown by him a proper certificate from the Ordinary of said county. Said tax of one hundred dollars shall only be levied for a citizen of said county, and shall cease when such applicant, so relieved, ceases to be a citizen of said county. Maimed and indige't s'ldiers who lost two limbs or both eyes in the defense of the South. $160 to be raised by taxation for each of such persons. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. TITLE X. MILITARY ORGANIZATION. SECTION. 1. University Cadets. 2. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] officers. 3. Officers graduating. 4. Arms and uniforms. 5. Annual report to Governor. No. CXXII. (O. No. 52.) An Act to provide for the military organization of the students of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and of other departments of the State University. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the students of the State College of Agriculture and the Mechanic Arts, and of such other departments of the University as may be required by the Trustees, shall be organized into a body known as the University Cadets. University cadets. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the Governor is authorized to commission the officers of said Cadets, between and including the rank of Second Lieutenant and Colonel, who shall be

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selected by the chief military instructor, with the assent of the President of the College. OfficersGovernor to to commission. By whom selected. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That such officers, upon graduating or withdrawing from the College, may resign their commissions, or hold the same as retired officers, liable to be called into service by the Governor in case of insurrection, invasion, or rebellion. Officers graduating may resign or be [Illegible Text]. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Governor is authorized to issue such arms, munitions, accoutrements and equipments, to the University Cadets, as the Board of Trustees may require and the Governor approve. Arms, uniforms, etc. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That annual reports shall be made to the Governor by the military instructor, showing the number, discipline, and equipment of the Cadets. Annual reports to Governor. SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 23, 1875. TITLE XI. NEW COUNTY. SECTION. 1. New county laid out from Clarke[Illegible Text]. 2. County site. 3. County officersmilitia districts and Justices. 4. Officers now in office. 5. Processesexecutions, etc. 6. Cases against citizens [Illegible Text] new county. 7. Jurors for new countySuperior [Illegible Text]. 8. New county to pay part of debt. 9. Court house and Clerk's office. 10. Member of General Assembly. No. CXXIII. (O. No. 100.) An Act to lay out and organize a new county from the county of Clarke, to attach the same to a Judicial, Congressional, and Senatorial district, and for other purposes therein specified. 1. SECTION I. 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 a new county shall be, and the same is hereby, laid out from the county of Clarke, as follows: Beginning at a point immediately opposite the mills of James H.

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Thompson, on the Jackson line, and leaving said mills in said new county, thence a straight line to the old saw mill site of Nathaniel L. Barnard, on McNutt's Creek, thence down said McNutts' Creek to its junction with Barber's Creek, thence down said Barber's Creek to its junction with the Oconee River, commonly called Middle River, thence down said river to the junction of the two Oconee rivers, thence down the Oconee River to Barnett's or Neal's Bridge, on said river, thence with the public road to Big Creek Church to the Oglethorpe county line, thence with the lines of the counties of Oglethorpe, Greene, Morgan, Walton and Jackson to the starting point, and that the territory thus included shall form a new county, to be called the county of Oconee, and that the same shall be attached to the Judicial circuit and Congressional and Senatorial district to which said territory now belongs. New county laid out from Clarke county. Dim'nsions. NameOconee. Judicial circuit and [Illegible Text] district. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the county site and location of the public buildings shall be in the town of Watkinsville. County site. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the qualified voters within said new county shall, on the first Wednesday in April next, at the several election precincts now established by law, and which are included within said new county, proceed, pursuant to the election laws then in force in said State, to elect all county officers necessary for the organization of said new county, according to the laws of this State; and the Ordinary thereof, as soon as practicable, shall remodel the three fractional militia districts, made by the dividing line, by adding them to the adjoining militia districts, or by adding to their limits territory from the adjoining districts, as may be deemed most expedient, and advertise for the election of the requisite number of Justices of the Peace, and the Governor shall commission those elected. County officers to be elected. Militia districts. Justices of the Peace to be elected. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all officers now in commission within the limits of said new county shall hold their commissions and discharge the duties devolved upon them, until the date when their terms of office expire by law. All officers now in office to hold until terms expire. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all [Illegible Text] process executions, and other final process in the hands of the Sheriff, Coroner and Constables of which the new county may be formed, and which property belong to said new county, and which may have been levied, and in part executed, and such proceedings therein, shall not be finally disposed of at the time of passing this Act, shall be delivered over to the corresponding officers of said new county; and such officers are hereby authorized and required to proceed with the same, and in the same manner as if such process had been originally in their hands: Provided, that in all cases, publication of the time and places of sale, and proceedings of the like character in the new county, shall be made for the time now prescribed by law; and all such process which properly belong to the county out of which said new county may be formed

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which may be in the hands of the officers of said new county, shall in like manner be delivered over to the officers of said county, to be executed by them in the manner herein prescribed. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text], etc., to be deliver'd to newly elected officerswhen. Proviso. 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all actions now pending in the county from which said new county is taken, where in the defendant or defendants may be included within said new county, shall be transferred with all papers relating thereto, and trial had in said new county where the defendant or defendants reside: Provided, that in every case no cause shall proceed without the certificate of the Clerk of the court from whence said causes came, that the papers in the cause are the original papers in the cause from the file of his office. [Illegible Text] Proviso. Certificate of Clerk. 7. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Ordinary, Clerk of the Superior Court, and the members of the Board to be appointed by the Judge of the Superior Court of the Circuit in which said new county lies, shall, for said new county, select from the Tax Receiver's digest, a sufficient number of upright and intelligent jurors, to serve as grand and [Illegible Text] jurors, and the ensuing term of the Superior Court to be held on the second Monday in May, and on the first Monday in June next arrange the biennial panel of jurors, as now required by law, in all the counties of this State, and the regular terms of the Superior Court for said new county shall be held on the second Monday in May and November. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 8. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That, WHEREAS, there is now an outstanding debt against the county of Clarke, that said new county shall pay or cause to be paid, its pro rata share of said debt, to be estimated according to the taxable property in the old and new counties, as shown by the Tax Receiver's books of Clarke county for the year 1874, and the Ordinary of said new county is hereby authorized to levy an extra tax for the purpose of paying said pro rato share of said debt. New county to pay part of county debt. Extra tax. 9. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the second section of an act to change the county site of Clarke county from Watkinsville to Athens, and to make provisions for the procurement of a suitable building for the court house, and make provisions for a jail in said town, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as the sale of the court house and clerk's office in Watkinsville is concerned, and the removal of jail, but reserving all other power and authority therein given to the town council of Athens. Court house and Clerk's [Illegible Text] 10. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the expiration of the terms of the members of the present House of Representatives, in the General Assembly, the county of Clarke shall be entitled to one member, and the new county of Oconee shall be entitled to one member in the House of Representatives. One member of [Illegible Text] Assembly to be elected. SEC. XI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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TITLE XII. REPORTS OF OFFICERS. SECTION. 1. [Illegible Text] 2. [Illegible Text] 3. Reports to remain in State Library. No. CXXIV. (O. No. 166.) An Act to provide for the preservation of the reports of certain officers named herein, and to prescribe the duties of the State Librarian in relation thereto, and for other purposes. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Governor of the State, the Comptroller General, Treasurer, Commissioner of Education, State Geologist, Commissioner of Agriculture, and all other officers or agents of the State, who are now or may hereafter be required by law to make reports to the General Assembly, to furnish the State Librarian with at least ten copies each of such reports; and it shall be the duty of State Librarian to preserve the same, and as soon as practicable after their receipt, to have the same bound and placed in the State Library, for the public use. Officers requir'd to report to Gen. Assembly. Reports of to be furnished [Illegible Text]. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the State Librarian, immediately after the passage of this Act, to secure copies, if possible, of the reports of the investigating committees appointed during and since the session of the General Assembly of [Illegible Text], and which have been printed and submitted to the General Assembly, and to have the same bound in a suitable and durable manner, and placed in the State Library for the public use. If copies of all the reports required under this section can not be secured, then the State Librarian shall have bound, as heretofore directed, at least one copy of as many of the reports as can be obtained. Reports of [Illegible Text] committees to be preserved. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the bound reports and public documents mentioned in this Act, shall remain in the State Library, and the State Librarian shall not permit them, or any of them, to be removed therefrom, but they shall be kept accessible for public inspection and use within the State Library, and not otherwise. Reports to remain in State library. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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TITLE XIII. RIPARIAN RIGHTS. SECTION. 1. Traps, nets, etc.unlawful to place in certain waters without consent of corner. 2. Penalties for violating this Act. No. CXXV. (O. No. 219.) An Act to protect the riparian or piscatorial rights of the citizens of Georgia. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to put any trap, wire, trot-line, set-line, or other like contrivances for catching fish for sale, in any of the lakes, or other waters of this State, upon or within the lands of another, without the written consent of the owner thereof. [Illegible Text] 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons who shall violate the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject, upon conviction, to the penalties prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1873. Penalty for violating this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. TITLE XIV. STATE SCHOOL FUND. SECTION 1. State School Commissioner to give orders on Tax Collectors. 2. Notice of [Illegible Text], duty of Tax Collector. 3. Orders to be as cash from Collectors. No. CXXVI. (O. No. 108.) An Act to alter the present mode of disbursing the State School Fund to the several counties. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State

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of Georgia, That after the annual apportionment of the State School Fund has been made, and when the County School Commissioner of any county shall give official notice to the State School Commissioner that the public schools of his county are within three weeks of closing, the latter named officer shall execute an order on the Tax Collector of the county in favor of the County School Commissioner for the quota of the Public School Fund apportioned to the county, [Illegible Text] the order officially, and fixing thereto his seal of office, and transmit the same to the County School Commissioner. State School Com. to give order on Tax Collector. County's quota. Order, how to be signed 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the State School Commissioner shall send the notice of apportionment to the Tax Collector of each county as soon as the apportionment is made, and it shall be the duty of the Tax Collector to retain, in his hands, of the taxes first collected, a sufficient amount to pay the sum mentioned as the county's quota in the notice of apportionment, and to pay the same to the County School Commissioner as soon as the order of the State School Commissioner is presented. Notice of apportionment to Tax Collector. Tax Collector to retain county sch'l funds. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of the State shall receive the order of the State School Commissioner as cash in settling with the tax Collector. Order to be as cash [Illegible Text] Collectors. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. TITLE XV. TAX. SECTION. 1. For support of Government. 2. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. 3. Insurance companies, etc., etc. 4. Express, [Illegible Text], and [Illegible Text] companies. 5. Returns by presidents of banks and manufacturing companies. 6. Returns [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of other companies. 7. Oath of party [Illegible Text] returns. 8. Taxes to be paid in currency. 9. Exemptions. 10. Specific taxno other assessment on. 11. Receiving and collecting taxestime for. 12. Tax laws relating to railroad companies. 13. Transfer of tax execution on execution docket. 14. Tax salehow advertised. 15. [Illegible Text] for tax of previous years. No. CXXVII. (O. No. 291.) An Act to [Illegible Text] a tax for the support of the Government for the year 1875; to amend an act entitled an act to amend the tax laws of the State, and for other purposes, approved February 28, 1874; to provide for the collection of taxes due the State, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 1. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do

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enact, That his Excellency, the Governor, be authorized and empowered, with the assistance of the Comptroller General, to assess and levy a tax on the taxable property of the State, which will not exceed four-tenths of one per cent., exclusive of tax already provided by act of 1873, to pay Nutting bonds, and specific taxes. Tax for support of the government limit of. 2. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in addition to the ad valorem tax on real and personal property, as required by the Constitution, and as assessed in the [Illegible Text] section, the following specific taxes shall be levied and collected: Specific taxes. 1. Upon every practitioner of law, medicine and dentistry, ten dollars. Lawyers, doctors and dentists. 2. Upon every daguerrean, ambrotype and photographic artist, and similar artist, ten dollars. Artists. 3. Upon every person carrying on the business of an [Illegible Text], twenty-five dollars. [Illegible Text] 4. Upon every keeper of a pool or billiard table, kept for public use, twenty-five dollars for each table. Pool and billiard tables. 5. Upon every keeper of a bagatelle table, for public play, twenty-five dollars for each table. Bagatelle tables. 6. Upon every keeper of any other table, stand, or place, or any game or play, with or without a name, unless kept for exercise or amusement not prohibited by law, and not kept for gain, directly or indirectly, ten dollars. Other [Illegible Text] 7. Upon every keeper of a ten-pin alley, or alley of like character, kept for public play, twenty-five dollars. [Illegible Text]. 8. Upon all peddlers of patent medicines, or other articles of like character, the sum of fifty dollars for each county in which they may peddle. [Illegible Text]. 9. Upon each and every male inhabitant of this State on the first day of April, between the ages of twenty-one and sixty years, a poll tax of one dollar, for educational purposes. Poll tax. 10. Upon all sleight-of-hand performances, magicians and negrominstrels, the sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every county where they may exhibit. Magicians, etc. 11. Upon all circus companies, two hundred dollars for each day they may exhibit in cities, towns and counties containing a population of more than ten thousand inhabitants; and one hundred dollars in cities, towns and counties containing a population of more than five thousand inhabitants, and less than ten thousand; and fifty dollars in all cities, towns, and counties with a population under five thousand inhabitants. Circuses. 12. Upon all shows or exhibitions, except for literary or charitable purposes, in this State, the sum of twenty-five dollars for each and every county where such show may be exhibited: Provided, this shall not apply to histrionic, dramatic, elocutionary, and other performances usual in theaters and operas. That the taxes levied in this section shall be paid to the Tax Collectors of the several counties. Tax on [Illegible Text]. Proviso.

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13. Upon each agent of any insurance company doing business in this State the sum of fifteen dollars. Insurance agents. 14. Upon each sewing machine company, home or foreign, selling machines of home or foreign manufacture, by themselves, or by agents in this State, the sum of five hundred dollars, to be paid to the [Illegible Text] General: and all sewing machines belonging to such [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text] their agents, in possession of such companies, their agents, [Illegible Text] others, shall be liable to seizure and sale for the payment of such license tax. This tax shall be for the whole State, and such companies shall not be subject to any county or license tax by county. Sewing machine cos. 15. Upon each emigrant agent doing business in this State the sum of one hundred dollars, for each and every county in which he may conduct said business, said tax to be paid to the Tax Collectors of the several counties. Emigrant agent. 3. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all home and foreign insurance companies doing business in this State shall pay one per cent. on all premiums in money, or otherwise received by them, and in addition to the tax herein imposed upon gross receipts of insurance companies, all such companies, as well as all building and loan associations, and other companies or associations doing a banking or brokerage business in this State, such as discounting notes, bills, drafts, or exchange, in the manner usual for banks, shall be taxed upon their capital in the same manner, and at the same rate, as herein provided for banks and bankers. Insurance companies. Building [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] associations. Other companies. 4. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all express and telegraph companies, and all sleeping car companies, and [Illegible Text] car companies, doing business in this State, shall pay a tax of one per cent. on their gross earnings; and the Super-intendent, or general agent, of each express, telegraph, sleeping-car or [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] company doing business in this State, shall make a return under [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text], to-wit: On the last day of March, June, September and December of each year, to the Comptroller General, an account of their gross receipts during the quarter ending on that day; and that when any express, telegraph, sleeping car or palace car company in this State have increased their rates of charges on account of any State taxations being levied on the property, [Illegible Text], income, or the license for the privilege of doing business in this State, or in the various cities, towns and counties thereof, they shall return, under oath, such amount of extra charges made during the quarter as herein required for the gross receipts, and on such amounts shall pay a tax of one hundred per cent. Said taxes [Illegible Text] levied shall be paid by the respective companies to the Comptroller General on or before the first day of December each year. Express [Illegible Text]telegraph and [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] car companies. [Illegible Text]. One hundred per [Illegible Text] on extra charges. This tax to be [Illegible Text]to whom. 5. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the president of all banking companies, manufacturing companies, and other incorporated companies or their agents, other than railroad,

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insurance, telegraph and express companies, shall be required to return all the property whatever of their respective companies at its true market value, to be estimated at the aggregate value of the shares of stock, to the Tax Receiver of the county where the same is located, or where the principal business of such company is located, to be taxed for State purposes, and county purposes also, as other property in this State. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. 6. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the presidents or principal agents of all the incorporated companies herein mentioned, except such as are required to make return to county Tax Receivers, shall make returns for taxation to the Comptroller General, under the rules and regulations provided by law for such returns to the Comptroller General, and subject to the same penalties and modes of procedure for the enforcement of taxes from companies or persons required by law to make return to the Comptroller General. [Illegible Text]. Penalties. 7. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the oath to be administered to all persons making return of their taxable property shall be in the words following: You do solemnly swear that you will true answers make to all lawful questions which I may put to you touching the return you are about to make, and that you will make a true return of all your taxable property at its market value on the first day of April preceding, to the best of your knowledge and belief, so help you God. And it shall be the duty of the officer receiving such return to inquire of each and every person taking said oath, touching all of his taxable property, and the market value of the same, and his liability for specific taxes as named in this Act, and to propound the questions which may be published by the Comptroller General under the law for the purpose of eliciting full and true tax returns. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. 8. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all taxes assessed under this Act, shall be collected in United States or National Bank currency, and the value of the property taxed, on the first day of April next, in such currency, shall be the basis of the taxes. [Illegible Text]. 9. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the exemptions provided for in section 798 of the second edition of the Revised Code, except that portion of paragraph thirteen of said section, exempting two hundred dollars worth of the property of every tax payer from taxation, which provision is hereby repealed, and paragraph twelve of section 798 of the Code, be, and the same is hereby repealed: Provided, that nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect the exemptions allowed by law in favor of mining and manufacturing companies, and, provided further, that there shall be exempt from taxation to each head of a family, household and kitchen furniture to an amount not exceeding fifty dollars in value, and

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plantation and mechanical implements to an amount not exceeding twenty five dollars in value. Paragraph 13 of sec. 19 of Code repealed. Proviso. 10. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That no assessment shall be made for corporation or county purposes, on the specific taxes herein imposed on practitioners of law, medicine, [Illegible Text] and photography: Provided, this section shall apply to all who practice and charge for the same. Specific taxedno assessment on, etc. Proviso. 11. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Comptroller General is authorized and empowered to order the Tax Receivers of this State to commence receiving the returns of taxable property immediately after the first day of April of the year 1875, and that the Comptroller General is empowered and required to cause the taxes to be collected by the fifteenth day of December next. Tax Receiver to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. Time for collection. 12. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing, contained in this Act shall be so construed as to alter, change, or repeal an act approved February 28, 1874, entitled an act to amend the tax laws of the State, so far as the same relates to railroad companies, and to define the liability of such companies to taxation, and for other purposes, but said act is hereby ratified and confirmed, with the following amendments thereto, and which is hereby declared to be an amendment to, and made by this Act, a part of said act, approved February 28, 1874, entitled an act to amend the tax laws of this State, and for other purposes therein named. And all railroad companies of this State shall be taxed upon their property as provided by the act of February 28, 1874, and hereafter should said companies, respectively, resist the payment of said ad valorem tax upon their property, under the provisions of section 3 of the act of February 28, 1874, they shall, in addition to the return required in section 1 of said act, make a return of all their gross income or receipts, and of their net income, also to the Comptroller General, and shall pay a tax equal to the highest amount limited in their respective charters, and in accordance with the terms of their said charters, to be ascertained by the Comptroller General, as a condition precedent to the right to contest the payment of said tax upon their property. This Act not to repeal tax laws relat'g to R. Rs. R. Rs. must pay what to resist this tax. SEC. XIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CXXVIII. (O. No. 35.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to authorize the transfer of executions issued for State, and County, and Municipal taxes, and for other purposes, approved August 24, 1872. 13. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited act (now incorporated in the Code of 1873, section 891) be amended by adding thereto the following, to-wit: Provided, said [Illegible Text] shall have said execution entered on the execution docket of the Superior Court of the county in which the same was issued, and if the person against whom the same was issued resides in a different county, then also in the county of such person's residence, within thirty days from said transfer. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 20, 1875. No. CXXIX. (O. No. 220.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to regulate the manner of giving in land for taxation, and the sale and redemption thereof, and for other purposes, approved February 28, [Illegible Text]. 14. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section six of said recited act be amended by striking out thirty days, in the second line of said section, and inserting, once a week for four weeks. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CXXX. (O. No. 15.) An Act to authorize and require the Tax Collectors in this State to issue executions against tax defaulters for any year preceding or including the years for which they are elected, and to collect the tax due from said defaulters. 15. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Tax Collectors of this State be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to issue executions against all tax defaulters in this State, who are residents of the counties in which said Tax Collectors are holding their offices, for any and every year preceding or including the years for which they are elected, and to collect the tax due from said defaulters, and pay over the same to the proper authorities. Tax defaulterswho issue executions against. For previo's years. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 11, 1875.

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PART II.LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS. TITLE I.CORPORATIONS. TITLE II.COUNTIES AND COUNTY REGULATIONS. TITLE III.PRIVATE AND MISCELLANEOUS LAWS.

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TITLE I. CORPORATIONS. CHAPTER I.Banks. CHAPTER II.Canal Companies. CHAPTER III.Cities and Towns. CHAPTER IV.Gas Light Companies. CHAPTER V.Insurance Companies. CHAPTER VI.Iron and Mining Companies. CHAPTER VII.Manufacturing Companies. CHAPTER VIII.Railroad Companies. CHAPTER I. BANKS. Atlanta Savings Bank..... NO. ACT 131 Augusta Savings Institution..... 132 Bank of Americus..... 133 Bank of Thomasville..... 134 Commercial Insurance and Insurance Company of Augusta..... 135 Enterprise Bank of Macon..... 136 Forsyth Savings Bank..... 137 Georgia Grange and [Illegible Text] Banking [Illegible Text]..... 138 Greenville Banking and Trust Company..... 139 Macon Bank and Trust Company..... 140 [Illegible Text] and [Illegible Text] Bank of Columbus..... 141 People's Bank of Americus..... 142 Savings Bank of [Illegible Text]..... 143 State's Savings Bank of Atlanta..... 144 No. CXXXI. (O. No. 250.) An Act to incorporate the Atlanta Savings Bank, with its chief office in Atlanta. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That John Collier, Campbell Wallace, John Ryan, C.

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J. Brown, Thos. M. Clarke, Thos. L. Langston, Wm. Kidd, T. J. Hightower, Jno. Stephens, W. M. Lowry and N. L. Angier, or any five of them, who may organize under this Act, are, with their associates and successors, hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, to receive deposits of money on interest, or for accommodation, and to loan the same, under the name and style of the Atlanta Savings Bank, and by this name and style are hereby invested with the following rights, powers and privileges, and made subject to the following restrictions: [Illegible Text] Deposits, [Illegible Text] Corporate name. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said Company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, and divided into shares of fifty dollars each, with the privilege of increasing the same to any sum not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, as may be deemed most expedient by them to [Illegible Text] the wants of the community, and the said capital stock shall stand pledged as a fund for the security of depositors. Capital stock. Shares. Capital stock [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the stockholders shall have power to make rules, regulations and by-laws, for the management and direction of the affairs of the corporation, and in accordance with the laws of this State, through their properly constituted officers. They shall have power and authority to have and use a corporate seal, and to alter the same, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, to hold, possess and enjoy property, real, personal and mixed, and to sell, transfer, and convey the same, and to receive, hold, and dispose of any and all property, conveyed or mortgaged, as security for any loan or debt, to discount notes, and buy and sell bills of exchange, and no member of said corporation shall transfer any portion of his or her shares, or interest therein, without the consent of the directors, unless all debts and loans due from them shall be paid, and the said company shall do all things which they shall deem needful for the safe and successful management of the corporate business. They may issue certificates to depositors, but shall not issue notes or bills as a circulating medium. This corporation may commence business so soon as fifty per cent. of the capital stock is paid in. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] and by-laws. [Illegible Text]. General powers. Certificates of deposits. Business may be [Illegible Text] when. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Savings Bank shall be subject to taxation, as other banking institutions in this State; and in making returns for this purpose, the officers of said bank shall include an average amount of deposits made with it, during the year for which such tax is assessed, and on which interest is paid by said bank. This corporation shall also be liable to make semi-annual returns of its business to the Governor of this State, as provided in article first, chapter first, title seventeen, part first of the Code of 1873, and shall be subject to all the penalties prescribed in said chapter, for failure to make such returns. Taxation. Returns to include what. Semi-annual returns to Governor. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That

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in all elections for officers, and in all votes upon any matter which may come before the stockholders, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of fifty dollars owned by him, her or them, and the stockholders in said bank shall be liable, [Illegible Text], to the extent of the unpaid stock held by them, for the payment of all deposits made with, and debts incurred or created by said bank; and such liability shall continue for six months, next after the transfer of such stock by the original holders thereof, and the private property of each and every stockholder in said bank shall be pledged and liable for the payment of such deposits and debts, in the same manner as in ordinary cases of debt. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this act shall take effect from and after the date of its passage, and shall continue in force for a period of twenty-one years. [Illegible Text] SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CXXXII. (O. No. 28.) An Act to incorporate the Augusta [Illegible Text] Institution. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Alfred Baker, John B. King, William B. Young, George T. Barnes, William H. Howard, Sr., E. R. [Illegible Text] Charles Spaeth, C. Nunnikin, Patrick Walsh, William [Illegible Text] E. O. Donnell, of the county of Richmond, and State of Georgia, and their successors, shall be, and are hereby, constituted a body corporate and politic by the name of The Augusta Savings Institution, of Augusta, Georgia, and by that name they shall have perpetual succession, and shall be persons capable of suing and of being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, defending and being defended in all [Illegible Text] and places whatsoever, and may have a common seal, with power to change and alter the same from time to time, and by that name shall be capable of purchasing, taking, holding and enjoying to them and their successors all property of every nature that may be necessary for the purpose of promoting the objects of said corporation, and of selling, leasing, or otherwise disposing of the same, or any part thereof. They may receive deposits of money, and purchase and sell bills of exchange, lend money, and discount notes and bills of exchange drawn against shipments of produce, or any other valuable property, at their will and pleasure. [Illegible Text] Corporate [Illegible Text]. May sue, [Illegible Text], etc. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the institution shall be conducted by managers, a majority of whom

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shall be a quorum to do business, and the seat of any manager who shall have neglected to attend for four successive meetings, may be vacated by the Board. The persons named in the first section of this Act shall be the first managers of this institution, who shall hold their places for one year from the commencement of the business of said institution, or until their successors are elected and installed, and the managers shall thereafter meet annually and choose their successors, who shall select one of their number as President, and they shall have power to appoint a Secretary, Treasurer, and such other officers as to them shall appear neccessary, which officers so chosen and appointed shall continue in office one year, or until others are chosen in their stead and place, and officers so chosen shall be under oath for the faithful performance of the duties of their offices respectively. The Board of Managers may remove any of said officers at pleasure, and appoint others in their stead, and fix their salaries as agreed upon. Managers. Quorum. First managers. Annual meeting. President Treasurer. Officers removable. SEC. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Board of Managers shall, from time to time, have power to make, ordain and establish such by-laws and regulations as they shall judge proper, for the election of their officers, for prescribing their respective functions and the mode of discharging the same, for regulating the times and places of meeting of their officers and managers, and for the transacting and managing all business and directing the affairs of the institution, and the same to change from time to time: Provided, such by-laws and regulations shall not be repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and of the United States; and such by-laws and regulations shall be put in some conspicuous place in the room where the business of the institution shall be transacted. By-laws, etc. Proviso. By-laws to be [Illegible Text] SEC. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation may receive, as deposits, all sums of money which may be offered for the purpose of being invested, in such sums and at such times, and on such terms, as the by-laws shall prescribe, which shall be invested accordingly, and shall be repaid to such depositors, at such times and with such interest, and under such regulations as the Board of managers shall, from time to time, prescribe, and the said corporation may accept and execute all such trusts of every description as may be committed to said corporation by any person or persons whatever, by will or otherwise, or by order of any court. Deposits. Interest. Trusts. SEC. V. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Managers to regulate the rate of interest to be allowed to the depositors, so that they shall receive a ratable proportion, as near as may be, of the profits, after deducting therefrom all necessary expenses and a reasonable surplus or contingent fund: Provided, that said rates of interest may, at the discretion of the managers, be so regulated that no interest or dividend,

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on account of said surplus fund, shall be allowed for moneys which shall have been withdrawn from deposit. Interest to [Illegible Text] and how allowed. SEC. VI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no manager, officer, or agent of the incorporation be allowed to borrow any money or moneys, from the said institution, or to use the same, except it may be due for deposits made by them as trustees, for the benefit of others, or for their own benefit. Managers, officers or [Illegible Text] may not borrow money. SEC. VII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation may invest money in any good stocks, bonds and mortgages, or unincumbered real estate, which said real estate shall be worth at least double the amount of the sum invested, to be determined as said managers may prescribe, or in the stock or loans of incorporated companies, at the discretion of the financial board. [Illegible Text] invested. SEC. VIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all certificates or evidences of deposit made under the hand of the proper officer of the corporation, shall be as binding as if the same were under their common seal. Certificates of [Illegible Text] SEC. IX. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for the said corporation to pay to any depositor, being a minor, such sums as may be due to such depositor, not exceeding five hundred dollars, notwithstanding that [Illegible Text] guardian shall have been appointed for such depositor, and the receipt or acquittance of such minor shall be as valid as if the same were executed by a guardian of such minor, duly appointed: Provided, such deposit shall have been personally made by such minor, and not by any other person, for his or her benefit. [Illegible Text] Married women may deposit money in their own names, and receive the interest or dividend thereon, and receive and withdraw the same, and such deposit shall not be subject to the control of their husbands, or liable for his debts, nor shall money deposited by a single woman be subject, in case of marriage, to the use or control, nor liable for the debts, of her future husband. [Illegible Text] SEC. X. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a book shall be kept at the office of the corporation, in which every depositor shall be at liberty to appoint some person or persons, to whom, in the event of his or her death, the money shall be paid, if not otherwise disposed of by will, and all payments made to such person so appointed, shall be a full discharge to said corporation, and should no such appointment be made, such deposit, on decease of the depositor, shall be paid to his or her legal representatives. Depositors may appoint [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. XI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporation shall not be required to receive on deposit a less sum than one dollar, nor to allow interest on any deposit until it amounts to the sum of five dollars, nor to pay interest on the fractional part of five dollars, and to avoid the calculation of days

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on small sums, they shall not be required to allow interest for the fractional part of a month. Deposits of less than [Illegible Text] Interest for [Illegible Text] of months. SEC. XII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all deposits and payments shall be regularly entered in the books of the corporation, and every person depositing money shall be furnished with a duplicate of his or her account, in which every deposit or payment shall be regularly entered as soon as made; the managers may issue certificates of indebtedness in small sums to depositors, if they require it. Duplicates of accounts for depositors. SEC. XIII. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the managers shall have power to fill up, by ballot, after one months notice, any vacancy which may occur in their own body, or officers, a majority of the members present to agree to all removals and new appointments, and no appointments nor removals to take place when a less number than a majority of managers is present. Vacancieshow filled. SEC. XIV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the office or place of business of the aforesaid incorporation shall be in the city of Augusta, in the State of Georgia. Principal office. SEC. XV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the private property of each and all of said managers, for the time [Illegible Text] shall be liable for the payment of all deposits made with said institution, and for all debts contracted or incurred by said institution during the time said manager or managers were in office, in the same manner as in ordinary commercial cases, or cases of [Illegible Text] And said Savings Institution shall be subject to taxation as other banking institutions in this State; such tax to be levied upon the amount of capital employed or used in the business of the institution, including an average amount of the deposits made with it. The said Savings Institution shall also be subject to make returns of its business to the Governor of this State, as required by sections 1466, 1467, 1468, 1469, 1470, and 1471, of the Code of 1873 of the State of Georgia. Individual liability. Taxation. Returns to the Gov. SEC. [Illegible Text] Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 16, 1875. No. CXXXIII. (O. No. 1.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Bank of Americus SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the eighth section of said act be amended so as to render elegible

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to the Presidency of said bank a Director owning twenty (20) shares of the stock of the Bank of Americus. Presidentwho eligible to office of. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 1, 1875. No. CXXXIV. (O. No. 300.) An Act to incorporate the Bank of Thomasville, in this State. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That A. P. Wright, A. T. McIntyre, Thomas C. Mitchell, [Illegible Text] Kulitshech, Jacob Kulitshech and C. W. Stegall, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of the Bank of Thomasville, with power by this name to sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, should they desire to do so, and to alter the same at their pleasure, to make, ordain and alter such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the business, to receive and hold such real estate or other property as may be conveyed to it in payment or satisfaction of any debt which may be due to said bank, or which may be [Illegible Text] or pledged for the purpose of securing any debt which may be owing to said bank, to receive deposits of money, and other valuables, and to issue certificates therefor, to loan and borrow money, to discount and sell bills of exchange, promissory notes, bonds, stocks and securities generally, and to do a general banking and exchange business, to buy and sell such property as may be to the interest of said corporation in conducting said business, and for this purpose to secure and execute such receipts, contracts or other instruments of writing as may be necessary. Corporators. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Power to [Illegible Text] Seal. By-laws. Power to hold [Illegible Text]. Power to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Bills of exchange, [Illegible Text] General banking [Illegible Text] Receipts contracts. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, with power to said bank to increase the same to any amount not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars, upon public notice of such increase being first given for thirty days in a public gazette, published in the city of Thomasville, in which notice shall be specified the amount of the increase about to be made to the capital stock of said company. Capital stock. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of capital stock. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so soon as there has been eighty thousand dollars subscribed to the capital stock of said bank, and one-fifth of said amount paid in, in lawful currency of the United States, the said stockholders shall be authorized to organize themselves and commence business under

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this Act. The corporate powers of said bank shall be exercised by a Board of Directors of not more than nine, and not less than five persons, to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall from their number elect a President and a Cashier not of this number. Said Directors shall be elected by the stockholders on the first Monday in April of each year, or within twenty days thereafter, by giving ten days notice in some public gazette in the city of Thomasville, and said Directors shall continue in office until their successors are elected and qualified. A majority of said Directors shall have power to act at all meetings, and shall fill any vacancy that may occur in the Board. Each stockholder shall vote in person, or by proxy, under written power of attorney, and be entitled to one vote for every share he may hold, but no stock shall be voted which may be in arrears for installments, fines, or other dues, until such arrears are paid up in full. Stockhold'rs may organizewhen. Board of Directors. President cashier. Election of Directors. Quorum. Vacancies. Vote of stockhold'rs. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors shall be kept in a book to be provided for that purpose, and shall be signed by the President and Secretary, and the same shall be at all times subject to the inspection of any stockholder. Minutes to be recorded and open for inspection. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Directors shall make semi-annual statements of the condition of said bank, on the first Monday in July and January of each year, to its stockholders; and it shall be the duty of said bank, and of every branch thereof, to make to the Governor of this State semi-annual returns of their condition, said returns to be made out and verified as provided in article first, part first, chapter first, title seventeenth, of the Code of eighteen hundred and seventy three. Semi-annu'l statement. Semi-annual return to Governor. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each stockholder in said Bank shall be individually liable for the ultimate payment of all debts created or incurred by said bank, while he was a stockholder in the same, in proportion to the amount of stock therein held by him. Liability of stockhol'rs. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said corporators, or any three of them, are hereby authorized to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said bank, in the city of Thomasville, at the banking house of Wright Stegall, and shall keep them open until the amount of one hundred thousand [Illegible Text] shall have been subscribed thereto; and the power and authority conferred by this Act shall remain in force for twenty-one years from the passage thereof. Books of subscription. Charter to run 21 y'rs. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CXXXV (O. No. 247.) An act to amend the charter of the Commercial Insurance and Banking Company of Augusta, so as to change the name thereof; and to regulate the transfer of stock in the same. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the name of the Commercial Insurance and Banking Company of the city of Augusta be, and the same is hereby, changed to the Commercial Bank of Augusta. Name [Illegible Text] SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That no stock shall be transferred except on the books of said bank, either in person or by attorney, and no stockholder shall transfer his stock who is indebted to said bank either as principal, endorser, or security, until such indebtedness is discharged. [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CXXXVI (O. No. 200.) An Act to incorporate the Enterprise Bank of Macon. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That Thomas N. M. Sellers, E. Woodliff, J. F. Long, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate under the name of the Enterprise Bank of Macon, with power under this name to sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, should they so desire, and to make and alter such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the business of said bank not inconsistent with the laws of this State, to borrow and loan money at such rates as may be agreed upon, and may be authorized by the general law of this State, and to do all other things authorized by law, and usual in a general banking and exchange business. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. Common seal. By-laws. May borrow and [Illegible Text] money. Interest. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said bank shall be fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and with power to increase the same to one hundred thousand dollars by a vote of a majority of the stockholders of said bank. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] stock. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so soon as twenty-five thousand dollars of the capital stock has been subscribed and actually paid in in lawful money of the United States, the stockholders may organize and proceed to tranct business under this Act. The corporate powers of said bank shall be

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exercised by a Board of Directors of five persons, to be chosen as herein provided, who shall elect from their number a President. Said Directors shall be elected by the majority of all the stockholders at the organization of said bank, and upon the second Wednesday in January in each year thereafter, and each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of stock held by him, said Directors to hold their office until their successors are elected. Said Board of Directors also shall have power to elect a Cashier, and such other officers as may be deemed necessary to effectually carry on the business of said bank. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Board of Directors. President. Election of Directors. Term [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. Cashier and other officers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors and stockholders shall be kept in a book prepared for the purpose; shall be signed by the Cashier, and the same shall, at all times, be subject to the inspection of any stockholder. Minutes to be [Illegible Text] and subject to [Illegible Text] SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Directors shall have power to call in assessments on subscribed stock in such amounts and manner as they shall prescribe. Assessment on [Illegible Text] stock. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said bank shall be subject to taxation in the same manner as other banking in [Illegible Text] in this State; such tax to be assessed upon the shares of stock held therein, and the tax returns made by it, to include an average amount of the deposits made with it, during the year for which such returns are made, and on which interest is allowed the depositors. Said bank shall also be liable to make to the Governor of this State semi-annual returns of its condition as required by the provisions of article first, chapter first, title seventeen, part first of the Code of 1873; and the entire property of said bank, as well as the private property of each stockholder therein, shall be liable for the payment of all deposits made with it, and of all debts created and obligations incurred by it in the course of its business at the time such deposits were made, or such indebtedness incurred. The franchises and privileges conferred by this Act shall continue in force for the term of twenty-one years from the date of its passage. Bank subject to taxation. Taxhow assessed. Semi-annual returns to Governor. Liability of [Illegible Text]. Charter for 21 years. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, [Illegible Text]. No. CXXXVII. (O. No. 195.) An Act to incorporate the Forsyth Savings Bank. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That T. S. M. Bloodworth, G. M. Taylor, B. H. Zellner, George W. Adams, John T. Crowder, J. G. Phinazee, W. A. Willingham,

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John R. Ralls, Andrew Dunn, Hiram Phinazee, Orrin Woodward, W. W. Jackson, Thomas G. Scott, Wm. W. Dewberry, C. A. Nutting, and R. F. Lawton, and their associates and successors, are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, under the name of Forsyth Savings Bank, with power, under this name, to sue and be sued, to have and use a common seal, and should they so desire it, make and alter such by-laws as they may deem necessary for the business of said bank, in payment or satisfaction of any debt which may be due to them, or may be mortgaged, or may be pledged to them to secure any debt, and issue certificates therefor; to loan and borrow money at such rates of interest as may be agreed upon, subject to any general law that may be enacted to fix the rate of interest in this State; to discount, buy and sell bonds, stocks, and securities generally; buy and sell bills of exchange and promissory notes; to do a general banking and exchange business; and for accomplishing and carrying into effect all these various privileges, they are authorized to issue and execute such deeds, contracts and receipts as may be necessary to legally and effectually carry out and into effect all the various rights and privileges hereunto granted. Corporators. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said corporation shall be fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and with power to increase the same to any amount, not exceeding two hundred thousand dollars, by the vote of a majority of the Directors of said Savings Bank. Capital stock. Shares. [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so soon as the amount of the capital stock of said bank shall have been bona fide subscribed, and when the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars of such capital stock has been actually paid in, in lawful money of the United States, the stockholders may organize and proceed to transact business under this Act. The corporate powers of said Savings Bank shall be exercised by a Board of Directors, consisting of not less than seven persons, to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall elect from their number a President. Directors shall be elected by the stockholders, upon the organization of the bank, and on the second Wednesday in each year thereafter; Provided, that if no such election is held, the President and Directors shall continue to hold their respective offices until their successors have been elected. [Illegible Text]. Board of Directors. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Directors shall have power to elect a Cashier, and such other officers as may be deemed necessary to effectually carry on the business of said bank. [Illegible Text]. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the minutes of the proceedings of the Board of Directors and stockholders shall be kept in a book prepared for that purpose;

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shall be signed by the Cashier, and the same shall, at all times, be subject to the inspection of any stockholder. [Illegible Text] SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the manner of transferring stock, and issuing scrip therefor, shall be the method usually adopted by banking institutions. Transfer of stock. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Directors shall have power to call in assessments on subscribed stock, and make such rules and regulations concerning the same as may be necessary to effectually enforce the prompt payment of such assessments. Assessment on subscribed stock. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Savings Bank shall be subject to taxation in the same manner as other banking institutions in this State, the amount of capital employed in its business, including an average amount of the deposits made with it, being the basis for the assessment of such tax; and said Savings Bank shall be liable to make to the Governor the semi annual returns of its business and condition, as required in article first, chapter first, title seventeen, part first of the Code of 1873; and shall be subject to all the penalties prescribed in said article for failure to make such returns. And the private property of each and every stockholder in said bank shall be liable for the payment of all debts and obligations created or incurred by it, and of all sums [Illegible Text] with it in proportion to the amount of stock held by each. This act, and the privileges and franchises conferred thereby, shall remain in force for a period of twenty-one years from the date of its passage. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to taxation. Semi-[Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Liability of stockholders. Charter to run 21 y'rs. SEC. IX. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CXXXVIII. (O. No. 125.) An Act to charter the Georgia Grange and Planters' Banking Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act J. T. Smith, A. J. [Illegible Text] John [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] William F. Rogers, T. B. King, R. D. Smith, Eden [Illegible Text] J. S. Lawton, H. T. Patterson, W. J. Lawton, T. H. Willingham, B. F. Tharpe and M. C. Fulton, and their associates and successors, shall be a corporation under the name and style of the Georgia Grange and Planters' Banking Company, and shall keep their office at Macon, Georgia, and shall have the right to establish such agencies elsewhere in this State as may be agreed upon by the officers hereinafter provided for, and shall elect

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their own officers, and shall enjoy all the privileges and powers incident to such corporation. Corporat'rs. Corporate name. Principal office. General powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said company may have and use a common seal, with power to alter or change the same, and may make and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations as may be necessary to carry into effect the objects of such corporation in conformity with the laws of the United States and the State of Georgia. That it may sue and be sued, plead and be [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] in any court of law or equity in this State having competent jurisdiction. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of this corporation shall be one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into twenty thousand shares of five dollars each, which may be increased hereafter to two millions of dollars in such manner and at such time as a majority of the stockholders may determine, and that books of subscription shall be opened at the city of Macon, and at such other places as the incorporators in the first section of this Act may determine and direct, which books shall be kept open until the the sum of twenty-five thousand dollars shall have been paid in. And said incorporators, or a majority of them, shall, within twenty days thereafter, call a meeting of the stockholders, who shall proceed to the election of ten Directors, and said Directors shall elect one of their own number President. They shall also elect a Cashier and Teller. The President shall have power to appoint and remove all agents, and the President and Directors shall have power to fix the compensation, prescribe the duties, and provide for taking bonds of all the officers and agents herein provided for. Capital stock. [Illegible Text] Capital stock may [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Directors. President. [Illegible Text] Agents. [Illegible Text] SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all the officers shall hold their offices for twelve months, and until their successors are elected and qualified. And it shall be the duty of the President and Directors to call an annual meeting of the stockholders, to make such election for Directors, and to receive the annual report of the President of the bank. [Illegible Text] of office. Annual meeting. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That at all meetings of the stockholders those holding a majority of stock shall constitute a quorum, and each stockholder shall be allowed one vote for each share of stock he holds or represents. Quorum. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That should any stockholder [Illegible Text] or refuse to pay any amount due by him to the company, then he or she shall pay legal interest on the same, and five per cent, as damages, and his stock in the bank may be sold by giving thirty days notice of the same. [Illegible Text] SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the President and Directors may prescribe the mode of issuing stock, and disbursements of dividends, and that no dividend shall be declared unless the capital stock remains unimpaired. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That this corporation shall

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have power to receive deposits of money at interest, issue certificates for the same; also to receive deposits without interests; loan and borrow money; take and give security as may be considered best; purchase and discount notes and bills of exchange, and with its profits make such investments as may seem best for its interest. Deposits interest. Power to loan and borrow money, etc. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That this corporation shall be liable and responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property, and the stockholders shall be liable only for the amount of stock owned by them. Liability of stockhold'rs. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That this corporation shall exist for twenty years with all of its privileges and powers granted in this charter. Charter to run 20 y'rs. SEC. XI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CXXXIX. (O. No. 324.) An Act to incorporate the Greenville Banking and Trust Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That A. H. Freeman, Monroe Davidson, C. J. Reeves, R. D. Render, Madison [Illegible Text] David Ellis, John H. Grant, R. N. Ellis, J. E. G. Terrell, and A. J. [Illegible Text] and such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them, and their successors and assigns, are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name of the Greenville Banking and Trust Company, to be located in the town of Greenville, and by that name shall have succession, may sue and be sued, in any court whatever, with such powers and privileges as are hereinafter provided. Corporat'rs. Corporate name. Power to sue, etc. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing said capital stock to three hundred thousand dollarssaid stock to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each; and when there shall be fifty thousand dollars of said capital stock subscribed, and twenty-five thousand dollars actually paid in, in lawful money of the United States, the said company may organize and proceed to business under this Act. Capital stock. Shares. [Illegible Text] and business. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have power to make advances to planters, in loans on mortgages, on real and personal property of any and all kinds; to receive deposits of money, and all other valuables of any kind, and to rent or purchase suitable offices or stores for

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their safe keeping; to issue receipts for the same; to buy and sell stock, bonds, bills of exchange and promissory notes, and advance and loan moneys, securities and credits, and may charge and receive interest at such rates as are allowed by law; and the said company shall have power to take and hold as security for, or in payment of, any loans or advances made, mortgages or other instruments or obligations, upon any and all kinds of property whatever, either real or personal; and said company shall have power to purchase, hold, sell, exchange, and convey bonds, or other property of any nature, and may execute and issue all such receipts, certificates, contracts, or other instruments, as may be necessary for the transaction of its business. Advances on mortgages. Deposits. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Mortgages. Power to purchase,hold and [Illegible Text] property. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That funds in litigation in the various courts in this State, may be deposited in this Banking and Trust Company, pending litigation, whenever the presiding Judge of any of the Superior Courts of this State shall order such deposit to be made with said bank. [Illegible Text] SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have power to receive moneys on deposit, and to invest the same at such rate of interest as may be allowed by law, and shall have power to take and accept, by grant, assignment, or bequest, and hold any real or personal estate, on such terms as may be declared, established, or agreed upon in regard thereto. Deposits [Illegible Text] SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the business anc corporate powers of said company shall be exercised by a board of not less than five Directors, to be chosen as hereinafter provided, who shall elect from their own number a President, and may declare, by by-laws, what number of Directors may constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Directors. President. [Illegible Text] SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the parties named in the first section of this Act, or their successors or assigns, shall be, and they are hereby, appointed commissioners to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said company, at such times and places, and for such amounts as they, or a majority of them, shall deem proper, but for no less amount than fifty thousand dollars, as hereinbefore provided. The Directors of said company shall be elected by a majority in the interest of the stockholders of said company voting at said election, to be held under the inspection of said commissioners, at such place as they may designate, within thirty days from the closing of the subscription called for by them, and on the second Monday in January in every year thereafter. The office of said company being in Greenville, Georgia. [Illegible Text] Election of Directors. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each stockholder shall be individually liable for the ultimate payment of the debts of the company in proportion to the amount of stock held by him. [Illegible Text]

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SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall take effect immediately on its passage, and shall continue in force for twenty-one years thereafter. Donation of charter. SEC. X. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. No. CXL. (O. No. 312.) An Act to amend the charter of the Macon Bank and Trust Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the charter of the Macon Bank and Trust Company, which was granted by an act approved February 21, 1873, be, and the same is, so amended that hereafter the annual meeting of the stockholders of said bank shall be held on the second Wednesday in January of each year, instead of on the first Monday in January of each year, as has been heretofore provided in said charter. Annual meetingwhen to be held. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CXLI. (O. No. 266.) An Act to amend an act incorporating the Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Columbus, Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the act of December 19, 1871, incorporating the Merchants' and Mechanics' Savings Bank of Columbus, Georgia, be amended as follows: For the purpose of enabling persons who may desire to become stockholders in said bank, it shall, and may, be lawful for any person to subscribe for stock in said bank, and to pay for the same in the following manner: First, upon every share of stock subscribed for, there shall be paid one dollar at the time of making such subscription, and one dollar on Monday of each week thereafter until such payments and interest or profits thereof amount to one hundred dollars per share. Any person may subscribe for stock. How subscriptions shall be made. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the money so paid in shall constitute a separate fund, which shall be used and employed by said bank only for the benefit of such subscribers. Money so paid to be separate fund.

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That such subscribers for stock shall not be held or deemed stockholders in said bank, nor liable as such until they have actually become stockholders under the provisions of this Act. But nothing in this Act shall be construed to authorize the forfeiture of any sum or installment of money that may be paid into said bank on any subscriptions for stock made under the provisions of the first section of this Act. But all such sums or installments of money shall be turned over to the person by whom the same were paid in, with lawful interest thereon, whenever such person shall so require. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That as soon as the shares of stock so subscribed for amount, by payments and interest and profits, to one hundred dollars each, the subscriber shall receive for every such share a share in the capital stock of said bank. Payment of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to have one share. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the Directors of said bank shall have power to make such by-laws and regulations, as to such subscriptions, and the use and management of the said fund as shall be necessary to carry out the object of this Act. [Illegible Text] SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CXLII. (O. No. 141.) An Act to incorporate The People's Bank, and to confer thereon certain rights and privileges. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That R. T. Byrd, F. E. Burke, W. D. Haynes, Sampson Bell, Martin Burke and A. C. Bell, and such other persons as may hereafter be associated with them and their successors and assigns, are hereby made and constituted a body corporate, under the name of The People's Bank, and by that name shall have perpetual succession, and may sue and be sued in any court whatever, and shall have the right to hold and possess, either by purchase, lease, mortgage, or otherwise, any species of property, real, personal or mixed, and to sell or otherwise dispose of the same at pleasure, to discount, or buy notes, bills, drafts, bonds, mortgages, choses-in-action, or any other species of property, to buy and sell bills of exchange, both foreign and domestic, gold, silver, bullion, or any species of coin, to receive deposits, to make advances and loans on any property or security satisfactory to them, and to do a general business as a bank of discount and deposit, and said bank shall be subject to the various prohibitions prescribed in sections 1472 and 1473 of the Code of 1873 of this State. [Illegible Text] Corporate name. General powers.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said bank shall be one hundred thousand dollars, with power to the stockholders, at any time, to increase the same to five hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and for which certificates of, stock shall be issued to each stockholder for the number of shares owned by him, her, or them, which shall be transferrable only on the books of said bank, under such regulations as may be established by the Directors, and the stock of each stockholder shall, at all times [Illegible Text] under all circumstances, be first bound or liable for any debt or debts he, she, or they may owe to the bank, either as principal or otherwise, and all transfers of stock in said bank shall, in order to be valid, have the approval, and be evidenced by the signatures of the President and Cashier of the bank; and the stock of [Illegible Text] bank shall be called in at such times and in such amounts as may be determined by the Directors of said bank: Provided, said banks [Illegible Text] not commence business until fifty thousand dollars of its capital stock is subscribed, and at least fifty per centum of that amount paid in; that all the property of said bank shall be held and bound for the payment of its indebtedness; the stockholders thereof shall be individually liable for all bills issued, and all debts incurred by said bank, in proportion to the amount of stock held by each. Capital stock. Shares. Certificate of stock. Liability of stock. Transfer of stock to be signed. Assessment on stock. Proviso. Individual liability. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the officers of [Illegible Text] bank shall consist of a President, Cashier, and not exceeding nine Directors (but the first board shall be composed of six,) and such minor officers as may be deemed necessary by them. The officers shall be elected annually by stockholders on the first Wednesday in January or July, as may be fixed by by-laws, under such rules and regulations as may be adopted by the Board of Directors, and the six parties mentioned in the first section of this Act shall constitute the first Board of Directors, and hold office until the first annual election, but any or either of them shall have the right to resign at any time, and in case of vacancy in the board or offices at any time, the remaining portion of the board shall have the right to fill such vacancy for the balance of the unexpired term. And the Directors of said bank shall have the right to make and declare all needful and necessary by-laws, rules and regulations for the full and complete government of their own body, and the carrying out of all the objects of this Act, and the details of the business of said bank, as well as its organization, duties of officers, and all other needful things. The officers and Directors shall hold office for one year, and until their successors are elected and qualified. No stockholder shall be eligible to the office of Director unless he shall own at least twenty shares of stock in the bank in his own right. And the said Directors of said bank shall have the right to establish agencies or branches of said bank at any point or

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points they may deem for the best interests of said bank, and appoint all needful officers or agents for the proper management of said agencies or branches, but said agencies shall report to and at all times be subject to the parent office. President, Cashier and Directors. Annual election of officers. First Board of Dir'ctors. Vacancieshow filled. By-laws, rules, etc. Term of office. Eligibility to office of Director. Agencies. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at the annual meetings of the stockholders, on the first Wednesday of January or July, as may be determined as aforesaid, at the office of the Home Bank, in [Illegible Text] Georgia, each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share owned by him, and stockholders owning a majority of the stock may call meetings of the stockholders for any special purpose, by giving ten days' notice in some paper published in Americus, and stockholders not being present at any meeting may vote by power of attorney, given to any other stockholder in writing. Votes of [Illegible Text] Special [Illegible Text] SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Directors of said bank shall have the right as aforesaid, to call in the capital stock of said bank in such sums and at such intervals as as they may deem best, but whenever any subscriber shall fail or refuse to pay the amount of his subscription or the installment called for by the Board of Directors, the Directors shall have the right to forfeit his or her stock in said bank, and to sell the same at public outcry to the highest bidder, after first giving such defauling stockholder thirty days' notice in writing of such intention to forfeit and sell his or her stock. And said Directors shall also, [Illegible Text] on the first Mondays of January and July, declare [Illegible Text] the net earnings of said bank, first having deducted all expenses and set aside a sufficient amount to meet all losses which have occurred in the past, and shall have passed at least ten per centum of said net earnings to surplus fund for the previous six months, such dividend among the stockholders of said bank, in proportion to the amount of stock held by each, as said net earnings will authorize, or the Directors may deem best and proper. Assessment on capital stock. Defaulting [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said bank shall have the right to have and use a common seal, and to alter and change the same at pleasure, which seal shall be used on all certificates of stock, transfers of real estate, and in such other ways as may be provided by by-law. Common seal. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said People's Bank shall have its main or home office in Americus, Georgia, and said bank shall be subject to taxation in the same manner as other banking institutions in this State, and shall be liable to make semi-annual returns of its business to the Governor of this State, in the manner required by the several sections of article first, chapter first, title seventeen, part first of the Code of 1873, and its officers shall be liable to the penalties prescribed in said chapter for failure or refusal to make such returns. This Act shall

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remain in force for a period of twenty-one years from and after the date of its passage. Home [Illegible Text] Taxation. Semi-annual returns. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CXLIII. (O. No. 289.) An Act to further amend an act incorporating the Savings Bank of [Illegible Text], approved October 26, 1870. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the first section of the above stated act be, and the same is hereby, so altered and amended as to read as follows, to-wit: That Alvis Stafford, J. W. Stafford, A. J. Blalock, Wm. R. Murphy, S. K. Cook, J. M. Turner, W. P. Bussey, F. M. Farley, T. F. Porter, and R. J. Powell, their associates and successors in office, be constituted a body corporate and politic, under the name of the Barnesville Savings Bank, to have a common seal; to receive money on deposit, at interest; to loan and invest the same; to issue certificates of deposit; to loan and borrow money; to make advances on real or personal property, or on both; to advance money to corporate bodies, to planters, farmers, mechanics, factors or merchants; to make loans to governments or private individuals; to make advances for improvements of real estate; to deal in the precious metals, foreign or domestic exchange; to buy, discount, collect, or sell promissory notes, bills of exchange, drafts, contracts, bonds, or choses in action, claims and rents; to hold and possess any species of property, real or personal, and to sell and dispose of the same at pleasure; to sue and be sued; and to have full power to carry on a general business as a bank of deposit and discount, at the city of Barnesville, and to establish an agency at the town of Thomaston, in this State. Corporat'rs. Corporate name. Seal. [Illegible Text] interest. Certificates of deposits. Power to loan and [Illegible Text] money. Other powers. [Illegible Text] office. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the second section of said act be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and in place thereof the following is hereby enacted: That the capital stock shall be fifty thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to no more than one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. This capital shall be a fund pledged for the security of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Increase of [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the third section of said act be, and the same is hereby, so altered and amend as to read: That the shares of said stock shall be one hundred dollars for each share; and the stockholders shall vote at all meetings, in proportion to the number of their shares. Shares. Vote by [Illegible Text]

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the officers of said bank shall consist of a President and Vice President, who shall be chosen by the Directors from their own number; a Cashier, who shall give bond and security in such terms and sums of money as shall be satisfactory to the Board of Directors; and such minor officers as may be necessary for the efficient management of its affairs. President, [Illegible Text] and Directors. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Directors shall have power to call in assessments on subscribed stock, and make such rules and regulations concerning the same, as may be necessary to effectually enforce the prompt payment of such assessments. [Illegible Text] Rules and Regulations. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said bank, and any agency or branch that may be established by it, shall be subject to taxation as other banking institutions in this State are taxed; and in returning for taxation the capital used by said bank in its business, the officers of said bank shall include an average amount of deposits made with it, for which interest is allowed. Said bank shall also be liable to make to the Governor of this State, semi-annual returns of its business and condition, as is provided in article first, chapter first, title seventeenth, part first of the Code of 1873. Said Savings Bank shall be authorized to commence business under this Act so soon as forty thousand dollars of its capital stock has been actually paid in; and this Act shall continue in force for the term of twenty-one years from the date of its passage. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] for 21 years. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CXLIV. (O. No. 350.) An Act to incorporate the State's savings Bank of Atlanta, Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That B. B. Crew, C. P. Cassin, R. D. Mann, and Samuel A. Echols, of Atlanta, Georgia, Frank H. Battershall, and [Illegible Text] F. Hoyl, of Chicago, Illinois, and their associates and successors, be, and they are hereby, created a body corporate under the name of the State's Savings Bank of Atlanta, and by that name shall have succession, may sue and be sued in any court whatever, with such powers and privileges as are hereinafter provided. [Illegible Text] Corporate name. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said bank shall be one hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to any amount not exceeding one million dollars,

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said stock to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and when there shall be one hundred thousand dollars of said stock subscribed, and twenty five per cent. of said one hundred thousand dollars actually paid in, in lawful money of the United States, the said bank may organize and commence business under this Act: Provided, that no deposits shall be received until fifty thousand dollars are actually paid in, and that no increase shall be made to the capital stock without the money being actually paid in to the full extent of said increase, and that at least twenty per cent. of the deposits shall always be kept on hand in cash, which reserve may be kept in the bank, or in any other bank of the city of Atlanta, or in New York: Provided further, that in issuing certificates of stock no subscriber to stock shall receive a certificate for a greater number of shares than will equal the amount of money actually paid in by him at the par value of such shares; and in the event the amount of stock subscribed shall exceed the amount of money actually paid in, such subscriber of stock shall be liable to pay the balance of his subscription when it is called in, or when the interest of the bank or its creditors shall demand such payment. Capital stock. Shares. Bank may [Illegible Text] when. Proviso. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the business and corporate powers of said bank shall be exercised by a Board of not less than five Directors, or trustees, who shall be elected by a majority in interest of the stockholders of said bank, from their own number. The trustees or Directors shall elect a President, and may elect one or more Vice Presidents from their own number, and a Cashier and such other officers as they may deem necessary. Board of Directorsby whom chosen. President, [Illegible Text]. Cashier and other officers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the persons named in the first section of this Act, or their successors or assigns shall be, and the same are hereby, appointed commissioners to open books of subscription to the capital stock of said bank, at such times and places at they may deem proper. And when the amount of one hundred thousand dollars shall have been subscribed, and twenty-five per cent. thereof paid in, the stockholders shall have an election for trustees or Directors within thirty days thereafter and on the first Monday in January in every year thereafter. The principal office of said bank shall be located in the city of Atlanta, with such branches or agencies as the Directors or trustees may, from time to time determine. [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text] subscriptions. Election of Directors. Principle office. Branches [Illegible Text] agencies. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That this bank shall have power to receive deposits of moneys from all persons, firms and corporations, including trust funds, money belonging to estates, and funds in [Illegible Text], and to allow such interest thereon as may be agreed on; may purchase and hold, sell or exchange, and convey bonds or other property, of any nature; may loan moneys, securities and credits at any rate of interest not in excess of the rates of interest prescribed by the laws of this State, and shall have power to take and hold as security for, or in payment of, any loans or

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advances, mortgages, or other instruments or obligations, upon any and all kinds of property whatever, either real or personal. May receive deposits. May allow interest. May purchase and hold property. May loan money, etc. May take [Illegible Text]. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That this bank shall be subject to taxation in like manner as other banking institutions of similar character in this State; and each stockholder shall be individually liable for the ultimate payment of the debts of this bank, in proportion to the amount of stock held by him, and no stockholder shall be allowed to plead as a set-off to his individual liability any indebtedness of the bank to him, nor shall such stockholder be allowed to plead, by way of set-off or in discharge of his individual liability, either in whole or in part, any claim against said bank, of which he may have become possessed, or which he controls, so as to evade the payment of his full pro rata liability. Subject to taxation. Liability of stockholders. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That this bank shall, [Illegible Text] its President or Cashier, under oath, before some proper officer, make semi annual statements to the Governor of the State of Georgia, in accordance with the provisions of section 1467, Code of 1873, of all of the debts, liabilities, and [Illegible Text] of said bank, and shall publish said statement in some newspaper in the city of Atlanta. [Illegible Text] SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. CHAPTER II CANAL COMPANIES. [Illegible Text] and Internal Improvement Company NO. ACT. 115 [Illegible Text] River and [Illegible Text] Swamp Canal Company..... [Illegible Text] No. CXLV. (O. No. 355.) An Act to incorporate the Seaboard and Internal Improvement Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Sylvester Mumford, Carl Epping, George L. Cook. Thomas F. Smith, P. S. Holt and Hamilton A. Kendrick and their associates and assigns are hereby constituted a body corporate, by the name of the Seaboard and Internal Improvement Company. [Illegible Text] Corporate name. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and the said company are hereby empowered

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to increase their capital stock at any time, not to exceed one million dollars. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That books of subscription for the capital stock of said company shall be opened under the supervision and direction of the above named corporators, or any three of them at Brunswick, Georgia, and when fifty thousand dollars shall have been subscribed to the capital stock of said company, and ten per centum thereof shall have been paid in, the shareholders shall proceed to organize said company, by the election of a Board of Directors, to consist of not less than three shareholders, who shall hold office for one year, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. Each shareholder shall, at all elections, be entitled to one vote upon each share held by him or her, to be given in person or by proxy. Books of subscript'n Organizat'n Directors. [Illegible Text] SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors of said company shall have power, from time to time, to make and establish such by laws, rules and regulations as they shall judge proper for transacting, managing and directing the affairs of the corporations. Provided, that the same are not repugnant to the Constitution of this State, or the United States. By-laws, rules and regulations. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall have power to construct a canal in Camden county, to connect the waters of the Big Satilla and the Little Satilla rivers, at a point near Crow [Illegible Text], also to construct other canals, build, buy, own, employ and charter vessels propelled by steam or sail, or both, own real estate, traffic and barter, buy and sell merchandize, and in general, to enjoy all commercial rights and privileges equally with citizens of this State, and to buy and sell, hold and enjoy, such real and personal property as may be necessary for the proper exercise and enjoyment of the powers and privileges by this Act conferred upon said company, or to promote the objects of its incorporation. Canal in Camden co. Vessels. General powers. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That each stockholder of said company shall be individually liable for its debt to the amount of his or her subscription to its stock, and any corporation in this State may subscribe to the stock of said company. Individual liability of share holders. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That subscriptions to the stock may be paid in lands, vessels, or other property at such valuation as the stockholders may put thereon. Stock may be paid in land. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall continue in force twenty five years from the date of its passage. Duration of charter. SEC. IX. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875.

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No. CXLVI. (O. No. 378.) An Act to incorporate the Turtle River and Buffalo Swamp Canal Company, and to grant certain privileges therein mentioned. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That Henry R. Fort, Willis Clary, together with such other persons as may become associated with them under this Act, be, and they are hereby, created a body corporate and politic by the name of the Turtle River and Buffalo Swamp Canal Company, and by that name they and their successors and assigns shall, and may, continue such body corporate and politic, and as such may sue and be sued, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in all the courts of the State of Georgia, or in any place whatsoever having competent jurisdiction over any matter, dispute or transaction touching the business affairs of said company, may make bylaws, rules and regulations for its government not inconsistent with the laws and Constitution of this State, or of the United States, and do all lawful acts incident to a corporation, and necessary and proper for the transaction of the business for which it is incorporated, may determine as to the number of Directors, time and mode of electing them, and to have a common seal, and to alter and destroy the same at pleasure. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have the right, power and authority to build, construct, own and maintain a canal or canals of such dimensions as it shall deem suitable, and from such point or points as it shall select on Turtle River and Buffalo Swamp to tide water. The true interest and object of this Act being to encourage and authorize the opening of an artificial line of water communication, for the purpose of transporting to the seaboard, and to market, the timber and lumber along the line of route. Said company shall have the right, power and authority to acquire by purchase, and to hold for its own use and purposes, all rights of way, or any other rights, property or franchises necessary to the carrying out the purposes of this charter. Power to build [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Transportation of timber. Right-of-way. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have the power to select and take, purchase or receive, as donations or otherwise, such strips or parcels of land not exceeding one hundred feet in width along the route they may select, and in all cases of disagreement as to the value of said strips or parcels of land between said company and the owner or owners thereof, it shall be lawful for either party to apply to the Sheriff of the county in which the land is located to summon a jury of three disinterested freeholders, who shall examine the land sought to be appropriated for the use of said company, and award in writing the amount of damages, if any, to be paid by said company, either

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party having the right to appeal to the Superior Court of the county, under the rules and regulations which apply to appeals generally, and upon payment of damages so assessed, a fee simple title to such strips or parcels of land shall vest in said company. Donations of lands. [Illegible Text] Award. Right of appeal. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have full power to collect such rates of toll as they may from time to time deem just on all lumber, logs, rafts, or other things that may be transported over, conveyed or passed through said canals, and for all such tolls the company shall have a lien on the property so passed or conveyed, and shall have the right to sell and dispose of the same at public outcry, to satisfy the amount of such toll or freights when left unpaid for the space of thirty days. Tollcompany may collect. Lien for toll. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, but may be increased to one hundred thousand dollars, if the company shall deem such increase neessary to enable them to complete said canals; and the same may be divided into such number of shares as may be fixed by the company's by-laws, authorized in first section of this Act. Capital stock. Shares. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the company shall have the exclusive privilege of constructing such canals over a section ten miles in width, both sides of the route, as set forth in section second of this Act, and said exclusive privilege shall not be taken away from said company or its assignees: Provided, the line for the canals is selected and marked within two years from the passage of this Act, and that the work of construction is commenced within one year thereafter, and finished within five years thereafter. Exclusive privileges. Proviso. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons shall wilfully damage, injure, or obstruct said canals, or any of its or their appurtenances, such person or persons shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction, be punished by fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court. [Illegible Text] Penalty. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 6, 1875.

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CHAPTER III. CITIES AND TOWNS. AmericusBridge over Flint river..... NO. ACT 147 AmericusJurisdiction of Mayor's Court..... 148 AtlantaCharter amended..... 149 AtlantaCustom House lot purchase..... 150 AtlantaPurchase of mortgage on Capitol..... 151 AugustaAssessment of taxes..... 152 AugustaUse of land for water pipes..... 153 BaxleyCharter..... 154 CamillaCharter amended..... 155 CarrolltonCharter amended..... 156 ColumbusPower to tax mules, etc...... 157 CovingtonStreets..... 158 DanielsvilleCharter..... 159 DouglasvilleCharter..... 160 DawsonCorporate limits..... 161 DawsonvilleCharter repealed..... 162 EastmanCorporate limits..... 163 FairburnCharter amended..... 164 ForsythNew charter..... 165 Fort ValleyCharter amended..... 166 GriffinCharter amended..... 167 HamiltonNew charter..... 168 [Illegible Text]Charter amended..... 169 MaconCharter amended..... 170 MarshallvilleCharter amended..... 171 RockmartCharter amended..... 172 RomeCompromise of debt..... 173 SpartaCharter amended..... 174 St. MarysCharter amended..... 175 SylvaniaCharter [Illegible Text]..... 176 TalbottonCharter amended..... 177 TennelleCharter..... 178 ThomsonCharter amended..... 179 [Illegible Text]Charter amended..... 180 VinevilleFiring of guns and pistols..... 181 WarrentonCharter amended..... 182 WhitesburgCharter amended..... 183 No. CXLVII. (O. No. 186.) An Act to ratify and confirm the action of the Mayor and Council of the city of Americus, in building a bridge across Flint River; to provide a mode of assessing the damages to the land or property of any one, taken for the use of said bridge; and to authorize the charging of toll on said bridge, and other provisions in relation to the same. WHEREAS, the Mayor and City Council of Americus, by an act passed by the Legislature of 1872, and assented to the 26th day of August, 1872, were authorized to issue bonds for the purpose of building a bridge across Flint River, between the counties of Sumter and Dooly; and WHEREAS, the said Mayor and Council have issued bonds for said purpose, and have constructed a bridge across said river, near Danville, in the county of Sumter; therefore, [Illegible Text] SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Mayor and City Council of Americus, and their successors in office, shall have the right and power to own, control, keep up, and use the said bridge so constructed by them, and shall be capable, in law, to purchase, have, hold, receive, possess, sell and convey all real and personal estate necessary for the purpose of keeping up said bridge, and rendering the same accessible to the public, for the purposes for which said bridge was built. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That in the event the owners of the land on which the abutments of said bridge are placed, or any lands necessary for the purpose of building and using said bridge as a public bridge, and the said Mayor and City Council, cannot agree as to the compensation to be paid by said Mayor and City Council, to the said owner or owners of said land or lands, such compensation or damages (and the said owner or owners shall not accept and receive the same) shall be fixed and determined as follows: Said owner or owners shall choose one arbitrator, said Mayor and City Council one, and they a third, who shall fix and determine the amount of compensation or damages to which each land owner is entitled, and either party being dissatisfied with the award so made, shall have the right to enter an appeal to the Superior Court of the county in which the land taken is situated, under the rules and regulations by which appeals are now [Illegible Text] by law from Justice Courts, and which appeal shall be heard and tried as appeals from Justice Courts are now [Illegible Text] and tried. Compensation for property taken when the parties cannot agree. Arbitrati'n. Appeal from award. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the said Mayor and City Council, and their successors in office, shall have the power and right to [Illegible Text] the said bridge a toll bridge, or free to all the traveling [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] such portion of the traveling public as they may deem proper, and they shall be allowed to demand and receive, for passing over said bridge, such toll as they may fix and determine, not more than are now allowed for passing over the bridge across Flint River, new Albany; that in case any person shall wilfully injure or obstruct the said bridge, or shall injury the abutment or abutments, pier or piers of said bridge, or of the land or lands owned by said Mayor and City Council, or their successors in office, whereby said Mayor and City Council, or their successors in office, shall sustain any loss, he shall forfeit and pay to said Mayor and City Council, or their successors in office, the amount of all damages which they may sustain in consequence thereof, to be sued for and recovered in the same manner as provided by law for individuals in like cases, and shall be further liable and subject to indictment and punishment under the laws now in force against malicious [Illegible Text]. Power to make the bridge a toll bridge. Toll may be demanded and received. Amount. Damages may be recovered to injury to property. Offender liable to indictment. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the action of the Mayor and Council of the city of Americus, in building the said bridge, and in issuing the bonds therefor, is hereby expressly ratified and confirmed. Action of Mayor and Council [Illegible Text] SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CXLVIII. (O. No. 370.) An Act to authorize the Mayor of the city of Americus, Sumter county, to try certain offenders against the laws of this State herein mentioned, when the offense is committed within the limits of said city. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act it shall, and may be lawful for the Mayor of the city of Americus, Sumter county, in this State, to try all offenders for offenses hereinafter [Illegible Text], committed against the laws of this State, when the offenses are committed within the limits of said city. The jurisdiction under this Act, of said court, shall extend to the trial of the following offenses against the criminal laws of this State, viz: [Illegible Text] of property, not more than twenty dollars in value, assaults and batteries, vagrancy, and carrying concealed weapons. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Mayor shall hear and determine each case that may come before him immediately, unless good cause shall be shown authorizing a continuance, and in no case shall a continuance be allowed for any time longer than is necessary with proper diligence to procure the attendance of witnesses for and against the prisoner: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to force the prisoner to trial if from providential cause be is [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all offenses shall be tried before said Mayor upon written [Illegible Text] founded upon affidavit. Said affidavit shall distinctly set forth the nature of the offense, the time when and by whom committed, and the accusation shall follow the affidavit, and shall be signed by the accuser. [Illegible Text] SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be no jury trial before said Mayor, but in all cases of offense, against the laws of this State, where the accused shall demand a trial by jury, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to send the accused for trial before some other court having jurisdiction of the offense charged where such trial may be had, and if no such court is in session, then it shall be the duty of the Mayor to bind over the offender for appearance for trial before said court, and in default of bail to commit said person to await said trial. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Mayor shall receive for each case tried, such costs as are now allowed by law to the Justices of the Peace of said county, in the militia district in which the county town is situated, for similar trials, which sum shall be paid by the accused when convicted, and it is hereby made the duty of the officer arresting the party, and he is hereby required, to seize a sufficiency of the property of the accused to pay the costs, and if personal property, retain the

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same in his possession until the accused shall have been convicted or acquitted, and in the event the accused is convicted, and fails or refuses to pay the costs, it shall be the duty of the officer to advertise the same for two days, at the court house, if personal; if real property, in the public gazette in which county sales are advertised, for the space of thirty days, and shall, on the day specified in said advertisement, sell the said property to the highest bidder, and the money arising from the sale of the same shall be applied to the payment of the costs: Provided, that in any case where it shall clearly appear to the Mayor that the accuser acted maliciously, then, and in that event, the accuser shall pay the costs. Costs of Mayor. By whom to be paid. Levy on property for costs. Sale of the property levied on. [Illegible Text] Accuser to pay costswhen. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the aforesaid authority, That the [Illegible Text] of said city is hereby authorized to make arrests, seize property, and sell the same under the provisions of the foregoing sections, and shall be entitled to the same costs as are now allowed by law to constables for similar services, to be collected in the same manner as set forth in the foregoing sections. Marshall to make arrests. Marshall's costs. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the privilege of the defendant to sue out a writ of certiorari from the decision of the Mayor, under such rules and regulations as are now prescribed for suing out certiorari from the decisions of Justices of the Peace in civil cases: Provided, that no writ of certiorari shall be granted unless the accused shall first have filed his [Illegible Text], setting forth that he is advised and believes that he has good grounds for said certiorari. Certioraridefendant may sue [Illegible Text] Writ may be grantedwhen. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Mayor to have endorsed upon the written accusation, signed by the accuser, the following words: Indictment by the grand jury, and trial by jury waived, and said endorsement shall be signed by the accused, or his counsel, and in the event the accused shall refuse to sign the waiver, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to proceed to hear evidence against the accused, and [Illegible Text] probable guilt shall be made to appear, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to commit the accused as heretofore prescribed by the courts in this State. [Illegible Text] to be waived. In case accused refuses to waive, [Illegible Text] may be [Illegible Text] over. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever any one shall be brought before the Mayor for the purpose of trial and after evidence has been heard it shall appear to the Mayor that the accused is guilty of an offense punishable by death or imprisonment in the penitentiary, it shall be the duty of the Mayor to bind the accused over to the Superior Court of the county of [Illegible Text], to answer the charge preferred, and in failure of the accused to give the bail required by the Mayor, he shall be committed for trial. If evidence shows [Illegible Text], duty of Mayor. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor, in case of conviction, shall have the power to punish the person convicted, as provided in section [Illegible Text] of the Code. Punishment as prescribed by [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Code.

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SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all fines collected shall be paid to the Treasurer of said city, and be appropriated, first, to the payment of the insolvent costs coming due under this Act, and, at the end of each month, any balance in the hands of said Treasurer arising from fines under this Act, shall be paid to City Council, to be used and disposed of by them as they may direct. Fines, disposition of SEC. XII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CXLIX. (O. No. 158.) An Act to amend an act to establish a new charter for the city of Atlanta, approved February 28, 1874. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section thirty-three of the above recited act be amended by striking out the words, one half in the fourth line of said section and inserting in lieu thereof the words one fourth, so as to make the clause of said section in which said words occur read as follows: And one-fourth of the tax on real estate shall be first set aside for the payment of the floating debt until all is paid. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That in all elections of Police Commissioners hereafter to be made by the Mayor and General Council, two-thirds of the whole number of votes cast shall be necessary to a choice. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CL. (O. No. 159) An Act to ratify and confirm the action of the city of Atlanta in the purchase of a lot on Marietta street, in said city, to be [Illegible Text] to the United States of America, for the [Illegible Text] of public buildings of the United States. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That

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the action of the city of Atlanta, through its Mayor and Council, for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-four, in purchasing a lot on Marietta street, in said city, for the sum of fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of conveying the same to the United States of America, free of cost. for the erection of public buildings, be, and the [Illegible Text] is hereby, ratified and confirmed, and declared of valid legal [Illegible Text] and effect. [Illegible Text] lot for [Illegible Text] ratified. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the said city of Atlanta is hereby authorized to make a deed of conveyance to the United States of America for the purpose indicated. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. [Illegible Text] (O. No. 105.) An Act to [Illegible Text] and confirm the action of the Mayor and Council of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Atlanta in purchasing and taking a transfer to itself of a [Illegible Text] held by the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company of [Illegible Text], Wisconsin, on the State [Illegible Text] building and lot in the city of Atlanta. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the action of the Mayor and Council of the city of Atlanta in purchasing and taking a transfer to itself of a mortgage given by E. N. Kimball to the Northwestern Mutual Insurance Company of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, for sixty thousand dollars (with accrued interest, commissions and cost,) upon the lot and building at present occupied as a State Capitol in the city of Atlanta, [Illegible Text] and the same is hereby, ratified and confirmed, and declared of [Illegible Text] legal force and effect. [Illegible Text] to N. W. Mutual Insurance Co., [Illegible Text] of by Atlanta ratified. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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No. CLII. (O. No. 170.) An Act to suspend so much of an act entitled an act to limit and regulate the assessment and collection of taxes by municipal authorities in this State, except so far as relates to the city of [Illegible Text], approved February 28, 1874, as [Illegible Text] the municipal authorities of the city of Augusta from levying and collecting a tax not to exceed one-half of one per cent. for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, and further to authorize the municipal authorities of said city of Augusta to levy and collect a tax for said year 1875 not to exceed three-fourths ([frac34]) of one per cent. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act so much of the act, entitled an act to limit and regulate the assessment and collection of taxes by the municipal authorities in this State, except so far as relates to the city of Savannah, approved February 28, 1874, as prohibits the municipal authorities of the city of Augusta from levying and collecting a tax not exceeding one half of one per cent. for the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five be, and the same is hereby, suspended, and said municipal authorities are hereby authorized to levy and collect for said year 1875 a tax not to exceed three-fourths of one per cent. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CLIII. (O. No. 207.) An Act to authorize the City Council of Augusta to enter upon and use the ground or soil under any railroad, road, highway, street, lane, alley, or private lot or premises, for the purpose of laying water pipes and enlarging, extending or improving the water works of the city of Augusta, and to provide for the assessment and payment of damages for the same, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the City Council of Augusta, and all persons acting under their [Illegible Text], shall have the right to enter upon and use the ground or soil under any road, railroad, highway, street, lane, alley or private lot or

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premises, for the purpose of laying any pipes or conduits for conveying water into or through the said places, or in any way enlarging, extending or improving the water works of said city: Provided, that said road, railroad, highway, street, lane, alley or private lot or premises be restored, and all damages done thereto be repaired, as far as may be practicable. [Illegible Text] Water pip's, laying of, c. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That if any person, natural or artificial, shall claim any damages or compensation for any work done, or authority exercised as conferred by the first section of this Act, said damages or compensation shall be assessed and paid according to sections forty-three and forty-four of an act entitled an act establishing a new charter for the city of Atlanta, approved February 28, 1871, and in case of any disagreement between said Council and any person interested, the proceeding shall be as prescribed in said section. Compensation for damageshow given. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CLIV. (O. No. 94.) An Act to incorporate the town of Baxley, in this State, and to appoint commissioners for the same, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the town of Baxley, in the county of Appling, be, and the same is hereby, incorporated under the name and style of the town of Baxley. Corporate name. SEC. II. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That B. D. Mobley, J. M. Powell, Phillip Ketterer, W. W. Beach and J. H. Comas be, and they are hereby, appointed Commissioners of the town of Baxley. Commissioners appointed. SEC. III. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of said town shall extend one-half mile in every direction from the railroad depot in said town. Corporate limits, extent of. SEC. IV. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners herein named shall hold their offices until the first Tuesday in January next, or until their successors, to be then elected, shall be elected and qualified. Term of office. SEC. V. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the provision of the New Code of Georgia, contained in sections [Illegible Text] and 797 inclusive, be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to said corporation, and the Commissioners herein named, and that the

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officers elected at the first election shall be as provided in said act. Sections of [Illegible Text] extended to said town. SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 23, 1875. No. CLV. (O. No. 313.) An Act to amend an act to incorporate the town of [Illegible Text], in the county of Mitchell, and to define the incorporate limits of the same, and to provide for the election of President, Councilmen and Marshal for the same, and other purposes, assented to December [Illegible Text], 1858. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act the above recited act be amended as follows, to wit: That the President and Councilmen of the town of Camilla shall have power and authority to tax all houses of business which engage in any mercantile business, and, also, all hotels and boarding houses in said town, said tax not to exceed ten dollars for each place of business, and also to be empowered to tax, not exceeding thirty dollars per annum, all persons who keep livery stables, or who are engaged in hauling for hire with any cart, dray or wagon within the corporate limits of said town of Camilla, said taxes to be assessed and collected as now provided by law for the collection of taxes of said town. [Illegible Text] On [Illegible Text] stables. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, the President and Councilmen of said town of Camilla shall have full and exclusive control of, and jurisdiction over, the public square in said town for all the purposes which they now have over the other property of said town of Camilla. Public [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the incorporate limits of said town shall only extend to a radius of one-fourth of one mile from the court house in said town, and that the road bed of the Atlantic and Gulf Railroad shall be the eastern boundary of said town. Corporate limits. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CLVI. (O. No. 314.) An Act to amend an act to consolidate, amend and supercede the several acts incorporating the town of Carrollton, in the county of Carrell, and to grant certain privileges to the same, approved August 20, 1872. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That section two of said act be so amended as to read as follow: That the corporate limits of said town shall extend one thousand yards in every direction from the court house. Corporate limits. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CLVII. (O. No. 178.) An Act to [Illegible Text], alter and amend the charter, and amendments, of the city of Columbus, so as to allow the Mayor and Council to levy a tax on horses and [Illegible Text] of drovers. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Mayor and Council of the city of Columbus shall have power to impose a tax not to exceed one per cent. on all sales made in said city by drovers of mules and horses in said city. Tax on mules and horses. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CLVIII. (O. No. 356.) An Act to amend the several acts incorporating the city of Covington, in the county of Newton. SECTION I. 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 Council of the city of Covington shall have full power and authority to place upon the public works of said city, any person or persons

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convicted of the violation of the ordinances of said city, when said parties refuse to pay a fine; Provided, said punishment shall not exceed thirty days. Convicts may be worked on streets. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council of said city shall have full power and authority to enforce the collection of street tax, by compelling persons to labor upon the streets or public works of said city. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CLIX. (O. No. 361.) An Act to incorpotate the town of [Illegible Text], in the county of Madison, and to appoint Commissioners for the same, and to point [Illegible Text] the mode of electing Commissioners, and other officers of said [Illegible Text], and to confer certain powers on the Commissioners thereof, and for other purposes therein mentioned. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the town of Danielsville, in the county of [Illegible Text] be, and the same is hereby, incorporated, and the limits of said town shall extend one-half mile in every direction from the court house, in said town. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Willis H. Bennett, D. R. Mosley, A. H. M. Bennett, P. H. Furgerson, and John M. Mathews, be, and they are hereby, appointed Commissioners of said town, who shall, at their first meeting, elect from their body a President, Treasurer, and Clerk, and appoint a Marshal, and all other officers they may think proper, to carry this Act into full execution. And the said President and Commissioners, and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic, under the name and title of the Commissioners of the town of Danielsville, and by that name they are hereby empowered to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any of the courts of this State, and the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, and their successors in office, shall have full power and authority to make all by-laws, rules and regulations, necessary and proper for the government of said town, which are not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and of the United States. Commissioners. President, Treasurer, Clerk and [Illegible Text] to be elected. Commis'rs of Danielsville. May sue [Illegible Text] be sued. By-laws, etc. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners appointed as aforesaid shall hold their offices till the first Saturday in January, 1876, and until their successors

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are elected and qualified; said election shall be held on the first Saturday in January, 1876, and annually thereafter, and all persons within said corporate limits who are by law entitled to vote for Justice of the Peace, and have resided ten days within said corporate limits, shall be electors at said election. Said election shall be conducted by freeholders who reside within said corporate limits, and if from any cause said elections should not be held at the time specified, then it shall be lawful to hold it on any other day the Commissioners or a majority may direct, and in case of a vacancy by death, resignation, or otherwise, said Commissioners shall have power to order an election to fill said vacancy. Said election shall be conducted as herein before specified, ten days notice being first given. Term of office. Electionwhen and how held. Vacancieshow filled SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Commissioners shall have full power to levy such tax on real property, not to exceed one tenth of one per cent. of the State tax) as they may think necessary to advance the interest and promote the [Illegible Text] of the citizens within said corporation. Power to levy tax on real estate. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Commissioners shall have power to impose and collect all fines for violation or infraction of the by laws, rules and regulations which they may [Illegible Text] for the peace, good order and dignity of said town, as well as the [Illegible Text] of the revenue: Provided, said Commissioners shall not impose any fine or fines on persons for offenses which will subject the offender to indictment under the criminal laws of this State, but each Commissioner, during his term of office, is clothed with the authority of an acting Justice of the Peace, so far as to authorize him or any of them within the corporate limits of said town to bind over all persons charged with violating the laws of the State, to answer for such imputed offenses to the court, having cognizance thereof, and to such as are conservators of the peace. Fines for violating ordinances. Proviso. Commissioners [Illegible Text] Justices. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said President and Commissioners shall have power to tax all shows in said town of Danielsville, performing there for the purpose of gain, to tax itinerant traders, to impose a tax upon ten pin alleys, billiard tables, or other sporting tables, and lottery agents, and they shall have power to enforce the collection at any time of said tax, and they shall have power to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors within the corporate limits of said town. Tax on shows. [Illegible Text] traders. Ten pin alleys, etc. Sale of spirituous liquors. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Commissioners shall have power to compel each male inhabitant of said town, between the ages of sixteen and fifty years, to work on the roads and streets in said incorporation, not more than five days at any one time, nor more than fifteen days in each year, and in case that any person or persons subject to street and road duty in said incorporation should fail to work on said streets and roads as required, said Commissioners shall have power to punish such person or persons by fine not to exceed two dollars for each day he

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or they fail to work. Should said person or persons fail to pay said fine or fines, said Commissioners shall have power to punish him or them by imprisonment, not to exceed one day, for each day he or they fail to work, and all persons within the corporate limits of said town shall be exempt from all road and patrol duty without said limits. Street duty. Defaultershow [Illegible Text] with. Residents exempthow. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners shall have power, by their Clerk, to issue execution, or enforce the payment of all taxes, debts due to said corporation in their corporate capacity, bearing test in the name of their President, and be directed to the Marshal, whose duty it shall be to levy said execution on any property belonging to the defendants, that may be found incounty. Executions for taxes. Marshal to enforce. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall have power and authority to dismiss from office said Marshal for failure or neglect to perform the duties of his office, and immediately give notice for the election of a successor, and appoint a Marshal to act in and during the time of all vacancies. Marshal may be [Illegible Text]. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall have permission to use the county jail of Madison county, as a town prison, and that the jailer of Madison county be, and is hereby, required to receive and safely keep all persons committed to his care by said Commissioners, until they are discharged by due course of law, and said jailer shall receive for said services the same compensation as is now provided by law for similar services. [Illegible Text] may be [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That all money that may be collected by said corporation, by virtue of this Act, shall be paid into the hands of Treasurer, to be applied by him as the Commissioners may direct, for the benefit of the citizens of said corporation. [Illegible Text] of money collected. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners shall be allowed the same fees as Justices of the Peace for like services, and the Marshal shall be allowed the same fees which the Sheriff is now allowed by law for like services. Fees of Commissioner. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That the Treasurer shall be required to give bond in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, and that said Commissioners, and all other officers by them appointed, shall, before entering upon the duties of their office, take and subscribe the following oath: I,,do solemnly swear that I will, to the utmost of my ability, discharge the duties of afor the town of Danielsville, during my continuance in office, and that I will support and defend the Constitution of the State, and of the United States. So help me God. Treasurer to give. Oath of office. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall have power to fine or imprison, or both, at their discretion, all persons who shall be guilty of a violation of any of the by-laws,

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rules and regulations of said corporation: Provided, that said fine shall not, for any one offense, exceed the sum of ten dollars, and that the term of imprisonment, for the same, shall not exceed five days. [Illegible Text] SEC. XV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CLX (O. No. 84.) An Act to incorporate the town of Douglasville, in the county of Douglas, and for other purposes. SECTION I. 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 town of Douglasville, in the county of Douglas, be, and the same is hereby, incorporated under the name of the town of Douglasville. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an election shall be held on the first Saturday in March next for a Mayor, a Recorder, and five Aldermen, who shall serve until their successors are elected and qualified. Election for Mayor, Recorder and C'uncilm'n. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of said town shall be as follows, to wit: The center to be a point directly opposite the court house in said town, on the Georgia Western Railroad, thence running along the center of said road each way three fourths of one mile, and extending one-half mile each way from the center of said road, the form of said territory to be an oblong square. Corporate limits. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the provisions of the New Code of Georgia contained in section 774 and 797 inclusive, be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to said corporation, and the officers elected as herein provided. Law made applicable. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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No. CLXI. (O. No. 366.) An Act to repeal an act to change and define the corporate limits of the city of Dawson, in the county of Terrell, in this State, approved March 2, 1874, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited act be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that the corporate limits of said city of Dawson are declared to be the same as prior to the passage of the above recited act. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CLII. (O. No. 176.) An Act to repeal an act to incorporate the town of Dawsonville, in Dawson county, approved August 26, 1872. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited act be, and the same is hereby, repealed. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CLXIII. (O. No. 382.) An Act to change and alter the corporate limits of the town of Eastman, the present county site of the county of Dedge. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 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, the corporate limits of the town of Eastman shall be so changed as to exclude therefrom lot of land No. 310, in the sixteenth district, and lot No. 10, in the fifteenth district, the same being the residences of Martin Livingston and Johanna Lee. Limits changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CLXIV. (O. No. 99.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to continue in force and amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Fairburn, in the counties of Fayette and Campbell, approved February 17, 1854: to extend the corporate limits of said town, provide for the election of a Mayor and four Council members, and [Illegible Text] upon them certain [Illegible Text] powers, and for other purposes herein mentioned. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the corporate limits of the town of Fairburn shall extend and be the circumference of a circle described from the center of the West Point depot, of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, in said town, as a center, with a [Illegible Text] of one-half of one mile. Corporate limits. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate name of said town shall be, the Mayor and Council of the town of Fairburn, and by said name may sue and be sued, and said Mayor and Council are hereby invested with all the powers of said town commissioners. Corporate name. Power [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor shall have power to hear and determine all cases brought before him, in the absence of the other four Council members, and have the full power to see the laws duly executed in said town. And appeals may be taken from the decisions of said Mayor, to a full board of their regular meetings: Provided the party interested shall pay all costs incurred in the trial of the case, and give a good and sufficient bond for his apperance at said meeting. Said costs shall be paid into the treasury of said town, to be paid out by order of the Mayor and Council. Said Mayor shall receive fifty dollars per annum, at the discretion of the Council. Power of Mayor to [Illegible Text] cases. Appeals. [Illegible Text] SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event of a vacancy in said board, by resignation, death or otherwise, said Mayor and Council shall have the right to order an election, by giving notice of the same to the voters of said town, [Illegible Text] the time and place for said election, which election shall be conducted as provided for in other elections of said town. Vacancieshow filled. [Illegible Text]

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SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the first Saturday in January of each year there shall be an election held for Mayor and four Council members. The five receiving the highest number of votes shall be declared elected, and shall receive a certificate of the same at the hands of the managers of said election. [Illegible Text]. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the five Commissioners of said town now in office shall meet as soon after the passage of this Act as practicable, and choose one of their number as Mayor, who shall discharge the duties of such office until their successors are duly elected and qualified. [Illegible Text] SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 23, 1875. No. CLXV. (O. No. 351.) An Act to consolidate, amend and codify the various acts incorporating the city of Forsyth, in the county of Monroe, and the various acts amendatory thereof. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said city shall be known by the corporate name of the Mayor and Council of the city of Forsyth, and by said name may sue and be sued; may have and use a common seal, purchase, take, hold and repair and [Illegible Text] to themselves and their successors in office for the use and benefit [Illegible Text] said city, real and personal property, exchange or sell and [Illegible Text] the same, when and in such manner as they may deem best for [Illegible Text] city, and to make all contracts in their corporate capacity, which they may deem best for the welfare of said city: Provided, the purchase, exchange or sale [Illegible Text] real estate is not to be made until the same is ratified by a majority of the legally qualified voters of said city, at an election to be held under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Mayor and Aldermen of said city. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]

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the laws and ordinances of said city, and all city tax due, shall be entitled to vote at such election, and all persons entitled to vote at such election, and eligible to office according to the Constitution and laws of this State, shall be eligible to hold any office of the said town, at any such election, any Justice of the Peace and two freeholders, [Illegible Text] in the absence of a Justice, any three freeholders resident in said city, and who are not candidates, may act as managers, and shall conduct such election as nearly as practicable in accordance with the election laws of this State. Such managers shall give [Illegible Text] of election to the persons receiving the highest number of votes for their respective offices, which certificate shall be recorded on the minutes of Council, and shall be held to be the highest evidence of the election of such officers. Any person who shall vote more than once at such election, or contrary to the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by imprisonment in the common jail of the county not exceeding six months. [Illegible Text] Who eligible to hold [Illegible Text] Who shall hold election. Certificates of election. Penalty for [Illegible Text] more than once. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event of a vacancy in the office of Mayor or Aldermen, from any cause, the remaining. Aldermen shall order an election to fill such vacancy, for the unexpired term, and notice of such election shall be advertised in two or more public places in said town, or in a newspaper published therein, at least ten days before such election, which election shall be conducted as provided for in section two of this Act. [Illegible Text]. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before entering upon the duties of the aforesaid offices, the persons elected thereto shall take and subscribe the following oath: I, , do solemnly swear that I will, to the best of my ability, discharge the duties of for the city of Forsyth, during my continuance in office. So help me God. Any person authorized by law, or the acting Mayor of said city, may administer said oath. The Mayor and Aldermen, and other officers provided for in this Act, shall hold their offices for one year from the first Monday in January, [Illegible Text] their election, and until their successors are elected and qualified: Provided, nevertheless, that the officers elected by said Mayor and Aldermen shall be liable to removal by a majority vote of the Council, (composed of Mayor and Aldermen,) for [Illegible Text] of duty or malfeasance in office. Oath of Mayor and Aldermen. Term of office. Officers may be removed. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Mayor and Aldermen shall have power to open and improve new streets, upon payment for the land appropriated for the same, according to the mode prescribed by law for opening out new roads under the [Illegible Text] laws of this State, and repair those already open, to provide such public buildings as may be necessary, and for the benefit of said town; to pass ordinances regulating the management of market houses, private and public transportation through the city, bar rooms and saloons licensed by them, public wells and

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pumps; to abate nuisances, public or private, suppress all [Illegible Text] conduct, disorderly houses, and houses of ill fame within said corporate limits; to prevent loud and boisterous conversation quarreling, profanity and obscene language upon the streets, or other public places in the town; to provide for [Illegible Text] living [Illegible Text] and to prevent paupers from being imposed on the town [Illegible Text] Mayor and Aldermen shall have power to enact appropriate ordinances for the accomplishment of all the purposes hereinbefore enumerated, and for the punishment of offenders in relation to any of the matters aforesaid, and all ordinances they may deem necessary for preserving the peace, health, and good order and good government of the city, and to enforce all ordinances by them adopted, not inconsistent with the laws of this State, and to punish any person or persons who shall violate any such ordinances by fine not to exceed fifty dollars, or imprisonment not to exceed twenty days, or work upon the public streets not to exceed twenty daysany one or all, in the discretion of the Council; and it shall be the duties of the Chief of Police, and his assistants, whenever it shall come to the knowledge of either or any of them, that any such ordinances have been violated, to arrest the person or persons when they have reason to believe guilty of such violation, and as soon as convenient, after such arrest, to bring such person or persons before the [Illegible Text], and in his absence, the Mayor pro tem., and in the absence of both, before a majority of the Council, who, when hearing the evidence concerning such violation, shall determine whether or not the person or persons so brought before him or them be guilty of such violation, and if found guilty, the Mayor, or Mayor pro tem., or a majority of the Council, as the case may be, shall adjudge what punishment shall be inflicted upon such guilty person or persons, and the Chief of Police, or his assistants, shall execute such judgment. If it be not convenient for the Chief of Police, or his assistants, to bring any person or persons by him or them arrested immediately before the Mayor, or Mayor pro tem., or a majority of the Council, he or they may temporarily imprison such person or persons so arrested until he or they [Illegible Text] conveniently bring such person or persons so arrested before the Mayor, or Mayor pro tem., or a majority of the Council: Provided, such temporary confinement shall not exceed twenty-four hours; and in the event that any [Illegible Text] person or persons shall be dissatisfied with the judgment of the Mayor, or in his absence, of the Mayor pro tem., he or they shall have the right of appeal to the Council at their next regular meeting, upon giving bond and security for their appearance before said Council, to [Illegible Text] by the final decision of said Council, and the said Council, after hearing all the evidence submitted, shall have power to affirm or [Illegible Text] the decision of the Mayor or Mayor pro tem., and the Mayor, or in his absence the Mayor pro tem., or in the absence of both, a majority of the Council shall have full power to compel the attendance of

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witnesses, under the same rules and regulations as is required for the attendance of witnesses at a Justices' Court. Power to open stre'ts. To provide public buildings. Market [Illegible Text]. Public [Illegible Text]. Nuisances. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] Papers. Ordinances. [Illegible Text] Penalties. Chief of Policeduties of. Mayor's Court. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] Witnesses. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the transaction of all business, except as otherwise provided in this Act, the Mayor and three Aldermen shall constitute a quorum, and the vote of four Aldermen, or of three Aldermen, with the concurrence of the Mayor, shall decide any question which may come before the board. Quorum for business. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of said city shall have authority to call out, or provide for calling out, each and every male person subject to road duty under the laws of this State, who reside within the corporate limits of said city, who shall be compelled to work upon the streets or sidewalks of said city, for the number of days in each year as are now fixed by the road laws of this State, and when any person liable to such street or road duty shall have been notified by the Chief of Police, or any special policemen, either in writing or orally, one day prior to the day of working, to work on said streets, and shall in any way make default by failing to appear at the time and place specified in said notification, or to work, as required by the present road laws of the State, or in any other manner shall make default in relation thereto, such party shall be notified to appear before the Mayor and Aldermen to show cause why he should not be fined for said default; and at the time appointed, the Mayor and Aldermen shall try said defaulter, and if found guilty of said default, they may impose a fine upon such defaulter to the same extent that the road commissioners of this State may fine defaulters under the present road laws of this State, which fine or fines, if not paid within such time as may be fixed by said Mayor and Aldermen, such defaulter may be, by the order of said Mayor and Aldermen, imprisoned in the common jail of the county, not exceeding two days for each dollar of the fine imposed. Said Mayor and Aldermen shall have power to fix by ordinance a commutation tax, or sum of money which, when paid by any person liable to street duty, shall exempt him from any other road or street duty for the year for which it is paid; but no person shall have the right to relieve himself from the penalty of default as aforesaid, by paying, or offering to pay, such commutation tax, without the consent of the Mayor and Aldermen. Streetshow to be worked. Penalties f'r failure to work [Illegible Text]. Street tax in lieu of work. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen shall elect annually at the first regular meeting of Council in January a Mayor pro tem., whose duty it shall be to act as Mayor in all cases in the absence of the Mayor, a Chief of Police, Clerk, Treasurer, and Street Commissioner, and three Assessors, all of said officers to hold their offices under the rules and regulations of the Council of said city. And the Mayor and Aldermen may also appoint a special policeman to serve when in their judgment such appointment may be necessary,

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to be discharged when the emergency has passed, and to be compensated as the Mayor and Council shall determine, and while such appointees are on duty they shall have the same authority in preserving order, and be charged with the same duties, and entitled to the same protection, as the Chief of Police. Election of Mayor pro tem., Chief of Police, Clerk, Treasurer St. [Illegible Text]. Assessors. Special [Illegible Text]. Compensation. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the salaries of all the officers of the city of Forsyth hereafter, as heretofore, shall be fixed by the Mayor and Council at the first regular meeting in October each year previous to the election of Mayor and Aldermen, on the first Wednesday in December, and shall not be changeable during the term of the succeeding Council. Salaries, when and by whom fixed. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen shall have power to levy an ad valorem tax, not to exceed one per cent., upon all the taxable property within the corporate limits of the city, made taxable by the laws of this State, except land used for agricultural purposes, which shall not be subject to any city tax whatever. The valuation of property subject to taxation shall be assessed by three Assessors, who shall be elected by the Mayor and Aldermen at the same time that other officers of the corporation are elected, and shall receive a regular salary, to be fixed at the same time and under the same restrictions as the salaries of the other officers of the city; and the said Assessors shall have the power to adopt as their appraisement the valuation placed on property by parties in making returns to the Receiver of tax returns of the county, or require the tax payers to make returns to them, under oath, of all of his taxable property. Should a difference arise between the Assessors and any tax payer concerning the value of property given in, the Assessors shall have the power to assess the same at their valuation; but any tax payer who may be dissatisfied with the assessment of his or her property, shall have the right of appeal to the Council under such rules and regulations as they may describe. Ad valorem tax. Property exempt. [Illegible Text]. Salary of assessors. Valuation of property. Appeals from assessment. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall fail or refuse to pay the tax imposed according to this Act, the Clerk and Treasurer of said city shall issue an execution, which shall be signed by him and bear test in the name of the Mayor. Said execution shall bind all the property which said defaulting tax payer owned: said city on the day that his property is bound for State and [Illegible Text] taxes in the year in which it is returned for taxation. Such execution shall be directed to and enforced by the Chief of Police of said city; and in case real estate is levied upon, it shall be the duty of the Chief of Police to advertise the sale of the same as Sheriff's sales are now advertised; and the said Clerk shall be entitled to fifty cents cost for each fi. fa. so issued, and the Chief of Police to the same fees as by law Bailiffs of this State are entitled to for levies, and the same commissions for selling as are received by the Sheriffs of this State. Tax execution. Binding on what. How [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. Fees. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the

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Council of the city of Forsyth be, and they are hereby, vested with full and exclusive power to regulate, control and direct the sale of ardent spirits, malt liquors, wines and cider, within the corporate limits of said town, impose such restrictions, charges, conditions and penalties upon the same as they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary and proper, not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State. Sale of [Illegible Text] spirits. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Council shall have authority, in addition to the ad valorem tax hereinbefore provided for, to levy a tax on all billiard tables, ten pin or nine pin alleys, and tables and alleys of any other kind used for the purpose of playing on with balls or pins, or both, within said city, and on all contrivances of whatever kind used for the purpose of [Illegible Text], or carrying on a game of chance by selling cards, tickets or numbers, or by turning a deal or wheel, by using any other artifice or contrivance. They shall also have authority to levy a tax not exceeding one hundred dollars upon all circuses, sleight of hand performances, tricks of legerdemain, and other shows taxed by the laws of this State, which may exhibit within said city, such tax to be for each exhibition, and to be collected, if not voluntarily paid, by execution, levy and sale, as provided in this Act for the collection of other taxes. They shall also have power to grant license to one or more auctioneers, for which the applicant shall pay a sum not exceeding fifty dollars per year; and it any person shall sell goods, merchandise or property within said corporation, at auction, or public outcry, without obtaining such license, shall be punished for each offense by fine not to exceed fifty dollars or imprisonment not to exceed twenty days, or work upon the streets not to exceed twenty days, any one or all in the [Illegible Text] of the Mayor, Mayor pro tem., and in their absence, of the remainder of the Council: Provided, that nothing in this Act contained shall be so construed to extend to any judicial sale, executors', administrators' or guardians' sale, or to prevent resident citizens from vending at auction their own property. The Council may provide also for the manner in which any of the special taxes authorized by this charter, and any of the licenses herein provided for, may be issued and used, and any person violating the provisions of this Act, or the ordinances enacted in accordance therewith, shall be dealt with as set forth in this section. Special taxes. Licenses. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Clerk and Treasurer shall receive all moneys due the city from any and all sources, and pay the same out upon orders drawn by the Council, said orders being countersigned by the Mayor, or in his absence, by the Mayor pro tem. The said Clerk and Treasurer shall keep a book which shall at all times be subject to inspection by the Council, or any person holding an order upon him, which book shall show what amount of money remains in his hands and from what sources received, and what moneys have been by

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him disbursed, and upon what account, and shall preserve all orders by him paid off as vouchers for disbursements, and he shall do and perform all other duties relative to the finances of the town prescribed by ordinances of the Council, and in the manner prescribed: Provided, such ordinances are not inconsistent with this Act, and shall perform all clerical duties and other duties assigned him by the Council, as well as the duty herein before assigned him, and shall be guided in the performance of his duties by the ordinances of Council not in conflict with this Act, or the laws of this State. MoneyClerk and Treasurer to receive. Book to be kept. [Illegible Text] Duty of Clerk. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Chief of Police and special policemen shall, in addition to the duties hereinbefore imposed upon the Chief of Police, perform such other duties in the sphere of their duties, as may be assigned them by the Council, in [Illegible Text] with the provisions of this charter, and ordinances of Council, not inconsistent herewith. Chief of Police and special [Illegible Text]duties of. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Clerk and Treasurer, and Chief of Police, shall execute a bond, with at least two good and solvent sureties, to be approved by the Council, in the sum of not less than two thousand dollars, said bond to be made payable to the Mayor and Aldermen, and their successors in office, conditioned for the faithful performance of their respective duties. Such bond must be given before the said officers enter upon the duties of their respective offices, and the principal and sureties thereon may be sued on said bond for any default in reference to the finances of the city made by the officer giving said bond, as soon as said default shall be ascertained, and recovery can be had and enforced as upon other judgments rendered by the courts of this State; and any officer who shall fail to pay over any funds in his hands belonging to the town, according to law and the ordinances of Council, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished as is prescribed in section 4310 of the new Code of Georgia. Bond of Chief Clerk and [Illegible Text]. Amount [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Clerk and Treasurer, or Chief of Police, upon failure to comply with any duty assigned them by this charter, or the ordinances consistent therewith, may be removed from office by the Council; they shall also be subject to removal for any misconduct or malfeasance in office, and there shall be no appeal from the decision of Council upon any question of removal. [Illegible Text] SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Chief of Police shall not retain in his hands any funds by him collected for said city for more than one week, but said Chief of Police shall pay over to the Clerk and Treasurer any and all money collected by him for the city within one week from the date of the collection, and, upon failure to do so, shall be subject to removal [Illegible Text] the discretion of the Council. Chief to pay over money collected. SEC. XIX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That until ordinances and by-laws shall be adopted in conformity with

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this charter, those now in force, not inconsistent herewith, shall remain of force. [Illegible Text] SEC. XX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the organization of the city government shall remain as it now is, except as it may be changed to conform with this charter, until the first annual election under this charter; but the officers of said city shall be governed by and conform to the provisions of this charter, so far as the same may be practicable, and any ordinance or by law that may be adopted in conformity to this charter shall be of force and take effect from and after the same shall have been published in two public places in said city for five days, or after one [Illegible Text] in a newspaper published in said city. Present city governme't. SEC. XXI. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council of said city shall have power to make all needful rules and regulations as to cemeteries located within the corporate limits of said city, and to pass such laws as may be necessary for their protection, repairs and improvement. Cemeteries. SEC. XXII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Mayor and Council shall have power to establish and fix fire limits, and from time to time, in their discretion, to extend and [Illegible Text] the same within, which fire limits when so established, it shall not be lawful for any one to erect other than fire proof buildings or structures of any kind whatever, and should any one erect, or cause to be erected, within such fire limits so established, any buildings or other structures of any kind other than fire-proof, the said Mayor and Council, after giving five days notice, shall cause the same to be removed at the expense of the owners of such buildings, or other structures, to be collected by execution, as in other cases, and said Mayor and Council shall have power to determine what buildings, or other structures are or are not [Illegible Text] proof; this section shall not be varied in favor of any person or persons whatever: Provided, this Act shall only go into operation after having been approved of by a majority of the ad valorem tax payers at an election to be ordered for that purpose by the present town Council within thirty days after the said Act shall have been approved by the Governor. Fire limits. Fire-proof buildings. Proviso. People to vote on this charter. SEC. XXIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875.

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No. CLXVI. (O. No. 262.) An Act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Fort Valley, in the county of Houston, to define the limits of the same, and to repeal all [Illegible Text] acts incorporating the same or amendatory [Illegible Text]. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 12 of the above recited Act be so amended as to read: that the Mayor, and, in his absence, any one Alderman of said town, etc., etc. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the Fort Valley [Illegible Text] be included within the corporate limits of said town: Provided, that nothing within this Act shall interfere with section 2 of the above recited act, approved February 22, 1873. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CLXVII. (O. No. 265.) An Act to amend the several acts heretofore passed incorporating and conferring powers on the Mayor and Council of the city of Griffin. SECTION I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That the salary of the Mayor of the city of Griffin shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars per annum. The salaries of Marshal and Deputy Marshal, each, shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars, exclusive of fees appertaining to said offices. The salary of Clerk and Treasurer of said city shall not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars per annum, exclusive of fees appertaining to said office: Provided, said fees of either said Marshals, or Clerk and Treasurer, shall, in no event, be paid out of the city treasury; but if the same are not collectable out of the parties, then the same may be paid out of fines and penalties imposed by said Mayor and Council and, provided further, said Mayor and Council shall have no authority, by extra compensation, to [Illegible Text] the salaries of the officers mentioned. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Fees. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council of the city of Griffin, in assessing and levying taxes upon the property within the corporate limits of said city, for ordinary current expenses, shall not exceed one-half of one per cent.; for extraordinary expenses of said city, including payment of the city debt, and any interest maturing thereon, the tax levied upon the property aforesaid, shall not exceed three fourths of one per cent. [Illegible Text]

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a registration of the legal voters of said city shall be made annually, before the Clerk of said City Council, under such rules and regulations as the Mayor and Council may prescribesaid registration to commence not more than twenty, and be completed in at least ten, days before the annual election held in said city. Said registration shall be open and public, at the city hall in said city, and the books thereof be subject to public inspection at any time, and should any dispute arise as to the right of any person to register, the same shall be determined by said Mayor and Council, prior to said election. For making said registration, the Clerk of Council shall have such compensation as said Mayor and Council may deem just and adequate, out of the city treasury. Registrati'n of voters to be made. Rules of. When to commence. Where to be opened. Right to [Illegible Text][Illegible Text] shall determine Compensat'n for Cl'k. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council shall submit to the qualified voters of said city, at an election to be held on a day to be fixed by them, to be conducted as elections usually are in said city, the question of public schools. Those favoring public schools, to write on their ballots public schools, and those opposed writing no public schools, and on counting said ballots, if it appear that one-third of said ballots cast are no public schools, then the act to recognize and make valid and legal the Board of Public Education appointed by the City Council of Griffin, etc., approved 28th February, 1874, shall [Illegible Text], and be no longer of any force or effect in said city limits, and which fact the Mayor shall announce by proclamation: Provided, nothing herein contained shall prevent the Mayor and Council from collection and payments to said Board of Trustees of Public Education in said city taxes already levied to discharge [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] incurred, or contracts made for public schools already entered into. Question of public [Illegible Text] to be submitted [Illegible Text] vote of people. Bullots. Result of election to be published. Effect of. [Illegible Text]. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CLXVIII. (O. No. 352.) An Act to [Illegible Text], amend and supersede the several acts incorporating the town of Hamilton, in the county of Harris, and to grant certain privileges to the same. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the following shall be taken and received as the charter of the town of Hamilton, Harris county, Georgia, and that the name and style of

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the Intendant and Commissioners, now in office in said town, shall be changed to that of Mayor and Councilmen. Charter. Mayor and [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of said town shall extend from the court-house one mile on the Columbus road; six hundred and fifty yards on the Blue Spring road; three quarters of a mile on the LaGrange and Whitesville roads; seven hundred and fifty yards on the Goodman's Cross Roads; seven hundred and fifty yards on the Greeneville road; six hundred and fifty yards on the Valley Plains road, and to the creek on the Hood's Mill road; and that the lines connecting these points shall be the limits of said town, and shall be so run as to include within said limits the residence of F. S. Howard, B. H. Williams and the hospital building. Corporate limits. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the municipal government of said town of Hamilton shall be vested in a Mayor and four Councilmen, to be elected as hereinafter prescribed; that they and their successors in office are hereby constituted a body corporate, under the name and style of Mayor and Council of Hamilton, that they shall have perpetual succession, shall have a common seal, be capable in law and equity to purchase, have, hold, receive, enjoy and retain to them and their successors, for the use and benefit of said town, any estates, real or personal, of whatever kind or nature, and shall, by said name, be capable to sue and be sued in any court of law or equity in this State. Body corporate. Name and style. General powers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Councilmen shall be elected by ballot, on the first Saturday in January of each year, and any person shall be eligible to the office of Mayor or Councilman, or shall be entitled to vote in the election for said officers, who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State, who have resided within the limits of said town for thirty days prior to the day of election, and who have paid all municipal taxes for the year previous to the day of the election. Said election shall be ordered by the Mayor, and any two freeholders in said town are hereby authorized to hold said election, and in the event that no election is held at the proper time, those holding the offices of Mayor and Councilmen of said town shall hold their offices until their successors are elected and qualified, and in the event of a vacancy in the office of Mayor or Councilmen from any cause, the other members shall have the power, and it shall be their duty to fill the vacancy by appointing any person qualified to hold said vacant office. Mayor and [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That illegal voting at any election held in said town for Mayor and Councilmen, shall be punished in the same manner as illegal voting [Illegible Text] any election for members of the General Assembly. Illegal voting. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Councilmen, within twenty days after their election, shall, before [Illegible Text] upon the duties of their office, be required to take the following

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oaths: That I, A. B., do solemnly swear that I will, to the best of my ability, discharge the duties of Mayor or Councilman (as the case may be) of the town of Hamilton. Oath of office. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have power to appoint a Marshal, Clerk, Treasurer, and such other officers as may be deemed necessary to carry into effect the powers herein granted; but they may, at their discretion, consolidate two or more of said offices, and shall have power to prescribe the oaths, duties and compensation of said officers; to remove the same from office for neglect of duty or bad conduct; to require of them bonds, which may, on breach of the same, be sued in the Superior Court of Harris county, and the amounts recovered in said suits shall go into the town treasury. But said officers, unless sooner removed, or they resign, shall hold their office for one year, or until their successors are appointed and qualified. Marshal, Clerk and Treasurer. Oath and bond. Term of office. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to levy and collect a tax upon all property, [Illegible Text] and personal, within the corporate limits of said town, subject to State and county tax, including the property of non residents, to levy and collect a tax upon all shows, and persons exhibiting anything or performing as showman for the purpose of gain, and upon all dogs within the limits of said town; Provided, that no tax upon real or personal property shall exceed one-half of one per cent. upon the value thereof. Taxgen'l. Special. Limit. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of all tax-payers and owners of taxable property within said town, to make annual returns, under oath, to the Clerk of the Council in said town, at such time as the Council may limit, of the value of all their taxable property in said town, held in their own right or in the right of others, and in case any person or persons shall refuse or fail to make such returns, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Council to assess the property of such person or persons, and affix such value as he may deem correct and just, and the tax upon said property shall be doubled. Annual returns for taxation. Clerk to [Illegible Text]when. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That when any person refuses or neglects to pay any fine or any tax which may be assessed against, or imposed upon, him by the Mayor and Council of said town, the Clerk of the Council shall issue an execution against such person, which shall be signed by the Clerk, and bear test in the name of said Mayor, and be directed to the Marshal of said town, commanding him forthwith to levy upon the goods, chattels, lands and tenements of said defendant or defendants, or so much thereof as shall be sufficient to satisfy the demand and cost, which execution shall bind all the property of the defendants from the date thereof of said execution, and shall be enforced in the same manner as other executions are enforced. [Illegible Text] for fine or tax. Levy and sale under tax fi. [Illegible Text]. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That no person or persons shall be allowed to vend any spirituous liquors in said town, except for

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medicinal or mechanical purposes, without first obtaining a license from the Mayor and Council of said town, which license shall be granted to said applicant upon his paying not less than fifty, nor more than one thousand dollars, for one year, to said Mayor and Council, and said applicant shall take the oath, and give the bond, with sufficient sureties, now required by law to be given to the Ordinary in such cases. And the said Mayor and Council shall also grant license to any person or persons who may wish to keep a billiard or pool table or tables, or any other table upon which any game is played, or ten-pin alley, upon the applicants paying to the said Mayor and Council the sum of not less than fifty nor more than one thousand dollars; and said Mayor and Council shall have power to tax all other houses of amusement, or pastime. And for every violation of any provision of this section the person or persons so offending shall pay a fine of not less than twenty-five nor more than one thousand dollars for every such offense; and all moneys arising from the sources contemplated in this section shall go into the treasury of said town, and constitute a fund for town purposes, to be controlled and disbursed by said Mayor and Council for the benefit of said town. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] taxes. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That any person who shall sell or furnish any spirituous liquors to a person under the age of twenty-one years, in said town, without the consent of the parent or guardian of such minor, shall be fined not less than twenty-five, nor more than one hundred dollars, for each and every offense. [Illegible Text]. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have power to impose fines not exceeding the sum of twenty-five dollars, to imprison in the common jail of the county of Harris, or other place of imprisonment designated by said Mayor or Council, for any time not longer than twenty days, any person or persons shooting guns or pistols, using vulgar or indecent language within the hearing of ladies, quarreling or fighting, loud cursing, or doing any other act, within said town, which tends to the annoyance or disturbance of the citizens thereof. Fines for using [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. SEC XIV. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Councilmen shall be, as to crimes, ex officio Justices of the Peace to all intents and purposes, and shall have the right to hold meetings, at their discretion, at such times and places as they may select, and the Mayor and two Councilmen, or any three of the Councilmen, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of any business of said body. [Illegible Text]. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks and cross-walks of said town, and shall [Illegible Text], pave, and keep in good order and repair said streets, roads, alleys, sidewalks and cross-walks, and drains, for the use of the public, and to have the same kept free from all obstruction on or over them, to regulate

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the width of sidewalks on the streets, to protect places of divine worship in and about the premises where held, and to prevent injury or annoyance to the public, or individuals, from any cause whatever: Provided, that the damages, if any, sustained by the owner or owners of land or other property by reason of the opening, changing, widening or extension of any street or road, shall be ascertained and assessed by three appraisers, one of whom shall be chosen by the owner or owners, one by the Mayor and one by the Ordinary of the county, and the award of said appraisers shall be paid by said Mayor and Council to the party or parties so damaged. [Illegible Text]. Proviso. Award. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor and Council shall have authority to compel all persons residing within the corporate limits of said town, liable to road duty by the laws of this State, to work on the streets, roads and sidewalks of said town, for any time not longer than fifteen days, under such regulations as said Mayor and Council may by ordinance prescribe, but said hands shall be subject to road duty only within the incorporation, and said Mayor and Council shall prescribe a sum not exceeding ten dollars as commutation in lieu of such duty, and have power to fine not less than one nor more than three dollars per day, or imprison for any time not longer than ten days, any person who shall refuse or neglect to work, or pay the amount prescribed in lieu thereof. Street duty Commutation for [Illegible Text] work. SEC. XVII. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor shall be the chief executive officer of said town, he shall take care that the orders, by-laws, ordinances, acts and resolutions of the Council are faithfully executed. He shall be ex-officio Justice of the Peace within said town, shall within the same, possess and exercise all the powers and duties vested by law as a Justice of the Peace. Mayor ch'f ex. officer. Powers and duties. He shall have control of the police of said town, and may appoint special police officers whenever he deems it necessary, and it shall be his duty especially to see that the peace and good order of said town are preserved, and that persons and property therein are protected, and to this end he may cause the arrest and detention of all riotous and disorderly persons in said town before issuing his warrant therefor. Control of police. Arrest of [Illegible Text]. He shall have power to issue executions for all fines, penalties and cost imposed by him, or he may require the immediate payment thereof, and in default of such payment he may commit the party in default to the jail of Harris county, or other place of imprisonment within the corporation, until the fine or penalty or cost shall be paid, but the term of imprisonment in such case shall not exceed ten days. In the absence from said town or [Illegible Text] of the Mayor, or during any vacancy in the office of Mayor, any one of the Councilmen, selected by the majority, shall perform his duties and be invested with all his powers. Executions for fines, c. In default of payment, party to be [Illegible Text]. SEC. XVIII. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor, Marshal and Clerk of said town shall each receive such compensation for

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their services as may be fixed by the Council, which shall not be increased or diminished during their term of office. Marshal Clerk, [Illegible Text]. SEC. XIX. Be it further enacted, That the Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to make and pass and enforce all needful orders, by-laws, ordinances, rules and regulations necessary for the good government, quiet and good order of said town, not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this State, and to prescribe, impose and enact reasonable fines, penalties and imprisonments in the county jail, or other place of imprisonment in said incorporation for a term not exceeding ten days for a violation thereof. [Illegible Text]. Fines, penalties, etc. SEC. XX. Be it further enacted, That all warrants and summons, and executions, issued by the authority of said Mayor and Council, shall be served and returned by said Marshal in the same manner as the same are served and returned by lawful Constables of said State, and said Marshal shall be ex-officio Constable, so far as respects the duties of his office, and shall receive the same costs upon warrants, summons and executions as Constables of this State, And he shall have authority to summons a posse in arresting all disorderly persons, and any person refusing to obey such summons shall be fined any sum not exceeding ten dollars. Warrant, cMarshal to serve. Power to summon [Illegible Text]. SEC. XXI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CLXIX. (O. No. 348.) An Act to confer additional powers upon the Mayor and Council of the city of LaGrange, and for other purposes mentioned therein. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the Mayor and Council of the city of LaGrange shall, at their first meeting after their annual election on the first Wednesday in May, proceed to elect by ballot two Assessors, who shall remain in office until a new election for Mayor and Council, and the pay of said Assessors shall be regulated by the laws and ordinances of said Mayor and Council. Assessorselection and pay. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said two Assessors, together with the Clerk of the City Council, shall form a Board of Assessors, whose duty it shall be to assess the value of all the real estate lying within the corporate limits of said [Illegible Text], and which said Assessors shall make a return to said Mayor and Council by the first day of August in each year; and said [Illegible Text] and Council shall place such assessments so returned in the

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hands of the Tax Receiver of said city, who shall enter the same in his books with other taxes, and the same shall be collected as other taxes of said city: Provided, that if any citizen shall consider his property assessed at too high a valuation, he shall have the right of appeal to the Mayor and Council. Duty of assessors. To make [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text] Tax [Illegible Text] to be entered in books of [Illegible Text] Appeal from [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Assessors, before they enter upon the discharge of their duties, shall take and subscribe an oath before the Mayor to faithfully and truly assess all real estate in the corporate limits of said city subject to taxation, and to return the same to the Mayor and Council with the name of the owner thereof. Oath of assessors. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the act approved March 3, 1856, as exempts from taxation any realty in said city, is hereby repealed. Exemptions repealed. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Marshal of said city shall have authority to advertise and sell any real or personal property in said city, under tax fi. fas. said sales to be conducted as Sheriff's now areand in case of the sale of real estate, the said Marshal shall make titles to the purchaser in the same manner that Sheriffs are authorized to make titles under the laws of the State, and be entitled to the same fees allowed by law to Sheriffs. Sales under tax fi. fas, Titles to property sold. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor, or Mayor and Council, shall have full power and authority to sentence any person or persons who may be found guilty of a violation of any of the ordinances of said city, to work upon the streets of said city: Provided, however, no sentence shall be for a longer period than thirty days. Offenders against ordinanceshow dealt with. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. No. CLXX. (O. No. 128.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to amend the charter of the city of Macon, and the laws relating thereto, so far as to [Illegible Text] the Mayor and Council of said city from the issue of change bills the increase of the bonded debt of the city, the borrowing of [Illegible Text] on the faith and credit of the city, and the levy or collection of [Illegible Text] on the real or personal property within the corporate limits of [Illegible Text] city in excess of one per cent. upon its fair and market value in [Illegible Text] one year, approved March 2, 1874, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do [Illegible Text] That for and during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five, [Illegible Text] be lawful for the Mayor and Council of the city of Macon

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levy and collect an ad valorem tax upon the property, real and personal, subject to taxation in said city, of one and one quarter per cent. Tax of 1 per cent. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall not go into effect until the same shall be ratified by a majority of the legal voters of said city, who shall vote at an election to be ordered for that purpose by the Mayor of said city. This Act to be voted on by people. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if this Act shall be so ratified by the majority of the legal voters of said city, it shall not be construed to authorize the said increased rate of taxation for a longer time than during the year eighteen hundred and seventy-five. This Act to apply only to 1875. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to repeal, alter, or amend any part of an act to limit and regulate the assessment and collection of taxes by municipal authorities in this State, except so far as relates to the city of Savannah, approved February 28, 1874. This Act n't to repeal general law on same subject. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CLXXI. (O. No. 118.) An Act to amend the Charter of the town of Marshallville, in the county of Macon: SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Mayor and Council of the town of Marshallville, in the county of Macon, be, and are hereby, authorized and required to provide for the registration of votes prior to the annual municipal election in said town. Registra'ton of voters. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That books of registry shall be opened sixty days immediately preceding said election, and remain open at least forty daysof which public notice shall be givenand all persons entitled to vote shall be permitted to register, and no person shall be allowed to vote unless registered as aforesaid; and said Mayor and Council shall have power and authority to make all needful rules and regulations to enforce the foregoing provisions. Books of registration to be opened. Who may vote. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. CLXXII. (O. No. 326.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Rockmart, in Polk county, approved August 26, 1872. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Council of the town of Rockmart shall have the power to levy a tax of one-half of one per cent. on all real and personal property in said town of Rockmart, now subject to taxation. Tax on property. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Council shall have power to assess and collect the license tax on the retail of spirituous liquors, as high as five hundred dollars, and to fix the amount of license for the sale of spirituous liquors in [Illegible Text] not less than a quart, nor more than one gallon. Retail [Illegible Text] lic'nse. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the ordinary of said county of Polk shall not have power to grant license for the sale of spirituous liquors, in quantities less than one gallon, within three miles of the public square in said town of Rockmart. Ordinary may not grant licensewhere. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor of said town shall have power to enforce the payment of fines, or the performance of labor by imprisonment in the common guard-house of said town, not exceeding thirty days. Payment of fines, etc.,how enforced. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Council of said town shall have the power to elect a Mayor pro tem., and that in the absence of the Mayor and Mayor pro tem., or the refusal of either to act, any member of the Council may act as Mayor. Mayor pro tem. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council of said town shall have the power to levy and collect, by fieri facias, if necessary, a specific tax for each year, upon all professions, avocations, or callings, within the limits of said town. Specific taxes. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CLXXIII. (O. No. 143.) An Act to authorize the Mayor and Council of Rome to compromise and contract with all parties holding bonds or other securities issued by former Mayors and Councils of said city of Rome, and to issue new bonds in lieu thereof, and to provide by taxation to pay the same, and to prohibit the Mayor and Council from issuing any other bonds except for the purposes aforesaid, until all of said new bonds shall have been paid, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Mayor and Council of the city of Rome are hereby authorized and empowered to compromise with the holders of the bonds of the city of Rome heretofore issued, and in exchange for the amount agreed upon, to issue new bonds bearing interest at the rate of seven per cent., payable semi-annually. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council of the city of Rome shall levy a tax, each and every year, sufficient to pay all interest that may become due on said new bonds, and to raise a sinking fund that will retire the principal of said bonds at the time agreed upon in said compromise: Provided, however, that said rate of taxation shall not exceed one per cent. ad valorem per annum. [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council of the city of Rome are prohibited and enjoined from issuing any other bonds or securities for any purpose whatever, except as aforesaid, and for the purposes aforesaid. [Illegible Text] of other [Illegible Text] prohibited. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case the said Mayor and Council, after said new bonds are given, shall fail to pay any of the coupons as they mature, or bonds as they fall due, the holders of the bonds or coupons shall have the right to enforce the contract and collection of taxes herein before named by writ of mandamus, and should the Mayor and Council seek to avoid said writ by resignation or otherwise, or in any other manner impede or delay the levy, or attempt to impede or delay the collection of said tax, then the Judge of the Superior Court of Floyd county, to whom application may be made, shall appoint three competent assessors, residing in said city, who shall levy and collect said taxes and pay over to the holders of said new bonds the sum or sums to which they may be respectively entitled, and the authority, powers and duties of said assessors shall be the same in all respects as now appertain to the officers authorized by the charter of said city of Rome to assess, levy and [Illegible Text] taxes in said city, and that their compensation shall be the same [Illegible Text] allowed to assessors and collectors of taxes under the laws of this State. Powers to enforce payment [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text].

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SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the powers herein granted to contract a compromise shall cease and determine on the first day of November, 1875, but not in any manner to affect the rights and equities of those who compromise their claim and accept the provisions of this Act. Power to compromise to ceasewhen. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the provisions of this Act shall be operative only after the compromise proposed by the Mayor and Council under and by virtue of the same shall be voted for by a majority of the qualified voters of said city of Rome at an election to be held as provided for in the next section of this Act. [Illegible Text] to be voted upon by people. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Council of said city of Rome shall advertise once a week for four weeks in the newspapers published in said city, the compromise proposed to be entered into with the [Illegible Text] of the city under this Act, and the said Mayor and Council shall order an election giving thirty days' notice thereof in said newspapers, for the sole purpose of submitting to the said qualified voters of the said city the said compromise proposed under this Act; those favoring said compromise shall have endorsed upon their tickets for the compromise, those opposing the same shall have endorsed upon their tickets against the compromise. If a majority of the voters at said election shall vote for the compromise, the Mayor and Council are authorized to enter into and perfect the same under the provisions and restrictions of this Act. If a majority of said voters vote against the same, the said Mayor and Council shall have no authority so to do. Proposed compromise to be advertisedhow. Notice of election. Form of votes. Compr'mise to be effectedwhen. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CLXXIV. (O. No. 185.) An Act to alter and amend an act to amend an act for the [Illegible Text] regulation and government of the town of Sparta, in the county of Hancock, and the acts amendatory thereof, and for other purposes, approved December 9, 1871. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That an act to amend an act for the better regulation and government of the town of Sparta, in the county of Hancock, and the acts amendatory thereof, and for other purposes, approved 9th of December, 1871, be so amended as to strike out, after the

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words, and from and after the passage of this act no person, the following words: except the licensed druggists. Sale of [Illegible Text] prohibited. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the Commissioners of the village of Sparta may, in their discretion, impose fines on offenders against the laws of said town, not to exceed, in any case, the sum of one hundred dollars, or imprison said offenders in the calaboose of said town, not to exceed thirty days, or work said offenders on the streets of said town during said term of imprisonment, under the supervision of the Marshal of said town. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. NOTE.The act amended by the first section of this Act allowed licensed druggists to sell [Illegible Text]. No. CLXXV. (O. No. 338.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the town of St. Mary's, and the several acts amending the same. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from [Illegible Text] after the passage of this Act, an act entitled an act to amend an act to incorporate the town of St. Mary's, and the several acts amending the same, shall be so amended as to authorize the Governor, on the first Monday in April next, and every three years thereafter, to appoint a Mayor and five Aldermen, whose term of office shall last for three years. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] appoint Mayor and Aldermen. Term of office. Said Aldermen shall have power to elect a Mayor pro tem., who shall act in the absence of the Mayor. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor shall have power to hold his courts daily, for the violation of any of the city ordinances, under the same rules and regulations as are now prescribed for holding said courts. Mayor's Court. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said Mayor is, by virtue of this Act, made ex officio Justice of the Peace, and clothed with all the power given by the laws creating the same. Mayor ex officio J. P. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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No. CLXXVI. (O. No. 41.) An Act to repeal an act to incorporate the town of Sylvania, in the county of Screven, approved 7 th December, 1866, and to confer and extend all the provisions of the act of 1872, contained in sections 774 and 797 inclusive of the Code of Georgia, to the corporate authorities of said town of Sylvania, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the act of 7th December, 1866, incorporating the town of Sylvania, and all acts amendatory thereof be, and the same are hereby, repealed, and that all the provisions of sections 774 and 797 inclusive of the Code of Georgia, be and they are hereby extended to, and conferred upon the corporate authorities of the said town of Sylvania. act incorporating repealed. Sections of Code conferred on corporate authorities. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the present Commissioners of said town are hereby authorized to act as such, until their successors are elected and qualified, and that the first election under this Act shall be held on the first Thursday in January next, as provided for in section 781 of the Code of Georgia. Present commissioners to acthow long. Electionwhen held. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners of said town, or the Mayor and Council to be hereafter elected, shall have the power, in addition to the powers conferred upon them by section 789 of the Code, to refuse to grant licenses to sell spirituous liquors and to prohibit the sale thereof. Licenses to sell liquor may be refused. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 20, 1875. No. CLXXVII. (O. No. 335.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Talbotton, and to extend the limits of the same, and to repeal all laws in relation to said town in conflict with this Act, approved December 20, 1860. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 10 of the above recited act be amended by

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adding after the words ten days the clause: or to work on the streets in said town twenty days. Street duty. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. No. CLXXVIII. (O. No. [Illegible Text].) An Act to incorporate the town of Tennelle, in the county of Washington, and to appoint Commissioners for the same, to define the corporate limits of said town, and to confer certain powers upon the officers of said corporation. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the inhabitants living in the town of Tennelle, within one-quarter of a mile in each and every direction from the depot of the Central Railroad, in said town, and those who may hereafter live within said limits, be, and are hereby, made a body corporate under the name and style and title of the town of Tennelle, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this State; may have and use a common seal. [Illegible Text] incorporated. Town of Tennelle. Several powers. Seal. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That so much of the Code as may be included from section 774 to 796, and not inconsistent with the foregoing, be, and the same is hereby, declared a part of this charter, and the powers therein contained are hereby conferred upon the authorities therein provided for. Laws [Illegible Text] applicable. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in May, 1875, and on the first Saturday in every May thereafter, there shall be an election for an Intendant and four Aldermen, held in said town of Tennelle, said Intendant and Aldermen to hold office for one year, and before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take and subscribe to an oath to discharge the duties of their office faithfully and honestly. Said election to be conducted by a Magistrate and two freeholders, and no person to be entitled to a vote at said election, except those who have resided in said town at least ten days before the election, and to possess all other qualifications requisite for an election for members of the General Assembly. Election for Intendant and Aldermen. Term. Oath of office. Electionby whom conducted. Who may vote. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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No. CLXXIX. (O. No. 47.) An Act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Thomson, in the county of Columbia, now McDuffie, and for other purposes, approved December 16, 1859. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section fifth (5th) of said act be, and the same is hereby amended so as to read as follows: That the President of said Board of Commissioners shall be the chief executive officer of the town; shall have power, and be authorized to hold by himself, police courts for the trial of parties charged with violation of the ordinances of the town, and to impose the penalties fixed therein for violations of the same; he shall take care that the orders, by-laws, ordinances, acts and resolutions are faithfully executed; he shall be ex-officio Justice of the Peace within the town, and shall, within the same, possess and exercise all the powers vested by law as a Justice of the Peace, so far as to authorize him within the corporate limits of said town, to bind over all persons charged with violating the laws of the State, to answer for such alleged offense, to the court having cognizance therein; he may appoint special police officers to assist the Marshal whenever he deems it necessary, and it shall be his duty, especially, to see that the peace and good order of the town are preserved, and that persons and property therein are protected. He shall have power to issue executions for all fines, penalties and costs imposed by him, or he may require the immediate payment thereof, and in default of such payment, he may commit the party in default to the jail of the county until the fine, or penalty, or costs shall be paid, but the term of imprisonment in such cases shall not exceed thirty day. In the absence from the town of the President, or in case of his sickness, any one of the Commissioners who may be selected by the President shall pro tempore perform his duties, and be invested with all his powers. Chief executive officer Powers and duties. Ex officio J. P. May bind over. May appoint special police. Shall preserve peace. May enforce payment of fines. President pro tem. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the President, Clerk and Marshal of the town shall each receive such compensation for their services as may be fixed by the Commissioners. Compensation of officers. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 22, 1875.

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No. CLXXX. (O. No. 113.) An Act to amend the charter of Toccoa, in the county of Habersham. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That the charter granted by the Superior Court of the county of Habersham to Toccoa, in said county, on the Air-Line Railroad, be, and is hereby, confirmed, established and made valid, and it is hereby declared and established that such persons shall vote at all municipal elections, as have the right to vote in State and county elections in the county of Habersham, and shall also have resided in Toccoa for the term of thirty days, with the intention of making the same their home. Charter confirmed. Who may vote. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, and it is hereby declared and established, That the corporate limits of Toccoa shall be three fourths of a mile from the public square in every direction. Corporate limits. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CLXXXI. (O. No. 169.) An Act to prevent the shooting or firing of guns or pistols in the village of Vineville, in the county of Bibb. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to discharge, fire or shoot off any gun or guns, pistol or pistols (except military salutes, and persons discharging, firing or shooting guns or pistols on their own premises, or on the premises of another, with the permission of the owner thereof,) within three hundred yards of any part or portion of the public road running through the village of Vineville, in the county of Bibb, known as the Forsyth road, commencing at the Vineville branch, and ending at a point in said road opposite the old Laboratory buildings. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who shall violate the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall, for each and every offense, be fined in a sum not exceeding twenty-five dollars, one-half of which amount shall go to the informer: Provided, that there shall be no conviction under this Act until the citizens of Vineville shall give notice of the passage of the same in one of the daily papers of the city of Macon for at least five days. [Illegible Text] Proviso. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CLXXXII. (O. No. 268.) An Act to amend an act to incorporate the town of Warrenton, in Warren county, and to provide for the election of Commissioners for the same, and to amend the charter of the city of Atlanta, and for other purposes therein mentioned, approved December 12, 1859, in so far as it relates to the town of Warrenton. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That an act to incorporate the town of Warrenton, in Warren county, and to provide for the election of Commissioners for the same, and to amend the charter of the city of Atlanta, and for other purposes therein mentioned, approved December 12, 1859, be, and is hereby amended, in so far as said act relates to the town of Warrenton, by striking out in the thirteenth line of section 8 of said act the words to retail and sell by retail, and inserting in lieu thereof the following: to sell by retail or wholesale; by inserting in the sixteenth line of said section 8, after retail, the words or by wholesale; by striking out in the twentieth line of said section 8, the word retailers, and by inserting in lieu thereof the words sellers of spirituous liquors; and by striking out in the twenty-first line of said section 8, the word retailing, and by inserting in lieu thereof the word selling. Amended by striking out to retail and sell by retail. To sell by retail or wholesale inserte. Other amendm'ts. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CLXXXIII. (O. No. 20.) An act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of Whitesburg, in the county of Carroll, and to confer certain powers [Illegible Text] the Commissioners thereof, and for other purposes therein named, approved March 2, 1874. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia doenact, That from and after the passage of this Act, the above recited act be so amended as to authorize the Commissioners of said town of Whitesburg to levy a special license tax upon all livery stables and drays, and to grant, or refuse to grant, license to retail spirituous liquors in less quantities than one gallon, within the corporate limits of said town. Livery stables and drays may be taxed. [Illegible Text] to sell. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 13, 1875.

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CHAPTER IV. GAS LIGHT COMPANIES. Gas Light Company of Americus..... NO. ACT 184 Gas Light Company of [Illegible Text]..... 185 Gate City Gas Light Company..... 186 No. CLXXXIV. (O. No. 139.) An Act to authorize the Gas Light Company of Americus to make, manufacture and sell gas, and to incorporate the same. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That U. B. Harrald, John R. Shaw, [Illegible Text] Wheatley, R. C. Black, and S. H. Hawkins, and their associates, subscribers to the capital stock of the association intended to be hereby incorporated, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, made and declared to be a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name and style of the Gas Light Company of Americus, and as such, shall have power to adopt, make, and use a common seal, and the same at their pleasure to alter and renew; to make and execute such by-laws, rules and regulations, not repugnant to the laws of the land, as they may deem necessary or convenient for the government of the corporation; to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity; to purchase, receive and hold lands, tenements, goods and chattels, and the same to sell, convey, and assign, and generally to have, exercise, and enjoy all such rights and privileges, and to be subject to all such liabilities as are incident to bodies politic and corporate. [Illegible Text] Corporate name. Common seal. By-laws. [Illegible Text] Right hold and enjoy [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall have full power and authority to make, manufacture and sell gas, to be made of coal, rosin, or other materials, for lighting the streets, public and private buildings, and other places in the city of Americus, and shall be, and is hereby authorized and empowered to lay down in any and all of the streets, lanes and avenues, alleys, squares and public grounds of said city, gas pipes and other apparatus for conducting gas through the same, and to erect such gas posts, burners, and reflectors as may be necessary or convenient: Provided, that the public thoroughfares shall at no time be unnecessarily interrupted or impeded by the laying down, or the erection thereof, and that the said streets, lanes, avenues, alleys, squares and public grounds, shall not be thereby injured, but shall be left in as good state and condition as they were before the laying down of said pipes, conductors, or other apparatus, and the erection of said posts. [Illegible Text] of gas. [Illegible Text] to lay pipes in [Illegible Text] etc. Gas posts, burners, etc. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said

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company shall be ten thousand dollars, with authority to increase it to one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and to be transferable only on the books of the company, and until such transfer is regularly made on the books, shall be held liable and bound to the corporation for indebtedness to it on the part of the holder of such stock, and by order of the Directors, in conformity to such by-laws as they may adopt in relation thereto, the stock of individuals who may be indebted to the corporation, may be sold at public auction for the purpose of paying such indebtedness. Capital stock. Shares. Transfer of stock. Liability of stock. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the affairs of said corporation shall be managed by a Board of five Dirctors, [Illegible Text] be elected annually on such day as may be fixed by the by-laws of the company, of whom one shall be elected to preside over the Board, to be known as, and to discharge the duties of, President of said corporation. There shall be such other minor officers of the corporation as the by-laws may provide for, whose duties may therein be prescribed. The election of Directors shall be by ballot on the part of the stockholders, each share entitling the holder to one ballot. The minor officers may be selected by the Directors, or as the by-laws prescribe. Directors. President. Other officers. Directorshow elected SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That if at any time an election of Directors should not be held at the time prescribed by the by-laws, the corporation shall not be dissolved for that cause, but the Directors previously elected shall continue to exercise as theretofore the functions of their office as such, until others be elected in conformity to the by-laws. When no election, old Directors to continue. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall wilfully do, or cause to be done, any act or acts whereby to injure any pipe, conductor, cock, meter, machine, or other thing whatever appertaining to the gas works of said company, whereby the same may be stopped, obstructed or injured, the person or persons so offending shall be considered guilty of, and shall be indicted for, a misdemeanor, and being thereof convicted shall be punished as prescribed in section (4310) forty-three hundred and ten of the Code of Georgia, and such criminal prosecution shall in no wise impair the right of action for damage, which the said company is hereby authorized to institute in any court having jurisdiction of the same. Injury to gas works. Person [Illegible Text] guilty of [Illegible Text] Action for damages. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the charter granted by this Act shall be, and continue, of force thirty years, with the privilege of revival at the end of that time. Duration of charter. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CLXXXV. (O. No. 298.) An Act to incorporate the Mutual Gas Light Company of Savannah, Georgia. SECTION I. 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 J. H. Needles, J. B. Weaver, W. M. Davidson, Alfred Haywood, G. H. Remshart, E. F. Lowell, J. S. Silva, J. S. Neidlinger, J. L. Martin, John Cooper, H. O. Carter and W. W. Carter, and their associates and successors shall be, and they are hereby, incorporated, made and declared a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name and style of the Mutual Gas Light Company of Savannah, Georgia, and as such body politic and corporate shall have power to make use and keep a common seal, and the same at will to alter, to make all necessary by-laws not repugnant to the laws of the land, to have succession of officers and members conformably to such by-laws, and to sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in any of the courts of law or equity in this State, and to have, use and enjoy all other rights, and be subject to all other liabilities which are incidental to bodies corporate. Corporat'rs. Corporate name. May have a common seal. May make by-laws, etc. May have [Illegible Text] of officers and members. May [Illegible Text] etc. May enjoy other [Illegible Text] SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That the said corporation shall have full power and authority to make, manufacture and sell gas, to be made of rosin, coal, oil, turpentine, or any other material or materials, and to furnish such quantities of gas as may be required in the city of Savannah for lighting the streets, squares, lanes, stores and buildings therein situated, and for all other purposes, and to lay pipes or other conductors for the purpose of conducting gas through and along the streets, lanes, alleys and squares of the said city of Savannah: Provided, that such streets, alleys, lanes and squares so used shall in all cases be left in as good a condition as they were at the time of laying such pipes or conductors; further, to erect such buildings, and to own and to hold such real and personal estate as may be necessary and requisite to conduct and carry on said business. And the said corporation shall have power to raise by subscription, in shares of twenty-five dollars each, a capital of one hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to two hundred thousand dollars, and the said corporation shall not go into operation, nor shall the privileges, rights and franchises hereby granted attach until twenty thousand dollars of the capital aforesaid shall have been raised and actually paid in gold or silver, or in the current notes of the incorporated banks of this State, and the fact of such payment be duly verified on oath by the President, Treasurer, and a majority of the Board of Directors of the said company, and the same duly recorded in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of Chatham county. May [Illegible Text] and sell gas. Out of what [Illegible Text] and for what purpose. Pipes and conductors. Proviso. Company may [Illegible Text] buildings, etc. May hold [Illegible Text] Capital [Illegible Text] When the corporation may go into operation.

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SEC. III. And be it further enacted, That the said shares in the capital stock aforesaid of the said corporation shall be deemed and held personal property, and shall be transferable only on the books of the said company, and no part of said capital stock shall, at any time, or under any pretense whatever, be loaned to or divided amongst the members of said corporation, or the stockholders thereof, nor shall the said capital stock be withdrawn or divided amongst the stockholders until all the liabilities of said corporation shall have been fully paid, nor shall any dividend or dividends be at any time declared, except of the clear earnings and profits of the said company. Sharespersonal property. How transferable. Capital st'k may not be divided among [Illegible Text] until liabilities are paid. Dividends to be declared from not earnings. SEC. IV. And be it further enacted, That if the proprietor of any share shall neglect or refuse to pay any installment assessed thereon for the space of thirty days after the time appointed for the payment thereof, the Treasurer of the company may, by order of the Board of Directors, sell at public auction a sufficient number of any shares held by such defaulter to pay all installments then due by him, together with all necessary and incidental charges, and the Treasurer shall give notice of the time and place of such sale, and of the sum due on each share, by advertising the same for two successive weeks previous to such sale in one of the daily papers published in the city of Savannah, and the bill of sale of the shares so sold shall be made by the Treasurer of the company, and the purchaser thereof shall thereupon be entitled to have the same transferred to him upon the books of the company, and shall thence be liable for all future installments upon the stock so purchased. Defaulting subscribers, how dealt with. Sale of sto'k of defaulter. Bill of sale, Treas'rer to make. Purchaserliability of. SEC. V. And be it further enacted, That J. H. Needles, J. B. Weaver, W. M. Davidson, Alfred Haywood, G. H. Remshart, E. F. Lowell, J. S. Silva, J. S. Neidlinger, J. L. Martin, John Cooper, H. O. Carter and W. W. Carter, may open books and take subscriptions for the capital stock of said company, in such manner as they may deem expedient, and whenever such subscriptions shall amount to the sum of twenty thousand dollars, the stockholders having had two weeks notice in writing, may meet and proceed to elect a President, Treasurer and Board of [Illegible Text] or such other officers as they may deem necessary for the organization of the Company; and the said Board of Directors shall continue in office until their successors shall have been duly elected and qualified, and said Board of Directors shall have power and authority to dispose of the residue of capital stock not subscribed for, and in manner and at such time as shall be deemed fit and advantageous. And in the election of all officers, and at all meetings of the company, each stockholder shall be entitled to vote in proportion to the number of shares held. Corporators may open books of subscript'n. President, Treasurer Directors, stockhold'rs to erect. Term of office. Directors may dispose of residue of st'k. Stockhol'ers to vote how. SEC. VI. And be it further enacted, That the Directors shall submit to the stockholders annually a written statement under oath [Illegible Text] affirmation of the Treasurer of the company, setting forth the

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amount of the capital stock paid in, and of the general assets of the company, and also the amount of all existing debts and liabilities of the said company. Annual statement under oath. What it shall show. SEC. VII. And be it further enacted, That this Act of incorporation shall continue in force for twenty years, with the privilege of renewal, and no part of the capital stock nor any part of the funds of the said company shall, at any time during the continuance of this charter, be used or employed, directly or indirectly, in banking operations, nor for any other purpose whatever other than for the purposes hereinbefore mentioned. Charter to run 20 y'rs. Capital [Illegible Text] not to be employed in banking. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CLXXXVI. (O. No. 9.) An Act to incorporate the Gate City Gas Light Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Benjamin E. Crane, J. W. Rucker, James F. Alexander, and such others as are now, or may hereafter be, associated with them, subscribers to the capital stock of the association intended to be hereby incorporated, and their successors, be, and they are hereby, made and declared to be a body corporate and politic, in deed and in law, by the name and style of the Gate City Gas Light Company. Corporat'rs. Corporate name. SEC. II. And Be it further enacted, That said Gate City Gas Light Company shall have the same powers, rights, privileges, guarantees, exemptions and immunities, and shall be subject to the same liabilities and disabilities, and no more, as are given, granted and conferred upon the Atlanta Gas Light Company by an act incorporating said last named company, approved February 16, 1856, excepting only that this charter shall expire at the end of thirty years from the date of the approval of this Act. Powers, rights and liabilities. Charter to expire in [Illegible Text] years. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 4, 1875.

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CHAPTER V. INSURANCE COMPANIES. Grange Mutual Insurance Company of Georgia..... NO. ACT 187 Merchants Mutual Fire Insurance Company of Georgia..... [Illegible Text] No. CLXXXVII. (O. No. 325.) An Act to incorporate the Grange Mutual Insurance Company of Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That David Irwin, Smith Lemons, J. P. Dobbs, A. [Illegible Text] Hansell, J. B. Blackwell, T. M. Kirkpatrick, E. H. Lindley, J. T. Burkhalter, W. Alston, J. D. Waddel, George N. Lester and William King of Cobb county, George W. Adams of Monroe County. T. J. Smith, A. J. Leet, Dr. J. E. Godfrey, E. P. Stephens, Malcolm Jones, T. P. Jones, A. H. Colquitt, D. E. Butler, J. B. Jones J. W. Cheatham, T. G. Holt, J. M. Harris, Zach Clark, J. H. Fannin, George A. Fagan, A. J. Lane, F. A. Wimberly, E. C. Grier, L. A. Lane, L. M. Felton, W. J. Hudson, O. P. [Illegible Text] Alex. Atkinson, and their associates and successors, shall be a corporation under the name and style of the Grange Mutual Insurance Company of Georgia, and shall keep their chief office at Marietta Cobb county, or at such other place as the said corporators and associates or successors may determine, and may appoint agents to extend and facilitate the business of the company in other parts of the State, and beyond the limits of the State, as may be agreed upon by the officers of the company herein provided for, and shall elect their own officers, and shall enjoy all the privileges and power incident to such corporations. Corporat'rs. Corporate name. Chief office. Agents. Officers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That at all the meetings of said corporation every matter shall be decided by a majority of vote of members present, personally or by proxy, each member holding a policy for one year or longer, being allowed one vote, and if [Illegible Text] policy exceeds one thousand dollars, an additional vote for [Illegible Text] additional thousand dollars: Provided, that insurers under [Illegible Text] policies shall be entitled to vote in proportion to the amount actually insured under such open policies, but in no case to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] votes under any single open policy, nor shall any member, of the corporation, nor any other person, give or cast a larger number of votes than five hundred, either for himself or as the proxy representing other members of the corporation. Majority vote to govern. Policy holders may votehow. Proviso. Limit as to vote SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the corporation, so [Illegible Text] as organized, shall elect a Board of Directors to manage its business for one year, and to elect a similar board each year thereafter

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the old board to retain and exercise its rights and powers until a new board be elected and prepared to assume its duties; that the Board of Directors shall appoint all the officers and agents necessary for the safe and successful management of the business of the corporation, and to determine and give the salaries and compensation for the services of such officers and agents. That the Board of Directors shall not be less than ten nor more than thirty in number, five of whom shall be residents of the county in which the chief office of the company may be located. Four members of the board shall be necessary to constitute a quorum to regulate and direct the business of the company. Board of Directors. Election and term of officers. Board to appoint officers. Salaries and [Illegible Text]. Board, number of members. Quorum. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said corporation may insure for any length of time, not exceeding five years, all buildings, goods, or other species of property, against loss or damage by fire, or water, or other hazards incident to sea or inland navigation, and other transportation, such loss or damage not resulting from the design of the party insured, and to an amount not exceeding three-fourths of the value of the property insured, property on shipboard or in storage not subject to this limitation, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars on any one block of buildings, or stock of goods in building or on shipboard. Company may insure what property. Time and conditions. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That whenever the said corporation shall make any insurance on any property, the member so insured shall pay the required premium, in cash, or give his note or bond, well secured for the amount of insurance money, payable one day after date, and shall deposit, in money, with an officer of the corporation, or its appointed agent, at least twenty per cent. of said note, which shall be entered as a credit thereon, and the fund thus raised may be applied to the payment of the losses and expenses of the corporation, and in the event of an accumulated surplus beyond the necessities of said corporation, and for its safe management, the Directors are hereby authorized to divide the same among the stockholders thereof, according to the respective amounts of their premiums, and the Directors may at any time, when the necessities or interest of the company may require it, collect such further sums as may be necessary, by making assessments on said notes or bonds, in proportion to the original amount of each note or bond, giving thirty days' notice, by mail, to each member; but no member shall, in any event, be liable to pay more than his premium note, or cash premium. Payment of [Illegible Text]. Dividends. Assessm'nts may be made. Liability of members. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That whenever any person shall sustain any loss of the property so insured, he shall, within thirty days after his knowledge of said lossand in case of real estate, before any repairs or alterations are madegive notice, in writing, of the same to some one of the Directors, or other person appointed by the Directors, whose duty it shall be to view, immediately, the premises where the loss occurred, or otherwise make satisfactory inquiries into the circumstances attending it; and, under

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oath, determine, in writing by him subscribed, the amount, if any, of the liabilities of said corporation for such loss, and if the sufferer shall not acquiesce in such estimate, he shall, within six months after he is notified of the estimate, bring an action at law against said corporation. In case of [Illegible Text][Illegible Text] of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of Director. Amount of losshow to be paid. Suits by insured. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be entitled to hold real and personal estate to any amount necessary for the purposes and interest of the same; may have and use a common seal; and shall have power to make such by-laws, rules, and regulations as may be thought proper, not repugnant to the laws of this State. Company may hold real and personal property. Seal. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That when the said corporation shall make an insurance on any property, the interest of the person insured in said property shall be held as security for the payment of the deposit, note, or bond given to the corporation, and the policy of the insured shall, from the time it issues, create a lien on the said property, and no transfer of said property shall effect the said lien: Provided, it shall be expressed in the policy that the insurance is made subject to such lien, and in case of loss or payment therefor, the party insured shall receive in part payment the premium note or bond given for the insurance of the said property. Interest of insured subject to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] note. Lien for premium. Proviso. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That if any member of said corporation, obtaining insurance, or in case of his death his legal representative, shall refuse or neglect to pay any assessment within thirty days after the demand be made, or any installment on his deposit note, he shall be liable to a suit therefor by the corporation in any court having competent jurisdiction, and also the liability of the corporation for the policy under which the payment [Illegible Text] withheld shall be suspended until said payment is made, and if said payment is not made within six months the said policy shall be, to all intents and purposes, forever forfeited. In case of failure to [Illegible Text] premiums. Suits on premium notes. Forfeiture of policy. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That any three of the persons herein named as corporators, may call the first meeting by [Illegible Text] the same once a week for two successive weeks, in one public journal in Atlanta, Augusta, Macon, and Savannah. First meetinghow called. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That no policy of insurance shall be issued by said company until the sum subscribed to be insured shall amount to fifty thousand dollars. Policies may issue when. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That any person insured shall have the right to return his policy and demand his premium note, or bond, at any time before it would expire by its own [Illegible Text] Provided, there be no unpaid assessment upon the note or bond, or there be no losses of the company unprovided for. Return of policy and premium. Proviso. SEC. XIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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No. CLXXXVIII. (O. No. 336.) An Act to incorporate the Merchants' Mutual [Illegible Text] Insurance Company of Georgia, and define its liabilities. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That J. A. Kendrick, J. A. Ansley, R. T. Byrd, W. J. Barlow, Nathan Emanuel, Alexander Windsor, M. Speer, John E. Cain and J. W. Sheffield, W. D. Haynes, and their associates and successors, shall be, and they are hereby, incorporated, made, and declared a body politic and corporate, in deed and in law, by the name and style of the Merchants' Mutual Fire Insurance Company of the State of Georgia, and such body corporate shall have power to make and use a common seal, and the same at will to alter, to make all necessary by-laws not in conflict with the laws of the land, and as such body corporate shall have succession for twenty years, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this State; they may purchase and hold real and personal property, and may invest their income and accumulations in stocks and bonds of the United States, and the State of Georgia, and such other securities and property as they may deem safe and proper. Corporators. Corporate name. Seal. By-laws. Power to sue, etc. Real and personal property. Stocks and bonds. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the principal office of said company shall be in the city of Americus, and they may extend their business by establishing branch offices and agencies throughout the country, in such way and manner as they may deem advisable. Principal office, Agencies. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from the stockholders of said company there shall be elected annually, at such time as the company may determine, a Board of seven Directors, from whom shall be chosen a President, a Vice-President; the President shall be the chairman of the Board of Directors, in the absence of the President, the Vice-President shall act. Directors, President Vice-Pres't. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board of Directors shall have power to appoint all the officers and agents necessary for the safe and successful management of the business of the corporation, to fix their compensation, and to hold their offices for such time as the said Board may deem proper. Officers and agents, appointment and pay. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and when forty thousand dollars of said stock is subscribed, and ten per cent. thereon paid in, the company is authorized to organize and commence business, the remainder of said forty thousand dollars subscribed stock to be called in under assessments, to be made by the Board of Directors, as the exigencies of the company may require, but at a rate not to exceed ten per cent. per month. Capital stock. Shares. Company may commence business when. Assessment on subscription.

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SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any stockholder shall fail, or make default for ten days, to pay any assessment regularly made upon his stock, upon such failure or default being made to appear, the stock of the delinquent shall, after ten days notice, be put up at auction and sold to the highest bidder; and any deficinecy in the sum realized upon said stock shall be made good by the delinquent. It is provided, however, that no assessment shall be made for any other purpose except to [Illegible Text] losses of the company, without the consent of three-fourths in number and value of all the stockholders. Defaulting subscribershow dealt with. Assessme'tsh'w ma'e. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at any meeting of the Board of Directors, four of said Directors shall be a quorum for the transaction of business, and a majority vote shall control all questions before said Board. Quorum. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the business of said company shall be to insure against loss, damage or destruction by fire, all manner of real and personal property, goods, wares and merchandise, cotton, grain or produce, in store or in transit, and may take all such risks at such rate of premium as they may establish, or that may be agreed upon by the parties. Bus'ness objects of this corporation. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when said company shall sustain any loss by fire, it shall be allowed sixty days to adjust and pay the same; that whenever any person shall sustain any loss of the property so insured, he shall, within thirty days after his knowledge of said loss, and in case of real estate, before any repairs or alterations are made, give notice, in writing, of the same to some one of the Directors, or other person appointed by the Directors for that purpose, whose duty if shall be to view, immediately, the premises where the loss occurred, or otherwise make satisfactory inquiry into the circumstances attending it, and under oath determine, in writing, by him subscribed, the amount, if any, of the liabilities of said corporation for such loss, and if the sufferer shall not acquiesce in such estimate, he may, within sixty days after he is notified of the estimate, bring an action at law against said corporation; if in this action he shall not receive as damages for loss more than the amount estimated aforesaid, he shall be liable for all cost incurred in the suit, and the company shall only be liable for the loss incurred by the party as fixed by the jury, but if the jury shall find that he has sustained a greater loss than the amount thus estimated, the company shall be liable, in addition to the amount thus fixed by the jury, the cost of suit, and execution shall accordingly thus issue against the company. Losseshow to be settled. Duty of insured. Duty of Director or Agent. Company may be sued. Liability for costs. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the income and accumulations of said company, after paying current expenses and liabilities, and after setting apart the necessary reserve, contingent and reinsurance fund, shall be distributed as a

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dividend among the stockholders of said company, one-fourth of said dividend to be paid in cash, and the other three-fourths to be applied to the liquidation of each stockholder's unpaid stock in the proportion that each stockholder's dividend bears to his unpaid stock, until the said stock shall all be paid up: Provided, however, that the President and Board of Directors shall have the power to give to the holders of policies of said company the right to participate in the net profits of the company to such an extent, in such a manner, and on such terms, as they may deem proper. Dividendswhen and how distributed. Proviso. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall be responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property, and each stockholder shall be bound to the creditors of the company, in his private capacity, to the amount of his stock, until his subscription is fully paid up, or until such stockholder shall have paid, out of his private property, debts of the company to an amount equal to his unpaid subscription. Liability of Company to creditors. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the liability of this company to the policyholders shall be evidenced and determined by a written or printed policy, setting forth the terms of the contract, and signed by the President and Secretary. Liability of Company to be eviden'd by policies. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the stock of the company may be transferred upon such terms as the company may prescribe. Transfer of stock. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the books for receiving subscription to the capital stock of said company shall be opened at such time and places as the corporators may elect, and that any three of said corporators shall be sufficient to procure subscription for the purpose of organizing said company. Books of subscription. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That [Illegible Text] Act shall be of force from and after its passage. Act to [Illegible Text] effectwhen. SEC. XVI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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CHAPTER VI. IRON AND MINING COMPANIES. Empire Iron Company of Rome, Georgia..... NO. ACT. 189 [AElig]tna Iron Company.....190 Georgia Metalic, Iron, Powder and Steel Manufacturing Company.....191 Georgia Mining Company.....192 Ridge Valley Iron Company of Georgia.....193 Stonewall Mining Company.....194 Sugar Valley and Curbondale Iron Company..195 Villa Rica Mining and Manufacturing Co.....196 No. CLXXXIX. (O. No. 13.) An Act to incorporate the Empire Iron Company of Rome, Georgia, and to define the rights, privileges and liabilities of the same. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That Edward C. Anderson, Jr., W. H. Tison, Wylly Woodbridge and Robert F. Hargrove, and their associates, are created a body politic by the name of the Empire Iron Company of Rome, Georgia, and by that name shall be able and capable to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or equity in this State; to make, have and use a common seal, and change the same at pleasure, and to establish such ordinances, by-laws and regulations as shall be necessary and convenient for the conducting of the business of the said company. Corporators. Name. Rig't to sue. Common seal. By-laws. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the object of said corporation is declared to be the manufacture of railroad and bar iron, nails and such other articles as they may choose to manufacture. Object of corporation. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the works of said company shall be erected at or near the city of Rome, in Floyd county, and the said company is hereby empowered to purchase and hold real and personal estate and property make contracts, either with or without their corporate seal, appoint agents, and do all other things they shall deem expedient, for the purpose of carrying the business of said company into successful operation, not inconsistent with the laws of the State. Workswhere located. Purchase of real and personal property, Agents. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be one hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege of raising it to two hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into such number of shares as shall be provided for by the by-laws of said company. Capital stock. Shares. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the private property of the stockholders, both real and personal, shall be held and bound and liable for the debts of the said company to the extent of their stock subscribed, and yet unpaid, and the property of the said company shall be liable for all its legal indebtedness at all times. Liability of stockholders.

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SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be a President and such number of Directors to said company as shall be determined by the stockholders of the same, said President and Directors to be chosen by the stockholders, each share entitling the holder to one vote. President and Directorshow chosen. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Edward C. Anderson, Jr., and others, whose names are hereinbefore mentioned, and their associates, shall be, and continue, the Directors of said company until the first meeting of the stockholders. They shall appoint the President and such other officers as may be necessary, and shall continue in office until new Directors are elected. Directors until first meeting. May appoint President and other officers. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall be entitled to commence operations as soon as one-half of the capital stock shall be paid in. Business may be commene'd, When. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall be authorized to borrow money for the purpose of increasing their manufacturing business, or of developing or operating the same, and [Illegible Text] effect this end, may secure such loans by mortgaging their corporate property, the same to be executed by the President and countersigned by the Secretary of the Board of Directors, after the same shall have been sanctioned by a vote of three-fourths of the stockholders, at a regular or called meeting. And in like manner, they shall be authorized to issue preferred stock, in such form, and on such terms and conditions as may be deemed best for the interest of said company. Power to borrow money. Mortgageshow executed. Preferred stock. SEC. X. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 5, 1875. No. CXC. (O. No. 190.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate [AElig]tna Iron Company, in the county of Polk, and State of Georgia, approved August 22, 1872. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, that the President and Directors of the [AElig]tna Iron Company shall make a full and fair statement of all their acts and doings, the amount of the capital stock, and stock and effects on hand, the indebtedness, with the names and amount of each person holding claims against the said company, and of everything [Illegible Text] to the same. They shall make this statement by the first day of January and July of each and every year, and publish

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the same in one of the newspapers in the city of Rome. They shall also publish, as above directed, the name of each stockholder, and the amount of stock paid in by him, once in each year. President and Directors to make and publish annual statements. Names of stockhold-to be published. SEC. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no part of the capital stock, nor any of the funds of said company, shall be employed during the continuance of this charter, directly or indirectly, in banking or banking operations. No part of capital stock to be engaged in banking. SEC. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon a call of three or more of the stockholders, published thirty days in one of the newspapers in the city of Rome, the President shall call a meeting of the same. Meeting of [Illegible Text]how called. SEC. IV. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each holder of stock in the said company shall return the same for taxation in the county of Polk, or the President and Directors shall return the entire capital stock, and all other property subject to taxation, in the county of Polk for taxation. Tax on [Illegible Text] SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CXCI. (O. No. 213.) An Act to incorporate the Georgia Metalic, Iron, Powder and Steel Manufacturing Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Edward L. Seymour, R. A. Alston, John W. Wofford, A. C. Garlington, Frank Levereth, T. M. Furlow, M. I. Atkins, N. J. Tumlin, and their successors and assigns, and such other persons as may associate with them so soon as they may organize under this charter, are hereby declared to be a body corporate under the name and style of the Georgia Metalic, Iron, Powder and Steel Manufacturing Company, for the purpose of manufacturing cast-steel; also, of metalic iron powder for the use of steel smelters, rail manufacturers, and others, directly from the ore, by a new process known as the Seymour process, on any land which they may now own, or which they may become possessed of by purchase, lease or otherwise, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or equity in this State having competent jurisdiction, and shall enjoy continuous succession during the term of thirty years; may have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; make, ordain and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem necessary and expedient to carry into effect the objects of the company: Provided, such by-laws

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shall not be inconsistent with the laws of this State, or of the United States. Corporators. Corporate name. Purposes of corporation. Seymour process. Power to hold and enjoy property. By-laws, etc. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the corporation above named is hereby created, and shall, by its corporate name, be capable in law of purchasing, holding, selling and conveying any real or personal estate which may be necessary to enable such corporation effectually to carry on the operations named in the first section of this Act. Power to purchase convey property. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company may be two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, divided into shares of twenty-five dollars each, and the stockholders in said company shall be liable pro rata for the debts of said company, to the amount of the stock by them respectively held, but for no greater amount. [Illegible Text] Shares. Liability [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the by-laws of said company may fix and declare the number of officers and agents that the said company may deem necessary for carrying into effect the objects thereof, and shall regulate and prescribe the manner in which the same shall be appointed, their duties, salaries, and liabilities, and the regulations to be observed in transferring the stock of said company by any member thereof who may wish to transfer his, her, or their stock. Officers of Company. Duties and salaries. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the said company shall have an office in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, which shall be considered for all judicial purposes its location. Office in Atlanta. SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CXCII. (O. No. 206.) An Act to incorporate the Georgia Mining Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Green B. Butler, Samuel Hape, Nathaniel J. Hammond, George W. Adair, and their associates, successors, and assigns shall be, and they are hereby, declared to be a body corporate, under the name and style of the Georgia Mining Company, by which name they are hereby made capable, in law, to have, hold, purchase, work, sell, mortgage, lease, enjoy and retain to them, their successors and assigns, all property, both real and personal, that they may deem advantageous to the objects and interests of said corporation, which are the mining and manufacturing of mica, and for the purpose of mining any minerals found in this State, and the working of the same; and by that name they may sue and

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be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or equity in this State having competent jurisdiction, and shall enjoy perpetual succession of officers and members; may have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; may make, ordain and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem expedient or necessary to carry into effect the objects of the company: Provided, such by-laws, rules and regulations are not inconsistent with the laws of this State, or of the United States, and the said company shall use, exercise and enjoy all the rights, privileges and franchises which are incidental to corporations. [Illegible Text] Corporate name. Power to hold, purchase, etc. property. Objects [Illegible Text] the [Illegible Text] May [Illegible Text] be sued. Perpetual succession. Seal. By-laws, rules and regulations. Proviso. Incidental rights, etc. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the purpose of mining, by the hydraulic process or sluice washing, the said company shall have power and authority to locate and to construct by, through, or over any vacant lands not represented by any legal owner or claimant, their canals, ditches, flumes, trestle-works, or aqueducts for diverting streams from their natural channels, at such places as may be necessary for the purpose of working and developing the mineral resources of the adjacent lands, and any owner or owners of such vacant lands upon appearing and making out their claim, to such lands shall be entitled to damages from said company, as may be adjudged reasonable and just between the parties, said damages aforesaid to be determined and ascertained by three freeholders, one of whom shall be chosen by the claimant, the other by the company, and the third by the Ordinary of the county wherein the land lies, and their judgment shall be final between said parties, and said judgment of said arbitrators shall be returned in writing, certified under their hands and seals, to the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county wherein the land lies, and entered by him of record on the minutes of said court, upon which the Clerk may issue execution against the party cast for damages and costs, unless the party against whom said arbitrators find shall enter an appeal in said Clerk's office within four days from the return and entry of said judgment, which appeal may be entered under the same rules, regulations, restrictions and liabilities as are provided on the subject of appeals, in part three, title five of the Code of 1873, prepared and published by Irwin, Lester and Hill. Power to construct canals, aqueducts, c. Damages to property ownershow assessed. Awards to be returned to Cl'k S. C. Executions for damag's. Appeals from awardwhen and how entertered and tried. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any citizen shall refuse to grant to said company the right-of-way through their lands, or endeavor to require exorbitant damages from said company for any right or privilege necessary for the successful prosecution of said mining operations, then said citizen and said company shall each choose a freeholder, and the Ordinary of the county wherein the land lies shall choose a third person, being a freeholder, which three persons shall determine the amount that shall be paid by said company to such person for the rights and privileges to be obtained, which amount shall, in all cases, be paid

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or tendered to such person before exercising such rights or privileges. In the event such person refuses to choose an arbitrator on his part, then the Ordinary of the county is hereby authorized to select such person for him, and such person so selected, together with the other two arbitrators, shall proceed in the same manner as prescrbed in the preceding section, with the like privileges of appeal to either party. Right-of-way, questions of difference as to, how settled. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company, by themselves, their agents or superintendents, or either of them, shall have full power and authority to turn the water from said ditches, by lateral ditches or otherwise, to be used by them for mining purposes, in such manner as they may determine, on any lot or lots that they may have jurisdiction over, and to cause such water so turned to flow off and pass over or through any lot or lots belonging to any person whatever: Provided, that if any person or persons owning or possessing any of said lots over which said lateral ditches pass over or through, which said water so turned may flow, said person or persons shall be entitled to compensation for damages in the same manner as set forth in the preceding section of this Act. Power to turn waste from [Illegible Text] Proviso. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event that any person be damaged by the changing of any stream from its natural channel, the party so damaged shall be entitled to compensation for damages, to be recovered the same manner as prescribed in section third of this Act. Damages [Illegible Text] water from natural channel. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the entering of an appeal in all cases provided for in this Act, shall in no case prevent the company from proceeding with its work through the lands in question, on depositing with such person as the Superior Court may direct the sum found by the arbitrators, to be held subject to the final ordering of the Superior Court of the county; and, Provided further, that the Judge of the Superior Court, in vacation, shall have power to pass the proper order in reference to the deposit of the money, so as not to hinder the progress of the works till a regular term of the Court. Company may [Illegible Text]pending appeal. Proviso. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have power to erect such mills, put up such machinery, build such dams, races, or canals, buy, lease, or rent, such water powers, as they may deem advantageous to said company in carrying out their object heretofore stated: Provided, that if such dams, races, or canals, should damage any other person or persons, the person or persons so damaged be compensated therefor, in the manner set forth in either sections third, fourth, or fifth and sixth of this Act, as the case may be applicable. Company may erect mills and machinery, etc. Proviso. Compensation to parties damaged. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have power to bargain, sell, convey, mortgage, re-let, re-rent, any or all of their property, both personal and real, that they may be possessed of by purchase, lease, rent, or donation,

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and that they may allow the use of water from canals, flumes, ditches, or aqueducts, upon such terms and conditions as may be agreed upon between the contracting parties. Property may be [Illegible Text] mortgaged, etc. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid; That the by-laws of said company may fix and declare the number of officers and agents that the said company may deem necessary for carrying out the objects thereof, and shall regulate and prescribe the manner in which the same shall be appointed, their duties, salaries, and liabilities, and shall fix the time for, and manner of, paying dividends, and the regulations to be observed in transferring the stock of said company by any member thereof who may wish to transfer his, or her, or their stock, as well as the time, manner, and place of holding the meetings of the Board of Directors of said company, with the right, if deemed expedient, to hold the same without the limits of this State. Officers and agents. What by-laws shall fix and declare. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company may put the value of their shares at such an amount as they may think best, and that the capital stock shall be ten thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing it to five hundred thousand dollars, and that they may commence business when twenty-five per cent. of the bona fide, solvent subscribed stock has been paid in: Provided, they commence within two years after the passage of this Act. Shares and capital st'k. Business may be commenced when. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporation shall keep an office at Atlanta, in the county of Fulton, which shall be considered for all judicial purposes its location, but may remove the same if deemed best, by giving notice by publication in one or more of the newspapers of Atlanta, Georgia. Office in Atlanta. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons, shall wilfully and maliciously destroy or in any manner hurt, damage, injure, obstruct, or shall counsel, aid assist or advise any person or persons, in any manner to hurt, damage, injure or obstruct any of said Company's ditches, aqueducts, canals, trestle-works, flumes, dams, races, tunnels, mills machinery or any of the appurtenances thereto belonging, such person or persons shall be liable to be indicted for a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished as provided in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia above mentioned. [Illegible Text] to injure and damage property of this comp'y. Punishm'nt. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the arbitrators provided for in this Act, shall be disinterested persons, and residents of the county where the land lies, or the issue or issues originate. Liability of Stockh'd'rs. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the liabilities of the stockholders of the said corporation shall be as provided in section 1676, of the Code of 1873, and in paragraph 3, of said section. Liability of Stockh'd'rs. SEC. XV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CXCIII. (O. No. 181.) An act to Amend an Act incorporating the Ridge Valley Iron Company of Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section 4 of said act incorporating the Ridge Valley Iron Company, be changed so as to read: And the liability of the stockholders of said company for the debts of the corporation shall be as is set forth and declared in the latter clause of the third paragraph of the 1676th section of the Code of Georgia. Liability of stockhold'r. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. NOTE.The section referred to makes the stockholders liable to amount of stock subscribed for by them until subscriptions are fully paid up. No. CXCIV. (O. No. 363.) An Act to incorporate the Stonewall Mining Company, in the county of Carroll. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That John M. Moyers, and such persons as he may associate with him, his successors and assigns, shall be, and they are [Illegible Text] declared a body corporate and politic under the name and style of Stonewall Mining Company, to test, explore and work for gold, copper, silver, lead, and other metals and minerals in the county of Carroll, and adjacent counties of the State of Georgia, on any land now owned, or leased, or which may hereafter become the property of, or be under the control of, said company by lease or otherwise, and by said corporate name may sue and be sued, [Illegible Text] and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or equity having competent jurisdiction; and may have and use a common seal, with the right to alter the same at pleasure; may make, ordain and establish such by-laws, rules and regulations for the management and control of the interests and [Illegible Text] of said company as may be deemed most expedient: Provided, the same shall not be in conflict with the Constitution and [Illegible Text] of this State, nor the Constitution and laws of the United States. Corporators. Corporate name. Objects of corporation. General powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the [Illegible Text] stock of said company shall be fifty thousand dollars, with [Illegible Text] privilege of increasing the same from time to time to five hundred thousand dollars. That said company shall be capable in law

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and equity of purchasing, owning, leasing, holding, selling, conveying and releasing any real or personal estate which may be necessary to the objects of the same. That said company shall have power to borrow money on mortgage, or other securities; and to loan out its surplus earnings on such securities as the members thereof may direct under their by-laws; also to ordain such rules and regulations, with respect to stockholders who fail or refuse to pay up any balance on their stock, as will compel payment under penalty of forfeiture of such stock. The stockholders in said company shall be liable pro rata for the debts of said company to the amount of stock held by them respectively, and for no greater amount. Capital stock. Power to purchase, hold and enjoy prop'ty. To borrow money, etc. Defaulting stockh'ders. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said corporator, and such as he may associate with him, may open books of subscription to the capital stock of said company at such times and places as may be deemed most convenient; and that so soon as ten per cent. of said stock shall have been subscribed and paid in, the stockholders may meet and elect such officers for the management of the interests of the company, and ordain such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem proper, except as limited in this Act, each share of which shall be in amount one hundred dollars, and representing one vote. Books of subscript'n. Election of officers. Said company shall keep an office in the city of Atlanta, Fulton county, Georgia, which shall be, for all judicial purposes, its location, but may open and keep offices in any other county or place for the convenience and benefit of the said corporation. Principal office. The rights herein granted shall continue for the period of thirty years from the approval of this Act. Duration of charter. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CXCV. (O. No. 327.) An Act to incorporate the Sugar Valley and Carbondale Iron Company, and to confer certain powers and privileges thereon. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That for the purpose of developing the mineral resources of the State, Charles G. Samuel, R. G. Huston, B. F. Samuel, P. M. Samuel and S. E. Armstrong, and their associates, successors, or assigns, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Sugar Valley and Carbondale Iron Company, and by that name shall be able and capable of sueing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded in any court whatsoever,

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and may have and use a common seal, and may alter and renew the same at pleasure; and may make and adopt such by-laws as they may deem necessary: Provided, the same shall not be repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State; and the said body corporate shall also have all the powers, facilities, and franchises, and rights, necessary and proper for the carrying on of the mining of iron; coal, and other minerals, and preparing the same for use, for erecting and carrying on furnaces, mills, and all other buildings, machinery, and fixtures necessary for the successful operation of the legitimate business of said company, and the beneficial management of its property, and for the transportation of its iron, or coal, or other minerals, or the shipment of its ore, and other proceeds, issues and profits of its mines, mills, and property to market, and shall have power and authority to purchase, lease, and hold any property, real, personal and mixed, which may be deemed by said company necessary for its purposes, and not in conflict with the laws of this State or the United States. Corporat'rs. Corporate name. General Powers. Objects of corporation. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be not less than fifty thousand dollars ($50,000) which may be increased by bona fide subscriptions to five hundred thousand dollars, and their stock shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and the stockholders of said company shall be individually liable for the debts of the company only in [Illegible Text] to the extent of his stock or subscription. Capital stock. Shares. Individual liability of stockholders. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company is hereby authorized and empowered in carrying on their mining operations, to build, construct and operate such rail or tram ways as may be found necessary for the transportation of such ores or products to the place or places of use or shipment: Provided, that they shall not interfere with the rights of other persons in so doing. Power to build trams or railroads. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the company shall be entitled to commence operations, and exercise the functions herein granted, as soon as the sum of fifty thousand dollars has been bona fide subscribed on the books of the said company. Operations to be commencedwhen. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the affairs and the business of said company may be managed by a President and Superintendent chosen by the stockholders, or by a President and Board of Directors, at the pleasure of the stockholders; and said stockholders may prescribe, make and declare for the government of the company, all such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may think proper, not violating the laws or the Constitution of the State of Georgia or the United States. President, Superintendent and Directors. By-laws rules and regulations. SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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No. CXCVI. (O. No. 330.) An Act to incorporate the Villa Rica Mining and Manufacturing Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, W. A. Hoskins, L. P. Bright and C. C. Ham, and their associates, successors or assigns, be, and they are hereby, constituted and created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the Villa Rica Mining and Manufacturing Company, and by that name shall exist and have succession for the term of thirty years; shall be competent to sue and be sued, to plead and to be impleaded, in any court of law or equity, shall have the right to adopt and use a common seal, and change the same at will, to make all necessary rules, regulations and by-laws for the government of said company and the conduct of its business, and to alter and amend the same when deemed advisable; and shall have the further right to purchase, hold and dispose of such lands, mines or mineral interests in lands, such as gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, etc., or to lease the same, as well as the right to purchase, hold and dispose of such personal property as may be necessary or useful in the transaction of the business of the company. And the principal office of said company shall be at Acworth, in the county of Cobb, in said State. Corporato's. Corporate name. Duration of charter. Power to sue. Seal. By-laws. Purchase, etc., of property. Principal office. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have the right to mine for gold, silver, copper, iron, lead, or any and all minerals, at any point or points in this State; and to forge, crush, smelt, refine, work, manufacture, transport and sell the same, either in a crude or manufactured state. That for the purpose of transporting minerals, ores or material, it shall have the right to construct tram or railroads, to connect with any railroad now in operation, or that may be built, and operated in this State, with the consent of said railroad, and shall also have the right to erect and use such machinery and works, or buildings, as may be necessary or incident to the business of mining, forging, crushing, smelting, refining, working or manufacturing the above named minerals. That said company shall have the further right to accept the benefit of any lien, incumbrance, mortgage, deed of trust, absolute or conditional sale of property, for the purpose of securing indebtedness due or to become due it, and to sell, mortgage, or otherwise encumber its property, to secure indebtedness due or to become due from it. Right to to mine for gold, etc. To crush, smelt and manufacture. Trams or railroads. Machinery, works and buildings. [Illegible Text] mortgages, etc. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of this company shall be fixed at two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, which may be increased or diminished, at the option of the stockholders; said capital stock shall be divided into shares of one

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hundred dollars each, each share entitling the holder thereof to one vote in stockholders' meeting. Capital stock. Shares. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That mineral or timbered lands, or any bona fide interest in property, real or personal, that can be utilized in the business of this corporation, shall be received in payment of capital stock subscribed at such appraised value as the stockholders or corporators herein named may agree upon and fix. The corporators named in this Act, or any one of them, may open books for subscription to the capital stock of said company, and may receive subscriptions in money, machinery, lands, mines, leases, mineral interests, or any bona fide interest in such property as may be useful or advantageous to the business of said company, on such terms as may be agreed upon between said corporators and the persons subscribing: Provided, that the authority vested in said corporators shall cease on the organization of said company, and invested in said company, which may exercise the same through its directors, or any other agencies it may see fit. Lands [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] for stock. Books of subscription. Proviso. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That as soon as fifteen hundred shares of the capital stock are subscribed, upon ten days notice being given in some paper published in Atlanta, the stockholders, their agents, attorneys or proxies shall meet at such time and place as may be designated by said corporators, and elect a President and Board of Directors, the number of said Board to be fixed by by-law, and may be increased [Illegible Text] diminished at the will of the stockholders. The management of the business of said corporation shall be in the hands of the President and Board of Directors, who shall have power to elect a Secretary, Treasurer, and such other officers and agents as may be by them deemed necessary or proper for the conduct of the business of the company. The President and Directors who shall be stockholders, shall hold their office for the term of one year, or until their successors are elected and installed, and the time and place of the annual election to fill said offices shall be fixed by by-law, and notice thereof for thirty days given, either through some newspaper published nearest the place of meeting, or by mail. In case of a vacancy in the office of President or Director, the Board may fill such vacancy. A majority of the stock subscribers, and a majority of the Directors shall be necessary to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business by a meeting of either stockholders or the Board of Directors. The books of said company shall be subject to inspection of the stockholders at all times; all the stock of said company shall be deemed personal property, and transfers of same shall be reported and entered on the stock book of the company, to entitle holders thereof to participate in the stockholders' meeting. President Directors may be electedwhen. Managem' of businesin [Illegible Text] vested. Term of [Illegible Text]. Annual election. What [Illegible Text] constitute quorum. Books [Illegible Text] to inspection. Stock personal property. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That this Act take effect from and after its passage. Act to [Illegible Text] effect [Illegible Text] SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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CHAPTER VII. MANUFACTURING COMPANIES. Chattahoochee Manufacturing Company.....NO. ACT. 197 Georgia Farmers Phosphate Company.....198 Willeo Cotton Mills.....199 No. CXCVII. (O. No. 272.) An Act to authorize the Chattahoochee Manufacturing Company to have surveyed three small islands in the Chattahoochee river, constituting a portion of their dam, and also to authorize the Governor to make titles to the same. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, That the Chattahoochee Manufacturing Company be, and they are hereby authorized to have surveyed, at their own expense, three small islands, constituting a part of their dam, in the Chattahoochee river, and upon the return of the surveyor to the Secretary of State's office, the Governor is hereby authorized and empowered to issue grants to said islands in favor of said Chattahoochee Manufacturing Company, upon the payment by said company of the usual grant fees: Provided, that nothing in this Act shall interfere with rights in or to said islands, which may have already vested. Chattahoochee Manufacturing Co. may survey small islands. Gov. may issue grants to. Proviso. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CXCVIII. (O. No. 233.) An Act to incorporate the Georgia Farmers' Phosphate Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That A. H. Colquitt, G. W. Adams, T. J. Smith, L. F. Livingston, J. S. Lavender, E. T. Paine, J. B. Jones, E. C. Greer, John B. [Illegible Text] J. H. Fannin, F. Leverett, citizens of the said State, Francis I. Pelzer, Lewis D. Mowry, Herman Bulwinkle, Benjamin C. Pressley and Joseph A. Yates, citizens of Charleston, in the State of South Carolina, and James P. Boyce, a citizen of Louisville, in the State of Kentucky, and their associates and successors, are hereby made and created a body politic and corporate in law, by

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the name of the Georgia Farmers' Phosphate Company, for the purpose of manufacturing sulphuric acid, acid phosphate and other fertilizers, at Atlanta, in the State of Georgia, and grinding plaster, minerals, phosphate-rock, minerals containing sulphur and other materials incident to the said business, at such other place as said materials may be obtained, with a capital stock of one hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into one thousand shares of one hundred dollars each, and to be subscribed for, at such time and place, and in such manner as the said corporators, or a majority of them, may deem advisable. Corporators. Corporate name. Objects of corporation. Capital stock. Shares. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have power, at the time of their organization, and from time to time thereafter, to increase their capital stock to any amount, not exceeding five hundred thousand dollars in the whole, whenever a majority of the stockholders present at any general meeting, being a quorum, or the Board of Directors, by their authority, shall so determine, and each original stockholder shall be entitled to take his proportionate share of the increased stock; but in case any of them shall refuse or neglect to subscribe for their proportionate shares within the time limited for that purpose, by the said majority of stockholders, then their shares of such increased stock may be taken by the other stockholders, or by persons not previously stockholders in said company. Capital [Illegible Text] may be increased. Quorum. Subscriptions to increased [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the subscriber or subscribers for any share or shares of either the original or the increased stock, shall neglect to pay any instalment duly called for thereon, for the space of thirty days, after expiration of the time appointed for such payment, then the Treasurer of the company may, by order of the Directors, sell at public auction a sufficient number of the shares of such stockholder to pay all the instalments then due from him, with all necessary incidental charges, but notice of the time and place of such sale must be advertised for at least three weeks before the sale, in one newspaper at Atlanta, and one at Charleston, and a receipt by the President and the Treasurer for the purchase money of the shares so [Illegible Text] shall be sufficient to entitle the purchaser to a transfer of the said stock, and a certificate for the same. Failure to pay for [Illegible Text] Sale of shares. Notice of sale. Transfer of stock. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every subscriber to the stock of the said company shall be individually liable for its debts to the amount of his subscription, until he shall bona fide in lawful money pay in full for the shares subscribed for by him; after such payment he shall be no longer individually liable for said debts. But the said company shall not be organized or commence business, or contract any debt whatever, until the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, to be paid in lawful money as its capital, shall be bona fide subscribed for; and if before such bona fide subscription of one hundred thousand dollars to the said capital stock, any debts be contracted in the name of the said company,

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by any person or persons claiming authority as agents [Illegible Text] officers thereof, then such person or persons so contracting the said debts shall be individually liable for the same. Individual liability. When business may be commenc'd. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have power to make and establish for its government and direction all rules and by-laws not repugnant to the laws of the land; to fix the number and authority of its officers and Directors, and the manner of electing the same; to regulate the issue of script, and the transfer of its shares; to have and keep a common seal; to sue and be sued in any court of law or equity; to purchase, talk, hold, or sell, any mines, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels, rights and credits, which may be connected with, or conducive to, the purpose for which the said company is established, in fee simple or for any less estate; to [Illegible Text] and mine for earths, marls, rocks, sulphur, pyrites and other minerals; to manufacture the same, and such other material as it may purchase, into chemicals, acids and fertilizers; to carry on trade therein, and to cultivate such land as the company may purchase for the purposes aforesaid. Rules and by-laws. Officers and Directors. Common seal. Other rig'ts, power, etc. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall be deemed and taken to be a public act, and shall continue in force for twenty years. Duration of charter. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CXCIX. (O. No. 91.) An Act to incorporate Willeo Cotton Mills in the county of Cobb, and to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors in or near the same: whereas, Andrew J. Hansell and William A. Hansell are the proprietors of, and are now operating, a Cotton Factory on Willeo Creek, in the suburbs of the town of Roswell, in the county of Cobb, of the cost and value of thirty thousand dollars, and desire an act of incorporation: SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do, therefore, enact, That said Andrew J. Hansell and William A. Hansell, together with such other persons as they may hereafter associate with them, their successors and assigns be, and are hereby, made and constituted in fact and in name a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of Willeo Cotton Mills, and by their said name shall be, and are hereby, made capable in law of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, having and using a common seal, and of altering the same at their pleasure;

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of manufacturing all and every article made of cotton; of buying, receiving, owning and alienating any and all real and personal estate they may deem proper or necessary for their said business, or such as they may think proper to take in settlement of debts, or in exchange of their productions, and to do all other acts incident to a corporation. Corporat'rs. Corporate name. Power to sue. Manufact're of articles from cotton. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be thirty thousand dollars, with the privilege to said corporation of increasing the same to one hundred thousand dollars, and that it shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. Said corporation shall have the right to prescribe the terms and the manner in which said stock shall be paid in, sold and assigned, and the right to prescribe the manner in which stockholders shall vote, and to provide for the election of such officers to manage the affairs of said company as they may deem necessary and proper; to establish such by-laws and regulations as they may deem expedient, not in conflict with the laws of the State or of the United States, and to do and perform all such things as may be necessary for the manufacture and sale of their goods. Capital stock. Shares. Power to [Illegible Text] manner of subscriptions for stock. Stockholders vote. [Illegible Text] may be [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company shall have power to borrow money and execute such securities therefor as it may think proper, and to loan out its net earnings from time to time, and to take and enforce mortgages and other securities for the same. Company may borrow money. May loan out earnings. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the private property of the stockholders shall be liable for the debts of said corporation to the amount of their subscribed stock not paid in at the time any suit may be commenced. Individual liability of stockh'ders. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said company may organize under this charter at any time within twelve months. Company may [Illegible Text]when. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall sell, barter or exchange, or in any manner dispose of any spirituous or intoxicating liquors of any name or kind whatever, within two miles of the [Illegible Text] of said company, and that any one doing the same shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, in the [Illegible Text] of the court. Unlawful to [Illegible Text] liquors, where. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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CHAPTER VIII. RAILROAD COMPANIES. Barnard and Anderson Street R. R. Comp'y.....NO. ACT.200 Eastern and Western Transp'tation Comp'y.....201 Elberton Air-Line R. R. Company.....202 Elberton Air-Line R. R. Company.....203 Gainesville, Blairsville and N. W. R. R. Co.....204 Gainesville Street R. R. Company.....205 Georgia Southern R. R. Company.....206 Gordon County Railway and Mining Co......207 Hiwassee Valley R. R. Company.....208 Milliken's Bend and Wadesboro R. R. Co......209 Murray County Mining and Railway Co......210 North Georgia and Duck Town R. R. Co......211 Sandersville and Tennelle R. R. Co......212 Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard R. R. Co......213 Western Railroad of Alabama.....214 No. CC. (O. No. 11.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to incorporate the Barnard and Anderson Street Railroad, and for the purpose of opening a railroad communication from Savannah to Laurel Grove Cemetery, and for other purposes, approved August 23, 1872. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact That the twelfth section of said act be amended as follows: That the said railroad shall be constructed as follows: commencing at a point on the southern side of Congress street, in Barnard street thence through Barnard street southwardly to the intersection with Jones street, thence westerly through Jones street to the intersection of Tatnall street, thence southerly through Tatnall to Gwinett street, thence through Gwinett to West Broad street, then down West Broad to Anderson street, down Anderson street west to Laurel Grove Cemetery. Location of road. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the time allowed for the completion of said road be two years from the passage of this Act. Time for completion. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 5, 1875.

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No. CCI. (O. No. 329.) An Act to incorporate the Eastern and Western Transportation Company, and to grant the right-of-way for the location and construction of a more direct line of railroad between the Atlantic ocean and the Mississippi river. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, now assembled, That Winborn Lawton, J. L. Pearce, David Maybank, Edward H. [Illegible Text], James M. Eason, C. J. Colcock, Marshall P. Ayers, C. M. Fauntleroy, J. H. Maddox, Augustine J. Smith, H. G. Angle, and their associates, be, and they are hereby, created a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the Eastern and Western Transportation Company, and by that name may sue and be sued in all the courts of competent jurisdiction. Said corporation shall have the right to a common seal and trade-mark, and to keep and use the same. The object of said company is to carry on a domestic and international transportation business, by land and water, and to construct the shortest practicable line of railroad from a point in South Carolina, across the State of Georgia, commencing in Beaufort county, South Carolina, and running as direct a practicable to Macon, Georgia, thence to Troup or Heard county, on the Alabama State line, continuing westward. Corporators. Corporate name. May sue and be sued. Common seal. Object of the comp'y. Road from Beaufort, S. C., to Macon and westward. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That [Illegible Text] right-of-way is hereby granted for the location and construction of said railroad line, subject to the statutes of this State, applicable [Illegible Text] similar undertakings and works, and which statutes are now in force. Right of-way granted. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the [Illegible Text] Assembly of this State reserves the right to amend this [Illegible Text], from time to time, should additional legislation be necessary. Power to amend charter reserved. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this company shall have similar privileges and rights as have been [Illegible Text] to the Richmond Air-line, Macon and Augusta, and South Carolina Railroad Companies, by the General Assembly of this [Illegible Text]. Power to amend charter reserved. Privileges rights conferred. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That work must be commenced within three years, and the road [Illegible Text] within ten years thereafter. Work to be commenced within 8 years. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That [Illegible Text] capital stock of the company shall be six millions, with power [Illegible Text] increase it to fifty thousand dollars per mile of route. The stock [Illegible Text] be personal property, and so transferable upon the books of [Illegible Text] company. It shall be in shares of one hundred dollars each [Illegible Text] in half shares of fifty dollars each, at the option of the company.

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Stockholders shall not be liable for more than the [Illegible Text] subscribed for. Capital stock. Stock personal property. Shares and half [Illegible Text]. Liability of [Illegible Text] SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, [Illegible Text] the right of way to cross the Savannah River, between the [Illegible Text] of Argyle Island and the mouth of Briar creek, so as not to [Illegible Text] the navigation of said river, is hereby grantedthe same right to apply to all other water courses upon the [Illegible Text] route. The right to cross all railroads, roads, streets, and other thoroughfares, under equitable restrictions, is hereby granted. Right of across Savannah river. Right to cross railroads, etc. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. No. CCII. (O. No. 124.) An Act to amend the first sentence of the third section of an act [Illegible Text] an act to construct a railroad from Elberton, Georgia, to [Illegible Text] with the New York and New Orleans Air-Line Railroad by the most practicable route, passed December 13, 1871, and for other [Illegible Text] therein mentioned. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State [Illegible Text] Georgia, That said first sentence be, and the same is hereby changed and amended, and made to read as follows, to-wit: [Illegible Text] the capital stock of said company may be less, but shall not exceed one million dollars. Capital stock. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCIII. (O. No. 273.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to construct a railroad from [Illegible Text], Georgia, to intersect with the New York and New [Illegible Text] Air-Line Railroad by the most practicable route, and to confer [Illegible Text] powers on the Elberton Air-Line Railroad Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State Georgia, That the said Elberton Air-Line Railroad Company [Illegible Text] have power to make all contracts necessary and proper for [Illegible Text] building and completion of said railroad; to purchase iron, [Illegible Text]

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[Illegible Text] and equipment of the same, and for the purposes aforesaid; [Illegible Text] issue its bonds, payable at such time, and bearing such rate of interest, as are allowed by law at the time of the contract of issuing [Illegible Text] bonds, etc., and based upon such security as may be agreed [Illegible Text], and to sell such bonds, or otherwise dispose of them, as their Board of Directors may determine. Power to make Contracts. To purchase rolling [Illegible Text]. To issue bonds. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCIV. (O. No. 296.) An Act to confer additional powers upon the Gainesville, Blairsville and Northwestern Railroad Company, authorizing them to build a [Illegible Text], and for other purposes, and to amend the charter of the same, approved February 21, 1873. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of [Illegible Text], That in addition to the powers conferred upon the above [Illegible Text] company by the act incorporating the same, approved [Illegible Text] 21, 1873, that the corporators in said act named be, and [Illegible Text] are hereby, authorized and empowered to lay off and construct [Illegible Text] upon the line contemplated in said act, of which this is [Illegible Text], and to make upon said line a first class turnpike, or [Illegible Text] road, which said corporators may discontinue at any [Illegible Text] when said company be ready to proceed with the work of structing a railroad upon said line, as contemplated by said [Illegible Text] act. Corporators may build turnpike. [Illegible Text] may be [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have the [Illegible Text] to charge such rates of toll as they, in their judgment, may [Illegible Text]: Provided, that they shall not obstruct any public road that [Illegible Text] may cross, or run parallel with. either public or private. Company may charge [Illegible Text]. Proviso. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons [Illegible Text] the property of said corporation by felling timbers in or [Illegible Text] said road, or obstructing it in any other way, shall be guilty [Illegible Text] misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished as [Illegible Text] in section 4310 of the Code of 1873, and also be liable for [Illegible Text] at the suit of the parties aggrieved. Misdemeanor to obstruct road. Punishment. [Illegible Text] may [Illegible Text] recovered. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the rates of toll agreed upon [Illegible Text] road as long as the road is used as a turnpike, shall be [Illegible Text] in all the offices of said company, and at all other public [Illegible Text] along the line of the same. Rates of toll to be published. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said charter or act of which [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text], shall continue of force by virtue of the construction

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of the road-bed as herein provided for, and the same may, at any time hereafter, be used in the construction of a railroad [Illegible Text] originally contemplated. Charter to continue of forcehow. SEC. VI Be it further enacted, That said company shall have power and authority to cross the Chattahoochee river, and all other water courses along the line of their said road, build bridges and culverts, and do such other work as may be necessary to the construction of their said road. Company may cross Chattahoochee. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCV. (O. No. 18.) An Act to incorporate the Gainesville Street Railroad Company, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, W. T. Whetstone, Allen D. Candler and Robert E. Green have constructed a street railroad in the city of Gainesville, in this State, under authority of the Mayor and Council [Illegible Text] said city; and, WHEREAS, it is to the interest of the said parties, proprietors of said railroad, to be incorporated; therefore, Gainesville Street Railroad Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State [Illegible Text] Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, W. T. Whetstone, Allen D. Candler, Robert E. Green, and such [Illegible Text] persons as they may associate with them, their successors [Illegible Text] assigns be, and they are hereby made a body corporate and politic by the name and style of the Gainesville Street Railroad Company, and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity in this State, or where their right may come in question; may have and use a common seal, and [Illegible Text] same alter or destroy at pleasure; and purchase, accept, [Illegible Text] enjoy or convey, any property, real, personal or mixed, that may be necessary for the purposes hereinafter set forth, or which the may acquire in the progress of their business. Corporators. Corporate name. Rights and powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, [Illegible Text] said company shall have the exclusive right, for thirty years, [Illegible Text] survey, lay out, contract, equip, own and operate street railroad in the city of Gainesville, subject to the approval of the Mayor and Council of said city, first had for each route selected, before [Illegible Text] shall begin thereon. Exclusive right. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, [Illegible Text] the officers of said company shall be a President, Secretary, [Illegible Text] three or more Directors, to be chosen at such time, and in [Illegible Text] manner, as the corporators, or a majority of them, may determine

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and the said President and Directors shall have full power and authority to make all needful rules and regulations for carrying on the business of said company; Provided, they are not in conflict with the Constitution and laws of the United States, nor of this State. Officers. Rules and regulations. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the capital stock of said company shall be divided into one hundred and sixty shares, of fifty dollars each, and the number of shares may be increased, from time to time by a vote of a majority of stockholders, to a number of shares not exceeding two hundred for every mile of road built by them. Capital stock. Shares. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said company shall have power and authority to extend branches of its road to Gower's Chalybeate Spring, and to Holland's Limestone Spring, beyond the corporate limits of said city. Branches may be b'lt. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case any question shall arise as to damages to the owner or owners of land through which any portion of said road may now or may hereafter run, it shall be settled in the manner prescribed in the charter of the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Line Railway Company. Damageshow assessed and paid. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Gainesville Street Railroad Company may convey either [Illegible Text] or freight, or both, as the exigencies of the business community, and the public wants, may require. Passengers and freight. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 13, 1875. No. CCVI. (O. No. 249.) An Act to incorporate the Georgia Southern Railroad Company, and to [Illegible Text] certain powers and privileges to the same, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Edward D. Cowman, D. S. Appleton, Wm. Allen [Illegible Text], Daniel S. Printup and their associates, purchasers of the [Illegible Text] and all the property, rights, franchises and appurtenances which were of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company [Illegible Text] and being within the State of Georgia, at a sale thereof made [Illegible Text] the third day of November, 1874, pursuant to a decree of the [Illegible Text] Court of the State of Georgia, sitting as a Court of [Illegible Text] within Floyd county, and their successors, shall be a [Illegible Text] corporate and politic by the name and style of the Georgia

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Southern Railroad Company, and by said corporate name shall have, hold, own, possess and enjoy all that portion of the railroad constructed and in operation, commencing at the State line of Alabama, near Etna, and extending, by the way of Rome, to Dalton, Georgia, and all other rights, franchises and property which were of the Selma, Rome and Dalton Railroad Company, with its appurtenances within the State of Georgia, as fully to all intents and [Illegible Text] and by said [Illegible Text] to purchase, accept, hold and convey real and personal estate, make contracts, sue and be sued, and do all other things and acts properly incident to a corporation, and necessary and proper for the management and operation of a railroad, and to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter and destroy at pleasure. Corporators. Corporate name. May own Selma R'me Dalton R. R. [Illegible Text] Common seal. SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company shall be three hundred thousand dollars, divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, but may from time to time be increased as the necessities of the company shall require, to an amount not exceeding one million of dollars. Capital stock. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the property, business and affairs of the said company shall be managed and conducted by a Board of Directors of five or seven in number, as shall be chosen, one of whom shall be a resident of Georgia, and by the officers and agents whom they shall appoint. The first Board of Directors shall be elected by the purchasers of said railroad, or a majority in value of them, in person or by proxy, within sixty days after the passage of this Act, at a meeting duly called at the city of Rome, in the State of Georgia, who shall hold their office for one year, and until their successors shall be elected and qualified. Directors shall be elected annually by the stockholders in person, or by proxy, but a failure to so elect shall be no forfeiture of the charter, and the Directors previously elected shall remain in office until a meeting of the stockholders, called by the order of the Board of Directors, on not less than thirty days' notice, by publication in one newspaper in the city of New York, and one in the city of Rome, in the State of Georgia. The meetings of the stockholders shall be held in Rome, in the State of Georgia, but the meetings of the Board of Directors may be held in New York or elsewhere, as they may decide. Each share shall be entitled to one vote. The Board of Directors shall have power to make by-laws, and all elections shall be held in accordance with such by-laws. Board of Directors. First Directorswho shall elect. Time of election, Electionwhere to be held. Term of Office. Annual election by stockh'ders. Stockh'd'rs' meetingwhere to be held. Directorsmay meet elsewhere. By-laws. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Directors shall, at their first meeting, elect from their own number a President, whose term of office shall be one year, or until his successor shall be duly elected and qualified. They shall also appoint a Secretary, a Treasurer, a Superintendent, and such other officers and agents as they may deem proper, who shall hold their offices during the

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pleasure of the Board. Three of said Board of Directors, including the President, shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business of said company. Presidentterm of office. Other [Illegible Text] Quorum. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the said company shall have the power to extend their line of railroad, and to locate and construct branches thereof, within the State of Georgia. Company may [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to any other railroad companies [Illegible Text] the State of Georgia, and also to such railroad companies in other States, as by the laws of such States may be so authorized, and upon such terms as may be agreed upon by the Board of Directors, and approved by a majority in interest of the stockholders of this company, and the said company so leasing or buying, shall have and possess all the rights, powers, and privileges of this company. [Illegible Text] Conditions. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall take effect, and shall be and continue in force, from and after the date of its passage. Act to take [Illegible Text] SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCVII. (O. No. 196.) An Act to incorporate the Gordon County Railway and Mining Company, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, John E. Meister, H. S. Chamberlain and J. T. Wilder, and such other persons as may be associated with them, be, and they are hereby, created a body politic and corporate under the name of the Gordon County Railway and Mining Company, with all the rights and privileges necessary to such a corporation, with power of succession; to have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure. Corporators Corporate name. Rights and privileges. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have the power to construct a broad or narrow gauge railroad from their [Illegible Text] mines in Gordon county to some accessible point on the Western and Atlantic railroad, with the privilege of crossing the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad, and with privilege on the part of said railway company of building such branch roads as may be by it deemed necessary and advantageous to the business of said company. Narrow gauge R. R. Line of road Privilege of crossing other roads. Branch r'ds SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That for the purpose of building said railroad, and carrying on the business of mining, all the rights,

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privileges and benefits granted to the Dade Coal Mining Company be, and the same are hereby, granted to the Gordon County Railway and Mining Company, with all the burthens and liabilities imposed on said Dade Coal Mining Company. Privileges granted to this company. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CCVIII. (O. No. 212.) An Act to incorporate the Hiwassee Valley Railroad Company. SECTION I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That for the purpose of constructing a railroad of one or more tracks from some point on the North Carolina line, in Towns county, in the State of Georgia, to connect with railroads from the Atlantic seaboard, in Rabun county, to be hereafter determined on the most advantageous route, in the opinion of the company hereinafter named, or their legal representatives, or the nature of the route will permit E. B. Olmsted, A. A. Campbell, P. C. Hughes, J. W. Patton, J. S. Anderson, B. Hennegar, W. P. Rathburn, Thomas Caps, W. R. McConnell, and their associates, successors, and assigns, are constituted a company, and are hereby incorporated under the name and style of the Hiwassee Valley Railroad Company, with a capital stock of five hundred thousand dollars, with the privilege of increasing the same to five millions of dollars, which shall have a corporate existence as a body politic for the space of ninety-nine years, and by that name may sue and be sued, plea and be impleaded in every court in the State of Georgia, and may have and use a common seal, and shall be capable of holding and leasing and conveying estate, real, and mixed, and personal, and acquiring the same by gift or device, so far as may be necessary for the purpose herein contemplated, and the said company may enjoy all the rights and immunities which other corporate bodies may lawfully exercise, and make all necessary by-laws and regulations for its government, not inconsistent with the laws of Georgia and the United States. Purposes of this charter Corporators [Illegible Text] Valley Railroad Co. Capit'l st'ck Duration of charter. General powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock of said company may be created by subscriptions on the part of individuals or municipal, or other corporations, in shares of the value of one hundred dollars each, which may be made in lands, timber, work or money, as may be stipulated. Capital stock may be createdhow. Shares. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That books of subscription to the capital stock of said company may be opened by the following commissioners, to-wit: At Murphy, North Carolina, by J. W.

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Patton, E. B. Olmsted, P. C. Hughes and A. A. Campbell; at Hiwassee, Georgia, by J. S. Anderson and Thomas Caps; at Charleston, Tennessee, by B. Hennegar and W. P. Rathburn, and by such other persons, and at such other places as they, or a majority of them, may direct, and that twenty days notice of the opening of said books shall be given in one or more newspapers, and furthermore, that the said commissioners, or a majority of them, may, at any time after said books have been kept open for the space of thirty days, and the sum of fifty thousand dollars has been subscribed to the capital stock of said company, and five per cent. paid thereon, have power to call together the subscribers to said stock for the purpose of completing the organization of said company, and the said subscribers shall be, and are hereby, declared incorporated into a company by the said name and style of the Hiwassee Valley Railroad Company. Books of subscrip'ionwhere and by whom to be opened. Company may [Illegible Text]when. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the said company may hold annual meetings of the stockholders, and oftener if necessary, and at its organization and the annual meetings subsequent thereto, twelve Directors shall be elected by the stockholders, to hold office for one year, or until their successors shall be elected, and any of the said meetings shall have power to make or alter the by laws of the company: Provided, that in all such meetings of the stock holders, a majority of the stock subscribed shall be represented in person or by proxy, and each share thus represented shall be entitled to one vote; that it shall be the duty of said Directors to appoint one of their number President of the company, and to fill all vacancies in the Board. Annual meeting of stockholders. Directors. By-laws. Proviso. President and vacancies. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That after the company shall be organized as aforesaid, the Board of Directors shall proceed to locate, and have constructed as speedily as possible, a railroad on the route indicated in this charter. That the said company shall have the exclusive right of transportation by said railroad; and that the said company may assign or lease their rights and franchises on said road to any person or persons, or corporation. Road to be constructed. Exclusive right. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That the said company shall have the power to use and enforce the payment of the stock subscribed under the laws of the State in which such subscription may be made, and shall have the power to condemn lands for the use of the company when such lands cannot be acquired by the consent of the owner, under the laws for such cases made and provided in the State in which such lands may be located. Payment subscript'n may be enforced. Right-of-way. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That all contracts made and entered into by the President or Superintendent of said company, and which have been authorized by the Directors, shall be binding upon said company, and the President shall, under the instructions of the Board of Directors, issue certificates of stock to stockholders, which shall be transferable by the by-laws of the company. Contracts. Certificates of stock.

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SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall be in force from and after its ratification. Act to take effect, wh'n SEC. IX. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCIX. (O. No. 160.) An Act to incorporate the Milliken's Bend and Wadesboro Railway Company, and for other purposes therewith connected relating to the formation, organization, construction and operating said road. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, H. W. Jones, D. M. Doyle, D. P. Chandler, S. M. Peterson, S. B. Hoyt, W. R. Biggers, T. S. Garner, E. M. Johnson, and such other persons and corporators as may be associated with them, and their successors and assigns, be and they are hereby created a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Milliken's Bend and Wadesboro Railway Company, and in and by that name may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or equity in this State, or in the United States, may make by-laws, and appoint all necessary officers, and prescribe their duties, and may accept, purchase, hold and convey any property whatsoever, either real or personal, necessary for the purposes of organizing, forming, constructing, equipping and operating said railway; may make contracts, have and use a common seal, and do all other lawful acts properly incident to and connected with said incorporation and necessary for the organization, control and transaction of its business: Provided, that their by-laws be not repugnant to the laws and Constitution of this State, or of the United States. Corporat'rs. Corporate name. May sue and be sued. May make by-laws. May purchase, hold and convey property neces'ary in constructing road. May make contracts have a seal. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That, for the organization of said company, said persons, hereinbefore named, or a majority of them, shall have power to appoint the times and places at which subscriptions for stock in said company may be taken, and every person, corporation or body politic subscribing at any such places, or at any time afterwards, under the direction of a majority of said corporators or Directors, hereinafter named, shall be stockholders in said company, and shall pay in the stock subscribed for, at such times and in such amounts as the by-laws and regulations of said Company may require; and said corporators, or a majority of them, shall, in a reasonable time thereafter, appoint a time and place for the meeting of said stockholders, of which they shall give

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thirty days notice in such public newspapers in this State as they may deem necessary, at which time and place, or at any other time and place, of which notice may be given as aforesaid, said stockholders may proceed to an election of a President and six Directors, who shall constitute the first President and Board of Directors, and said President and Board of Directors shall hold their office for one year, or until their successors are elected, and may prescribe, in their by-laws, the time and manner of holding their subsequent annual elections of President and Directors, and in all cases, the stockholders shall have the right to vote in person, or by proxy, under power of attorney duly executed; the number of votes to which each stockholder shall be entitled, shall be according to the number of shares which he, or she, or they, may hold in his, her, or their own right, or interest, for three months prior to the day of such election, one vote for each share. The Board of Directors shall have power to fill all vacancies which may occur in the Board. Five Directors shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, of whom the President shall be one, except in cases of sickness or absence, when his place may be filled by one of the Directors pro tem. by a majority of the Board present. Subscription for st'k in the Company. Stockholders. Notice of meeting of stockhol'rs. President Directors. Term of office. Stockholders to vote how. Vacancies. Quorum. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital of said company shall be one million of dollars, which may be increased to an amount not exceeding the cost of the construction of said road and its outfits, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and said shares shall be transferable on the books of said company as may be prescribed by said Directors; and no stockholder, indebted to said company, shall transfer his, her, or their stock without the consent of the Board of Directors. Capital st'k. Shares. Transfer of stock. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have full power and authority to survey, lay out and construct a railway from some eligible point on the Alabama State line, to some eligible point on the boundary line between this Sate and the State of South Carolina, in the direction of Wadesboro, North Carolina, and the same to equip and enjoy, and that all questions concerning the right-of-way between said company and the owners of land through which said railway may run, shall be tried and determined according to the provisions of the fourth section of an act (approved September 7, 1868) to amend an act to incorporate the Georgia Airline Railway Company, and to confer thereon certain powers and privileges. That said railway company shall have authority to receive subscriptions in lands or labor, as may be agreed between the company and the persons subscribing; and that said company may build one or more branches of its road to such point or points as said company may deem necessary. [Illegible Text] of road. Questions of right-of-wayhow tried and determined. Subscriptioned in Branch roads. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the said Milliken's Bend and Wadesboro Railway Company be, and they are hereby, authorized to consolidate, combine, or unite, with any other railroad company

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or companies, directly or indirectly, connecting therewith, in this or the adjoining States, and may unite the management of said companies upon such terms, conditions, and provisions, as shall be agreed upon by and between such companies so consolidating or uniting, and thereupon such consolidated or united companies shall be invested in this State with all the rights, privileges, and immunities conferred, and be subject to all the restrictions imposed by this charter on the Milliken's Bend and Wadesboro Railway Company, and the amendments thereto; and such companies so consolidating, or uniting, may adopt such other or modified corporate name, and may increase or diminish the number of directors now provided for, as shall be determined best and be agreed upon by such companies; and said new Board shall be elected at a meeting to be held at the time of said consolidation of the stockholders of said companies, so consolidating or uniting. Road may [Illegible Text] or [Illegible Text] with other roads. Rights powers and privileges of consolidat'd roads. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That it shall be lawful for any corporate town or city in this State, interested in the construction of said railway, or any branch thereof, authorized as aforesaid, to subscribe to the capital stock of said company, or of any company with which it may be consolidated, or united, as aforesaid, such sums, and to be payable in such manner, as the people or proper authorities of such town or city shall deem best, determine and authorize by an election held in said town or city, as provided by the Constitution of the State; and for the purpose of facilitating the early and economical construction and equipment of its road, and works for use, may receive by grant, purchase, lease or otherwise, any estate or property whatsoever, real or personal, and the same to hold, use, sell, convey, and dispose of, as the interests of said company may require. Incorporated towns may subscribe for stock. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCX. (O. No. 198.) An Act to incorporate the [Illegible Text] County Mining and Railway Company. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, John [Illegible Text] Meister, J. D. Wilder and H. S. Chamberlain, and such persons as may be associated with them, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Murray County Mining and Railway Company, and by that name shall have succession, and shall be able and capable to sue and be sued

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to plead and be impleaded in any court whatever; may have and use a common seal, alter and renew the same at pleasure; and said company shall have the powers, facilities franchises and rights necessary and proper for the carrying on the mining for iron, copper, gold, silver, slate, mica, and such other minerals as may be found on the land now owned by them, or as they may hereafter acquire by law, purchase, gift, grant or otherwise, for the erection and carrying on mills, furnaces, and all other buildings, machinery and fixtures, necessary for the successful operation [Illegible Text] the business of said company, and the beneficial management of its property, and for the transportation of its iron or other mineral or minerals to market; and shall have all the power and authority of a natural person to acquire, purchase, lease and hold any property, real, personal or mixed, which may be deemed by said company necessary or advantageous for its purposes. Corporators. Corporate name. General powers. Powersfacilities, rights and [Illegible Text] for running Powers to hold, lease, [Illegible Text] and [Illegible Text] property. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all the rights, privileges and benefits granted by the General Assembly of Georgia to the Dade Coal Mining Company, be, and the same are hereby, granted to the Murray County Mining and Railway Company, subject to all the burthens and liabilities imposed by the charter and amendment on the Dade Coal Mining Company. Rights, powers and benefits [Illegible Text] on this company. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have the privilege of constructing either a broad or narrow gauge railroad from the city of Dalton, in Whitfield county, to their mining property on Cahuttah mountain, in Murray county, with such branches, as they may deem advantageous, from the main line to any of their present or future acquired mining property on said Cahuttah mountain, and for the purpose of constructing and maintaining said railroad, all the rights and privileges granted the Rome and Summerville Railroad Company, with all the burthens and liabilities of said act, are hereby granted to and conferred on the Murray County Mining and Railway Company. Right to construct [Illegible Text] railroad. Some rights and privileges as granted Summerville R. R. Company. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CCXI. (O. No. 343.) An Act to amend the charter of the North Georgia and Duck Town Railroad, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the first section of an act entitled an act to incorporate the North Georgia and Duck Town Railroad, approved 27th of August, 1872, be amended

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by striking out all the persons named in the first section of said act, and by inserting the following: Joseph G. Lowry, D. W. K. Peacock, John R. Adair, W. M. Dyer, Aaron Knight and Abda Johnson, a majority of whom shall be a quorum. Additional corporators. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the name of said company be, and the same is changed, from the North Georgia and Duck Town Railroad, to that of the Iron Valley Railroad. Name changed. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the second and tenth sections of the above recited act be amended by striking out two hundred thousand, and inserting in lieu thereof, ten thousand, with the right to increase the capital stock to two hundred thousand dollars. Capital stock. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said company, when organized and ready to commence work, shall have the right to start the construction of said road from any point on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, between the Etowah river, in the county of Bartow, and Kingston, in said county. Beginning point of construction. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. No. CCXII. (O. No. 328.) An Act to incorporate the Sandersville and Tennelle Railroad Company, and to confer certain powers and privileges on the same. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That George D. Warthen Co., Mark Newman Co., Brantly Pringle, P. Happ Co., Warthen Watkins, John H. Pittman, S. B. Jones, H. D. A. R. Adams, John N. Gilmore, A. Mathis, R. M. Freeman, G. W. Peacock, B. D. Evans, and such other persons as may be associated with them, be, and they are hereby, constituted a body politic and corporate by the name of the Sandersville and Tennelle Railroad Company, and as such may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court in this State; may have and use a common seal, and alter the same at pleasure; may purchase, hold and sell any property necessary or convenient to the use of the charter; may exercise in general all the powers incident to corporations, and shall continue as such corporation for one hundred years. Corporators. Corporate name. General powers. Duration of charter. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said company shall have power and authority to survey, lay out, construct, equip, and use a railroad from the right-of way of the Central Railroad at Tennelle, No. 13, on said road, in Washington county, to Sandersville, in said county, by a convenient and practicable route, and carry travelers and freight over said railroad for reasonable compensation,

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which they are empowered to collect as other railroad companies do; to open books, and procure subscription for stock at such time and places as may be thought proper; to borrow money, and make contracts on account of said road, and to lease the same if they choose. Railroad may be constructedwhere. Common carrier. Books of subscrip'n. Right to borrow money, etc. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the capital stock in said company shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and shall not exceed fifty thousand dollars. The stockholders shall elect a Board of Directors, and each share shall be entitled to one vote. The Board of Directors shall elect one of their number to be President of the company, and such other officer or officers as may be deemed necessary or convenient, each Director being entitled to one vote in such election. [Illegible Text] Shares. Directors. President and other officers. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That where a question of right-of-way may arise, and the parties shall be unable to agree, the owner of the land shall select a man, or his attorney or agent may do so, and the agent of the company shall select a man, and they shall agree upon the value of the damages, if they can, and if they cannot, they, too, shall select a third man, disinterested, and a majority of the three shall assess the damages to be paid by the company for the right-of-way through the owner's land, either party having the right to appeal, within ten days, to the Superior Court, according to law: Provided, the right-of-way shall not be over fifty feet on each side of the track of said railroad. Question of rig't-of-wayhow set'd appeal. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That the said company shall have full power and authority to carry such railway through any streets of Sandersville or Tennelle, as may be agreed upon by the corporate authorities, and said company, and over any public road or roads, and across any streams, creek or branches, or water courses which may be in the route of said railway, as located and determined by the engineer of said company. Ri't-of-way [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] etc. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said corporation shall have full power to make such by-laws and rules as may be deemed necessary for the objects of their incorporation, not inconsistent with the laws of the land. by-laws. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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No. CCXIII. (O. No. 204.) An Act to amend the incorporating the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad Company, and the act granting further privileges to said company, and amending its charter to confer certain powers upon said company, and for other purposes therein mentioned. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad Company, whenever its Board of Directors may deem it expedient for the interests of said company, and for the public benefit, shall have a right to abandon East Broad and West Broad streets, and such portions of Bay street as are not in actual use, and with the consent of the City Council of Savannah at the time, any other street or streets in the city of Savannah as said company may be operating to its own loss or injury, and to take up and remove the iron and material from said street or streets without prejudice to its charter, said company to leave said street or streets in good condition, and to relay and use the same in any other street or streets of said city which it may have the right to use for a street railway under the laws of the State, or under the ordinances of said city Provided, that the said company shall relinquish any and all exclusive right to the use of the streets so abandoned: and, Provided further, that this Act shall not be construed to confer upon the said company any right or privilege other than they may now have except such as are expressly mentioned in this Act. Right to abandon certain str's granted. Streets to be left in good condition. May occupy other str'ts. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the charter of said company as requires it to build and operate a street railway through Drayton street, in said city, from Bay to Anderson street, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Company not required to build a railroad in Drayton st. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875.

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No. CCXIV. (O. No. 160.) An Act to authorize and provide for the purchase of the Western Railroad, of Alabama, its property and franchises, by the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, and the Central Railroad and Banking Company, of Georgia, or by either of them, and to authorize said companies to issue bonds in certain cases, and to authorize connecting lines to aid in said purchase, and issue bonds therefor, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, The Western Railroad, of Alabama, and all the property and franchises pertaining to the same, both real and personal, and mixed, which road extends from Columbus and West Point, Georgia, to Opelika, in Alabama, and there uniting, extends westward via Montgomery to Selma, are likely to be sold at an early day, under judgment or decree of a Court of Chancery, or other competent tribunal, in Alabama, and that part of said property lying in Georgia, likely to be sold under judgment or decree of some competent tribunal in the latter State; and, WHEREAS, communication over said Western Railroad with the West and Southwest, and with the contemplated Southern Pacific Trans-Continental Railroad, is of great importance and benefit to the people of this State; therefore, Preamble. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, and the Central Railroad and Banking Company, of Georgia be, and they are hereby, authorized to become purchasers of said Western Railroad, of Alabama, its property and franchises, or any part thereof, at any sale, or sales, of the same, that may be had in Georgia, or Alabama, or both, and may hold the title to the same under their existing corporate capacities, or may acquire and hold stock in the present Western Railroad Company, of Alabama, or any new corporation that shall be organized to take the place of the same, under the laws of either the State of Georgia or Alabama, or both, upon such terms, as to their relative rights and interests, as said two Georgia companies have, or may agree upon, and if they fail to so agree, then, either of the two shall be authorized to proceed alone in the premises, and to purchase and hold separtely, as aforesaid, and power to make all contracts, and do all acts necessary, or proper, for said purposes, is hereby conferred on said companies, so far as not already existing in their charters respectively. Ga. R. R. Banking Co. and Central R. R. B'k'g Co. may purchase Western R. R. of Ala. Rights and powers. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be lawful for either said Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, and said Central Railroad and Banking Company, or both, to make any contract with the owner or persons controlling any connecting line of railroad, by which such connecting line or

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lines may aid in supplying the means for, and effecting, said purchase, and be interested in the same upon such terms as the parties may respectively agree on; and all contracts thus made, shall be in all respects valid and binding upon the several corporations concerned as if originally contained in their charters respectively. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Georgia Railroad and Banking Company, and said Central Railroad and Banking Company be, and they are hereby, authorized, conjointly or separately, to issue their bonds to such extent as may be necessary to effect such purchase, and the objects of this Act, not exceeding the amount of the bonds secured by two first mortgages and one second mortgage, as described in the record of the chancery suit and decree rendered in Montgomery county, Alabama, under which said property is already advertised for sale, which several mortgages amount in gross to ($2,595,000.00) two millions five hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars, or near that sum, besides interest; and the owners, companies or persons controlling said connecting lines be, and they are hereby, authorized to issue their bonds respectively, to the extent that they may become interested in said purchase. Bonds may be issued by purchasing roads to effect [Illegible Text] Connecting roads authorized to issue bonds. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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TITLE II. COUNTIES AND COUNTY REGULATIONS. CHAPTER I.County Commissioners. CHAPTER II.County Lines. CHAPTER III.County Officers. CHAPTER IV.County Regulations. CHAPTER I. COUNTY COMMISSIONERS. applingBoard formed.....NO. ACT.215 [Illegible Text]Board formed.....216 [Illegible Text]Board, election and clerk.....217 [Illegible Text]Board, time of meeting, liquor license, etc......218 [Illegible Text]Board abolished.....219 [Illegible Text]Board, clerk, orders, etc......220 [Illegible Text]Board organized.....221 [Illegible Text]Board organized.....222 [Illegible Text]Board organized.....223 [Illegible Text]Board, county funds.....224 [Illegible Text]Board, time and place of meeting.....225 [Illegible Text]Board abolished.....226 [Illegible Text]Board organized.....227 [Illegible Text]Board organized.....228 Floyd, Berrien, Effingham, Schley, Sumter and GreenPay of commissioners.....229 ForsythBoard abolished, commissioner appointed.....230 GwinnettBoard, oaths and constables.....231 JacksonBoard, special tax.....232 Laurens and JohnsonBoards created.....233 LumpkinBoard organized.....234 MadisonBoard, grand jury to elect.....235 MuscogeeBoard, grand juty to elect.....236 PikeBoard, compensation.....237 QuitmanBoard, farm and convicts.....238 TwiggsBoard organized.....239 WalkerBoard, jurisdiction, etc......240 No. CCXV. (O. No. 365.) An Act to form a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Appling. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act all the powers and [Illegible Text] of the Ordinary of Appling county, so far as the same [Illegible Text] to roads, bridges, ferries, public buildings, and other property, [Illegible Text] management of paupers and pauper fund, assessing and [Illegible Text] tax, disbursing the county funds for county purposes, and all

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laws in reference thereto, are hereby conferred upon a County Board of Commissioners as hereinafter set forth. [Illegible Text] Appointm't Quorum. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said Board shall consist of five qualified persons, to be appointed by the grand jury of said county, and approved by the Judge of the Superior Court at the spring term of said court, 1875, and three of said Board may transact any business over which the said Board has jurisdiction. Appointm't Quorum. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That at all regular elections hereafter for an Ordinary of said county, five Commissioners shall be elected, whose term of office shall be equal with that of the Ordinary, who shall discharge all duties herein named, and that in the event of the death, resignation or disability of either of said persons who may be elected, the Governor, upon notice thereof from any two of said Commissioners, shall order an election to fill such vacancy thus occasioned. Election of Commis'srs. Vacancies. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said Board shall meet at least six times during the year, and such other times as may be necessarythat it shall exercise all the powers and duties herein set forth; and that it shall keep a complete record of all their acts and doings. Regular and spec'l meetings. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Board is hereby appointed also a Board of School Commissioners, to act in the place of the present School Board of said county. A complete record of their proceedings in this branch shall also be kept separate from the other business that is made to devolve upon them. School commissioners. Record of proc'dings. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That at the first meeting of said Board they shall elect one of their number for President, who shall preside during the term of his office, and in the absence of said President they may choose any other member to preside. The compensation of said members of said Board shall be one dollar and a half per day for service actually rendered. President. Compens'n of members. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That the said Board is hereby empowered to employ a clerk, whose duty is hereby made to keep two separate records in which to enter the proceedings of the Board as appertains to the county school business, and the other business of the county. Stationery, etc., must be furnished him by said Board, whose duty it is to draw upon the county Treasurer for this purpose, and for the purpose of paying theirs and his salaries. The salary of the clerk shall not be more than thirty-five dollars per annum. Clerk. Stationery. Salary of clerks. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That the clerk and each member of said board, before entering upon the discharge of their duties, shall take an oath to faithfully and diligently discharge the duties which are incumbent upon them, to be rendered by the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county. Oath of [Illegible Text].

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SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That they all shall be exempt from jury, militia and road duty. Exemption from [Illegible Text], road and [Illegible Text] SEC. X. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CCXVI. (O. No. 127.) An Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the County of Baker. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That there shall be established in the county of Baker, in this State, a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, to consist of five persons, to be appointed by the grand jury of said county; a record of such appointment shall be entered upon the minutes of the Superior Court of said county, and a certificate of such appointment, issued by the Clerk of said court, shall be a sufficient warrant to said Comimssioners to enter upon the discharge of their duties, after having taken the usual oath of office prescribed for all civil officers of this State. The first Board of Commissioners shall be appointed at the next spring term of the Superior Court, which Board, and all succeeding Boards, shall hold their office for the term of three years, unless sooner removed by the Judge of the Superior Court, upon the request of two thirds of any grand jury, impannelled at any term of the Superior Court of said county. Commis'ers of roads and revenue. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to appoint. Certificate of app'tm't. App'tm't of first Board. Term of office. Members may be removed. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That vacancies occurring from death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by the remaining Commissioners, or, in the event of their disability or refusal to act, then by the Ordinary of said county, said appointment, in either event, to be subject to the ratification of the grand jury at its next session thereafter; if the appointment or appointments so made are not approved by the grand jury, then the vacancy or vacancies are to be filled by that body; and the person or persons so appointed shall discharge the duties of the office for the unexpired term of the out-going Commissioners. Vacancieshow filled. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That a majority of said Board shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Quorum for business. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall meet at the Court-house on the first Tuesday in every month, and on such other days as it may determine. That it shall keep a full and complete record of its actings and doings and shall submit said record to the grand jury of said county, for

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its inspection, the same as the books and records of other county officers. Monthly meetings. Record of [Illegible Text]. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said board shall have exclusive and original jurisdiction over the following subject-matters, to-wit: 1. In directing and controlling all the property of the county, as they may deem expedient, according to law. 2. In levying a general tax for general, and a special tax for particular, county purposes, according to the provisions of the Code. 3. In establishing, altering, or abolishing all roads, bridges and ferries, in conformity to law. 4. In establishing and changing election precincts and militia districts. 5. In supplying, by appointment, all vacancies in county offices, and ordering elections to fill them. 6. In examining and allowing all legal claims against the county. 7. In examining and auditing the accounts of all officers having the care, management, keeping, collection, or disbursement of money belonging to the county, or appropriated for its uses and benefits, and bringing them to a settlement. 8. In the regulation and management of paupers, and disbursement of pauper fund. 9. In regulating peddling in the county, and fixing the cost of license, if any be granted, for the sale of spirituous liquors, and shall have the same powers in appointing Road Commissioners, and in enforcing the road laws, as the Inferior Courts or the Justices thereof had by the Code of this State prior to the ratification of the present State Constitution, and shall exercise such other powers as were granted by said Code to said Justices of said Court, or as are indispensable to their jurisdiction, and shall have no jurisdiction save and except such as pertains to county matters. That said Commissioners shall have the same jurisdiction, to the exclusion of the Ordinary, as was exercised by said Ordinary when sitting for county purposes, except as to homestead applications, and except as a Court of Probate, or Court of Ordinary, and except such other powers and duties, exercised by said Ordinary, prior to the adoption of said Constitution, as a court or otherwise. Exclusive jurisdiction County property. County tax. Roads bridges and ferries. Election [Illegible Text] militia districts Filling vacancies. Claims ag'st county. Accounts of of officers. County funds. Paupers. Peddling. Retail [Illegible Text] license. Road Commissioners. Other powers. Jurisdiction. Exceptions SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall be eligible to the office of Commissioner under this Act unless he has been a resident citizen of the county for at least one year next preceding his qualification. That said Commissioners shall receive for compensation for their services the sum of two dollars per day for each day's service actually rendered, and are disqualified from holding any other county office while acting as Commissioners, but may be officers of the militia, and are exempt from militia and road duty. Eligibility. Compensation. Disqualification. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case any member of said Board of Commissioners shall absent himself for three consecutive meetings, his seat shall be deemed and declared vacant, unless his absence is satisfactorily explained to the Commissioners. Seats to be declared vacantwhen.

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SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall not be construed as repealing the act now in force, establishing a Board of Commissioners for said county of Baker, until the time fixed by law for the convening of the Superior Court for said county at its next spring term. This Acthow to be construed. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said commissioners, or either of them, shall have the same power in the administering of oaths as other civil officers of this State. SEC. X. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCXVII. (O. No. 275.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to establish a County Board of Commissioners for the county of Bibb, to define their duties, and for other purposes therein named, approved February 6, 1873, so far as to require said commissioners to be elected by the qualified voters of said county. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the above recited act be so amended that from and after the passage of this Act, the said Commissioners shall not be appointed by the Governor, as provided in the first section of said act, but they shall be elected by the qualified voters of said county of Bibb, at elections to be held on the same days as those on which the Ordinary of said county is elected. Commiss'ners to be elected by qualified voters. Electionwhen to be held. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever there shall hereafter occur any vacancies or vacancy in said Board of Commissioners, by death, resignation or otherwise, the remaining members of said Board shall, within thirty days after said vacancy or vacancies shall occur, order an election by the qualified voters of said county, to fill said vacancy or vacancies in said Board, which said order shall be published at the court-house door, and also in one or more of the public gazettes of the city of Macon, at least ten days before the day of said election. In case there should be no remaining member upon said Board, or in case the remaining members or member shall refuse to order said election, then it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county to order said election, according to the terms of this Act. Vacancieshow filled. Notice of election to be given. Clerk of Superior Court may order election in certain cases SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That at all elections under this Act, a plurality of votes shall elect. [Illegible Text] of [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text]. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCXVIII. (O. No. 101.) An Act to amend an act approved February 22, 1873, establishing a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, etc., in and for the county of Burke. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, that the regular time of the meeting of said Board of Commissioners shall be the second Tuesday in each month, instead of the first Tuesday, as now provided in said act. Time of regular meet'g. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall have sole power to grant license to retail spirituous liquors in said county. Power to grant retail liquor lic'se. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall audit and approve the bonds of all county officers, and no officer shall enter upon the discharge of the duties of his office until his bond is thus approved. Board to approve bonds of county officers. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. CCXIX. (O. No. 12.) An Act to repeal so much of the act of 5 th of February, 1873, as establishes a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for the county of Butts, in this State. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That so much of the act approved 5th of February, 1873, as provides for the creation of a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Butts, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Part of act repealed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 5, 1875.

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No. CCXX. (O. No. 116.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for the county of Calhoun, and to define their powers and duties, approved 22 d February, 1873. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited act be, and the same is hereby, amended in the first section thereof, to-wit: Said Board shall consist of three members, who shall be freeholders of said county, one of whom shall be from each militia district in said county, and shall be elected as now provided by law, and the Ordinary to be Clerk of said Board, and each Commissioner of Roads and Revenue be entitled to two dollars per day while in session of their court, and the Clerk to have a reasonable compensation allowed by said Board of Commissioners, and they are authorized to draw their order on the Treasurer of said county for the said amount; and this Act shall go into effect immediately on the expiration of office of the present incumbents. Board to [Illegible Text] of [Illegible Text] freeholders. Ordinary to be clerk. Comp'ns't'n. Treasurer to pay orders. This Act to [Illegible Text] effectwhen. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCXXI. (O. No. 357.) An Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in the county of Catoosa. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage, of this Act, there shall be established in the county of Catoosa, in this State, a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, consisting of the Ordinary of said county and four freeholders, to be elected as hereinafter provided. Commissioners of Roads and Revenuewho shall constitute. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an election shall be held at the several precincts of said county upon the first Monday in August, 1875, for the election of said Board of Commissioners, to be conducted in the same manner as the election of other county officers. The managers of said election shall make a consolidated return of said election to the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, who shall issue a certificate of election to each of the four persons receiving the highest number of votes. The seal of the Superior Court of said county shall be attached to said certificates, and said clerk shall administer to each

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person elected an oath to well and faithfully discharge all the duties as are hereinafter set forth. Said Commissioners shall hold their offices until the next regular election for county officers of said county, when their successors shall be elected; their term of office and that of all subsequent Boards being two years, and the day of election the same as that of other county officers. Electionwhen and how to be held. [Illegible Text] returns to be made to Clerk Superior Court. Certificates of election. Oath of office. Term of office. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Ordinary shall be Chairman of said Board of Commissioners, and shall preside at all their meetings, at which it shall require three of the four persons so elected to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business: the Ordinary deciding any question upon which said Board is equally divided. The said Board of Commissioners shall have four regular meetings annually, at such times as they may select, and as many special meetings as they may deem best for a complete and faithful discharge of their duties. The Ordinary, as Chairman, shall have power to convene said Board whenever it may be necessary. Ordinary to be chairman. Quorum. Deciding vote. Regular and special meetings. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the event of any vacancy or vacancies, the remaining members of said Board shall select suitable persons to fill the unexpired terms, and certify the same to the Clerk of the Superior Court, who shall issue a certificate of such appointment, and administer the oath, as hereinbefore provided, to such persons. Vacancieshow filled. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Board, in conjunction with the Ordinary, shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the following matters, to-wit: Exclusive jurisdiction. 1. In directing and controlling all property of the county as they may deem expedient according to law. County property. 2. In levying a general tax for general, and a special tax for particular, county purposes according to the laws of this State. County tax. 3. In establishing, altering or abolishing all roads, bridges and ferries in conformity to law, and in appointment of Commissioners of Public Roads. Roads, bridges and ferries. 4. In establishing and changing election precincts and militia districts. Election precints and militia districts. 5. In examining, settling and allowing all claims against the county. Claims ag'st county. 6. In examining and auditing the accounts of all officers having the care, management, keeping, collection or disbursement of money belonging to the county, or appropriated for its use and benefit, and bringing them to a settlement. Accounts of officers. 7. In making such rules and regulations for the support of the poor of the county, as may be consistent with the law of this State. Poor. 8. In making all contracts for work to be done, and for all other purposes to which the county may be a party. Contracts. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the working of the public roads of said county, and shall see that said roads are

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worked conformably to law, and upon failure of any Commissioner of Public Roads to perform his duty, shall return said Commissioner to the grand jury of said county, at the next regular sitting thereafter of the Superior Court of said county. Public roads. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall make a careful examination of all books, vouchers, and other papers of the several officers of said county, and report the same to the grand jury of said county, at the spring term of the Superior Court of each year, and for this duty shall receive such compensation as the grand jury may recommend: Provided, they shall receive no other pecuniary compensation for any service rendered by them, but shall be relieved of all road and jury duties, and that nothing in this Act shall be construed to affect or deprive the Ordinary of any fees now allowed him by law. Books, [Illegible Text] c[Illegible Text] to examine. [Illegible Text] Proviso, [Illegible Text] from road and jury duty. Fees of Ordinary. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board of Commissioners shall be a body corporate, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all matters falling within their jurisdiction, and shall have power to pass any order, judgment, or decree that may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this Act, and it shall be the duty of the several Sheriffs and Constables of said county to enforce any such order, judgment, or decrees as ordered by said Board That said Board shall keep appropriate books, in which shall be kept, by a Clerk chosen from their number, a record of their proceedings; said books being subject to the inspection of the grand jury of said county; all applications to said Board for any order, judgment or decree whatever, shall be made in writing; all the members of said Board shall have authority to administer and attest oaths, in all cases and proceedings pertaining to any matter within their jurisdiction. Boardbody corporate. General powers. Sheriff and constablesduty. Books of record. Clerk. Inspection by grand jury. Members of Board may administer oaths. SEC. IX. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CCXXII. (O. No. 347.) An Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Chattooga, and to define their powers and duties, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act there shall be established in the county of Chattooga, a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, consisting of five persons. [Illegible Text] roads and revenue. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That an election shall be held at

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the several election precincts in said county of Chattooga on the first Tuesday in August, 1875, for the election of said Board of Commissioners for said county, said election to be managed and conducted in the same manner as elections for other county officers. The managers of said election, at each precinct, shall select one of their number, who shall meet at the court-house in said county the next day after the said election, and consolidate the returns from the several precincts, and the five persons having the highest number of votes shall be declared duly elected by a certificate of said managers. Said election returns shall be filed in the office of the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, and by him entered on the minutes of said court, together with said certificate. Said Clerk shall then furnish to each Commissioner a certified copy of said certificate, to which he shall attach the seal of the Superior Court of said county, which certified copy of said certificate shall be sufficient authority for said Commissioners to enter upon the discharge of the duties of their office, after having taken the usual oath of office prescribed for all county officers, before the Ordinary of said county. Said Commissioners shall hold their offices until the regular election for county officers, to be held on the first Wednesday in January, 1877, when their successors shall be elected, who shall serve for a term of two years. Electionwh'n, where and how to be held. [Illegible Text] of returns. Who shall be declared elected. Returns to be entered on minutes of Superior Court. Certificates of election. Oath of office. [Illegible Text] of office. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That it shall require three members of said Board to constitute a [Illegible Text] to transact business, and should any vacancy or vacancies occur, the remainder shall order an election to fill such vacancy or vacancies, first giving fifteen days' public notice in a gazette published in said county, or such other publicity as may seem best, by said Board in said county, of said election; and should the entire Board become vacant, by death, resignation or otherwise, then the Ordinary of said county shall order an election to fill such vacancies. Quorum. Vacancies. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That all persons who are eligible to hold any other county office, shall be eligible to the office of Commissioner as created by this Act. Who are eligible. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall hold six regular sessions annually, on such days as they may determine on, and as many special sessions as may be necessary for the prompt and proper discharge of their duties. Regular sessions. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners, so elected and qualified, shall be exempt from road, militia, and jury duty, during the time they may serve. Exemption from road, jury and militia d'ty. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall have exclusive jurisdiction, when sitting for county purposes, over the following subjects, to-wit: 1st. Governing and controlling all property of the county, as they may deem expedient, according to law. 2d. Levying a general tax for general, and a special tax for particular, county purposes, according to the laws of this State. 3d. In establishing or discontinuing all public roads, bridges and

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ferries in said county, according to law. 4th. In examining, settling, and allowing all claims against the county, and granting orders on the county treasury for the payment of the same. 5th. In establishing and abolishing election precincts in said county. 6th. In examining and auditing the accounts of all officers having the care, management, keeping, collecting and disbursement of all moneys belonging to the county, or appropriated for its use and benefit, and bringing the same to a settlement. 7th. In making such rules and regulations for the government of the poor house and farm of the county, and for the protection of the health of said county, and for quarantine, as are not inconsistent with law. 8th. In regulating peddling, and fixing the cost of license therefor. 9th. In the disposition of all estrays that may be taken up in said county. Exclusive jurisdiction. County property. County tax. Roads, bridges and ferries. [Illegible Text] against [Illegible Text] Election [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] County poor. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Commissioners shall have and exercise, exclusively, all such jurisdiction in county matters as was held and exercised by the Inferior Court, sitting for county purposes, prior to the adoption of the Constitution of Eighteen hundred and sixty-eight. [Illegible Text] in county matters. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said Board shall hold their sessions at the court house, in said county, and that it shall keep a full and complete record of all its actings and doings; a majority of such Commissioners shall be necessary to constitute a quorum of said Board, and the concurrence of such majority shall be necessary to pass any order or decree. Sessionswhere to be held. Record of proceedings. Quorum. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That the Treasurer of said county shall not pay out or disburse any of the funds of the county treasury, or pay any order, unless the same shall have been first countersigned by a majority of said Commissioners. County fundshow to be paid out. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That said Board shall elect or appoint one member of said Board to act as Clerk for said Board of Commissioners, and for his services, receive such compensation as said Board may deem sufficient, not to exceed fifty dollars per annum. Clerk. Compensation. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That said Board is authorized to buy books and stationery for their use, to be paid for by the [Illegible Text] of the county, by order of said Commissioners. Books, etc., for Board. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Commissioners shall have the same right to punish for contempt, as Judges of the Superior Courts of this State have. Contempt. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Commissioners shall receive no pay for their services, above mentioned, except exemptions specified. No compensation. SEC. XIV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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No. CCXXIII. (O. No. 264.) An Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for the county of Colquitt, and to define their powers and duties. SECTION 1. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That there shall be established a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for the county of Colquitt, in this State, which Board shall consist of five persons, to be elected by the qualified voters of said county, at an election to be held at the several election precincts therein, on the first Monday in May next after the passage of this Act, under the laws governing the election of other county officers, and now of force in this State; the managers of which election shall consolidate the returns thereof, at the county site of said county, commencing at 12 o'clock of the day succeeding the day of such election, and shall certify the same, together with the result thereof, to the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, who shall record such certificate in his office on the minutes of the Superior Court; and the said Clerk shall furnish to each of the Commissioners so elected a copy of such certificate, and the same shall authorize the Commissioners named therein to enter upon the discharge of their duties as hereinafter set forth. And the Commissioners so elected shall hold their office until the next regular election for county officers, or until their successors have been elected and received the certificate of the Clerk of the Superior Court, as above provided for; and the term of office of the Commissioners elected at all subsequent elections shall be the same as that of other county officers. Com'issioners of roads and revenue Number. Election. Time and managers. Certificate of election. Record of certificate. Commissioners to have certificates. Term of office. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all Commissioners elected under this Act shall take an oath for the proper performance of the duties devolved upon them by the provisions of the same, which oath is to be in writing, and to be administered by the Ordinary, or by the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, before such Commissioners shall receive their certificates from the Clerk as herein provided. Oath of office to be in writing. By whom administ'ed SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all vacancies occurring in said Board shall be filled by appointment of the Ordinary, who shall appoint some suitable person, who shall be a freeholder resident in said county, to fill such vacancy, and the person so appointed shall hold his office until the next election of county officers in said county. Said Board of Commissioners shall, at their first meeting, choose one of their number Chairman, and the Chairman so chosen shall hold his office until the expiration of the term for which he was elected Commissioner, and the Chairman so elected shall preside at the meetings of the Board, and it shall require three (3) of such Commissioners to constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and a majority must

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concur for the establishment of any order affecting the public concerns of said county. Said Commissioners shall receive no salary whatever. Vacancieshow filled. [Illegible Text] of Board. Quorum for business. Majority [Illegible Text] SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Board of Commissioners, herein provided for, shall have and exercise all the powers, and discharge all the duties in relation to public roads, public buildings, and all other public property of the county, and in assessing the county tax, the auditing and settling of all claims against the county, the establishing and changing of militia districts and election precincts, and of all matters relating to public roads, ferries, and bridges, as was formerly vested in and exercised by the Inferior Court, and afterwards by the Ordinary, but shall have no jurisdiction of any kind in any matter civil or criminal, other than as hereinbefore provided for. Exclusive powers. Public roads, etc. Claims ag'st the county. Militia districts and election [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] and ferries. Proviso. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board of Commissioners shall meet regularly at the county site of said county, four times in each year, and of the time at which such meetings are to be held, they are to cause public notice to be given by advertising the same at the court-house door in said county, for not less than ten days preceding the first meeting held in each year. Said Board of Commissioners shall cause to be kept a complete record of all their proceedings, which shall be submitted, together with a full statement of all matters growing out of or appertaining to the financial condition of the county, to the grand jury, at the spring term of the Superior Court of each year, and the necessary expense incurred in procuring books and stationery, for the use of the County Board, shall be paid out of the county treasury. Meetings of Boardwhen and where to be [Illegible Text] Notice. Record of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to be made to grand jury. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Commissioners shall, during their term of office, be exempt from road, militia and jury service, and they shall have power to choose one of their number who shall act as Secretary to the Board, and keep the records hereinbefore provided for. Com'issioners exempt from road and jury duty. Secretary. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Ordinary of said county to furnish said Board of Commissioners, on the application of its Chairman, with all information respecting such county matters as were, prior to the passage of this Act, under said Ordinary's supervision and management, and for this purpose, each member of said Board shall at all times have access to all records in the office of said Ordinary, pertaining to county matters. Ordinary [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] information to Board. Access to records. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCXXIV. (O. No. 307.) An Act to authorize the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Coweta county to loan certain money in the hands of the County Treasurer. WHEREAS, the Ordinary of Coweta county levied an extraordinary tax to pay certain bonds he has issued to pay for building a jail in said county, which bonds have been sued upon, and the suits are still pending, and the Treasurer enjoined from paying out the money; Preamble. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act the Commissioners of Coweta county are hereby authorized to loan the money in the hands of the County Treasurer until the suits on said bonds are determined, by their taking good and sufficient security for the payment of the same: Provided, that said money shall be loaned at the best rate of interest that can be obtained, but not at a less rate of interest than seven per cent. per annum; and Provided further, this shall not relieve the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues from liability for the same. Commissioners authorized to loan money. Proviso. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCXXV. (O. No. 119.) An Act to amend an act to form a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Crawford. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section four of the above recited act, approved March 2, 1874, be so amended as to read: That said Board shall meet at the court house, in said county, at least once in each month, and at such time during the month as the Board may agree upon, and such other times as they may deem necessary. Board to [Illegible Text] and where. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. CCXXVI (O. No. 294.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Dawson, approved December 13, 1870, and the act amendatory thereof, approved February 20, 1874, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited acts be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Act [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, all the duties imposed by the above recited acts upon the Board of Commissioners therein provided for, shall be discharged by the Ordinary, the Clerk of the Superior Court and the Treasurer of said county of Dawson, who are hereby substituted for said Board as organized and constituted under said first recited acts, and who shall hereafter, by virtue of their office as Ordinary, Clerk and Treasurer of said county of Dawson, constitute said Board, and the Ordinary shall be the Secretary of the Board. Who shall perform duties of Board. Secretary. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board, constituted as herein provided for, shall be subject to the same restrictions imposed by law upon the Board created and organized under the acts hereby repealed, and said Board composed, as herein provided for, shall receive only such compensation as the grand juries of the spring term of each year shall allow them for such service. New [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Compensation. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Ordinary, Clerk and Treasurer, for any default or malfeasance as members of said Board, shall be liable, on their bonds as Ordinary, Clerk and Treasurer, this Act being simply cumulative as to their duties as such officers. Liability [Illegible Text] bonds. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCXXVII. (O. No. 210.) An Act to provide for a Board of Roads and Revenue for the county of Douglas. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue is hereby provided for the county of Douglas,

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Said Board shall consist of three persons, to be elected on the first Saturday in March, 1875, and thereafter at the regular time for holding elections for county officers. Commissioners of Roads and Revenue. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each member of said Board, before entering upon his duties, besides the general oath required of county officers, shall be sworn before one other member of said Board, all of whom are empowered to administer said oaths, to faithfully discharge the duties of a Commissioner of Roads and Revenues of the county of Douglas. The same shall be written down, subscribed and attested in a book of minutes, as hereinafter provided. Oath to be taken. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Commissioners shall hold four regular sessions annually: Provided, nevertheless, that a majority of said Board may convene the same in extraordinary session whenever, in their judgment, it may be necessary. Two of said Commissioners shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business, and the votes of the two shall decide any question. Regular and special meetings. Quorum. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Clerk of the Superior Court shall attend the sessions of the Board, shall keep a minute of all the proceedings in a well bound book, to be provided at the expense of the county, and shall receive as compensation such an amount per day as the Commissioners shall agree to pay, not to exceed three dollars for each day they may be in session. Clerk to record proceedings. Compensation. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board of Commissioners shall have exclusive jurisdiction over the following subject matters, to wit: First, in holding and controlling all property belonging to the county. Second, in levying all general and special taxes for county purposes. Third, in contracting for and letting out bridges, and all other public works. Fourth, in changing, abolishing or establishing election precincts. Fifth, in examining and auditing the accounts of all officers having the care, management, keeping, collecting or disbursement of money belonging to the county, or appropriated for its use and benefit; and in bringing them to a settlement. Sixth, in examining, settling and allowing all claims against the county. Seventh, in deciding who shall be supported by the county as paupers; what amount shall be paid each of the same. Eighth, in regulating peddling and fixing the cost theretor, and in fixing the cost for license for the sale of spirituous liquors, and in fixing the cost for the exhibition of shows in said county. And over all other matters over which the Inferior Court had jurisdiction at the time it was abolished. Exclusive [Illegible Text]. County property. County tax. Bridges, c. Election [Illegible Text]. Accounts. Claims against county. [Illegible Text]. Peddling. Retail license. [Illegible Text]. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the said Board of Commissioners to make a written report at each term of the Superior Court, to the grand jury, giving fully the financial condition of the county, which said

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report shall be sworn to and subscribed by said Board of Commissioners, before any officer authorized to administer oaths, and shall be handed to the foreman of the grand jury on the first day of the regular term of each Superior Court. Report to be made to grand jury. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board of Commissioners shall be a body corporate, and may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all matters falling within their jurisdiction as herein defined: Provided, however, that no judgment, order or decree of any court shall have any effect against the individual property of any member of said Board, but only to constitute a charge against the county, of which the Commissioners are the representatives. Board a body corporate. General powers. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall be eligible to the office of Commissioner, who has not resided in said county one year previous to his election, or who holds any county office. Eligibility. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the members of said Board shall be exempt from jury duty, but shall receive no other compensation, unless the same shall be voted by the grand jury of their county. Exemption from jury duty. Compensation. SEC. X. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CCXXVIII. (O. No. 155.) An Act to provide a Board of Commissioners for the county of Elbert. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That from and after the passage of this Act, five Commissioners, to be appointed by the Governor of this State, for a term of four years, beginning with the time of their appointment, and to continue in office until their successors are duly elected and qualified, as hereinafter provided, shall be the officers to have exclusive control and management of all matters, in said county of Elbert, relating to roads, bridges, taxes, paupers, county funds, in the collection and disposal of the same, public buildings, license to sell ardent spirits, and other matters of similar character. Commissioners. Term of office. Exclusive control. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly, That on the same day when elections for county officers are held in January, 1879, and every four years thereafter, elections shall be held, as in case of other county officers, for five Commissioners, to succeed in office the Commissioners appointed herein, and when elected under this Act, who shall, at the expiration of the term

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herein set forth, be entitled to become Commissioners for said county of Elbert, to be called Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, and who shall, as other county officers, be commissioned by the Governor, and quality as other county officers, and all the provisions of the election laws shall apply to them as to other county officers. Election of Commissioners. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCXXIX. (O. No. 252.) An Act to amend an act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in the counties of Floyd, Berrien, Effingham, Schley, Sumter and Greene, approved on the 13 th day of December, 1871, so far as relates to the county of Schley. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That each member of said Board, in said county of Schley, shall be entitled to two dollars per day while in actual attendance upon the quarterly sessions of said Board, and that said Board of Commissioners shall allow the Clerk such compensation, not exceeding five dollars per day, as in their judgment shall be reasonable and right. Compensation of Commissioners. [Illegible Text] Clerk. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCXXX. (O. No. 340.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to constitute a County Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in the county of Forsyth, and to provide one Commissioner in said county, with certain powers and duties. SECTION I. Be it 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 above recited act, creating a Board of Roads and Revenues in the county of Forsyth, and approved on the twenty-seventh day of August, eighteen hundred and seventy-two, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Said repeal to take effect

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when the Commissioner hereinafter provided for shall be elected and qualified. Act [Illegible Text] This Act to take effectwhen. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That from and after the election of said Commissioners there shall be one Commissioner of Roads and Revenues in said county of Forsyth, who shall be elected and chosen as hereinafter provided, with the powers and duties hereinafter defined. [Illegible Text] of roads [Illegible Text] revenue. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioner shall be elected and chosen, first, on the second Monday in April next, to hold his office from then until the regular election for county officers, and from said election in the year eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, said Commissioner shall be elected and chosen every two years, for the term of two years, the election for said Commissioner to be held at the places in said county that elections for county officers are held, and that the returns forwarded with those of other county officers, and the person receiving the highest number of votes shall be commissioned by the Governor, upon filing in the Ordinary's office of said county of Forsyth, good and sufficient bond and security, in the sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the faithful discharge of his duties as such Commissioner, which bond shall be approved by the Ordinary. Electionwhen and how to be held. Returnsdisposition of. Governor [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Bond of Com'ssioner SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That whenever a vacancy shall occur in said office, by reason of the death, resignation or removal of said Commissioner, it shall be the duty of the Ordinary to inform the Governor, at once, of said vacancy, and it shall be the duty of the Governor to order an election to fill said vacancy, and it shall be the duty of the Ordinary to perform the duties of County Commissioner until the person elected to fill such vacancy shall be duly elected and qualified. Vacancyhow filled. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That no person shall be eligible to hold said office, unless he has been a resident of said county for at least two years next preceding his election, and before entering upon the duties of his office, shall take the same oath which is required of the civil officers of this State. Who is eligible. Term of office. Oath SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said Commissioner to procure, at the expense of the county, suitable books, in which he shall keep, each and separately, his acts and doings as such Commissioner, which books shall be submitted for examination to the committee appointed by the Judge of the Superior Court, to examine the books and papers of the county officers, and it shall be the duty of said Commissioner to make a report of his acts and doings to each grand jury of said county. Commissioner to keep record of his acts. To submit books for examination. To report acts to gr'nd jury. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioner shall have jurisdiction over all county matters relating to roads, bridges, ferries, and revenues, and shall transact all business in reference to such matters in said county, over which the Inferior Court of said county had jurisdiction before it was abolished. Jurisdiction Roads, etc. Finances. Other matters. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioner, by

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and with the consent and advice of the grand jury of said county, shall decide all legal questions of the county in relation to the paupers of said county, and shall, by and with the advice of the grand jury aforesaid, take charge of and control all paupers in said county, together with the poor house and its management and expenses. Paupers. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That in all cases of disputes or litigation in reference to laying out any new roads, or changing any road, said Commissioner shall have power to hear and determine, the same; and parties dissatisfied with his decisions shall have the right of appeal to the Superior Court, under the same rules and regulations governing appeals from the Court of Ordinary. New roads, etc.Commissioner to try cases arising from Appeal to Superior Court. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioner, by and with the consent and advice of the grand jury of the April term of the Superior Courts, in each year, shall determine and assess the amount of county taxes to be levied in said county. County taxes. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said Commissioner to audit all accounts against said county, and issue orders on the county Treasurer for the payment of such as he may find to be due, and the county Treasurer shall not be authorized to pay any accounts (except jury certificates) until audited, recorded, and ordered to be paid by said Commissioner. Accounts against county. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioner shall receive from the county Treasurer, annually, the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars for his salary. Compensation of Commissioners. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said Commissioner to examine, in person, all the public roads in said county, at least one time in each year, and see that the road commissioners and overseers are doing their duty; and if the said Commissioner shall fail to perform his duty in reference to public roads, he shall be presented to the Superior Court by special presentment of the grand jury, which presentment shall charge the failure to perform his duty in reference to the public roads, and shall state in what the failure consists; and it shall be the duty of the court to hear and determine said presentment, and if said Commissioner be found guilty of a failure to perform his said duties, he shall be fined by the court not less than fifty, nor more than one hundred, dollars, in the discretion of the court; and it shall be the duty of the Solicitor General to prosecute such case before the court. Commissioner to examine public roads. In case of failure to perform duty. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioner, shall, with the consent and advice of the grand jury of said county, have power to grant or refuse to issue license for six months, or until the meeting of the next grand jury, to retail spirituous liquors under the rules and regulations prescribed by law. License to retail liquor SEC. XV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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No. CCXXXI. (O. No. 241.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to create a Board of Commissioners for the county of Gwinnett, and to prescribe and define the powers and duties thereof, so as to authorize said Commissioners to administer oaths and approve Constables' bonds. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited act be amended as follows: At the end of section four of said act, add the following words: Said Commissioners shall have authority to administer oaths in all cases. Commissioners may administer oaths. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That section seven of said act be amended so as to require said Commissioners to approve all Constables' bonds in said county. Shall approve Constables' bonds. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCXXXII. (O. No. 34.) An Act to enable the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Jackson county to apply a fund collected by special tax to build a new jail, to repairing the old jail, and to pay the general indebtedness of said county. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That it shall be lawful for the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of Jackson county to apply the sum of fifty-six hundred dollars, raised by a special tax imposed by the Ordinary of said county for the purpose of building a new jail, to the purpose of repairing the old jail, and to pay the general indebtedness of said county. Special taxhow to be applied. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 19, 1875.

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No. CCXXXIII. (O. No. 44.) An Act to repeal an act to create an Advisory Board for the counties of Laurens and Glasscock, so far as relates to the county of Laurens, and to provide for a Board of County Commissioners for the counties of Laurens and Johnson. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That an act entitled an act to create an Advisory Board of Commissioners for the counties of Laurens and Glasscock, and for other purposes, approved February 22, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as it relates to the county of Laurens. Acts rep'l'd SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That there shall be established in the county of Laurens a Board to be styled the County Board of Laurens county, to be composed of one member from each militia district in said county, who shall be elected on the fourth Saturday in April, 1875, by an election held at the precincts of each militia district, under the form and regulations required by law for the election of other county officers. The returns of said election shall be forwarded to the office of Secretary of State, upon which the Governor shall be authorized to issue commissions to the members elect of said Board, who shall hold their office until the next election for the Ordinary of said county, at which time their successors shall be elected, and every four years thereafter. Board of County [Illegible Text]how composed. When and how elected Election returns. Com'issions from the Governor. Term of office. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever a vacancy shall occur in said Board by death, resignation, or otherwise, it shall be filled by an election ordered by said Board. Vacancieshow filled. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board, before entering upon their duties, shall take and subscribe an oath before the Ordinary of said county, to faithfully and impartially discharge the duties required of them by this Act; said oath to be entered upon the minutes of said Board. Oath of office. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That five members shall constitute a quorum of said Board, who may proceed to the transaction of said business, but shall concur to pass any order or decree. Quorum. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall be a body corporate, may sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in all matters within their jurisdiction, as herein defined, but no judgment, order or decree from any court shall have effect against the individual property of any member of said Board, but shall constitute a charge against said county. Board a body corpoate. General powers. Individual property not subject. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the members of said Board shall be exempt from road and jury duty during their term of office, but shall receive no compensation. Exempti'ns from road and jury duty.

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SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall have power and exclusive jurisdiction over the following subject matter, to-wit: Exclusive jurisdiction Governing and controlling all property of the county as they may deem expedient and economical, according to law; to levy a general tax for general purposes, and a special tax for particular county purposes, according to the provisions of the Code and the laws of this State; establishing, altering or abolishing all roads, bridges and ferries, leasing or renting the same in conformity to law; establishing, changing or abolishing election precincts and militia districts; to elect the County Board of Education; to examine, hear and determine all claims against the county; to examine and audit the accounts of all officers having the care, management, keeping, collecting and disbursing of money belonging to the county, or appropriated to its use and benefit, and bringing said officers to a settlement; to regulate the disposition of all estrays taken up in the county; to make rules for the marking and branding of live stock; to abolish, alter or regulate the alms house of said county, and make such rules and regulations for the support of of the county as are authorized by, and not inconsistent to, law; to regulate and fix the fees for all license for peddling and retailing of spirituous liquors, taking bond and security of the parties applying for the same. Said Board shall appoint the Road Commissioners, and shall require them to make to them their returns; and shall have all other powers as were by law vested in the Inferior Court prior to the adoption of the present State Constitution, and shall have no jurisdiction, except such as pertains to county matters. County property. County tax. Roads, bridges and [Illegible Text]. Election precinets and militia districts. Board of Education. Claims ag'st county. Distribut'n of county funds. Estrays. Live stock. Alms' ho'se C'nty poor. Peddling. Retailing liquor. Road Commissioners. Other pow's. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall hold four regular annual sessions, regulating the time of the same, and continue from day to day, or meet in extra session when necessary. Four reg'lar annual sessions. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county shall be the Clerk of said Board, and attend all of its sessions, and shall keep a minute of all its proceeding, subject to the inspection of any citizen, at any time, and shall receive the same compensation for said service as was formerly allowed the Clerk of the Inferior Court for like services. Clerkduties, etc. Compens'n. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Sheriff, or his deputy, to attend the sittings of said Board, for which services he shall be allowed the sum of two dollars and fifty cents per day. Sheriff and Deputyduties and fees. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall have the same right to punish for contempt, as Judges of the Superior Courts of this State. Contempt. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That

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said Board shall keep and use a seal, but may use a temporary one for six months. Seal. SEC. XIV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall have authority to draw upon the County Treasurer for the pay of its officers, and the payment of all expenses incurred by said Board. Orders on County Treasurer. SEC. XV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Treasurer of said county shall not pay out or disburse any of the funds of the county without the authority of said Board, except upon the orders of the Judge of the Superior Court. Fundshow to be dr'wn. SEC. XVI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That persons not eligible to jury duty shall not be eligible to the office of County Commissioner, and that all this Act be applid to the county of Johnson. Who are eligible. SEC. XVII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 22, 1875. No. CCXXXIV. (O. No. 184.) An Act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Lumpkin. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That there shall be a Board of three Commissioners elected by the legal voters of the county of Lumpkin on the first Wednesday in April next, 1875, who shall be commissioned by the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, attaching the seal of said Court to said commission, said Commissioners to hold their office until the next regular election for county officers, and thereafter to be elected at the same time and place, and for the same term, biennially, as county officers are. Com'ss'rselection of. Commissions. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall be known and designated as the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Lumpkin, and shall have exclusive jurisdiction and control over all the public bridges, property, roads, and public buildings, ferries, and county funds of every kind, and no tax shall be levied and collected, and no public funds expended, without the order and approval of said Board. Boardhow to be designated. Exclusive jurisdiction SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said Board of Commissioners shall hold their regular sessions at the court-house four times in each year, having regard to an equal dimension of time, as nearly as practicable, with power to hold called sessions if the exigencies should require; said Commissioners shall each be exempt from

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road, jury, and militia duty during their term of office, and no other or further compensation shall be allowed them for such service. Regular and called sessions. Exemption from road, jury and militia duty No compensation. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the Ordinary of said county, by virtue of his office as such, shall, and is hereby declared, to be ex officio a member of said Board of Commissioners, with like powers and privileges as the members of said Board to be elected under the provisions of this Act, and in case of a vacancy occurring in said Board by death, resignation, or otherwise, that the remaining members of said Board shall elect a successor to fill said vacancy until the next regular election. Ordinary ex officio member of Board. Vacancies. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCXXXV. (O. No. 304) An Act to amend an act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue, in the county of Madison. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That an act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in the county of Madison, assented to August 27, 1872, be amended as follows, the words in first section of said act, to-wit: the first election for said Commissioners shall be held at the next regular election for county officers in said county, shall be substituted by the words following, to-wit: the grand jury selected, chosen and sworn for the September term, 1875, of the Superior Court of Madison county, shall elect five Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, who shall be commissioned by the Governor, who shall be invested with all the powers provided by the act of which this is amendatory, who shall hold their offices until the next regular election for county officers in said county, when their successors shall be elected as provided by the original act, of which this is amendatory. Election of Commiss'rs by grand jury. Term. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CCXXXVI. (O. No. 131.) An Act to alter, change and amend an act entitled an act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in the county of Muscogee, and to define their powers, approved 26 th of August, 1872. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the the State of Georgia, That the aforesaid mentioned act be, and the same is hereby, amended as follows, to-wit: By striking out the second section of said act and substituting the following as the second section of the same, to-wit: SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the successors of the aforesaid Commissioners shall be elected by the grand jury of Muscogee county at the spring term of the Superior Court, in 1875, and that one of said Commissioners to be designated by said grand jury, to serve one year from his election, another of said Commissioners to serve for two years from his said election, and the other of said Commissioners to serve for three years from said election, or until their successors respectively are selected and qualified; and that each succeeding grand jury at the spring term of the Superior Court of Muscogee, after the year 1875, shall elect one Commissioner to serve for the period of three years, to fill the vacancy occurring by the operation of this amending Act. Commissioners to be elected by grand jury. Terms of office of Commissioners. Grand jury to elect one Commissioners each year. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCXXXVII. (O. No. 36.) An Act to amend an act approved October 30, 1870, creating a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for the county of Pike. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That an act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues in the county of Harris, assented to March, 1869, be made applicable to the county of Pike, and be amended as to said county of Pike, as follows: The compensation of said Commissioners and Clerk of said county of Pike, shall be, each, three dollars

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per day: Provided, said amount shall be paid for only one day in each month the year, and no more. Compensation of Commissioners and Clerk. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 20, 1875. No. CCXXXVIII. (O. No. 16.) An Act to authorize the Board of Commissioners of Quitman county to hire out prisoners confined in the jail of said county for misdemeanor, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, That in all cases where persons are convicted of misdemeanor and sentenced to work in the chain-gang on the public works or public roads, by any of the courts held in and for the said county of Quitman, or when such persons are confined in the common jail of said county for non-payment of fines imposed for such misdemeanor, the Board of County Commissioners of said county may, and are hereby, authorized to hire out such convicts within the limits of the State, upon such terms and under such restrictions as may, in the opinion of such Commissioners, best subserve the ends of justice and promote the interests of the county. Convicts from Quitman county may be [Illegible Text] out Under what restrictions. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 11, 1875. No. CCXXXIX. (O. No. 210.) An Act to organize a Board of County Commissioners for the county of Twiggs. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, there shall be established in the county of Twiggs a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, consisting of five persons, as follows: I. E. McDonald, F. D. Wimberly, Levi Gadsden, Robert Hill and Joseph W. Barkett, citizens of said county, whose terms of office shall continue until the first Wednesday in January, 1879, and

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until their successors are elected and qualified as hereinafter provided. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the successors of the aforesaid Commissioners shall be elected by the voters of said county on the first Wednesday in January, 1879, and every four years thereafter, and shall hold their office for four years, and until their successors are elected and qualified, and shall be commissioned by the Governor; and any vacancy occurring, either in the Board hereby created or any subsequent Board, shall be filled by the remaining Commissioners, and the person chosen to fill such vacancy shall hold his office only for the unexpired term of such outgoing Commissioner, and no person shall be eligible as Commissioner under this Act who has not been a resident citizen of said county at least one year next preceding his election. How and when collected. Term of office. Vacancies. Eligibility. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners, before entering upon the duties of their office, shall, in addition to the oath usually administered to all county officers, take and subscribe an oath truly, faithfully and impartially to discharge their duties during their terms of office as County Commissioners, which said oath shall be taken before the Ordinary of said county, and be by him entered on his minutes. Oath of office. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the County Commissioners shall not be elected to any other office while holding said office, except to the General Assembly. Ineligibility. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That said County Commissioners shall hold quarterly sessions for the transaction of county business on such days as they may determine, and as many special sessions as may be necessary for the prompt and proper discharge of their duties. Quarterly sessions. Special sessions. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That said Board of County Commissioners shall be exempt from road, militia and jury duty during their term of service. Exemptions from road duty, etc. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners have exclusive jurisdiction, when sitting for county purposes, over the following subjects, to-wit: Exclusive jurisdiction 1. Governing and controlling all property of the county as they may, in their judgment, deem expedient according to law. 2. In levying a general tax for general, and a special tax for particular, county purposes, according to the laws of this State. 3. In establishing and discontinuing all public roads and bridges in said county according to law. 4. In examining, settling and allowing all claims against the county, and granting orders on the county treasury for the payment of the same. 5. In regulating peddling, and fixing the costs therefor, and fixing the costs of the license for the sale of spirituous liquors. 6. In establishing and changing election precincts and militia districts.

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7. In making such rules and regulations for the government of the poor-house of the county, and for the promotion of health, as are granted by law, or are not inconsistent therewith. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the County Judge of said county to turn over to the said Commissioners all books and papers relating to the jurisdiction and power herein conferred; and said Judge of the County Court shall have no power to exercise any of the powers herein conferred upon said Commissioners. Books and papersJudge to turn over. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted, That said County Commissioners shall receive three dolalrs per day while occupied at the regular or special sessions in transacting business for county purposes, to be paid out of the county treasury, but the amount to be paid each Commissioner shall not exceed twenty-four dollars per annum. Compensation. SEC. X. Be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners shall have no jurisdiction save and except such as pertains to county matters. No jurisdiction in what SEC. XI. Be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall keep a book in which they shall record all their acts. Said book shall be open to the inspection of the grand juries. Book of record. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted, That the Board of Commissioners shall select from their body a Chairman, whose duty it shall be to keep order, and preserve the dignity of the body. Chairman. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted, That the County Treasurer shall respect this Act, and all orders drawn or passed upon by said Board. Treasurer to respect orders. SEC. XIV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCXL. (O. No. 245.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act to create a Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenue for the county of Walker, and to prescribe the powers and duties thereof, approved March 2, 1874. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, the above recited act be, and the same is hereby, amended by adding thereunto the following to-wit: Said Commissioners shall always hold said office until their successors are elected and qualified, and if at any time there should fail to be a quorum thereof acting, the Judge of the Superior Court of said county shall appoint Commissioners to act until the election and qualification of their successors. Commissioners to hold until successors are elected, etc. Judge of Superior Court may appointwhen.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Board shall have jurisdiction of all matters whatever, which, by law the Justices of the Inferior Court had jurisdiction of prior to the adoption of the present Constitution, pertaining to county matters, and shall have power by rule nisi to bring all officers whatever, who have had or may have any money belonging to the county, and may proceed in this manner against such officers or persons upon their own motion, and bring them, together with their securities, if any, either during or after the expiration of the term of office of such officers, and may proceed to hear evidence and investigate fully the liability of such officers or persons, and their securities, upon such matters as may be set forth in such rules nisi, and shall give judgment for or against the defendants, according to the evidence and the law, from which decision the defendants may appeal to the Superior Court of said county. The rule nisi provided for in this Act shall be served on the defendants at least fifteen days before the time set for the hearing. That said Commissioners shall have power to administer oaths, and attest the same in all cases or proceedings pertaining to any matter within their jurisdiction. Same jurisdiction as Inferior Court had. Rule nisi against persons holding county money. May investigate liability of officers. May give judgment. Appeal. Service of rule nisi. Oaths and attestation SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the provisions of this Act shall apply to all cases of alleged default now pending, or hereafter brought against any persons, and their securities, now or heretofore in office in said county. This Act to apply to all alleged defaults. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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CHAPTER II. COUNTY LINES. Appling and Coffee, line between changed.....NO. ACT.241 Appling and Coffee, line between changed.....242 Appling and [Illegible Text], line between changed.....243 Appling and Ware, line between changed.....244 Appling and Wayne, line between changed.....245 Bibb and Twiggs, line between changed.....246 Clay and Calhoun, line between changed.....247 Clay and Quitman, line between changed.....248 Coffee and Ware, line between changed.....249 Coweta and Campbell, line between changed.....250 Coweta Meriwether, line between changed.....251 Elbert and Hart, line between changed.....252 Gwinnett, DeKalb and Rockdale, line between changed.....253 Henry and Butts, line between changed.....254 Henry and Clayton, line between changed.....255 Johnson and Emanuel, line between changed.....256 Jones and Bibb, line between changed.....257 Lumpkin and Dawson, line between changed.....258 Montgomery and [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text] between changed.....259 Talbot and [Illegible Text] line between changed.....260 Telfair and Dodge, line between changed.....261 Wayne and Appling, line between changed.....262 Wayne and Camden, line between changed.....263 Worth and Dooley, line between changed.....264 Worth and Irwin, line between changed.....265 Worth and Irwin, line between changed.....266 No. CCLXI. (O. No. 364.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to change the line between the counties of Appling and Coffee, so as to add lots of land Nos. 502 and 511, with certain other lots in the fifth district, of the county of Coffee, to the county of Appling, the same being the residence of Benjamin Thomas, approved December 20, 1859. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited act, or so much thereof as relates to lots of land 502 and 511, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Line changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CCXLII. (O. No. 345.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Appling and Coffee, so as to include lots of land No. 115 and No. 407, in the second district of Appling county, within the limits of Coffee county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act that the line between the counties of Appling and Coffee be so changed as to include the whole of lots of land number 115 and number 407, in

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the second district, in the county of Appling, within the limits of Coffee county. Line changed. [Illegible Text] No. CCXLIII. (O. No. 360.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Appling and Pierce; also to change the line between the counties of Pierce and Ware. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act lot of land No. 153, in the fourth district, of the county of Appling, be attached to the county of Pierce; also that the line of Ware and Pierce be so changed as to attach lots of land Nos. 166 and 157, in the fifth district, of the county of Ware, to the county of Pierce. Line changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CCXLIV. (O. No. 344.) An Act to change the line between Appling and Ware counties, in this State. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the boundary line between the counties of Appling and Ware, be so changed as to include within the said county of Ware lots of land Nos. 220, 221, 241, 266 and 287, in the fifth land district of originally Appling county, now said county of Appling. Line ch'g'd. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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No. CCXLV. (O. No. 305.) An Act to change the line between the [Illegible Text] of Appling [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the line between the counties of Appling and Wayne be so changed as to add lot of land (224) two hundred and twenty-four of the 443d District, G. M., of the said county of Wayne to the county of Appling, including the residence of Isham Moody. Line ch'g'd. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCXLVI. (O. No. 246.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Bibb and Twiggs. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the line between the counties of Bibb and Twiggs be so changed as to include the following lots of land, now in the county of Twiggs, into the county of Bibb, to-wit: Numbers 134, 135, 143, 144, 145, 146, 149, 150, 151, 152 and 161. Bibb and Twiggs countiesline betw'n changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCXLVII. (O. No. 63.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Clay and Calhoun. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the line between the counties of Clay and Calhoun be so changed as to include in the county of Clay lot of land number 340, now in the fourth District of Calhoun county. Counties of Clay and Calhounline betw'n changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875.

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No. CCXLVIII. (O. No. 269.) An Act to change the lines between the counties of Clay and Quitman, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the existing line between the counties of Clay and Quitman be so changed as to embrace within the limits of Quitman county the following described lands, to-wit: Lots Nos. 241, 280, 281, 320, 321, and all of that portion of lot No. 240 lying north of Pataula creek, all of said land lying and being in the seventh district of originally Lee, now Clay county. Clay and Quitmanline betw'n changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCXLIX. (O. No. 376) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to change the line between the counties of Coffee and Ware, so as to include lots of land numbers 53, 54 85 and 86 in the seventh District of the county of Coffee, in the said county of Ware, approved August 24, 1872. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited act be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act rep'led SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CCL. (O. No. 253.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Coweta and Campbell, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the county line between the counties of Coweta and Campbell be, and the same is hereby, changed so that the same shall be, and run, as follows, to-wit: Coweta and Campbellline betw'n changed.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said county line shall extend and run so as to add to Campbell county all that fraction or portion of lot of land number (63) sixty-three, in the county of Coweta, including all that part of said lot of land on the west side of the Atlanta and West Point Railroad, owned by the estate of Thos. P. Minifee, deceased, and A. S. Whitaker, trustee for L. D. and C. R. and L. J. and M. J. Whitaker and Levi Ballard. Changes made. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCLI. (O. No. 82.) An Act to change the county line between the counties of Coweta and Meriwether. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the county line between the counties of Coweta and Meriwether be so changed, by starting on the county line of Meriwether fifty yards east of the center of the residence of Benjamin Hutcheson, of said county, running south one hundred yards, thence west one hundred yards, and thence north one hundred yards to said county line, as to include the residence of Benjamin Hutchenson, in the county of Coweta. Line ch'g'd. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. CCLII. (O. No. 242.) An Act to change the county line between the counties of Elbert and Hart, so as to include the residence and lands of John B. Maxwell, of Elbert county, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the county line between the counties of Elbert and Hart be so changed as to include within the county of Hart the residence and lands of John B. Maxwell, now of the county of Elbert, the line to commence on the land of said John B. Maxwell where it joins the counties of

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Hart and Elbert, and run around his land until it reaches the Hart county line. Elbert and Hart countiesline between changed SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCLIII. (O. No. 359.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Gwinnett, DeKalb and Rockdale, so as to include certain lands in the county of Rockdale. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly 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 that fractional lot No. 250, in the 4th district of Gwinnett, and fractional lot No. 256, in the 16th district of DeKalb, be, and the same are hereby, included in the county of Rockdale. Line ch'g'd. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CCLIV. (O. No. 58.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Henry and Butts. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the line between the counties of Henry and Butts be so changed as to include in the county of Henry the residence of Henry Peck, now of Butts, and the lands upon which the said residence is situated. Henry and Butts countiesline between changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875.

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No. CCLV. (O. No. 362.) An act to change the line between the counties of Henry and Clayton. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the line between the counties of Henry and Clayton be, and the same is hereby, changed by adding lots of land, numbers seventy-two, eighty-nine, one hundred and four, one hundred and twenty-one, one hundred and thirty-five, one hundred and thirty-six, one hundred and fifty-three, one hundred and fifty-four, one hundred and fifty-five, one hundred and sixty-eight, one hundred and sixty-seven, one hundred and eighty five, two hundred, and two hundred and seventeen, in the twelfth district in the county of Henry, to the county of Clayton. Line ch'g'd SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CCLVI. (O. No. 38.) An Act to change the county line between the counties of Johnson and Emanuel. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the line between the counties of Johnson and Emanuel be, and the same is hereby, changed so as to include in the county of Johnson the lands of James L. Hutcherson, Yarborough and Thomas Gillis. Counties [Illegible Text] Johnson and Emanuelline between changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 20, 1875. No. CCLVII. (O. No. 30.) An Act to change the county line between the counties of Jones and Bibb so as to include certain lots therein mentioned, now in the county of Jones, into the county of Bibb. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of

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Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the line between the counties of Jones and Bibb be so changed as to include lots of land number seventy-two, seventy-three, seventy-four, seventy-five, seventy-six, eighty-one, eighty-two, eighty-three, eighty-four, eighty-five, ninety-eight, ninety-nine, one hundred, one hundred and one, and one hundred and two, now in the county of Jones, into the county of Bibb. Jones and Bibb countiesline between changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 17, 1875. No. CCLVIII. (O. No. 115.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to change the line between the counties of Lumpkin and Dawson, approved February 27, 1874, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the act entitled an act to change the line between the counties of Lumpkin and Dawson, approved February 27, 1874, be repealed, and that the original line between said counties of Lumpkin and Dawson be, and the same is hereby, re-established. Act rep'led. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCLIX. (O. No. 234.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Montgomery and Tatnall. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the line between the counties of Montgomery and Tatnall be so changed as to include the residence and lands of John J. Grey, Jr., of Tatnall county, being on said line, into Montgomery county, he being a liner. Montgomery and Tatnall countiesline betw'n changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCLX. (O. No. 286.) An Act to change the county line between the counties of Talbot and Harris so as to include certain lots therein mentioned, now in the county of Talbot, in the county of Harris. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the line between the counties of Talbot and Harris be changed so as to include lots of land numbers seventy-eight, seventy-nine, west half of lot one hundred and two, and thirteen acres in the north east corner of lot sixty-seven, now in the county of Talbot, in the county of Harris. Talbot and Harris co'ntiesline between changed. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the line between the counties of Talbot and Harris be so changed that the following lands, to-wit: Lots number six (6), number two hundred and eight (208), and one hundred and ten acres (110) of lot number thirty-one (31), (now owned by W. W. Owen) in the county of Harris, be included in the county of Talbot. Other [Illegible Text] as to line. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCLXI. (O. No. 349.) An Act to change the lines between the counties of Telfair and Dodge. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the line between the counties of Telfair and Dodge shall be so changed as to include lot of land number 136 in the fourteenth district of Dodge, in the county of Telfair. Line changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. No. CCLXII. (O. No. 346.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Appling and Wayne. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the line

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between the counties of Appling and Wayne be so changed as to add lot of land (224) two hundred and twenty-four, of the 443d district, G. M., of the said county of Wayne, to the county of Appling, including the residence of Isham Moody. Line changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. No. CCLXIII. (O. No. 29.) An Act to change the line between the counties of Wayne and Camden. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the line between the counties of Wayne and Camden be so changed as to include in Wayne county the lands (upon which their residences are erected) of Nathan Daniels, Arion Daniels and Eliza Polk. New line. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 17, 1875. No. CCLXIV. (O. No. 319.) An Act to change the line between Worth and Dooly counties. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the line between said counties of Worth and Dooly shall run as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the northeast corner of lot of land No. 171, in the 2nd district of originally Irwin now Worth, and running due west course to the southeast corner of the 14th district of Worth county. Line changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CCLXV. (O. No. 163.) An Act to change the county line between the counties of Worth and Irwin, by adding to the county of Irwin lots of land numbers three hundred and three and two hundred and ninety-six, in the sixth district of Worth county. SECTION I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That the county line between the counties of Worth and Irwin be so changed as to add lots of land number three hundred and three, and two hundred and ninety-six, of the sixth district of Worth county, to the county of Irwin, the same being the residence and lands now occupied by G. W. Warren. Line changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCLXVI. (O. No. 299.) An Act to define and declare the line between the counties of Worth. and Irwin, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, there has existed for some time great doubts as to the proper line between said counties, for remedy whereof, SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the line between said counties of Worth and Irwin shall be as follows, to-wit: Commencing at the south-east corner of lot of land number twelve (12) in the second (2) district of, originally Irwin, now Worth county, and running thence due north to the north-east corner of lot of land number (171) in same district, and thence running a due westerly course to the south-east corner of the (14th) district of Worth county. Worth and Irwin countiesline between changed. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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CHAPTER III. COUNTY OFFICERS. BanksBonds of officers.....NO. ACT. 267 CalhounCertain offices consolidated.....268 CamdenOfficial acts made valid.....269 CatoosaOffice of Tax Receiver abolished.....270 ChathamFees of Sheriff.....271 ChathamPay of Tax Receiver and Collector.272 ChattahoocheeExtra pay of Sheriff.....373 CherokeePay of Tax Receiver and Collector.274 ClayBond of Sheriff.....275 CrawfordConsolidation of offices.....276 DecaturOffice of Tax Receiver abolished.....277 DoolyOffices consolidated.....278 DouglasTreasurer.....279 ElbertOrdinary may be Clerk.....280 HustonOfficers' bonds.....281 HoustonPay of officers.....282 JacksonCertain offices consolidated.....283 JeffersonCompensation of officers.....284 LincolnTreasurer may be Clerk.....285 LumpkinOffices consolidated.....286 MurrayTaxes, who to collect and receive.....287 PulaskiOffices consolidated.....288 PulaskiTreasurer's office abolished.....289 RandolphOrdinary's compensation.....290 Rockdale, NewtonPay of officers.....291 Terrell, DecaturPay of officers and jurors.....292 WayneOffices consolidated.....293 WorthFees of Treasurer.....294 No. CCLXVII. (O. No. 251.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to regulate the manner of giving bonds for county officers, approved February 24, 1873, so far as the same relates to the county of Banks. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the act entitled an act to regulate the manner of giving bonds for county officers, approved February 24, 1873, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as the same relates to the county of Banks. Act recited repealed as to Banks co'nty. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCLXVIII. (O. No. 92.) An Act to consolidate the offices of Sheriff and Tax Collector, of Clerk of the Superior Court and Tax Receiver, and of Ordinary and Treasurer, in the county of Calhoun. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the first of January, 1877, the following offices shall be consolidated in the county of Calhoun, to-wit: The Sheriff of said

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county shall be ex officio Tax Collector, the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county shall be ex-officio Tax Receiver, the Ordinary of said county shall be ex officio Treasurer. Sheriff to [Illegible Text] taxes. Clerk to be Tax [Illegible Text] Ordinary [Illegible Text] be [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the compensation of the said Sheriff, Clerk and Ordinary, for performing the additional duties imposed on them by this Act, shall be one-half the commissions now allowed by law in said county for the services imposed. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the official bonds of the ex officio Collector, Receiver and Treasurer provided for in this Act, shall be given in like manner and for same amount as now required by law of Tax Collectors, Tax Receivers and County Treasurers. Official bonds. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. CCLXIX. (O. No. 320.) An Act to make valid the official acts of the county officers of Camden county. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That all official acts performed by the county officers of the county of Camden, from October 1, 1872, until their successors are qualified, are hereby declared to be valid, and no act shall be held to be void on account of said officers holding over and acting under their old commissions, but this Act shall not be held to justify any illegal act, or acts which either or all of them may have done. Acts of county officers [Illegible Text] valid. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCLXX. (O. No. 318.) An Act to abolish the office of Tax Receiver in the county of Catoosa, and to authorise the Tax Collector of said county to perform the duties of said office. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the office of Tax Receiver, in the county of Catoosa, shall be abolished, and

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[Illegible Text] and that all laws now applicable to said office, and not inoperative, by reason of the consolidation of said offices, shall apply to the Tax Collector, under the provisions of this Act: Provided, that nothing contained in this Act shall be construed to affect the present occupants of said office, in said county. Office of Tax [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Tax Collector of said county shall receive no additional compensation for such services, but shall perform the duties of both offices for the same fees now allowed him by law as Tax Collector. Compensation. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCLXXI. (O. No. 93.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to amend the act in relation to the civil and criminal fees of the Sheriff of the county of Chatham, and to point out the manner of collecting the same, approved March 2, 1874. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the act entitled an act to amend the act in relation to the civil and criminal fees of the Sheriff of the county of Chatham, and to point out the manner of collecting the same, approved March 2, 1874, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall take affect from and after the first day of July next, 1875. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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No. CCLXXII. (O. No. 87.) An Act to regulate the compensation of the Tax Collector and the Receiver of Tax Returns, for the collection of the county tax for the county of Chatham. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That compensation of the Tax Collector of Chatham county for the collection of the taxes raised for county purposes, shall not exceed the sum of five hundred dollars. Compensation Tax [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Receiver of tax returns of the county of Chatham shall not [Illegible Text] any compensation from the county for the tax raised for county purposes. Of Tax [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall not take effect until the expiration of the term of service for which the present Tax Collector and Tax Receiver are now elected. This Act [Illegible Text] take effect when. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. CCLXXIII. (O. No. 236.) An Act to compensate the Sheriff of Chattahoochee county for extra services, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of [Illegible Text] of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this Act, the County Commissioners of Chat tahcochee county shall draw their warrant upon the Treasurer of said county for fifty dollars in favor of the Sheriff of said county, for extra services as Sheriff of said county for the year eighteen [Illegible Text] and seventy-four. Extra sericeSheriff to be paid for. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCLXXIV. (O. No. 103.) An Act to fix the compensation of Tax Receiver and Collector of Cherokee county, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the Tax Receiver and Collector of Cherokee county shall each receive four hundred dollars per annum for their services, instead of the compensation now allowed. Compensation of Receiver and Collector of taxes. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the provisions of the first section of this Act shall take effect when the official terms of the present incumbents shall have expired. Act to take effect when. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act shall interfere with the commissions allowed by the State. Commissions al'w'd by State. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. CCLXXV. (O. No. 146.) An Act to reduce the bond of the Sheriff in the county of Clay. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this Act, the bond required to be given by the Sheriff in the county of Clay shall be five thousand dollars, instead of the amount now required by law. Bonds of Sheriff. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. (No. CCLXXVI. (O. No. 321.) An Act to consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of Crawford county. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act the offices of Tax Receiver

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and Tax Collector of Crawford county be, and the same are hereby, consolidated. Offices of Tax Receiver and Collector consolidated. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, the duties now performed by the Tax Receiver and Tax Collector shall be performed by one person, who shall be known as Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of Crawford county. Duties to be performed by whom. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the pay of said officers shall be five hundred dollars per annum, and that said officer shall be elected, and give such bond as is now required of the Tax Collector of said county: Provided, however, that nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to affect the pay of the present incumbent during his present term of office. [Illegible Text]. Bond. Pay of present incumbent. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCLXXVII. (O. No. 293.) An Act to consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of the county of Decatur, and abolishing the office of Tax Receiver, and requiring the Tax Collector to perform the duties of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of the county of Decatur. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the office of Tax Receiver of the county of Decatur be, and the same is hereby, abolished, and the Tax Collector of the county of Decatur shall, and is hereby, required to perform all and singular the duties of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver of said county of Decatur. Office of Tax Receiver abolished Tax Collector to perform duties of Receiver. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the compensation of Tax Collector of said county of Decatur shall remain the same as is now provided by law. Compensation. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CCLXXVIII. (O. No. 136.) An Act to consolidate the office of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of the county of Dooly, to create the office of Tax Receiver and Collector of said county, and to prescribe his duties and fix his salary, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the offices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector, for the county of Dooly, be, and the same are hereby, consolidated, and that the duties of both of said offices shall be discharged by one officer, who shall be styled the Tax Receiver and Collector of the county of Dooly. Tax Receiver and Tax Collectoroffices consolidated. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws contained in the Code of 1873, as also all laws which may be hereafter enacted, in relation to the offices and duties of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to the office of Tax Receiver and Collector of the county of Dooly, as created by this Act. Laws [Illegible Text] applicable. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the said Tax Receiver and Collector of the county of Dooly, before entering on the duties of his office, besides the oath required of all civil officers, shall take and subscribe the oaths prescribed by law for Tax Receivers and Tax Collectors, as contained in sections 918 and 929 of the Code of 1873, and he shall also give like bond and security, as required by law for Tax Collectors. Oath of office. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That said Tax Receiver and Collector of the county of Dooly shall receive as compensation for his services as such, the sum of six hundred dollars per annum, which shall be in full of all fees, commissions or other compensation, and it shall be the duty of the county authorities of said county, having the power of levying county taxes on or before the first day of August, in each year, to certify to the Comptroller General the amount of county tax to be raised, and said salary shall be allowed pro rata by said Comptroller General and county authorities, respectively, from the amounts of State and county tax received in said county. Compensation. Duty of county authorities. State and counties to pay salary SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. CCLXXIX. (O. No. 7.) An Act to make the Tax Collector of Douglas county ex officio County Treasurer of said county, and for other purposes therein named. SECTION. I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Tax Collector of the county of Douglas shall be ex officio Treasurer of said county, and shall give bond as such in addition to the bond required of him as Tax Collector, but shall receive no fees for the performance of the duties of Treasurer. TreasurerTax Collector shall be ex officio. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prevent the present Treasurer of said county of Douglas from discharging the duties of his office, and receiving the lawful fees therefor during his present term of office. Present Treasurer to discharge duties. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 4, 1875. No. CCLXXX. (O. No. 122.) An Act to authorize the Ordinary of Elbert county to act as Clerk of the Superior Court of said county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That so far as the county of Elbert is concerned, holding the office of Ordinary shall not be a disqualification for the office of Clerk of the Superior Court, and the Ordinary, if elected thereto, may also hold the office of Clerk, and discharge the duties of both offices and receive the fees, on his qualifying and giving bond and security, as others elected Clerk are required to do, except that in his oath of office as Clerk, he shall not be required to swear that he is not the holder of any office under the government of this State. Ordinary may be Clerk Superior Court. Fees and Bond. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. CCLXXXI. (O. No. 37.) An Act to repeal an act, approved February 22, 1873, to fix the official bonds of certain county officers of the counties of Munroe, Camden, Houston and Ware, so far as it relates to Houston county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, so much of said act, approved February 22, 1873, as applies to the county of Houston be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act rep'l'd. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 20, 1875. No. CCLXXXII. (O. No. 283.) An Act to fix the compensation of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver, and Treasurer, of Houston county, and provide extra compensation of officers. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the next regular election of county officers for the county of Houston, the compensation of Tax Collector of said county, for the collection of the tax levied for county purposes, shall be two hundred dollars. The compensation of the Tax Receiver, for his official work performed in the interest of said county, shall be one hundred dollars. The compensation of the Treasurer of said county shall be four hundred dollars. Tax Collectorcompensation for col'ct'ng county tax. Tax Receivercompensation for receiving county tax. Treasurercompens'n. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no extra pay shall hereafter be allowed or paid to any county officers, Sheriff or Clerk, or any other officers of said county, for any extra services they may render as such officers, unless allowed by the County Commissioners of said county of Houston, upon due proof of the services performed and the value of them. No extra pay [Illegible Text] Exception. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCLXXXIII. (O. No. 133.) An Act to consolidate the offices of Clerk of the Superior Court and Treasurer of the county of Jackson. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the office of Clerk of the Superior Court and that of Treasurer of the county of Jackson, shall be consolidated and made one, and all the duties heretofore required and performed by the Treasurer of said county shall be required of, and performed by, the Clerk of the Superior Court, who shall be allowed a salary of one hundred and fifty dollars, over and above all fees received as Clerk, for the performance of the duties of County Treasurer: Provided, the Clerk shall give bond as now required of County Treasurer. Clerk and Treasureroffices consolidated. Duties. Salary. Clerk to give bond. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall take effect, and be of force, on and after the first day of January, 1877. Act to take effect when. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCLXXXIV. (O. No. 199.) An Act to regulate and prescribe the compensation of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver of Jefferson county, so far as relates to the collecting and receiving of the county taxes of said county, and to regulate and prescribe the compensation of the County Treasurer of said county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and seventy-seven, the Tax Collector and the Tax Receiver of the county of Jefferson shall be entitled to and receive, as compensation for collecting and receiving the county tax, only one fourth the per cent. now allowed by law to such officers for collecting and receiving the State tax. Compensation of Tax Collector' and Tax Receiver. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the County Treasurer of said county be, and he is hereby, entitled to receive the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum for his services as such County Treasurer. [Illegible Text] of Treasurer. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875.

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No. CCLXXXV. (O. No. 280.) An Act to allow the County Treasurer of Lincoln county to hold the office of Clerk of the Superior Court, and to allow the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county to hold the office of County Treasurer. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the County Treasurer of Lincoln county shall be entitled to hold the office of Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, and the Clerk of said Superior Court to hold the office of County Treasurer of said county, and that this Act shall be held to cover the case of the person recently elected County Treasurer and Clerk of the Superior Court of said county. Treasurer of Lincoln county may be Clerk Superior Court SEC. IX. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCLXXXVI. (O. No. 110.) An Act to consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of the county of Lumpkin, and to reduce the amount of commissions now allowed by law for receiving and collecting the taxes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the expiration of the present term for which the Tax Receiver and Tax Collector of the county of Lumpkin have been elected, said offices shall be consolidated, and one person shall be elected and qualified to perform the duties of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector, and shall receive only for his services such compensation as is now allowed the Tax Receiver as commissions on the State tax, and fiver per cent. commissions on the county tax. Offices of Tax Receiver and Collector consolidated. Compensation. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That said officer be, and he is hereby, required, before entering upon the duties of his office, to give the bonds heretofore required of the Tax Receiver and Tax Collector. Bonds. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws which now apply to the offices of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver, or which may hereafter be enacted in relation to said offices, be, and the same are hereby, adopted and made applicable to the office of Tax Receiver and Tax Collector, as created by this Act. Laws made applicable. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. CCLXXXVII (O. No. 8.) An Act to abolish the offices of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver of Murray county as separate offices; and to make the Sheriff of said county Tax Collector, and to make the Deputy Sheriff of said county Tax Receiver. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage, of this Act the Sheriff of the county of Murray shall perform the duties of Tax Collector of said county, and receive for the same the sum of three hundred dollars per annum, and no other compensation, for such service in collecting taxes. Sheriff to be Tax Collector. Compensation. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Deputy Sheriff of said county shall perform the duties of Tax Receiver of said county, and receive as compensation for the same the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars per annum, and no other compensation, for such service in receiving taxes. Deputy Sheriff to be Tax Receiver. Compensation. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before said Sheriff and Deputy Sheriff shall enter upon the [Illegible Text] of said offices, they shall each enter into bonds, as now required by law of the Tax Collectors and Tax Receivers. Bonds. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That this Act shall only be construed to take effect when the present terms of the aforesaid offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of said county shall have expired. This Actwhen to take effect. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 4, 1875. No. CCLXXXVIII. (O. No. 6.) An Act to consolidate the offices of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver of the county of Pulaski, to prescribe his duties as Tax Receiver and Collector, fix the commission attaching to the office, and the date when the act shall go into effect. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the offices of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver of the county of Pulaski be, and the same are hereby, conslidated, and the duties of said offices shall be discharged by one officer, who shall be styled the Tax Receiver and Collector of Pulaski county. Tax Rec'r and Tax Collectoroffices consolidated.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the Tax Receiver and Collector of said county of Pulaski shall, before entering upon the duties of his office, besides the oath required of all civil officers, take and subscribe the oaths prescribed by law for Tax Receivers and Tax Collectors, and shall also give bond as prescribed in section 930 of the New Code of Georgia, for the faithful performance of his duties as Tax Receiver and Collector. Oath of office. Bond. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all the provisions of article seven and eight of the Code of Georgia, as also all other laws which now apply to, or may hereafter be enacted in relation to, Tax Receivers and Tax Collectors, be, and the same are hereby, adopted and made applicable to the office of the Tax Receiver and Collector of the county of Pulaski, as created by this Act, so far as the same are not inconsistent with this Act. Laws made applicable. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the commissioners of the Tax Receiver and Collector of said county of Pulaski shall be allowed on his digest as follows: If over $20,000, three per cent.; if over $10,000, and under $20,000, four per cent.; if over $6,000, and under $10,000, five per cent.; if over $3,000, and under $6,000, six per cent.; which commission shall be allowed him as Tax Receiver and Collector, and not as Tax Receiver and Tax Collector. Fees. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall go into effect from and after the first day of January, 1877. Act to go into effectwhen. SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 4, 1875. No. CCLXXXIX. (O. No. 4.) An Act to abolish the office of Treasurer of the county of Pulaski, to [Illegible Text] the duties of said office in the Judge of the County Court, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the office of Treasurer of the county of Pulaski, be, and the same is hereby, abolished. Office of Treasurer abolished. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all the duties of said office shall devolve upon, and be discharged by the Judge of the County Court of said county, whose duty it shall be to collect, disburse and account for all moneys or other effects of the county as County Treasurers are now required to do by law, giving like bond, as provided for in section 549 of the Code of Georgia, and taking the oath of office as provided in section 548 of the Code of Georgia. Judge of County C'rt to perform the duties. Bond. Oath of office.

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SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the County Judge of the county of Pulaski shall receive no commissions, fees or emoluments for the collection, disbursement or accounting of the county funds of said county, and that all the provisions of article first, chapter fourth of the Code of Georgia, relating to County Treasurers, so far as the same are not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act, be, and the same are hereby, made applicable to said County Judge. No Commissions. Laws applicable. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That this Act shall go into effect from and after the first day of January, 1877. When to take effect. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 4, 1875. No. CCXC. (O. No. 292.) An Act to provide for the compensation of the Ordinary of Randolph county for the performance of the duties heretofore performed by the Inferior Courts of the several counties, and now performed in several counties by Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, and for which no provisions have been made in said county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That for the performance of the duties heretofore devolving upon the Inferior Courts of the several counties, when in existence, or so much of the same as devolved upon the Courts of Ordinary when said Inferior Courts were abolished, and for which no fees are prescribed, the Ordinary of Randolph county shall hereafter receive such sum as may be recommended by the grand jury at each spring term, to be paid out of the county treasury of said county, and for which sum the said Ordinary shall give to the County Treasurer his receipt when the same is paid, which shall be his voucher. Ordinarycompensation for certain duties. How paid. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CCXCI. (O. No. 297.) An Act to legalize the orders passed by the Judge of the Superior Courts of Rockdale and Newton counties at the fall term, 1874, of said Courts, in favor of the Ordinary, Sheriff and Clerk of the Superior Courts of said counties, for services as to county business, and for compensation for extra services, for which there are no fees prescribed by law, and to authorize the Treasurers of said counties to pay the same. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the orders passed by the Judge of the Superior Courts of Rockdale and Newton counties at the fall term, 1874, to the Ordinaries, Sheriffs, and Clerks of the Superior Courts of said counties, for services in relation to county business, and for compensation for extra services, for which there are no fees prescribed by law, be, and the same are hereby, made legal. Ordinaries, Sheriffs and Clerksorders for extra compensation ratified. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the Treasurers of said counties be, and they are hereby, authorized and required to pay said orders out of any money in the treasuries of said counties not otherwise appropriated. County Treasurer to pay orders. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCXCII. (O. No. 194.) An Act to consolidate the offices of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver in the county of Terrell, to regulate the salary of the Collector, and to regulate and settle the salary of the County Treasurer, and the per diem pay of jurors in the county of Terrell, and to regulate the salary of the County Treasurer of the county of Decatur, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the offices of Tax Collector and Tax Receiver of the county of Terrell, be, and the same are hereby, consolidated. That so soon as the terms of office of the present Tax Collector and Tax Receiver shall have expired, it shall be the duty of the Tax Collector to perform all the duties of Tax Receiver and Collector, and shall receive the same compensation as now allowed by law to Tax

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Collectors of this State (and no more) for the performance of the duties of both offices. Offices of Tax Collector and Receiver consolidated. Tax Collector to perform duties of both. Compensation. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the salary of the County Treasurer of said county of Terrell, and the said county of Decatur shall be two hundred dollars, and no more. Salary of Treasurer. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the per diem pay or fees of jurors in the said county of Terrell shall be one dollar and fifty cents per day, and no more. Per diem of jurors. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CCXCIII. (O. No. 5.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver and Collector of the county of Wayne. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That an act entitled an act to consolidate the offices of Tax Receiver and Collector of the county of Wayne, approved August 26, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act rep'l'd. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 4, 1875. No. CCXCIV. (O. No. 112.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to change the law, so far as relates to the fees of County Treasurer of the county of Worth, approved March 2, 1874. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above mentioned act be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and that the County Treasurer of Worth county, now in office, and his successors in office, shall be entitled to, and receive two and one-half per cent. as his fees on all moneys received or paid out by him in lieu of five, as now provided by statute. Fees of county Treasurer. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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CHAPTER IV. COUNTY REGULATIONS. Baldwin, orders on Treasurer.....NO. ACT. 295 Burke, Taylor and Jefferson, destruction of game.....296 Calhoun and Chatham, fishing on land of another.....297 Chatham, catching fish in [Illegible Text].....298 Clayton, insolvent costs.....299 Fulton, constables.....300 Fulton, night laws.....301 Houston, insolvent cost.....302 Liberty and McIntosh, destruction of game.....303 Liberty, McIntosh and Baldwin, destruction of game.....304 NO. ACT. Lumpkin, fines and forfeitures.....305 Lumpkin, Road Commissioners.....306 Marion, Schley and Macon, obstruction of creeks.....307 Meriwether. Coweta, Troup, Harris and Laurens, farm products.....308 Muscogee, Lincoln and Baldwin, destruction of game.....309 Quitman, jury scrip.....310 Thomas, appropriation to.....311 Thomas, Lowndes, Decatur, Mitchell and Camden, registration of voters.....312 Wilcox, rafting timber.....313 No. CCXCV. (O. No. 303.) An Act to regulate the mode of drawing orders on the County Treasurer of Baldwin county. WHEREAS, no law now exists, whereby the Ordinary can be certainly notified in due time for assessing taxes of the amount of orders on the County Treasurer outstanding; now for remedy thereof: SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, no Court or Judge or Clerk, except the Ordinary, shall have power to draw an order for money, directly on the County Treasurer, but certificates of a right to have such order, in nature of audited accounts, may be signed by the Judge of the Superior Court, or by the Clerk thereof, or by the Judge of the County Court, which shall be respected by the Ordinary, and order be granted therefor, if such certificates or accounts, audited, be issued for grounds now authorizing orders to be drawn by such Judges or Clerks, and be presented in ten days after their date to the Ordinary. Orders on County Treasurerhow certified and drawn. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CCXCVI. (O. No. 162.) An Act to alter and amend and add to an act entitled an act to prevent the destruction of insectiverious birds, and to make penal the killing, trapping or other destruction of game in the counties of Richmond, Dougherty and Randolph during certain seasons of the year, and to prohibit the destruction of birds by poison, drugs or other deleterious substances, approved February 22, 1874, by extending the provisions of the same to the counties of Burke, Taylor and Jefferson, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the provisions of the before recited act, be, and the same are hereby, extended, and made to apply to the counties of Burke, Taylor and Jefferson: Provided, the provisions of this Act shall not apply to the killing or destruction of old-field larks, crows or black-birds. Burke Taylor and Jefferson included. Proviso. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCXCVII. (O. No. 276.) An Act to repeal an act, approved February 24, 1874, and to amend section 4441 of the Revised Code of 1873, so far as they relate to the counties of Calhoun and Chatham. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That it shall not be lawful for any person to hunt with dogs, firearms, or other implements, nor to fish upon any enclosed lands, fields, walks or pastures, in the counties of Calhoun and Chatham, without the consent of the owner or occupant of said fields, walks or pastures. The person so offending shall, for every violation of the provisions of this section, be deemed and held guilty of trespass and misdemeanor, and subject to trial in any court having jurisdiction thereof, and upon conviction shall be fined or imprisoned, or both, at the discretion of the court, the fine not to exceed fifty dollars, the imprisonment not to exceed thirty days for each offense. Unlawful to hunt or fish on [Illegible Text] land of another. Misd'me'nor. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCXCVIII. (O. No. 277.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to prohibit the catching of fish in seines in certain parts of Chatham county, and for other purposes, approved August 23, 1872. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That section first of said act be, and the same is hereby, repealed, and the following substituted therefor: Part rep'l'd. SEC II. Be it further enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to draw, use or operate in any manner whatever, any seine, gill net, drag net, or any other contrivance for catching fish, of any kind, or for catching terrapins, except ordinary cast nets and fish lines, and the common tackle therefor, in any river or creek within one mile of the Isle of Hope or of the villages of Montgomery and Beulah in Chatham county, or in any part of the stream known as Herb river, or any of its creeks, in said county. Catching fish in s'nes, etc.prohibited, where. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That any and every person or persons found together with any such seine, or net, or contrivance, at the time that they are being used or operated in violation of this Act, in a boat or on any landing or bank of any of the said rivers or creeks, shall be held violators of this law under the penalty prescribed in section 2 of the said act. Penalty for violating this Act. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the words within one mile, used in this Act, shall not be restricted in meaning to a mile by water, following the curvatures of any stream from said places, but a mile on an air line in any direction from the store of any of the said places. How this shall be construed. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCXCIX. (O. No. 83.) An Act to provide for the payment of certain insolvent costs in Clayton county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the County Treasurer of the county of Clayton shall pay to the Solicitor General of the circuit to which said county may be attached, the insolvent costs arising from felonies, which may hereafter

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accrue, or which are now due him for services since the first day of January, 1874: Provided, the presiding Judge shall approve and audit said claim, and the grand jury of said county for the term shall specifically authorize its payment. Fees of Sol. Gen'l in feloniesto be paid by county. Proviso. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. CCC. (O. No. 157.) An Act to limit the number, and fix the pay of Constables who may serve in Fulton Superior Courts. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, the Constables who may serve in the Superior Courts of Fulton county, shall be limited to six during the time the grand jury is in session, one of whom shall wait upon the grand jury, and one upon the Solicitor General. When the grand jury is not in session the number of Constables shall not exceed five. Constables limited to [Illegible Text]. When gr'nd jury not in session. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Constables so serving shall be selected by the Sheriff, and shall, for each day's service, while said court is in session, only receive two dollars per day, upon the certificate of the Sheriff, which said certificates shall be audited and allowed by the Ordinary of said county, as other claims againt said county are audited and allowed. Constables to be [Illegible Text] by Sheriff. Per diemhow to be paid, etc. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CCCI. (O. No. 311.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act for the protection of deer, partridges and wild turkeys in the counties of Bryan and Chatham, and to make the killing or trapping of the same in said counties a penal offense, during certain seasons of the year, and for other purposes, approved February 21, 1873, and the act amendatory thereof, approved February 11, 1874, so as to provide that the provisions of said original and amendatory acts shall not apply to the county of Fulton, in so far as to prevent the killing of night hawks or bull bats in said county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the above recited acts be, and they are hereby, so amended as to provide that the provisions of said acts shall not apply to the county of Fulton, in so far as to prevent the killing of night hawks or bull bats in said county. Exception as to Fulton county. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCCII. (O. No. 367.) An Act to repeal an act to provide for the payment of insolvent costs to the Solicitor General of the Macon Circuit, and for other purposes, approved August 26, 1872, so far as the same relates to the county of Houston, and to provide for the payment of insolvent costs accruing to the Solicitor General of the Macon Circuit, in the county of Houston, out of fines and [Illegible Text] as provided by section 4631 of the Code of Georgia, and to repeal conflicting laws. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the act entitled an act to provide for the payment of insolvent costs to the Solicitor General of the Macon circuit, and for other purposes, approved August 26, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, repealed, so far as relates to the county of Houston: Provided, that this Act shall not operate to alter the present law so as to affect the present Solicitor General of said circuit, nor take effect till the time of his present appoinment shall expire. Act rep'led Proviso.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all insolvent costs hereafter accruing to the Solicitor General of the Macon circuit, in the county of Houston, shall be paid out of fines and forfeitures, as provided by section 4631 of the Code of Georgia, and not otherwise. Insolvent costs to be paid from fines, etc. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1874. No. CCCIII. (O. No. 167.) An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to prevent the destruction of game in the counties of Liberty and McIntosh, approved March 2, 1874. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, an act entitled an act to prevent the destruction of game in the counties of Liberty and McIntosh, approved March 2, 1874, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act rep'led. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCCIV. (O. No. 278.) An Act to add a proviso to the act entitled an act to prevent the destruction of game in the counties of Liberty and McIntosh, approved March 2, 1874, and to extend the said act, as so amended, to the county of Baldwin. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That a proviso be added to said recited act in these words, to-wit: Provided, this Act shall not be so construed as to limit or interfere with the rights of owners, upon their own lands; and that said recited act, as so amended, be extended to the county of Baldwin. Proviso. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCCV. (O. No. 137.) An Act to prescribe the manner in which all moneys shall be applied which have been raised by fines and forfeitures in failing to perform public road duty. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act all fines and forfeitures collected from Commissioners of Public Roads, or overseers, or working hands in failing to perform their respective duties, shall be paid over to the Road Commissioners where such default occurred, and by them applied to the payment of laborers by them employed to work out the roads where such default occurred in such road district: Provided, that the provisions of this Act shall apply to the county of Lumpkin alone. Certain fines and forfeitureshow applied SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCCVI. (O. No. 17.) An Act to repeal an act of the General Assembly, requiring persons over the age of fifty years to serve as Road Commissioners in the county of Lumpkin. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the second section of the act of the Legislature, approved 13th December, 1871, compelling persons over fifty years of age to serve as Road Commissioners in the county of Lumpkin, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Persons over fifty years exempt from road duty. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 11, 1875.

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No. CCCVII. (O. No. 282.) An Act to prevent the obstructing of Buck, Bridge, [Illegible Text] Kinchafoonee, Muckalee and Shoal creeks, in the counties of Marion, Schley and Macon, and to remove all traps now erected on either or all of said creeks. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any one to place in either Buck, Bridge, Uchee, Kinchafoonee, Muckalee or Shoal creeks, in said counties of Marion, Schley and Macon, any fish traps, whereby the free passage of fish shall be obstructed. Fish traps, [Illegible Text] to place in certain creeks. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all traps now in either of said creeks, shall be removed within twenty days after the passage of this Act, by the owners thereof; and if said owners shall fail or refuse to remove said obstructions, any one desiring to have them removed shall have the right to remove the same. Traps to be removed when. If Owners refuse how may remove. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this Act, any one putting a fish-trap in either of said creeks, so as to obstruct the free passage of the fish in either of said creeks, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars, to be recovered in the Superior Court of said county; one-half to be paid to the informer, and the remainder to the County School Commissioner for said county, to be used as a common school fund: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall apply to any trap where there is an opening of six feet to low water mark. Penalty for violating this Act. Disposition of [Illegible Text]. Proviso. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCVIII. (O. No. 284.) An Act to amend and apply the provisions of an act entitled an act to prohibit the buying, selling, delivering or receiving of any farm products therein specified, between sunset and sunrise, in the counties of Lincoln, Brooks, and other counties therein named, without permission of the owner or employer of the land on which the products are raised, and to prescribe the punishment therefor, and for other purposes, approved August 23, 1872, so that said act shall apply to, and embrace the counties of Meriwether, Coweta, Troup, Harris and Laurens. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the first day of June next, the provision

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of the above recited act be so amended as to apply to, and be of force in all its parts in the said counties of Meriwether, Coweta, Troup, Harris and Laurens. Meriwether, Coweta, Troup, Harris and Laurens countiesAct to apply to. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCCIX. (O. No. 285.) An Act to prevent the killing of deer, partridges and wild turkeys by shooting, hunting, trapping, and other means, in the counties of Muscogee, Lincoln and Baldwin, and for other purposes therein contained. WHEREAS, a continued wholesale and ill-seasoned destruction of deer, partridges and wild turkeys, by shooting, hunting, trapping and other means, has threatened to exterminate and utterly destroy the breed and growth of deer, partridges, wild turkeys, and other birds hereinafter described in the counties of Muscogee, Lincoln and Baldwin, in the State of Georgia; and WHEREAS, the breeding season of deer, partridges, wild turkeys, etc., is between the months of April and October of each year, during which season the killing or trapping thereof is excessively cruel, and not productive of good to the people of said counties of Muscogree, Lincoln and Baldwin, it being conceded by eminent medical experts, that the flesh of deer, partridges, wild turkeys, etc., when obtained by trapping, or when killed during the breeding seasons, is, for sanitary reasons, improper as an article of food: [Illegible Text]. SECTION I. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That it shall be unlawful for any person whatever to kill any doe or fawn between the first day of January and the last day of July in any year, or to shoot any buck between the first day of September and the first day of November, and between the first day of March and the first day of May. And any person hurting, shooting, killing, or otherwise destroying any buck, doe or fawn running wild in the woods within the times herein before respectively limited, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and any person so offending shall forfeit and pay the sum of twenty-five dollars for every buck, doe or fawn so killed or destroyed, or suffer imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding sixty days, at the discretion of the court, said fine to be recovered before any court having jurisdiction thereof, where such offense shall have been committed, upon conviction, such penalty to be applied and disposed of as hereinafter directed. Deer, unlawful to killwhen. Party offending guilty of mildemeanor. Penalty.

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SEC. II Be it further enacted, That the trapping or snaring, by any means whatsoever, of any deer, partridge, or wild turkey, or the wilful destruction or disturbing the nest or eggs of any bird, as herein specified, (excepting birds of prey) at any season of the year, shall be punished by a fine of not less than twenty-five dollars for each and every deer, and ten dollars for each and every bird, or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding sixty days, at the discretion of the court. Trapping of deer, [Illegible Text] wild [Illegible Text] c., prohibited. Penalty. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That it shall be unlawful for any person whatsoever to shoot, kill or destroy, any wild turkeys or partridges between the fifteenth day of March and the fifteenth day of October of any year, and it shall be held and determined a misdemeanor, and any person so offending shall be punished by a fine of ten dollars, or imprisonment in the county jail for a term not exceeding sixty days, for each and every offense so committed. Wild [Illegible Text] and [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to killwhen. Penalty. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the fact of being in possession of any deer, or any bird mentioned in previous sections of this Act, or exposing the same for sale, shall be held as prima facie proof of the fact of trapping or killing by the person having possession thereof. Possession prima facie evidence of killing. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That one-half of each and every fine so collected shall go to the informer, and the other half shall be paid to the County Commissioners, if any, and if none, to the officer or officers managing the revenue of the county in which the case or cases shall be tried, to be used as their judgment shall dictate. [Illegible Text] of fines. SEC. VI Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCCX. (O. No. 40.) An Act to legalise the issuing of jury scrip in the county of Quitman, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, at the May term of the Superior Court of the county of Quitman for the year 1874, the Clerk of said Court, in ignorance of the change of the law regulating the payment of jurors, by which change the pay of said jurors was reduced from two dollars to one dollar per day, did issue certificates to the jurors of said Court at said term for the amount of two dollars per day: Preamble. SECTION I. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the issuing of scrip by the Clerk of the Superior Court of Quitman county to the jurors of said Court, at the May term of the year 1874, for the sum of two dollars per

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day for each days' service, be, and the same is hereby, declared legal and binding upon said county of Quitman. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of legalized. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 20, 1875. No. CCCXI. (O. No. 295.) An Act to provide for the payment to the proper authorities of Thomas county the amount of expenditure incurred by said county for the subsistence and transportation of penitentiary convicts from said county to the city of Milledgeville, in said State. WHEREAS, there was expended by the county authorities of said county, between the first day of December, in the year 1866, and the eighth day of August, in the year 1868, the sum of two hundred and twenty-seven dollars for the transportation of convicts from the town of Thomasville, in said county, to the town of Milledgeville, in this State; and WHEREAS, this expenditure was incurred necessarily, and by reason of the inability and failure of the Principal Keeper of the penitentiary to furnish transportation or subsistence for such convicts; and WHEREAS, the Treasurer of said county now holds a note for said sum, signed by W. C. Anderson, then Principal Keeper of the penitentiary, which is due and unpaid; therefore, Preamble. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the sum of two hundred and twenty-seven dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the payment of said claim; and His Excellency, the Governor, is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of this State for said sum of two hundred and twenty-seven dollars, and make such warrant payable to W. W. Williams, the Treasurer of said county. Appropriation to Thomas county for transport'n of convicts. Governor to draw [Illegible Text] for same. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CCCXII. (O. No. 54.) An Act to provide for the registration of electors in the counties of Thomas, Lowndes, [Illegible Text] Mitchell and Camden, and to prevent illegal voting in the same. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be the duty of the Receiver of tax returns of the counties of Thomas, Lowndes, Mitchell, Decatur and Camden, to open at the county sites of their respective counties, on the third Monday in April of each year, in which elections for members of the State Legislature are appointed by law to be held, lists for the registration of voters, which lists shall be kept open by them at such county sites until three o'clock P.M, on the first Monday in October of such [Illegible Text] except as hereinafter provided. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the registration lists provided for by this Act shall be opened by such Tax Receivers, at such time and places as shall be appointed by them for the receiving tax returns in the several militia districts of their respective counties, and shall be kept open for the registration of voters between the hours of ten o'clock A.M. and three o'clock P.M., on the days so appointed for receiving tax returns in said districts, and no longer. And the Tax Receivers of the counties named in this Act shall give at least ten days notice, in writing, of the time and place at which they will attend in said militia districts, for the purpose of opening their registration lists hereinafter provided for. Lists to be opened in militia districts. How long to be kept opened. Ten days' notice to be given. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Tax Receivers for the counties included in this Act, on application in person, within the time prescribed for keeping open such registration lists of any one qualified to vote by the Constitution and laws of said State in said county, and on the exhibition by such applicant of his receipt for the payment of such State and county taxes, as may be due from him for the year preceding that in which such application is made, to register the name of such applicant, together with his age, occupation and place of residence, which shall be entered in writing on said lists, opposite the name of each applicant, and it shall be the duty of such Tax Receivers to make out and deliver to the Ordinary of their respective counties, at least two days before the days appointed by law for holding elections in said counties, for the use of the managers of such elections in each militia district of the same, complete lists of all the registered voters of their respective counties, arranged in alphabetical order, and according to the militia districts in which such voters reside, and it shall be the duty of such Tax Receiver

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to indicate, plainly, on such lists of registered voters, before delivering the same to the Ordinaries, the names of all defaulters in the payment of taxes for the year next preceding the year for which such lists were made in their respective counties, and it is hereby made the duty of the Tax Collector of the counties named in this Act to make out, and deliver to the Tax Receiver of their respective counties, on the application of such Receivers, correct lists of the names of all such defaulters. Who may register. Age, name and residence to be stated. Registration [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of. Tax defaulters to be noted. Tax Collectors to give names of defaulters. SEC. IV. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the managers of elections at the several precincts, or polling places, in the counties named in this Act shall keep before them, while holding such election, the lists of registed voters provided for in the preceding section; and such managers of elections shall not permit any person to vote at the election held by them, whose name does not appear on such lists of registed voters, and who does not reside in the militia district in which such election is being held; and the managers of elections at each precinct in said counties shall enclose the lists of registered voters above provided for, with the other election papers required by law to be sent to the county site by 12 o'clock M. of the day succeeding the day on which such elections are held, which lists shall be delivered by the superintendents for consolidating election returns, to the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county, to be delivered by the Clerk to the grand juries of their respective counties on the first day of the next term of said court, who shall present all persons whose names appear on such registration lists, and who were not qualified voters at the time their names were so registered, and on conviction such person shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the New Code of Georgia. Election managers to keep lists before them. Who may not vote. Lists to accompany returned. Persons voting illegallygra'd jury to present. Puni'hme't. SEC. V. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the registration lists provided for by this Act shall be constantly kept open by the Tax Receivers for inspection by the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues for their respective counties. It shall also be the duty of such Tax Receivers to publish, for at least twenty days preceding the first Monday in October of each year, complete lists of all the registered voters of their respective counties arranged in alphabetical order, and according to the militia districts in which they reside, by affixing the same to the court-house door in their respective counties. But such published lists shall not contain the age, occupation, or place of residence of such registered voters. Commiss'rs of Roads, etc., may inspect lists. Lists to be published. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the performance of the duties required of them by this Act, the Tax Receivers of the several counties included therein shall receive such reasonable compensation, not to exceed six cents for each qualified voter registered by them, as shall be allowed them by the Commissioners of Roads and Revenues of their respective counties, to be paid out of the county treasury. And should any

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Receiver of Tax Returns of the counties named in this Act fail or refuse to perform any of the duties herein required of him, or should any such Receiver of Tax Returns register the name of any person known by such Receiver at the time of such registration not to be a qualified voter under the Constitution and laws of this State, such Tax Receiver shall be liable to indictment; and, on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the New Code of Georgia. And in the event any Receiver of Taxes shall resign or for any cause refuse or fail to perform the duties required of him by this Act, it shall be the duty of the Board of Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, if there be such, and if there be none, then of the Ordinary of such county, to appoint a suitable person to open registration lists, and to perform the other duties herein required of the Tax Receivers of said counties. Compensation of Receivers. Penalty on Tax [Illegible Text] for illegal registration If no Tax Receiver, who shall open lists. SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 23, 1875. No. CCCXIII. (O. No. 248.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to facilitate the rafting of timber in Wilcox county, approved February 21, 1873. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the first section of an act entitled an act to facilitate the rafting of timber in Wilcox county be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking from said section the words no person of the county of Wilcox and State of Georgia; and by adding after the end of said section the words, or in time of freshets and high water when there is a sufficient surplus of water to open the flood gates in said dam without injury to the owner. Rafting timber. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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PRIVATE LAWS. TITLE III. PRIVATE LAWS. Anderson, JamesLicense.....NO. ACT. 314 DeRenne, G. J. W.Executor of.....315 Gray, James M.Will of.....316 Hemphill, W. A. Co.Appropriation.....317 Kottman, James T.Relief.....318 Maguire, J. E.Relief.....319 McDaniel, WilliamRelief.....320 Patterson, W. H.Appropriation.....321 Tipton, C. G., Marchant, N.Appropriation.....322 Turner, TaylorRelief.....323 Walker, D. A., Conley, Benj.Appropriation.....324 Walton, W. A.Appropriation.....325 Whitman, W. L.Relief.....326 Williams, E. P.Relief.....327 No. CCCXIV. (O. No. 168.) An Act to authorize James Anderson, a blind man, citizen of the county of Fulton, to peddle without license in the counties of this State. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That James Anderson, a citizen of Fulton county, aged fifty years, who is a blind man, be authorized, and he is hereby authorized, to peddle in the counties of this State without license: Provided, nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to authorize said Anderson to peddle spirituous or malt liquors. James Andersonlicense to peddle. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCCXV. (O. No. 68.) An Act to authorize G. W. J. De Renne to nominate and appoint as executor and trustee the Pennsylvania Company for Insurances on Lives and Granting Annuities, and for other purposes therein named. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That G. W. J. DeRenne, of the county of Chatham, is

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hereby authorized and empowered to nominate and appoint the Pennsylvania Company for Insurance on Lives and Granting Annuities to be executor and trustee under his last will and testament, or to appoint said corporation trustee under any deed or other proper instrument of writing made and executed for that purpose, and the acceptance of said office of executor and trustee, or of executor, or trustee under said will, or deed, or other instrument of writing, shall authorize said corporation to execute said office in every respect, as if said corporation was a natural person resident within the State of Georgia, but with the same limitations, privileges, duties and obligations touching said offices of executor and trustee as are provided and set forth in the charter of said corporation, and amendments thereto, granted by the State of Pennsylvania. Penn. Company for Insurance on lives, etc. G. W. J. DeRenne may app'lnt as exec'r. Limitat'ns, restric'ons, etc. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875. No. CCCXVI. (O. No. 2.) An Act to authorize and empower the Court of Ordinary of the county of Bibb to have and to take jurisdiction to probate the will of James M. Gray, deceased, late of Jones county, to grant letters testamentary therein, and generally to have and take jurisdiction of all such matters touching the probating and executing said will, and the administration of the estate of said James M. Gray, as would or could be exercised by the Court of Ordinary of Jones county, under the Constitution and laws of this State; also, to render competent and eligible, Roland T. [Illegible Text] the Ordinary of the county of Jones, and the nominated executor in said will, to qualify and act as such executor without resigning his said office of Ordinary; also, to provide for appeal from any decision herein, of the Court of Ordinary of said county of Bibb, to the Superior Court thereof. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the Court of Ordinary of Bibb county is hereby authorized and empowered to have and take jurisdiction to probate the will of James M. Gray, deceased, late of Jones county, to grant letters testamentary therein, and generally to have and take jurisdiction of all such matters touching the probating and executing of the said will, and the administration

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of the estate of the said James M. Gray, deceased, as fully under the Constitution and laws of this State as if the said James M. Gray resided in said county of Bibb at the time of his death, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Preamble. Will of James M. Gray, who may probate. Other acts relating thereto. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Roland T. Ross, the Ordinary of the county of Jones, be, and he is hereby, rendered competent and eligible in law, to be appointed, qualify and act as executor of the will of the said James M. Gray, without being required or compellable to resign his said office of Ordinary of the county of Jones. [Illegible Text] T. Ross [Illegible Text] to be exec'r. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That an appeal shall lie from any decision herein, of the Court of Ordinary of said county of Bibb, to the Superior Court thereof, under such laws and regulations as are of force touching appeals from the Courts of Ordinary. Appeal from [Illegible Text] of Court of Ordinary. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 4, 1875. No. CCCXVII. (O. No. 381.) An Act to appropriate a sum of money to W. A. Hemphill Co. for publishing notice of the meeting of the Lease Committee on the Western and Atlantic Railroad. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the sum of twenty-five dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to W. A. Hemphill Co. for publishing in the Atlanta Constitution a notice of the meeting of the Lease Committee on the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and the Governor is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for said sum of money. [Illegible Text] to W. A. Hemphill Co. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 6, 1875.

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No. CCCXVIII. (O. No. 372.) An Act for the relief of James T. Kottman, late Tax Collector of Thomas county, and the sureties on his official bond. WHEREAS, there appears on the books of the Comptroller General, and the accounts of file in his office, an unsettled balance amounting to five hundred and eleven dollars and sixty-one cents, against James T. Kottman, late Tax Collector of Thomas county, due the State for tax of the years 1871 and 1872; and WHEREAS, the amount so remaining unsettled constitutes a portion of the insolvent tax list allowed the said Kottman by the grand jury at the October adjourned term, 1873, of the Superior Court of said county; and WHEREAS, fi. fas. were afterwards issued by said Kottman against most of those persons whose names appeared on said insolvent list, under the direction of said grand jury, which fi. fas. were returned by the Sheriff with entries of nulla bona endorsed thereon; which fi. fas., together with the tax books for said years, were destroyed by fire in the month of July, 1873; therefore, Preamble. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That James T. Kottman, and the sureties on his official bond as Tax Collector of Thomas county, for the years 1871 and 1872, be, and they are hereby, fully relieved and discharged from all liability to the State on account of said bond. James T. Kottman and sureties relieved. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CCCXIX. (O. No. 177.) An Act for the relief of J. E. Maguire, of Bartow county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the Governor be, and he is hereby, authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of this State for the sum of five hundred dollars, in favor of J. E. Maguire, of Bartow county, and that the said Treasurer pay the same, and that a sufficient sum of money to pay said claim, is hereby appropriated for that purpose. Warrant in favor of J. E. Maguire. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CCCXX. (O. No. 208.) An Act for the relief of William McDaniel of the county of Wilkinson, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, William McDaniel, of the county of Wilkinson, did, on the fifth day of November, in the year 1867, become the bail of Washington McDaniel, under a penal bond for the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars, the conditions of which bond were that the said Washington McDaniel should appear at the April term of the Superior Court of said county for the year 1868, to answer for the offense of riot; and WHEREAS, subsequently thereto, and prior to final judgment on the said recognizance, to-wit: In the year 1868, the said William McDaniel surrendered the said Washington McDaniel into the custody of J. W. Branden, the Sheriff of said county, who committed said Washington McDaniel to the jail of said county, from which he escaped; and WHEREAS, proceedings had been instituted to forfeit said bond; and WHEREAS, the said William McDaniel failed to answer the proceeding to forfeit said bond, because he had been advised by the then presiding Judge that the surrender of his principal discharged his liability on said bond, and at the April term of said court for the year 1874, an absolute judgment on said bond was taken against said William McDaniel, therefore: Preamble. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That said William McDaniel, of the county of Wilkinson, be, and he is hereby, relieved of any and all liability on the bailbond of said Washington McDaniel, and the judgment thereon, except the costs of court and Solicitor's fees incurred in the forfeiture of the recognizance. William McDaniel-relief of. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws, Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCXXI. (O. No. 287.) An Act to appropriate the sum of one hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty cents to W. H. Patterson in payment for services rendered the State of Georgia in suit against the Georgia National Bank. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the sum of one hundred and seventy-one dollars and fifty cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to W. H. Patterson for services rendered by him in taking an inventory

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of the assets of the Georgia National Bank, and for fees and protesting notes of said bank, and that the Governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for the payment of said sum. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCCXXII. (O. No. 126.) An Act to provide for the payment of the claims of Charles G. Tipton and Nathan Marchant, of the county of Worth for services rendered as teachers in the year 1871. WHEREAS, Charles G. Tipton and Nathan Marchant of the county of Worth have a just and valid claim against the school fund of said county, for services rendered as teachers in the year 1871, and which claims were not paid under the act entitled an act to provide for the payment of the claims of school officers and teachers for services rendered in the year 1871, approved March 3, 1874. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the County Commissioner of the said county of Worth be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to pay to said Charles G. Tipton and Nathan Marchant, from any funds now in his hands, or that may hereafter be received by him, known as funds for school purposes, such sum as may be necessary to pay in full the claim of Charles G. Tipton and Nathan Marchant: Provided, the amount of said claim shall first be ascertained and approved by said County School Commissioner. Appropriation to C. G. Tipton and Nathan Marchant. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCCXXIII. (O. No. 32.) An Act for the relief of J. W. Beck and J. W. Nelms, securities on the bond of Taylor Turner. WHEREAS, at the April term, 1872, of the Superior Court of the county of Fulton, the penal bond of Taylor Turner, who stood

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charged, in said Court, with the offense of assault, with intent to murder, was forfeited, and judgment was subsequently taken against his securities, John W. Beck and J. W. Nelms; and WHEREAS, after judgment was so rendered against said sureties, they did, by their activity, arrest the said Turner, and turn him over to the proper authorities, by whom he was sentenced to the penitentiary, where he is now serving out said sentence; [Illegible Text] SECTION I. Therefore be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That said sureties be, and they are hereby, fully relieved from any and all liability on the bond aforesaid: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall relieve said securities from the payment of thirty-four dollars as costs of court. Securities of Taylor Turner relieved SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 18, 1875. No. CCCXXIV. (O. No. 354.) An Act to pay Dawson A. Walker, of Whitfield county, and Benjamin Conley, of the county of Richmond, certain debts due each of them for services rendered the State on requirement of the Legislature, as members of the Board of Commissioners herein named. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Governor of the State of Georgia is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer of the State of Georgia, and in favor of Dawson A. Walker and Benjamin Conley, for the sum of five hundred dollars each, which several amounts shall be in full satisfaction for any and all balances due the above named parties as Commissioners appointed by the Legislature in the year 1870, to audit claims against the Western and Atlantic Railroad. Appropriation to Benjamin [Illegible Text] and D. A. Walker. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of one thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for the purposes specified in the first section of this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875.

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No. CCCXXV. (O. No. 247.) An Act to compensate William A. Walton, Esqr., of Richmond county, Georgia, for services rendered in the case of Divine, Jones and Lee, against the State of Georgia, and for other purposes therein named. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, that the sum of two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated to William A. Walton, Esqr., of Richmond county, Georgia, for services rendered in the case of Divine, Jones and Lee, against the State of Georgia, referred to him by the Appropriation Act of the last General Assembly. W. A. Waltonappropriation to. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That immediately after the passage of this Act, the Governor shall draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State in favor of said William A. Walton for the aforesaid sum. Governor to draw warrant for amount. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCXXVI. (O. No. 180.) An Act for the relief of W. L. Whitman of Catoosa county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the sum of one hundred and thirty dollars and eighty cents be, and the same is hereby, appropriated for payment of a claim in favor of W. L. Whitman, of the county of Catoosa, for cross-ties furnished the Western and Atlantic Railroad during the year 1869. Appro'at'n. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Governor be, and he is hereby, authorized and required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of the State, in favor of the said W. L. Whitman for said sum as specified in section first of this Act. Governor to draw warrant. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CCCXXVII. (O. No. 175.) An Act to relieve E. P. Williams, of White county, from liability on account of two forfeited recognizances in Towns Superior Court, in which G. W. Carodine is principal, and the said E. P. Williams is security. WHEREAS, E. P. Williams was surety for G. W. Carodine to appear at Towns Superior Court, October term, 1867, to answer to two bills of indictment in said court, found at the October term of said court, 1865, charging the said G. W. Carodine with the offense of assault and battery; and WHEREAS, at the October term of said court, 1867, the said Carodine suffered said bonds to be forfeited; and WHEREAS, before final judgment was entered upon the same, the said E. P. Williams produced the said G. W. Carodine in court, at the May term, 1868, but failed to apply for and obtain an exoneretur upon his bonds; and WHEREAS, said cases were, at the same term of said court, continued by defendant, Carodine, and afterwards said defendant failing to appear, final judgment was entered upon said original forfeitures; and WHEREAS, at the June term of said court, 1869, the said E. P. Williams, surety as aforesaid, settled said cases with S. C. Johnson, the Solicitor General at that time, who soon after died, and before said settlement was entered upon the record; and WHEREAS, since that time execution has been entered upon said judgments and levied upon the property of said E. P. Williams: Preamble. SECTION I. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the said E. P. Williams is hereby relieved from any and all liabilities upon said judgments and executions issued therefrom, except the actual court costs accruing on account of said forfeitures. E. P. Williams relieved for forfeiture of bonds. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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MISCELLANEOUS LAWS. CHAPTER I.Academies and Schools. CHAPTER II.Artillery Company. CHAPTER III.Augusta Real Estate and Building Association. CHAPTER IV.Liquor Laws. CHAPTER V.Mills on Conesauga River. CHAPTER VI.Propagation of Fish. CHAPTER I. ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS. Chattooga and Screven countiesPublic school teachers.....NO. ACT. 328 Clarkesville Academy.....329 Forsyth County School Debt.....330 Gilmer countyPublic school teachers.....331 [Illegible Text] free school.....332 McIntosh County Academy.....333 Milledgeville Male and Female Academies.....334 Savannah Free School Society.....335 No. CCCXXVIII. (O. No. 149.) An act for the relief of the Teachers of Public Schools of Chattooga and Screven counties for the year 1871. WHEREAS, the teachers of the public schools of Chattooga and Screven counties for the year 1871, have not received the full amount of their claims against the Board of Education of said counties; and WHEREAS, the above fact is established by the certificate of the County School Commissioners presented therewith, also the certificate of the foreman of the grand jury: Preamble. SECTION I. Therefore be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the County School Commissioners of Chattooga and Screven counties be authorized to pay out of the school funds now in their hands, or that may hereafter come into their hands, the amount yet unpaid to the teachers of public schools for the year 1871. Pay of public school teachers. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CCCXXIX. (O. No. 232.) An act to authorize the Trustees of the Clarkesville Academy of Habersham county to transfer and convey by deed, the building and lot known as the Clarkesville Academy to the Board of Education of said county and their successors in office. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Trustees of the Clarkesville Academy of Habersham county be, and the same are hereby, authorized and empowered to convey by deed to the Board of Education of said county, and their successors in office, the building and lot whereon the same stands. Clarkesville Academymay be sold, etc. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCXXX. (O. No. 19.) An Act to authorize Isaac S. Clement, County School Commissioner of Forsyth county, Georgia, to apply the poll tax of said county, collected for the year 1874, to the liquidation of the claims of Henry L. Patterson, County School Commissioner of said county, for the year 1871, and the teachers of public schools in said county in said year, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia That Isaac S. Clement, County School Commissioner of Forsyth county, be, and he is hereby, authorized to apply the poll tax collected for the year 1874, in said county, pro rata, to the claims of Henry L. Patterson, County School Commissioner of said county in the year 1871, and to the teachers of public schools in said county for said year: Provided, that before the said Henry L. Patterson shall share in said money, one hundred dollars shall be deducted from his account, which amount was paid him last year by direction of the present Board of Education of said county: and provided further, that where the claim of any of said teachers has been paid, wholly or in part, by the patrons of said schools in said year, the amount that would otherwise have been due said teacher shall be paid pro rata to said patrons, on their accounts being verified by affidavit before the said Isaac S. Clement: and provided further, that said Henry L. Patterson, Commissioner as

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aforesaid, and the said teachers of public schools in said county for said year do execute their receipts to the said Isaac S. Clement as Commissioner of said county, in full of all claims or demands as Commissioner or teachers of public schools in said county in said year that they now have, either against said county or State. Poll tax of 1874may be paid to whom. Proviso. Accounts to be verified. Receipts. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 13, 1875. No. CCCXXXI. (O. No. 235.) An Act to provide for the payment of teachers of public schools in the county of Gilmer, who taught public schools in said county, in the year 1871, and for other purposes. WHEREAS, there is a balance due and unpaid to the teachers of public schools in the county of Gilmer, on their claims for schools taught in said county in the year 1871; and WHEREAS, the money collected as poll-tax for said county for the year 1874 is now in the hands of the County School Commissioner of said county, held by him for educational purposes; and WHEREAS, the grand jury of said county, at the last term of the Superior Court of said county, did recommend that the balance due said school teachers be paid out of said poll-tax money, and there being nothing due by said county to teachers of other years: Preamble. SECTION I. Therefore be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the County School Commissioner of said county of Gilmer, pay, without delay, the balance due each and all of said teachers of public schools in said county, for the year 1871, out of said poll-tax money collected for the year 1874. Public [Illegible Text] teachersSchool Commissioners to pay. Out of what money. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That should the said poll-tax money be insufficient to pay the full amount due said teachers of public schools, then, and in that case, it shall be the duty of the County School Commissioner of said county of Gilmer to pay said poll-tax money to the said several teachers of schools, in proportion to the amount of their several claims. If poll tax is [Illegible Text] a pro rata payment to be made. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCCXXXII. (O. No. 240.) An Act to authorize the Trustees of the Macon Free School to sell all, or a part, of the building and lot in Macon, Georgia, on the corner of Walnut and Second streets. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Trustees of the Macon Free School are authorized and empowered, in their discretion, to sell and convey all or any part of the house and lot in Macon, on the corner of Walnut and Second streets. Trustees of Macon Free School may sell prop'ty. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Trustees are also authorized and empowered to apply so much of the proceeds of said sale as they may think best in erecting and furnishing a new academy upon the lot purchased by them for that purpose, or upon such other lot in the city of Macon as they may think best, the balance to be invested, and the income or interest of the same used for the support and maintenance of said Macon Free School as is now provided by law. Disposition of proceeds of sale. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March, 2, 1875. No. CCCXXXIII. (O. No. 123.) An Act to provide for the election of the Commissioners of the McIntosh County Academy, and to prescribe their terms of holding office. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act the Commissioners of the McIntosh County Academy shall be elected at the spring term of the Superior Court of said county by the grand jury, and shall hold their offices for the period of one year. Election of [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. CCCXXXIV. (O. No. 3.) An Act to allow the Trustees of the Male and Female Academies of Milledgeville to convey the same in trust to the Mayor and Aldermen of Milledgeville, and to enable and allow said Mayor and Aldermen to accept of said conveyance and trust. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Trustees of the Male and Female Academies of Milledgeville be authorized to convey the houses and lots of said academies to the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Milledgeville in trust, only for educational uses in the town of Milledgeville, and that the said Mayor and Aldermen are hereby empowered to accept said conveyance and trust. Trustees of male and female academies of Milledgeville authorized to sell property. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 4, 1875. No. CCCXXXV. (O. No. 373.) An act to authorize the merger of the Savannah Free School Society in the Savannah Widow's Society, and for other purposes therein named. WHEREAS, by the operation of the public school system of Georgia the duties devolving upon the Savannah Free School Society, under an act entitled an act to incorporate the Savannah Free School Society, approved December 19, 1818, are now incumbent upon the County Board of Education of Chatham county; and WHEREAS, the said Savannah Free School Society is unable, from the want of sufficient means, to continue the discharge of the duties imposed upon it by said act of incorporation, and wishes to be permitted to surrender all its franchises to the State, and to donate all its property, both real and personal, to the Savannah Widow's Society, on condition that the income to be derived from said property be devoted exclusively to the support of women and children in indigent circumstances: Preamble. SECTION I. Be it therefore enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia That the said Savannah Free School Society is hereby authorized and empowered to give, grant and convey all its property of every description, and to make good titles to the same to the Savannah Widow's Society, on the condition that the said Widow's Society will use the entire income arising from said property for the support of indigent women and children, on such

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terms as may be prescribed in the grant or conveyance of said property; and that the said Widow's Society of Savannah is hereby authorized and empowered to accept said grant or conveyance, on such terms as may be prescribed by said Savannah Free School Society. Free School Society may convey property to Widow's Society. Conditions of conveyance. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the grant or conveyance of all its property of every description, as hereinbefore provided for, the said Savannah Free School Society is hereby authorized and empowered to surrender its charter, and all its franchises, to the State of Georgia, and the Governor of this State is hereby authorized to accept such surrender when made. Free School Society m'y surrender charter. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. CHAPTER II. ARTILLERY COMPANY. Jackson Artillery Company Incorporated, Act 336. No. CCCXXXVI. (O. No. 98.) An Act to incorporate the Jackson Artillery Company, and for other purposes therein mentioned. WHEREAS, it is desirable that a well equipped Light Artillery Company should be located in Macon, the geographical center of the State; and WHEREAS, the Jackson Artillery Company of Macon has applied to the Governor for a battery, and been unable to obtain it from the State; and WHEREAS, many good citizens are anxious to contribute, by gift, subscription or otherwise, to the establishment and maintenance of such a company in the city of Macon: Provided, the Legislature will grant such a charter to the enterprise as will inaugurate and place it upon a permanent and self-sustaining basis: Preamble. SECTION I. Therefore be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That L. N. Whittle, John C. Curd, C. A. Nutting, H. J. Lamar, Samuel D. Irwin, W. L. Holt, W. A. Huff, O. G. Sparks, and the Captain of the Jackson Artillery Company, ex officio, their successors and assigns, be, and are hereby, created a corporation, under the name of the Board of Trustees of the Jackson Artillery Fund, and by said corporate name are hereby given all the right, privileges and powers of bodies corporate, for the uses [Illegible Text] Corporators Corporate name. Rights, privileges and powers.

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SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That the said corporation may acquite and hold, by gift, purchase or otherwise, a battery and equipment, subject at all times to the orders of the Governor of the State of Georgia, and may acquire and hold in fee simple or otherwise, the necessary grounds and buildings in which to keep and preserve said battery and equipment, and may make such rules, regulations and by-laws for the acquisition, safe-keeping, use and enjoyment of said battery as may be deemed necessary. May acquire and hold property. Grounds and buildings. Rules and regulations SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That the battery, equipment and affairs of said corporation shall be under the control and management of the Board of Trustees until an amount is secured sufficient to purchase, equip and thoroughly organize said Jackson Artillery Company; then, upon the application of the commissioned officers of the Jackson Artillery Company, the Board of Trustees shall turn over to said commissioned officers all the money and property in their possession; and all the rights and privileges belonging to the Board of Trustees shall thereafter be vested in the commissioned officers of the Jackson Artillery Company, and their successors, forever. Company to be under control of whom. Jackson Artillery Company. Board to turn over to officers money and property. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That a vacancy in the Board of Trustees, caused by death, resignation or otherwise, shall be filled by the other Trustees, or a majority of them, in such a manner as they may determine. Five Trustees shall constitute a quorum for the transaction of business. Vacancies in Board. Quorum. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That should said corporation acquire at any time, by gift, grant, bequest or otherwise, any considerable amount of money or property over and above a sufficiency to place said Jackson Artillery Company upon a permanent and self-sustaining basis, the Trustees shall invest the same in permanent stocks, or improved real estate in the city of Macon, from which an annual income may be drawn for the enlargement, support and expense of said company. Investment of property belonging to company SEC. VI. Be it further enacted, That to obtain a battery equipment and necessary buildings in which to keep and preserve said battery, and meet the current expenses of the same, the Trustees are hereby authorized and empowered to accept presents, donations and gifts of money or other property, and to give a series of public literary, musical or dramatic entertainments (not to exceed twenty in number) at which they may distribute, by lot, to patrons of the entertainments a portion of the proceeds arising from the sale of tickets of admission. Company may accept gifts, etc. Public entert'nm'nts SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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CHAPTER III. Augusta Real Estate and Building Association, Act 337. No. CCCXXXVII. (O. No. 25.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to make valid contracts with the Augusta Real Estate and Building Association, and to authorize remedies for the enforcement of the same, and to make conveyances to said Association binding as absolute deeds, and for other purposes, approved February 25, 1874. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact That the above recited act be, and the same is hereby, amended by striking out of the first section of said act the following words, to-wit: Provided, the courts shall hold that the relation of landlord and tenant does in fact exist. Landlord and tenantrelation of SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 16, 1875.

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CHAPTER IV. LAWS RELATING TO SALE OF SPIRITUOUS LIQUORS. Baldwin countyBethel Church.....NO. ACT 338 Baldwin countyLunatic Asylum.....339 Bartow countyCassville.....340 Bartow countyKingston.....341 Burke county.....342 Burke, Jefferson, Washington, Baldwin, Jasper, Laurens, Heard, Sumter, Harris, Talbot, Douglas. [Illegible Text], Troup, Mitchell, Crawford, Johnson, Echols, Pulaski, Dodge, Terrell, Emanuel, Lee, Houston, Pike, Monroe, Thomas, [Illegible Text], Lowndes, Butts, Milton and Camden counties.....343 Butts countyTowns and militia districts.....344 Carroll countyChurches.....345 Chattahoochee county1104 [Illegible Text] district.....346 Cherokee countyWoodstock Academy.....347 Cobb county[Illegible Text].....348 Cobb countyPowder Springs.....349 Cobb countyRoswell Factory.....350 Cowets countyChurches.....351 Dade countyRising Fawn Iron Company.....352 Dawson countyDawsonville.....353 DeKalb countyPanola Church and Burney's [Illegible Text].....354 [Illegible Text] county[Illegible Text].....355 Floyd, Dade, Polk, Chattooga, Whitfield, Walker, Hall, Bartow, Gordon, [Illegible Text], Carroll, Harralson, Murray, Paulding and Campbell.....356 Franklin countyCourt house.....357 Fulton countyEast Point.....358 Gwinnett countyLawrenceville.....359 Gwinnett countyShiloh Church.....360 Hancock countyPowellton.....361 Henry countyHampton.....362 Henry countyStockbridge.....363 Jackson countyHarmony Grove.....364 Jackson countyJefferson.....365 Jefferson county.....366 Johnson countyJohnson Academy.....367 Monroe countySalem Church.....368 Muscogee countyAcademies and churches.....369 Newton countySouth River Academy.....370 Newton, [Illegible Text] and [Illegible Text].....371 Oglethorpe countyWoodstock.....372 Putnam countyEatonton.....373 Randolph countySharon Church.....374 Randolph countyWard's Station.....375 Richmond countyAugusta [Illegible Text].....376 Schley, Talbot and [Illegible Text].....377 Sewart countyProvidence Church.....378 Washington county.....379 [Illegible Text] and Polk.....380 No. CCCXXXVIII. (O. No. 255.) An Act to prohibit, except on condition herein [Illegible Text], the sale of spirituous liquors or drinks within three miles of Bethel church, in Baldwin county, and to punish the violators of this law. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person to sell spirituous liquors or drinks in any quantity, or of any sort, within an air-line distance of three miles, every way from Bethel church, in Baldwin county, except where the seller has first obtained special license to do so from the Ordinary of said county, founded on a written petition for such license, signed by two-thirds of the bona fide freeholders residing within said circle of three miles radius, and owning in fee simple, bona fide and absolutely, a free hold estate in lands of not less than one hundred acres, and any person offending against this Act by sale of spirituous liquors within said area without a license founded on such petition of resident citizens, bona fide freeholders, shall be deemed guilty of a

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misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished with the same penalty now prescribed by existing law for persons guilty of retailing such liquors, as aforesaid, without license. [Illegible Text] Church[Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text] liquor within 3 miles ofhow obtained. Penalty for [Illegible Text] of this Act. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCXXXIX. (O. No. 164.) An Act to amend the act of February 26, 1874, entitled an act to Prevent the sale of spirituous liquors near the State Lunatic Asylum, the amendment to consist in increasing the distance of one mile to two miles, so far as relates to the country outside of the present corporate limits of the city of Milledgeville. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That said recited act be amended by striking out the word one in the fourth line thereof, and inserting the word two, so as it shall read two miles: Provided, that this Act shall be construed to apply only to the country outside of the corporate limits of the city of Milledgeville, but to make no other alteration in said act so amended. Two miles inserted instead of one Proviso. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCCXI. (O. No. 334.) An Act to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors within one mile of the Baptist and Methodist churches in the town of Cassville, Bartow county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, that there shall not be sold by retail or wholesale, as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors within a radius of one mile from the Baptist and Methodist churches in the town of Cassville, in Bartow county; and any person so delivering, selling or furnishing said spirituous or malt liquors, contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall be [Illegible Text] other violations of the Penal

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Code, and, upon conviction for the same, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the new Revised Code of 1873. Unlawful to sell liq'r within one mile of cert'n church's in [Illegible Text]. Penalty for violating this Act. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. No. CCCXLI. (O. No. 270.) An Act to prevent the sale of spirituous or malt liquors in and near the town of Kingston, Bartow county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this Act, there shall not be delivered, sold or furnished, by retail or wholesale, as a beverage, any spirituous or malt liquors within a radius of two miles from the depot of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, in the town of Kingston, in Bartow county, and any person so delivering, selling or furnishing said spirituous or malt liquors, contrary to the provisions of this Act, shall be liable to arrest and indictment, as in other violations of the Penal Code, and upon conviction for the same, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the new Revised Code of 1873. Sale of [Illegible Text] liquor [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] Penalty. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws, as well as such parts of the charter of Kingston as conflict with this Act. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCXLII. (O. No. 310.) An Act to amend and add to an act to prescribe the mode of granting license to sell intoxicating liquors in the counties of Jefferson, Burke and Washington, approved February 20, 1873, by adding a section thereto, increasing the license to sell the same in Burke county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the psssage of this Act, the license for the retail of intoxicating liquors in Burke county shall be three hundred dollars, in all incorporated towns, and one hundred dollars outside of the incorporated towns, and that this shall be an additional

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section to the hereinbefore recited act: Provided, that nothing herein shall affect any chartered privileges or rights. Amount [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCCXLIII. (O. No. 368.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to prescribe the mode of granting license to sell intoxicating liquors in the counties of Burke, Jefferson and Washington, approved February 20, 1873, and to extend the said recited act, as so amended, to the various counties in this bill mentioned. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the said recited act, approved February 20, 1873, be, and is hereby, amended by adding after the word Ordinary the words or County Commissioners, and at the end of the first section thereof these words: And bona fide dwelling and domiciled on their freeholds, within said area, at the time of signing said consent, and for six months continuously prior to such signing, said distance when not satisfactorily known to the Ordinary or County Commissioners, then to be measured by the County Surveyor at cost of the applicant, and his plat thereof to be filed with the written consent of said freeholders. Liquor licensehow granted. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said recited act, as so amended, be, and is hereby, extended to the several counties herein named, to-wit: Besides said counties of Burke, Jefferson and Washington, also the counties of Baldwin, Jasper, Laurens, Heard, Sumter, Harris, Talbot, Douglas, Chattahoochee, Troup, Mitchell, Crawford, Johnson, Echols, Pulaski, Dodge, Terrell, Emanuel, Lee, Houston, Pike, Monroe, Thomas, Decatur, Lowndes, Butts, Milton and Camden: Provided, however, that this Act shall be considered and held consistent with, and not contrary to, any existing local law now in force on the same subject of license in any one or more of the counties aforesaid, nor contrary to any local act on the same subject of license, which may be enacted at the present session of the Legislature relating to the town and vicinage of Newnan, in the county of Coweta, or to Sharon church, or to Ward's Station, in Randolph

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county, or to Burney's mill, in Clay county, or to any other place in any or either of said counties, or to either of said counties. Counties added. Proviso. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. NOTE.In order to obtain license under act amended, applicant must have consent of two-thirds of the freeholders living within three miles of the place at which he proposes to sell. No. CCCXLIV. (O. No. 263.) An Act to submit to the legal voters in each militia district of Butts county, and to each municipal corporation, the question of prohibiting the sale of spirituous liquors in said militia districts, and said corporate limits, in quantities less than one gallon, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the Ordinary of Butts county shall advertise an election, to be held in each militia district of said county, before the first day of May next, by the legal voters of said district, upon the question of prohibition, or no prohibition, of the sale of spirituous liquors in such districts. At such election only the qualified voters of said district shall be entitled to vote, and any person non-resident of said district, or otherwise disqualified, voting at said election, shall be subject to be indicted and punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code of 1873. Ordinary to order election. [Illegible Text]. Who may vote. Penalty for [Illegible Text] voting. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said elections in said districts shall be held and conducted as prescribed under the general election laws of this State, except the ballots cast shall have written on them for prohibition, or against prohibition, as the voters may favor and oppose the sale of spirituous liquors. In those districts where a majority of said votes are cast for prohibition, the same shall be made known by a proclamation of the Ordinary of said county, and who shall receive from the manager of said district elections the result of said elections, and make a record of the same in his office. In those districts where a majority of voters shall vote for prohibition, any person who shall, after the announcement of said fact by the Ordinary of said county, in the public paper where official advertisements are had, sell, barter or exchange to another any vinous or spirituous liquors, in quantities of less than one gallon, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code of 1873. Election to be conductedhow. Form of ballot. Ordinary to issue [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] to sellwhen. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate authorities of the municipal corporations in said county shall, before the first day of May next, submit to the qualified

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voters of said corporation the question of prohibition, or no prohibition, and if a majority of said voters shall be in favor of prohibition, the said result shall be announced by the said corporate authorities. And any person, after said announcement, who shall sell, barter or exchange any spirituous or vinous liquors in the limits of said corporation, in quanties less than one gallon, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code of 1873. Authorities of [Illegible Text] etc., to order elec'ion. [Illegible Text] to sellwhen. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person voting at said election, held in said corporation, who is not a qualified voter in said corporation, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code. Said election to be conducted in the manner of conducting elections for officers of said corporation. Penalty for illegal voting. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors in quantities less than one gallon for medicinal purposes, on the prescription of a physician in regular practice. For medicinal purpo's on physicians' prescription. SEC. VI. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCXLV. (O. No. 267.) An Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors within three miles of Indian Creek church, Bersheba church, and the Methodist church, all of which churches are situated at or near Locust Grove, in Henry county, Georgia, also, the same shall apply to Shiloh Camp Ground, in the county of Carroll. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be unlawful to sell, barter, or in any way dispose of, for a valuable consideration, any spirituous liquors within three miles of the above mentioned churches and camp ground, and any person violating the provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding five hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the common jails of Henry and Carroll counties, not exceeding sixty days, or both, at the discretion of the court, for each offense. Spirituous liquorunlawful to sell within three miles of churches named in caption. Penalties for [Illegible Text] this Act. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCCXLVI. (O. No. 78.) An Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors within the limits of the 1104 th militia district of the county of [Illegible Text], and to prescribe a penalty for violations of this Act. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell, barter or exchange any brandy, gin, rum, wine, whisky, or other spirituous or malt liquors or mixtures of such liquors, except for medicinal purposes, and then only on the certificate of a practicing physician that the same is necessary to be used by the party to whom the certificate is given, within the present limits of the 1104th district, Georgia Militia, of the county of Chattahoochee, in this State. Unlawful sell [Illegible Text] in 1104 [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text] SEC. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person violating the first section of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code of 1873. [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. CCCXLVII (O. No. 261.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within two miles of the academy in the village of Harmony Grove, in Jackson county; also, the town of Canton, and Woodstock Academy, in Cherokee county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell, either directly or indirectly, by barter, exchange or other device, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors within two miles of the academy now being erected in the village of Harmony Grove, in the county of Jackson; also, the town of Canton, and Woodstock Academy, in Cherokee county. Harmony Grove Academy [Illegible Text] Academy and [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person violating the first section of this Act shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Penalty [Illegible Text] this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCCXLVIII. (O. No. 202.) An Act to prohibit the sale of any kind of intoxicating or [Illegible Text] spirits within two miles of Acworth High School, in the town of Acworth, in the county of Cobb. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person, either by himself or his agent, to sell any intoxicating or ardent spirits within two miles of the Acworth High School, in the town of Acworth, county of Cobb. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of prohibited within two miles of Acworth High Sch'l. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person violating the first section of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of the same, shall pay a fine not to exceed one thousand dollars, or be imprisoned in the chain gang not exceeding twelve months, either or both, at the discretion of the court. Misdemeanor to violate this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CCCXLIX. (O. No. 77.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating drinks of any character whatever within three miles of the Powder Springs Camp Ground, in the county of Cobb. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person to sell intoxicating drinks of any kind whatever within three miles of the Powder Springs Camp Ground, in the county of Cobb. Unlawful to sell liquor within three miles of Powder Spring Camp Gr'd. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text] less than fifty, nor more than two hundred and fifty dollars. And in default of paying such fine shall be imprisoned not less than thirty nor more than ninety days. Penalty for [Illegible Text] this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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No. CCCL. (O. No. 288.) An Act to amend an act approved February 20, 1874, entitled an act to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors at Trion factory, so as to extend the same to include certain other places and factories therein mentioned. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the said recited act, approved on the 20th day of February, 1874, to prevent the sale of spirituous liquors at [Illegible Text] factory, be so amended and extended as to include in its provisions the following other places and factories, to-wit: The Roswell Manufacturing Company's factory, at Roswell, The Empire Cotton Mills, The Willeo Cotton Mills, all of Cobb county, in said State; and the Laurel Hill Manufacturing Company's mills, of Milton county; and also Bethel church, and the Kaolin Pottery and Mills, at Depot Number One, called also Steeven's Mills, both in Baldwin county; and that no Ordinary or any other officer shall grant or issue any license to retail spirituous liquors, or intoxicating liquors, of any kind or name, within three miles by straight line of any of said places, and any license granted contrary to this Act, shall be null and void from its date. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Factory. Empire Cotton Mills, etc., etc. No [Illegible Text] to be granted. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who shall sell, barter or exchange, or otherwise dispose of any spirituous or intoxicating liquors of any kind or name, within the distance of three miles by straight line from any of said factories, church or places, in violation of this Act, shall be guilty of the offense of retailing spirituous liquors without license, and subject to the penalty now prescribed by existing law for such [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875. No. CCCLI. (O. No. 260.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within three-fourths of a mile from Elam church, Coweta county, and Turin Academy in said county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell any kind of intoxicating

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liquors within three-fourths of a mile of Elam church, Coweta county, and Turin Academy, in said county. [Illegible Text] in [frac34] mile of prohib'd. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person violating the provisions of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Penalty for violating this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCLII. (O. No. 182.) An Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors within three miles of the works of the Rising Fawn Iron Company of Georgia, and to prescribe a penalty for so doing. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act it shall not be lawful for any person to sell or furnish spirituous, intoxicating or malt liquors in any quantity to any person, at any place within three miles of the iron furnace, railway or coal mines of the Rising Fawn Company, in the county of Dade: Provided, however, that this Act shall not be construed to prohibit the sale of such liquors under license heretofore issued, nor the sale of liquors under permission of the authorities of any incorporated town within the above limits, nor shall it be construed so as to prevent physicians from using such liquors in their practice as medicines. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of prohib'd where. Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code of Irwin, Lester and Hill. Misdemeanor to violate this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CCCLIII. (O. No. 332.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within a certain distance from Dawsonville, in Dawson county. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person, either by himself or his agent, to sell any intoxicating or ardent spirits within one mile of the court house in Dawsonville, in Dawson county. [Illegible Text] SEC. II. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person violating the first section of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction of the same, shall be punished as prescribed in secton 4310 of the Code. Misdemeanor to violate this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875. No. CCCLIV. (O. No. 106.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within two miles, in any direction, of M. L. Burney's mill, in the county of Clay, and Panola church, in the county of DeKalb. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person to sell, in any quantity, intoxicating liquors of any kind within two miles of M. L. Burney's mill, in the county of Clay, and Panola church in the county of DeKalb. Liquorsale of prohibited, where. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person violating the first section of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court: Provided, that any person having, at the time of the passage of this Act, license to retail spirituous liquors at said mill or said church, shall be permitted to continue in the traffic until the expiration of said license. [Illegible Text] Proviso. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. CCCLV. (O. No. 24.) An Act to give the Commissioners of the town of Swainsboro, in Emanuel county, exclusive power to grant license for the retail of spirituous liquors within two miles in every direction from the court house in said town. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the Commissioners of the town of Swainsboro, in Emanuel county, be, and they are, invested with the exclusive power to grant license for the retail of spirituous liquors within two miles in every direction from the court house in said town. Retail liquor licenseexclusive power to grant. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 16, 1875. No. CCCLVI. (O. No. 134.) An Act to regulate the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors in the counties of Floyd, Dade, Polk, Chattooga, Whitfield, Walker, Hall, Bartow, Gordon, Coweta, Carroll, Harralson, Murray, Paulding, and the town of Palmetto, in the county of Campbell, in the State of Georgia, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the question whether or not spirituous, vinous or malt liquors shall be sold, bartered, or in any way disposed of for valuable consideration in quantities less than one gallon in any one of the following counties, to-wit: Floyd, Dade, Polk, Chattooga, Whitfield, Walker, Hall, Bartow, Gordon, Coweta, Carroll, Harralson, Murray, Paulding, and the town of Palmetto, in the county of Campbell, or in any incorporated city, town or village, or in any militia district in any one of said counties in this State, until the same shall be submitted to a decision of the qualified voters of such incorporated city, town or village, county or militia district, on the following conditions and regulations: In case of an incorporated city, town or village, a request to have such question so submitted must be signed by persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly, and resident in said city, town or village in number equal to at least one fifth of the whole number of votes cast at the general election for officers of the municipal government, held next before the presentation of such petition, and laid before

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the persons in whom, for the time being, the corporate authority of such city, town or village is vested, at a regular meeting. Counties embraced. Question of sale of liquor in counties named. Sale of liquor to be submitted to vote of people. Submiss'onrequest for, how made. Number of signers [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That when such petition shall be so presented, it shall be the duty of such corporate authorities to name a day distant, not less than thirty nor more than sixty days, at which an election shall be held at the place, or places, and in conformity to all the regulations prescribed by the laws and ordinances of said city, town or village, for the election of persons exercising the corporate authority thereof. Electionwhen and how to be held. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That notice of such election shall be advertised at least once in each week intervening the filing of the petition, and a day appointed for the election, in each newspaper published in said city, town or village, if any, and also by posting the same in at least five of the most public places within such corporate limits. [Illegible Text] of electionhow given. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That those who favor the restriction of the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, as indicated in the first section of this Act, shall have written or printed on their ballots for restriction, and those who oppose such restrictions shall have written or printed on their ballots, against restriction. [Illegible Text] of votes. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the managers of such election shall keep, or cause to be kept, duplicate lists of voters, and tally sheets, and shall certify and sign the same, one of which shall be forwarded on the day after the election, or as soon thereafter as possible, to the Secretary of the State, and shall be, by him, forthwith laid before His Excellency, the Governor, and the other shall be filed with the corporate authorities aforesaid, if it shall appear to His Excellency, the Governor, upon counting and consolidating the returns, that a majority of the legal votes cast are for restriction, then he shall, without delay, issue his proclamation, announcing the votes and declaring that the restrictions named in this Act of the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors shall take effect within the corporate limits of such city, town or village from and after a day named, which shall not be less than thirty nor more than ninety days from the date of such proclamation. List of voters shall be kept. Disposition of [Illegible Text] sheets. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case it shall be desired to restrict the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors, as aforesaid, in any one of the counties aforesaid, a request in writing, signed by persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly resident in any one of the said counties or incorporated cities, town or villages, or in any of the militia districts in any one of said counties, equal in number to one-fifth the whole number of votes cast in said county at the general election for members of the House of Representatives from said county, next held before the filing of said petition, which, when so signed, shall be presented to the Ordinary of said county, and

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thereupon it shall be the duty of such Ordinary to name and advertise a day for an election, as is prescribed in the preceding section of this Act, for the corporate authorities of cities, towns and villages, which election, so advertised, shall be held in the manner and under the regulations prescribed by law for holding elections for members of the General Assembly, one tally sheet and list of voters to be filed with the Clerk of the Superior Court of said county, and another to be forwarded, without delay, to His Excellency, the Governor, and the subsequent proceeding shall be the same as hereinbefore prescribed in the case of incorporated cities, towns and villages. In countiesapplicati'n for electionhow made. Number of [Illegible Text] necessary. Ordinary to order an election. Tally sheetswhere to be filed. Tally sheet and list of voters to be sent to Gov. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case it is desired to restrict the sale of spirituous, vinous and malt liquors as indicated in the first section of this Act, in any militia district in any one of the counties aforesaid, a request in writing, signed by persons qualified to vote for members of the General Assembly and resident in said district, in number equal to one-fifth of the whole number of votes cast in said district, at the general election for representation or Representatives in the county in which said militia district may be, must be filed with the Ordinary of said county, and, thereupon, it shall be the duty of said Ordinary to designate a day for the election in said district, and cause the same to be advertised, as hereinbefore specified in case of restriction of the sale of liquors in the county. Question of sale of liquor in militia districts. Request in writing. Number necessary. Ordinary to order an election. SEC. VIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the election so ordered and advertised, shall be held at the place, and in the manner and under the regulations prescribed by law for the election of Justices of the Peace; duplicate tally sheets, and a list of voters shall be kept, and when certified and signed by the managers, shall be disposed of by them, and all subsequent proceedings shall be as hereinbefore required in the case of a county election. Electionwhen and how to be held. [Illegible Text] of Tally sheets and lists of voters. SEC. IX. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when proclamation shall be made, as herein before provided for, it shall not be lawful, after the day named in said proclamation, for any person to sell, barter, or in any way dispose of, for valuable consideration, any spirituous, vinous or malt liquors in any incorporate city, town or village, county, or militia district named in such proclamation, in any quantity less than one gallon. When [Illegible Text] is madeunlawful to sell. SEC. X. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person violating the preceding section of this Act shall be punished, as is prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia, published in 1873. Punish'nt. SEC. XI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this Act shall be construed to prevent the sale of wine for sacremental purposes, or of spirituous, vinous or malt liquors [Illegible Text] medicine, on the prescription of a physician in regular practice. Exceptions. SEC. XII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, After

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an election shall have been held under the provisions of this Act, in any city, town or village, or any county or militia district, no other election shall be held therein, for the purpose herein named within two years from the date of such election. Second election not to be held in two years. SEC. XIII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no election shall be ordered by the corporate authorities of any city, town or village, or by any Ordinary, until a sufficient amount of money, to be judged of by such corporate authorities, or such Ordinary, has been deposited with the petition, to cover the expenses of the advertisements required to be made. Money to pay expenses of election to be deposited. SEC. XIV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCCLVII. (O. No. 281.) An Act to suppress and prohibit the sale of spirituous and intoxicating liquors within two miles of the court house in the town of Franklin, Heard county, Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the first day of April, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell, either directly or indirectly, either by barter, exchange, or by any other device whatever, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors within two miles of the court house in Franklin, Heard county, Georgia. Spirituous liquorunlawful to sell within two [Illegible Text] of court house. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sale of alcoholic bitters, or medicated liquors of any kind or name whatever, to be used otherwise than for medical purposes, within the above named boundary, shall be deemed a violation of this Act; and that any physician or druggist who shall prescribe or cause to be furnished to any person any intoxicating liquors, to be used in or about the said town of Franklin, and the boundary mentioned in the first section of this Act, except in actual cases of sickness or injury, or wine for sacremental purposes, shall be deemed guilty of violating the provisions of this Act. Sale of alcoholic bitters prohibited, except for medical purposes. Physicians and drugists guilty of violating this Act[Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That within the above named boundary no person shall give, or cause to be furnished to any student or minor, any kind of intoxicating liquors whatever, except in the case of a parent to his own child, or a guardian to his ward, or when it may be prescribed by a physician in sickness or injury. Unlawful to [Illegible Text] or give liquor to students or minors. [Illegible Text]. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who shall violate the provisions of either section of this

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Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code. Misdemeanor to violate this Act. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCLVIII. (O. No. 271.) An Act to prohibit the retailing of spirituous and malt liquors, alcoholic bitters, or medicated liquors, within two miles of the academy at East Point, in the county of Fulton, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell by retail, either directly or indirectly, either by barter, exchange, or by any other device whatever, any spirituous or intoxicating liquors within two miles of said academy, in the county of Fulton, and State of Georgia. That the sale of alcoholic bitters, or medicated liquors of any kind or name whatever, in less quantities than one quart, to be used otherwise than for medical purposes, within the above named boundary, shall be deemed a violation of this Act; and that any physician or druggist, who shall prescribe, or cause to be prescribed, to any person, any intoxicating liquors to be used in or about the said boundary, except in actual case of sickness or injury, or wine for sacremental purposes, shall be guilty of violating the provisions of this Act. East Point Academysale of [Illegible Text] prohibited in less quantities than a quart in two miles of. Except for medical purposes. Physicians and druggistsviolation of this Act by. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That within the above named boundary no person shall give, or cause to be furnished to any student or minor any kind of intoxicating liquors whatever, except in the case of a parent to his own child, or a guardian to his ward, or when it may be prescribed by a physician in sickness or injury. Student or minorgiving or sel'ng liquor to prohibited. Exception. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who shall violate the provisions of either section of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred dollars, or more than five hundred dollars, with all costs, or imprisonment, if fine is not paid, not less than thirty nor more than ninety days, or both, at the discretion of the court: Provided, that this Act shall not be construed to operate against the manufacturing of liquor by distillation, and the sale of the same by the owners of said distilleries, within the limits prescribed, when the same were erected before the passage of this Act. Misdemeanor to violate this Act. Penalty. Proviso. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCCLIX. (O. No. 117.) An Act to prohibit the sale by retail of spirituous liquors within the corporate limits of the town of Lawrenceville, Gwinnett county, or within three miles of the court house of said county, and to regulate the sale of liquors in said corporation, and to prescribe penalties for violations of this Act. WHEREAS, a number of the citizens of Lawrenceville and vicinity have petitioned the General Assembly to pass a bill, prohibiting the retailing of spirituous liquors in said town, or within three miles of the court house of said county; SECTION I. Therefore be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell or barter, by retail or in quantities not less than one quart, any brandy, wine, rum, gin, whisky or other spirituous liquors, or any mixtures of such liquors, in any house, booth, arbor, stall, or other place or places whatever, within the corporate limits of the town of Lawrenceville, Gwinnett county, Georgia, or within three miles of the court house of said county. [Illegible Text] of liq'in [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text] a quart prohibited. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall not be lawful for any person who may sell spirituous liquors within the corporate limits of said town of Lawrenceville to authorize, suffer or permit liquors to be drunk in the house, nor on the premises where sold. Liquor not to be [Illegible Text] in house where sold SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons selling by retail or in quantities less than one quart, any spirituous liquors in violation of the first section of this Act, or who shall furnish or permit liquors to be drunk on the premises where sold, in violation of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code of 1873. Misdemeanor to violate [Illegible Text] Act. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. CCCLX. (O. No. 191.) An Act to prevent the sale of intoxicating liquors within two miles of Shiloh church, in [Illegible Text] district, in the county of Gwinnett. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell intoxicating liquors in any quantities within two miles of Shiloh church, in Pinckneyville district, in the county of Gwinnett. Spirituous liquor-sale of in two miles of Shiloh Church prohibited. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons who shall be found selling the same, shall, upon conviction, be subject to a fine of not less than one hundred dollars, nor more than five hundred dollars, or to be imprisoned in the county jail for a period of not less than thirty days, nor more than six months. Penalty for violating this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 1, 1875. No. CCCLXI. (O. No. 333.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors, and intoxicating bitters, within three miles in every direction from the Methodist church in the village of Powelton, Hancock county, Georgia, also, Reynold's Chapel, a Methodist church situated in the 116 th district, G. M., and county of Hancock, State of Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person to sell intoxicating liquors, or intoxicating bitters of any kind sold under the name of patent medicine, within three miles of the Methodist church in the village of Powelton, and Reynold's Chapel, both in the county of Hancock, State of Georgia. Unlawful to sell intoxicating liq'r, etc., within three miles of places named. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who shall violate the first section of this Act, except upon the prescription of a practicing physician for medical purposes only, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Offender against this Act guilty of misd'r. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 4, 1875.

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No. CCCLXII. (O. No. 380.) An Act to prohibit the retail of intoxicating liquors within the incorporation of Hampton, Henry county, Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person to keep a tippling shop, or sell by retail in quantities less than one gallon, any brandy, rum, gin, whisky, or other spirituous liquors, within the corporate limits of the town of Hampton, in the county of Henry, and if any person shall so sell any quantity thereof, within said limits, such person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. [Illegible Text]. [Illegible Text]. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 6, 1875. No. CCCLXIII. (O. No. 279.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within three miles of the churches and school house at or near Stockbridge, Henry county, Georgia. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, from and after the passage of this Act, That it shall not be lawful to sell, barter or exchange any quantity of spirituous liquors within three miles of the three churches and school house at or near Stockbridge, in Henry county, and any one violating this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. [Illegible Text]. Penalty. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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No. CCCLXIV. (O. No. 120.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within two miles, in any direction, from the Harmony Grove Academy, in the town of Harmony Grove, in the county of Jackson. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act it shall be unlawful for any person to sell any intoxicating liquors within two miles of Harmony Grove Academy, in the town of Harmony Grove, in the county of Jackson, except it be to practicing physicians for medical purposes. Sale of liq'r prohibited in two mil's of Harmony Grove Academy. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person who shall violate the first section of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1873. [Illegible Text] to violate this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875. No. CCCLXV. (O. No. 173.) An Act to amend the act incorporating the town of Jefferson, in the county of Jackson, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person to sell, barter, exchange or otherwise dispose of spirituous or other intoxicating drinks of any kind whatever, within the corporate limits of the town of Jefferson, in the county of Jackson, or within two miles of the court house in said town of Jefferson. Sale of liq'r in Jefferson prohibited. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons violating the first section of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be fined, for each and every offense, in a sum not less than one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the common jail of the county not less than twenty, nor more than fifty days, in the discretion of the court. Misdem'or to violate this Act. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the provisions of this Act do not apply in cases, and for the time, where licenses have already been obtained in accordance with existing law. Licenses already granted.

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SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That so much of section 14, of the act approved August 14, 1872, incorporating the town of Jefferson, in Jackson county, as empowers the Mayor and Town Council of said town to grant license to sell liquors, and to sell liquors by retail, is hereby repealed, as well as all laws conflicting with section first of this Act. Power of Mayor, etc., to grant license repealed. SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCCLXVI. (O. No. 259.) An Act to prescribe the method of granting license to sell spirituous liquors in the county of Jefferson. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That it shall not be lawful for the Ordinary of the county of Jefferson to grant license to any person or persons to sell spirituous liquors in any quantity in said county, except upon the written petition of the applicant, stating especially the place at which he designs to sell, and upon which petition shall be indorsed the written consent of two thirds of the actual land owners, male and female, twenty-one years of age, and upward, living within three miles of the place so designated in said petition. License in sell spirit as [Illegible Text] When Ordinary may grant. [Illegible Text] of applicantwhat it must [Illegible Text] SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the applicant for such license to cause to be made, at his own expense, by the County Surveyor, or his deputy, a survey of the territory within which he designs to sell spirituous liquors, which survey shall show the name of the owner, and the location of the residence of each actual land owner, male and female, twenty-one years of age, and upward, owning land in said territory, which survey shall be certified to be a true and correct representation of such territory, by the Surveyor making the same, which survey shall be filed with the Ordinary at the time of making application for such license. Survey of the territ'ry to be made. What survey shall show. Survey to be filed. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all applicants for such license shall, in addition to the foregoing provisions of this Act, give the bond, and take the oath now required by law for retailers of spirituous liquors, and shall pay to the Ordinary a license fee of one hundred dollars. Applicants to give bond. License fee. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Ordinary to indorse on the survey herein-before provided for, his action on said application, and shall file the same, together with the applicant's petition and bond, in his office, and shall submit the same to the inspection of the grand

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jury of the court, next in session after the granting or refusal of said petition. Ordinary to [Illegible Text] his action [Illegible Text] survey. Petition, bond, etc., to be submitted to grand jury. SEC. V. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any applicant for license, who shall present to the Ordinary his petition for license, having indorsed on it the written consent and name of any other person or persons than such actual land owners as are named and contemplated in the first section of this Act, or shall do any other illegal or fraudulent act in the procurement of said license, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1873. Applicant guilty of a misdemeanorwhen. SEC. VI. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any Ordinary, who shall grant any license to any person or persons to sell spirituous liquors at any place in said county, until the applicant has complied with all the foregoing provisions of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1873. Ordinary guilty of misdemeanorwhen. SEC. VII. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That none of the provisions of this Act shall apply to any incorporated town in said county where, by law, the authority to grant license to sell spirituous liquors is vested in the corporate authorities. This Act not to apply to certain towns. SEC. VIII. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCLXVII. (O. No. 171.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within three miles of Johnson County Academy, in the county of Johnson. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be unlawful for any person or persons to sell intoxicating liquors of any kind within three miles of Johnson County Academy, in the county of Johnson: Provided, this Act shall not interfere with the powers of the municipal authorities of the town of Wrightsville, within the limits of the incorporation. Spirituous liquorsunlawful to sell within two miles of Johnson County Academy, Proviso. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person or persons who shall violate the first section of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than one hundred, nor more than one thousand dollars, for each offense, at the discretion of the court. Misdem'or to violato this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875.

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No. CCCLXVIII. (O. No. 174.) An Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous liquors within one mile of Salem Methodist church, in Monroe county, in this State. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person to keep a tippling shop or sell any quantity of wine, brandy, whisky, or other spirituous liquors, or any mixture of such liquors, within one mile of Salem Methodist church, in Monroe county, in this State, and if any person shall so sell any quantity thereof, within said limits, such person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code. Sale of liq'r prohibited within one mile of Salem Church. Misdem'or to violate this Act. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. No. CCCLXIX. (O. No. 39). An Act to repeal an act entitled an act to make it a misdemeanor for any person or persons to sell spirituous or intoxicating liquors within three miles of an academy, school-house, church or meeting house, or other place of divine worship, within the county of Muscogee, and for other purposes approved March 2, 1874. SECTION. I. Be it [Illegible Text] by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, the above recited act, to make it a misdemeanor for any person or persons to sell spirituous or intoxicating liquors within three miles of an academy, school-house, church or meeting-house, or other place of divine worship, within the county of Muscogee, and for other purposes, approved March 2, 1874, be, and the same is hereby, repealed. Act rep'led. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 20, 1875.

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No. CCCLXX. (O. No. 371.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within one mile of South River Academy, located in Newton county, and to prescribe a penalty for so doing. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, no person or persons shall sell intoxicating liquors within one mile of South River Academy, located in Newton county, without the written permission of the trustees of said academy. Intoxic't'ng liquorsale of prohibi'd within one mile of South Riv'r Academy. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person violating the provisions of the foregoing section shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1873. Misdeme'nr to violate this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 5, 1875. No. CCCLXXI. (O. No. 132.) An Act to amend an act entitled an act to amend an act to regulate the granting of license to retail spirituous liquors in the counties of Newton, Stewart and Jasper, approved February 20 th, 1873, said amendatory act approved February 28 th, 1874, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the above recited act, approved 28th of February, 1874, be so amended as to strike from the proviso of the same the last two words, and Jasper, so as to make said act, and the act of which it is amendatory, applicable also to the incorporated towns of the county of Jasper. Sale of liquor in incorporated towns. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 26, 1875.

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No. CCCLXXII. (O. No. 256.) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors within two miles of the village of Woodstock, in the county of Oglethorpe. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person to sell intoxicating liquors of any kind, or in any quantity, except a practicing physician, for medicinal purposes, within two miles of the limits of the village of Woodstock, in the county of Oglethorpe. Village of Woodstock [Illegible Text] of liquor within [Illegible Text] miles of prohibited. Exception. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who shall violate the first section of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be fined in a sum not less than fifty dollars, nor more than two hundred dollars, in the discretion of the court. Penalty for violating this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875. No. CCCLXXIII. (O. No. 27) An Act to prohibit the sale of intoxicating liquors in the county of Putnam, outside of the incorporate limits of the town of Eatonton, except under the authority granted for the same, as herein provided, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The [Illegible Text] Assembly of the State of Georgia do hereby enact, That it shall [Illegible Text] unlawful for any person or persons hereafter to vend, sell, or barter any intoxicating liquors in the county of Putnam, outside of the incorporate limits of the town of Eatonton, except such person or persons shall, before applying for a license to sell such intoxicating liquors, first obtain the consent, in writing, of the five freeholders, who shall each own real estate to the value of five hundred dollars ($500), and who shall reside nearest to the place at which it is proposed that said intoxicating liquors shall be sold. [Illegible Text] to sell liquorhow obtained. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any license granted to any person or persons to sell intoxicating liquors in the county of Putnam, outside the incorporate limits of the town of Eatonton, without said written consent first obtained, shall be null and void, and confer no authority for the sale of the same. [Illegible Text] SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any

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person or persons violating the first section of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished as prescribed in section 4565 of the Code of Georgia. Penalty for violating this Act. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 16, 1875. No. CCCLXXIV. (O. No. 302.) An Act to prevent the sale or barter of either malt or spirituous liquors within two miles of Sharon church, in the county of Randolph. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, either by themselves, agent or agents, to sell, or dispose of, in any way whatever, either malt or spirituous liquors of any kind, or in any quantity whatever, within two miles of Sharon church, in the 9th district of Randolph county, in this State. [Illegible Text] to sell liquor within two miles of Sharon Church. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons, agent or agents, violating section 1st of this Act, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars, nor less than five hundred dollars, imprisonment not to exceed twelve months, nor less than six months, to work in a chain gang on the public works not to exceed twelve months, nor for a less time than six months, and any one or more of these punishments may be ordered in the discretion of the Judge; and it shall be the duty of the Judge of the Superior Court of the Pataula Circuit to give this law in charge at each term of Randolph Superior Court. [Illegible Text] to violate this Act. Penalty. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 3, 1875.

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No. CCCLXXV. (O. No. 89.) An Act to regulate the sale of spirituous liquors within one mile of Ward's Station, on the Southwestern Railroad, in the county of Randolph. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act no person or persons shall barter or sell any spirituous liquors of any kind within one mile of Ward's Station, situated on the Southwestern Railroad, in the county of Randolph, of this State. Sale of [Illegible Text] at Ward's station prohibited. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons violating section one of this Act shall be subject to the punishment prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of 1873. Penalty for violating this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. CCCLXXVI. (O. No. 22.) An Act to amend an act, approved February 20, 1873, prescribing the mode of granting liquor license in the county of Richmond, so as to except the Augusta Schuetzenplatz from the operation of the same. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That the Augusta Schuetzenplatz be excepted from the operation of the above act. Augusta Schuetzenplatz excepted. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 16, 1875. No. CCCLXXVII. (O. No. 88.) An Act to prescribe the mode of granting license to sell intoxicating liquors in the counties of Schley, Talbot and Greene, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That it shall not be lawful for the Ordinary, Board of

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Commissioners of Roads and Revenues, or any other person in whom the right may be vested in the counties of Schley, Talbot and Greene, to grant a license to any person to sell intoxicating liquors in said counties in any quantity, unless the applicant for license shall, in addition to complying with all the requisites of the law, as it now stands, present to the said Ordinary, or such other person as may be authorized to grant license in said counties, to be filed in the Ordinary's office, the written consent to the granting of said license, signed by two-thirds of the citizen freeholders, male and female, living within three miles of the place at which the applicant proposes to sell. License to [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] liquorhow to be obtained. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Ordinaries of said counties, or any other person, violating the provisions of the above section of this Act shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than one hundred, nor more than five hundred dollars, and removed from office. Person granting [Illegible Text] unlawful [Illegible Text] of [Illegible Text]. SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the provisions of this Act shall in no way prohibit physicians or druggists from selling spirits for medicinal purposes, and in no manner shall apply to the incorporated city, towns and villages of the county of Greene. For [Illegible Text] purposes. SEC. IV. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875. No. CCCLXXVIII. (O. No. 64.) An Act to prohibit the sale of spirituous and malt liquors within one mile of Providence church and Academy, in Stewart county, and to provide punishment for the violation of this Act. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons to sell any kind of spirituous or [Illegible Text] liquors, in any quantity, in less than one mile of Providence church and academy, in Stewart county. Providence Church[Illegible Text] liquor to be [Illegible Text] within one mile of. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons violating the provisions of the first section of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Code of Georgia. Penalty for violating this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 24, 1875.

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No. CCCLXXIX. (O. No. 26.) An Act to regulate the granting of licenses to retail intoxicating liquors in the county of Washington, and State of Georgia, and for other purposes. SECTION I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, no license to retail intoxicating liquors in the county of Washington, and State of Georgia, shall be granted until the applicant therefor shall have complied with the following conditions, in addition to those now required by law, to-wit: Retail liq'r licenses m'y be grantedwhen and in what manner. He shall have an accurate survey made by the County Surveyor, showing the name of each and all freeholders residing within three miles of the place at which the business is proposed to be carried on, and shall file a plat of this survey with his petition for a license. The applicant shall give notice of the filing of his petition and said survey with the Ordinary, in a public gazette published in said county, if any, and by posting the same at three of the most public places in the area covered by the survey above provided for, at least thirty days, and shall show to the satisfaction of the Ordinary, that the signatures of the persons recommending that license be granted him were obtained after the publication of the notice, as above required. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the applicant for such license shall pay all expenses incurred in complying with the requirements of this Act. Expenseswho shall pay. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 16, 1875. No. CCCLXXX. (O. No. 161.) An Act to regulate the sale of intoxicating liquors in the counties of Wilkes and Polk. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, no license shall be granted by the authorities entitled with the power to issue license to retail intoxicating liquors, anywhere in said counties of Wilkes and Polk, whether in town, village or elsewhere, for a period less than twelve months, or for a sum less than one hundred dollars, and no license shall be granted in said counties, except by written consent of a majority of freeholders who are voters, within

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three miles of the place of retailing, when such place is outside the limits of incorporated towns having a regular organized town government. License to retail liquorhow and when to be granted. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 27, 1875. CHAPTER V. Mills on [Illegible Text] River, 381. No. CCCLXXXI. (O. No. 237.) An Act to encourage the building of mills and other machinery on the Conesauga river, near the town of Tilton, and to repeal all laws which may interfere therewith. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That any person or persons owning land touching and bordering on both sides of the Conesauga river, near the bridge across said river, near the town of Tilton, shall be, and they are hereby, permitted to erect, across said river, dams for the purpose of raising water to run mills and other machinery, and for catching fish: Provided, such dams do not overflow the lands of persons above such dams; that nothing herein contained shall be construed as to confer privileges or rights in conflict with the Constitution and laws of this State. Conesauga [Illegible Text][Illegible Text] be built across. Proviso. SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved March 2, 1875.

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CHAPTER VI. Propagation of shad fish, No. Act 382. No. CCCLXXXII. (O. No. 86.) An Act to promote the propagation of shad fish in the Altamaha, Ocmulgee and Oconee rivers, and to impose a penalty for fishing for said fish in said rivers on Sundays, Mondays and Tuesdays. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That no person shall fish in the Altamaha, Ocmulgee or Oconee rivers on Sundays, Mondays or Tuesdays, nor shall any person, on either of said days, place or leave in either of said rivers any seine, gill or drag net, bag or hook net, wire trap, basket, or any other apparatus in or by which shad fish are caught. Unlawful to fish on certain days. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That any person who shall violate the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction shall, for each offense, be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars, one-half of which amount shall go to the informer. [Illegible Text] to violate this Act. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws. Approved February 25, 1875.

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PART III. RESOLUTIONS.

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Agricultural Collegearms for.....No. 1 Bonds of the State.....2 Bondsstatus investigated.....3 Booksfor officers of new counties.....4 Boyd, W. W., et al .....5 Centennial Exposition.....6 Comptroller Generalalias fi. fas. .....7 Direct Trade Unionoffice in Capitol.....8 Federal Interference in Louisiana affairs.....9 Harris, A. L., Supervisor W. A. R. R.....10 Harris, Isaac P.....11 Howard, C. B.claim of.....12 Immigration.....13 Inebriate Asylum.....14 Insane Convicts.....15 Jackson, Jesse W., Agent W. A. R. R.....16 Loans to meet public debt.....17 Macon and Brunswick R. R. bonds.....18 Macon and Brunswick R. R. bonds.....19 Macon and Brunswick R. R.Report of Committee.....20 Session prolonged.....21 State Treasurerresolution of censure.....22 Treasurer's officeexamination of.....23 Treasurer's officeexamination of.....24 Trustees of State Universityaction of.....25 Wrenn, B. W., Jackson, J. W., Harris, A.I.....26 Wrenn, B. W., General Ticket Agent W. A. R. R.....27 No. I. (O. No. 17.) WHEREAS [Illegible Text] the provisions of the act of Congress, in reference to the Agricultural Colleges, the teaching of military tactics shall be included in the branches of learning therein taught; and WHEREAS, the North Georgia Agricultural College, at Dahlonega, one of the institutions established under said Act is not supplied with the necessary arms and accouterments for that purpose; therefore, be it Preamble. Resolved, That the Governor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to supply said North Georgia Agricultural College, located at Dahlonega, with one hundred and fifty guns, with proper accoutrements, so soon as he is able to supply them from the State armory, on the same conditions as those supplied to the Agricultural College at Athens. Arms and accoutrements for North Ga. Agricultural College. Approved March 6, 1875.

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No. II. (O. No. 11.) Resolved, That so much of the resolution, adopted at this session of the General Assembly, as prohibits the Treasurer from paying the bonds of the State falling due after the first of January, 1872, be, and the same is hereby, rescinded; Provided, nothing contained in this resolution shall authorize the payment of any of the bonds of the State which matured before the first of January, 1872, except as prescribed in an act passed at this session of the General Assembly, requiring the registration of past due bonds. Resolution [Illegible Text]. Approved March 2, 1875. No. III. (O. No. 9.) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Treasurer of the State be, and he is hereby, instructed to withhold payment of all the bonds and coupons set forth in his report for the fiscal year ending December 31, 1874, the same being in the descriptive list of past due bonds outstanding on the 31st December, 1874, appendix to Table F, until otherwise directed by the General Assembly. Payment certain bonds ordered with held. Approved March 2, 1875. No. IV. (O. No. 23.) WHEREAS, the new counties of Douglas, Dodge, McDuffie and Rockdale, have never been furnished with their complement of law books, including volumes of the Supreme Court Reports; and WHEREAS, it is of primary importance to the judicial officers of the circuits in which said counties are situated, that they shall be furnished with said books; therefore, Preamble. Resolved, That the State Librarian be, and he is hereby, authorized to furnish to the proper officers of the counties of Douglas, Dodge, McDuffie and Rockdale, all the law books usually furnished to county officers, including volumes of the Supreme Court Reports, which the condition of the State Library may enable him to furnish. [Illegible Text] to furnish books to officers of certain counties. Approved March 6, 1875.

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No. V. (O. No. 7.) Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be requested to furnish the Legislature, as soon as may be practicable, all the information in his possession, whether by annual returns or otherwise, the actings and doings of William W. Boyd and others, who by act of the General Assembly, approved December, 1866, are authorized to adopt a scheme to raise money for the purpose of building a home for, and supporting indigent widows and orphans, more particularly of all moneys received by said persons, whether by proceeds of the lottery, gift or otherwise, all expenses paid by them, and all investments made and interest derived therefrom, as also the names and number of widows and orphans receiving the benefits aforesaid, with the names of the counties whence they came. Governor to furnish information concerning action of W. W. Boyd et al. Approved February 20, 1875. No. VI. (O. No. 21.) Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be, and he is hereby, authorized and requested to cause the proper steps to be taken, under the direction and control of the Commissioners of Agriculture, for affording the necessary facilities to the people of this State for forwarding and exhibiting products of the soil, and mines, mechanics, and other resources of the State, at the approaching Centennial Exposition, to be held in the city of Philadelphia, in the year 1876, and in visiting the same: Provided, that persons receiving the benefit of such facilities and organization be first required to pay such sum as will cover all expenses. The State to be in no way liable for any expense or costs incurred, of any kind, but the same to be borne, exclusively, by the persons taking the benefits as aforesaid, under such rules and regulations as the Governor may prescribe, by which, with [Illegible Text] action, exhibitors may obtain the best advantages in reduct [Illegible Text] of freights and passage, order, and safety in the exhibition [Illegible Text] care of the property. Facilities for forwarding and exhibiting articles at the Centennial Exhibition. Resolved further, That the State University be requested to furnish the proper data for the Bureau of History and Statistics in the approaching Centennial Exposition, and for this purpose, the officers of the University, or persons charged by it with the work, have access to the archives and public library of the State, and the State Geologist be requested to furnish the necessary surveys, geological information, and specimens from his office: Provided, that this work be accomplished with no expense to the State, beyond the

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actual cost of freight and handling of the articles and packages, sent by said University and the State Geologist as aforesaid, a schedule and estimate of which shall be made and filed in the Executive office, and approved by the Governor before the articles are sent. State University to furnish data to Bureau of History. Expense to State. Approved March 6, 1875. No. VII. (O. No. 18.) A resolution to authorize and require the Comptroller General of the State of Georgia to issue an alias execution in favor of the State of Georgia vs. Foster Blodgett, et. al. WHEREAS, on the 29th day of May, 1872, Madison Bell, Comptroller General of Georgia, issued an execution, in terms of the law, against Foster Blodgett, principal, and Lewis Scofield, Varney A. Gaskill, John Rice, Henry O. Hoyt and Hannibal I. Kimball, securities on the official bond of said Foster Blodgett, as Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad; and WHEREAS, the same was paid off by Lewis Scofield, one of said securities, and regularly controlled to him; and WHEREAS, the same has been lost or destroyed: [Illegible Text] Be it resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That Comptroller General of the State of Georgia be, and he is hereby, authorized to issue an alias fi. fa. in lieu of the lost original, in the same manner as is prescribed in section 3988 of the new Code of Georgia. Alias fi. fa. against Foster [Illegible Text] and securities. Approved March 6, 1875. No. VIII. (O. No. 10.) WHEREAS, The Direct Trade Union of the Patrons of Husbandry, chartered by the Legislature of 1874, has for its object the opening of a direct trade between our Southern ports and foreign countries, and the encouragement of immigration into Georgia; and WHEREAS, the same corporation now has its agent in Europe, engaged in opening said trade, and inviting immigration by disseminating the knowledge essential to the encouragement of both interests, to-wit: the knowledge of our resources; now therefore, that the State by its friendly countenance may encourage said corporation. Preamble. Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the

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Governor, if not incompatible with the public interest, be, and he is hereby, authorized to assign to the Secretary of said corporation a room in the capital, free of rent: Provided, there be such room not occupied by or needed for, the use of the officers of the State. Room for Direct Trade Union. Approved March 2, 1875. No. IX. (O. No. 2.) WHEREAS, Under the original constitutional compact between the States of this Union, each State is the equal of, and is entitled to all the rights and powers belonging to, each and every other State; and WHEREAS, all the States, including those which linked their fortunes with the Southern Confederacy, are upon terms of perfect equality, entitled to exercise, each for itself, the rights of States, including the right of local self-government, except so far as they may be restricted by the Constitution of the United States; and WHEREAS, it is a well established principle that each branch of the legislative department of each State is the sole judge of the election returns and qualification of its own members, and has the right to establish its own rules for determining all questions growing out of contested elections, there being no appeal from the decision of the House in such case; and WHEREAS, neither the Executive of a State, nor the Executive of the United States, has the right, by the use of the military power, to interfere in or attempt to control the organization of the Legislature of a State, nor to interfere with the decision of either branch of the State Legislature, nor has the President [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] United States the right to use the military power of the Government in any State, for any other purpose than the suppression of domestic violence, or the repulsion of invasion, and then only upon the proper application of the Legislature, or by the Executive, when the Legislature cannot be convened; and WHEREAS, we have noticed, with alarm, the authentic statement that these great principles of constitutional government have been violated by the [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] a portion of the army of the United States, which, under [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] of the President, has interfered with the organization [Illegible Text] the House of Representatives of the State of Louisiana, where the military assumed to judge of the election of its members, and, at the point of the bayonet, expelled such as the military commander adjudged not to be entitled to their seats; Preamble. Resolved, That neither the President of the United States, nor the Governor of said State, had any right to interfere in the organization of the Legislature, or to assume to judge of the election of the members thereof. Presidentno right to interfere.

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That the use of the military in the expulsion of such members by the bayonet, was a palpable and dangerous usurpation of power by the President of the United States, and a violation of the rights and privileges of the State and people of Louisiana; that the attempt, by the President, to justify the act, in a message to the Congress of the United States, is sufficient to awaken the serious [Illegible Text] of the people of every State in the Union, inasmuch as the use made of the military in the State of Louisiana, if tolerated by popular sentiment, may ripen into a precedent, may be repeated at any time in the organization of the Legislatures of any and all the States, and even the organization of the Congress of the United States, and that the result of such policy, if tolerated, places the civil government and the liberties of the people of each State at the feet of the President, clothed with the power of a military dictator. Action of President condemned. Resolved, That the question rises in importance above all party consideration, and threatens alike the liberties of all citizens of the United States, without regard to party affiliations, and we appeal to all good citizens throughout the Union to unite with us in entering, as we now do, our earnest and solemn protest against the act itself, and the precedent sought to be established by it. [Illegible Text] Resolved, That we condemn all lawlessness and violence, that we will faithfully support the Constitution of the United States, and the laws enacted in conformity thereto, and that we advise all citizens of this and our sister States, to render strict obedience to the laws, to resort to legal means alone for the redress of grievances, relying upon the popular sentiment of the people of the States, fairly expressed, for a return in the administration of the Government to the principles of constitutional law. Lawlessness condemned. Ballot box means redress. Resolved, That we tender our sympathies to the oppressed people of Louisiana, and commend their moderation and forbearance, exhibited in the trying emergency through which they are now passing, trusting that they have the courage still to forbear, resorting neither to force nor violence, but making a calm and dignified appeal to the people of the United States to break the shackles which bind them, and to deliver them from the hands of the dishonest adventurers who now tyrannize over them, and from the galling military despotism by which they are oppressed. [Illegible Text] of people of La. commended. Resolved, That the Governor of this State be requested to send a copy of these resolutions to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress, with the request that they lay them before their respective Houses, and to the Executive of each State in the Union. Copies of resolution to be sent to members of Congress. Approved January 25, 1875.

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No. X. (O. No. 13.) WHEREAS, upon investigation of the indebtedness of Asa L. Harris, late Master of Transportation and Supervisor of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, to the State, by a joint [Illegible Text] appointed under a resolution, approved March 2, 1874, said committee have reported that said Asa L. Harris is indebted to the State in the sum of eight thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and twelve cents ($8,245 12), principal debt; therefore, Preamble. Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor be, and he is hereby, notified that it is the sense of this General Assembly that the said fi. fa. against the said Asa L. Harris, as Master of Transportation aforesaid, and his securities, should proceed according to law, that the principal sum of said fi. fa. should only be the sum of eight thousand two hundred and forty-five dollars and twelve cents, and that any excess of principal over that sum be written off, and that then said fi. fas. should proceed according to law. Finding of Committee on indebtedness of A. L. Harris to the State. Approved March 6, 1875. No. XI. (O. No. 16.) WHEREAS, upon investigation of the indebtedness of Isaac P. Harris, late Treasurer, at Atlanta, of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, to the State, by a joint special committee appointed under a resolution, approved March 2, 1874, said committee have reported that the said indebtedness of the said Isaac P. Harris, as such Treasurer, is twenty thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-three cents ($20,776 63), principal debt; therefore, Preamble. Resolved, That the Governor be, and he is hereby, notified, that it is the sense of this General Assembly that the said fi. fa. against the said Isaac P. Harris, as Treasurer of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and his securities, should proceed according to law, that the principal sum of said fi. fa. should only be the sum of twenty thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and sixty-three cents ($20,776.63), and that any excess of principal over that sum be written off, and that then said fi. fa. should proceed according to law. Finding of Committee on fi. fas. against I. P. Harris. Approved March 6, 1875.

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No. XII. (O. No. 4.) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That His Excellency, the Governor, be, and he is hereby, requested to communicate to the General Assembly any information he may have in relation to the claim of C. B. Howard, for services rendered in the distribution of the public laws, journals, etc. [Illegible Text] of C. [Illegible Text] Howard. Approved February 8, 1875. No. XIII. (O. No. 19.) A resolution to encourage Immigration to the State of Georgia. WHEREAS, the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, do believe, that for the present, the best mode of encouraging immigration into this State, would be the plan and ways introduced by Mr. I. [Illegible Text], proprietor of the Abend Zeitung, a German newspaper, published at the city of Savannah, in a circular issued by him, and therein so expressed, which circular lately came to the notice of this General Assembly; be it therefore Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That for the purpose of carrying out the plans and propositions offered by Mr. Sterne, the Governor of the State of Georgia be, and he is hereby, authorized and empowered to negotiate with said Sterne, and effect all that is necessary to bring about the desired promotion of the State in behalf of immigration, which said plan of said Sterne expresses, and the Governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer for all necessary expenses accruing thereby. [Illegible Text]. Approved March 6, 1875. No. XIV. (O. No. 22) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That Rev. L. Gwaltney, of Floyd, Drs. M. R. Hall, of Warren, J. G. Thomas, of Chatham, J. A. Stewart, of Rockdale, D. G. Rudisill, of Chattooga, H. L. Battle, of Jefferson, W. L. Jones of Crawford, E. D. Pitman, of Troup, T. H. Baker, of Bartow, T. D. Hutchison, of Oglethorpe, J. T. Chappell, of Laurens, J. W. Carter, of Walton, D. N. Austin and M. I. Green, of Houston, Dr.

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J. J. Hickman and W. G. Whidby, of Fulton, and Rev. W. A. Parks of Newnan, be appointed a Committee, to report at the next session of this General Assembly, through the Governor, upon the practicability and utility of establishing an Asylum for Inebriates: Provided, said Committee serve without compensation, and free of expense to the State. [Illegible Text] Committee on inebriate asylum. Approved March 6, 1875. No. XV. (O. No. 24.) WHEREAS, doubts are entertained whether it is the duty of His Excellency, the Governor, to direct the removal of the penitentiary convicts, who are clearly insane, to the Lunatic Asylum of this State; be it therefore Preamble. Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That in every case where a convinct is sentenced to the penitentiary of this State, and becomes insane, whether in the hands of a lessee or otherwise, on the fact being established to the satisfaction of his Excellency, the Governor, he shall direct said convict to be removed to the Lunatic Asylum, there to be supported and receive medical assistance, as other pauper patients do, at the expense of the State. Insane convicts may be sent to Lunatic Asylum. Approved March 6, 1875. No. XVI. (O. No. 14.) WHEREAS, upon investigation of the indebtedness of Jessee W. Jackson, late Agent, at Atlanta, of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, to the State, by a joint special committee, appointed under a resolution approved March 2, 1874, said committee have reported that the indebtedness of the said Jessee W. Jackson, as such agent, is two thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-three cents ($2,425.53), principal debt; therefore, Preamble. Resolved, That the Governor be, and he is hereby, notified, that it is the sense of this General Assembly that the said fi. fa. against the said Jessee W. Jackson, as Agent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and his securities, should proceed according to law, that the principal sum of said fi. fa. should only be the sum of two thousand four hundred and twenty-five dollars and fifty-three cents

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($2,425.53), and that any excess of principal over that sum should be written off, and that the said fi. fa. should proceed according to law. Finding of committee on indebtedness of Jeese W. Jackson to the State. Approved March 6, 1875. No. XVII. (O. No. 12.) Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be, and he is hereby, authorized to effect temporary loans during the year 1875, not to exceed in amount four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, for the purpose of providing means with which to pay the public debt, and necessary expenses of the government, and in order to obtain said loans upon advantageous terms, and to secure the payment of the same, he is hereby authorized to pledge so much of the taxes of the State, as also the net earnings of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, as may be necessary: Provided, nothing contained in this resolution shall be so construed as authorizing the Governor to direct any portion of the revenue of the State, heretofore pledged, from the purposes for which the same have been, and are now, directed to be paid. [Illegible Text] Approved March 3, 1875. No. XVIII. (O. No. 1.) WHEREAS, doubts have been expressed as to the validity of the State's endorsement upon some of the bonds of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad; and WHEREAS, the public interest, and justice to the holders of these bonds, demands that the obligation of the State should be declared with promptitude, and recognized or rejected at once; be it therefore, [Illegible Text] Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That a committee of five from the Senate and seven from the House be appointed, by the presiding officers thereof, to make a thorough investigation of all the bonds of said Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company, upon which the State's endorsement has been placed, to the end that it may be ascertained whether the law under which the company procured the State's endorsement has been complied with or not, if not, to what extent, and if illegally obtained, whether the present holders are properly chargeable with notice of the wrong

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doing, and that said committee do report to this session of the General Assembly the result of their investigation. Committee to [Illegible Text] bonds of M. B. R. R. Approved January 20, 1875. No. XIX. (O. No. 28.) Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the State's endorsement upon the first mortgage bonds of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, to the amount of one million nine hundred and fifty thousand dollars ($1,950,000,) issued under an act approved the third day of December, 1866, is valid and binding upon the State, and the State's liability thereon is hereby recognized and affirmed. State's endorsement on certain bonds M. B. R. R. declared valid Resolved further, That the State's endorsement upon the bonds of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, issued under an act approved October 24, 1870, be, and the same is hereby, declared unconstitutional, null and void. Certain endorsement declared null and [Illegible Text]. Resolved further, That it is the sense of this General Assembly that the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, with its franchises, equipments and appurtenances be sold by the Governor at an early date, and if found to be practicable, as early as the first day of June, 1875, at public or private sale, and upon such terms, and for such price, in money, or first mortgage endorsed bonds of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, or bonds of the State, as in his judgment may be consistent with the interest of the State: Provided, that no commissions or per centage shall be authorized or allowed in said sales. Road to be sold. It is proper I should explain my action in approving these resolutions. A careful examination of the evidence found in the records of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Company, and in the reports of the Investigating Committees of the Legislature, has satisfied my mind that there was great irregularity in the issuing of the last $950,000 of the State's endorsement on the company's bonds, under the act approved December 3, 1866. These endorsements were made in palpable violation of the conditions in the resolutions explanatory of said act, which provided that the endorsement of the State upon the bonds of the company should not exceed $1,000,000, until an amount of capital equal to the additional endorsement should be bona fide subscribed and paid into the company. It is very clear from the evidence, that there was no bona fide subscription and payment of capital into the company after the State's endorsement was placed upon the first $1,000,000 of the company's

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bonds. Neither was there, in my judgment, even an indirect compliance with this very important condition. The company, it seems however, expended large sums in payment of interest, lawyers fees, etc., and it is sought to swell the amount of capital invested in the road by including such items. The amount of money invested in the company consists only of such sums as were expended for the right-of-way, for the purchase of material, and in payment for the labor required to construct the road, and for equipment. The Legislature that granted aid to the company would hardly have considered $40,000 of lawyers' fees, or several hundred thousand dollars of interest upon the company's debts such a [Illegible Text] subscription and payment of capital into the company, as would warrant the endorsement of its bonds by the State. Inasmuch, however, as the validity of these indorsements have, after investigation, been affirmed by two General Assemblies, to which [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] do not find any constitutional objection, and thinking it probable that these bonds have passed into the hands of persons not properly chargeable with notice of any irregularity in the indorsements thereon, I consider it my duty to acquiesce in the action of the General Assembly. With this explanation, the resolutions are approved. [Signed] JAMES M. SMITH. March 6, 1875. Approved March 6, 1875. No. XX. (O. No. 20.) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That three hundred (300) copies of the evidence taken at the last session of the General Assembly, including the evidence taken during the present session of the Legislature, in relation to the Macon and Brunswick Railroad, together with the report of the Special Committee appointed at the present session, be published for the use of the Senate and House of Representatives, and that the State Librarian be, and he is hereby, directed to preserve and have bound, at least ten copies of the same for future reference and use. [Illegible Text]. Approved March 6, 1875.

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No. XXI. (O. No. 8.) Resolved, by the General Assembly, That the present session of this General Assembly be further prolonged, for such time as may be necessary to finish and complete the business before the same. Session [Illegible Text]. No. XXII. (O. No. 26.) 1. Resolved, by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That, in view of all the facts reported by the Joint Committee on Finance, in their several reports at this session on the condition of the Treasury of the State, and the conduct of the Treasurer, said Treasurer has not, as he should have done, performed the duties of his office according to the laws of this State, and the many rules governing persons occupying such positions of trust; and that from such non-performance of his duty, he has greatly endangered the property of the State, and seriously endangered its credit. That whilst we esteem him for his past noble services to the State of Georgia, yet our duty to the tax-payers of the State compels us to say that the conduct of the Treasurer, in the administration of his office, as reported by the Joint Finance Committee, deserves, and hereby receives, our censure. Report on official conduct of [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. 2. Resolved, That the Governor be requested and directed to require a full and complete registration of all the bonds and coupons reported as paid by the Sub-Committee of Finance, and now in the vaults of the Treasury, and for which the State is no longer liable, such registration to be placed upon a suitable record book, and when the registration is made and the record submitted to the Governor, and has received his approval, that the Governor direct the said bonds and coupons to be burned in the presence of himself, the Secretary of State, the Comptroller General, and report the fact of such destruction to the next session of the General Assembly. Registrat'n of bonds and [Illegible Text] reported paid. Bonds to be destroyed. 3. Resolved, by the authority aforesaid, That in view of the report presented by the Joint Committee on Finance, as to the payment of bonds previously paid, the Governor of the State shall proceed to institute suit against the Treasurer and his securities on their several bonds, to recover any money so illegally paid, any money or property due from the Treasurer, and at the same time proceed to institute suit against any person or corporation in this State, and elsewhere, who have received payment of bonds previously paid. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] the Treasurer and his securities. 4. Resolved, by the authority aforesaid, That His Excellency, the Governor, be, and he is hereby, requested and directed to appoint at once a skillful and competent person, at such a salary as shall

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be fixed by himself, (to be paid from the contingent fund) to assist the present Treasurer in systematizing the present manner of book-keeping in his office, to make out a full and complete registry of all bonded obligations of the State now in the Treasury, to ascertain, if possible, all the outstanding obligations recognized as legal or illegal, by the State, and to report to the next session of the General Assembly a tabulated statement of the same, and to do whatever else may be necessary to protect the interest of the State in the conduct of the business of the office, and the Governor is hereby authorized to continue said appointee as such assistant so long as necessary to the welfare of the State. [Illegible Text]. Duties of such assistant. It is no part of the duty of the Governor, under the Constitution, to pronounce or to pass upon a judgment of censure against an official of the government, but these resolutions contain provisions and directions to the Governor which, in my opinion, the interest of the Commonwealth renders needful. They are, therefore, with this explanation, approved. JAMES M. SMITH, Governor. March 6, 1875. Approved March 6, 1875. No. XXIII. (O. No. 5.) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Governor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ a suitable and efficient person to examine the office of the State Treasurer, and under the direction of the Joint Committee on Finance to investigate fully the condition of said office, the amount of public debt paid from, and including, the year 1872, and character of debt paid; amount and character of the bonds of the State taken up and cancelled; amount of bonds outstanding, and character, either past due or maturing; what bonds have been returned to the Treasury, and amount and character; actual cash amount in Treasury, and all other matters and things touching the affairs of the Treasury, as he may be directed to examine into, under the directions of said Committee on Finance, and that he report the result of his examination within ten days to the General Assembly, now in session. Governor authorized to employ a suitable person to [Illegible Text] into condition of State Treasury. Resolved, That the person thus appointed shall have full power to examine any and all of the books of the Treasury Department, to administer oaths, and to send for persons, books and papers, if necessary to said investigation. Power of person appointed. Approved February 8, 1875.

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No. XXIV. (O. No. 25.) Resolved, by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Governor be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to employ a suitable and efficient person to examine the office of the State Treasurer, and under the direction of the Joint Committee on Finance to investigate fully the condition of said office, the amount of public debt paid from, and including, the year 1872, and character of debt paid, amount and character of bonds of the State taken up and cancelled; amount of bonds outstanding, and character, either past due or maturing; what bonds have been returned to the Treasury, and amount and character; actual cash amount in Treasury, and all other matters and things touching the affairs of the Treasury, as he may be directed to examine into under the direction of said Committee on Finance, and that he report the result of his examination within ten days to the General Assembly, now in session. Governor to appoint a suitable p'rson to examine the office of State Treasurer. Duties of person appointed. Resolved, That the person thus appointed shall have full power to examine any and all of the books of the Treasury department, to administer oaths, and to send for persons, books and papers, if necessary to said investigation. Power of person appointed. Approved March 6, 1875. No. XXV. (O. No. 3.) Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be requested to furnish, forthwith, a report of the action of the Board of Trustees of the State University, at their last annual meeting; also, a copy of the report of the Treasurer of said institution, and of the State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts. Action of Trustee of State University. Resolved further, That the Committees on Education of the Senate and House of Representatives be instructed to consider and report upon the condition and affairs of said University, to this session of the General Assembly, at as early a day as possible. Affairs of Universitycommittee to [Illegible Text] Approved February 4, 1875. No. XXVI. (O. No. 6.) WHEREAS, the Joint Committee of the Senate and House of Representatives, appointed at the last session of the General Assembly

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to investigate the alleged indebtedness of B. W. Wrenn, Jessee W. Jackson, Asa L. Harris and I. P. Harris, to the State of Georgia, as officers of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and also the matter of the State's liability on the bonds of the Alabama and Chattanooga Railroad Company, has performed the duty with which it was charged, and has submitted a report to the General Assembly, as required by the resolution authorizing the appointment; Preamble. Resolved, That each member of the committee receive ten dollars per day, and mileage to and from the Capital, and the Clerk and Sergeant-at-Arms the same pay that has been allowed similar officers to the committees who investigated the affairs of the State Road. Pay of committee and clerks. Approved February 10, 1875. No. XXVII. (O. No. 15.) WHEREAS, upon investigation of the indebtedness of B. W. Wrenn late General Ticket and Passenger Agent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, by a Joint Committee, appointed under a resolution approved March 2d, 1874, said committee have reported that the indebtedness of the said B. W. Wrenn to the State is ten thousand nine hundred and ninety-four dollars and ninety-three cents, principal debt; therefore, Preamble. Resolved, That His Excellency, the Governor, be, and he is hereby, notified that it is the sense of this General Assembly that the said fi. fa. against the said B. W. Wrenn, as General Ticket Agent aforesaid, should proceed against him according to law; but not against his securities, they being by said committee deemed not liable therefor; that the principal sum of said fi. fa. should only be the sum of ten thousand nine hundred and ninety-four dollars and ninety-three cents ($10,994.93), and that any excess of principal over that sum be written off, and that then said fi. fa. should proceed according to law. Finding of committee in case of B. W. Wrenn. Approved March 6, 1875.

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INDEX TO PUBLIC LAWS. A. AGRICULTURAL DEPARTMENT Appropriation for Chemical Laboratory for [Illegible Text] To receive and publish statistics [Illegible Text] AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS Weighing of [Illegible Text] AGRICULTURAL STATISTICS Commissioner of Agriculture to keep [Illegible Text] Comptroller relieved of keeping [Illegible Text] ALABAMA AND CHATTANOOGA RAILROAD State endorsement of bonds void [Illegible Text] ALIENS Holding lands by [Illegible Text] ANIMALS Cruelty to punished [Illegible Text] APPROPRIATIONS General act for 1875 [Illegible Text] To North Georgia Agricultural College [Illegible Text] To State College of Agriculture and Mechanic Arts [Illegible Text] ATLANTA Act creating City Court for amended [Illegible Text] Judge of City Court of may grant new trials [Illegible Text] ATTORNEY GENERAL Appropriation for salary of [Illegible Text] ATTORNEYS From other States, how admitted [Illegible Text] AUGUSTA, CITY OF Recorder's Court, act amended [Illegible Text] B. BACKER COUNTY Pay of jurors [Illegible Text] BALDWIN COUNTY County Court [Illegible Text] Superior Court, time of holding [Illegible Text] BARNETT, A. T. Appropriation to [Illegible Text]

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BARTOW COUNTY County Court 62 Superior Court, time of holding 86 BIBB COUNTY County Court 42 BILLS OF EXCHANGE Holidays 91 BILLS OF EXCEPTION 24 BLACKSHEAR Mayor's Court of 81 BLIND ACADEMY Appropriation for 9 Expenses of Visiting Committee 10 BOARD OF HEALTH FOR THE STATE Act to create, term of, office duties, etc. 32 36 BONDS ENDORSED BY THE STATE Alabama and Chattanooga R. R. bonds, State's endorsment void 13 Act to protect the State 14 BONDS OF COUNTY OFFICERS Time of filing 16 BONDS OF THE STATE Which matured prior to 1st of January 1872 must be registered by August 1st 1875 12 Gold bonds issued under act of October 17th, 1870 28 Currency bonds issued under act of August 27th, 1870 28 Quarterly gold bonds issued under act of Sept. 15th, 1870 28 BRIDGES Encampment and building fires on 101 BURKE COUNTY Pay of jurors 93 BUTTS COUNTY Criminal Court 74 BUTTS COUNTY Pay of jurors 93 BURVING GROUNDS Penalty for injury to 27 C. CALHOUN COUNTY County Court 43 CAMPBELL COUNTY County Court 43 CAPITAL CASES Verdicts in 106 CARROLL COUNTY County Court 45 CATOOSA COUNTY Superior Court, time of holding 86

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CHATHAM COUNTY Exemptions from jury duty [Illegible Text] CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY Criminal Court [Illegible Text] CITY COURTS Of Atlanta [Illegible Text] Of Savannah and Atlanta [Illegible Text] CLARKE COUNTY New county from [Illegible Text] CLAY COUNTY Criminal Court [Illegible Text] CLAYTON COUNTY County Court [Illegible Text] CLERK SUPREME COURT Compensation [Illegible Text] CLERKS For Secretary of State, pay of [Illegible Text] For State Treasurer, pay of [Illegible Text] For Comptroller General, pay of [Illegible Text] For Senate, pay of [Illegible Text] For House of Representatives, pay of [Illegible Text] For Executive Department, pay of [Illegible Text] For Wild Land Office, pay of [Illegible Text] For Supreme Court, salary [Illegible Text] For State Department, exempt from jury duty [Illegible Text] CLERK OF HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES Compensation [Illegible Text] Compensation of Assistant [Illegible Text] CLINCH COUNTY Justice's Court embracing county site of [Illegible Text] COBB COUNTY Pay of jurors [Illegible Text] CODE AMENDMENTS Section 110, fees of Comptroller General, [Illegible Text] Section 154, time of filing bonds of county officers [Illegible Text] Section 399, admission of lawyers from other States [Illegible Text] Section 402, admission of lawyers from other States [Illegible Text] Section 708 and 710, railroad engineers shall ring bell at crossings [Illegible Text] Section 1423 selling liquor to drunken persons [Illegible Text] Section 1430, estrays [Illegible Text] Section 1579, fees of inspector of oil [Illegible Text] Section 1599 and 1560, weighing cotton and rice [Illegible Text] Section 1700, marriage to widow of uncle [Illegible Text] Section 1876, binding out minors [Illegible Text] Section 1978, lien of landlords [Illegible Text] Section 2016, Ordinary disqualified in homestead cases [Illegible Text] Section 2676, alien holding bonds [Illegible Text]

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Section 3554, wages garnisheed for physician and druggist bills 21 Section 3586, sale of lands for purchase money 22 Section 3698, jailer's fees 22 Section 3879, obtaining commission for interrogatories 23 Section 4082, Constables may levy distress warrants over $100 23 Section 4097, jury in case of nuisance caused by grist mill, etc 24 Section 4252, bills of exception 24 Section 4372, using abusive or obscene language 25 Section 4401, punishment for hog stealing 26 Section 4437, intruding upon railroad track 26 Section 4600, fine for selling mortgaged property 26 Section 4620, injuries to burying grounds 27 COFFEE COUNTY Pay of jurors 96 COMMISSIONER OF AGRICULTURE Duty to receive agricultural statistics 6 COMPTROLLER GENERAL Appropriation for salary of 7 Appropriation for salary of two clerks for 7 Fees of 15 CONSTABLES Levy of distress warrants by 23 CONSTITUTIONAL AMENDMENTS State bonds and State endorsement on certain railroad bonds void 28 Reduces homestead exemption 29 Time of residence to qualify electors 30 CONTINGENT FUND Appropriation for 10 CONTRACTS Manner of letting out by county officers 38 COTTON Weighing of 18 102 COUNTY COURTS Garnishment in 90 COUNTY COURTS Bibb county 42 Calhoun county 43 Campbell county 43 44 Carroll county 45 Clayton county 47 Ceweta county 48 Dooly county 48 Dougherty county 49 Elbert county 50 Glynn county 51 Green county 52 Hancock county 53

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Jefferson county [Illegible Text] Laurens county [Illegible Text] Marion county 55 [Illegible Text] Muscogee county [Illegible Text] Pierce county [Illegible Text] Pike county [Illegible Text] Polk and Bartow counties [Illegible Text] Pulaski county 63 [Illegible Text] Richmond county 67 [Illegible Text] Thomas, Lowndes, Jefferson and Liberty counties 69 [Illegible Text] Troup and Baldwin counties 71 [Illegible Text] Wilkes county [Illegible Text] COURTS (See Supreme, Superior, County, Criminal, City, Justices' Courts, and Ordinary.) COWETA COUNTY County Court [Illegible Text] CRAWFORD COUNTY Criminal Court [Illegible Text] CRIMINAL COURTS For Butts county [Illegible Text] For Clay county [Illegible Text] For Effingham county 75 [Illegible Text] For Marion, Talbet, Stewart, Chattahoochee, Randolph, Early and Webster counties 78 [Illegible Text] For Taylor, Schley, Crawford and Pulaski counties [Illegible Text] D. DADE SUPERIOR COURT Time of holding [Illegible Text] DEAF AND DUMB INSTITUTE Appropriation for [Illegible Text] Expense of Visiting Committee [Illegible Text] DECISIONS OF SUPREME COURT Publication of [Illegible Text] DEEDS Fees for recording [Illegible Text] DISTRESS WARRANTS Levy of by Constables [Illegible Text] DOOLY COUNTY Pay of Jurors [Illegible Text] Dooly County Court [Illegible Text] Dooly Superior Courttime of holding [Illegible Text] DOUGHERTY COUNTY Pay of Jurors [Illegible Text] County Court [Illegible Text] DOUGLAS COUNTY Superior Courttime of holding [Illegible Text]

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DOWER Law of amended 100 DRUGGISTS Garnishment for bills of 21 E. EARLY COUNTY Criminal Court 78 Pay of jurors 94 ECHOLS COUNTY Pay of jurors 95 Superior Courttime of holding 85 ELECTIC BOARD OF PHYSICIANS Place of meeting 36 EFFINGHAM COUNTY Criminal Court 75 ELBERT COUNTY County Court 50 ENGINEERS, R. R. Duty as to ringing bells at crossings 17 Exempt from jury duty 98 ESTRAYS 17 EXECUTIONS Against tax defaulters 120 For taxtransfer of 119 F. FINES AND FORFEITURES Distribution of 88 G. GARNISHMENT Of wages 21 89 GENERAL ASSEMBLY Appropriations for incidental expenses 10 Appropriations for stationery 10 Pay of officers and members 8 GEOLOGICAL SURVEY To provide for, of the State 31 GIN HOUSES Reward for burners of 104 GLYNN COUNTY County Court 51 GORDON COUNTY Superior Courttime of holding 86 GOVERNMENT Tax for support of 114

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GOVERNOR Appropriation for salary of To offer rewards for incendiaries 10 To protect State against endorsed railroad bonds 1 Writ of quo warranto as to office 10 GRAVE YARDS Penalty for injuring 2 GREENE COUNTY County Court 5 H. HABEAS CORPUS Fees of jailer 2 HANCOCK COUNTY County Court 5 HARALSON COUNTY Pay of jurors 9 HEALTH Board of for State 3 HOLIDAYS For acceptance of bills, c. 9 HOG STEALING Punishment for 2 HOMESTEAD Act to amend the Constitution, by reducing amount of exemption 2 Waiver of 9 When Ordinary is disqualified 2 HOOD, ARTHUR Appropriation to 1 HOUSTON COUNTY Pay of jurors 9 I. INCENDIARIES Rewards for 10 INSPECTORS OF OIL Fees of 18 INTEREST Legal rate of [Illegible Text] INTEREST ON PUBLIC DEBT Appropriation for [Illegible Text] INTERROGATORIES Commission for [Illegible Text] J. JAILER Fees of [Illegible Text]

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[Illegible Text] SUPERIOR COURT Time of holding 84 [Illegible Text] COUNTY County Court 53 JONES, J. F. Appropriation to 10 JUDGES OF SUPERIOR COURT Salary of 9 JUDGES OF SUPREME COURT Salary of 8 JUDICIAL DEPARTMENT Appropriation for 8 JUDICIARY Bibb County Court 42 Bridgesencampment on prohibited 101 Burke and Cobb countiespay of jurors 93 Butts, Cobb and Haralson countiespay of jurors 93 Calhoun County Court 43 Campbell County Court 43 Carroll County Court 45 Chatham county [Illegible Text] from jury duty 97 City Court of Atlanta 40 City Courts of Atlanta and Savannahnew trials 41 Clayton County Court 47 Clerk Supreme Courtsalary 87 Clerks State Department exempt from jury duty 96 Co ntracts, letting out by county office rs 38 Coweta County Court 48 Criminal Court for Butts county 74 Criminal Court for Clay county 74 Criminal Court for Effingham county 75 Criminal Court for Marion, Talbot, Stewart, Chattahoochee, Randolph, Early and Webster counties 78 Criminal Court for Taylor, Schley, Crawford and Pulaski counties 79 Cruelty to animals, to prevent 101 Decisions of Supreme Court, publication 88 Dougherty County Court 49 Dooly County Court 48 Dougherty, Worth and Baker, pay of jurors 94 Dower, law amended 100 Early county, pay of jurors 94 Echols, Dooly, Lee and Houston counties, pay of jurors 95 Elbert County Court 50 Fees for recording deeds 86 Fines and forfeitures, distribution 88 Garnishment in County Courts 90 Garnishment of duty wages 89

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Gin Houses, to prevent burning 104 Glynn County Court 51 Graduates of Mercer law school 38 Greene County Court 52 Hancock County Court 53 Holidays 91 Homestead, waiver of 92 Jefferson County Court 53 Jurors, residents of municipal corporations 96 Justice Court, county site of Clinch county 80 LaGrange Light Guards, jury duty 97 Laurens County Court 54 Locomotive engineers and millers, jury duty 98 Marion County Court 55 Minors, sale of liquor to 102 Muscogee County Court 60 Names, manner of changing 103 Persons over sixty years exempt from jury duty 98 Pierce County Court 61 Pike County Court 62 Polk and Bartow County Courts 62 Pulaski County Court 63 Quo warranto, writ of 104 Rabun county, pay of jurors 95 Recorder's Court of Augusta 80 Richmond County Court 67 Schley county, pay of jurors 95 Second Georgia Battalion, jury duty 99 Standard weights 107 Superior Court of Baldwin county, time of holding 84 Superior Court of Bartow county, time of holding 86 Superior Court of Catoosa county, time of holding 86 Superior Court of Dade county, time of holding 86 Superior Court of Dooly county, time of holding 83 Superior Court of Douglas county, time of holding 84 Superior Court of Echols county; time of holding 85 Superior Court of Gordon county, time of holding 86 Superior Court of Jasper county, time of holding 84 Superior Court of Murray county, time of holding 86 Superior Court of Twiggs county, time of holding 85 Superior Court of Whitfield county, time of holding 86 Thomas, Lowndes, Jefferson and Liberty County Courts 69 Troup and Baldwin County Courts 71 Usury law 105 Verdicts in capital cases 106 Weighing agricultural products 102 Wilcox and Coffee counties, pay of jurors 96 Wilkes County Court 73

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JURIES In cases of nuisance 24 JURORS AND JURY DUTY Burke and Cobb counties, pay of jurors 93 Butts, Cobb and Haralson counties, pay of jurors 93 Chatham county, exemptions 97 Clerks of State Department, exemptions 96 Dougherty, Worth and Baker counties, pay of jurors 94 Early county, pay of jurors 94 Echols, Dooly, Lee and Houston counties, pay of jurors 95 LaGrange Light Guards, exemptions 97 Locomotive engineers and millers, exemptions 98 Persons over sixty, exemptions 98 Rabun county, pay of jurors 95 Residents of municipal corporations, competent 96 Schley county, pay of jurors 95 Second Georgia Battalion, exemption 99 Wilcox and Coffee counties, pay of jurors 96 JUSTICES COURT Embracing county site of Clinch county, jurisdiction 80 L. LAGRANGE LIGHT GUARDS Exempt from jury duty 97 LAND Holding of by aliens 21 Sale of for purchase money 22 Sale of for tax 119 LANDLORD'S LIEN 20 LAURENS COUNTY County Court 54 LEE COUNTY Pay of jurors 95 LIBERTY COUNTY Ordinary of 82 County Court 69 LIBRARY FUND 87 LIENS Of landlords 20 LIQUOR Penalty for selling to minors 102 Sale of to persons when drunk 17 LOCOMOTIVE ENGINEERS Exempt from jury duty 98 LOWNDES COUNTY County Court 69

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LUNATIC ASYLUM Appropriation for support of 9 Compensation of Trustees of 9 Compensation of Resident Physician 9 Expense of Visiting Committee 9 M. MACON Jurisdiction of Mayor of 82 Trial for vagrancy in 82 MAIMED SOLDIERS Relief of 107 MARRIAGE Of uncle's widow 19 MARION COUNTY County Court 55 MARION COUNTY Criminal Court 78 MAYOR Of Blackshear, civil and criminal jurisdiction of 81 Of Macon, jurisdiction 82 MERCER LAW SCHOOL Graduates 38 MILITARY ORGANIZATION OF STUDENTS 108 MILLERS Exemptions from jury duty 98 MINORS Binding out of 19 MINORS Punishment for selling liquor to 102 MORTGAGED PROPERTY Penalty for selling, when 26 MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS Residents competent jurors 96 MURRAY SUPERIOR COURT Time of holding 86 MUSCOGEE COUNTY County Court 60 N. NAMES Manner of changing 103 NEW COUNTY Organized 109 NORTH SOUTH R. R. Appropriation for interest on bonds 10 NORTH GEORGIA AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Appropriation for 11

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NUISANCE Juries in cases of 24 O. OBSCENE AND VULGAR LANGUAGE Trial for using 25 OCONEE COUNTY Organized 109 OFFICERS OF COURT Liens on fines and forfeitures 88 OIL Fees for inspecting 18 ORDINARIES Of Liberty county 82 P. PENITENTIARY Compensation of Principal Keeper 9 PHYSICIANS Garnishment for bills of 21 PIERCE COUNTY County Court 61 PIKE COUNTY County Court 62 POLK COUNTY County Court 62 PRINTING FUND Appropriation for 10 PUBLIC BUILDINGS Appropriation for 9 PULASKI COUNTY County Court 63 Criminal Court 79 Q. QUO WARRANTO Writ of 104 R. RAILROAD BONDS Alabama and Chattanooga, State's endorsement void 13 Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Columbus 28 Brunswick and Albany 28 Cartersville and Van Wert 28 Cherokee 28 North and South, appropriations for interest 10 To protect State against endorsement of 14

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RABUN COUNTY Pay of jurors 95 RAILROAD TRACKS Intruding upon 26 RANDOLPH COUNTY Criminal Court 78 RECORDER'S COURT OF AUGUSTA Act to create amended 80 REPORTER OF SUPREME COURT Compensation of 8 Publication of Decisions 88 REPORTS Of officers and committees 112 RICHMOND COUNTY County Court 67 RICE Weighing of 18 102 RIPARIAN RIGHTS 113 S. SALE OF LAND For purchase money 22 SAVANNAH City Court of may grant new trials 41 Criminal cases in City Court of 41 Exemptions from jury duty 97 SCHLEY COUNTY Criminal Court 79 Pay of jurors 95 SCHOOL FUND Manner of disbursing 113 SECOND GEORGIA BATTALION Exempt from jury service 99 SECRETARY OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT Appropriation for salary of 7 SECRETARY OF SENATE Compensation of 7 SECRETARY OF STATE Appropriation for salary of 7 Appropriation for salary of Clerk for 7 SOLDIERS Maimed, relief of 107 SOLICITOR GENERAL Salary of 8 STANDARD WEIGHT 106 STATE COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE, ETC. Appropriation for 11 Military organization of students 108

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STATE GEOLOGIST Duties of 31 STATE LIBRARIAN Appropriation for salary of 7 To preserve reports of officers 112 STATE LIBRARY Appropriation to purchase books for 10 STATE SCHOOL FUND Manner of disbursing 113 STATE TREASURER Appropriation for salary of 7 Appropriation for salary of Clerk for 7 STATE UNIVERSITY Military organization of students 108 STEWART COUNTY Criminal Court 78 SUPERINTENDENT OF PUBLIC WORKS Compensation of 9 SUPERIOR COURT Salary of judge 8 For Baldwin county, time of holding 84 For Bartow county, time of holding 86 For Catoosa county, time of holding 86 For Dade county, time of holding 86 For Dooly county, time of holding 83 For Douglas county, time of holding 84 For Echols county, time of holding 85 For Gordon county, time of holding 86 For Jasper county, time of holding 84 For Murray county, time of holding 86 Recording deeds, fees of clerks 86 For Twiggs county, time of holding 85 For Whitfield county, time of holding 86 SUPREME COURT Compensation to clerk of 9 Compensation and duties of clerk 87 Publications of decisions 88 Salary of judges 8 T. TALBOT COUNTY Criminal Court 78 TAX For support of Government 114 On land, sale of for 119 TAX DEFAULTERS Executions against 120

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TAX EXECUTIONS Transfer of 119 TAX RECEIVERS To obtain agricultural and mechanical statistics [Illegible Text] TAYLOR COUNTY Criminal Court 79 THOMAS COUNTY County Court 69 TREASURER Appropriation for salary of [Illegible Text] Appropriation for salary of clerk for [Illegible Text] Duty to keep book and record bonds 12 TROUP COUNTY County Court 71 TWIGGS SUPERIOR COURT Time of holding [Illegible Text] U. USURY LAW [Illegible Text] V. VERDICTS In capital cases [Illegible Text] VULGAR AND OBSCENE LANGUAGE Trial for using [Illegible Text] W. WAIVER OF HOMESTEAD. 92 WEBSTER COUNTY Criminal Court 78 WEIGHING AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTS. 18 102 WEIGHTS Standard bushel 106 WHITFIELD SUPERIOR COURT Time of holding [Illegible Text] WILCOX COUNTY Pay of jurors 96 WILKES COUNTY County Court 73 WORTH COUNTY Pay of jurors 94

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INDEX TO LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS. A. ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS Chattooga and Screven counties, public school teachers 319 Clarksville Academy 320 Forsyth county school debt 320 Gilmer county, public school teachers 321 Macon free school 322 McIntosh County Academy 322 Milledgeville Male and Female Academies 323 Savannah Free School Society 323 ACWORTH HIGH SCHOOL Sale of liquor within two miles of, prohibited 334 ETNA IRON COMPANY 203 ALTAMAHA RIVER Propagation of shad in 357 AMERICUS Bank of 128 Bridge over Flint river 149 Gas Light Company of 191 Jurisdiction of Mayor's Court 151 People's Bank of 139 ANDERSON, JAMES Relief of 309 APPLING COUNTY Board of Commissioners organized 237 APPLING AND COFFEE COUNTIES Line changed 267 APPLING AND PIERCE COUNTIES Line changed 268 APPLING AND WARE COUNTIES Line changed 268 APPLING AND WAYNE COUNTIES Line changed 269 [Illegible Text] ATLANTA Charter amended [Illegible Text] Gate City Gas Light Company 195 Purchase of custom house lot by 153 Purchase of mortgage on capitol by 154 Savings bank of [Illegible Text] State Savings Bank of 143 AUGUSTA Assessment of taxes [Illegible Text]

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Commercial Insurance and Banking Co. of 131 Real Estate and Building Association of 326 Savings Institution of 125 Use of land for water pipes 155 AUGUSTA SCHUETZENPLATZ License to sell liquor 353 B. BAKER COUNTY Board of Commissioners formed 239 BALDWIN COUNTY Destruction of game 299 302 License to sell liquor 330 Orders on Treasurer 294 Spirituous liquor, sale near Bethel church 327 Spirituous liquor, sale near certain mills, and Elam church 335 BANKS Atlanta Savings Bank 123 Augusta Savings Institution 125 Bank of Americus 128 Bank of Thomasville 129 Commercial Insurance and Banking Co. of Augusta 131 Enterprise Bank of Macon 131 Forsyth Savings Bank 132 Georgia Grange and Planters' Banking Co. 134 Greenville Banking and Trust Co. 136 Macon Bank and Trust Co. 138 Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of Columbus 138 Peoples' Bank of Americus 139 Savings Bank of Barnesville 142 State's Savings Bank of Atlanta 143 BANKS COUNTY Bonds of officers 278 BARNARD AND ANDERSON STREET R.R. CO. 218 BARNESVILLE Savings Bank of 142 BARTOW COUNTY Sale of liquor 338 BAXLEY Charter of 156 BETHEL CHURCH Sale of liquor within three miles of 327 BERRIEN COUNTY Pay of commissioners 254 BIBB COUNTY Commissioners, election and clerk 241 BIBB AND JONES COUNTIES Line changed 273

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BIBB AND TWIGGS COUNTIES Line changed 269 BRIDGE CREEK Penalty for obstructing 301 BUCK CREEK Penalty for obstructing 301 BURKE COUNTY Commissioners, meeting, license, etc. 242 Destruction of game 295 Licenses to sell liquor 229 230 BURNEY'S MILL Sale of liquor near 337 BUTTS COUNTY Board of Commissioners abolished 242 License to sell liquor 330 331 BUTTS AND HENRY COUNTIES Line changed 272 C. CAMDEN COUNTY Official acts made valid 279 Registration of voters 305 Sale of liquor 330 CAMDEN AND WAYNE COUNTIES Line changed 276 CALHOUN COUNTY Certain offices consolidated 278 Commissioners, clerk, orders, etc. 243 Hunting on lands of another 295 CALHOUN AND CLAY COUNTIES Line changed 269 CAMILLA Charter amended 157 CAMPBELL AND COWETA COUNTIES Line changed 270 CANAL COMPANIES Seaboard and Internal Improvement Co. 145 Turtle River and Buffalo Swamp Canal Co. 147 CANTON Sale of [Illegible Text] within two miles of 333 CAPITOL Purchase of mortgage on by Atlanta 154 CARROLL COUNTY Sale of liquor in county of 338 Sale of liquor near Shiloh Camp Ground 332 CARROLLTON Corporate limits 158

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CASSVILLE Sale of liquor near churches in 328 CATOOSA COUNTY Board of Commissioners organized 243 Office of Tax Receiver abolished 279 CHATHAM COUNTY Fees of sheriff 280 Hunting on lands of another 295 Pay of Tax Receiver and Collector 281 Seining for fish prohibited in certain places 296 CHATTAHOOCHEE COUNTY Extra pay of sheriff 281 License to sell liquor 330 333 CHATTAHOOCHEE MANUFACTURING COMPANY 214 CHATTOOGA COUNTY Board of Commissioners organized 245 Public school teachers 319 Sale of liquor re-enacted 338 CHEROKEE COUNTY Pay of Tax Receiver and Collector 282 CITIES AND TOWNS Americus, bridge over Flint river 149 Americus, jurisdiction of Mayor's Court 151 Atlanta, charter amended 153 Atlanta, custom house lot purchase 153 Atlanta, purchase of mortgage on capitol 154 Augusta, assessment of taxes 155 Augusta, use of land for water pipes 155 Baxley, charter 156 Camilla, charter amended 157 Carrollton, charter amended 158 Columbus, power to tax mules, etc. 158 Covington, work on streets 158 Danielsville, charter 159 Dawson, corporate limits 163 Dawsonville, charter repealed 163 Douglasville, charter 162 Eastman, corporate limits 163 Fairburn, charter amended 164 Forsyth, new charter 165 Fort Valley, charter amended 173 Griffin, charter amended 173 Hamilton, new charter 174 LaGrange, charter amended 179 Macon, charter amended 180 Marshallville, charter amended 181 Rockmart, charter amended 182 Rome, compromise of debt 183

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Sparta, charter amended 184 St. Mary's, charter amended 185 Sylvania, charter superceded 186 Talbotton, charter amended 186 Tennelle, charter 187 Thomson, charter amended 188 Toccoa, charter amended 189 Vineville, firing of guns and pistols 189 Warrenton, charter amended 190 Whitesburg, charter amended 190 CLARKESVILLE ACADEMY 320 CLAY COUNTY Bond of sheriff 282 CLAY AND CALHOUN COUNTIES Line changed 269 CLAY AND QUITMAN COUNTIES Line changed 270 CLAYTON COUNTY Payment of insolvent cost 296 CLAYTON AND HENRY COUNTIES Line changed 273 COFFEE AND APPLING COUNTIES Line changed 267 COFFEE AND WARE COUNTIES Line changed [Illegible Text] COLQUITT COUNTY Board of Commissioners organized 248 COLUMBUS Merchants' and Mechanics' Bank of 138 Power to tax mules and horses 158 COMMERCIAL INSURANCE AND BANKING CO. OF AUGUSTA 131 CONESAUGA RIVER Building mills on [Illegible Text] COUNTY COMMISSIONERS Appling, board formed [Illegible Text] Baker, board formed [Illegible Text] Bibb, board, election and clerk [Illegible Text] Burke, board, time of meeting, liquor license, etc. [Illegible Text] Butts, board abolished [Illegible Text] Calhoun, board, clerk, orders, etc. [Illegible Text] Catoosa, board organized [Illegible Text] Chattooga, board organized [Illegible Text] Colquitt, board organized [Illegible Text] Coweta, board, county funds [Illegible Text] Crawford, board, time and place of meeting [Illegible Text] Dawson, board abolished [Illegible Text] Douglas board organized [Illegible Text]

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Elbert, board organized 253 Floyd, Berrien, Effingham, Schley, Sumter and Greene, pay of commissioners 254 Forsyth, board abolished, commissioner appointed 254 Gwinnett, board, oaths and constables 257 Jackson, board, special tax 257 Laurens and Johnson, boards created 258 Lumpkin, board organized 260 Madison, board, grand jury to elect 261 Muscogee, board, grand jury to elect 262 Pike, board, compensation 262 Quitman, board, farm out convicts 263 Twiggs, board organized 263 Walker, board, jurisdiction, etc. 265 COUNTY LINES Appling and Coffee, line between changed 267 Appling and Pierce, line between changed 268 Appling and Ware, line between changed 268 Appling and Wayne, line between changed 269 275 Bibb and Twiggs, line between changed 269 Clay and Calhoun, line between changed 269 Clay and Quitman, line between changed 270 Coffee and Ware, line between changed 270 Coweta and Campbell, line between changed 270 Coweta and Meriwether, line between changed 271 Elbert and Hart, line between changed 271 Gwinnett, DeKalb and Rockdale, line between changed 272 Henry and Butts, line between changed 272 Henry and Clayton, line between changed 273 Johnson and Emanuel, line between changed 273 Jones and Bibb, line between changed 273 Lumpkin and Dawson, line between changed 274 Montgomery and Tatnall, line between changed 274 Pierce and Ware, line between changed 268 Talbot and Harris, line between changed 275 Telfair and Dodge, line between changed 275 Wayne and Appling, line between changed 275 Wayne and Camden, line between changed 276 Worth and Dooly, line between changed 276 Worth and Irwin, line between changed 277 COUNTY OFFICERS Banks, bonds of officers 278 Calhoun, certain offices consolidated 278 Camden, official acts made valid 279 Catoosa, office of Tax Receiver abolished 279 Chatham, fees of Sheriff 280 Chatham, pay of Tax Receiver and Collector 281 Chattahoochee, extra pay of Sheriff 281

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Cherokee, pay of Tax Receiver and Collector 282 Clay, bond of Sheriff 282 Crawford, consolidation of offices 282 Decatur, office of Tax Receiver abolished [Illegible Text] Dooly, offices consolidated [Illegible Text] Douglas, Treasurer [Illegible Text] Elbert, Ordinary may be Clerk [Illegible Text] Houston, officers' bonds [Illegible Text] Houston, pay of officers [Illegible Text] Jackson, certain offices consolidated 287 Jefferson, compensation of officers 287 Lincoln, Treasurer may be Clerk 288 Lumpkin, offices consolidated 288 Murray, taxes, who to collect and receive [Illegible Text] Pulaski, offices consolidated [Illegible Text] Pulaski, Treasurer's office abolished 290 Randolph, Ordinary's compensation 291 Rockdale, Newton, pay of officers 292 Terrell, Decatur, pay of officers and jurors 292 Wayne, offices consolidated [Illegible Text] Worth, fees of Treasurer [Illegible Text] COUNTY REGULATIONS Baldwin, destruction of game [Illegible Text] Baldwin, orders on Treasurer [Illegible Text] Burke, Taylor and Jefferson, destruction of game [Illegible Text] Calhoun and Chatham, fishing on land of another [Illegible Text] Chatham, catching fish in seines [Illegible Text] Clayton, insolvent costs [Illegible Text] Fulton, Constables 297 Fulton, night hawks 298 Houston, insolvent cost 298 Liberty and McIntosh, destruction of game 299 Lumpkin, fines and forfeitures 300 Lumpkin, Road Commissioners 300 Marion, Schley and Macon, obstruction of creeks 301 Meriwether, Coweta, Troup, Harris and Laurens, farm products 301 Muscogee, Lincoln and Baldwin, destruction of game 302 Quitman, jury scrip [Illegible Text] Thomas, appropriation to 304 Thomas, Lowndes, Decatur, Mitchell and Camden, registration of voters [Illegible Text] Wilcox, rafting timber 307 COVINGTON Prisoners to work streets [Illegible Text] COWETA COUNTY Commissioners, county funds [Illegible Text] Sale of farm products [Illegible Text] Sale of liquor at certain places [Illegible Text]

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Sale of liquor in county of 338 COWETA AND CAMPBELL COUNTIES Line changed 270 COWETA AND CAMPBELL COUNTIES Line changed 271 CRAWFORD COUNTY Commissioners, meetings 250 Consolidation of offices 282 License to sell liquor 330 D. DADE COUNTY Sale of liquor regulated 338 DANIELSVILLE Charter 159 DAWSON Corporate limits 163 DAWSON COUNTY Board of Commissioners abolished 251 DAWSON AND LUMPKIN COUNTIES Line changed 274 DAWSONVILLE Charter repealed 163 Sale of liquor in 337 DECATUR COUNTY Office of Tax Receiver abolished 283 Pay of officers and jurors 292 Registration of voters 305 Sale of liquor 330 DEKALB, GWINNETT AND ROCKDALE COUNTIES Line changed 272 DERENNE, G. W. J. Executor of 309 DODGE COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 DODGE AND TELFAIR COUNTIES Line changed 275 DOOLY COUNTY Offices consolidated 284 DOOLY AND WORTH COUNTIES Line changed 276 DOUGLAS COUNTY Board of Commissioners formed 251 License to sell liquor 330 Treasurer 285 DOUGLASVILLE Charter 162

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E. EASTERN AND WESTERN TRANSPORTATION CO. 219 EASTMAN Corporate limits 163 EAST POINT Sale of liquor near academy in 342 EATONTON Sale of liquor 351 ECHOLS COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 EFFINGHAM COUNTY Pay of Commissioners 254 ELBERT COUNTY Board of Commissioners organized 253 Ordinary may be Clerk 285 ELBERT AND HART COUNTIES Line changed 271 ELBERTON AIR-LINE RAILROAD CO. 220 EMANUEL COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 EMANUEL AND JOHNSON COUNTIES Line changed 273 EMPIRE COTTON MILLS Sale of liquor prohibited 335 EMPIRE IRON COMPANY Of Rome 202 ENTERPRISE BANK Of Macon 131 F. FAIRBURN Charter amended [Illegible Text] FARM PRODUCTS Sale of in certain counties [Illegible Text] FLINT RIVER Bridge over [Illegible Text] FLOYD COUNTY Pay of Commissioners [Illegible Text] Sale of liquor [Illegible Text] FORSYTH Charter [Illegible Text] FORSYTH COUNTY Board abolished, Commissioner [Illegible Text] School debt. [Illegible Text] FORSYTH SAVINGS BANK [Illegible Text] FRANKLIN Sale of liquor within two miles of prohibited [Illegible Text]

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FULTON COUNTY Night hawks, killing of 298 Number of Constables for 297 G. GAINESVILLE, BLAIRSVILLE AND NORTH-WESTERN RAILROAD CO. 221 GAINESVILLE STREET RAILROAD CO. 222 GAS LIGHT COMPANIES Gas Light Company of Americus 191 Gas Light Company of Savannah 193 Gate City Gas Light Company 195 GATE CITY GAS LIGHT CO. 195 GEORGIA FARME S' PHOSPHATE CO. 214 GEORGIA GRANGE AND PLANTERS' BANKING CO. 134 GEORGIA METALIC, IRON, STEEL AND POWDER MANUFACTURING CO. 204 GEORGIA MINING CO. 205 GILMER COUNTY Payment to School Teachers 321 GEORGIA SOUTHERN RAILROAD CO. 223 GORDON COUNTY Sale of liquor 338 Gordon County Railway and Mining Company 225 GRANGE MUTUAL INSURANCE CO. 196 GRAY, JAMES M. Will of 310 GREENE COUNTY Pay of Commissioners 254 Sale of liquor 353 GREENVILLE BANKING AND TRUST CO. 136 GRIFFIN Charter amended 173 GWINNETT COUNTY Commissioners, oaths and Constables 257 GWINNETT, DEKALB AND ROCKDALE COUNTIES Line changed 272 H. HAMILTON Charter amended 174 HAMPTON Sale of liquor prohibited 345 HARMONY GROVE Sale of liquor near 333 HARMONY GROVE ACADEMY Sale of liquor 346

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HARALSON COUNTY Sale of liquor 338 HARRIS COUNTY Farm products, unlawful to sell, when 301 License to sell liquor 330 HARRIS AND TALBOT COUNTIES Line changed 275 HART AND ELBERT COUNTIES Line changed 271 HEARD COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 HEMPHILL, W. A. CO. Appropriation to 311 HENRY COUNTY Sale of liquor near churches in 332 HENRY AND BUTTS COUNTIES Line changed 272 HENRY AND CLAYTON COUNTIES Line changed 273 HIWASSEE VALLEY RAILROAD CO. 226 HOUSTON COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 Officers' bonds 286 Pay of officers 286 Solicitor General's insolvent cost 298 IRWIN AND WORTH COUNTIES Line change 277 I. INSURANCE COMPANIES Grange Mutual Insurance Company, of Georgia 196 Merchants' Mutual Fire Insurance Company, of Georgia 199 IRON AND MINING COMPANIES Empire Iron Company, of Rome 202 Etna Iron Company 203 Georgia Metallic, Iron, c., Manufacturing Co. 204 Georgia Mining Company 205 Ridge Valley Iron Company 209 Stonewall Mining Company 209 Sugar Valley and Carbondale Iron Company 210 Villa Rica Mining and Manufacturing Company 212 J. JACKSON ARTILLERY COMPANY Organized 324 JACKSON COUNTY Commissioners, special tax 257

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Offices consolidated 287 JASPER COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 Sale of liquor 350 JEFFERSON Sale of liquor 346 JEFFERSON COUNTY Compensation of officers 287 Destruction of game 295 Sale of liquor 347 JOHNSON COUNTY Board of Commissioners organized 258 License to sell liquor 330 JOHNSON COUNTY ACADEMY Sale of liquor 348 JOHNSON AND EMANUEL COUNTIES Line changed 273 JONES AND BIBB COUNTIES Line changed 273 K. KINCHAFOONEE CREEK Penalty for obstructing 301 KINGSTON Sale of liquor in prohibited 329 KOTTMAN, JAMES T. Relief of 312 L. LAGRANGE Charter amended 179 LAUREL HILL MANUFACTURING CO. Sale of liquor near mills of 335 LAURENS COUNTY Commissioners organized 258 Farm products 301 License to sell liquor 330 LAWRENCEVILLE Sale of liquor in prohibited 343 LEE COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 LIBERTY COUNTY Destruction of game 299 LINCOLN COUNTY Destruction of game 302 Treasurer may be Clerk 288 LIQUOR Vide spirituous liquor.

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LOWNDES COUNTY License to sell liquor [Illegible Text] Registration of voters [Illegible Text] LUMPKIN COUNTY Board of Commissioners organized [Illegible Text] Fines and forfeitures [Illegible Text] Offices consolidated [Illegible Text] Road duty [Illegible Text] LUMPKIN AND DAWSON COUNTIES Line changed [Illegible Text] LUNATIC ASYLUM Sale of liquor in three miles of prohibited [Illegible Text] M. MACON Bank and Trust Company of [Illegible Text] Charter amended [Illegible Text] Enterprise Bank of [Illegible Text] Free school, trustees may sell [Illegible Text] Georgia Grange and Planters' Banking Company of [Illegible Text] MACON COUNTY Obstructing creeks [Illegible Text] MADISON COUNTY Commissioners, election, etc [Illegible Text] MAGUIRE, J. E. Relief of [Illegible Text] MANUFACTURING CO'S. Chattahoochee Manufacturing Company [Illegible Text] Georgia Farmers' Phosphate Company [Illegible Text] Willeo Cotton Mills [Illegible Text] MARCHANT, NATHAN Claim of [Illegible Text] MARION COUNTY Obstructing creeks [Illegible Text] MARSHALLVILLE Charter amended [Illegible Text] MAYOR'S COURT OF AMERICUS Jurisdiction [Illegible Text] McDANIEL, WILLIAM Relief of [Illegible Text] McINTOSH COUNTY Destruction of game [Illegible Text] MERCHANTS' AND MECHANICS' BANK OF COLUMBUS [Illegible Text] MERCHANTS' MUTUAL FIRE INSURANCE CO [Illegible Text] MERIWETHER COUNTY Unlawful sale of farm products [Illegible Text] MERIWETHER AND COWETA COUNTIES Line changed [Illegible Text]

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MILITIA DISTRICT 1104, sale of liquor in 333 116, sale of liquor 344 MILLIKEN'S BEND AND WADESBORO RAILWAY CO. 228 MILLS Building of on Conesauga river 356 MILTON COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 MINING AND IRON CO'S. Empire Iron Company of Rome 202 Etna Iron Company 203 Georgia Metallic Iron, etc., Manufacturing Company 204 Georgia Mining Company 205 Gordon County Mining and Railway Company 225 Ridge Valley Iron Company 209 Stonewall Mining Company 209 Sugar Valley and Carbondale Iron Company 210 Villa Rica Mining and Manufacturing Company 212 Murray County Mining and Railway Company 230 MONTGOMERY AND TATNALL COUNTIES Line changed 274 MUCKALEE CREEK Penalty for obstructing 301 MURRAY COUNTY MINING AND RAILWAY CO. 230 Sale of liquor 338 Taxes, who to collect, etc. 289 MUSCOGEE COUNTY Commissioners' election 262 Destruction of game 302 Sale of liquor 349 MUTUAL GAS LIGHT CO. OF SAVANNAH. 193 MONROE COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 MITCHELL COUNTY Registration of voters 305 License to sell liquor 330 N. NEWTON COUNTY Pay of officers 292 NORTH GEORGIA AND DUCKTOWN R.R. CO. 231 O. OCMULGEE RIVER Propagation of shad 357 OCONEE RIVER Propagation of shad in 357

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P. PALMETTO Sale of liquor in 338 PANOLA CHURCH Sale of liquor near 337 PATTERSON, W. H. Appropriation to [Illegible Text] PAULDING COUNTY Sale of liquor 338 PEOPLES BANK OF AMERICUS [Illegible Text] PIERCE AND APPLING COUNTIES Line changed..... [Illegible Text] PIERCE AND WARE COUNTIES Line changed [Illegible Text] PIKE COUNTY Commissioners' pay [Illegible Text] License to sell liquors [Illegible Text] POLK COUNTY Sale of liquor 338 [Illegible Text] POWDER SPRINGS CAMP GROUND Sale of liquor within three miles of [Illegible Text] POWELTON Sale of liquor [Illegible Text] PRIVATE LAWS Anderson, James, license [Illegible Text] DeRenne, G. W. J., executor of [Illegible Text] Gray, James M., will of [Illegible Text] Hemphill, W. A. Co., appropriation [Illegible Text] Kottman, James T., relief [Illegible Text] Maguire, J. E., relief [Illegible Text] McDaniel, William, relief [Illegible Text] Patterson, W. H., appropriation [Illegible Text] Tipton, C. G., Marchant, N., appropriation [Illegible Text] Turner, Taylor, relief [Illegible Text] Walker, D. A., Conley, Benj., appropriation [Illegible Text] Walton, W. A., appropriation [Illegible Text] Whitman, W. L., relief [Illegible Text] Williams, E. P., relief [Illegible Text] PROVIDENCE CHURCH, (In Stewart county) Sale of liquor prohibited [Illegible Text] PULASKI COUNTY License to sell liquor [Illegible Text] Offices consolidated [Illegible Text] Treasurer's office abolished [Illegible Text] PUTNAM COUNTY Sale of liquor [Illegible Text]

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Q. QUITMAN COUNTY Farming out convicts 263 Jury scrip 303 QUITMAN AND CLAY COUNTIES Line changed 270 R. RAILROAD COMPANIES Barnard and Anderson Street Railroad Co. 218 Eastern and Western Transportation Co. 219 Elberton Air-Line Railroad Co. 220 Elberton Air-Line Railroad Co. 220 Gainesville, Blairsville and Northwestern Railroad Co. 221 Gainesville Street Railroad Co. 222 Georgia Southern Railroad Co. 223 Gordon County Railway and Mining Co. 225 Hiwassee Valley Railroad Company 226 Milliken's Bend and Wadesboro Railroad Co. 228 Murray County Mining and Railway Co. 230 North Georgia and Duck Town Railroad Co. 231 Sandersville and Tennelle Railroad Co. 232 Savannah, Skidaway and Seaboard Railroad Co. 234 Western Railroad of Alabama 235 RANDOLPH COUNTY Ordinary's compensation 291 REGISTRATION OF VOTERS In certain counties 305 RIDGE VALLEY IRON CO. 209 RISING FAWN IRON CO Sale of liquor 336 ROCKDALE COUNTY Pay of officers 292 ROCKDALE, DEKALB AND GWINNETT COUNTIES Line changed 272 ROCKMART Charter amended 182 ROME Compromise of debt 183 Empire Iron Company of 202 ROSWELL FACTORY Sale of liquor prohibited 335 S. SALEM CHURCH Sale of liquor near prohibited 349 SANDERSVILLE AND TENNELLE R.R. CO. 232

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SAVANNAH FREE SCHOOL SOCIETY Merger into Widows Society 32 SAVANNAH MUTUAL GAS LIGHT CO. 19 SAVANNAH SKIDAWAY AND SEABOARD R. R. CO. 23 SAVINGS BANK OF ATLANTA 12 SAVINGS BANK OF BARNESVILLE 14 SAVINGS BANK OF FORSYTH 13 SCHLEY COUNTY Obstruction of creeks 30 Pay of Commissioners 25 Sale of liquor 35 SCREVEN COUNTY Public school teachers 31 SEABOARD AND INTERNAL IMPROVEMENT CO. 14 SHAD FISH Propagation of 35 SHARON CHURCH Sale of liquor 35 SHILOH CAMP GROUND Sale of liquor near 33 SHILOH CHURCH sale of liquor near 34 SHOAL CREEK Penalty for obstructing 30 SOUTH RIVER ACADEMY Sale of liquor 35 SPARTA Charter amended 18 SPIRITUOUS AND MALT LIQUORS Baldwin county, Bethel Church 32 Baldwin county, Lunatic Asylum 32 Bartow county, Cassville 32 Bartow county, Kingston 32 Burke county 32 Burke, Jefferson, Washington, Baldwin, Jasper, Laurens, Heard, Sumter, Harris, Talbot, Douglas, Chattahoochee, Troup, Mitchel, Crawford, Johnson, Echols, Pulaski, Dodge, Terrell, Emanuel, Lee, Houston, Pike, Monroe, Thomas, Decatur, Lowndes, Butts, Milton and Camden counties 33 Butts county, towns and militia districts 33 Carroll county, churches 33 Chattahoochee county, 1104th militia district 33 Cherokee county, Woodstock Academy 33 Cobb county, Acworth 33 Cobb county, Powder Springs 33 Cobb county, Roswell Factory 33 Coweta county, church and academy 33 Dade county, Rising Fawn Iron Company 33

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Dawson county, Dawsonville 337 DeKalb county, Panola church and Burney's mill 337 Emanuel county, Swainsboro 338 Floyd, Dade, Polk, Chattooga, Whitfield, Walker, Hall, Bartow, Gordon, Coweta, Carroll, Haralson, Murray, Paulding and Campbell 338 Franklin county, court house 341 Fulton county, East Point 342 Gwinnett county, Lawrenceville 343 Gwinnett county, Shiloh Church 344 Hancock county, Powellton 344 Henry county, Hampton 345 Henry county, Stockbridge 345 Jackson county, Harmony Grove 346 Jackson county, Jefferson 346 Jefferson county, license to sell 347 Johnson county, Johnson Academy 348 Monroe county, Salem Church 349 Muscogee county, academies and churches 349 Newton county, South River Academy 350 Newton, Stewart and Jasper, license 350 Oglethrope county, Woodstock 351 Putnam county, Eatonton 351 Randolph county, Sharon Church 352 Randolph county, Ward's Station 353 Richmond county, Augusta Schuetzenplatz 353 Schley, Talbot and Greene, license 353 Stewart county, Providence Church 354 Washington county, license 355 Wilkes and Polk, sale 355 STATE SAVINGS BANK OF ATLANTA 143 STEWART COUNTY Sale of liquor 350 ST. MARYS Charter amended 185 STOCKBRIDGE Sale of liquor 345 STONEWALL MINING CO. 209 SUGAR VALLEY AND CARBONDALE IRON CO 210 SWAINSBORO Sale of liquor in 338 SYLVANIA Charter amended 186 SUMTER COUNTY Pay of Commissioners 254 Sale of liquor license for 330

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T. TALBOT COUNTY License to sell liquor 330 Sale of liquor 353 TALBOT AND HARRIS COUNTIES Line changed 275 TATNALL AND MONTGOMERY COUNTIES Line changed 274 TAYLOR COUNTY Destruction of Game 295 TELFAIR AND DODGE COUNTIES Line changed 275 TENNELLE Charter 187 TERRELL COUNTY Pay of officers and jurors 292 Sale of liquor, license for 330 THOMAS COUNTY Appropriation to 304 License to sell liquor 330 Registration of voters 305 THOMASVILLE Bank of 129 THOMSON Charter amended 188 TIPTON, CHARLES G. Claim of 304 TOCCOA Charter amended 189 TROUP COUNTY Farm products, unlawful to sell, when 301 License to sell liquor 330 TURIN ACADEMY Sale of liquor near 335 TURTLE RIVER AND BUFFALO SWAMP CANAL CO 147 TWIGGS COUNTY County Commissioners 263 TWIGGS AND BIBB COUNTIES Line changed 269 U. UCHEE CREEK Penalty for obstructing 301 V. VILLA RICA MINING AND MANUFACTURING CO 212 VINEVILLE Firing of guns prohibited 189

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W. WALKER, DAWSON A. Appropriation for 315 WALKER COUNTY Commissioners, jurisdiction, c. 265 Sale of liquor 338 WALTON, W. A. Appropriation to 316 WARD'S STATION Sale of liquor 353 WARE AND APPLING COUNTIES Line changed 268 WARE AND COFFEE COUNTIES Line changed 270 WARE AND PIERCE COUNTIES Line changed 268 WARRENTON Charter amended 190 WASHINGTON COUNTY Sale of liquor 355 WAYNE COUNTY Offices consolidated 293 WAYNE AND APPLING COUNTIES Line changed 269 275 WAYNE AND CAMDEN COUNTIES Line changed 276 WESTERN RAILROAD Of Alabama 235 WHITESBURG Charter amended 190 WHITFIELD COUNTY Sale of liquor 338 WHITMAN, W. L. Relief of 316 WILCOX COUNTY Rafting timber 307 WILKES COUNTY Sale of liquor 355 WILLEO COTTON MILLS Charter 216 Sale of liquor near 335 WILLIAMS, E. P. Relief of 317 WOODSTOCK Sale of liquor 351 WOODSTOCK ACADEMY Sale of liquor in two miles of 333

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INDEX TO RESOLUTIONS. A. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Arms for 361 ALABAMA AND CHATTANOOA R. R. BONDS Pay of Committee on 375 B. BLODGETT, FOSTER, fi. fa. against 364 BONDS OF THE STATE Payment of 362 Registration of 373 Status investigated 362 BOOKS For officers of new counties 362 BOYD, W. [Illegible Text] et al. Action of as to Home for Widows and Orphans 363 C. CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION 363 COLLEGE OF AGRICULTURE AND MECHANIC ARTS Report of Treasurer 375 COMPTROLLER GENERAL Alias fi. [Illegible Text] 364 D. DIRECT TRADE UNION Office in Capitol 364 DODGE COUNTY Books for officers of 362 DOUGLAS COUNTY Books for officers of 362 F. FEDERAL INTERFERENCE IN LOUISIANA AFFAIRS 365 H. HARRIS, A. L. Supervisor W. A. R. R., fi. [Illegible Text] 367

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HARRIS, I. P. Treasurer W. A. R. R., fi. [Illegible Text] 367 HOWARD, C. B. Claim of 368 I. IMMIGRATION To encourage 368 INEBRIATE ASYLUM Committee on 368 INSANE CONVICTS 369 J. JACKSON, JESSE W. Agent W. A. R. R., fi. [Illegible Text] 369 L. LOANS To meet public debt 370 LOUISIANA Federal interference in affairs of 365 M. MACON AND BRUNSWICK R. R. Report of Committee to be published 372 MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD BONDS Committee to investigate 370 Sale of road and validity of bonds 371 McDUFFIE COUNTY Books for officers of 362 N. NORTH GA. AGRICULTURAL COLLEGE Arms for 361 P. PENITENTIARY Removal of insane convicts to 369 R. ROCKDALE COUNTY Books for officers of 362 S. SESSION PROLONGED 373

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STATE TREASURER Resolution of censure 373 STATE UNIVERSITY To furnish certain data 363 T. TEMPORARY LOANS Governor to effect 370 TREASURER'S OFFICE Examination of 374 TREASURER'S OFFICE Governor to appoint person to examine 375 TRUSTEES OF STATE UNIVERSITY Action of, and report of Treasurer 375 W. WRENN, B. W., JACKSON, J. W., HARRIS, A. L. Pay of committee to investigate conduct of 375 WRENN, B. W. General Ticket Agent W. A. R. R., fi. [Illegible Text] 376