Acts of the General Assembly of the state of Georgia, passed in Milledgeville at an annual session in November and December, 1829 [volume 1]

Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia Georgia Law, Georgia Georgia. Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia MILLEDGEVILLE: CAMAK RAGLAND, PRINTERS 18291100 English

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER , 1829 . 18291100 18291200 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. MILLEDGEVILLE: CAMAK RAGLAND, PRINTERS. 1830.

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF The State of Georgia. PASSED IN NOV. AND DEC. 1829. ACADEMIES. AN ACT, more effectually to define the duty of the Trustees of the Poor School Fund, in the respective counties of this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from, and immemediately after the passage of this Act, the Trustees of the Poor School Fund, in the respective counties in this State, are required, whenever the teachers of poor children, in their respective counties, shall make out their accounts agreeable to the provisions of an act, passed the twenty second day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, entitled An Act, for the better distribution and application of the Poor School Fund, and to point out the mode of accounting, for the disbursement of the Academy and Poor school funds, to pay said accounts, at the times on the days following, to wit: on the 1st Monday in April, on the 1st Monday in July, on

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the first Wednesday in October, and on the first Monday in January, in each and every year. Provided no account shall be paid, until the full end and expiration of the quarter, for which the demand is made. Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That the Trustee of the Poor School Fund, in the respective counties of this State, shall not wait, until all the Justices of the Peace in their respective counties, may report; but said trustee is hereby required, whenever said justices or any of them, shall fail or neglect to report, agreeable to the act of the twenty second day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, to pay over to such teachers, as may have made out their accounts as aforesaid, their respective demands. Provided, That said trustee, on paying out such sums, shall retain in his hands, as nearly as he can ascertain, a retable proportion of money, as will be sufficient to cover the demands that may be made in the defaulting districts, in his county, until said return shall have been made, agreeable to law. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts, militating against this act, be, and they are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to authorize and require his Excellency the Governor to make a distribution of the funds, set apart for the education of poor children, and for the endowment of county academies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised and required to cause a distribution of the fund set apart for the benefit and education of poor children, and for academical purposes, in the several counties, to be made among the several counties of this State; retaining for these counties which have not made a return of the census of said counties, an amount for each of such defaulting counties equal to the smallest of the counties of the State, which have made returns. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to consolidate and add that part of the funds heretofore set apart, for the support for county academies to the Poor School Fund, so far as respects the county of Emanuel. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, that part of the funds heretofore set apart for the support of county academies, so far as respects the county of Emanuel be consolidated, added to, and become a part of the poor school fund of said county, subject in every respect, to the laws now in force on the subject, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT, to repeal the Seventh Section of an act passed the 22d December, 1828, for the better distribution and application of the Poor School Fund, and to point out the mode of accounting for the disbursement of the Academy and Poor School Funds, so far as respects the county of Habersham. 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 seventh section of the before recited act be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as respects the county of Habersham. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so soon as the Commissioners or Trustee of the poor school fund, of the county of Habersham, shall comply with the provisions of the before recited act, that then His Excellency shall be authorised to draw his warrant on the Treasury

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in favor of the Trustee as aforesaid, subject to his personal application, or a written order for the sums due said county, signed by said Trustee, and attested by one of the presiding Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Habershamany law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT, to authorise the Justices of the Inferior Court of Glynn county, to sell the Academy building in said county, and to appropriate the proceeds thereof, to the education of the poor, and other county purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Inferior Court of Glynn county, is hereby authorised and empowered to sell and dispose of the Academy building in said county, at public sale, to the highest and best bidder, having first caused notice to be published of such sale in some public Gazette, and at three or more public places in said county, for thirty days, and the said court is further authorised to apply the proceeds of said sale, to the education of the poor children of said county, and for other county purposes. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives, THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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AN ACT, to Incorporate and appoint Trustees for the Redlick Academy in Monroe county, the Vernon Academy in Troup county, the Campbellton Academy in Campbell county, and the Randolph Academy in Randolph county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, und it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Job Taylor, Anderson Baldwin, Alexander Perkins, Edward Calaway and Turner Hunt, and their successors in office, are hereby appointed Trustees for the Redlick Academy in Monroe county, and that Woody Dozier, Willis Whatley, Elliott Reed, Wiley J. Sterling, and Ira Allen and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Vernon Academy in Troup county: and that Francis Irvin, Thomas Morell, Gilbert C. Coffee, James Grisham, Thomas M`Kay, Martin Kolb and Middleton Hill, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby appointed trustees for the Campbellton Academy, in Campbell county: and that James Miller, John R. M`Neal, Jared Irwin, William Everett, and Richard J. Snelling and their successors in office be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for the Randolph Academy, in Randolph county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politick and corporate by the name and style of the Trustees of the several Academies before mentioned, and as such shall be capable and liable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorised to make such bye-laws and regulations as may be necessary for the government of said Academies, provided, such bye-laws are not repugnant to the Constitution or Laws of this State, and for that purpose may have and use a common seal, and appoint such officers as they may think proper, and remove the same from office. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said Trustees of the before-mentioned Academies, shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property both real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges, immunities whatsoever, which may belong to the said Institutions or which may hereafter be conveyed or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the proper benefit and behoof of the said Academies, severally.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall happen by death, resignation or otherwise of any one or more of the Trustees of said Academies, their survivors, or a majority of them, shall fill such vacancy as may be pointed out by the bye-laws of said Academies severally. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT, to incorporate the Athens Female Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Moses Waddel, A. S. Clayton, Stevens Thomas, Alonzo Church, John A. Cobb, James Nesbitt and Asbury Hull, be and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Athens Female Academywith all the powers, liabilities, privileges and immunities of the other incorporated Academies of Clark county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the titles to the lot now occupied and used for the purposes of said Academy, together with the houses appurtenances thereunto belonging be, and the same are hereby vested in said Trustees and their successors in office. Provided, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed, as to authorise said academy to draw any portion of the Academic Fund of said county. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to appoint and incorporate commissioners for the Decatur county Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Whitman Owens, Alexander McGowan, William Whiddon, John Degrafenreed, William Williams, William Powell and Thomas King, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners of the Decatur county academy. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That said Whitman Owens, Alexander McGowan, William Whiddon, John Degrafenreed, William Williams, William Powell and Thomas King, and their successors in office are hereby declared to be a body corporate and politic, invested with authority to use a common seal, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, and to use and exercise all authority, incident to corporations of the like kind, under the name and style of the commissioners of the Decatur county Academy. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That said corporation, be, and they are hereby authorised to call for and receive such proportion of money as may be the proportionate share of the Academical Fund, for said county of Decatur. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Commissioners of the Decatur county Academy are hereby authorised to locate the academy building wherever the said corporation may deem fit and proper. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all vacancies which may occur in the board of commissioners, may be filled by the remaining commissioners or a majority of them, in such manner as they may provide in their bye-laws and regulationsand that all acts or parts of acts militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to consolidate the Poor School and Academical Fund for the county of Montgomery. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the fund set apart and known as the Academy Fund, for the county of Montgomery, shall no longer be known as a fund for that purpose, but shall be attached to, and become a part of the Poor School Fund for said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of said academy to pay over all moneys or other effects belonging to said academy into the hands of the sole trustee for the poor school fund for said county, and by him, to be applied to the education of the poor, agreeable to the provisions of law. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid trustee shall make application, and receive from time to time, any moneys in the treasury which may be set apart for the Montgomery county academy. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to repeal the first section of an act, entitled an act, to add the Academy Fund, to which the county of Baker is entitled, to the Poor School Fund of said county, and fifty dollars and seventy cents of the Poor school fund to which the county of Early was entitled, for the years eighteen hundred and twenty-four and eighteen hundred and twenty-five to the sameAnd to authorise the taking of the census of sundry counties of this State, passed the twenty-seventh day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six. 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 first section of the above recited act, be, and it is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829. AN ACT to incorporate Carroll Academy, in the county of Carroll, and appoint Trustees for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Christopher Bowen, John Robinson, Sanders W. Ray, Thomas Chandler and Isaac S. Wood, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of Carroll Academy, in the county of Carroll, and as such are made and declared to be a body corporate, with power to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, have, hold, and convey property belonging to said academy, now or hereafter, and do all other things pertaining to the same. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of the academy aforesaid, shall have power to adopt such bye

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laws as they may deem necessary and proper, for the government and prosperity of the academy aforesaid, provided such bye laws are not repugnant to the laws and constitution of this State. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when a vacancy shall happen in the board of trustees of said academy, by death, resignation, or otherwise, the remaining trustees of the academy shall proceed to fill such vacancy by ballot. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of the academy aforesaid, as a body corporate shall, and they are hereby declared to be able and capable of receiving, having and holding all gifts, grants and donations whether real or personal, which may be given, granted or tendered to them for the benefit of said academy. Any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled an act, passed on the twentieth day of December, 1826, to consolidate the Academical and Poor School Fund, set apart for Decatur county, and the same become a poor school fund. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the act, passed on the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled an act, to consolidate the academical and poor school fund, set apart for Decatur county, and the same become a part of the poor school fund, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts, or parts of acts repugnant to this, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. APPROPRIATIONS. AN ACT to appropriate monies for the support of government for the political year 1830. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the political year 1830, viz: The salary of his Excellency the Governor shall be three thousand dollars per annum. The Secretaries of the Governor (not exceeding three) one thousand dollars each per annum. The Secretary of State two thousand dollars. The Treasurer two thousand dollars. The Comptroller two thousand dollars. The Surveyor General two thousand dollars per annum. The Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate six hundred dollars each, provided that no warrant shall issue for the first quarter's salary of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives until the Executive shall have satisfiactory evidence that

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the said Secretary of Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives have respectively made, or caused to be made, and attached to the journals of the present session, good and sufficient indexes. The Judges of the Superior Courts, each, twenty-one hundred dollars per annum. The Attorney General and seven Solicitors General two hundred and twenty-five dollars each, per annum. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the printing fund, not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, and the further sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated and set apart as a contingent fund, subject to the orders of the Governor, during the political year eighteen hundred and thirty. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the compensation of the Members of the Legislature, four dollars each per day, during their attendance, be appropriated, and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles in coming to and returning from the Seat of Government, and the sum of six dollars each per day to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, during their attendance, and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles in coming to and returning from the Seat of Government. To the Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate, during the session of the legislature, six dollars each per day, and the sum of sixty dollars for contingent expenses, each. To two Engrossing Clerks and one assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, and two Engrossing Clerks in the Senate, six dollars each per day. To the Clerk of the Committee on Finance, eighty dollars. To the Clerk of the Committee on the State of the Republic, eighty dollars. To the Clerk of the Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, Public Education and Free Schools, eighty dollars each. To the Clerk of the Joint Committee on the Penitentiary, eighty dollars. To the Messengers and Door-keepers of the Legislature, four dollars each per day during the present session. To Henry Darnell the sum of one hundred dollars for airing, scouring and taking care of the Senate and Representative Chambers, and making fires on wet days. To Peter Fair the sum of one hundred dollars for winding up the clock, and keeping clean the stair cases, passages, c.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for completing the Arsenal in the city of Savannah. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eight hundred and fifteen dollars be, and same is hereby appropriated, for the use of the Academy of Randolph county, to paid over be to the Trustees of said Academy, the same being an endowment to place said county on an equal footing with the other counties of this state that have received the like sum. To S.J. Mays of Clark county, twelve dollars and 50 cents, pursuant to a concurred resolution. Also to Turner H. Trippe, Esq. the sum of ninety dollars, pursuant to a concurred resolution. To the Inspectors of the Penitentiary, not exceeding three, two hundred and twenty-four dollars each per annum. To Benjamin F. Hardeman, Solicitor General of the Northern Judicial Circuit, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars, agreeably to a concurred resolution. To Ann M. Bostick, agreeable to a concurred resolution, the sum of ten dollars and sixteen cents. Twenty-six dollars twelve and a half cents to Martin N. Burch, agreeable to a concurred resolution. To Richard L. Simms, Solicitor General of the Flint Circuit, one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty cents, being the amount of his commissions for collecting for the State five thousand and eleven dollars twenty-five and a half cents. To Alston H. Green of DeKalb county, the sum of twenty dollars and sixty cents, agreeably to a concurred resolution. To the Locust Stake Road five hundred dollars, agreeable to a concurred resolution. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eight hundred and fifteen dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the use of the Academy of Campbell county, to be paid over to the Trustees of said Academy, the same being an endowment to place said county on an equal footing with the other counties of the State that have received the alike sum. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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ATTACHMENTS. AN ACT to amend the several Attachment Laws of this State, so far as to permit persons whose property may be insured in Insurance Offices, carried on by agents in the State of Georgia, whenever a dispute shall hereafter arise between the Insurers and the Insured, to issue an attachment against the goods, property or effects of said Insurance Company, and to garnishee its agent or agents. Whereas disputes have arisen, and may hereafter arise, between Insurance Companies, whose business is carried on in this State by agents, as to the amount of loss which they may have sustained by fire or otherwise. And whereas, when such disputes do arise, the insured is compelled, at great expense, and almost at a total loss of his insurance, to prosecute his rights in the country or state where the Insurance Company hath been incorporated, to the manifest injustice of the rights of the citizens of this State, and to their great inconvenience, for remedy whereof, Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons who may hereafter insure his, her, or their property or effects in any Insurance Office or Company, carried on by agents in the State of Georgia, when any dispute shall or may hereafter arise from any cause whatsoever, between the said insurers and the [Illegible Text] either in relation to the amount of loss claimed, or the justness of the claim or demand, after he, she, or they shall have first complied with the rules and regulations of said Insurance Office or Company, contained in the policy as to notice and loss, to issue an attachment against said company, upon refusal or neglect to pay said loss, to the amount claimed by the insured, so that the same do not exceed the amount

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contained in the policy in the same manner, and under the like restrictions as are pointed out in the attachment laws of this State, passed 18th day of February, 1799. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That upon said attachment being issued out, as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the said plaintiff in attachment to summon the agent or agents of such Insurance Office or Company, in writing, to appear at the term of the court to which the said attachment shall be made returnable, under the penalty of an attachment for contempt, then and there to answer upon oath, what he, she, or they are indebted to, or what effects of said office or company he or they had in his or their hands at the time of issuing said attachment, and hath or have at the time of making his, her, or their return, under oath, as aforesaid, and if the said agent or agents shall deny being indebted to, or having in his, her, or their hands any property or effects belonging to said office or company, at the time of issuing the attachment, and at the time of making his return under oath, as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for the said plaintiff in attachment to traverse such denial in the same manner, and under the like penalty as is prescribed in the second section of the attachment law, as aforesaid. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid. That it shall and may be lawful for the said company, against whom said attachment may issue, or their agent or agents, upon the same being issued, to dissolve such attachmentthe said company against whom it shall issue, giving bond and security to the sheriff or other officer, authorised to receive the same, in double the amount claimed, for the eventual condemnation money, and all costs; which bond so given shall be, and is hereby declared to be assignable by said sheriff, or other officer, to the plaintiff in attachment, upon the said agent or agents of said company failing or refusing to pay or cause to be paid to the said plaintiff or his attorney, within thirty days after the rendition of a final judgment against said company or said claimant, the amount of said judgment, and all costsand the said plaintiff in the said attachment is hereby authorised, forthwith, to commence an action of debt, or said bond against said company, and its securities, and shall and may recover judgment on said bond for the amount of said original finding against said principal and securities as aforesaid, jointly or severally, according to the existing laws of this State, in such cases made and provided.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against this law, be, and same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to Dec. 19, 1829. BANKS. AN ACT to amend an act to establish a Bank at Milledgeville, to be called and known by the name and style of the Central Bank of Georgia, to appropriate monies, Bank Stock, and other securities, to [Illegible Text] the Capital Stock of said Bank, and to incorporate the same, passed on the 22d of December, 1828; and also, to provide for the disposition and sale of lands forfeited to the State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That nothing contained in the said act shall be so construed as to prevent or prohibit the Directors of the said Bank from allowing any person indebted to the State, in a sum exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars, from renewing his or her or their notes, bonds, or other specialities, for the whole amount of his, her, or their debt, according to the provisions of the said act. But the said Bank shall allow any person indebted to the State, in any amount, to run notes in said Bank for the same.

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Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing contained in the twenty-second section of the said act shall be so construed as to prohibit the Directors from requiring to be paid in upon loans already made, or hereafter to be made, twenty per centum per annum on the original amount of the said loan. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Directors of the said Bank shall hereafter distribute their loans as equally as practicable among the citizens of this State, having due regard to the population of the different counties, on the basis fixed by the seventh section of the first article of the constitution. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That the Directors of the Bank shall be and are hereby authorised and required to receive all dividends which may become due on the Bank Stock now owned by the State, and to pay over so much thereof as has been heretofore set apart for internal improvement and education, to the Treasurer. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Directors of the said Bank be, and they are hereby authorised and required immediately to take the necessary measures to procure a transfer on the Books of the several Banks in which this State owns Stock, of the said Stock so owned by the State in the said Banks respectively, to the said Central Bank of Georgia, and that the said several Banks in which the State owns Stock, be, and they are hereby authorised, on the application of the Directors of the said Central Bank of Georgia, to transfer all the said Stock so owned by the State, in such Banks respectively, to the said Central Bank of Georgia. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That persons indebted to the State for lands or other real estate, by bond, note, or otherwise, and where the said debt is payable by instalment, be, and they are hereby allowed to discount their notes in the said Bank for the whole amount of the said debt, upon the same conditions, reservations and restrictions as other debtors of the State are allowed to obtain discounts, and that in estimating the amount due on such debt, when such debt does not bear interest, a deduction shall be made, therefrom, of an amount equal to the discount at six per cent. on the debt, from the time the said discount shall be granted, until the same shall become payable, according to the terms of the original bond, note or contract;

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and that upon the note of such debtor being discounted, as aforesaid, and the [Illegible Text] thereof passed to his credit, and his check given therefor, he shall be, and is hereby authorised to demand of his Excellency the Governor a grant or such other title to the said land or real estate as he would have been entitled to receive upon a full compliance with the terms of the original contract: Provided that, before he shall be entitled to demand or receive the said grant or other title, he shall be required to deposit in the office of the Surveyor General a certificate signed by the Cashier of the said Bank, that his said debt has been fully settled, by note or notes And provided also, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to affect any security or lien which the State may have on any lands or other real estate for securing the payment of any debt which has been transferred to the said Bank, and for which a note has been already discounted by the said Bank. Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Directors of the said Bank, be, and they are hereby authorised to deliver to the obligors or makers, all bonds, notes or other obligations which have been transferred to the said Bank, and which have been or may hereafter be fully paid and satisfied. Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in making settlements with the debtors of the State, the Directors of the said Bank shall demand and require the payment of interest thereon from the time the said debt became due, according to the terms of the original contract. Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in no suit or action in any court of this State, in which the said Bank may be a party shall it be lawful for the other party or parties to require the said Bank to produce the books of the Bank into court in evidence, nor shall it be lawful for such party or parties to require, by subp[oelig]na or otherwise, the attendance of any officer of the said Bank in court on the trial of such cause. But whenever, in any such suit it may become necessary for the attainment of justice, that the evidence contained in the said books, or the testimony of such officer should be had, it shall and may be lawful for either party in such cause, requiring such evidence or testimony, to take out a commission, in the usual manner, to examine the officers of the said Bank as to the contents of the said books, or as to their own knowledge of the facts, not-withstanding such officer may reside in the county in which such suit may be pending.

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Sec. 10. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Directors of the said Bank to cause all the lands which have been or may hereafter be forfeited to the State, and all lands which were intended to be disposed of, but were not drawn for in the several land lotteries of this State, to be sold at public outcry, before the courthouse in the county in which the land lies, between the usual hours of sheriff's sales, on such days as the said Directors may deem best: Provided always, that sixty days previous notice of the time and place of such intended sale, with a description of each tract of land intended to be sold, shall first be published in one of the gazettes printed in the circuit in which such land may be situate, if there be such gazette, and also in the gazettes published in Milledgeville: And provided also, that nothing contained in this section shall be so construed as to operate upon or affect any indulgence which has been, or may be extended by the present legislature, to the purchasers of lands already forfeited. Sec. 11. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any purchaser or purchasers of lands now forfeited, or which may hereafter be forfeited to the State, shall settle with the said Bank the amount of the original purchase money remaining unpaid, with the interest due thereon, at any time before the said land is resold, as provided in the tenth section of this act, then and in such case the title to the said land shall be re-invested in such purchaser, as fully and absolutely as if the said land had not been forfeited. Sec 12. And be it further enacted, That in directing, by the second section of the act establishing the [Illegible Text], the transfer to it, of all the bonds, notes, specialities, judgments due, or to become due to the State, the General Assembly did not divest the State of any of its rights, powers, privileges or immunities, reserved by law, or accruing to it in virtue of its sovereign capacity, in regard to the collection of the aforesaid bonds, notes, specialities, c. farther than to vest the said rights, powers, privileges, and immunities, in the said President and Directors. And all the aforesaid rights, powers, privileges and immunities are hereby declared to be vested in the President and Directors of the said Bank, by them to be used, enjoyed and exercised, in behalf, and for the benefit of the State, in regard to the aforesaid bonds, notes, specialities, judgments, c. and all notes that have been, [Illegible Text] may hereafter be, discounted in renewal of them, in terms of the charter, and all other notes and bills of exchange that have been, or may hereafter be discounted by said Bank, in as full, perfect, absolute and unqualified a manner as they

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could have been used, enjoyed, and exercised by the State, had no such transfer been made, or such Bank been established. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That from and afer the passing of this act, it shall not be lawful for any Clerk or Clerks of the Central Bank to be a Director of any other Bank in this State. Sec. 14. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to authorise the Bank of Darien to redeem the amount of its Bills, now in the Central Bank, upon certain terms. Whereas a resolution passed both branches of the Legislature in 1827, making it obligatory upon the Bank of Darien to redeem semi annually $75,000 of its Bills, then in the TreasuryAnd whereas, by the act chartering the Central Bank, it is the opinion that the aforesaid resolution has been repealed: Sec. 1. 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 from and immediately after the passage of this act, that the Bank of Darien shall be bound by the resolution already above cited. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be in the power of the Directors of the Central to call upon the Bank of Darien for a redemption of more than $75,000 of its Bank Bill semi annually.

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Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. CLERKS. AN ACT to require the clerks of the court of Ordinary of the several counties of this State, to record in their offices all Guardians and Administrators bonds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the clerks of the court of ordinary of the several counties of this State to record, in a book to be kept for that purpose, all Guardians, and Administrators bonds, taken before the court of Ordinary of their several counties within six days after the same are executed. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829.

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AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled an act, to repeal an act, entitled an act to compel clerks to keep their offices at the court-houses of the respective counties, or within one mile thereof, passed 7th December, 1807, as far as respects the counties of Wayne, Tattnall, Wilkinson and and Laurens, passed 10th December 1808 so far as respects the county of Wayne; and to compel the clerks of said county of Wayne, to keep their offices at the courthouse of said county, or within one mile and an half thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of the above recited act as relates to the county of Wayne, be and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the clerks of said county of Wayne, shall hereafter keep their offices at the court-house of said county, or within one mile and an half thereof. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. COUNTIES. AN ACT to add a part of the county of Marion to the county of Muscogee, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That immediately

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from and after the passage of this act, that part of Marion county lying West of the Upertoy creek, commencing on fraction number fifty-two in the tenth district on said creekthence down the meanders of said creek, until it intersects the present county line, be added to, and become a part of the county of Muscogee. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to lay off the county of Lee into election districts. 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 places of holding elections for Governor, members of Congress, members to the Legislature, and county officers, shall be held under the superintendance of one or more justice of the peace, or of the inferior court, and two freeholders at the five places following, and no other to wit: In the fourteenth district at the house of Axum Webb, in the second district at the house of Reubin Wheeler, in the seventeenth district at the house of Foose, at the house of Benjamin Thomas, the place of holding Justices courts for the twenty-seventh and twenty-eighth districts of said county, and at the place of holding the superior and inferior courts for said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of one of the presiding justices at each of the election districts aforesaid, to meet at the place of holding the superior and inferior courts in said county, on the day succeeding the first Monday in October, and consolidate the returns from the five districts and make a return of the result to his Excellency the Governor, signed by each of said justices.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote, or attempt to vote at more than one of said places on the same day, he shall, upon conviction before a justice of the peace, pay a fine not exceeding thirty dollars, to be collected by warrant of distress and sale of the offenders property, and be paid one half to the informer, and the other half into the county treasury. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating against this act, shall be and are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction of Butts county over the Oakmulgee river and islands on said river, adjoining said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act the jurisdiction of Butts county be, and the same is extended over the Oakmulgee river and islands on said river, adjoining said county of Butts, Any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled an act to regulate the trading of merchants, shop keepers and others, so far as regards the county of Glynn, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same, assented to on the eighteenth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage this act, that the above recited act be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to add a part of the county of Clark to the county of Madison. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, that part of Clark county lying North East of a line beginning at a point on the Madison county line, where a line crosses said Madison county line, known by DeEstangs line and runing with said DeEstangs line, south, forty-four degrees, east, one hundred and thirty-five chains, and seventy-two links to the line of the county of Oglethorpe, thence with the line of the

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county of Oglethorpe to the Madison county lineincluding eight hundred and twelve acres, which shall be added to, and become a part of the county of Madison. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled an act to regulate the trading of Merchants, shop keepers and others, so far as regards the county of Liberty, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same, assented to, on the twentieth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six. 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, that the above recited act be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to attach Fraction number two hundred and forty-eight, in the sixth district of the county of Gwinnett to the county of DeKalb. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, Fraction number two hundred and forty-eight, in the sixth district of Gwinnett county, whereon Joseph Gault resides, shall be attached to, and made a part of the county of DeKalb. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829. AN ACT to add a part of Harris county to the county of Muscogee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That immediately from and after the passage of this act, that part of Harris county, lying south of the following line, shall be added to and become a part of the county of Muscogee, commencing at the northeast corner of lot number one hundred and ninety-five, in the seventeenth district, formerly Muscogee now Harris county: thence a due west line to the northwest corner of lot number forty-eight, in the eighteenth district: thence due north to the northeast corner of lot number one hundred and ninety-seven, in the nineteenth district: thence due west to the northwest corner of Fraction number two hundred and fourteen, in the same district, on the Chattahooche river. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representative. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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COURTS. AN ACT to alter and change the time of holding the Superior and Inferior courts of the county of Baldwin, and the Superior courts of the county of Twiggs. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the superior court of the county of Baldwin shall hereafter be held, on the fourth Monday in February and August, in each and every year. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the inferior courts of said county, shall hereafter be held on the fourth Mondays in May and November, in each and every year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the superior court in the county of Twiggs shall be held on the first Mondays in March and September, in each and every year. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all declarations, writs and other processes, returnable to the terms as heretofore held, shall be made returnable to the terms respectively, as authorised by this act. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to alter the time of holding the Superior courts in the counties of Franklin and Rabun of the western circuit. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the time of holding the superior courts in the counties of Franklin and Rabun, shall be as follows: In the county of Franklin the second Monday in April and October: in the county of Rabun the fourth Monday in April and October. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons summoned, subpoenaed or bound as suitors, witnesses, jurors, or in any other capacity to attend said courts, at the time which by the laws now in force are holden, shall be bound by virtue of said summons, subpoena, or any other process heretofore issued, to attend said courts, as altered by this act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all writs, precepts, and processes of any kind or nature whatsoever, shall be made returnable to the terms heretofore recited. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws militating against this act be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to change the time of holding the Inferior Court of Talbot county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in future, the time of holding the Inferior court in the county of Talbot shall be on the fourth Monday in July and January; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec, 19, 1829. AN ACT to alter the time of Holding the Superior court in the county of Dooly. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from, and immediately after the passage of this act, the superior court, in, and for the county of Dooly shall be held on the first Monday after the fourth Monday in May and November. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all writs and processes, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be returnable to the terms of said court, the same as if the sitting thereof had not been changed; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to amend the several acts, [Illegible Text] the Court of Common Pleas of the city of Augusta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Court of common Pleas for the City of Augusta, shall have jurisdiction in all civil cases (except such as involve title to real estate, or that may fall within a magistrate's jurisdiction) where the sum claimed, or the demands of the [Illegible Text] shall not exceed the sum of three hundred dollars exclusive of interest. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the Judge of the said court of Common Pleas, shall in the absence of the Judge of the Superior court, have concurrent jurisdiction with the Justices of the Inferior Court, in all matter of Habeas Corpus, and shall also have full power and authority to issue warrants upon criminal charges, to examine persons apprehended under said warrants, and to commit, discharge, or admit to bail, in the same manner that a justice of the peace may now do: Provided that the offence charged, and upon which, the said Judge may issue his warrant, hath been committed or that the same is alleged to have been committed in the said city of Augusta. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the Judge of the said court of common pleas or any member of the City Council, shall have full power and authority, to issue attachments which shall be returnable to the said court, and within the jurisdictional amount of the same, in all those cases where a Judge or other officer may now, according to law, issue attachments. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That in all cases brought in the said court, where the Judge thereof shall be a party or interested therein, it shall be the duty of a justice of the Inferior Court of Richmond county, to preside at the trial of the same. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That all actions commenced in said court for the recovery of rent in arrear, shall be tried at the first term, unless good cause be shewn for a continuance; and judgment shall be given, upon all writs of scire facias against bail, at

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the term of said court, to which they may be returnable, unless sufficient cause be shewn for a continuance. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That in all cases where a suit shall be instituted in the said court, on any open account, bond, note, or other obligation in writing, against two or more persons, and any of the defendants in said suit, shall reside out of the City of Augusta, the Clerk of said court, shall make out an original petition and process, and a copy or copies thereof for each county, in which the defendant or defendants may reside; and it shall be the duty of the plaintiff or his attorney, to deliver the said original and copy, to the sheriff of the county, in which the defendant or defendants may reside, whose duty it shall be to serve the same, and to make due return thereof, to the said court, and the plaintiff shall then proceed as in other cases: Provided that at least one of the defendants reside in said city, and be served with process Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the sessions of said court, in each and every year, shall be six, and shall be held on the fourth Monday in January, on the fourth Monday in March, on the fourth Monday in May, on the fourth Monday in July, on the fourth Monday in September, and on the fourth Monday in November, from and after the passage of this act. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That any party against whom a judgment may be entered, may stay the levy of execution for the space of sixty days, on payment of all costs, and giving good and sufficient security within four days after judgment, for the payment of the debt so recovered, and all future costs which may accrue therein; and if such party shall fail to pay the same [Illegible Text] thereto, execution may issue against such party and the security, without any other proceeding thereon. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That any law or parts of laws, militating against the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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AN ACT to alter and change the time of holding the Superior court of Butts county, so far as respects the October term of said court. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the time of holding the Superior court of [Illegible Text] county, shall be held on the fourth Monday in October in each year, in place of the first Monday as heretofore. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all writs, processes and recognizances made returnable the first Monday, shall be returnable to the fourth Monday in Octoberany law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to authorise the Inferior Courts of this State, when sitting for ordinary purposes, to order the sale of any slave or slaves, belonging to the estates of Testators or Intestates, or Wards. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall, and may be lawful for the Inferior courts of the several counties in this State, when sitting for ordinary purposes, to order the sale of any slave, or slaves belonging to the estate of any Testator or Intestate or Ward, on the application of the Executor or Executors, or Executrix, Administrator, Administrators or Administratrix, or Guardian or Guardians,

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which shall be at public auction, and on the first Tuesday of the month, between the usual hours of sale, at the place of public sales in the county where the letters Testamentary, of Administration or Guardianship, may have been granted, giving sixty days notice thereof in one of the Gazettes of this State, and at the door of the Court-house of the county where such sales are to be held, where it is made fully and plainly appear that the same will be for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of such estate, or of the Ward of such Guardian or Guardians: Provided, that a notice of such application for leave to sell, be first made known in one of the public Gazettes of this State at least four months before any order absolute, shall be made thereupon. WARREN JOURDAN Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829. AN ACT to alter and change the time of holding the Superior Courts in the Chatahoochie circuit. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the time of holding the superior courts in the Chatahoochie circuit shall be, as follows: In the county of Muscogee on the second Monday in February and August. Randolph, on the Wednesday after the third Monday in February and August. Lee, on the fourth Monday in February and August. Marion, on the Thursday thereafter. Talbot, on the first Monday in March and September. Harris, on the second do do do Meriwether, on the third do do do Troup, on the fourth do do do

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Coweta, on the first Monday in April, and Wednesday after the first Monday in October. DeKalb, on the second Monday in April and October. Campbell, on the third do do do Carroll, on the fourth do do do Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all writs, processes and recognizances returnable to any of the aforesaid courts, and all persons summoned to appear at the same, shall be returnable to, or be bound to appear at the same, at the times specified in this act; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829. AN ACT to authorise the Inferior Courts of the several counties in this State, to transcribe the records of the superior courts and inferior courts, and of the courts of ordinary of said counties; and more fully to define the duties of the clerks of the superior courts and inferior courts, and to provide a remedy for the non-performance of such duties. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That whenever it shall be made known to the inferior courts of the several counties in this State, that the records of the superior courts and of the inferior courts, and courts of ordinary, or of any of said courts, in their respective counties, have become obliterated, defaced, or mutilated, it shall, and may be lawful, for said inferior court to employ some fit person, or persons to transcribe such records into new books of a substantial nature; and such records when so transcribed and approved by said inferior court upon their inspection, or upon the examination

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of any person or persons, whom they shall appoint for the purpose, shall have all the validity and authenticity of the original records. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever it shall appear to the Inferior courts aforesaid, that the clerks of the said courts herein before mentioned, have failed or neglected to copy into a book of record, all the proceedings, in all civil cases in said courts respectively, or that the said proceedings have been partially and imperfectly copied, it shall and may be lawful for the said inferior courts to employ some fit and competent person or persons, to copy the said proceedings into a book or books of record: and the said books of record shall, when approved by said inferior court, or by the person or persons, by them to be appointed for the purpose of examination, have the same force, validity and authenticity, as if the said proceedings had been fully copied by the clerks aforesaid, within the time prescribed in the thirty-fourth section of the act of the General Assembly, passed on the sixteenth day of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said inferior court, in the employment of a person or persons to transcribe the records, and to copy the proceedings as herein before directed, shall offer the same to the lowest bidder, due regard being had to the competency of the several persons proposing, and shall require bond with approved security payable to the justices of the inferior court of the county, and their successors in office, in a penalty to be fixed by them or any three of them, for the completion of the contract, at such time or times as shall be stipulated, and for the safekeeping and return of the books, documents and papers, that may be entrusted to him or them for the purposes aforesaid. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the inferior courts shall be authorised to institute a suit or suits, in the superior court, upon the bond or bonds of any clerk, who has failed or neglected to copy into a book of record, all the proceedings in all civil cases in said courts respectively, according to the true intent and meaning of the said thirty-fourth section of the act aforesaid, or who shall hereafter fail or neglect to record the proceedings of said courts as hereinafter required, and shall recover damages for the neglect or failure of such clerk, in manner aforesaid, according to the rates, for recording said proceedings, in all

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the cases which such clerk shall have failed, or shall fail to recordor which he shall have imperfectly recorded, or shall imperfectly record. And in case there be no valid bond of said clerk, it shall and may be lawful for said superior court to cause said clerk, by a rule or order of said court, to pay into the hands of the county Treasurer, such sum or sums of money as it shall appear to said court that such clerk has received or shall receive, as fees for recording of proceedings, in cases which he has, or shall fail or neglect to record; or has, or shall imperfectly record, and to enforce such order by process of attachment Provided when it shall appear that said clerk has not received the recording fees in any case or cases, the amount of such fees shall not be included in the damages, herein required to be collected, nor in the sum herein directed to be paid. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the proceedings in all cases, criminal as well as civil, hereafter determined in the several courts of law and equity in this State, shall be fully and fairly copied by the clerks of such courts respectively, into record books of a substantial nature, previous to the next term of such courts, after the adjournment of the court in which such cases shall be determined. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the grand juries in the several counties of this State, from term to term of the superior courts, to inspect and examine the offices, papers and records in the superior and inferior courts of their counties, and if the said proceedings, shall not have been copied into a book or books of record, according to the true intent and meaning of this act, they shall cause the clerk or clerks, who shall have failed or neglected to do his duty as required by this act to be presented for non performance of official dutyand the said superior court shall order the bond of such clerk to be prosecuted, and recovery shall be had thereon as directed in the aforesaid third section of this actand if there be no bond, said court shall proceed against such clerk, as in such case is therein directed. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws, militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to provide for the admission of Attorneys and Solicitors from adjoining States and Territories, to plead and practice law in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for any Judge of the superior courts of this State, in term time of any of said superior courts, upon application being made and filed in writing, to cause a licence to be issued by the clerk of said court, to any attorney or solicitor, from any of the adjoining States or Territories, to plead and practice in any of the courts of law and equity in this State, as fully as if such applicant were a citizen of Georgia Provided said applicant shall, before the granting of such license produce to the Judge aforesaid, a certificate from some one of the Judges of the superior, circuit or district courts of the State or Territory of which he is a citizen, under the seal of said court, stating that he is of good moral character, and that he has been regularly admitted to plead and practice law in such State or Territory, and is at the date of such certificate, a practicing attorney of such State or Territory. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the clerk of the superior court who issues such license shall be entitled to, and receive the same fee therefor, to be paid by said applicant, as is usually paid by persons admitted, who are citizens of this State. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws, militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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CHURCHES. AN ACT to authorise the Governor to issue a grant to the Baptist Church, for a Lot in the town of Columbus, for religious purposes. Whereas the Commissioners of the town of Columbus have set apart several lots for religious purposes, and the members of the Baptist Church have erected a commodious building on one of them, known as lot A in said town. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised and required, upon application, to issue a grant for said lot, to the Trustees of said Baptist Church, in the said town of Columbus, free of charges, to be held in trust by them, and their successors in office, for the use of said society, for religious purposes. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829. AN ACT to incorporate the Trustees of the Baptist Church, in the town of Warrenton, Warren county. Whereas a religious society was established in the town of Warrenton, on the eleventh of July last, under the name of The Baptist Church at Warrenton. And whereas it is necessary that the said Church should be made capable of holding, enjoying, and defending any property that they now have, or may hereafter acquire, by grant, donation, or otherwiseTherefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John Fontaine,

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Henry Lockhart, John G. Winter, John Moore, Joseph Wright, Samuel Gheesling, William Catleberry, Thomas Lockett, and Robert Fleming, Trustees of the Baptist Church, at the town of Warrenton, and their successors in office shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Baptist Church at Warrenton: and the said John Fontaine, Henry Lockhart, John G. Winter, John Moore, Joseph Wright, Samuel Gheesling, William Castleberry, Thomas Lockett, and Robert Fleming, Trustees as aforesaid, and their successors in office, shall be invested with all manner of property, both real and personal, which they may acquire, or be possessed of by gift, grant or purchase, and all privileges and immunities, whatsoever, which may belong to said Trustees of said Church, or which may hereafter be made or transferred to them, the said Trustees, and their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the proper use, benefit, and behoof, of the said Baptist Church at Warrenton, and the said Trustees, or their successors in office, in the name and by the style aforesaid, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be capable of suing and being sued, and of using all necessary and legal steps for recovering and defending any property whatever, which they, the said Trustees, of said Church, may hold, claim, or demand. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the above named Trustees shall be allowed to continue in office two years, counting from the second Saturday in November, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. And at the expiration of two years from the above named date, the male members of the said Baptist Church shall proceed to re-elect by ballot, the same, or nine others, who shall continue in office two years Provided, nevertheless, that no person reelected resides out of the county. And it shall be the duty of the male members of the said Church, biennially to elect a Board of Trustees, on the second Saturday in November, or as soon thereafter as convenient, and to keep a record of such election, in the regular Church book. And in all elections the Church will always keep in the board a majority of Trustees, who are members of the Baptist Church. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever any vacancy shall take place in the Board of Trustees, by removal, death or resignation, the Board of Trustees, or any two members thereof, shall inform the Clerk of the Church in writing, and the Clerk shall lay the same before the said Baptist Church, and immediately, or as

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soon thereafter as praticable, the male members shall elect some eligible person, or persons, to fill such vacancy, or vacancies, as may exist in said Board of Trustees. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to make such bye-laws and ordinances, as may be necessary for the management of the temporal affairs only, of said Church, not repugnant to the laws and constitution of this State; and also to appoint such officers as they may deem necessary for conducting the business of said Board of Trustees. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829. DAMAGES. AN ACT to define and make certain the mode of assessing damages upon the trial of claims of property in the Superior and Inferior Courts in this State. Whereas doubts have been entertained, whether upon the trial of claims of property, damages should be assessed upon the amount of the execution, or the value of the property claimed, or upon the amount of the claim bond, for remedy whereof: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, upon claims of property

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now pending, or which may be hereafter pending in the Superior or Inferior Courts of this State, where damages shall be found by jury, the said damages shall be assessed upon the whole amount then due upon the execution levied Provided, the value of the property in dispute exceeds the amount of said execution, and upon the value of the property claimed, when the same is less than the amount of the execution levied, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829. DEEDS. AN ACT to authorise the appointment of Commissioners out of this state to take the acknowledgment of deeds and other instruments of writing, under seal, and to admit the same to record in this state, and also to take affidavits. 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 Governor of this state be, and he is hereby authorised to name, appoint, and commission one or more commissioners in each or such of the other States of the United States or the Territories thereof, or the District of Columbia, as he may deem expedient, which commissioners shall continue in office during the pleasure of the Governor, and shall have authority to take acknowledgments and proof of the execution of any deed, mortgage or other conveyance of any lands, tenements, hereditaments, or other property, lying and being in this state, and of any contract, letter of attorney, or any other

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writing, under seal, to be used or recorded, in this state, and such acknowledgment or proof taken or made in the manner directed by the laws of this state, and certified by any one of the said commissioners before whom the same shall be taken or made under his seal, which certificate shall be endorsed on or annexed to the said deed or instrument aforesaid, shall have the same force and effect, and be as good and available in law for all purposes as if the same had been made before a Judge or Justice of Peace in this State. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every commissioner appointed, by virtue of this act, shall have full power and authority to administer an oath or affirmation to any person who shall be willing and desirous to make such oath or affirmation before him, and such affidavit or affirmation, made before such commissioner, shall and is hereby declared to be as good and effectual to all intents and purposes as if taken by any magistrate, resident in this State, and competent to take the same. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every commissioner appointed, as aforesaid, before he shall proceed to perform any duty under and by virtue of this act, shall take and subscribe an oath or affirmation before a Judge of one the Superior Courts of the State, in which such commissioner shall reside, well and faithfully to execute and perform all the duties of such commissioner, under and by virtue of the laws of Georgia, which oath or affirmation shall be filed in the office of the Secretary of State of this State. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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DOWER. AN ACT to amend the act of the twenty-third December, eighteen hundred twenty-six, to amend the act to enable feme coverts to convey their estates, and for confirming and making valid all conveyances and acknowledgments heretofore made by feme coverts, passed the twenty-fourth of April, seventeen hundred and sixty, so far as the same relates to feme coverts conveying their dower, and also to enable the wife to inherit the whole estate of her deceased husband Whereas it is provided in the second section of the act of the twenty-third of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, that whenever it shall so happen that any person shall die intestate and without issue, his wife shall inherit the whole estate, both real and personal, of her deceased husband, after paying his just debts. And whereas doubts are entertained of theconstitutional validity of said enactment, on account of a want of conformity between the title and the body of the act: Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the said recited second section of the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-six shall be, and it is hereby declared to be in full force and effect, after the passage of this act, so far as the same may affect any case or cases that may hereafter arise. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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DIVORCES. AN ACT to separate and divorce William M. Grantham, and Rachel his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act the matrimonial connection or civil contract of marriage entered into between William M. Grantham, and Rachel his wife, late Rachel Cox, shall be completely annulled, set aside, and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said William M. Grantham, and Rachel his wife, shall, in future, be held and considered as distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union or civil contract whatever. Read the third time and passed, November 23, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 14, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Mary Hare and Willis Hare, her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate of House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the marriage contract heretofore existing

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and entered into between Mary Hare (formerly Mary Mc-Ghee,) and Willis Hare, her husband, be, and the same is hereby dissolved and set aside, and that the said Mary and Willis be, and are hereby considered as separate and distinct persons in law, as much so as if no such contract had ever been entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, December 7, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 17, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce William Gann and Polly Gann, his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the matrimonial connection and civil contract between William Gann and Polly Gann, his wife, be as fully and completely dissolved and set aside as if no such civil contract or matrimonial connection had ever taken place between them; and they, and each of them are from henceforth declared to be single persons, and as completely separated as though they had never been united in the bands of wedlock, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding, Read the third and passed, November 23, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 14, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to separate and divorce Wilson Conner and Mary Ann Conner, his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, the matrimonial connection and civil contract of marriage, made and entered into between the said Wilson Conner and Mary Ann Conner, his wife, be, and the same is hereby annulled, set aside, and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made or entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Wilson Conner and Mary Ann Conner, his wife, shall be held in future as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any union and civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore entered into between them. Read the third time and passed November 21, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 21, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce William Sowell and Milly Sowell, his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the matrimonial connection and civil contract of marriage, made and entered into between the said William Sowell and Milly Sowell, his wife, be, and the same

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is hereby annulled, set aside, and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made or entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said William Sowell and Milly Sowell, his wife, shall be held in future as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any union or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, November 30, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 21, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Cyntha McCravey and David S. McCravey, her husband, and Catharine Cannon and John Cannon, her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the matrimonial connection and civil contract of marriage, made between the said Cyntha McCravey and David S. McCravey, her husbandCatharine Cannon and John Cannon, be, and the same is as completely annulled, set aside, and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had been made and entered into between them, any law, usage, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. Read the third time and passed, November 21, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 21, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to separate and divorce Nathaniel L. Bostick and Sarah J. Bostick, his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the matrimonial connection and civil contract of marriage, made between the aforesaid Nathaniel L. Bostick and Sarah J. his wife, shall be completely annulled, set aside, and dissolved, as if no such contract had been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in future the said Nathaniel L. Bostick and Sarah J. his wife shall be deemed and considered as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union or civil contract at any time heretofore made between them. Read the third time and passed, November 23, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 21, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Elizabeth Kenedy and Wm. J. C. Kenedy, her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonal connection or civil contract of marriage, made between Elizabeth Kenedy and William J. C. Kenedy, her husband, shall be as fully and completely rendered null and void, set aside, and dissolved, as if no such contract had been entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Elizabeth Kenedy and William J. C. Kenedy, her husband,

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shall, in future, be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any [Illegible Text] union or civil contract of marriage, heretofore entered into between them, as though the same had never existed. Read the third time and passed, November 23, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 15, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Maria Nelson from Ambrose Nelson, her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after passage of this act, the matrimonial connection or civil contract of marriage, entered into between Maria Nelson and Ambrose Nelson, her husband, shall be set aside and dissolved, and as completely rendered null and void as if no such contract had ever been made between them. Sec. 2. And be further enacted, That the said Maria Nelson and Ambrose Nelson, her husband, shall, in future, be held and considered as distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any union or civil contract whatever. Read the third time and passed, November 23, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 13, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to separate and divorce John McDonald and Flora McDonald, his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the matrimonial connection or civil contract of marriage, made between John McDonald and Flora McDonald, his wife, shall be as fully and completely annulled, set aside, and dissolved, as if no such contract had ever been or entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said John McDonald and Flora McDonald, his wife, shall, in future, be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union or civil contract whatsoever, heretofore entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, November 23, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 21, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the President. AN ACT to divorce and separate Seaborn Williams and Martha Williams, his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Gsorgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection and civil contract of marriage, made and entered into between the said Seaborn Williams and Martha Williams, his wife, shall be, and is hereby annulled, dissolved, and set aside, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Seaborn Williams and Martha Williams, shall, in future, be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any union or civil contract whatever, heretofore made and entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, November 12, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Nov. 23, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Elizabeth Bryan and Elias Bryan, her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial contract of marriage, made between Elizabeth Bryan and Elias Bryan, her husband, shall be as fully and completely annulled, set aside and dissolved, as if no such contract had been entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Elizabeth Bryan and Elias Bryan, her husband, shall, in future, be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union or civil contract whatsoever, heretofore entered in between them. Read the third time and passed, November 23, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 15, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to seperate and divorce Henry S. Gaines and Mary Gaines his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection or civil contract of marriage, made and entered into heretofore, between Henry S. Gaines and Mary, his wife, shall be completely annulled set aside and made void, as fully and as effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Henry S. Gaines and Mary Gaines, his wife, shall, in future, be held and considered as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore made and entered into between them. Read the third time and passed Dec. 14. 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 18, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Elizabeth Bell and Thomas Bell her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connexion or civil contract of Marriage, between Elizabeth Bell and Thomas Bell her husband, shall be completely annulled, set

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aside and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Elizabeth Bell and Thomas Bell, shall in future be held as distinct and separate personsaltogether unconnected by any mystical union or civil contract whatever. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 12, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 17, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Rachael Williamson and her husband Lilbourn Williamson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of act, the matrimonial connection, or civil contract of marriage, made between Rachael Williamson and her husband Lilbourn Williamson, shall be as fully and completely rendered null and void, set aside and dissolved, as if no such contract had ever been entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, c. That the said Rachael Williamson and Lilbourn Williamson her husband, shall in future be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected, by any union or civil contract of marriage heretofore entered into between them, as though the same had never existed. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 26, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 15, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to separate and divorce Caroline E. Dick and James Dick her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the matrimonial connection, or civil contract of Marriage, between the aforesaid Caroline E. Dick, formerly Caroline E. Williams, and James Dick, shall be completely annulled, set aside, and dissolved as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Caroline E. Dick and James Dick shall in future be held as distinct and separate persons altogether unconnected by any mystical union or civil contract whatsoever, heretofore entered into between them. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall tend to render illegitimate, the issue of the said marriage heretofore born; but that the same shall be considered legitimate, any thing here in contained to the contrary notwithstanding. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 11, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 9, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to separate and divorce Hamutal McCollum from Joseph McCollum Junior, her husband, and to restore to her the name and the rights which she had prior to her marriage to the said Joseph McCollum. Whereas, Joseph McCollum Junior, and Hamutal Johnson, both of the State of Georgia, were on the fifth day of February, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, married in due and lawful form, And whereas, the said Hamutal Johnson, alias McCollum, hath according to the prescribed form of the constitution, sued for, and obtained a verdict for a divorce from the said Joseph McCollum Junior. And whereas also, it is meet and just, that the said marriage, or pretended marriage between the said Joseph and Hamutal, be made null, void, and of no effect in law, and that the said Hamutal have restored to her the name and rights which she had, prior to such, the said marriage or pretended marriage. Therefore, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the said pretended marriage between Joseph McCollum junior, and Hamutal McCollum, be, and the same is hereby declared to be null and void, [Illegible Text] and of no effect in law, and that the said Hamutal McCollum be, and she is hereby divorced from the said Joseph McCollum junior, by a complete and absolute divorce a vinculo matrimonii. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the said Hamutal McCollum, be known in law, by the name of Hamutal Johnson, being her name prior to such, her said marriage, or pretended marriage, and that she be entitled to all the rights which she may have had prior to such, her said marriage or pretended marriage, to the said Joseph McCollum junior. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 23, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 15, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to divorce and separate Polly Thompson and John W. Thompson her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from, and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection, or civil contract of marriage, made between Polly Thompson and John W. Thompson her husband, shall be, and is hereby completely annulled, set aside and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Polly Thompson and John W. Thompson her husband, shall in future be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union, or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore made, or entered into between them, and that the said Polly Thompson be competent to contract in all things as an unmarried woman. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 1, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 15, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Joseph Grizzle and Matilda Grizzle his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act the matrimonial connection or civil contract of marriage, made between Joseph

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Grizzle and Matilda Grizzle his wife, shall be, and is hereby completely annulled, set aside and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Joseph Grizzle and Matilda Grizzle his wife, shall in future be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any union or civil contract whatsoever, at any time heretofore made, and entered into by, or between them. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 26, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 17, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Abraham Brown and his wife Betsey Brown. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection, or civil contract of marriage made, and entered into between Abraham Brown and Betsey Brown his wife, shall be, and the same is completely annulled, set aside and dissolved as fully and effectually, as if no such contract had ever been entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Abraham Brown and Betsey Brown his wife, shall in future be held

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as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any union or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore made or entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 19, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 18, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce James Lloyd and Bythena Lloyd his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the marriage contract heretofore made and entered into between James Lloyd and Bythena Lloyd his wife, be, and the same is hereby dissolved and set aside, and that they be considered separate and distinct persons in law, as if no such contract had ever existed between them. Read the third time and passed, Dec, 9, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 17, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to separate and divorce Stacy Gregory and Green A. Gregory her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the matrimonial contract heretofore made and entered into between Stacy Gregory and Green A. Gregory her husband, shall be null and void. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Stacy Gregory and Green A. Gregory, shall in future be held separate and distinct persons in law, as fully and as completely as though said [Illegible Text] never existed. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 17, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 21, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Rachel Fairchild and William Fairchild her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection and civil contract of marriage made between the said Rachel Fairchild and William Fairchild her husband, shall be annulled, set aside, and as fully dissolved to all intents

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and purposes, as if no such contract had been made and entered into between themany law to the contrary notwithstanding. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 23, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 15, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Eliza Fortson and William Fortson her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection and civil contract of marriage between Eliza Fortson and William Fortson her husband be, and the same is hereby set aside, and rendered null and void, to all intents and purposes, as though no such connection or contract had ever existedany law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 30, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 18, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to separate and divorce Ann Barron and James Barron her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection or civil contract of marriage, made and entered into between Ann Barron and James Barron her husband, shall be, and the same is hereby completely annulled, set aside, and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Ann Barron and her husband James Barron shall be held in future, as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any union or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore made and entered into by or between them. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 16, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 18, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Jane Pool and Julman R. C. Pool, her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connexion, or civil contract of marriage, made and entered into between Jane Pool and Julman R. C. Pool her husband

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shall be, and is hereby completely annulled, set aside and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Jane Pool and Julman R. C. Pool her husband, shall be held in future, as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any union or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore made and entered into by, or between them. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 24, 1829. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 15, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce John Garrett and Elizabeth Garrett his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection [Illegible Text] civil contract of marriage, entered into between John Garrett and Elizabeth Garrett his wife, shall be, and is hereby completely annulled, set aside, and dissolved as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said John Garrett and Elizabeth Garrett his wife, shall in future be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected

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by any mystical union or civil contract whatsoever, at any time heretofore made and entered [Illegible Text] between them. Read the third time and passed, No. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text]. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. In Senate, read the third time and passed, Dec. 14, 1829. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. EXECUTIONS. AN ACT to authorise the assignment and transfer of judgments and executions, and to make certain and uniform the practice with regard to the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall, and may be lawful, for the plaintiff in any judgment or execution, to sell or transfer the same by written assignment or control, and said sale or assignment, shall not be considered a discharge or satisfaction of said execution; but the assignee may proceed to collect the same for his own use and benefit, in as full and ample a manner as the plaintiff could have done if no such transfer or assignment had been made. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act contained shall be construed as to authorise the collection

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of any execution which may have been paid off by the defendant or his agent and kept open for the purpose of defranding other creditors. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. ELECTIONS. AN ACT to establish election districts in the county of Twiggs, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the general election for Governor, members to Congress, members of the Legislature, and county officers and Electors to be held at the places herein after named: At the house of James Garritt's, or the place of holding Justices Courts in captain Oliver's district, in said county: at the house of John Anglin, or place of holding Justices courts in captain Samuel Streetmans district, in said county: at the house of Hartwell H. Tarver's, or place of holding Justices courts in captain Dean's district, in said county: and at the house of Benj. B. Smith's, [Illegible Text] place of holding Justices courts in captain Bostick's district in said county of Twiggs, and at the court house of said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one Justice of the Inferior court, or Justice of the peace and two freeholders, may superintend the elections in said districts, after the

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freeholders have taken the following oath: I do solemly swear or affirm that I will faithfully superintend this days election and make a true return thereof according to law, and the best of my abilityso help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendants of said district elections, shall and they are hereby required on the day of said election, to count out the ballots by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the polls, and one or more of the superintendants of said elections, shall meet one or more of the superintendants of the election held at the court-house in said county; and there compare and add the returns or votes together and transmit a true statement of the same to the executive office agreeable to the laws of this State now in force. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote at more than one place in said county for the same election, or if any magistrate or superintendant of said district elections, shall violate the trust confided to him by this act, such persons or magistrates shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before the superior court of said county, shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars, or be imprisoned at the discretion of the court, for a time not exceeding ten days in the common jail of said county. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff or his deputy, may be supplied by any lawful constable at said district elections, and that said district elections shall in all other respects than those herein recited be conducted in the same manner, and at the same time as is prescribed by the laws now in force in this State, regulating general elections. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, that all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to establish two additional election districts in the county of Walton, and to change one in the county of Wilkes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, it shall, and may be lawful to hold all elections, for Governor, Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, members to Congress, members to the Legislature, and for all county and regimental officers, at the Social Circle and at the house of Thomas Patterson, in the county of Walton. Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That one Justice of the peace or one Justice of the Inferior court and two free holders, may superintend all elections in said districts, after the said freeholders having taken an oath faithfully and impartially to superinted the same, and make a true return thereof according to law. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the [Illegible Text] shall, and they are hereby required on the day of said election to count all the votes by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the polls; and one or more of the superintendants of each of said district elections, shall meet one or more of the superintendants from each of the other districts, or places of holding elections, on the next day after said election, which meeting shall be held at the courthouse in said county, and there add and compare the several returns of the votes together, and transmit a true statement of the same to the Executive office agreeable to the laws of this State now in force. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote, or attempt to vote at more than one place in said county for the same election, or if any magistrate or superintendant of any of said district elections, shall violate the trust to them committed by this act, such person or magistrate shall be deemed guilty of a high crime or misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof [Illegible Text] the superior court of said county, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned at the discretion of the court for time not exceeding ten days.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff or his deputy may be supplied by any lawful constable at any of said district elections, and that in all other respects, the said district elections shall be held and conducted in the same manner, and at the sames times as is prescribed by the laws of this State, regulating electionsany law or parts of laws to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act it shall and may be lawful to hold Elections at the house of Thomas Halliday, in the county of Wilkes instead of the house of Richardson Brooks, as now established by law, for members of Congress, electors of President and Vice-President, members of the State Legislature, Governor, and for all county officers; which elections shall be held at the times pointed out by the law, and superintended in the manner pointed out in the act, establishing election districts in the county of Wilkes,any person or persons violating the provisions of said act, shall be subject to all the pains and penalties therein expressed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to repeal so much of an act passed the 20th day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, establishing three additional election districts in the county of Meriwether, so far as authorises the holding elections at the house of Mr. Hudson, on lot No. 127, in the 10th district of formerly Troup, now Meriwether countyAnd to authorise the holding elections at the house of Daniel Hurd, in said district. Whereas the above recited act so far as regards holding said precinct election does not answer the convenience intendedfor remedy whereof,

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, so much of the above recited act as authorises the holding elections at Mr. Hudsons be, and the same is hereby repealed. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all elections authorised by that part of the before recited act, shall hereafter be held at the house now occupied by [Illegible Text] Hurd in the tenth district of formerly Troup, now Meriwether county, under the same rules and restrictions as provided in the above recited actany law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to amend an act, passed the twentieth day of Dec. eighteen hundred and twenty-three, to regulate the general elections in this State, and to appoint the time of the meeting of the General Assembly, so far as the same requires all elections to be held at the places of holding the superior courts, so far as respects the county of Habersham. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, that one of the places of holding the elections in the county of Habersham, shall be at the place of holding the Justices court in captain Richeson's militia district on Lot number fifty-six, in the third district in said county, in place of the house of Edward Williams in the third district of the county aforesaid.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the elections held at the above stated place, shall be conducted in the same manner as is prescribed by the before recited actany law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to establish and regulate district elections in the county of Marion. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from, and after the passage of this act, it shall, and may be lawful for the citizens of Marion county to vote for electors of President and Vice-President, members of Congress, Governor, members of the Legislature, and all county officers, at the following places in said county to wit: At the house of Samuel Brewer, in captain Walker's district: at the house of Clark Sanders', in captain Blockers district: at the house of Robert Green, in captain Underwood's district: and at the place of holding the superior courts in said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one Justice of the inferior court, or one Justice of the peace and two free holders, shall, and may be competent to superin t end said electionssaid free holders first taking the following oath before any Justice of the inferior court or Justice of the peace, to wit: I, A. B. do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially superintend this days election, and make a just and true return thereof to the best of my abilities, so help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That one or more of said superintendents from the several precincts, shall neet

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at the court-house, or place of holding courts, on the day succeeding such elections, and then compare the several returns, and certify to the Governor the persons elected. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons voting, or attempting to vote, at more than one place on the same day, shall pay a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned at the discretion of the court. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff at said elections may be supplied by any lawful constableany law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to establish election precincts in the county of Campbell, and to regulate the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, all elections hereafter held in the county of Campbell, for Governor, Representatives to Congress, for members of the General Assembly, for Electors of President and Vice-President, and for all county officers, may, and shall be held at Campbellton, at the house of Ingram Bass in the fourth districtat the house of Tunison Correll, in the first districtand at the house of William Morgan, in the eighth district. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one justice of the peace, or justice of the inferior court, and two freeholders, may superintend said election, after said freeholders shall have taken the following oath:I do solemnly swear (or affirm as the case may be) that I will faithfully superintend

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this day's election, and make a just and true return thereof, according to law, and to the best of my abilitySo help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of said election, shall, on the day of election, count out the ballots by them taken, and make a fair and correct statement of the polls, and one or more of the said superintendents, from each precincts, shall meet the superintendents who shall have presided at the election at Campbellton, at the latter place, on the next day after said election, and they shall there and then compare and add the several returns or votes together, and certify the same to his Excellency the Governor, agreeably to the laws of this State, now in force. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote at more than one of said places of election, for any of the respective candidates, at the same election, such person shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to indictment in the superior court of said county, and on conviction, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, and imprisoned not exceeding ten days. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff or his Deputy may be supplied at said precincts, during said election, by any lawful constable of said county; and that the said election shall, in all other respects than those herein recited, be in the same manner, and at the same time as is prescribed by the laws now in force regulating general and county elections. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to establish an election district in the county of Putnam, and to regulate the elections to be held therein. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for elections for Governor, Electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, Representatives to Congress, members of the Legislature, and county officers, to be held at Stanford's Cross Roads, in said county, and also at the court-house in the town of Eatonton. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one justice of the peace, or one justice of the inferior court of said county, and two freeholders, may superintend the elections at said Cross Roads, after said freeholders shall have taken the following oath, which any judge of the superior, judge of the inferior court, or justice of the peace shall have power to administer:I do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will faithfully superintend this day's election, and make a just and true return thereof, according to law, and the best of my abilitySo help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of said elections, so to be held at said Cross Roads, shall be, and they are hereby required, on the day of said election, to count out the ballots by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the polls, and one or more of the superintendents of every election, so to be held, to meet the superintendents of every election, so to be held at the Court-house in the town of Eatonton, on the day next after the election, and there compare and add the returns or votes together, and transmit a true statement of the same to the appropriate office, agreeable to the laws of this State, now in force. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote at more than one place in said county, the same day, or if any superintendent of said district election shall violate the [Illegible Text] confided to him by this act, such person or superintendent shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before the superior court, shall be fined in a sum of fifty dollars, and may be imprisoned at the discretion of the court.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That at any election, so to be held, at said Cross Roads, the place of the Sheriff or his Deputy may be supplied by any lawful constable of said county, and that in all other respects the election, so to be held at said Cross Roads, shall be conducted in the same manner, and held at the same time, as is prescribed by the laws now in force in this State, regulating elections. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to establish an additional election district in the county of Pike, and to repeal so much of the second section of an act, entitled an act, to establish and regulate district elections in the counties of Early, Lee and Pike, as relates to holding elections at the house of Mr. Johnson, in the seventh district of the county of Pike. 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, all elections for Governor, members of Congress, members of the Legislature, electors to vote for President and Vice-President of the United States, and all county officers, shall, and may be held at the house of Gideon and Jourdan Barnes, the place of holding muster and Justices courts, in the seventh district of originally Monroe, now Pike county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That to so much of the second section of an act, passed on the twenty-fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, entitled an act to establish and regulate district elections in the counties of Early, Lee and Pike, as authorises elections to be

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held at the house of Mr. Johnson, in the seventh district of said county of Pike, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the elections hereafter to be held at the house of the said Gideon and Jourdan Barnes, in the seventh district of the said county of Pike, shall and may be held under the same rules and regulations as are pointed in the third, fourth, fifth and sixth sections of the before recited act, passed on the twenty-fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec, 19, 1829. AN ACT to add an additional Election District in the county of Glynn. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it may and shall be lawful for all elections for members of Congress, for Governor, for members of the State Legislature, and for all other state and county officers, to be held at Huston's Church, in the county of Glynn. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the elections so held, shall be conducted under the same rules and regulations as are prescribed in the act regulating election districts in the said county, passed the twenty-fifth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to establish an Election District in the first district of the county of Dooly. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the General Elections for Representatives to Congress and Electors to elect the President and Vice President, and for members of the State Legislature, for Governor, and for all county officers, so far as respects the county of Dooly, may and shall be held at the Court-house as heretofore, and also at the place of holding the Justice's court, in the first district of said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one Justice of the Peace, or one Justice of the Inferior Court and two Freeholders, may attend said election at the last mentioned place, after said freeholders shall have taken the following oath, to wit: I do solemnly swear or affirm, that I will faithfully superintend this day's election and make a just and true return thereof, according to law, and the best of my abilitySo help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintenders of said election district, shall, and they are hereby required, on the day of the election aforesaid, to count out the votes by them taken in, and make a fair and correct statement of the polls, and one or more of the superintendents, or the magistrate from said district, shall meet the magistrates who shall have presided at the election at the court-house, which meeting shall take place at said court-house on the next day after said election, and they shall then and there compare and add the several returns or votes together, and certify to his Excellency the Governor, the person or persons so elected, agreeable to the laws of this state. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote at more than one of said places of election for any of the respective candidates at the same election, or if any magistrate or freeholders, presiding at such election, shall violate the trust confided to him by this act, such person, or magistrate or freeholder, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and shall, on conviction thereof, before the superior court of said county, be fined in a sum of fifty dollars and be imprisoned at the discretion of the court, for a term not exceeding ten days.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That when any doubt shall be suggested as to the legality of the vote offered, it shall be the duty of the superintendents to administer, in addition to the oath prescribed by law, the following oath, to wit:I do solemnly swear or affirm, that I have not this day voted at any election for Senator, Representative, Governor, Member of Congress, or Electors for President or Vice-President, or any county officerSo help me God. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff or his Deputy may be supplied, at said election district, during said election, by any lawful constable; and the said election shall, in all other respects, than those herein recited, be conducted in the same manner, and at the same time as is prescribed by the laws now in force regulating general and county elections. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to alter and amend the several acts relating to election districts in the county of Burke. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of February next, so much of an act to alter and amend an act passed the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, entitled an act establishing battalion election districts in the county of Burke.

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as requires that certain elections, therein mentioned, shall be holden at the different places of holding justice's courts in each captain's district in said county, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as it relates to districts numbers sixty, sixty-three, seventy-three, seventy-four, and seventy-five. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the said first day of February next, it shall and may be lawful to hold all elections at the place of holding battalion musters, in the seventeenth battalion, in the said county, under the same rules and regulations, and subject to the same restrictions as are provided by law in other election districts in said county. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of the above recited acts as militate against this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to establish an additional election district in the county of Decatur. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be established an additional election district in the county of Decatur, at the house of John Emanuels, in said county, at which place it is hereby made legal for all persons entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, in said county, for Representatives from this State in the Congress of the United States, for members of the Legislature, Electors to elect the President and Vice-President of the United States, Governor of this State, and all county officers, which election shall be held and conducted

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under the same rules and regulations, and penalties, as are prescribed by law, all laws, or parts of laws, to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829. AN ACT to establish and regulate election districts in the counties of Wilkinson, Randolph and Carroll, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first Monday in January next, it shall and may be lawful to hold all elections for Governor, members to Congress, Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, members of the Legislature, and for all county officers, at the place of holding justice's courts in Captain Seales's districtat the place of holding justice's courts in Captain Smith's districtat the place of holding justice's courts in Captain Griffin's districtat the place of holding justice's courts in Captain Bloodworth's districtand at the court-house in Irwinton, in Wilkinson county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That there shall be two election districts laid out in the county of Carrollone to be held at the house where John Griswold now lives, and one at the store-house now occupied by Roddy Ninney, and that all elections held at said mentioned places shall be governed and conducted under the same rules, regulations, and restrictions, as elections held at the other places of holding elections in said county. And in the county of Randolph, at the following places, viz: Captains Moore's, Mosley's, Parker's, and Watley's districtsand at the court-house in said county.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act passed in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, laying out election districts in the county of Carroll, as relates to one place of holding elections for said county, to be at McIntosh's Reserve, be, and the same is hereby repealed Provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed to take effect until the first day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That one justice of the peace, or justice of the inferior court, and two freeholders, may superintend the elections in said districts, after the said freeholders shall have taken the following oath:I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially superintend this day's election, and make a full and true return thereof, according to law, and the best of my abilitySo help me God. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of said elections shall, and they are hereby required, on the day of said election, to count out all the votes by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the polls, and one or more of the superintendents of said district elections shall meet one or more of the superintendents from each of the other districts and places of holding elections, on the next day after said election, which meeting shall be at the court-house, and then add and compare the several returns of the votes together, and transmit a true statement of the same to the Executive office, agreeable to the laws of this State, now in force. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote, or attempt to vote, at more than one place in said county, for the same election, or if any magistrate or superintendent of any said district elections shall violate the trust to them committed by this act, such person or magistrate shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, before the superior courts of said counties, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred dollars, or imprisonment in the common jail of the county, at the discretion of the court, for a time not exceeding ninety days. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff or his Deputy may be supplied by any lawful constable at said district elections, and the said district elections shall, in all other respects, be held and conducted in the same manner, and at the same times, as is prescribed by

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the laws of this State, now in force, regulating elections, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to estalish an additional election district in the county of Harris. 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, there shall be established an additional electoral district in the county of Harris, at the house of Charles Phillips, in the eighteenth district of said county, at which place it is hereby made legal for all persons entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State, in said county, to vote at the aforesaid place for Representatives from this State in the Congress of the United States, members of the Legislature, Electors to elect the President and Vice-President of the United States, Governor of this State, and all county officers; which election shall be held and conducted under the same rules, regulations and penalties as are prescribed by an act passed December the sixteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, to govern the electoral district at the house of Joseph Whiticers, in the twentieth district of said county, and the town of Hamiltonall laws, or parts of laws, to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the President. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to establish and regulate election districts in the county of Jasper, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Gsorgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first Monday in January next, it shall be lawful to hold elections for Governor, members to Congress, Electors of President and Vice-President, members to the Legislature, and all county officers, at the house of Thomas Smith, in E. Dodson's district, and at the house of John B. Slaughter, in Captain Barnett's district, in said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one justice of the peace, or a justice of the inferior court, and two freeholders, may superintend the elections in said districts, after the said freeholders shall have taken the following oath:I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially superintend this day's election, and make a full and fair return thereof, according to law, and the best of my abilitiesSo help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of said district elections shall, and they are hereby required, on the day of said elections, to count out the votes by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the polls, and one or more of the superintendents of said district elections, shall meet the superintendents of the election held in Monticello, in said county, on the day after the election, and there compare and consolidate the returns of votes, and transmit a true statement of the same to the Executive office, agreeable to the laws of the State, now in force. Sec. 4. And be further enacted, That if any person shall vote, or attempt to vote, at more than one place in said county, for the same election, or if any magistrate or superintendent of said district election shall violate the trust to him committed by this act, such person or magistrate shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, before the superior court of said county, shall be fined fifty dollars, or be imprisoned at the discretion of the court, for a term not exceeding ten days. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff or his Deputy may be supplied by any lawful constable

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at said district elections, and that said district elections shall, in all other respects, than those herein recited, be conducted in the same manner, and at the same time, as is prescribed by the law, now in force in this State, regulating general elections. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to repeal an act passed December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, establishing an additional place of holding elections in the county of Tattnall, and to require all elections to be held at the new court-house, in said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, all elections for Governor and for members of Congress, and all county and state officers that the citizens of said county are entitled to vote for, shall be held and conducted at the new court-house, in said county, in the manner already pointed out by law, regulating the general elections of the State, any law, or parts of laws, to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 3, 1829.

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AN ACT to alter and change an act entitled an act to establish election districts in the county of Lowndes, so far as to authorise an additional number of election districts in said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first Monday in January next, that elections for Governor, members of the Legislature, members of Congress, Electors to vote for President and Vice-President of the United States, and county officers, and militia officers, in the aforesaid county, shall, and may be held at the following places, to wit: at the house of Jesse Goodmans, the place of holding justice's courts in Captain Williams' districtat the house of Sion Halls, the place of holding justice's courts in Captain Pike's district, at the house of John Townsend's, the place of holding Justices Courts in Captain Studstill's districtat the house of Levi Knights, the place of holding justice's courts in Captain Knight's districtat the house of Lewis Roberts, the place of holding justice's courts in Captain Johnston's districtand at the House of Mr. Davis, in Captain Cowart's district. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That one justice of the inferior court, or justice of the peace, and two freeholders, shall and may be competent to superintend said elections, said freeholders first taking the following oath before a justice of the inferior court, or justice of the peace, to wit:I, A. B. do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially superintend this day's election, and make a just and true return thereof, to the best of my abilitiesSo help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That one or more of the superintendents from the several precincts, shall meet at the court-house on the day succeeding said elections, and there compare the several returns, and certify to his Excellency the person or persons so elected. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the justices superintending the elections at the court-house, shall close the polls at the usual hour prescribed by law, proceed to count out the votes, but shall not certify the person or person elected till twelve o'clock the next day, by which time the superintendents from the precincts shall meet to compare the votes taken by them.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person or persons, voting, or attempting to vote, at more than one place, on the same day, shall pay a fine of thirty dollars, recoverable by any court having competent jurisdiction of the same. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the place of the Sheriff, at said elections, may be supplied by any lawful constable, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 3, 1829. AN ACT to establish election districts in the county of Muscogee, and punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful for general elections for Governor, members to Congress, Electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, members of the Legislature, and county officers, to be held at the place of holding justice's courts, on lot number fifty-five, in the sixth district, and at Manning's mill in the tenth district of said county, and at the court-house in the town of Columbus. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one justice of the peace, or one justice of the inferior court, and two freeholders, may superintend the elections in said districts, after

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the said freeholders have taken the following oath:I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully superinted this day's election, and make a just and true return thereof, according to law, and the best of my abilitiesSo help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of said district elections shall, and they are hereby required, on the day of said elections, to count out the ballots by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the polls, and one or more of the superintendents of said districts shall meet one or more of the superintendents of the election held at the court-house in said county, on the day after the election, and there compare and add the returns of votes together, and transmit a true statement of the same to the Executive office, agreeable to the laws of the State, now in force. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote, or attempt to vote, at more than one place in said county, for the same election, or if any magistrate or superintendent of any of said district elections shall violate the trust to them committed by this act, such person or magistrate shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, before the superior court of said county, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, or imprisoned at the discretion of the court, for a term not exceeding twenty days. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff or his Deputy may be supplied by any lawful constable at said district elections, and that said district elections shall, in all other respects, be held and conducted in the same manner, and at the same times, as is prescribed by the laws of this State, now in force, regulating elections, any law, or parts of laws, to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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AN ACT to establish an additional election district in the county of Telfair. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the general elections for members of Congress, Governor, and members of the Legislature, and county officers, may be held at the house of Daniel Lotts, in the county of Telfair, in addition to, and under the same regulations and restrictions of those already established in said county, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829. EVIDENCE. AN ACT to enable parties litigant in the Superior and Inferior Courts of this State, to compel the production of written testimony where the same may be in the possession of persons, not parties to the cause, and residing without the county where such cause is pending; and for other purposes. Whereas parties litigant in the courts of this state frequently suffer great inconvenience, and some time gross injustice by reason of the difficulty of procuring written testimoney

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which may be necessary to the successful prosecution or defence of his cause, where the same happens to be in the possession of persons not parties to the cause, and residing without the county in which the cause is pending: For remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, when any deed, bond, note, or other writing, which it may be necessary to use as testimony in any [Illegible Text] which now is, or may be hereafter pending in any of the Superior or Inferior courts of this State, may be in the possession of any person not a party to said cause, and not resident within the county in which said cause is pending, the clerk of the court, in which said cause is pending shall, upon the application of the party, or his attorney, desirous of procuring such testimony, issue a subpoena duces tecum, directed to the person having such deed, bond, note, or other writing in his possession, and requiring him to be, and appear at the next term of said court, and to bring with him into said court, the paper desired to be used as testimony, which said subpoena duces tecum shall be served thirty days before the court, to which it is made returnable by a Sheriff, Constable, or some private person, and the return of the Sheriff or Constable of such service, or the affidavit of such private person, shall be sufficient evidence that the subpoena was duly served. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when a subpoena shall be issued and served in the terms of the first section of this act, and the person whose attendance is thereby required, shall fail to comply with the requisitions thereof, it shall be the duty of the court, on motion, to issue an attachment against such defaulting witness, returnable to the next term of said court, and shall fine such witness in a sum not exceeding three hundred dollars, unless he of she shall make a sufficient execuse for such failure, which shall be judged of by the court; but shall nevertheless be subject to the action of the person at whose suit such witness shall have been summoned, for any damage which he, she or they may have sustained by reason of such failure: Provided, nevertheles, that if the person so subpoenaed shall, within ten days after the service of such subpoena, deliver to the party at whose instance the subpoena was sued out, or his attorney, or file in the office of the clerk of the court from which such subpoena issued, the paper, the production of

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which is required by such subpoena, or shall deliver to the said party or his attorney, or shall file in the said office his affidavit, that the said paper is not in his power, custody, possession or controul, nor was it at the time of serving said subpoena, then, and in that case such delivery or filing of the paper so sought as aforesaid, or of such affidavit, shall be considered a full and complete compliance with the requisitions of such subpoena duces tecum. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in any cause now pending, or which may hereafter be pending in the superior or inferior courts of this State, where any party shall pursue the course herein before pointed out; but who is unable thereby to procure such written instrument, such party shall be permitted to go into parol evidence of the contents of such written instrument. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to point out and regulate the manner of taking the testimony of females in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, when the testimony of any female shall or may be required, in any of the superior or inferior courts which may be held in this State, criminal cases only excepted, it shall and may be lawful, for either party on giving at

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least ten days notice to the adverse party or his, her, or their attorney, accompanied with a copy of interrogatories intended to be exhibited, to obtain a commission from the clerk of the court in which the same may be required, directed to certain commissioners to examine all and every such witness or witnesses on such interrogatories as the parties may exhibit; and such examination shall be read at the trial, on motion of either party. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person as above recited, shall refuse to appear before commissioners appointed to take her or their examination, or appearing shall refuse to answer such legal interrogatories as shall be annexed to said commission and exhibited to her or them, it shall be lawful for either of said commissioners, or the party upon whose application the said commission was issued, to proceed in conformity to the laws now in force pointing out the mode of proceeding in cases of failure, or refusal to attend, or answer interrogatories in other cases. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against the above recited act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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GUARDIANS. AN ACT in addition to the acts concerning the guardianship of minors. Whereas injury sometimes results to slaves and plantations belonging to minors, from the practice of hiring and renting them indiscriminately to the highest bidder: And whereas it may sometimes be desirable to keep such slaves together, and have them worked for the benefit of said minors: Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Guardians may exercise under an order of the inferior court, sitting for ordinary purposes, a sound discretion in hiring slaves under their controul, either publicly or privately, as may be most conducive to the safety and comfort of the slaves, and the permanent interest of the owners. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in cases in which it may manifestly comport with the safety and comfort of the slaves, and the interests of the minors, the guardians may keep them together, and have them employed in such agricultural, or other operations, as said guardians may deem manifestly expedient, under a like order of said court. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when it may be manifestly expedient guardians may cause plantations, or any part of them, belonging to minors, to be managed and cultivated for their benefit; and when minors may not be possessed of lands for cultivation, their guardians may apply such portion of their disposable funds as may properly be applied to that purpose, to the purchase of such reasonable portion of land as may be necessary for the purposes of this act; or they may, if expedient, rent lands for the same purposes, under a like order of said court. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That guardians shall keep regular accounts of receipts and expenditures in the

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discharge of their duties under this act, and make regular returns to the Justices of the inferior courts sitting for ordinary purposes, as required by the laws which now are, or hereafter may be, in force, for the government of guardians. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to amend the acts concerning the Guardianship of free persons of color. Whereas it frequently happens, that the citizens of this State decline a permanent guardianship of free persons of color, by which the ends of justice are prevented: Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, free persons of color may exercise the right, heretofore secured to them, of suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, answering and being answered unto, by the aid of a next friend, as well as by a guardian. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That guardians of free persons of color shall have the privilege, with the consent of the inferior courts, of resigning their appointments at any time they may wish to do so. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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INDIANS. AN ACT to add the Territory lying within the chartered limits of Georgia, and now in the occupancy of the Cherokee Indians, to the counties of Carroll, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall and Habersham, and to extend the laws of this State over the same, and to annual all laws and ordinances made by the Cherokee nation of Indians, and to provide for the compensation of officers serving legal process in said Territory, and to regulate the testimony of Indians, and to repeal the ninth section of the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, upon this subject. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, all that part of the unlocated territory within the limits of this State, and which lies between the Alabama line and the old path leading from the Buzzard Roost on the Chattahoochie to Sally Hughes' on the Hightower river: thence to Thomas Petets on the old Federal road: thence with said road to the Alabama line, be, and the same is hereby added to, and shall become a part of the county of Carroll. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all that part of said territory lying and being North of the last mentioned line, and South of the road running from Charles Gates' ferry on the Chattahoochie river, to Dick Roe's, to where it intersects with the path aforesaid, be, and the same is hereby added to, and shall become a part of the county of DeKalb. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all that part of said territory lying North of the last mentioned line, and South of a line commencing at the mouth of Baldridges Creek: thence up said creek to its source: from thence to where the Federal road crosses the Hightower: thence with said road to the Tennessee line, be, and the same is hereby added to, and shall become a part of the county of Gwinnett.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all that part of said territory lying north of said last mentioned line, and south of a line to commence on the Chestatee river at the month of Yoholo creek: thence up said creek to the top of the Blue ridge: thence to the head waters of Notley river: thence down said river to the boundary line of Georgia, be, and the same is hereby added to, and shall become a part of the county of Hall. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all that part of said territory, lying north of said last mentioned line, within the limits of this State, be, and the same is hereby added to, and shall become a part of the county of Habersham. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all the laws both civil and criminal of this State be, and the same are hereby extended over said portions of territory respectively, and all persons whatever residing within the same, shall, after the first day of June nex, be subject and liable to the operation of said laws, in the same manner as other citizens of this State or the citizens of said counties respectively, and all writs and processes whatever issued by the courts or officers of said courts, shall extend over, and operate on the portions of territory hereby added to the same respectively. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That after the first day of [Illegible Text] next, all laws, ordinances, orders and regulations of any kind whatever, made, passed, or enacted by the Cherokee Indians, either in general council or in any other way whatever, or by any authority whatever of said tribe, be, and the same are hereby declared to be null and void and of no effect, as if the same had never existed; and in all cases of indictment or civil suits, it shall not be lawful for the defendant to justify under any of said laws, ordinances, orders or regulations; nor shall the courts of this State permit the same to be given in evidence on the trial of any suit whatever. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person or body of persons by arbitrary power or by virtue of any pretended rule, ordinance, law or custom of said Cherokee nation, to prevent, by threats, menaces or other means, to endeavor to prevent any Indian of said nation residing within the chartered limits of this State, from enrolling as an emigrant or actually emigrating, or removing from said nation; nor shall it be lawful for any person or body of persons by arbirary power or by virtue of any pretended

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rule, ordinance, law or custom of said nation, to punish in any manner, or to molest either the person or property, or to abridge the rights or privileges of any Indian for enrolling his or her name as an emigrant or for emigrating, or intending to emigrate from said nation. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That any person or body of persons offending against the provisions of the foregoing section, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, subject to indictment, and on conviction, shall be punished by confinement in the common jail of any county of this State, or by confinement at hard labor in the Penitentiary for a term not exceeding four years, at the discretion of the court. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person or body of persons, by arbitrary power, or under colour of any pretended rule, ordinance, law or custom of said nation to prevent, or offer to prevent, or deter any Indian, head man, chief or warrior of said nation residing within the chartered limits of this State, from selling or ceding to the U. States, for the use of Georgia the whole or any part of said territery, or to prevent or offer to prevent any Indian, head man, chief or warrior of said nation, residing as aforesaid, from meeting in council or treaty, any commissiones or commissioners on the part of the United States, for any purpose whatever. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That any person or body of persons offending against the provisions of the foregoing section, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, subject [Illegible Text] and on conviction, shall be confined at hard labor in the Penitentiary for not less than four, nor longer than six years, at the discretion of the court. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any [Illegible Text] or body of persons by arbitrary force or under colour of any [Illegible Text] rules, ordinances, law or custom of said nation, to take the life of [Illegible Text] Indian residing as aforesaid for enlisting as an emigrant, attempting to emigrate, ceding or attempting to cede as aforesaid, the while or any part of said territory, or meeting or attempting to meet in treaty or in council as aforesaid, any commissioner or commissioners as aforesaid; and any person or body of persons offending against the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of murder, subject to indictment, and on conviction shall suffer death by hanging.

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Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That should any of the foregoing offences be committed under colour of any pretended rules, ordinance, custom or law of said nation, all persons acting therein either as individuals or as pretended executive, ministerial or judicial officers, shall be deemed and considered as principals, and subject to the pains and penalties herein before prescribed. Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That for all demands which may come within the jurisdiction of a Magistrates court, suit may be brought for the same in the nearest district of the county to which the territory is hereby annexed, and all officers serving any legal process, or any person living on any portion of the territory herein named, shall be entitled to receive the sum of five cents for every mile he may ride to serve the same, after crossing the present limits of said counties, in addition to the fees already allowed by law; in case any of said officers should be resisted in the execution of any legal process issued by any court or Magistrate, Justice of the Inferior court or Judge of the Superior court of any of said counties, he is hereby authorised to call out a sufficient number of the militia of said counties to aid and protect him in the execution of his duty. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That no Indian or descendant of any Indian residing within the Creek or Cherckee nations of Indians, shall be deemed a competent witness in any court of this State to which a white person may be a party, except such white person resides within the said nation. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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JURORS. AN ACT to define the duties of Grand Jurors in this State so as respects the time they are to be considered bound to notice offences committed in their respective counties. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Grand Jurors shall be bound only to notice or make presentment of such offences as may or shall come to their knowledge or observation after they shall have been sworn, but nothing in this act shall be considered as impairing their right as jurors, to make presentments of any violations of the laws which they may know to have been committed at any previous time. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against the intent and meaning of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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LANDS. AN ACT to ascertain, dispose of, and appropriate the ungranted lands in the county of Chatham, and to vest the proceeds of the same in certain charitable societies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That all the ungranted unappropriated lands in the county of Chatham, shall be disposed of and appropriated, after the passing of this act in the manner hereinafter pointed out. Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Wm. B. Bulloch, Isaac Minis, William T. Williams, Robert W. Pooler and Alexander Telfair, be appointed commissioners, whose duty it shall be, to employ a fit and competent surveyor to designate the metes, boundaries and land marks, of all the ungranted lands in said county, and to draft a correct map of the said county, designating each grant. Sec. 3. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That within six months after said survey and map are completed and notice thereof to the Trustees, it shall be obligatory on the Trustees of the Chatham Academy to select five thousand acres of said land, for the sole use, benefit and behoof of said academy, and for which they, the said trustees, shall be entitled to, and shall obtain a grant or grants of the same upon payment of the usual fees. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the surplus of land vacant and ungranted in said county, over and above the said five thousand acres aforesaid, shall be sold by the said commissioners aforesaid, and on such terms and at such times as may in the opinion of a majority of them seem fit and proper, and the interest arising from the purchase money of said land, shall be annually paid over to the Treasurer of the county, whose duty it shall be, to pay over the same in equal proportions to the Treasurer of the Free school society in the city of Savannah, and the President of the Union Society, for the use of soid corporations:

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Provided no sale of said lands shall be made on credit, unless good and sufficient security of personal and real estate be given to said commissioners, to secure the payment of the principal and interest of the debt arising from said sale: And Provided also, that if the said lands be sold for eash or money, the said cash or money shall be invested in the stock of one of the chartered banks of the State in the name and for the use of the said Trustees of the Free school in said city afore aid, and the President of the Union Society; and the Treasurer of said county is hereby directed and required to draw from said bank or banks the dividend arising from said stock annually or semiannually, pay the same in equal proportions to the said Trustees of said Free school and the President of the Union Society, for the purpose of educating any poor orphans within the county aforesaid, whose parents have died residents thereof. Sec. 5. Be it enacted, That the said commissiners together with said Trustees of the Chatham academy, shall pay the Surveyor employed, in equal proportion, the compensation which the said commissioners may agree and covenant with the said surveyor, to pay for his services in making the survoy aforesaid, from the money arising from the first sale of said lands, or in any other manner they may deem just and equitable. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That where any person shall be in the actual occupation of said vacant lands, or purchased the same and improved them, it shall and may be lawful, for the commissioners to appoint one disinterested freeholder, and the persons in possession, another, who if they do not agree shall call in a third freeholder, and place a value on the said lands, exclusive of the improvements so made on them, and their judgment or decision shall be final and conclusive; and the persons in possession shall have the right of purchasing the same at such valuation, and on such terms as the commissioners and the purchasers may agree upon. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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AN ACT to limit the times of fraudulent returns in the late acquired Territory. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of July next, it shall not be lawful for any lot of land to be returned as fraudulently drawn, in the counties of Campbell, Coweta, Carroll, Troup, Meriwether, Talbot, Marion, Lee, Harris and Randolphany law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. MILITIA. AN ACT to amend the eighth section of an act entitled an act, to revise and consolidate the militia laws of this State, and to repeal the cavalry laws now in force, passed the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen. Whereas the eighth section of the above recited act requires two Captains and two Justices of the peace, or two Justices of the Inferior court, to superintend the elections of field officersAnd whereas it is many times found inconvenient

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to procure the attendance of said captains, from their being themselves candidates, or non attendance: For remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful, for any two Justices of the Inferior court, or Justices of the peace of the county, together with two freeholders, or a majority of them, to superintend said elections, and make return of the same as pointed out in said sectionany law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT for the encouragement of Volunteer Companies, in the counties of Monroe and Lincoln. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all volunteer companies which now are, or may hereafter be formed, in the counties of Monroe and Lincoln, shall be authorised to receive and enroll men as members of the said companies, from any part of the aforesaid counties without regard to regimental boundaries. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said volunteer companies shall be authorised to receive and enroll as members thereof, any number of men from any district: Provided that no militia company shall thereby be reduced below forty men, including officers.

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Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each of said volunteer companies, in addition to the officers to which they are now entitled, shall be authorised to elect a third lieutenant, under the same regulations as are now provided for the election of first and second lieutenants; which third lieutenant, so elected, shall be commissioned by the Governor. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this, be, and the same are hereby, in so far, repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. MEDICAL. AN ACT to alter the name of the Medical Academy of Georgia, and to extent the corporate powers of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Medical Academy of Georgia, shall be entitled and known as the Medical Institute of the State of Georgia. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Trustees together with the regular professors

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and teachers of the Medical Institute of Georgia, shall constitute a board, which is hereby authorised and empowed to confer the Degree of Doctor of Medicine upon such applicants, in such manner, at such times, and under such circumstances as may to the said board, seem fit and proper: Provided, that the degree of Doctor of Medicine shall in no case be conferred on any person who shall not have attended two full courses of lectures in the institute, or one course in some other respectable Medical College or University, and one in the Institute, in addition to the usual term of private instruction required by other institutions of a like kind. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDEN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. MINES. AN ACT to repeal an act entitled an act, to set apart and reserve for the use of the State all valuable ores, mines, and minerals, which have been or may hereafter be discovered upon lands which now are, or may hereafter be the property of the State of Georgia, and to make penal, and provide for the punishment of the removing, carrying away or secreting the same, to the loss of the State, and for other purposes, passed the twenty-fourth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-five. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is

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hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, all the before recited be, and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all and every person or persons who have obtained a grant or grants, issuing under the authority of the before recited act, or any person or persons who may hold a legal claim of titles from said grant or grants, shall have all the interests, benefits and profits of all the ores, mines, and minerals, as fully vested in them, as if no such law had been passed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 3, 1829. MORTGAGES. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend the judiciary of seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, so far as relates to mortgages on real estate. Be it enacted by the Scnate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, where any person or persons, his, her, or their agent or attorney shall petition the superior court, as prescribed by the judiciary of 1799, for the foreclosure of any mortgage on real estate, the court shall grant a rule directing that the principal and cost shall be paid into court within six months thereafter, which rule shall be published in one of the public gazettes of this State, once a month

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for four months, or served on the mortgagor or his, her, or their special agent or attorney, at least three months previvous to the time the money is directed to be paid: Provided that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to affect any mortgage which may exist at the time of the passage of this act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the said judiciary of 1799, and of the said amendatory act as militates against this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829. POOR. AN ACT to authorise the justices of the inferior courts of the counties of Jasper, Jones, and Monroe to provide and establish an asylum for the invalid poor of said counties, and to appoint directors for the management of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so soon as the justices of the inferior courts of the counties aforesaid shall have at their disposal sufficient funds, and deem the measure expedient, they shall be, and are hereby authorised, to appoint three suitable and discrect persons of said counties, who shall be denominated and styled the directors of the poor house of their respective counties. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said directors, when thus appointed, shall take and subscribe before any [Illegible Text]

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of the justices of the inferior court, the following oath:I, A. B. do solemnly swear that I will, according to the best of of my skill and ability, manage and so direct the affairs of the poor house asylum as shall seem to me best calculated to promote an economical and comfortable support of the invalid poor received at the same, and make annually a true return to the inferior court of all expenses incurred in conducting the affairs of said institutionSo held me God; which oath shall be entered on the minutes of the inferior court. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the directors aforesaid shall hold their office during good behavior, and a majority of them shall be competent to the transaction of business, and should either of them fail or refuse to do their duty as directors aforesaid, the inferior courts shall have power to remove them and appoint others in their place. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said directors, when thus appointed and qualified, shall immediately proceed, under the instructions of the inferior courts, to purchase a suitable tract of land for the use and occupation of the invalid poor of each county, contract for the erection of suitable buildings thereon, and make every other provision which to them may appear necessary to an economical and comfortable support of such invalid poor. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said directors shall have power to employ two suitable persons (male and female, who, in all cases shall be husband and wife,) to act as wardens and supervisors of said asylum, who shall reside on the premises and superintend the feeding, clothing and general management of the paupers, and attend to other duties under such instructions, rules and regulations as the directors shall from time to time prescribe, for which objects the said directors shall meet at said asylum at least once in three months, or oftener if the affairs of the institution shall seem to require it: they may also employ a physician to attend the paupers when sick, and such other persons as may seem best calculated to promote the ends and objects contemplated by this act. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the directors aforesaid shall, at the first term of the inferior court, in each year, lay before the justices of the same an exact account of the amount of expense incurred in conducting the affairs of said institution the preceeding year, at which time the inferior

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courts shall order an appropriation to be made in favor of said account (to be placed in the hands of the directors for its payment) if they shall deem the same correct and just. They may at the same time allow the said directors such compensation as may seem just and reasonable for their services in conducting the affairs of said institution. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all paupers, received at said asylums, shall be under such rules and regulations as shall hereafter be prescribed by the justices of the inferior courts, but no part of this act shall be so construed as to prevent the said justices from making any appropriations at any time in order to aid and facilitate the operations of said institution, or in favor of any poor persons, where they shall consider it will be more conductive to the interests of the county or more congenial with the feelings of humanity to keep them in [Illegible Text] other part of the county. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, PResident of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to authorise the justices of the inferior [Illegible Text] of Washington county to provide and establish an asylum for the invalid poor of said county. Be it enacted by the Senate of House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so soon as the justices of the inferior court of said county aforesaid shall have at their disposal sufficient funds, and deem the measure expedient, they shall be, and are hereby authorised to purchase for said county, a suitable site, consisting of arable or wood lands, for the use and occupation of the invalid poor of said county, erect suitable buildings, and make every other

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provision which to them may appear necessary to an economical and comfortable support of such invalid poor. Sec. 2. And be it enacted by the authority of the same, That said justices shall have full power to act themselves, or appoint curators, overseers, and other officers and agents for the care and management of the asylum and invalid poor aforesaid, make all orders, rales and regulations which they may deem conducive to the end and object contemplated by this act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That after the establishment of said asylum, the justices shall be entitled to apply an adequate portion of the poor school fund, appropriated to the use of said county, to the education of the poor children residing at and near said asylum, subject however to the same accountability that is provided by any general law on that [Illegible Text]. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec, 19, 1829. PENITENTIARY. AN ACT to alter and amend the eighth and ninth sections of the ninth division of the penal code, passed the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventeen. Whereas the said two sections have been found, upon experience, inadequate to effect the purposes for which they were intended, 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 if any person shall, by himself or servant, or other agent, for his gain

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or living, keep, have, exercise, use or maintain a gaming house or room, or shall, for his gain or living, in any house, place or room, occupied by him, permit persons with his knowledge to come together and play for money, or any other valuable thing, at any game of faro, loo, brag, bluff, or any other game played with cards, he or she shall, on conviction thereof, be punished by confinement in the Penitentiary at hard labor for a term not less than one year nor longer than five years. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall, by himself or servant, or any other agent, keep or employ any Faro Table, E. O. Table, or A. B. C. Table, or other Table of like character, and shall either by himself or agent, preside or deal at any Faro Table, or use any E. O. or A. B. C. Table, or other Table of like character, for the purpose of playing and betting at the same, such person or persons, together with his or their agent or agents, shall, on conviction, be sentenced to be imprisoned at hard labor in the Penitentiary for a term of years not less than one nor more than five years. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall play and bet at any game of faro, loo, bragg, or bluff, or shall play and bet at any E. O. or A. B. C. table, or any other table of like character, such person shall, on conviction, be sentenced to pay a fine not less than twenty nor more than one hundred dollars. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That on the trial of any person under this act, any other person, who may have played and betted at the same time or table, shall be a competent witness, and compelled to give evidence, and nothing then said by such witness shall at any time be received or given in evidence against him in any prosecution against the said witness, except on an indictment for perjury, in any matter to which he may have testified. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the judges of the superior courts to give this act particularly in charge to the grand juries. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the before recited eighth and ninth sections of the ninth division of the before mentioned penal code, and all acts, or parts of acts, militating against this act, are hereby repealed, except as to offences already committed against the provisions of the said

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eighth and ninth sections, which shall be punishable as therein directed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT for changing the manner of punishing convicts in the Penitentiary, and for the better regulation of the samealso, for adding to, and amending the penitentiary buildings, and for applying the money appropriated for the support of the Penitentiary, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to the repairs and alterations in the penitentiary buildings, herein contemplated. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary, under the direction and superintendence of the Inspectors, to cause to be erected, as soon as practicable, after the passage of this act, in the penitentiary buildings, one hundred and fifty cells suited for the reception of one convict each. Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the convicts now in the Penitentiary, or so many of them as may be necessary, shall be employed in the erecting of said cells, or such other alterations in, or additions to the penitentiary buildings, as may be herein required. Sec. 3. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Principal Keeper of the Penitentiary, under the direction of the Inspectors, be, and he is hereby required to make such alterations in the location and construction of the workshops in the Penitentiary as may be necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act.

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Sec. 4. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of five thousand dollars, appropriated heretofore for the support of the Penitentiary, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, be, and the same is hereby made a fund to be applied to defraying the expenses of such alterations, improvements, and additions to the penitentiary buildings as are herein directed to be made, and that the same be paid out for said purpose, to the Principal Keeper, under the direction of his Excellency the Governor, in such manner, and at such time as he may think most expedient and best. Sec. 4 And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Principal Keeper so to arrange the convicts at labor, that they may be under the personal inspection of some one of the keepers at all times, whose duty it shall be to prevent them from holding intercourse one with another, either by words or signs. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the convicts shall be punished with solitary confinement in cells provided for that purpose, at all times except during the hours of labor and the time allowed by law for taking their meals, so soon as practicable, under the provisions of this act. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Principal Keeper, together with the Inspectors, are hereby authorised and required to make such bye-laws and regulations as they may think necessary to carry into effect the provisions of this act. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Principal Keeper, and each and every officer under him, shall remain in the department to which he belongs, during the hours of business (unless absent by special leave of the Inspectors,) and for a violation of this regulation it shall be the duty of the Inspectors to report the officer offending to the Governor, who may for the first infraction reprove, and for the second dismiss him. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Principal Keeper, and he is hereby required, on the first day of January, in each year, or as early thereafter as practicable, to make out and present to the Inspectors an estimate of all the materials necessary to carry on the various departments of business in said institution for the year, which, for timber, shall be at least one year in advance; and it shall be the duty of said Inspectors, or a majority of them, to

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order the purchase of the same, from time to time, as the funds on hand may enable them; and it shall further be the duty of said Inspectors, as soon as the estimate aforesaid is made out and presented by the Principal Keeper, to advertise that they [Illegible Text] let out upon contract, to the lowest bidder, all supplies of lumber and materials, for the use of said Institution, for the ensuing year, and specify the remotest period for its delivery; and it shall be their duty to require bond and sufficient security from all contractors, conditioned for the faithful performance of their said contract, and upon their failure to comply, as aforesaid, it shall be lawful for the said Inspectors to purchase the deficiency on the best terms in their power, and charge the difference in price (if any) to the contractor, which said difference they may sue for and recover in any court having competent jurisdiction in this State. Sec. 9. And it further enacted, That no officer of said Institution shall be contractor for supplies or materials of any description, or be the security of others entering into contracts for supplies for said institution. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the Physician of the Penitentiary shall receive a salary of three hundred dollars per annum for all the duties required of him by law. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to amend the penal code, passed in the year eighteen hundred and seventeen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, any person or persons who shall felloniously abduct or kidnap any free white person or persons from out the limits of any local jurisdiction or county, or from out the limits of this State, shall be punished by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a space of time not less than five or more than seven years, any law or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829. RELIEF LAWS. AN ACT to extend the time for fortunate drawers in the land lotteries of eighteen hundred and eighteen, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and eighteen hundred and twenty-one, to take out grants for the lands thus drawnand after the time therein specified, to vest the same in the State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That every person who

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was a fortunate drawer in the land lotteries by authority of the acts passed on the fifteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and ninteen, and on the fifteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-one, shall have until the first day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty, to take out his, her or their grant, upon paying into the treasury the sum of eight dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the first day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty, the lands so drawn as aforesaid, and not granted, shall revert to and become the property of the State. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not extend to any lot or lots of land drawn by orphans, until three years after the said orphans shall have arrived at the age of twenty-one years, nor to any lots drawn by idiots, or lunatics, or persons who have departed this life since they gave in for a draw or draws in said lotteries of eighteen hundred and eighteen, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and eighteen hundred and twenty-one, and whose estates are unrepresented, nor to any lots number ten and one hundred, set apart for the purposes of public education. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor, to cause this act to be published in all the public gazettes of this State, once a month until the first day of November next, and that he cause the expenses of such publication to be paid out of the contingent fund. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 9, 1829.

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AN ACT to extend the time for fortunate drawers in the land lottery of eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, to take out their grants. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all and every person who was a fortunate drawer in the land lottery by authority of an act passed the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and by virtue of an act passed on the twenty-fourth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-five; also by virtue of an act passed on the fourteenth day of December, eighteen hundered and twenty-six, shall have until the twenty-fifth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty, to take out his, her or their grant or grants for the land drawn by him, her or them, under the same restrictions as heretofore practised, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Represenatatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to extend the time for fortunate drawers in the land lottery of eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, to take out their grants. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all and every person who was a fortunate drawer in the land lottery by authority of the act passed the [Illegible Text] day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, shall have until the twenth-fifth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty, to take out his, her or their grant or grants for the land drawn by him, her

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or them, and that a grant or grants shall issue to him, her or them, for the same, according to the provisions of the twenty-first section of the said act, on paying into the treasury of this State the sum of twelve dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating against this, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of certain fortunate drawers in the land lottery authorised by the acts of June ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and December twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and to point out the manner in which land drawn by illegitimate children shall descend. 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 where any person or persons shall have been fortunate drawers in the land lottery authorised by the acts of June ninth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and December twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and who may have been returned as an orphan or orphans, by the person who may have given in their names for a draw or draws, when in fact said person or persons may have been an [Illegible Text] child or children, shall not be held, deemed or considered as a fraudulent draw, under any of the provisions of said acts, but the same shall be as fully and entirely vested in him, her or them, as if no such misrepresentation, as aforesaid, had been made by the person who gave in the name or names of said person or persons, for a draw or draws, any law to the countrary nothwithstanding.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any illegitimate child, having drawn a lot of land in the said lottery, and who has or may die intestate, without child or children, or the representatives of children, and without brothers or sisters on the maternal side, then and in that case, the said land shall descend to, and vest in the mother. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to change the names of certain persons therein mentioned, and to legitimatise those persons whose names are so changed, and to constitute Martha Beauchamp the legal heir and representative of Isaiah Parker of DeKalb county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, that the persons now known by the name of William Pratt, born in lawful wedlock, of Wayne county, be changed to that of William Campbell; and that the name of Berian Swett of Wayne county, be changed to that of Berian Henderson; and that the name of Newton Bell of Jackson county, be changed to that of Newton Green; and that the name of John Anderson Phelps of Jasper county, be changed to that of John Anderson Barelay; and that the name of John Hulsey of Habersham county, be changed to that of John Wesley Charles; and that the name of James Bexly of Walton county, be changed to that of James Smith; and the name of Berry Coleman Duke of Newton county, be changed to that of Berry Coleman Tate. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the names of Jane Green and Ezekiel Green of [Illegible Text] county, be changed to

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that of Jane Parish and Ezekiel Parish; and the name of John W. Stewart of Jasper county, be changed to that of John W. Winslett; and the name of Emily Williamson of Coweta county, be changed to that of Emily Penticost; and that the names of [Illegible Text] Godfrey, Nancy Godfre, Freeman Godfrey, and Enoch [Illegible Text] of Burke county, be changed to that of Susannah Mulky, Nancy Mulky, Freeman Mulky, and Enoch Mulky; and that the name of Robert Douglas Jackson of Decatur county, be changed to that of Robert Jackson Douglas; and the name of Mary Ann Collins of Chatham county, who was born in lawful wedlock, be changed to that of [Illegible Text] Rynson Cook; and the name of J. R. Jenkins be changed to that of A. J. Sutton of Habersham county; Joseph Merrit of Burke county, to that of Joseph Perry; the name of Redding Gibbs of Irwin county, to that of Redding Durham, and to legitimatise the same; the name of Amanda C. F. White to that of Amanda C. F. Bracewell of Pulaski county, and legitimatise the same; the name of Nancy Groom of Appling county, to that of Nancy Hagan; and the name of Lewis J. Cherrytree of Wayne county, to that of Lewis J. Pendarvis, who was born in lawful wedlock. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all and each of them are hereby declared to be fully and completely legitimatised and entitled to all the rights and legal privileges, and capable of taking, inheriting, and receiving all manner of property, by the statute of distribution, as they, or any of them, would have been entitled to, had they been born in lawful wedlock, so far as respects the estates of their respective reputed fathers. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That Martha Beauchamp, wife of William Beauchamp of DeKalb county, be, and she is hereby constituted the legal heir and representative of Isaiah Parker of said county, in as full and ample a manner as if she had been the legitimate child of the said Isaiah, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to legalize and make valid certain deed records, as recorded in book marked A, in the clerk's office of the superior court of Henry county, and to authorise the justices of the inferior court of said county to pay for transcribing the same. Whereas at the organization of said county, a number of deeds of conveyance were recorded in books not bound, and the same having since been transcribed as aforesaid, Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the justices of the inferior court of said county, or a majority of them, to examine the said transcript, and compare the same with the original record, and if the same be correctly transcribed, they shall certify the same and deposit the said record book in the clerk's office of the superior court of said county, and the same shall become a part of the records of said county, and shall be held as good and valid in law as though the same had never been transcribed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the justices aforesaid shall allow whatever in their discretion shall seem to be a reasonable compensation for transcribing the aforesaid record out of the county funds of said county Provided, the said court is left discretional whether they will pay for said transcript or not. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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AN ACT for the relief of James D. Lester, and to authorise the Governor to issue grants to purchasers of public lands, where the certificates have been lost, and the full amount of the purchase money is paid. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Governor shall cause a grant to issue in the name of James D. Lester, for half of lot number two hundred and thirty-five in the twelfth district of Monroe county, on his paying into the Treasury of this State the grant fees: Provided it shall fully appear that all the purchase money shall have been paid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in all similar cases, where it shall be made fully appear that all the purchase money has been paid, the Governor may cause a grant or grants to issue to any person or persons so applying, and paying into the Treasury all the grant fees. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to change the name of William Parker, to that of William Bryant, and to legitimatise said William Bryantalso to alter and change the names of Mary Barbara Harbuck, Thomas Henry Harbuck, and Eliza Jane Harbuck to that of Mary Barbara Fisher, Thomas Henry Fisher and Eliza Jane Fisher. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That immediately after the passage of this act, the person now known by the name of William Parker, be, and the same is hereby changed to that of William Bryant, and that Mary Barbara Harbuck, Thomas Henry Harbuck and Eliza Jane Harbuck, be called and known by the names of Mary Barbara Fisher, Thomas Henry Fisher and Eliza Jane Fisher. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said William Bryant is hereby declared to be fully and completely legitimatised, and entitled to all the [Illegible Text] and privileges which he would have been entitled to, had he been born in lawful wedlock; and fully capable of taking, inheriting and receiving all kind of property by virtue of the statute of distributions of this State, so far as regards the estate both real and personal of Benjamin Bryant, the reputed father of the said William Bryant: Provided this act shall not enable the said William Bryant to inherit to the exclusion of any child or children of the said Benjemin Bryant, born or who may hereafter be born in lawful wedlock. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT for the relief of the drawers or owners of land in the [Illegible Text] district of Irwin (formerly) now Lowndes county, and to authorise the county surveyor to close lines where they are now open in said county. Whereas it appears that the said district originally, was inaccurately surveyed, and that in making a resurvey of the same, under a resolution of the last session of the Legislature a derangement of the lots as originally marked, numbered and granted has, or will take place throughout the whole district, whereby in many cases the drawers and owners of said lots will lose a part or the whole of their land, with the improvements thereon to their great injury: for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in all and every case in the said eleventh district in the county of Lowndes, wherever the lot as originally marked and numbered, can be identified as the land granted by the number, corner and station trees, the drawer or owner of the said land, shall be entitled to the same without regard to the exact quantity of acres it may contain, or precise distances, of the lines, and should the lot upon admeasurement prove to contain more acres, than the grant calls for, it shall enure to the benefit of the drawer or owner, and should the quantity fall short it shall be his loss. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the county surveyor of the said county, upon the request of the drower or owner of any lot, or lots of land in any district of the said county, to run round the said lots of land according to the lines originally run, when the same can be ascertained, and where the lines are open to close the same by running from corner to corner of the said lot, without regard to the course and distance of the line or lines, at the expense of the owner or drawer of the said land. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That where the said lands in the said eleventh district, cannot be identified as aforesaid, the lots may be numbered so as to correspond with the grants for the same by the county surveyor, as nearly as he can, according to the [Illegible Text] plan of numbering the said district

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the surveyor employed to resurvey the said district, shall cease to proceed with said work so soon as he shall be informed of the passage of this act. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of the Grand and Petit Jurors of Columbia county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That after March term, eighteen hundred and thirty, the Judge of the Superior Court of Columbia county, shall cause to be drawn, and empauneiled, at least fifty Grand and seventy-two Petit Jurors to serve at each succeeding term thereafter, in said county, or until the business of that court can be completed in one week. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Sheriff of the county of Columbia, to summon one half of the grand and petit jurors so drawn and empannelled to attend the second week of said court; and in summoning said grand and petit jurors, it shall be the duty of the Sheriff to take the jurors alternately as they stand on the venire facias, and to designate in his summons, the week such juror must attend said court, as a grand or petit [Illegible Text] and no grand or petit juror shall be compelled to serve more than one week, at any one time of the Superior court in said county, unless the grand or petit

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jury should be charged with a civil or criminal cause, upon which they have not decidedIn that event, they shall attend the court until said cause be disposed of, and no longer. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Judge of the Superior court, after a full grand jury and two pannels of petit jurors are empannelled and sworn, at the opening of the court, all the rest of the grand and petit jurors summoned to attend said court on that week, may be discharged. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to make valid the sale of certain lots of land, situated in the first district of Muscogee county originally, now Crawford county, sold by the Sheriff of said county of Crawford, on the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. Whereas by an act of the General Assembly of this State, passed on the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty eight, authorising the Sheriff of Crawford county to sell and dispose of certain lots of land, situate in the first district of Muscogee county; the said Sheriff did, on the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, proceed to sell certain lots of land, situate as aforesaid, as the property of the State, and required of the purchasers of said lots, one fifth of the purchase money only, to be paid in hand, through mistake, when he should have required

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one fourth of the purchase money to have been paid in hand, in terms of the statute, herein the said sale is illegal: for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the sale of the square lots of land, made by the Sheriff of Crawford county, in the first district of originally Muscogee county, as the property of the State, on the seventeenth day of April, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, be, and is hereby made legal and valid to all intents and purposes: Provided, the said Sheriff shall, within two months after the passage of this act, pay over to the Treasury of this State the one fifth of the amount of the sale aforesaid. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829. AN ACT to admit David J. Bailey of Butts county, [Illegible Text] Hemphill of Lincoln county, John A. Campbell of Wilkes county, Gray A. Chandler of Warren county, Robert McCarthy of Monroe county, William A. Black of Chatham county, and Robert A. Tooms of Wilkes county, to plead and practice law in the several courts of Law and Equity in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, David J. Bailey of Butts county, Hiram Hemphill of Lincoln county, John A. Campbell of Wilkes county, Gray A. Chandler of Warren county,

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Robert McCarthy of Monroe county, William A. Black of Chatham county, and Robert A. Tooms of Wilkes county, be, and they are hereby authorised and admitted to plead and practice law in the several courts of law and equity in this State, upon their undergoing an examination in open court according to the laws of this State. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each and every of the aforesaid persons, shall be held, deemed and considered [Illegible Text] and responsible for all his acts and contracts, in the same manner, and to the same extent as if he were of full age. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of the securities of Alfred [Illegible Text] Tax collector of Laurens county, for the year eighteen hundred and eighteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly [Illegible Text] and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Jacob Farmer, Henry Culpepper and Charles Powell, securities for Alfred Thompson, Tax collector of Laurens county for the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, be, and they are hereby fully and entirely discharged from their liability, as securities as aforesaid, as soon as they fully pay up and discharge the principal sum that is yet due to the State by the said Alfred Thompson, Tax collector as aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so soon as the said principal sum aforesaid, is fully paid up and discharged, (if any yet remains due) the Comptroller

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General is hereby required to stop the farther progress of any execution that may have issued from his office against the said Alfred Thompson, tax collector, as aforesaid, and his securities, Jacob Farmer, Henry Culpepper and Charles Powell, and to cause the same to be filed away in his office as satisfied so far as regards the said securities, by virtue of the passage of this act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, that militate against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 27, 1829. AN ACT to authorise David Ryerson of the State of New Jersey, Guardian of Margaret Rembert Taylor, to sell and dispose of certain negroes, and to perform other acts in behalf of his said Ward, in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That David Ryerson of the State of New Jersey, Guardian of Margaret Rembert Taylor, one of the children of Hugh Taylor, late of the county of Hancock, deceased, be and he is hereby authorised, by himself, or his agent or attorney in fact, to sell and dispose of the slaves bequeathed and set off to his said Ward, as fully and effectually as if the said David Ryerson had obtained letters of Guardianship from the competent authority in this State: Provided the said Guardian should comply with the laws of this State, regulating sales by Guardians, and shall produce and deposit with the Court of Ordinary of said county of Hancock, satisfactory evidence that sufficient security has been given by him, to any

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court in the State of New Jersey, having jurisdiction of orphans, for the faithful performance of his duties as Guardian, for the said Margaret Rembert Taylor. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said David Ryerson and any future Guardian of the said Margaret be, and he is hereby authorised to receive from the executors of the last will and testament of the said Hugh Taylor, all the property, money and effects to which his said Ward is, or may be entitled under said will, as fully and effectually as if he were constituted Guardian by the authority of a court of ordinary of this State, on his complying with the second clause in the proviso in the aforesaid first section contained. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to authorise the Justices of the Inferior court of DeKalb county to relieve James Guess and Lindsey McPost, from the payment of a judgment entered against them as the securities of Charles Williams, upon a forfeited recognizance. Whereas James Guess and Lindsey McPost, did heretofore enter themselves as the securities of one Charles Williams, for his appearance at the April Term, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, of the Superior court of DeKalb county, and the said Williams having failed to appear, a judgment has since been entered against the said securities, for the sum of five hundred dollars, the amount of said bond. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That

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from and after the passage of this act the Justices of the Inferior court of DeKalb county or a majority of them, be, and they are hereby fully authorised to discharge the said James Guess and Lindsey McPost, securities as aforesaid, from the payment of the whole or any part of said judgment, that they may think proper: Provided they shall not be authorised to discharge them from the payment of the costs of said judgment. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, [Illegible Text] AN ACT for the relief of the Butchers and Venders of meats in the city of Augusta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty, it shall not be lawful for the City Council of Augusta to assess or lay any tax upon the regular butchers in said city, or upon their meats vended therein, by way of fees or otherwise exceeding the sum of fifty dollars per annum for each single stall in the market-house of said city. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the stalls in said Market-house, upon which said assessment is to be made, shall not be diminished in size, but shall be designated by the pillars at present standing in said market-house:

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said tax shall be paid quarter yearly in advance to the city council or their order, which shall be in full satisfaction for the privilege of vending meats in said market, and for the use of said stallsany law, ordinance or usage to the countrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 4, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of George Madray. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Inferior Court of the county of Burke, be, and they are hereby authorised to remit to George Madray of the said county of Burke, a certain fine of the amount of twenty dollars which was imposed on him as a defaulting petit juror by the superior court, at the adjourned term of the said court, held in January in the year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 3, 1829.

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AN ACT to legitimatise and change the names of Nancy Daniel and Lucy Jane Daniel, to that of Nancy Crisp and Lucy Jane Crisp. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, that Nancy Daniel and Lucy Jane Daniel of Columbia, shall be known and called by the names of Nancy Crisp and Lucy Jane Crisp, and that the persons aforesaid, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be fully and completely legitimatised, and entitled to all the rights and legal privileges, that they would have been entitled to, had they been born in lawful wedlock, and shall be capable of inheriting all manner of property, under and by virtue of the statute of distribution, so far as relates to the real and personal estate of Moses P. Crisp their reputed father. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to change the names of certain persons therein mentioned. 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 from, and immediately after the passage of this act, Eliza Sauls, Elijah

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Sauls, Henry Sauls, and Elias Sauls, shall be called and known by the names of Eliza Shuman, Elijah Shuman Henry Shuman and Elias Shuman, and William Smith to that of William B. Smith. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of Edmund G. Berry and James Berry. Whereas Edmund G. Berry and James Berry became bound in three several recognizances of one thousand dollars each, as security for the appearance of William T. Berry, at Morgna Superior court, upon which judgments have been entered up for the sums aforesaid; and whereas there is some probability of the said securities being able to surrender up the body of their said principal, Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Solicitor General of the Oakmulgee circuit be, and he is hereby directed to order a suspension of all further proceedings upon said judgments until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That should the said Edmund G. Berry and James Berry, or either of them deliver into the hands of the Sheriff of Morgan county, or to the keeper of the common jail thereof, the body of the said William T. Berry, on or before the first day of January,

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eighteen hundred and thirty-one, then and in that case the said securities shall be, and they are hereby declared to be fully exoncrated and discharged from their said recognizances, and the said judgments thereon renderedany law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Sheriff of Newton county, shall be, and he is hereby directed to surrender up into the hands of said securities, the property of said securities heretofore levied upon, upon the said securities giving bond with good and sufficient security, payable to the State of Georgia, in the amount of the judgments upon said recognisances, conditioned to be void only, upon the delivery of said William T. Berry, into the hands of the Sheriff of Morgan county, or the keeper of the jail of said county, on or before the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one; and which bond so given, shall be subject to be sued upon, in favor of the Trustees of Madison, Morgan county, Academy, and collected for their use, so soon as the condition thereof shall be forfeited in any court of law, having jurisdiction thereof in this State. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of John Hales, of Madison county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Justices of the Inferior court of said county, be, and they are hereby authorised, should they think proper so to do, to release the said John Hales from the payment of a judgment

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entered against him, as one of the securities for the appearance of Sanford C. Clark, at a Superior court of said county, on the payment of all costs. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. ROADS. AN ACT to provide for the improvement of the Roads and Rivers in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so soon after the passage of this act, as circumstances may require, it shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor, to appoint two fit and proper persons to superintend the improvement of the public roads and the rivers of this State, who shall be removeable from office at the pleasure of the Governor, who in case of such removal may appoint others in their stead. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, including the twenty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated for the improvement of the Savannah river above Augusta, be, the same is hereby appropriated, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise pledged, to for the purchase of such a number of able bodied [Illegible Text]

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within the State of Georgia, and who have been in Georgia twelve months, as will, in addition to the number now owned by the State, amount to the number of one hundred and ninety. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as the two said superintendants shall be appointed, they shall be respectively assigned by his Excellency the Governor to take charge of the public hands as follows: that is to say, one to take charge of the public hands to be placed at Augusta, Savannah and Milledgeville; and one to take charge of the public hands to be placed at Macon and Columbus, and on the waters of Flint river, as hereinafter provided; and such superintendants shall place the public hands so placed under their charge respectively, on such public roads and rivers, as are hereinafter provided for and designated. And the said superintendants are hereby authorised and directed to take charge of the said public hands so committed to them, and place the same to work accordingly within their respective districts. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as soon as the said superintendants are appointed, that his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised to place the public hands now working on the river Chattahoochee, or which are in that neighborhood, at Columbus, provided the number so placed there does not exceed twenty-five; and to place the public hands now, or lately working on the Ocmulgee at Macon, provided the number so placed there does not exceed twenty-five, including those lately working on the Ocmulgee and now hired out; and to place the hands now working on the Oconee, at Milledgeville, provided the number so placed there does not exceed fifteen, and the residue of the said public hands, including those now working on the Altamaha river or its branches, below or near Darien, at Augusta, provided the same does not exceed seventy-five, and that the remainder, if any, together with others to be purchased under and by virtue of this act to make up the number of twenty-five, be placed at Savannah; and twenty-five at Flint river; and after the said twenty-five be so placed at Savannah, then the hands remaining to be purchased in pursuance of this act, shall, as soon after the purchase as practicable, be placed at Augusta, Milledgeville, Macon and Columbus, as may be most convenient, until the whole number placed at Augusta shall amount to seventy-fivethe whole number placed at Milledgeville to fifteenthe whole number placed at Macon to

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twenty-fivethe whole number placed at Columbus to twenty-five; and the whole number placed at Flint river, twenty five. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the public hands lately working on the Ocmulgee and now hired out, shall immediately after the expiration of the term for which they are now hired out, be placed at Macon in addition to the public hands [Illegible Text] placed there by virtue of this act, provided the same do not exceed twenty-five in number, in which case only that number shall be placed there. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if after the purchase of the negroes provided for by this bill, any balance of the money hereby appropriated, shall remain unexpended, that then the same shall be invested in the purchase of negroes to be added to those hereinbefore directed to be placed at Milledgeville. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That James Everett of Crawford county, John Young of Houston county, Thomas E. Ward of Dooly county, Robert Green of Marion, Benjamin O. Keaton of Lee county, Isaac Welch of Baker county, Bennet Crawford of Decatur county, Richard Mitchell of Thomas county, Matthew Albriton of Lowndes county, (a majority of whom may act) be and they are hereby appointed a Board of Commissioners, to superintend the improvement of Flint river and the roads in that portion of this State, through which said river flows south of the Federal road leading from Macon to Columbus, who shall be vested with the same, and equal powers, granted to the commissioners and city councils, by this act, of the incorporated towns of this State, having the supervisorship of the hands appropriated for the improvement of the rivers and roads of this State. Sec. 8. And be further it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be seven overseers appointed in manner following, that is to say: two by the city council of Augusta: one by the city council of Savannah, and one by the commissioners of each of the towns of Milledgeville, Macon and Columbus, and by the commissioners of Flint river respectivelyAnd the said city councils and boards of commissioners respectively, are hereby authorised to make such appointments, and with the concurrence of the superintendant of the division to remove them from office and appoint others in their stead.

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Sec. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the said superintendants respectively, to superintend and control the public hands placed under their charge respectively as aforesaid to provide for their clothing, maintenance and support, and to purchase such implements and tools, horses, carts, camp equipage and other necessaries for their use, as they may need, in addition to such as the State now owns. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said superintendants respectively, to place the hands assigned to their charge as aforesaid, at each city or town as aforesaid, under the direction of the overseers respectively appointed by the authorities, as aforesaid, and to proceed with all possible dispatch, to work on and improve such roads and rivers as may be designated to them, in the manner and by the authority hereinafter provided. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said superintendants shall each receive the sum of eigh hundred dollers per annum for his services, and the said overseers each three hundred dollars per annum for his services per year, to be paid quarterly, provided that said salaries shall not be deemed to commence until they shall have respectively actually commenced to discharge their respective dutiesand that in addition to the salaries so allowed, the said overseers shall be furnished with provisions, by the superindant at the public expense. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the city councils of Augusta and Savannah respectively, and the commissioners of the towns of Milledgeville, Macon and Columbus, and the commissioners of Flint river respectively, shall be, and they are hereby authorised to select, designate and direct from time to time as occasion may require, the road or roads, river or rivers, or parts of rivers on which the public hands placed at their respective cities or towns, or places as aforesaid shall work: provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorise them at any time to employ the said negroes to work within the corporation limits, or to authorise the said city councils or commissioners, or any of them, or the said superintendants, to direct or require the said negroes to work on the rivers more than once a year, nor for a longer period than four months in any one year, at the discretion of said authorities; and it shall be the duty of the said superintendants respectively, at all times, to employ the said hands respectively

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on such roads, or rivers, or parts of rivers as may be so selected and designated by the said authorities respectively, conformably to the true intent and meaning of this act. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said superintendants, in the respective divisions assigned to them, shall have power to alter and fix the direction of said roads which may be so designated to them, not materially affecting the route of said roads, if in the opinion of such superintendant, such alteration would conduce to the improvement or shortening of the same: provided that if any person or persons through whose inclosed premises such alteration of said road may run, shall think themselves or him, or herself aggrieved or injured thereby, he, she or they, shall be entitled to the same remedy as is pointed out by the road laws of this State now in force. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person or persons whatsoever, shall wilfully and intentionally impede or attempt to impede the said superintendants or either of them, or the said overseers or either of them, or the said public hands, in working on the road or roads which may be selected and designated for them to work upon as aforesaid, he, she or they, so offending, shall be liable to indictment before the Superior court held in the county where the offence was committed, and shall on conviction thereof, be fined in a sum not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars; and further, if any person or persons shall knowingly, intentionally and wilfully stop up, obstruct, or turn, or change any public road, or the direction thereof which shall have been laid out, or made, or worked upon or improved, under and by virtue of this act, such person or persons so offending shall be liable to indictment in the Superior court held in such county, and on conviction thereof, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding two hundred dollars. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of said superintendants, constantly to attend to, and direct the said overseers and hands, and to make quarterly returns to his Excellency the Governor, of the amount and manner of his disbursement of the moneys committed to his charge, together with such vouchers for the same as may be satisfactory to the Governor; the improvements made on the roads and rivers, the [Illegible Text] and number of the hands and generally of every other matter and thing connected with his duties as superintendant as aforesaid.

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Sec. 16. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions and objects of this act, that the further sum of fifteen thousand dollars, be, and is hereby set apart and appropriated out of any funds in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, which sum hereby added to the contingent funds. And his Excellency is the Governor is hereby authorised to draw his warrants in favor of the said superintendants respectively upon such contingent fund for such amount as may be necessary from time to time, for carrying on the improvements aforesaid, purchasing tools and other necessaries for the negroes, and for paying the salaries of the superintendants and overseers as herein before provided. Sec. 17. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That before entering upon the discharge of their respective duties, the said superintendants shall each enter into bond and good security to his Excellency the Governor, and his successors in office, in the sum of five thousand dollars, for the faithful performance of his trust, and the proper and faithful disbursement of all money which may come into his hands, as superintendant as aforesaid, and that they shall respectively take an oath before his Excellency the Governor, that they will respectively truly do and perform all the duties required of them as superintendants as aforesaid. Sec. 18. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised and required, forthwith, to employ such number of fit and competent agents as to him may seem necessary, whose duty it shall be to purchase, for the use of the State, the additional number of able-bodied negroes, directed and intended to be purchased by virtue of this act, and who shall be allowed for their trouble such compensation as may to his Excellency the Governor seem just and reasonableand further, that whenever any such age t may purchase any such negro or negroes, for the use of the State, according to the provisions of this act, it shall be his duty carefully to examine the title, and to take a bill of sale for the negro or negroes, so purchased by him, to the Governor of the State of Georgia, for the time being, and his successors in office, for the use of said State, and to cause the same to be duly executed, authenticated, and proved, according to law; and transmit the same to his Excellency the Governor, to be filed and recorded in the office of the Secretary of State, and his Excellency the Governor is hereby authorised to accept the draft or drafts of the said agent, for the amount of the

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purchase money of the said negro or negroes, and to draw warrants for the same on the Treasurer, to be paid out of the money appropriated for that purpose, by the second section of this act. Sec. 19. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the superintendants shall not be permitted to furnish, in their own proper persons, or by any agent they may appoint, any article or articles for the support [Illegible Text] maintenance, or clothing of the said hands, or any implements, tools, or camp equipage, which may be required for their use or the progress of the improvement of the said roads or rivers, but shall procure all and every article which may be required, as above, at the lowest market price. Sec. 20. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing contained in this act, shall be so construed is in any manner to affect the operation of the road laws now in force in this State, save and except in so far as the same may interfere with the free exercise of the powers hereby vested in, and the full and faithful discharge of the duties hereby required to be performed by the said superintendants and overseers, as herein before provided. Sec. 21. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all law, and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829.

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AN ACT to alter the eighth section of an act entitled an act to alter and amend the road laws in this State, so far as respects the county of Irwin. Whereas by the eighth section of the above recited act, the overseers of the public roads are required to cause their respective roads to be cleared out at least thirty feet wide, and all causeways at least sixteen feet wideAnd whereas no necessity exists in the county of Irwin for this requisition, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for all overseers of public roads in the county of Irwin, to cause their respective roads to be cleared out not less than twenty feet wide, and causeways not less than twelve feet wide, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to alter the time of the annual meeting of the Board of Commissioners of public roads for the county of Chatham, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, that it may be lawful for the commissioners of the public roads of the county of Chatham to meet and convene, as a board of commissioners, on the first Monday in December, in each year.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners aforesaid, to receive returns from the commissioners of the several districts of the county, after the work has been done, and to impose and declare such fines and forfeitures for neglect or omission of duty, in relation to said roads, by any commissioners of any of said districts, as may to the said board seem reasonable and just. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all authority and power, heretofore granted by the several acts of the General Assembly of this State, to the said board of commissioners, are hereby confirmed. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all acts, or parts thereof, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829. AN ACT to alter, in part, and amend the road laws of this State, so far as respects the county of Camden. 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 Alexander Holzendorf, Richard Floyd, and Henry Jones, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners for that part of the public roads in the county of Camden, denominated the fourth district of public roads in said county; and they, the said commissioners, are hereby empowered and required to employ all the hands liable or amenable to perform road duty in that part of the fourth district lying southward of the road leading from the main post road, and passing Grant's, Pratt's, and Woodville

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plantations; and including on the northward and on the eastward side of said road, the hands on Woodville, Bellevue, and Fairfield plantations only, to work upon, clear, amend, repair, erect, and improve the several roads and bridges, fords, causeways, and water-passes within said fourth district, and also upon the road leading from it, and passing the Hermitage, Brailsford's, and Holzendorf's plantations, to the main post road, intersecting it near Crooked river bridge. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners shall have full power and authority to compel the attendance of such persons as are liable to do road duty within said limits, and to do and exercise all other acts and things in relation to their duty, as are delegated to road commissioners, under the existing laws of this State. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners, and the hands in that part of the fourth district embraced in this act, shall be exempt from the performance of any other road duty, except when violent hurricanes materially injure and render impassable the main post road between Crooked river bridge and Brown's ferry, and in such cases only shall they be called out to work on said part of the main post road, and for a term not exceeding two daysand they shall be liable to all the penalties for a failure to comply with the provisions of this act, or to keep said roads, within the fourth district, in good order. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all the hands on the Little Satilla Neck, east of the Cross Swamp, in said county, liable or amenable to perform road duty, and also all the hands in said county, east of the main post road, and north of the road leading to said Neck, together with the hands belonging to the estate of Robert Brazeil, be, and they are hereby exempt from the performance of road duty on the main post roadand it shall be the duty of said hands to work upon, and keep in good order, the White Oak and Satilla Neck roads. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That that the hands liable to do road duty, belonging to Thomas Miller, Thomas Tucker, Thomas E. Hardee, and Joseph Hull, shall, and they are hereby made liable to work on that part of said Little Satilla Neck road leading from the Cross Swamp, down the south side of said Little Satilla Neck.

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Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That Alexander Atkinson, David Brown, and William A. Berne, be, and are hereby appointed commissioners of that part of Little Satilla Neck roads leading down the north side of said Little Satilla Neckand that Thomas E. Hardee, Thomas Tucker, and Elijah Tucker, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners on that part of said road leading down the south side of said Little Satilla Neckand that said commissioners, or a majority of them, are hereby vested with full power and authority to summon and call out the hands herein exempt from road duty on main post road, and to compel them to perform not less than six, not more than twelve days tour of duty in any one year, on said Little Satilla Neck roads. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners shall have full power and authority to compel the attendance of such persons as are liable to do road duty on said Little Satilla Neck, and to do and exercise all other acts and thing in relation to their duty, as are delegated to road commissioners under the existing laws of this State. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners of each road on said Little Satilla Neck shall summon all the hands liable to perform duty within said limits, to meet at the place called and known by the name of The Cross Swamp, at the upper end of said Neck, and work first well all of said hands on the road leading through said Cross Swamp, until the same be made complete. Sec. 9. and be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, contradicting this act, be, and they are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to alter and change the road laws of this State, so far as regards the county of Jefferson. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the act entitled an act to alter and amend the road laws of this State, passed on the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, is hereby declared to be in full force and effect, so far as regards the county of Jeffersonand that all laws, and parts of laws, militating against the same, be, and they are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to amend the road laws of this State, so far as they relate to the county of Burke. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That whenever it shall so happen that a majority of the commissioners of the roads in any district in the county of Burke, shall, from any cause, fail to meet as directed by law, on the last Saturday in March, in any year, for the purpose of apportioning hands to the several roads in such district, and appointing [Illegible Text] and summoners, it shall be lawful for any one or more of such commissioners, who may attend at the place of meeting, to adjourn such meeting, from time to time, until the attendance of a majority can be procured, giving notice of such adjournment to those commissioners who may be absent.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any actings or doings of the said commissioners of any district, or a majority of them, at an adjourned meeting, shall be as valid as if done on the day appointed by law for the meeting of the said commissionersany law, custom or usage to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829. AN ACT to alter and amend the road laws of this State so far as they relate to the county of Glynn, and to repeal the second section of an act passed the twenty-fourth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for the commissioners of roads, in the county of Glynn, to call out the male slaves liable to road duty, oftener than once a year, nor for a longer period than six days, unless the roads of said county become obstructed by hurricane, storm or other casualty. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the male slaves who heretofore have been employed in opening a road from College Bridge, the nearest and best way to the Mineral Springs, in Wayne county, shall be removed from the same and appropriated to some work more conducive to the public interest and convenience. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That so much of the road law, now in force in the county of Glynn, as requires one half of the male

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slaves, liable to road duty in the twenty-fifth district, to work on the roads of the twenty-sixth district, is hereby repealed; and that all of the said male slaves, in the said twenty-fifth district, shall be required to perform the duty on the public roads, in said district, and to the keeping open the cuts from the Island of St. Simons, to the main land, or both, as in the opinion of the commissioners shall seem most beneficial to the public good. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against the same, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. RIVERS. AN ACT to direct and make uniform the manner of fishing for shad on the river Ocmulgee, with seines, and to provide for the punishment of those who shall violate the provisions of this act. 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 and promulgation of this act, no person or persons whatsoever, by themselves, their servants or agents, shall be permitted to draw any seine on the Ocmulgee river, of Georgia, at any time, between the hours of twelve in the forenoon of Saturday, and the hour of twelve in the forenoon of Monday: nor shall they be permitted to keep any sein [Illegible Text] the hour aforesaid, stationary or by any position or fixture whatever, in the said river, so as to catch

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shad or prohibit their free passage up the said river, in any of the cuts off or arms thereof. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That no person or persons, whatsoever, by themselves, their servants or agents, shall be permitted to draw two seines, the one immediately succeeding the other, within the hour aforesaid, at the same fishing landing, or place for drawing for fish, on said river. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all persons, whatsoever, violating the provisions of the foregoing sections, or either of them, shall be subject, for each offence, to pay the sum of twenty-five dollars, to be recovered before any justice of the peace, inferior or superior court, or any corporation court, duly constituted, on the said river, to be commenced in the name of the individual informing, and shall moreover be subject to be indicted before the superior court, and on conviction, shall be sentenced, for each offence, to pay a fine not less than ten nor more than twenty-five dollars, at the discretion of the court. In each or either case of suit or indictment, the one half of the penalty shall go to the informer, the other to the county wherein the offence is committed. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the justices of the inferior court, of the peace, sheriffs, constables, and police officers, who live in counties lying on the Ocmulgee, to lodge information against all persons offending against this act, before the next grand jury that may convene thereafter. Sec. 5. Be it further enacted, That if a slave or slaves offend against this act, without the command or coercion of his owner, overseer, or any other white person, he shall, on conviction for each offence, receive twenty-five lashes on his bare back. Any justice of the peace, or of the inferior court, may immediately, on information and proof, order him to be whipped by a constable or sheriff, or any person deputised by said justice for that purpose. Sec. 6. Be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to lay off, define, and keep open the main channel of Savannah River from Augusta to the mouth of Lightwood Log Creek in Elbert county, so as to prevent the obstruction of navigation, and the free passage of fish therein, and to punish those who may obstruct the same, and to appoint Commissioners to carry the provisions of this act into effect, and to point out the mode of their compensation. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the commissioners hereinafter named, or a majority of them, shall have full power and authority to survey, or cause to be surveyed and laid off, the main channel of Savannah river, from Augusta to the mouth of Lightwood Log Creek, in Elbert county, and said commissioners or a majority of them, are hereby impowered and required to reserve and keep open for the free passage of of boats and fish, the one third part of said river in width, including the main sluice or channel thereof, at each and every place or part of said river, between the two points or places aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners hereinafter named, or a majority of them, shall have full power to call to their assistance such number of the free white citizens of the respective counties opposite to which any obstruction may be found, as they may deem necessary to remove the same, and if any person or persons so summoned, shall fail or refuse to assist such commissioner or commissioners, after one day's notice so to do, such person or persons, so offending or refusing, shall, on proof and conviction thereof before any justice of the peace of the county where such offence was committed, be sentenced to pay a sum not exceeding five dollars for each and every day he or they shall fail to serve: Provided said commissioner or commissioners shall not cause the same individuals, so summoned, to serve more than three days at any one time, (more than three days at any time) nor more than six days in any one year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall obstruct, or cause to be obstructed, by dams, traps, racks, logs, trees, or any other thing or things, any

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part or portion of said main channel, so laid off and defined, for the purposes contemplated by this act, it shall be the duty of one or more of the commissioners, to give the person or persons so offending, three days notice to remove the same, on his, her or their failure so to do, the commissioner or commissioners hereinafter named, may apply to a justice of the peace for a warrant, which warrant shall be served by any lawful officer, and cause such offender or offenders to be brought before some justice of the peace of the county where the offence may have been committed, and on proof and conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to pay a sum not less than twenty dollars for every twenty-four hours such obstruction or obstructions shall remain; and every twenty-four hours such obstruction or obstructions may remain after notice given in terms of this act, shall be deemed and taken as a separate offence, and may be punished accordingly. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons shall employ an agent or agents for the purpose of obstructing, or placing any trap or traps in said main channel, or who may be found fishing any trap or traps placed therein, it shall be the duty of said commissioner, on information thereof, to prosecute such agent or agents in the same manner as pointed out by the third section of this act; and should such agent or agents be notoriously insolvent, or non residents of this State, it shall be the duty of the justice or justices before whom such offender or offenders are tried, to commit such offender or offenders to the common jail of the county opposite to which the offence was committed, for a time not less than one day nor more than two months, at the discretion of the court; and the person or persons who employed such agent or agents, shall be liable to pay, on action of debt, before any justice of the county where such employer may reside, a sum not less than twenty dollars for each and every offence so by them committed, and should any slave or slaves be found obstructing or fishing any trap or traps in said main sluice, such slave or slaves shall be taken before some justice of the peace, and on conviction thereof, shall receive thirty-nine lashes on his bare back, and the owner or owners of such slave or slaves shall pay all costs incurred thereby; and if a free person of color shall be found offending against the provisions of this act, he, she or they, shall be dealt with in like manner as slaves, and imprisoned until [Illegible Text] pay all costs, at the discretion of the court.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners hereinafter named, shall, before they proceed to the duties required of them by this act, take the following oath or affirmation, viz: I, A. B. do solemnly swear, that I will, to best of my ability, discharge the duties required of me, in terms of this act, as a commissioner of Savannah river, faithfully execute the trust reposed in me, without favor or affectionSo help me God. And said commissioners, or a majority of them, so qualified, shall, on or before the fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty, or so soon thereafter as may be convenient, proceed to survey, lay off and define the main channel of said river, in conformity with the provisions of the first section of this act, commencing at the first shoal above Augusta, and continuing up the said river to the last mentioned place in the said first section; and so soon as the same shall have been completed in the manner contemplated by this act, the commissioners who caused the said river to be surveyed and laid off, shall have power to make out a fair and correct statement of the number of days they were actually engaged in said work, and present the same to the Inferior court of the county in which they respectively reside, and on examination and approval by them, they shall issue an order in favor of such commissioner or commissioners, to the county treasurer, or where there is no county treasurer, to the clerk of the Inferior court, for an amount not exceeding two dollars per day for each day said commissioners were actually so employed, to be paid out of the moity of the State tax reserved for county purposes: Provided, they shall not receive pay for more than twenty-five days in any one year. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That should it so happen that the commissioner from any of the counties hereinafter named, should fail or refuse to do the duties prescribed in this act, the county or counties in which such defaulting commissioner or commissioners may reside, shall nevertheless bear and pay their proportional share of the expense incurred on account of opening and laying off and keeping open said main channel as aforesaid. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That James G. Stallings, of the county of Columbia, James Jennings, Esq. of the county of Lincoln, Powhatan B. Thurman, Esq. of the county of Wilkes, Alfred Hammond, Esq. of the county of Elbert, and Benjamin H. Warren, of the county of Richmond, be, and the same are hereby appointed commissioners of Savannah river, with full power and authority to carry

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into effect the provisions of this actAnd should it so happen that either of the persons herein named as commissioners should fail or refuse to serve, it shall be the duty of the Inferior court of the county, where such vacancy may happen, to appoint some fit and proper person to fill such vacancy; and that all laws or parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to alter and amend an act entitled an act, to prevent obstructions to the passage of fish in the Oakmulgee River and its branches, passed on the twenty-fifth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-oneAlso an act entitled an act, to alter and more effectually to carry into effect an act, to prevent obstructions to the passage of fish in the Oakmulgee river and its branches, passed on the twenty-fifth November, eighteen hundred and twenty-fourAlso to repeal an act entitled an act, to authorise David Adams of the county of Jasper, to keep open a sluice through his mill dam on the Oakmulge river within forty feet of the west bank of said river, for the free passage of fish up the same, passed on the seventh day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-one. Whereas great [Illegible Text] has been experienced in carrying into effect the above recited acts: for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That [Illegible Text]

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Holt, Timothy Mathews and Luke J. Morgan be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners in and for the county of BibbAnd that John Hammock, William Middlebrooks and Michael M. Healey be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners in and for the county of JonesAnd that John Pitman, David Allison and William Redding be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners in and for the county of MonroeAnd that Robert Bickerstaff, William [Illegible Text] and Stokely Morgan be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners in and for the county of JasperAnd that John R. Cargil, Gustavus Hendrick and John M. Pearson be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners in and for the county of ButtsAnd that Felix Simonton, William R. Henry and George McDill be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners in and for the county of NewtonAnd that James [Illegible Text] Samuel Bryant and William McBride be, and they are herby appointed commissioners in and for the county of Henrywho, or a majority of whom shall have complete power in their respective counties, to survey, view, ascertain and designate the main channel of the said [Illegible Text] river and its branches in the following manner: Sixty feet in width up to the confluence of the South and Yellow Rivers, and from thence, forty feet in width in the south river up to the snapping shoals, and in the yellow river forty feet in width up to the cedar shoals, and in the [Illegible Text] forty feet in width, up to Waters' mill, and in all cases where mills, fish dams or other obstructions to the free passage of fish shall be erected, there shall be an open sluice in each river as aforesaid, in the main channel of the same, over which fish may pass without difficulty. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, Whenever the above recited streams shall have obstructions to the passage of fish placed in them; the person or persons so offending shall be liable to an indictment for a common nuisance, before any court having [Illegible Text] of the same, and on conviction thereof, shall be subject to pay a fine of one hundred dollars per day for every day such nuisance shall remain unremovedone half of such fine to go to the informer and the other half to the county in which the offender or offenders may reside at the time of their conviction, and five days previous notice need not be given as heretofore required, by the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-four, to remove said nuisances or obstructions, but such offenders may be prosecuted forthwith according to the provisions of this act.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That an act passed on the seventh of December eighteen hundred and twenty-one, authorising David Adams of the county of Jasper, to keep open a sluice through his mill dam, on the Oakmulgee river within forty feet of the west bank of said river, for the free passage of fish up the same, be and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 4. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Justices of the Inferior court or a majority of them, in their respective counties, are hereby authorised to [Illegible Text] any vacancy that may happen by death, resignation, removal or otherwise, of any of the commissioners appointed by this act. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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SHERIFFS AN ACT to make Constables elective by the people, and the mode of taking their bonds, and to point out their duty in certain cases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That an election shall be held at the place of holding justices courts in each Captain's district, on the first Saturday in January of each and every year, by persons entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, for at least one, and not more than two Constables, which election shall be superintended by at least one of the Justices of the Peace and two freeholders; who shall hold his or their appointment until the first Saturday in January next thereafter and until his or their successor is elected and qualified. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That before any Constable shall enter on the duty of his appointment, he shall take the usual oath, and enter into the usual bond, to be approved of by the justice or justices of the peace of their respective districts. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That where an election should fail to be held at the time aforesaid, or a vacancy should happen, it shall be the duty of the justice or justices aforesaid, to advertise an election at three of the most public places in their district, giving at least ten days notice of the time and place, which shall be conducted in the same manner as aforesaid, and who shall hold his or their appointment until the first Saturday in January next thereafter; and until his or their successor is elected and qualified. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That whenever notes for collection shall be placed in the hands of the constable, it shall be his duty to grant receipts for the same, and pay over the amount when collected, to the plaintiff or his, her or their agent or attorney, unless there should be

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conflicting claims, it shall then be the duty of the constable to report the same to the next Justices Court of said district, subject to the order of said court. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and they are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to authorise the Sheriff of Emanuel county, and his successors in office, to advertise their sales in one of the public Gazettes of Milledgeville. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for the Sheriff of Emanuel county, and his successors in office, to advertise their sales in one of the public Gazettes of Milledgevilleany law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to authorise the Governor to have suit commenced against Wiley Belcher. Whereas Wiley Belcher, now of the State of Tennessee, formerly Sheriff of the county of Twiggs in this State, did, while he was Sheriff aforesaid, collect, of debts due to the State of Georgia, considerable sums of money which he failed to pay over as required by law; and whereas [Illegible Text] bond given by him as Sheriff, has been mislaid so it cannot now be found. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That His Excellency the Governor, be authorised to employ counsel to take the necessary steps, in having a copy of the said Sheriff's bond established, and to proceed without delay to collect the said balance now due the State from said Belcher and his securities. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to authorise the Sheriffs of Campbell and Lee to advertise their sales in any public Gazette published in Macon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Sheriffs of the counties of

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Campbell and Lee may advertise their sales in any of the public Gazettes published in Maconany law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829. AN ACT to reduce the Sheriff's bonds of this State so far as respects the counties of Irwin, Carroll, Early, Randolph, Rabun, Appling, Campbell, Scriven, Lowndes and Lee. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the persons elected or appointed Sheriffs of the counties of Irwin, Carroll, Early, Randolph, Rabun, Appling, Campbell, Scriven, Lowndes and Lee, shall be required to give bond and security in the sum of ten thousand dollars only, for the faithful discharge of the duties of Sheriffs office of said countiesany thing contained in the forty-sixth section of the Judiciary act of seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to authorise the Sheriff, or any lawful Constable of Chatham county to enter the dwellings of Sailors, Landlords, or any other place, where just reason shall be entertained on oath, that regularly articled seamen are harboured or protected. Whereas much inconvenience results to the Merchants, ship owners, Masters of vessels and others, residing in, or visiting the port of Savannah, from the absconding of regularly articled seamen, after receiving their advance wages; and whereas, no law exists, authorising the legal officers of said county to enter the dwellings of such persons as are supposed to harbor and secrete the said deserted seamenwhereby the said Merchants, ship owners, masters of vessels and others, are defrauded of their money they have advanced to said seamen: for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representative of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for any Judge of the Superior, or Justice of the Inferior Courts, or Justice of the Peace of said county, upon oath being made before him, that a regularly articled seaman has deserted, and particularly describing the person so deserting, and also the person who is supposed to harbor or secrete said seaman, and the place where such harboring or secreting is supposed to exist, to issue his warrant, directed to any lawful officer of Chatham county, and authorising him to make search for the said deserted seaman in the place designated, and to seize said seaman when discovered; and if any resistance is made to said search or seizure, to proceed by force to carry into effect the said warrant. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall resist the said seizure or search, the person so offending, shall be subject to a penalty of not more than five hundred, nor less than fifty dollars, or imprisonment in the common jail for a term not longer than one year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts

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of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT for the relief of Sheriffs in certain cases. Whereas it is frequently oppressive upon Sheriffs to serve and return all writs and processes within the time prescribed by law: for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, it shall not be necessary as heretofore for the sheriffs of this State to serve all writs and processes at common law, twenty days before the sitting of the court to which the same may be made returnable, but the same may be served and returned seventeen days before the sitting of the court: Provided nevertheless, that all writs and processes shall be copied and issued as heretofore, twenty days before the sitting of the court to which the same may be made returnableany law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to reduce the amount of Sheriffs bonds for the county of Wayne and to provide for the payment of one of the presiding Magistrates from each election district in the counties of Wayne, Lowndes and Bryan, for attending at the court-house on the day after the election for the purpose of consolidating the returns. 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 sheriffs hereafter to be elected in the county of Wayne, shall only be required to give bond and security in the sum of five thousand dollars for the faithful performance of their duty, in place of twenty thousand, as heretofore required. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the presiding Magistrate at each of the election districts in said counties shall be allowed, and receive from the county treasurer, out of the county funds the sum of one dollar and fifty cents each, for their trouble in attending at the court-house on the day after the election, for the purpose of consolidating and making returns of said election. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to make valid bonds taken by the Sheriffs of this State and their deputies, Coroners and Constables, from defendants in execution for the delivery of property levied on by them. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, all bonds taken by the sheriffs of this state or their deputies, or coroners or constables from defendants in execution, for the delivery of property on the day of sale or at any other time, which they may have levied on by virtue of any fi fa, or other legal process, from any court, be, and the same are hereby declared to be good and valid in law, and recoverable in any court in this state having jurisdiction thereof. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the bonds taken in conformity with the first section of this act, shall in no case prejudice or affect the rights of plaintiffs in execution, but shall relate to, and have effect alone between the sheriffs, their deputies, the coroners and the constables, and defendants by whom given, and the sheriff shall in no case excuse himself for not having made the money on any execution by having taken such bond, but shall be liable to be ruled as now prescribed by law. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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SLAVES. AN ACT to be entitled an act, to amend the several laws now in force in this State, regulating Quarantine in the several sea ports of this State, and to prevent the circulation of written or printed papers within this State calculated to excite disaffection among the coloured people of this state, and to prevent said people from being taught to read or write; and to repeal the act assented to the ninth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, entitled an act, to repeal the law of eighteen hundred and seventeen, prohibiting the introduction of slaves into this state. Whereas it has become highly necessary and essential to the welfare and safety of the good people of this state that merchant vessels or ships coming by sea from other States or countries with free persons of colour acting as mariners or stewards or in any other employment or capacity on board, such vessel or vessels, should perform quarantine, and that means be adopted to prevent such persons of colour from coming into this State or from communicating with the coloured people of this State. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all ships or vessels coming into any part of this State by sea from any port or place in any other State, or any foreign country, having on board any free negro or free person of colour employed as a steward, mariner or in any other capacity, or as a passenger, shall be subject to quarantine for the space of forty days; nor shall it be lawful for any negro or person of colour residing in this State to go on board of such ship or vessel while riding quarantine, or to have communication with any such coloured person on board of said vessel for any purpose whatever while she is so riding quarantine. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any free ncgro or person of colour, so coming in the said ship or vessel, shall come on shore or have any communication with any person of colour [Illegible Text] in this State, while the said ship

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or vessel shall be riding quarantine as aforesaid, such negro or person of colour, shall be immediately apprechended and committed to the common jail of the county where he shall be apprehended; and the Mayor or Intendant of any city or town within this State, or any Judge, or Justice of any Superior or Inferior court of this State, is hereby authorised and required to issue a warrant or warrants directed to any Sheriff, or Marshal, or Constable, of any city or town, or Sheriff or lawful Constable within this State, for the apprchension of such free negro or person of colour, and to commit him or her to any common jail within this State as aforesaid, there to remain until the said ship or vessel shall be actually departing from the waters of this State or shall be hauled off from the wharf and ready to proceed to sea, or until he or she shall be otherwise discharged by law. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any negro or person of colour shall communicate with any free negro or person of colour, so coming into this State while the said ship or vessel is riding [Illegible Text] as aforesaid, such negro or person of colour so offending shall be forthwith arrested by a warrant to be issued by the authorities and in the manner hereinbefore provided and directed, as is hereinbefore provided, and on conviction thereof any Mayor or Intendant, Judge or Justice as aforesaid, before whom the said warrant shall be made returnable, shall be sentenced to be whipped not exceeding thirty nine lashes. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That when said vessel is ready to sail, the captain of the said vessel shall be bound to carry away the said free negro or person of colour, and to pay the expenses of his detention; and in case such captain shall refuse of neglect to pay the said expenses and to carry away the said free negro or person of colour, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of five hundred dollars, to be recovered by indictment in the superior court of the county where the said offence was committed, and shall also on conviction, suffer imprisonment, in the common jail of the said county, for any term not exceeding three months: Provided, that no part of this act shall be construed to extend to any negro or person of colour employed on board of any steam boat, or on board of any national vessel of war. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That every free negro or person of colour coming into this State as aforesaid, and who shall not depart the State, in case of the captain refusing or neglecting

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to carry him away, within ten days after the vessel in which he came has departed, shall be liable on conviction before any Magistrate of the county, to be whipped not exceeding thirty-nine lashes. Sec. 6. And be further it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all free negroes, or persons of colour and all other persons shall be exempted from the operation of this act where such free negroes and persons of colour, have arrived within the limits of this state, by ship wreck or stress of weather or other unavoidable accident; but such free negroes, or persons of colour, and other persons shall nevertheless be subject to the penalties of this act, if the requisites of the same be not complied with within one month after such ship-wreek, stress of weather or other unavoidable accident. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That this act shall not be construed to extend to any free American Indian, free Moors, Lascars, or other coloured subjects of the countries beyond the [Illegible Text] of Good Hope who may arrive in this State in any merchant vessel; but such persons only shall be deemed and adjudged to be persons of colour, within the meaning of this act, as shall be descended from negroes or mulattoes, either on the father's or mother's side. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the aforegoing sections of this act, shall not be in force or deemed to operate upon any ship or vessel arriving in the ports of this state, from any other state, of the United States until the expiration of three months after the passage of this act, nor upon any ship or vessel arriving from any port or place beyond the limits of the United States, until the expiration of six months after the passage of this act. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That the city Councils or corporate authorities, of the cities or towns of this state respectively, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered by ordinance or otherwise to ordain and make such other provisions and regulations as may be necessary for carrying into full effect the provisions and true intent and objects of the aforegoing sections of this act: Provided, that the same be not contrary to the constitution or laws of this state. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That if any slave, negro, mustizzo, or free person of colour, or any other person,

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shall circulate, bring or cause to be circulated or brought into this state or aid or assist in any manner, or be instrumental in aiding or assisting in the circulation or bringing into this state, or in any manner concerned in any printed or written pamphlet, paper or circular, for the purposes of exciting to insurrection, conspiracy or resistance among the slaves, negroes, or free persons of colour, of this state, against their owners or the citizens of this state, the said person or persons offending against this section of this act, shall be punished with death. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That if any slave, negro, or free person of colour or any white person shall teach any other slave, negro or free person of colour, to read or write either written or printed characters, the said free person of colour, or slave, shall be punished by fine and whipping, or fine or whipping at the discretion of the court; and if a white person so offending, he, she or they shall be punished with fine, not exceeding five hundred dollars, and imprisonment, in the common jail at the discretion of the court before whom said offender is tried. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the act assented to, on the ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty four, entitled An Act to repeal a law passed in the year one thousand eight hundred and seventeen, prohibiting the introduction of slaves into this state only on certain conditions be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that the act which said act repealed be, and the same is hereby revived, and shall be taken, held, considered, and enforced, as the law of this StateAnd that any law, contravening the provisions of said act, be, and the same is hereby repealed, and further that all laws, or parts of laws, militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to amend the several laws of this State for the trial and punishment of slaves and free persons of colour. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act the [Illegible Text] and malicious burning, or setting fire to, or attempting to burn a house in a city, town or village, when committed by a slave or free person of colour, shall be punished with death. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the wilful and malicious burning a dwelling house on a farm or plantation, or elsewhere, (not in a city, town or village,) or the setting fire thereto in the night time when the said house is actually occupied by a person or persons, with the intent to burn the same, when committed by a slave or free person of colour, shall be punished with death. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the trial of offenders against the provisions of this act, shall be had in the same courts, and conducted in the same manner and under the same rules and regulations as are provided by the several acts now in force in this State, for the trial of capital offences, when committed by a slave or free person of colour. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to alter the second section of the act to amend the act of seventeen hundred and seventy, passed December tenth, eighteen hundred and three, so far as relates to the city of Augusta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, so much of the above recited act as allows, or may be construed to allow, any owner or owners, of any slave or slaves, within the city of Augusta to permit his, her or their slave or slaves, for a consideration, or otherwise, to have, hold, or enjoy the privilege of labouring, or otherwise transacting business for him, her, or themselves, either upon the premises of said owner or owners, or elsewhere in said city, be, and the same is hereby repealed; any law or ordinance to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to amend an act passed on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and elevenand also an act passed on the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixteen, in relation to slaves and free persons of colour. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in all trials and proceedings before Justices of the Peace Justices of the Inferior court, under and by virtue of the act passed

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on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eleven, and of the act passed on the nineteenth day of December eighteen hundred and sixteen, in relation to slaves and free persons of colour, and of any acts amendatory thereof, when either party shall be dissatisfied with any decision of the court before whom such trial or proceedings may be had, affecting the real merits thereof, such party shall, and may offer exceptions in writing to such decision, which shall be signed by such party, or his or her attorney, and if the same shall be overruled by said court, the party making the exceptions may on twenty days notice to the opposite party, or his or her attorney, apply to one of the Judges of the Superior court, and if such Judge shall deem the exceptions sufficient, he shall forthwith issue a writ of certiorari to said Justices, or to the Clerk of the Inferior court, as the case may be, requiring the proceedings in said matter to be certified and sent to the Superior court next to be held in and for the county in which said proceedings or trial may have been hadand at the term of the court to which such proceedings shall be certified, said superior court shall determine thereon, and make such order, judgment and decision as shall be agreeable to law and justice. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when exceptions shall be offered in manner aforesaid, the said justices before whom said trial or proceedings may be, shall suspend the execution of their judgment and sentence for forty daysand when a certiorari shall be sanctioned in manner aforesaid, the Judge issuing the same, shall order the said judgment and sentence to be suspended until the final order and decision of said superior court shall be had in the cause. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to prohibit the employment of slaves and free persons of colour in the setting of types in printing offices in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, That no slave or free person of colour shall be employed in the setting of types in any printing office in this State, and that if any owner or proprietor of a printing press, or any person having the charge and control of a printing press in this State shall use or employ a slave or free person of colour in the setting of types, or shall suffer a slave or free person of color to be so employed in his office, such owner, proprietor, or person shall forfeit the sum of ten dollars for every slave or free person of colour who may be so employed on any day or part of a day, to be sued for and recovered by an action of debt in the justice's court of the district wherein the offender may reside, by and in the name and to the use of any person who shall prosecute for the same. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when there are several owners or proprietors of such press, the suit herein authorised shall and may be brought against any one or more of the owners or proprietors who may be resident in the county wherein such offence may be committed, or against the person having the charge and control of the printing press in the office or house in which the offence may have been committedand the process shall require the defendant or defendants to answer [Illegible Text] an action of debt for a breach of the provisions of this act. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to regulate slaves and free persons of colour in the towns of Clinton and Macon. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for any slave or free person of colour to keep a house of entertainment, or to vend any goods, wares, merchandize, spirituous liquors, or provisions, for their own profit, (other than what is allowed by the existing laws of this State,) within the corporate limits of the town of Clinton. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no slave shall be allowed to hire his or her time from his or her owner or manager, nor shall any slave be allowed to work or carry on any traffic upon his or her own account, or for the purpose of procuring a livelihood, or raising money to pay his or her hire wages, within the limits aforesaid. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person having the ownership or management of any slave or [Illegible Text], to suffer such slave or slaves to hire his, her, or their time, or to go at large seeking employment at the discretion of such slave or slaves, within the limits aforesaid, nor shall it be lawful for any person to hire any slave and [Illegible Text] such slave to work or carry on any business of traffic, for [Illegible Text] or her own benefit or account, within the limits aforesaid. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful for any person being the owner or having the management or control of any house or tenement in said towns, to [Illegible Text] the same to any slave or free person of colour, or to suffer [Illegible Text] free person of colour, or slave, not his or her own property to occupy the same, nor shall it be lawful for any owner or manager of any slave to permit such slave to [Illegible Text] in any house or tenement in said towns, unless the same be a kitchen or out-house within the enclosed premises whereor said owner or manager resides. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That any white person ofending against the provisions of this act, shall be [Illegible Text] to be presented or indicted before the superior court for such offence, and on conviction thereof,

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shall forfeit and pay a fine of thirty dollars for each and every such violation, one half to belong to the informer, or prosecutor, and the other half to be paid over to the commissionres of the roads, to be applied to the improvement of the streets of said towns. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That every slave or free person of colour who shall offend against any of the provisions of this act, shall be liable to, and receive not less than twenty, nor more than fifty lashes for every time he or she shall so offend, to be inflicted by the constable of the district in which said towns are situated. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the justices of the peace of the [Illegible Text] in which said towns are situated, or either of them, shall have jurisdiction and cognizance of all and every infraction or violation of this act by any slave or free persons of colour. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the constable of said district, in case any slave or free person of colour shall violate the provisions of this act, to apprehend such slave or free person of colour and take him or her before one of the justices of the peace of said district, whose duty it shall be to hear and determine upon the guilt or innocence of such slave or free person of colour, and in the event of conviction shall direct the constable (whose duty it shall be) to inflict the punishment pointed out in the sixth section of this act; and the cost and legal expenses of said trial shall be paid by such free person of colour, or by the owner or manager of such slave, so convicted as aforesaid. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said constable to search into and prosecute every violation of this act, and in case he shall wilfully and knowingly fail or neglect to do so, he shall, for every such failure be liable to be presented or indicted before the superior court, and upon conviction, shall pay a fine of fifty dollars or be imprisoned at the discretion of the court, for not less than one nor more than ten days.The provisions of this act, in all respects, to apply to the town of Macon. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against the provisions of this act shall be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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TAXES. AN ACT to impose, levy and collect a tax for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty, on property, real and personal, and to inflict penalties for neglecting or failing to comply with the provisions thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the act passed the eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twentyfive, together will all acts, and parts of acts, which said act revived and continued in force, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be revived and continued in force as the tax act for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all brokers, private bankers, or exchange merchants, or firm or firms of brokers, private bankers or exchange merchants, note shavers, and their agents, in this State, shall, on or before the first day of August next, return, on oath, to the receiver of tax returns, of the repective counties of this State, where he or they shall reside or do business, the maximum amount of capital which he or they have employed since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty, or intend to employ in the said business during said year; and the said brokers, private bankers, or exchange merchants, or firm or firms of brokers, private bankers, exchange merchants, and note shavers, or their agents, shall pay a tax of thirty-one and one fourth cents on every hundred dollars of capital so [Illegible Text] to be [Illegible Text] and collected by the tax collectors of the respective counties, as in other cases Provided, that in all cases, under this section, where a firm shall be required to make a return, as above specified, that a return by one member for and in behalf of the firm to which he belongs, shall be deemed sufficient. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That on all persons who have or may hereafter issue, or have in circulation, any change bill or bills of any kind, issued or put in circulation without a charter, there shall be levied a tax of fifty per [Illegible Text] on the amount issued and in circulation on the first of August in each [Illegible Text]

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That nothing in the above section shall be so construed as to alter or change the acts now in force relating to unchartered banks in this State, and imposing penalties for issuing change bills by private persons or associations. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons, except the incorporated Banks of this State, shall be found, after the second day of August next, and during said year of eighteen hundred and thirty, doing the business of a broker, private banker, or exchange merchant, or note shaver, or as their agent, without having made the return required by the second section of this act, it shall be the duty of the receiver of tax returns for the county where said broker or broker, private banker or bankers, exchange merchant or merchants, or note shavers, or his or their agent or agents may reside or do business, to return said broker or brokers, private banker or bankers, exchange merchant or merchants, or note shaver or his or their agent or agents as defaulters, who shall pay a tax for said year of five thousand dollars, to be levied and collected by the tax collector as in other cases, or by a capias ad satisfaciendum. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That one half of the tax of each county, so directed to be levied shall be paid into the treasury of this State, as heretofore, and the other half to the inferior court of the respective connties, for county purposes, to be placed by them in the hands of the county treasurer, where there are treasurers, and where [Illegible Text] the clerk of the inferior court, for safe keeping, to be [Illegible Text] by said courts to the building of court-houses and jails, and to the building of bridges, the improvement of public roads, and for the support of the poor, and for the education of youth, as said courts may severally direct as most expedient, any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the justices of the peace in each Captain's district in this State, to make a return to the receivers of tax returns of all persons liable to pay taxes on their respective districts, and that all laws making it the duty of Captains of districts to make return to the receivers, be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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AN ACT to authorise the justices of the inferior court of Crawford county to levy and collect an extra tax for county purposes, not exceeding fifty per cent on the general tax for the years eighteen hundred thirty and thirty-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the justices of the inferior court of Crawford county, or a majority of them, to levy an extra tax upon the citizens of said county, for county purposes, for the years eighteen hundred thirty and thirty-one Provided always, that said extra tax shall not exceed fifty per cent. on the amount of the general tax heretofore levied and collected by authority of the laws now of force in this State. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That when the aforesaid tax shall be levied according to the provision of this act, the same shall be collected in the same manner and under the same regulations as is prescribed by the existing laws of this State, and when collected, shall be applied in discharge of the several debts now due from said county. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed, so far as respects the said county of Crawford. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 18, 1829.

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AN ACT to authorise the inferior court of Franklin county to levy an extra tax for the support of the poor in said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the inferior court of the county of Franklin, be, and they are hereby authorised to levy an extra tax on the citizens, and all taxable property in said county, for the support of the poor, not exceeding fifteen per cent. on the general tax. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the collector shall be bound to collect and pay over to the clerk of the inferior court all such taxes as may be assessed by the inferior court, under the same restrictions as heretofore enacted in such cases, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. TOWNS. AN ACT to extend and determine the corporate limits of the town of Macon, lying on the East side of the Ocmulgee river, and to bring the lots therein named under the corporate jurisdiction of the said town, and to name the part of the said town lying the East side of said river. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in general assembly met, That from and after the promulgation of this act, the one acre lots on

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the East side of the Ocmulgee river, opposite the town of Macon, in the county of Bibb, be, and the same are hereby declared to be within the corporate limits of said town, and that the said one acre lots shall and are hereby declared to be subject to all the ordinances and police regulations of the corporation of the town of Macon. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all that part of the said town of Macon, on the East side of the Ocmulgee, shall hereafter, for the sake of designation, be called and known as East Macon Provided always, that all ordinances or police regulations of the corporation of said town shall be binding and valid over the lots first aforesaid, without designating in the said ordinances or regulations that they are to extend to East Macon. Sec. 3. All laws militating against the foregoing are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. BILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec, 19, 1829. AN ACT to incorporate Vernon, in Troup county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, Woody Dozier, Reuben Stilwell, Franklin McLemore, Eliot Reed, and Homer Hines, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners of the town of Vernon, and shall continue in office until successors are appointed according to the provisions of this act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the second Tuesday in January, eighteen hundred and thirty, and on the

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second Tuesday in January, every year thereafter, it shall be lawful for all persons, inhabitants within the corporate limits of said town, entitled to vote for members of the legislature, to assemble at some convenient place in said town, to be pointed out by said commissioners, and under the superintendance of two or more justices of the peace of said county, to elect by ballot, five commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, and until their successors are elected, and if it shall so happen that such election shall not take place on the day before appointed, it shall be lawful for the same to be held on any other day, in the manner and form before prescribed by this act, upon ten days notice being given in two or more public places in said town. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforementioned commissioners, and their successors in office, shall have power and authority to pass all laws, rules and regulations, and all other matters of police as shall seem to them conducive to the health, peace and well-being of the inhabitants thereof Provided the same is not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State and of the United States, and shall have full power and authority to appoint such officers as may be necessary to carry into effect and execute such rules and regulations. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners, and their successors in office, shall have corporate jurisdiction over the fraction on which said town is situated, and all other lots that may hereafter be laid out in said town, and shall have exclusive control of all patrols and persons liable to work on the roads within the same. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners, and their successors in office, shall have power to levy a poll tax on the inhabitants and property of said town Provided the poll tax shall not exceed one dollar, and other tax shall not exceed that required by the State. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1829.

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AN ACT to incorporate The Augusta Independent Fire Company. Whereas a voluntary association of individuals has been formed in the city of Augusta, under the name and style of The Augusta Independent Fire Company, whose laudable object is the protection of the property of said city from destruction by fire, and to guard against a repetition of those awful calamities with which said city has been so frequently visitedAnd whereas the said persons, for the better enabling them to effect the object of their association, are desirous of being incorporated: Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Augustin Slaughter, Alfred Cumming, William T. Gould, Jacob G. McWhorter, Samuel H. Peck, and all others who are or may become members of said company, by admission, according to the constitution and bye-laws of said company, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, in deed and in name, under and by the name and corporate style of The Augusta Independent Fire Company, and by that name shall have a perpetual succession of officers and members, and by said name shall sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded in any court of law or equity in this State, and shall have power to make and use a common seal, and the same at pleasure to break, change, or alter, and the full and complete power of establishing, changing and amending such constitution, bye-laws and regulations, as may have been already, or may hereafter be framed and adopted by the officers and members of said company Provided such constitution, bye-laws and regulations be not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of the State or United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said company may impose fines and enforce the collection of the same by any means not inconsistent with the judiciary and laws of the State, and may also expel members with a forfeiture of all interest in said company, under such rules and regulations as are, or may be, by said company established. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all deeds of property intended to be conveyed by said company, shall be

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sealed with the corporate seal, signed by the Captain and countersigned by the Secretary of said company, with such other formalities as the existing laws of the State require. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no bill, bond, note, or other obligation, for money or other thing, or any instrument or transfer of any negotiable security or instrument, shall be binding on said company unless signed by the Captain and countersigned by the Secretary of said company. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said company, in its corporate name, may contract and be contracted with, and in that name sell and convey property at any time belonging to said company, both real and personal, and receive gifts, donations, legacies, gratuities and conveyances by deed, will, writing or otherwise, for the use and benefit of said company; and are declared to be invested with all privileges, powers and advantages, rights, immunities, exemptions and franchises of a body corporate, for the purposes of their institution. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all officers and men of said company shall be exempt from military duty duty, except in case of war, invasion, or insurrection. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act, to authorise and provide for the building of an Arsenal in the City of Savannah for the preservation and better security of the arms and munitions of war, the property of the State in said city. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall, and may be lawful for the Corporation of the city of Savannah, or any and every volunteer corps now or which may hereafter be raised in said city, to deposit in the Arsenal about to be erected in said city, all arms and munitions of war belonging to the said corporation or any volunteer corps of said city now, or which may hereafter be raised therein. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Bainbridge in Decatur county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, Peter Cohen, Daniel Belcher, Jethro W. Keith, Matthew R. Moore and Jeremiah H. Taylor, be, and they are hereby incorporated

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and made a body politic, under the name and style of the Commissioners of the town of Bainbridge with the power of using a common seal, suing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, and doing and performing all other acts, incidental to corporations of like kind. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the corporate limits of said town shall be designated, as follows: commencing at the river, at the corner of fraction number two hundred and twenty-five and two hundred and twenty-six: thence a southeast direction, thirty-one chains and ninety-one links: thence due south twenty-two chains thirty-six links: thence a due west direction thirty-eight chains: thence due north fourteen chains seventy-five links, to the river: thence up the low water mark of said river to the point of beginning. Sec. 3. And be it enacted, That all acts or parts of acts, operating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to extend the jurisdiction and powers of the corporation of the city of Savannah for certain purposes, and to allow persons residing within the said limits to vote for Aldermen of the said city. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the the passage of this act, the jurisdictional limits of the city of Savannah and the Hamlets thereof shall be extended

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to one mile beyond the present jurisdictional limits as fixed by law, for the purposes only which are hereinafter specified. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Mayor and Aldermen of the said city shall have the control and regulation of all shops, stores or bar rooms that now are or may hereafter be erected within the said extended limits, and shall have the sole regulation and power of governing and [Illegible Text] Taverns and granting licences for retailing liquors within such extended limits, under such rules and regulations as may from time to time seem advisable. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all persons residing within the said extended limits, shall be entitled to vote for Aldermen of the said city and hamlets in the same manner and upon the same conditions as if they resided within any of the wards of the said city: Provided, that nothing in this act shall be construed as to authorise the Mayor and Aldermen of the said city to impose any tax upon persons or property in the aforesaid extended limits, except taxes for licences aforesaid, and fines imposed by any ordinance of said corporation made to carry this act into effect. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to make permanent the site of Public Builings in the town of Campbellton, in the county of Campbell, and to incorporate the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the public buildings in the town of Campbellton in Campbell county, shall be, and remain permanently located and fixed at and upon the place which said town now occupies. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Gilbert Coffee, Samuel Keller, Thomas Smith, Andrew Clark and John M. Anthony, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for the said town of Campbellton. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners for the said town of Campbellton or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to pass all bye laws and ordinances which they or a majority of them may deem necessary and expedient, for the well government and good order of the same; to lay and collect a tax for the support of said town, and do all other things as a body corporate, which may not be repugnant to the constitution of this State, or the United States. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the corporate authority and jurisdiction of said commissioners shall extend to, and be exercised over all lots which now are, or which may hereafter be laid out within said town. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in January of the year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and on the first Saturday in January in every year thereafter, all free white male persons who have resided in said town ten days previous, who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall assemble at the court house in said town, and by ballot elect five commissioners, who shall continue in office one year, and until their successors are elected, at which election one or more Magistrates or a Judge of the Inferior court of said county shall preside, and in case of the removal, resignation or death of any of said commissioners, the remaining commissioners or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to fill such vacancy for the time being.

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Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That if said election should not take place on the day pointed out by this act, it shall be lawful for it to be held on any other day, ten days notice of the same being given by a justice of said county or one or more of said commissioners. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 3, 1829. AN ACT to incorporate St. Marys Library Society. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Archibald Clark, President, E. McIntosh Vice-President, M. Miller, Treasurer, R. Clark, Secretary, and W. Aldrich, M. Alberti, L. Church, P. Clark, B. A. Copp, H. Elbert, J. Hickman, J. H. McIntosh, H. R. Pratt, J. Stotesbury, L. Shaw, H. R. [Illegible Text], O. Poincey, E. Desclaux, M. Smith, H. Bacon, A. Steele, R. Lang, be members of the St. Marys Library Society, and the successors of the said officers, and all and every person or persons who may hereafter become members of the said Society, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate in deed and in name, by the name and style of St. Marys Library Society, and by the said name shall have perpetual succession of officers and members, and a common seal to use, with power to make, alter, change and amend such bye laws and regulations as may be agreed upon by the members of the said society: Provided, such laws be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of the State. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said association of persons and their successors, shall have privilege

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to sue for and recover all monies that now are, or may hereafter become due to said society, by any name or in any manner whatsoever, and the rights and privileges of the said society, in any court to defend and to receive, to hold real and personal property, and to take and apply all or any donations made to said society, and generally they shall, and hereby are declared to be vested with all the privileges, powers and advantages, rights and immunities, of a society of people incorporated for the purposes intended by their institution. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to appoint Commissioners to select a scite for the public buildings for the county of Randolph, and make permanent the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Matthew Averett, Thomas H. Sharp, Jarid Irwin, John R. M. Neal, Elisha Mosely, Richard J. Snelling and Benjamin H. Brown, Esq'rs. be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to select a scite for the public buildings in the county of Randolph, which scite when so selected by the said commissioners or a majority of them, shall be held and deemed as the permanent scite for the public buildings for the county aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners, or any five of them are hereby authorised to purchase a lot or a parcel of land for the same,

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and proceed to lay off lots in the public scite in said county, and expose to public sale after giving thirty days notice in some public Gazette in this State, of the time and place of said sale, the proceeds of such sales of lots, to be returned to the Inferior court of said county, as well as the lands purchased for the public scite as a county fund, reserving sufficient to pay for purchasing the land for a county scite and expenses incurred with regard to the same. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Inferior and Superior courts, and all other county courts and elections for the county of Randolph, shall be held at a place the inferior court shall from time to time point out, until the commissioners appointed by this act shall have selected a scite for the public buildings in the county aforesaid and shall have proceeded by a written notification to inform the Inferior court of said county of such place and circumstances, and it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior court of said county to advertise the same, stating the lot of land selected for the public scite in said county at three of the most public places in the same, and it shall thereon immediately become the permanent scite of said county. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Inferior court of said county so soon as the commissioners have selected a public scite and run off and sold the lots, in conformity with the provisions of this act, to proceed and let out the building of a court house and jail in said county, after such plan and under such regulations as a majority of them may think expedient at such scite. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to compel the commissioners to select a public scite by any particular time; but if it shall be deemed inexpedient by them to select a county scite, they shall inform the Inferior court of the same, stating their reasons for postponing the same, that no choice or purchase shall be made until five of the commissioners agree to the sameAll laws militating against this act be, and the same is hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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AN ACT to establish and make permanent the public site in the county of Wayne. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first Monday in January next the scite for the court house and public buildings for the county of Wayne, shall be established and made permanent on a four acre lot of land, given to the said county by William Clemants, Esq. for the purpose of establishing said court house and public buildings thereon, on the south side of said Clemants' mill branch, near where the court house road crosses the said branch about one mile from the Village of Waynesville, and about four miles from Ammons' ferry on Great Satilla River. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That courts in the county of Wayne, shall from the said first Monday in January be held, and the other public business of the county shall be transacted at the aforesaid public site in the said county. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the elections for Governor, Representatives to Congress, members to the State Legislature, Electors to vote for President and Vice-President of the United States, and county officers, shall be, after the said first Monday in January next, held at the aforesaid public site except those places already established by law in said county, as election districts, heretofore passed the twenty-second of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-five. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 4, 1829.

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act, to define the duties and authority of the Commissioners of the town of Lawrenceville in Gwinnett county, passed December the twenty second, eighteen hundred and twenty-three. Whereas the before recited act invests the commissioners of the Town of Lawrenceville, with exclusive authority to regulate road and patrol duty within the corporate limits of said town, and whereas experience has shewn that such authority requires limitation. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the second Monday in January next, the commissioners of the said town, shall for neglect of duty in regard to road or street regulations, be held accountable and liable in the same manner and to the same authorities as commissioners of roads are in the county of Gwinnett. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the commissioners of said town, shall for neglect or failure to enforce the necessary patrol regulations, within the corporate limits of said town, be amenable in the same manner and to the same authorities as officers of militia are, for a like failure of duty. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That on failure of the citizens of said town entitled to such privilege, to elect commissioners thereof on the second Monday in January in any year, or on failure on the part of such commissioners, so elected, to qualify within five days after such election, or in case of a vacancy existing at any time thereafter for the space of twenty days in the offices of a majority of the board of commissioners aforesaid, then and in any such case, the authorities invested with road and patrol regulations within the district in which said town is situated, shall respectively resume and exercise such authorities, within the corporate limits of said town, until the succeeding second Monday in January following such neglect. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no resignation of any commissioner of the town aforesaid, shall exonerate him from the liabilities herein provided, unless notice thereof

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shall have been given to one of the commissioners of roads and the Captain or commanding officer of the district including said town. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and they are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829. AN ACT to [Illegible Text] an act entitled an act to incorporate the town of [Illegible Text] Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the fourth Monday in November eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, the election of Aldermen for the city of Darien, shall take place on the first Monday in September ensuing, and on the first Monday in September in every year thereafter. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Aldermen elected on the first Monday in September next, shall commence their duties on the fourth Saturday in November therafter, and after all future elections on the first Saturday in September of each year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act, be, and they are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 19, 1829.

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AN ACT to establish rates of dockage, wharfage and [Illegible Text] in the City of Savannah, and to repeal all laws or parts of laws militating against the same. Whereas by a vast increase of trade in this State many articles are now imported into, and exported from it, for which no rates of wharfage for landing and for shipping at the port of Savannah are specified by any former act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the several owners or occupiers of wharves in Savannah shall be allowed to charge, demand and receive the several rates herein after mentioned, for the wharfage or dockage of vessels lying at the wharves for the landing of produce and other goods, and for the shipping of the same, and for the storage thereof, and no morethat is to say: Rates of Dockage, Wharfage and Storeage. Anvils, three cents each. Anchors of five hundred pounds and under twelve hundred pounds twelve cents. Anchors of twelve hundred pounds eighteen cents, and upwards of twelve hundred pounds twenty-five cents. Butts, and casks two hundred gallons and upwards, twenty-five cents. Barrels Ale, Apples, three cents, Barrels Alcohol, five cents. Barrels Beef, Beer, Bread, Bacon, three cents. Barrels coffee, corn, cider, three cents. Barrels empty, one cent. Barrels fish, flour, three cents. Barrels Gun-powder, one hundred pounds and upwards, five cents. Barrels gun-powder under one hundred pounds, four cents. Barrels Gin, five cents. Barrels hams, herrings, or indigo, three cents. Barrels lime, four cents. Barrels molasses, five cents.

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Barrels nuts, or onions, three cents. Barrels oil, five cents. Barrels potatoes, pitch, plaster paris, porter, pork, pimento, pepper, three cents. Barrels rice, same in half barrels, four cents. Barrels rosin, three cents. Barrels rum, and other spirituous liquors, five cents. Barrels salt, sugar, turpentine, tar, three cents. Barrels vinegar, wine and whiskey, five cents. Barrels, halves and half-quarter casks of liquors, three cents. Barrels, halves of provisions, ale, beer, cider c. two cents. Bolts bagging, canvass, duck, osnaburgs (or per piece) two cents. Boxes dry goods upwards four feet square, six cents. Boxes dry goods under four feet square, four cents. Boxes axes, candles, chocolate, cheese, cordials, dates, figs, glass of fifty feet, herrings, indigo, prunes, raisins, starch, segars, tin plate, two cents. Boxes lemons and oranges, three cents. Boxes Sugar, five cents. Boxes Tobacco, three cents. Bales cotton, five cents. Bales bagging, canvass, carpeting, blankets and other dry goods, five cents. Bales deer skins, five cents. Bales hay, six cents. Bales empty bottles, five cents. Baskets nests, two cents. Baskets oil, Wine, cordial c. two cents. Bacon per thousand pounds, thirty-seven and a half cents. Bark (Tanners) per cord, thirty-seven and a half cents. Bellows (house) two cents. Bellows (blacksmith's,) six cents. Brick and tile per thousand twenty-five cents. Bundles brooms, bandboxes, collars, hames, pans, sythes, spades, shovels, trees, vines, vices, c. three cents. Bags almonds, coffee, cocoa nuts, [Illegible Text] pimento, ginger, three cents. Bags grain, one cent. Bags shot, one half cent. Ballast per ton, twenty five cents. Bale rope per coil, three cents. Cultivaters, six and one fourth cents. Corn shellers, six and one fourth cents.

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Cambouses, twenty cents. Cheese per hundred pounds in bulk, two cents. Carriages of four wheels, one dollar. Carriages of two wheels, fifty cents. Chairs, sitting, one cent. Carboys vitriol, three cents. Cannon carriages, three cents. Cordage per coil, three cents. Cannons of six hundred pounds and under, twenty-five cents. Cannons over six hundred pounds, fifty cents. Cables, chain per ton, twenty five cents. Coal per ton, thirty five cents. Crates crockery, onions c. ten cents. Cabbages per hundred, twelve and one half cents. Casks crockery, coffee, eight cents. Casks cheese, four cents. Casks porter six dozen and upwards, eight cents. Cattle, bulls, oxen, cows, twenty-five cents. Demijohns, liquor, two cents. Demijohns empty, one cent. Furniture, tables, bureaus, c. six cents. Fish dry per hundred pounds, two cents. Furnaces, portable, two cents. Grain in bulk, barley, corn, peas, wheat, and other kinds per hundred bushels, twenty five cents. Hams, each, one half cent. Hogsheads, liquors, molasses, oil, c. eighty gallons and upwards, ten cents. Hogsheads sixty gallons and upwards, eight cents. Hogsheads sugar one thousand pounds and lover, twelve and one half cents. Hogsheads sugar under one thousand pounds, eight cents. Hogsheads coffee seven hundred pounds and over, ten cents. Hogsheads coffee under seven hundred pounds, eight cents. Hogsheads dry goods, twelve and one half cents. Hampers, bottles, six cents. Hampers potatoes two cents. Horses, mules, jack asses, c. thirty-seven and one half cents. Iron, bar, and pig per ton, twenty-five cents. Iron hollow ware, and other castings, each under forty pounds weight, one cent.

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Iron hollow ware over forty pounds weight, per hundred pounds, two and a half cents. Iron grates, stoves, c. six cents. Iron pots, kettles, and ovens with covers, dogs per pair, waggon boxes per set to be considered as one piece, one cent. Jugs, [Illegible Text] and other clay and stone ware, one half cent. Jugs pickles, grapes, raisins, c. one cent. Kegs nails, tobacco, three cents. Kegs fifty pounds and under, two cents, over fifty pounds, three cents. Kegs liquor, twenty gallons and under, two cents. Kegs powder per twenty five pounds, two cents. Kegs buscuit, crackers, lard, c. one cent. Kegs paints and others same size, one cent. Kegs shot, lead, c. per hundred pounds, one cent. Lumber, timber, boards and other sawed lumber per thousand superficial feet, thirty cents. Lumber, Mahogany per thousand superficial feet, forty cents. Lumber, Pipe and hogshead staves per thousand, thirty cents. Lumber, Barrel staves per thousand, twenty cents. Lumber, Heading for pipes and hogsheads, fifty cents. Lumber, Heading for barrels, twenty-five cents. Lumber, Shingles, twelve and one half cents. Lumber, Reeds and hoops per thousand, twenty five cents. Lumber, Laths, twelve and one half cents. Lumber, Lightwood, cedar posts and other logs each, one half cent. Nests tubs, three cents. Onions per one hundred ropes, twelve and one half cents Oranges per thousand, twelve and one half cents. Pipes liquor one hundred gallons and upwards, twelve and one half cents. Pipes liquor Of sixty gallons and upwards, eight cents. Pipes liquor Halves under sixty gallons six cents. Pipes liquor Quarters under forty gallons, five cents. Pipes liquor Eighths, under twenty gallons, three cents. Ploughs and cultivaters, six and one fourth cents. Pine apples per hundred, six cents. Potatoes per hundred bushels, twenty five cents. Paper, bundle of two reams (printing) two cents. Paper, bundle Wrapping one ream, large size, two cents. Paper, bundle Wrapping, small per ream, one cent. Paper, bundle Writing, per ream one cent.

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Quarter casks under forty gallons, and over twenty, five cents. Salt in bulk per hundred bushels, twenty-five cents. Salt in bags per bushel, one half cent. Stones, ballast and paving per ton, twenty-five cents. Stones, mill large, each, twenty-five cents. Stones, mill small, each, twelve and a half cents. Stones grind, one and one half cent. Stones, quern, six cents. Stones, Marble per ton, fifty cents. Sheep each, six and one fourth cents. Sofas each, twelve and one half cents. Settees each, ten cents. Stills, two hundred gallons and over, twenty-five cents. Stills under two hundred gallons, twelve and a half cents. Sugar boilers, small size, six and one fourth cents. Sugar boilers large size, twelve and a half cents. Tobacco in hogsheads, twenty cents. Tobacco in kegs and boxes, three cents. Tierces goods sixty gallons and under, eight cents. Tierces goods forty gallons and under, five cents. Tierces rice and halves, four cents. Trunks goods, four cents. Trunks empty, three cents. Tea chests, fifty pounds and upwards, five cents. Tea chests, under fifty pounds, three cents. Tea chests, under twenty pounds, two cents. Waggons, large two horse, fifty cents. Waggons, small one horse, twenty five cents. Wheel-barrows, each, six and one fourth cents. Every other article in proportion to the foregoing rates. Goods lying on a wharf more than two nights after two working days, to be subject to storage rates. Storage on cotton per week, for the first and last week eight cents and for each intervening week, five cents. Rice per week, six cents. Tobacco per per hogshead, twenty cents. Every other article the same as its wharfage. Dockage of vessels per day, under one hundred tons, employed, fifty cents. Dockage of vessels Under one hundred tons when idle, one dollar. Dockage of vessels Over one hundred tons, employed, seventy-five cents. Dockage of vessels When idle, one dollar and fifty cents.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against [Illegible Text] act be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. [Illegible Text] Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829. AN ACT to make permanent the public site in the county [Illegible Text] Carroll, to name, incorporate, and appoint commissioners for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the public site for the county of Carroll, shall be, and it is hereby permanently'fixed, located and incorporated on lot number one hundred and twenty-eight, in the tenth district of said county, the corporate limits of which shall extend over said lot of land. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said public site be, and it is hereby named Carrollton; and Henry Curtis, Hiram Sharp, William Bryce, George Gibson, Giles S. Bogguss, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners for said town, with full power and authority to pass any bye-laws for the regulation of said town that they may think proper Provided nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorise said commissioners to pass any bye-law contrary to the laws and and constitution of this State, and the constitution of the United States. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said commissioners be, and they are incorporated with the right to sue and be sued in their corporate name, and to collect all fines by them imposed, agreeable to the provisions of this act.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all superior and inferior courts, and other business of a public nature, in said county, be, and they shall hereafter be held and done at said village of Carrollton Provided nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to repeal, alter or amend an act to establish election districts in said county. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in case a vacancy may happen in said commissioners, that the balance of said commissioners shall proceed to fill said vacancy by ballot Provided that a majority of said commissioners shall, in all cases, concur in opinion. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. WARREN JOURDAN, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1829.

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RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE SENATE. IN SENATE, 3d November, 1829. Resolved, That both branches of the General Assembly convene in the Representative Chamber, on Wednesday next, eleven o'clock, A. M. for the purpose of electing a Judge for the Eastern circuit, in the place of Judge Davies, deceasedalso, the Judge of the Court of Common Pleas and Oyer and Terminer, for the city of Savannah. JOHN FORSYTH, Governor. Approved, 4th Nov. 1829. IN SENATE, 4th Nov. 1829. Resolved, That both branches of the Legislature will convene in the Representatives Chamber to-morrow morning at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of electing, by joint ballot, a Senator to Congress to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Honorable John M. Berrienalso, to elect a Judge of the Superior Courts, and a Solicitor General, for the Chattahoochee circuit. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, 5th Nov. 1829.

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IN SENATE, 5th Nov. 1829. Resolved, That both branches of the Legislature will conconvene this day, in the Representative Chamber, at the hour of one o'clock, for the purpose of electing, by joint ballot, a Judge of the Court of Common Pleas for the city of Augusta. G. R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, 5th Nov. 1829. IN SENATE, 6th Nov. 1829. Resolved, That the Directors of the Central Bank of Georgia, be, they are hereby authorised and required to cause to be sold at public outcry, in Milledgeville, all the lots which have reverted and become the property of the State, at the McIntosh Reserve, in the county of Butts, after having given public notice in the Milledgeville papers [Illegible Text] thirty days previous to the day of sale, on the terms, and [Illegible Text] manner pointed out in an act passed by the General Assembly, [Illegible Text] Dec. 1827, for disposing of said reserve. Approved, 10th Nov. 1829. IN SENATE, 20th Nov. 1829. The Committee to whom was referred the Reports of the Bank of Augusta, the Bank of Darien, the Fire and Marine Insurance Bank of Augusta, and the Merchants' and Planter's Bank of Augusta, have had the same under consideration, and Report: That they find that the affairs of the Bank of Augusta [Illegible Text]

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been managed with great prudence and discretion, and fully merits the continuance of the public confidence. The Bank of Darien, they are happy to say, again enjoys the public confidence, evidenced by the Bills of that Institution having arrived at par value, from a great depreciation, and a new emission of Bills on a limited scale, having met with the approbation of our citizens, and fully within the power of the Bank at any time to redeem.Notwithstanding the repeal of the resolution of the Legislature, compelling the Bank of Darien to redeem $75,000 of its Bills in the Treasury, semi-annually, by the act chartering the Central Bank, the Bank of Darien has continued regularly to redeem the amount specified in the resolution, giving full proof of the good faith with which the pledge was made, and the full ability of the Institution to comply with its engagements.It is the opinion of your committee, that the Bank is again entitled to public confidence, and feel justified in the hope that it will again promote the objects for which it was instituted. The Report of the Merchants' and Planter's Bank of Augusta exhibits the affairs of the Institution in a sound and wholesome stateand The Report of the Augusta Insurance and Banking Company, while it has sustained heavy losses incurred by the many and serious visitations of the city of Augusta, exhibit a full ability to redeem the amount which they have in circulation, and to meet their engagements with the public generally. Approved, 19th Dec. 1829. IN SENATE, 20th Nov. 1829. The Joint Judiciary Committee, to whom was [Illegible Text] that part of the Governor's communication, with the [Illegible Text] documents, relative to the case of Rowland [Illegible Text]Report,

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That it is known to the community, as well as to this committee, that the whole circumstances of the arrest and abduction of the said Stephenson, together with the rights of all parties concerned, are now undergoing the determination of the legal tribunals of this State.That in the opinion of your committee, the case is now before the constitutional tribunal of the State, and the rights of the parties must be settled according to the laws in force at the time; and any expression of opinion on the part of the Legislature, would be unadvised, as the same must most manifestly affect the rights of the parties now in court. And, as it is probable that the interests of the citizens, generally, do not demand an expression of opinion on the part of the Legislature, your committee recommend the following resolution: Resolved, That the committee be discharged from the further consideration of the question. Approved, 19th Dec. 1829. IN SENATE, 20th Nov. 1829. The Joint Committee on Banks, to whom was referred the Report of the Bank of MaconReport, That after a careful examination of said Report, it appears that the affairs of said Bank are in a sound state, and that its Directors are entitled to public confidence for the ability with which its affairs appear to be managed. They however feel bound to remark, that the State owns no stock in this Bank; but as the Bills of the Bank of Macon have an extensive circulation, it must be gratifying to the public to learn that the situation of the Bank enables the Directors to exhibit such satisfactory evidence of the ability of the Bank to meet its engagements. Approved, 19th Dec. 1829.

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IN SENATE, 20th Nov. 1829. The Joint Committee on Banks, to whom was referred the Report of the Marine and Fire Insurance BankReport, That they have given to the said Report that careful attention that its importance seems to make necessnry, (as connected with the monied concerns of the State,) they are gratified to learn that the said Report exhibits such evidence of the ability of the Bank to meet its engagements and liabilities of every character. They however feel bound to remark, that the State owns no stock in this Bank; they however know that the Bills of the Bank have an extensive circulation, and that the public interest is intimately connected with the soundness of the Bank to meet its engagementsThey therefore take pleasure in stating that it appears from the Report of the Bank that its affairs are managed with ability, and that it must be gratifying to the public to learn that the situation of the Bank enables the Directors to exhibit such satisfactory evidence of the sound state of the affairs of said Bank, and of its prudent management, as connected with the public interest. Approved, 19th Dec. 1829. IN SENATE, 21st Nov. 1829. The Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to whom was referred the Report of the commissioners for the navigation of the Oconee river, have had the same under considered, and beg leave to make the following Report, viz: That from the Report of the aforesaid commissioners, it appears that they had on hand on the 31st day of October, 1828, in cash, two thousand fifty-six dollars and twenty centsIn notes then due them, nine thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. That since that time they have received for negro hire from Messrs. Calhoun Fort, and P.

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A. Clayton, eight hundred and fifty-nine dollars and seventy-five cents, after deducting their winter clothing. That since that time they have expended in various ways twenty-five hundred and sixty-six dollars and thirty-nine centsleaving in their hands, on the 31st day of October, 1829, in cash and notes nine thousand six hundred and sixty-nine dollars and fifty-six centsAlso, that they have sixteen negro fellows, one hundred shares in Bank stock, two boats, some flats, and a variety of tools. And that all the work they had done this year on said river, has been done on the Lock and Dam near Milledgeville, which they expect to complete about the 20th of the present month (November.) That the river is now, and has been for several years, in a good navigable condition, and that it will only be necessary in future to clear out the logs which may hereafter get into it, to keep it so. Approved, 19th Dec. 1829. IN SENATE, 26th Nov. 1829. The Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to whom was referred the report of the commissioners of the Altamaha river, have diligently examined the same, and ask leave to offer the following Report: That it appears from the letter of Dr. James Troup, chairman of the board of commissioners, and the account current of Mr. Isaac Snow, their secretary, that of the sum of twenty thousand dollars, appropriated for the improvement of the navigation of the Altamaha river, 17173 dollars and 8 cents has been expendedleaving an unexpended balance on the 15th of September last, of 2826 dollars and 92 cents. Thirty negroes were purchased, of which number two have been drowned and four have died of disease. They have been employed in the vicinity of Darien, above and below the town, and appear from said report to have made considerable improvement in the navigation of said river. Many of the items of expenditure appear to your committee to be highthe account is certified by Anson Kimberly and Thomas

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King, Esqrs. to correspond with the vouchers, but none of the vouchers accompany the report, which your committee deem an important defect: and as your committee are of opinion that public agents should be compelled to require duplicate vouchers, which should, in all cases, be sworn to and accompany the reportand they would therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution, to wit: Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners of rivers, roads, or other agents, having the disbursement of public money, to require all accounts to be sworn to before they are paid, and to take duplicates to be returned with their report to the Governor, for the information of the Legislature. Approved, 19th Dec. 1829. IN SENATE, 28th Nov. 1829. The Committee to whom was referred the report of the commissioners of the Locust Stake Road, through Habersham and Rabun counties, beg leave to make the following Report: That they have duly and fairly considered the same, and and are entirely satisfied with the proceedings of said commissioners, so far as they are able to judge from said report, as well as from facts under their knowledgeand in compliance with their request would beg leave to suggest the farther appropriation of a small sum for the benefit of said roadTherefore the committee offer the following resolution: Resolved, That James Blair, junr. and Stephen Smith of Habersham county, and John Kelly, senr. of Rabun county, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners of the beforementioned Locust Stake Road, through the said counties of Habersham and Rabun, and that five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the further improvement of said road, and that the same be inserted in the appropriation act, and to be equally expended by the said commissioners for the benefit of each county, and shall be subject

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to be drawn from the treasury by the order of said commissioners to his Excellency the Governor, to be drawn out of any money not otherwise appropriated. And be it further resolved, That the commissioners of said Locust Stake Road, be, and they are hereby required to make an annual report of their actings and doings to his Excellency the Governor, and by him to be transmitted to the Legislature, touching the expenditure of any money which may come into their hands, as well as the extent of the repairs on said road. And be it further resolved, That the said commissioners, before entering into a discharge of their duties, shall give bond and security to his Excellency the Governor, in the sum of one thousand dollars for their faithful performancewhich bond shall be taken by the justices of the inferior court of Rabun county, or a majority of them, whose duty it shall be to judge of the sufficiency of said security, who shall transmit the same to his Excellency, to be deposited in the Executive office previous to the aforesaid sum being drawn for as above required. Approved, 19th Dec. 1829. IN SENATE, 28th Nov. 1829. The Joint Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to which was referred so much of the Governor's message as relates to the Savannah, Ogeechee, and [Illegible Text] Canal, beg leave to Report, That after a careful examination of all the documents which were referred to the committee, they have been enabled to arrive at the gratifying conclusion, that before the end of the month of March next, and probably much sooner, the Canal from the Ogeechee to the Savannah river will be completed so as to admit the free passage of boats from the one river to the other. And further, that it is not only practicable but that the intervening country affords unusual facilities

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for continuing the Canal, at a moderate cost, from the Ogeechee to the Altamaha, at a point near the mouth of the Ohoopie; and that there is little reason to doubt, if hereafter it should be deemed advisable, that it may be extended along both branches of the Altamaha to Macon and Milledgeville, and even beyond those places into the interior, thus affording to a large and productive portion of our State a certain, ready, and cheap mode of transporting its valuable staples to a market on the sea board, and an equally cheap, ready and certain supply, in return, of such foreign productions as may be necessary for the convenience and comfort of its people. Like all similar attempts elsewhere, when first made, the Directors of the Savannah, Ogeechee and Altamaha Canal Company, have had great obstacles to overcome; the inexperience of the projectors, the want of competent Engineers in our own State, and the difficulty of procuring such from abroad, the ignorance and miscalculations and failures of sub-contractors, and above all, the difficulty of procuring proper labourers in the section of country in which the work was commenced, were not only productive of great embarrassments and delay, but tended to increase the actual cost much beyond the original estimates, and also probably much beyond the cost of any future similar undertaking in our State, where like facilities are afforded by nature. It appears by the report of the Engineer, made to his Excellency the Governor, under date of the 6th instant, and herewith submitted, that the amount expended on the section of the Canal which connects the Savannah and Ogeechee rivers, is $143 721 56 cents, and that nearly all the locks, sluices, culverts, bridges and check-dams are completed and only about forty chains of excavation and embankment remained at that time to be made; and it further appears by that report, that the residue of the work is to the entire completion and filling of the Canal, including an addition of 20 per cent. for contingencies, will not exceed the sum of $20,949, while, by an account rendered by the Treasurer of the Company, three days after, and which is also herewith submitted, it appears that there was then in its Treasury, to meet this expense, the sum of $25,735, leaving a surplus in cash, after the Canal shall have been completed for navigation, of nearly $5000, thus insuring to the State the completion of this first attempt of Canalling in Georgia, and thus also bringing under the immediate eye of her people, a means of internal communication, which has contributed so much to the wealth, prosperity and importance one State of our Union, and the benefits

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of which are now so eagerly sought after and in part realised by several of the others. This work, so important in its probable results to our people, the President of the Company, in his communication to the Governor, under date of the 12th instant, which is also herewith submitted, confidently expresses the hope, will be completed in March next, for the passage of boats. While alluding to this letter of the President, your committee feel that it is due to the liberality and public spirit of that gentleman, to state, that although entitled to a salary of one thousand dollars per annum, which is affixed to his office, he has constantly refused to receive any compensation whatever, and has heretofore, and will continue, to render his services gratuituously to the company. Your committee are aware, that the immediate benefits to be derived from the completion of the section of the canal between the Savannah and Ogeechee rivers, will be felt only by a small portion of people of the State, but yet they deem them to be very important, as a market will be opened by a safe, cheap and short conveyance, not only for the cotton and other produce raised on the Ogeechee, but also for the immense quantities of valuable timber on both sides of the river as high up as Louisville, and which is now comparatively of little or no value. But when your committee look forward and consider this canal as the first successful trial of a system, for the execution of which nature has furnished to Georgia such uncommon facilities, and which is destined at a day, as your committee hope, not very distant, to diffuse wealth and prosperty even through the most remote and sterile sections of our State. Your committee cannot but view the successful completion of this small beginning as an event of great importance to her whole people. In relation to so much of the line of the proposed canal as extends from the Ogeechee to the Altamaha, your committee beg leave to report, that the President of the company, with the sanction of the Directors, applied in the summer of 1827, to Judge Wright of New-York, one of the most, if not the most able and experienced canal Engineers in the United States, either to undertake himself, or to recommend some capable person to undertake a survey of the country between those rivers, and to fix upon the most eligible and practicable line for the canal; that Judge Wright himself declined to act, but recommended Mr. Alfred Cruger, as a gentleman in whose judgment and qualifications he had implicit confidence: that accordingly Mr. Cruger was engaged and came to Savannah in the latter part of that year, and [Illegible Text]

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proceeded carefully to examine the country, and to locate the canal; that after having devoted a sufficient time to the examination, and collected the necessary information, he returned to New York, and prepared a report of the result of his researchers, together with a drawing of the plan of the canal and a map of the country through which it would pass, which, with his estimates of the cost of the work, were submitted to Judge Wright, who, after a careful examination of the whole, recommended the same as entitled to perfect confidence. That report, with the plans and maps, were, in the fall of 1828, transmitted to the Executive of this State, and are submitted herewith by your committee, who concur in the belief that they are entitled to the fullest confidence.This survey cost the company $2735 02, which sum has been paid out of its funds. From the examination and report of Mr. Cruger, it appears that the canal commencing at the Ogeechee, where the Savannah canal joins that river, and terminating on the Altamaha, at or near the mouth of the Ohoopie, will be a few chains more than fifty-eight miles in length, and will require a feeder from Cox's mill-falls, on the Ohoopie, which may hereafter itself be used as a canal, of a few chains more than fourteen miles, making the whole length of excavation necessary, seventy-four miles and seventy-four chains, which, with the bridges, locks of brick, c. and all other expenses to the entire completion of the canal, is estimated to cost $621,156 60. The dimensions of this proposed canal are intended to be thirty-three feet wide at the bottom, five feet depth of water, and a water line of forty-eight feet, and which are calculated to pass boats of eighty tons. Your committee also state that it appears from the report, that there is in dry seasons abundance of water, even at the summit level for the supply of the canal, that the soil through which the canal will pass, is invariably sand, with a clay bottom, which last is generally [Illegible Text] with at three feet from the surfacethat the ground is free from rock and uncommonly favorable, and that the country presents unusual facilities for the execution of the workthat the whole distance from the Altamaha to the city of Savannah, by the canal, is only seventy-two miles, exceeding by very little the distance by land from its mouth, on the Altamaha, to Darien, while this last distance by water is believed to be nearly three times as great. Your committee, in order to enable them properly to estimate the advantages of such a canal, have sought information

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from such respectable sources as they believed they could implicitly rely on, and have ascertained, that during the last year there were shipped from Macon alone about forty-five thousand bales of cotton, which, they understand, will probably be increased this year to fifty-five, and that from the borders of the Ocmulgee, below Macon, and not included in the above, about twenty thousandthat the quantity shipped from Milledgeville, and from the country below that place, was last year not less than ten thousand bales, making an aggregate of eighty-five thousand bales, which no doubt will soon be increased to one hundred thousand, exclusive of a considerable quantity forwarded by waggons to Augusta and Savannah, from those waters and their neighborhood, all of which would no doubt go through the canal when completedthat in addition to this, the line of the proposed canal passes through a country covered with forests of the most valuable timber, all of which would find a market by that channel, and that on the other hand the canal would furnish a cheap, certain and expeditious means of supply to a vast extent of rich and populous country, of such articles of foreign production as are necessary for the convenience and comfort of its inhabitants. The distance from the mouth of the canal, by the canal to Savannah, is estimated by Mr. Cruger to be only one-third of that by the river from the same point to Darien, to which last is to be added the whole distance from Darien to Savannah, by the sea-board navigation; and he also estimates, upon data, which appear to your committee to be correct, that on a return cargo of eighty tons by the canal, including the tolls, will be only thirty-nine dolsixty-two cents for every twenty miles, while the same cargo, by the upward navigation on the river, for the same distance, would cost one hundred and seven dollars eighty cents, making a saving by the canal on eighty tons of $68 87 1-2 cents for every twenty miles. If to this be added the time saved in reaching a market and receiving returns for produce, the delays from low waters and the dangers of river navigation, the great saving by canal transportation, over that by rivers, must be manifest to all. On the whole your committee cannot but concur with the late Governor in the opinion expressed in his message, that of the practicability of the proposed canal, and of its immense utility when finished, no reasonable doubt can exist. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Nov. 28, 1829. The Committee on the State of the Republic, to whom was referred that part of the Governor's message which relates to the boundary line between the State of Georgia and the Territory of Florida with the accompanying documents, have had the same under their consideration, and Report That it is with extreme regret they learn that the line dividing this State from the Territory of Florida is yet unmarked, and still the subject of controversy between the State and the United States, that it has been the misfortune and not the fault of Georgia that she has long been embroiled in disputes respecting her boundary lines is no less true, than deprecated by her, and yet so long as she has been urged by imperious duty to contend for her rights either with the United States or any of her sister States, it gives her consolation to know that in none of these controversies has she ever subjected herself to the imputation of disregarding the rights of others, or of having refused to listen to the voice of reason or justiceThat it is still her duty to persevere in the enforcement of her rights until they are recognized and established, none will deny. The Legislature would be grossly negligent in its duty to the people of the State, and especially that portion of them bordering immediately upon the line in dispute, were they any longer to delay the prosecution of the most rigorous measures to speed this [Illegible Text] point to a fair and equitable adjustment. It is high time that Georgia should know her boundary lines, that she has a right to the occupation of her land to the true line which separates it from the Territory of Florida as well as the jurisdiction thereof all must admit: that the line to be run directly from the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers to the source or head of the St. Marys river, is the true line of division, is as certain as it can be made by treaty stipulation, is beyond all qeustion. There really ought to be no difficully in settling the matter. The course of the line being plainly designated as also the point of beginning and termination specifically pointed out, and both being natural points, and the description too not floating in the uncertain recollection of man, but reduced to the greatest possible certainty that language can make it, and inserted in an obligation of the most solemn kind between

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independant sovereignties, it would appear to the committee to leave no room for controversy. It is useless for this committee again to enter into an argument of the question in relation to the location of this line. So full and so perfect a view of the same was presented in a report of the committee on the State of the Republic, at the last session of the Legislature, to whom that subject was referred, that it is only necessary to refer to that report to establish the truth and justice of our cause, and fully to sustain the course which the State is pursuing relation to that matter. The mere quantity of acres, or strip of land between the two lines independently considered, is unimportant either to this State or the United States, and is not the main question to be considered; it is principle, it is mere right for which Georgia contends, and she will be satisfied with nothing less. The Legislature has no constitutional power to give up or barter away the territory or citizens of the State, or any portion thereof or relinquish her jurisdiction over the same, but on the contrary to preserve inviolate the integrity thereof. The committee were hopeful that the application and appeal which was so respectfully and directly made to the justice and good sense of the Congress of the United States, by the Legislature of this State at its last session, would have removed all difficulty on this subject, and closed this unpleasant and unprofitable controversy. The United States can certainly have no wish to do injustice to any one of the members of the Confederacy, and Georgia on her part solemnly disclaims all intention of even a wish to obtain either from the United States or Florida an acre of land, to which her claim is not sanctioned by equity and justice her duty as well as her most earnest desire, is to cultivate the most friendly feelings towards the United States and also towards Florida, and would exceedingly regret that she should be reduced to the necessity of pursuing any measure that would be calculated for a moment, to interrupt those good feelings that now so happily subsist between them. And the committee take this occasion to State that they have much confidence in the liberality and justice of the Congress of the United States, and the Administration of the Government thereof, and are from this consideration induced to believe that the want of time prevented the Congress from acting definitively upon the subject at its last session, and not from a disposition to disregard the rights of

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the State, or leave the question still open. They are induced once more earnestly to appeal to the Legislature of the Union upon this subject, and request that they, at the ensuing session of Congress, repeal or alter and amend the act passed on the fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty six in relation to the running and marking the said line, and make provision for, and appoint commissioners on the part of the United States, to act in conjunction with commissioners to be appointed on the part of Georgia to trace out and plainly mark the line between Georgia and the Territory of Florida from the junction of the Flint and Chatahoochie rivers to the true head or source of the river St. Marys, according to the intention, letter and spirit of the second article of the treaty of friendship, limits and navigation between the United States and Spain, of the twenty seventh of October seventeen hundred and ninety five, without restriction as to the point or mound designated by Mr. Ellicott or any other person. The committee, for effecting the object embraced in the foregoing report, recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: Resolved, That Congress be earnestly requested to repeal or alter and amend the act of the 14th of May, 1826, for running out and marking the line between Florida and Georgia, and make provision for and appoint commissioners on the part of the United States, to act in conjunction with commissioners to be appointed on the part of Georgia, to run and mark the said line, agreeably to the 2d article of the treaty between the United States and Spain, before referred to, as specdily as will suit the convenience of the United States. Resolved, That should Congress, at its ensuing session, refuse to make any provision for running the aforesaid line, in conjunction with the authorities of Georgia, that his Excellency the Governor be authorised and requested, as soon after the adjournment of Congress, or as soon after as he shall have ascertained that they have acted definitively upon the said case, as the same can be done with convenience, to appoint commissioners, with a competent surveyor and artist, to run and mark plainly the line aforesaid, according to the provisions contained in the 2d article of the said treaty between Spain and the United States, of the 27th October, 1795. And that his Excellency the Governor do, in such case, inform the President of the United States the time at which the commissioners on the part of Georgia will proceed to mark the said line.

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Resolved, That the Governor be requested to forward a copy of this report and resolutions to our Senators and Representations in Congress, to be by them laid before Congress early in the ensuing session, so that ample time may be had to act upon the same. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Nov. 28, 1829. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Mrs. Ann Bostick having duly considered the same, are of opinion her request is founded in reason and justice, and therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor cause all proceedings stayed on a judgment which was obtained against Ann Bostick in Baldwin Superior Court, August term present year, for sixty-seven dollars and one cent principal, in favor of the State, and that the said judgment be entered satisfied; and that the sum of ten dollars and sixteen cents be allowed the said Ann Bostick, it being the sum collected from her over her regular tax for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and that the same be placed in the appropriation Act. Approved Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Nov. 30, 1829. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Jack Lampkin, asking the passage of a resolution authorising the Solicitor of the Northern circuit to credit a bond given by said Lampkin to the Trustees of the University, for lot number fourteen of Falling Creek Academy land, with such sum as would be reasonable for the lot of four and seven tenth acres, which he avers is claimed by, and now in possession of a man by the name of Williamson, have had the matter under consideration, and are of opinion, that the evidence presented sustains the fact set forth in said petition. They therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved, That the Solicitor of the Northern Circuit be authorised to credit the bond given by Jack Lampkin, for lot number fourteen of Falling Creek Academy land, with the sum of forty-five dollars. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 1, 1829. The joint committee on Military affairs to whom was referred certain documents accompanying the Governor's communication, which relates to the destruction of arms by fire, in the City of Augusta, and the measures taken to supply their placeReport, That it appears, from the statement of Col. A. C. Caldwell, that there were destroyed by the fires previous to the thirtieth April last, one hundred and twenty-three muskets and bayonets, seventy-three rifles, eight pair pistols and seven swords: that in consequence of their loss, and of an application to the Executive, he applied to the Secretary of War for a supply of the value of five hundred muskets, to

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be charged to the State, and accounted for in the next settlement with Georgia, for her quota of arms for the militia; and that in consequence of the application to the General Government, orders have been given to the officer commanding the United States Arsenal at Augusta, to deliver, for the use of the State, the arms recently received from the said Arsenal. From Col. Bomford's statement, it appears that the arms, accoutrements, c. which have been furnished for the use of the State consists of five hundred and twenty muskets complete, five hundred and twenty accoutrements for ditto, complete, sixty-nine swords and sword belts, sixteen hundred flints, and seven thousand nine hundred and twenty musket ball cartridges. The State has the privilege of returning to the United States such portion of the arms, accoutrements c. as she did not apply for. Your committee are of opinion however, that it would be best to retain the whole quantity furnished. They therefore, recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That this General Assembly approves of the promptitude with which the Governor has taken the necessary steps to quiet apprehensions of an important portion of the community, and to provide for their safety. Resolved further, That the Governor cause the whole number of arms, c. received on account of the State, according to Col. Bomford's statement, under date of twenty-fifth May, eighteen hundred and twenty nine, to be retained and accounted for in the next settlement on account of arms to be furnished the State under the act of Congress for arming the militia. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 5, 1829. The Joint Committee on Agriculture and Internal improvement, to whom was referred the consideration of the Report and accompanying documents of the commissioners of the [Illegible Text] river below MaconReport, That the affairs of the company appear to be much deranged, so much so, that they have been compelled to sell considerable of the property engaged in the improvement of the navigation of the rivers, to discharge their arrearages. Some considerable amount appears to have been lost by the incorrect policy of buying and selling cotton and boating by the company, and should the same causes continue, it is highly probable, that the debts that must necessarily be contracted, will soon cover all the property of the company. A debt due from James M. Taylor is likely to be lost through the laches of the Commissioners, amounting to twenty-three hundred dollars. The committee would not be understood to cast any censure upon those individuals who have been employed to superintend the work on the river, but in the mean time offer nothing which they wish so construed as to justify the majority of the commissioners in the course they have pursued. The Committee would respectfully recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor cause an investigation to be had, and if possible a collection made, by suit or otherwise of the debt due by the estate of James M. Taylor, to the Commissioners of the Ocmulgee river below Macon. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 8, 1829. Resolved, That Neal Moses of Fayette county be, and he is hereby appointed a commissioner to keep open the South west prong of Flint river for the free passage of fish so far as the same runs though Fayctte county, to Ware's mill in the place of Cheedle Cochran removed. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 9, 1829. Whereas Alston H. Green of the county of DeKalb, at the land sales, held in the town of Milledgeville in the month of February last, by authority of an act of the General Assembly, passed on the twenty second day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, became the purchaser of two fractions to wit: numbers fifteen in the first district of Walton, and three hundred and thirty five in the sixteenth district of Henry county, said fractions being sold as reverted property, and it having been since ascertained that said fractions had not reverted to the State, but were the property of private individuals and sold through mistaketherefore Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, And that the sum of twenty dollars and sixty cents the amount paid for said fractions be refunded to the said Alston H. out of any money not otherwise appropriated, and that the same be placed in the appropriation act. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 11, 1829. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to send with the Laws and Journals of the present Session twelve copies of Princes Digest and twelve copies of the Georgia Justice to the county of Coweta, six of each to DeKalb, twelve of each to Troup, six of each to Carroll, twelve of each to Merriwether, six of each to Crawford, four of each to Randolph, three of each to Hall, twelve of each to Harris, four of each to Monroe, three of each to Glynn, four of each to Fayette, three of each to Rabun, six of each to Marion, six of each to Talbot, and two of each to Madison county, for the use of the Inferior courts and Magistrates of the several counties above named, who have no such books. Approved Dec. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 16, 1829. The joint standing committee on Banks, to whom was referred so much of the late Governor's message as related to the Central Bank of Georgia, in addition to the report already made, beg leave further to Report, That your committee being fully aware of the importance of the duty entrusted to them and also, that the manner of its discharge might and would probably form a precedent by which future like committees would in some measure be guideddetermined to spare neither time or labor in making a full and entire investigation into the affairs of the banks and into the manner in which they had been hitherto conducted. As was anticipated, the investigation has occupied much time, and has produced a delay in rendering this report, which your committee would regret, were they not satisfied that much future good to the institution and to the State will result from the course they have thought proper to

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pursue. Your committee would however, here remark that this delay has arisen in part, from a circumstance which was beyond their controlthey allude to the fact, that as the bank is kept open for business both morning and afternoon, the officers of the institution were so constantly employed during the day in the current business of the bank, that your committee could not proceed in their investigations during the day, but were obliged to make them in the night time, when the services of the officers could be commanded.Your committee have however, notwithstanding these difficulties, but with much labor to themselves, been at length enabled to complete their task in the mode originally adopted, and now report for the information of the Legislature the results of their investigation. They have carefully examined the certificates of stock in other banks, held by the Central Bank as part of its capital. They have also carefully examined all the notes discounted, and found none to exceed in amount, the limitation prescribed by the charter, except such notes as were received in lieu of debts due to the State. They have also examined the lists of bills of exchange discounted and yet running to maturity; counted the bills of the Central Bank remaining on hand, and the bills of all other banks held by the bank, including those of the United States Bank and its branches; have examined the bonds, notes and other securities which were transferred by the State by the bank, and remain unpaid; and counted the specie in the vaults, and have found that the amount of bank stock, notes discounted, bills of exchange discounted, bills of the Central Bank on hand, bills and notes of other banks, the bonds, notes and other securities transferred by the State and remaining unpaid; and the amount of specie corresponds precisely with the State of the bank, rendered on the tenth of December, a copy whereof is herewith submitted, marked A. Your committee also examined in reference to that provision of the charter which limits the Directors in their issues, and found that the issues were within the prescribed limits. They then extended their investigations to ascertain whether the Directors had distributed their discounts as nearly as was practicable among the several counties of the State, in accordance with the requirements of the charter, and found that they had used their best exertions to effect this object as nearly as was practicable, and as your committee believe did attain it as nearly as circumstances would

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permit. In doing this they were subjected to many difficulties; they had no certain means within their reach of ascertaining the then population of the counties, a population always fluctuating, and changing in a remarkable degree, and they were left in doubt by the previous Legislature, as to the mode of estimating that population, for the charter had used only the word population, without designating whether it intended the representative population or only the white population. These difficulties and embarrassments were further increased by the immense number of notes offered for discount on the first offering day, they amounting in the whole to nearly nine thousand and accompanied by thousands of certificates all of which the Directors were necessarily compelled to examine and scrutinize before a selection or apportionment could be made; and all of which was to be done by three Directors, between Tuesday morning and Saturday morning, the time at which from the pressure of the applicants and the great inconvenience to which many of them were subjected, the Directors had promised to commence the payments. Thus hurried and pressed, mistakes could not be avoided, and when upon a final closing of their discounts at five o'clock on Saturday morning it was found that mistakes had been made, which could not be rectified, without a re-examination of the notes and certificates, the Directors concluded to allow these errors to remain, until by an amendment of the charter, and by the attainment of a more correct knowledge of the population of the several counties, they would be enabled in future distributions to do equal justice to all. For further and more minute information on this subject your committee beg leave to refer the Legislature to a communication made by the President of the bank to the chairman of this committee under date of the twelfth instant, which is herewith submitted, marked B. By the charter of the bank the Directors are required to discount bills of exchange, and in pursuance of this requirement they have availed themselves of the funds which remained in the bank, including those assigned to particular counties and not called for either in whole or in part, which would otherwise remained unproductive to the State.The application of this fund in this mode, while it does no injustice to those counties, which had already received their due apportionment, was productive of great advantage to the bank and of course to the interests of the State, so deeply involved therein. By enabling the directors to place funds at Savannah. Augusta and other points, which would

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be received in lieu of specie by those presenting the notes of the bank for payment, a draw of specie from the bank, otherwise unavoidable, has been prevented, while the State has realized by this operation, a profit on a fund which would otherwise have remained unproductive of one thousand eight hundred and seventy-eight dollars and fifty-four cents. Indeed so essential do your committee conceive this mode of discount by bills, to be to the credit and safety of the bank, that they respectfully recommend that a portion of the funds of the bank be hereafter set apart and appropriated exclusively for this purpose. If this is not done, the bank to sustain its credit will soon be obliged to purchase specie at a heavy expense or to stop payment; while on the other hand specie funds by this operation may not only be obtained without cost, but in fact perhaps at a profit to the State. Nor will the counties which have not called for their apportionment be deprived of their rights by this use of the [Illegible Text], for as the discounts run only sixty days the fund can always be restored when it may be wanted. Before concluding this branch of their enquiry, your committee would remark that while it was found impracticable to distribute the discounts of bills among the counties as provided for in the case of notes discounted the Directors have strictly adhered to the limitation of two thousand five hundred dollars, by discounting no bill of exchange beyond that amount. Your committee have also deemed it to be their duty further to enquire into the specie operations of the bank, and find that no specie has been drawn on any occasion from the bank, except in the ordinary transactions of the till, where the drafts have been small, except in a single instance of a draft of two thousand dollars by an individual going out of the State and that consequently the original amount of specie in the bank has been diminished but little. The specie funds of the bank, as contradistinguished from specie, have been considerably diminished by calls or demands from the State Banks, the Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, and individuals in Augusta. These demands the parties had a right to make, and a compliance with which could not be refused without material injury to the credit of the institution. And here your committee would take occasion to remark that when the Central Bank commenced its operations it had a large amount of paper of other banks of this State in its vaults, a portion of which it became necessary to convert into specie and for the whole of which they could have demanded payment in specie; but that the Directors of the Central Bank, with a just and prudent regard to the interests

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of the State, and aware that the State was a large stock holder in several of those banks, determined not to create an unnecessary and injurious pressure upon those banks, and therefore, limited their demands for specie to only such an amount as they believed could be spared by the banks without inconvenience. In pursuance of this just and liberal policy a circular was addressed to the President of the several Banks, a copy of which is herewith submitted marked C, and the requirements of which were met in the same liberal spirit in almost every instance. Your committee beg leave to add that the Central Bank is in a safe and wholesome condition; that on the tenth day of December instant, it had in circulation only two hundred and sixty-three thousand four hundred and nine dollars of its notes; while at the same time it had in specie and specie funds to redeem that amount, the sum of three hundred and ninety two thousand eight hundred twenty-nine dollars and fifty-two cents. Your committee cannot conclude their report without expressing their approbation of the zeal, ability and perseverance which has been displayed by the Directors and officers in the management of the affairs of the bank from its establishment to the present time, and would respectfully recommend them as entitled to the full confidence of the Legistature. All of which is submitted. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 16, 1829. Resolved, That Charles Smith, sen'r., William Munden and William Drandy be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to examine and make a report to the next Legislature, the expediency and [Illegible Text] of opening and keeping open Phinholoway Creek, for the purpose of making the same navigable for rafts and boats from the bridge, where the river road crosses the same to the [Illegible Text] of the same with the Altamaha river: Provided said commissioners shall not be entitled to any pay from the State for their services. Approved Dec. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 16, 1829. The Joint Committee on Public Education and Free Schools, to whom was referred a resolution of Senate instructing them to enquire into the expediency of appointing one or more competent persons to collect information on the subject of Free Schools, and to digest and arrange a system for the Free Schools of Georgia, to be submitted to the next Legislature, beg leave to Report That they have had the subject under serious consideration, and are duly impressed with the importance thereofThat the present Free School system of Georgia is miserably defective, your committee have had but too mortifying testimony in the returns of the several counties, submitted to their inspection during the present [Illegible Text]. The fund set apart for Free Schools, although entirely inadequate to effect the important desideratum of furnishing the means for a plain and substantial education to every family in the State, under a more regular and economical administration, has it is feared been dissipated with comparatively little benefit.

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Your committee have no hesitation in saying that Georgia is yet possessed of ample means to consummate the most [Illegible Text] wishes of the Philanthropist in regard to universal education, so far as her own population is concerned. To apply those means effectually to the object seems then to be the only difficulty which presents itself to your [Illegible Text]. They therefore have thought it expedient to offer the following resolution: Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be authorised (if in his discretion it be deemed necessary) to [Illegible Text] one or more fit and proper persons to digest and arrange a system for the Free schools of Georgia, to be submitted to the consideration of the next Legislature, and that the Governor together with the person or persons so appointed, be instructed to correspond with such distinguished and intelligent persons in any part of the world, as they may deem necessary to afford practical information on this very interesting subject. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 16, 1829. Resolved, That the bar of the Lobby be removed, for the purpose of extending the Senate chamber to the fire places situated in the northern part of the chamber, and that the gateway leading into the Senate chamber be removed and placed between the chimneys as in the House of Representatives, and that the Governor pay for the same out of the contingent fund. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. Whereas it appears by the report of the Comptroller General, that Richard T. Keating is a defaulting Tax collector for the amount of nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars and thirty-five centsand whereas it has been satisfactorily proven that the said R. T. Keating has paid over to the several Sheriffs of Bryan county, all the amount due to the State: Be it therefore resolved. That the Comptroller General be directed hereafter to omit the name of R. T. Keating as a defaulting Tax collector, and that the said R. T. Keating is hereby exonerated from all default on said account. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be and he is hereby requested to have sold all the seats and cushions heretofore provided for the Representative chamber, reserving as many in his opinion as may be necessary for the committee rooms and galleries in the State house. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. The Joint Committee on Banks to which the exhibit of the Planters Bank of the State of Georgia was referred, respectfully Report That the situation of this bank is fully shewn from its statement. The soundness of the currency of the State depends upon the prudent and judicious management of the banking institutions by those to whom they are confided, and the value attached by the public to the paper or bills issued from them is a criterion which fully tests that soundness.Whenever a paper dollar is considered by the holder as one of silver or equal to so much of the precious metals, no fear of depreciation exists, and none need be apprehended, and a preference is given to this medium from the conviction that a demand for gold or silver will be immediately complied with and the bill redeemed. The Planters Bank of Georgia like other institutions of the State, has had much to contend against from the fluctuations in commerce, its frequent reverses and the embarrassments in which those who have been largely engaged in commercial pursuits have been involved. Debtors frequently amidst difficulties which press with severity and rigor upon them, are influenced by the feeling that a monied corporation can more easily sustain a loss and with less injury than other creditors, and a sacrifice of their interest is the general result of this feeling. Under these circumstances it is not a subject of reproof that at periods no dividends have been made by our banks, but of praise that their credit should be sustained and their solvency unsuspected. Your committee are of opinion that the Planters Bank has been managed upon soundest principles of policy, such as to secure to its confidence, and reliance upon its competency to answer any demands which may be made upon it. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Nov. 17, 1829. Resolved, That both branches of the General Assembly will convene in the Representative chamber on Friday next at eleven o'clock A. M., for the purpose of electing a Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller General and Surveyor General, and also for electing a Major General of the first division of Georgia Militia, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of General John Floyd. Approved, Nov. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. The Committee on the State of the Republic, to whom was referred a resolution from the Senate requiring the said committee to enquire into the expediency of disposing of the present Government house, and erecting a suitable building upon the square originally designed in the plan of the Town for that purpose, or upon some other more elligible site, c., submit the following Report: Your committee have inspected the Government house and lot, and are of opinion that an immediate appropriation of five hundred dollars is absolutely necessary for furnishing and repairing said house and lot, so as to render the residence of the Governor convenient and comfortable, and recommend the following resolution: Resolved, That five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for furnishing and repairing the government house and lot, and that the same be placed in the appropriation billand that the Governor be authorised to purchase on such terms as he may think proper, a vacant lot adjoining the present Government lot, and pay for the same out of the contingent fund. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. The joint committee on public education and free schools, to whom was referred the resolution of Senate, with instructions to examine and report their opinion as to the propriety of publishing the whole or any part of the copy of the minutes of the Board of Trustees of Franklin College, furnished to the Secretary of Senate, under a resolution of the Senatus Academicus, have had the same under consideration, and recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the minutes of the Board of Trustees, and laws of Franklin College, with the minutes of the Senatus Academicus, be published with the journals of the Senate. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. The joint committee, to whom was referred the reference from Senate, enquiring whether all the Banks in this State have duly made their returns, under provisions of law, and have paid taxes on the same, beg leave to Report, That they have made all necessary enquiry on the subject and ascertain that the several Banks of this State have duly made their returns to the Treasury office and paid the taxes on the same, with the exception of the Bank of Darien, which has not, according to Treasurer's report, made any return since 1825. Resolved, That the Cashier of the Darien Bank, be, and he is hereby permitted now, for the four years last, past, to make a return of, and pay the tax on the stock of the Darien Bank. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. The joint committee on Banks, to whom was referred the Report of the President of the Bank of the State of Georgia, respectfully Report, That the condition of the Bank, as derived from the report of the presiding officer, is satisfactory and gratifying, inasmuch as the interest of the State is involved and identified with its prosperity and correct management.The amount of stock invested by the State has been productive; and notwithstanding the losses which occurred to this Bank from the misfortunes and failures of its debtors, the dividends made on each share of stock, from its first establishment to the present period, have averaged 6 1-2 per cent. annually: for some years past 7 per cent. has been declared as a dividend or interest on each share of capital stocka rate of interest more productive than any other investment which could have been made in any estate, real or personal, and attended with less risk or uncertainty. The depression of our commerce, the depreciated prices of the staple commodities, the monopolizing spirit which characterises the times, as these causes operate on individual prosperity, in a like ratio affect institutions which afford to the merchant, the farmer, and the mechanic the medium from which his enterprise receives its reward, and his industry its profit. This Bank, like other institutions of the State, has to exercise a watchful eye on the schemes of brokers, whose avarice and love of gain suggest devices and stratagems against which laws are feeble barriers and oaths but weak restraints. The Bank of the United States too, wielding an immense capital, with powers more dangerous and imposing than ever were intended to be granted by the States, has, and will, during its corporate existence, have a blighting influence on the State institutions, which will be felt, as that influence is used by those who direct its operations and regulate its intercourse with the State institutions. A Bank which so orders its emissions of paper as never to weaken public confidence in their being redeemed with specie, may be considered in a sound state. Too much legislation on the monied corporations of any country has never had a beneficial influence either in promoting their credit or strengthening their solvency: the reverse of the proposition may be considered, and it has been demonstrated even in our own State, that a Bank may sink under legislative enactments. Your committee are of opinion

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that the Bank of the State of Georgia, with its various branches, affording a large portion of the circulating medium of the country, has been faithful in the performance of its engagementshas extended its usefulness without endangering its creditand has aided in affording facilities to trade which prudence warrants. The fidelty, ability and good faith of agents and directors are the true supports of the character and conduct of Banks, and if the individual stockholders, who are materially interested, feel a reliance and confidence in those agents, the public seldom have cause for any distrust. Your committee are satisfied that the Bank of the State of Georgia has been managed with a view to the State and individual interest. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. The Joint Committee on the State of the Republic, to whom was referred so much of the late Governor's message as relates to the several resolutions of the States of Louisiana and Missouri, proposing certain amendments of the constitution of the United States, beg leave to Report, That they have given to the same the most respectful consideration, not only as to their operation upon the Union generally, but as to the effect which their adoption may have upon the interests of the Southern States in particular. It was with regret that your committee found itself compelled to consider their operation in this two-fold point of view, because there is nothing in either of the resolutions which in itself could be calculated to awaken the jealousy of any particular section of the Union; and because, emanating as they do, from the Legislatures of States, whose population is almost wholly agricultural, and where, like our own, slavery exists, your committee feel much diffidence in making the suggestion, that their adoption may prove eventually injurious to those interests. The people of the slave holding States cannot but be aware that there is in the other States an influence already great, and daily increasing, composed of various

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materials, but bound together by a common feeling, which has for its object, and even now seriously threatens, not only to destroy the prosperity of the Southern slave holding States by subjecting them to tribute, but to prostrate their political strength, and to deprive them of inestimable privileges now secured to them by the Federal Constitution. In evidence of the existence and power and operation of this influence, your committee will, without going into detail, refer to the late tariff acts: The various amendments proposed to the constitution, in different quarters, with a view to the abolition of slavery: the open and daring operations of abolition societies: and the more secret and disguised, but dangerous movements of the colonization society: the effects already produced in Maryland: and the disperate struggle now in eventful progress in the State of Virginia. Against this influence, the Constitution of the United States is our only safe guard, and the strength of that Constitution rests upon the respect of the people, which will increase or diminish as the alterations of its provisions are less or more frequent. If then its provisions are such as to secure us a present good, why change them in the hope of a better? or why change them, from the apprehension, perhaps groundless, of a future evil, and by thus destroying its sanctity in the eye of the people, risque a greater present mischief?In making these remarks, your committee would not be understood to mean that under no circumstances ought a change in the constitution to be made, but only to intend that in their opinion it is not the true policy of the slave holding States to attempt or make amendments, unless the evil to be remedied shall overbalance the danger and mischief which may result from frequent amendment, by which its sanctity will be diminished. The result is that your committee do not believe that it is the true policy of Georgia to propose or concur in any amendment of that instrument, unless the existing evil is such, as while it calls for immediate correction, that correction will certainly be secured by the proposed amendment. With these general remarks, which are made without particular reference to the proposed amendments in question, your committee will proceed to consider in the first place the amendment recommended by the Legislature of Louisiana, and which proposes, that the first section of the second article of the constitution be so amended that the President and Vice-President of the United States shall hold their offices for the term of six years, and that the President shall be ineligible afterwards.Your committee are aware that many evils have and may hereafter grow out of the Presidents being eligible for more than one term of office. The

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love of power, so natural and so strong in man, must operate in almost every case to induce an individual, once elevated to that office, to adopt such means as may be beet calculated to secure a re-election; and the means resorted to may not always be the most honorable in their character, or may in fact, be mischevions to the country. The frequent recurrence too of the election may, by the extraordinary excitement produced, be injurious in its effects not only to the morals of the people, but to the Legislation of the nation, and may eventually endanger the union of the States. On the other hand, the restriction to one term of office, and the extension of that term, may, while it does not ensure the correction of the existing evils, produce others of equal, and perhaps of greater magnitude; and may, while it attempts to prevent corrupt practices to secure a re-election, exclude the strong inducement to a faithful discharge of duty, which is presented by the prospect of a re-election. That the frequent recurrence of the election is calculated, and does produce a frequent recurrence of great and perhaps dangerous excitement cannot be denied; but your committee doubt, by the proposed amendment, although that excitement would not so frequently occur, whether, when it did occur, it would not be greater in proportion to the increased magnitude of the object to be obtained. By the necessary postponement of the period at which a disappointed minority may hope to elevate themselves into power, and a disappointed candidate look to the gratification of his ambition. Independently, however, of these considerations, your committee would suggest that the frequent recurrence of elections secures to the people a powerful control over the public servantsthat it enables them to remove, without an inconvenient or perhaps dangerous delay, a servant who misuses or abuses his trust, while a greater duration of office would postpone this all-powerful corrective to a distant day, and compel the nation to submit in quiet to unqualified or evil rulers, or resort to the remedy of frequent impeachmenta remedy which would, in all probability, produce more dangerous excitement than any resulting from the most contested election. For the reasons then that it is impolitic in the slave holding States to amend the constitution, unless the evil be great and the remedy certain; that although from the imperfection of all human institutions, the existing provision is productive of some mischiefs, yet that the proposed amendment may increase them, be productive of others equally great or greater, and is no certain corrective of those which already exist; and that while it will deprive the people of that control over their servants which is secured by frequent

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eletions and short terms of office, it will not probably protect the nation against evils as great and of like character with those which are alleged to result from from frequent elections, your committee cannot recommend a concurrence with the resolution of the Legislature of Louisiana in the proposed amendment. Your committee will now proceed respectfully to examine the amendment [Illegible Text] by the resolution of the Legislature of Missouri, [Illegible Text] proposes to amend the constitution of the United State [Illegible Text] as to provide a uniform mode of electing the President [Illegible Text] Vice President throughout the United States, and to give [Illegible Text] the people of the United States the privilege of voting [Illegible Text] for the President and Vice President, without the intervention of electors, reserving to the States respectively, their due weight in relation to said election, as is now guaranteed to them by the constitution; and that the election of President and Vice President should in no case whatsoever be submitted to the decision of the House of Representatives of the United States. In considering the propriety and policy of this proposed amendment, the committee had reference to the same views of the policy which they have expressed in the earlier part of this report, and were operated upon by the additional consideration that the last part of the resolution has a direct reference to the alteration of that provision of the constitution which was in convention so strongly insisted upon by the representatives of the smaller States, and the adoption of which secured, under certain circumstances, to the weaker States, an equality of power with the greater States in the election of the President. By that provision, as amended, if either candidate shall have a majority of the whole votes of the electoral college, then a selection is to be made from the candidates having the highest number of votes, not exceeding three, by the House of Representatives, voting by States, and each State having one vote. Now while your committee believe that great evils have resulted, and that greater may grow out of this mode of making a final selection of a President, from among the candidates, by the House of Representatives, yet, as by this provision, the small States have an equal voice with the large States, under the circumstances named in the election of President, it would be in the opinion of your committee impolitic in those States to relinquish that privilege, in any amendment which may be made to the constitution, unless

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in that amendment there be a provision securing to the small States, in the new mode of final decision which may be adopted, an equal weight with the larger States. By the proposed amendment of the Legislature of Missouri, such an equivalent is neither suggested or insisted upon, and therefore, on that account, deem it inexpedient to recommend a concurrence. While however your committee deem it inexpedient to concur, for the reason mentioned, yet they would not be understood to dissent from the main principle contained in the resolution, that the election of President and Vice President ought to be made by the people, without the intervention of electors; for such an alteration in the mode of election your committee would approve of Provided it can be so regulated that the sovereignty of the States be not invaded, and the weight of the States, and the present basis of representative population be retained according to the existing provisions. If an amendment to vest the election directly in the people, with these guards to the rights of the States generally, and the slave holding States in particular can be framed, your committee would readily concur in recommending its adoption; for your committee cannot overlook the fact, that by the intervention of electors, the votes of a State may be given in a direction not willed by a majority of the people, that with all the guards so carefully thrown around the electoral college by the constitution, to shield it against corruption, still, as the result of the election of electors can in many cases be anticipated long before that election, these electors may go corrupted into the college, and the will of the people, in the choice of their chief magistrate, be defeated. That great evils have and may again be produced by the mode of election now existing, your committee believe that few persons in the south will doubt. We have witnessed the extraordinary fact, that an individual has been elevated to the chief magistracy, not only against the will of a majority of the people, but against the will of a majority of the States, and we have felt and experienced the mischiefs resulting from that elevation: and if a change can be made by which such an occurrence can again be prevented, without at the same time affecting the right now secured to the smaller States, such change ought to be made. Your committee however, would here remark, that the election above referred to did not result from the principle of giving to each State an equal vote, but from the mode in which the constitution prescribed, that it should be exercised, by which the Representatives of at least one State were enabled to elect the President contrary to

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the will of the majority of their constituents. While, therefore, your committee would retain the principle, they would recommend a change in the mode of its exercise if practicable. With these views, your committee would recommend the adoption of the following resolutions: Resolved, That the General Assembly of the State of Georgia does not concur with the General Assembly of the State of Louisiana, in the proposal to amend the constitution of the United States, so as to extend the term of office of the President and Vice President to six years, and to render the President ineligible. Resolved, That the General Assembly of the State of Georgia does concur with the General Assembly of the State of Missouri, in the proposal to amend the constitution of the United States, so as to provide a uniform mode of electing the President and Vice President throughout the United States, and to give to the people of the United States the privilege of voting directly for the President and Vice President, without the intervention of electors Provided such alteration can be so made that the sovereignty of the States be not invaded, and the weight of the States, and the present basis of representation be retained, according to the existing provisions of the constitution. And be it further resolved, That in the opinion of this General Assembly, it would be desirable that the constitution of the U. States should be so amended as that the election of President and Vice President should in no case whatever be submitted to the decision of the House of Representatives of the United States Provided, that in so amending the said constitution, provision be made for securing to the States an equal vote on such decision in the last resort. And be it further resolved, That a copy of the above resolutions be forwarded to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress; and that the Executive of this State be requested to forward a copy of the foregoing resolutions to the Executive of each State, with a request that they be laid before their respective Legislatures. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. The Joint Committee on the State of the Republic, to whom was referred so much of the Governor's message as relates to the tariff, and the resolutions of the State of Mississippi and Louisiana, respectfully Report, That the subject referred has lost none of the interest attached to it, and the importance in relation to the prosperity of the Southern States increases as time developes its effects upon those sections of the Union which opposed and these which supported the measurethe evils of which were anticipated and have been feltthe benefits of which were predicted, and have not been realised. The advocates of the system, so partial and exclusive, are untiring in their industry, and their ardor increases in proportion to the fallacy of their predictions, and the unfortunate and disastrous result of their speculations. Small bodies, acting in concert, with plans judiciously arranged for the attainment of the object desired, are more to be feared and cautiously watched than large assemblies who are not actuated by one impulse, or influenced by one sentimentand no motive acts more powerfully, [Illegible Text] more closely than that of self-interest: it is aided in its operations by avarice and intrigue, by cunning and falsehood, and future consequences are disregarded if success is attendant upon its efforts. That those for whom the tariff was enacted, are a minority; that they act with a union of design, and have but one spirit, is not a matter of speculation, but of fact. To counteract and defeat their operations, is to be effected by pursuing an open and decisive opposition, which is supported by the best interest of our country, and every sentiment of honorable and correct feeling. That this opposition should be tempered with mildness and [Illegible Text] is necessary, so that those who are supporters of the tariff may be convinced that it is the opposition of judgment, of reason, and of patriotism, and not of passion. That it is an opposition which has for its end the preservation of the constitution, the harmony of the Union, and the safety and security of our institutions. That it is one which will not cease, although it may be for a time unsuccessful; and that it will rise with renovated strength from every defeat, so that it finally will unite not alone the sympathies, but the action and concert of those who are situated even amidst the monopolists, but are not actuated by their avaricious and grasping spirit. To enter into an investigation of the principles upon which the tariff was imposed, would be to travel over a wider range of discussion than your committee [Illegible Text] and

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to account for the motives which produced the importunate petitions to Congress on the subject, would only be to analyze combinations which were formed from impure motives, and moved to action from interested and selfish principles. The frequent and reiterated accusations made against the Southern States, are only in accordance with the plan of proscription, which the manufacturer would carry into effect against all who denounce their system and support their denunciations by an appeal to facts irresistible and conclusive as any postulate of the mathematician. It has been said, and truly said, we cannot compete with the manufacturers of England, and that the American System, a term which was adopted to mislead and confound, and given for the attainment of political objects and office, would, in its prosecution, compel its sponsors to resort to all those petty arts, which, with honest men, produce disgust, and bring defeat and disgrace upon even practical and beneficial measures, when thus supported. The dense and idle population of old and corrupt governments require resort to ingenuity to employ their surplus population. A young and vigorous country, with its energies active, and its resources unbounded, needs not the exercise of Legislation to direct its labor, its skill, or its ingenuity. With its geographical limits extensive and unexplored, the march of mind left free, finds in its progress the attainment of its desires, which, in older and narrow boundaries would seem mere visions of imagination or Utopian dreams, sketched by the pencil of the philosopher, or the ideal picture of poetic fancy. The wilds which American perseverance has penetrated and rendered the smiling and fruitful abode of elegance, of case, and of refinement, evince that the spirit which would subdue such difficulties craves not the fostering power of Legislative patronage to [Illegible Text] vast manufacturing establishments to pamper overgrown wealth, [Illegible Text] nurture inordinate avarice. The manufacturers of America enter the field of competition under the most unfavorable auspices when contrasted with those of Great Britain, and this arises not from the constitutional and fair opposition which their spirit has provoked, but from the very fact that they are kept in operation alone by Legislative enactments, while the manufactures of Great Britain have large capitals, the whole of which are employed in their factories, and the machinery has been rendered perfect by time, experience, practice, and all the science which human ingenuity has for centures brought to their aid. The sub-division of labor increases the beauty, durability aud perfection of the raw material when manufactured, and gives employment to their surplus population. In a young country like the United States, fortunes have been made and capital

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created by the industry of individual exertion, and has not descended, increasing and applied to one object, for centuries, as is the [Illegible Text] the old and settled Kingdom of Great Britain. Labor too is cheaper there, for here, with extensive and fertile lands, inviting to agriculture, the hardy and industrious son leaves the sport of his nativity, and, supported by his adventurous spirit, is found amidst forests, which were deemed impenetrable, and in a short time the rudeness of nature gives place to the beauties of art, and yields to the industry of man. Unlike other countries where vast domains are in the possession of a few lordly landholders, here each citizen can acquire more soil than he can cultivate, and may exercise his art or his science in making it productive and prefitable. But it would be unnecessary exhaustion of time to reason on the disadvantages, the disastrous consequences, and the baneful effects produced from the tariffto pile reasons upon reasons, to add arguments to arguments, would not convince those to whom they are addressed: the manufacturer of woolens, of cotton, of iron, and of hemp would turn a deaf ear to every suggestion of wisdom, though it carried upon it the impress of patriotism, nay, of divinity itself, their sole, their only answer to argument s, will it be to our interest, will it add to our wealth, will it conduce to our power to repeal a law represented so odious in its features, calamitous in its effects, and oppressive in its operations, blighting and destroying like a moral siroc the labors of the agriculturist? If the sympathies which should bind the people of this Union together are invoked, we are accused of maintaining doctrines dangerous to its existence, and propagating opinions treasonable and disorganising. No course can be pursued but will be misrepresentedno measure adopted but will be distorted; but we are bound by every principle of self-preservation to persist in an opposition to a system calculated to reduce the Southern States to a villeinage more odious than the colonial bondage, under which they once groaned. A system which imposes taxes upon every article we consume, and every product we grow, the extent and duration of which is as unlimited as the desires and the avarice of those for whose benefit it was enacted is fostered and sustained. Your committee feel confident that a meek spirit of submission, silent and acquiescent would receive the unqualified approbation of the monopolist and the praises of the timid, the weak and the wavering; but it would only strengthen more firmly the inroads of power, and rivet more close by the chains which gall and fret us. They would respectfully recommend a firm and steady resistance to the tariff, and an adherence to the solemn pledge which we have

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given to resist, by all constitutional means, this [Illegible Text] infringement of our rights, assuring to our sister States, who are [Illegible Text] to the measure, that we will give free and warm cooperation to every pain which insures not the modification, but a total repeal of the protecting system.Your committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Whereas the tariff act of 1828 is partial and onerous in its effects, operating as a tax upon one section of the Union for the benefit and promotion of the other, impoverishing and rendering unproductive the industry of those who do not seek legislative aid, and distroying gradually and perceptibly those sympathies which have united the remotest extremities of our country, rendering her respectable in peace and formidable in war. And whereas the State of Georgia is anxious that her rights should not be yielded, or her assent given to any act dangerous to the harmony of the whole, for the advantage of the few, which is uncalled for by the situation of the country, our foreign, or domestic relations, destructive of that mutual interchange of feeling between foreign countries and our own, annihilating our commerce, diminishing our revenue, and destroying the value of our agricultural products, and making this most fertile portion of the Union as unproductive as a barren waste: Be it therefore resolved by the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That our Senators be instructed, and our Representatives requested to use their best efforts and their warmest co-operation in obtaining a total repeal of the tariff act of 1828. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 18, 1829. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to send with the Laws and Journals of the present session of the Legislature, four Books titled the Military Guide, to the county of Coweta, two to Crawford county, two to Randolph county, four to the county of Marion, two to Irwin county, one to Lincoln county, four to the county of Troup, four to the county of Meriwether, and one to Habersham county, for the use of the militia officers of the respective counties. Approved, Dec. 21, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 18, 1829. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Augustin Harris, Report That they have duly considered the same, and entertain the opinion that the request of the petitioner is founded in reason and justice, and therefore recommend the following resolution: Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and requested to have all proceedings against Augustin Harris, Esq. on bonds given by said Augustin to the State Commissioners, for the town of Milledge ville, for the purchase of lot No. 1, in square 36, in said town suspended, and that he cause the said bonds to be cancelled. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 17, 1829. The Joint Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to whom was referred the letter of the Commissioners of the Ocmulgee river navigation above Macon, addressed to the late Governor in answer to the circular of his Excellency, likewise the report of said Commissioners addressed to the General Assembly, having had the same under their consideration, ask leave respectfully to Report, That the two reports of the commissioners, taken together, afford the information required by the circular of the Governor in a manner satisfactory to your committee.The commissioners inform us that after purchasing the negroes, they had remaining in their hands the sum of $2532 25 cents, upon which they had drawn, up the 18th September, $746 61 1-4 cents, and since that time, up to the 2d November, they had expended $360 31 cents, making the aggregate amount of expenditure up to that time $1106 92 1-4 cents, which leaves in their hands the sum of $1425 32 3-4 cents unexpended. We learn from their reports that the company has fourteen negroes belonging to the State, twelve of whom they have hired out until the first of May next. One is incapacitated from disease to labor and is placed under the care of a physician, and the other one has run away; the balance of the property belonging to the State consists of boats and other machinery necessary for their operations on the river. The commissioners state that the past season has been a very unfavorable one for working on the river, in consequence of high water during a great part of the summer; the work has likewise been retarded from sickness and the death of two of the negroes; one of the hands being convicted of the crime of burglary, was croped and branded, and is at present runaway. An account presented against the commissioners by Major Thomas Campbell, of $50, for attending to the the negroes case when tried for his life, they have refused to pay, on the ground of the charge being extravagantly high, unless the Legislature will sanction the payment. Your committee would recommend the payment of the account, rather than suffer a law suit. The commissioners express a confident belief in the susceptibility of the river to be improved, and state that shoals on which they have wrought may be passed by boats with facility in ordinary water. Approved, Dec. 19, 1829.

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IN SENATE, Dec. 21, 1829. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to correspond with the military store keeper, at Savannah, with regard to the quantity of military stores on hand at that point, and their condition. Approved Dec. 21, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 19, 1829. The Joint Military Committee beg leave to make their final report, on the several matters which have been refered to them during the present session. 1st. A resolution from the Senate requiring to be informed by what authority the Judge of the Eastern Circuit has exempted the civil officers from doing militia duty. Your committee have carefully examined into the subject and are informed that a decision to the effect that certain civil officers were exempt from militia duty, was made several years ago in that district, and that they believe that since that decision certain civil officers have been considered as exempt. Your committee can find no act of the Legislature that authorises such an exemption, nor are your committee aware on what grounds such decision was made; yet your committee are of opinion that it would be equitable and just, that the Justices of the Inferior court and Justices of the Peace should be exempt; but as your committee are of opinion that a general revisal of the militia law is advisable, but not practicable in this advanced state of the session, your committee therefore forbear any further opinion upon the subject. 2d. Your committee have carefully examined the arms and munitions of war, deposited in the Arsenal and Magazine at this place, and are of the opinion that the officer of that department

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has faithfully discharged his duty. But your committee are sorry to say that they find some arms, both [Illegible Text] and muskets that have been just returned from Columbus, and some by Volunteer Companies, the greater part of which, are in very bad orderyour committee therefore recommend the following resolution: Resolved, That the keeper of the Arsenal be, and he is hereby directed to have [Illegible Text] and placed away in good boxes, the above arms. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be and he is hereby requested to pay for the same out of the contingent fund, such sum as he may deem competent for the same. And be it further resolved, That your committee are of the opinion that it is impolitic for the public arms of the State to be let out to the different volunteer companies, unless it is in particular cases of emergencies, as they are frequently destroyed, or returned unfit for service. Your committee are sorry to state from the information received from the different sections of the State, that the militia system has become nearly nominal. Your committee are of opinion that this decline originates more from the inattention of General officers, than from the subalterns, or the deficiencies of the present militia system. Your committee therefore recommend the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That all general, field, and company officers of the militia be, and they are hereby directed and required to give due and strict attention and attendance to their respective commands, and notice all delinquences and treat them agreeable to the directions of the militia law in such cases. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency, the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to transmit to each of the general and field officers of this State, a copy of this resolution. And be it further resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That it shall be the duty of the [Illegible Text] of the Arscual at [Illegible Text] Augusta, and Milledgeville, on or before

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the first Monday in November annually, to make out a complete schedule of all arms and munitions of war, that may be deposited in the Arsenal or Magazine, that they respectively may have charge of, and transmit the same to his Excellency the Governor, whose duty it shall be, to lay copies of the same before the Legislature as soon thereafter as may be practicable. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby directed to transmit a copy of the above resolution to the respective keepers as above stated. Approved, Dec. 21, 1829. IN SENATE, Dec. 21, 1829. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the Commissioners appointed to lay out and mark a large market road from Decatur in DeKalb county, to the town of Columbus, and the Surveyor employed by them be entitled to have and receive for their services on said road, the sum of three dollars each per day for the time they or each of them were engaged in said service, the commissioners to be paid by the Inferior courts out of the county funds of the county in which they reside respectively: Provided they shall think fit to do soand the Surveyor to be paid out of the county funds of the counties of Muscogee, Harris, Meriwether, Fayette and DeKalb, each paying one fifth of said sum: Provided the Inferior courts of said counties shall think fit to do so, and it shall be the duty of the Inferior courts of said counties to draw orders on their respective county treasurers for the immediate payment of said commissioners and surveyor out of any money in the hands of said treasurers not otherwise appropriated. Approved, Dec. 21, 1829.

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RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, November 5, 1829. Resolved, That both branches of the General Assembly will convene to-morrow at twelve o'clock, in the Representative chamber, to elect a Major General of the fourth division, a Brigadier General of the first brigade fourth division, a Brigadier General of the second brigade fourth division, a Brigadier General of the second brigade second division, and a Brigadier General of the first brigade ninth division of the Georgia Militia. Approved, Nov. 6, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 7 November, 1829. Whereas the Trustees of the Poor School Fund for the county of Jones, appointed be the Act of eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, failed to accept the appointment, whereby the accounts of Teachers of poor children, for the years eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight in said county, remain unpaid; and

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whereas the present Trustee, under his construction of the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, refuses to discharge the same, and it being just and right that they should be paid, Be it therefore resolved, That the Trustee of the Poor School Fund of Jones county be, and he is hereby authorised and directed to pay off and discharge the accounts of teachers of poor children of said county, for the years eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, out of any moneys in his hands belonging to said fund: Provided such accounts shall be authenticated in the manner hereinafter pointed out. And be it further resolved, That to entitle any teacher of poor children in said county for the years aforesaid, to the settlement of his account therefor, he shall swear to the correctness and justness of the same, and shall also obtain a certificate of an acting Magistrate or affidavit of a respectable freeholder of said county, stating that he is acquainted with the situation of such child or children, that he, she or they are entitled to the benefits and provisions of the acts creating and distributing the Poor School Fund, and that the account of said teacher is reasonable and just. Approved, Nov. 21, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Friday, 6 November, 1829. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby resolved by the authority of the same, That David Jameson, James M. Kelly, John M. Moore, Richard Smith and Martin Jenkins, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners of the Houston county Academy. Approved, Nov. 16, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Monday, 9 November, 1829. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in general assembly met, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and requi ed to order forthwith, a suspension of selling and of hireing out any of the public hands belonging to this State, now under the control of commissioners for the improvement of the navigable rivers and water courses thereof, and particularly those for the improvement of the Oemulgee, below Macon, till further orders from the Executive Department. Approved, Nov. 11, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Monday, 9 November, 1829. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and required to appoint one or more commissioners, to proceed forthwith to the Cherokee nation, under the instructions of the Governor to take the testimony of Indians, and other persons touching the disputed line between the Cherokee and Creek Indiansand that they be paid out of the contingent fund. Approved, Nov. 11, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Monday, 9 November, 1829. Resolved, That John Bailey, Willis Lang and Noble A Harden, of the county of Camden, Pliny Sheffield, William Clements and Jesse Lewis of the county of Wayne, and James Jones Sen'r., James Jones Jun'r. and William Smith of the county of Ware, be, and they are appointed commissioners, for the Great Sainttella river, as high up as the place at which Blackshears road crosses said river, and that they report to the next General Assembly the condition of said river, what obstructions exist therein, and whether it is practicable to make said river navigable to said point, and what will be the probable expense of removing the obstructions existing in said river: Provided said Commissioners shall not be entitled to compensation for their services from this State. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wednesday, 11 November, 1829. The Joint Committee on Printing, Report That in conformity with the duties they were appointed to perform, they issued proposals to the several Printers of Milledgeville, and such other persons as might wish to offer for the printing of the State for the present session, have received and accepted of Messrs. Burritt and Polhill, the job printing on the following terms, viz: For each pamphlet containing more sheets than one, for each sheet of eight octave pages, five cents, for each job or pamphlet making one sheet or less ten cents per sheet, less than half a sheet to be calculated as a half sheet, figure work, double those [Illegible Text].

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The Committee accept of the proposals of Messrs. Camak and Ragland, to print the Laws and Journals, on the following terms, viz: The Laws to be printed, bound and delivered as they were for the session of eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, charged at the rate of one and an half cent per sheet of eight octavo pages. The Journals to be according to the Journals of last session, price one and an half cents per sheet of eight octavo pages, and delivered as heretofore. The above contracts were accepted by the committee on the part of the Legislature, and bond and security for their faithful performance, are tendered by the applicants, respectively: Approved, Nov. 28, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Friday, 21 November, 1829. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised to cause the fence around the State House square to be extended in order to enclose the three Churches on said squarealso to fix a lining board inside of the gallery in the Representative chamber to extend half way up the banisters, and to pay for the same out of the contingent fund. Approved, Nov. 21, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Monday, 16 November, 1829. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to lay before this branch of the Legislature, any information or correspondence between the Executive authorities of this State and the Government of the U. States, or any of the departments of the same, relative to the disposition of the plantations or improvements which have been purchased by an officer appointed by the United States for that purpose, of those Indians that were residing on the unlocated territory of this State, and have now signified their intention of removing, with many that have removed beyond the Mississippi. And be it further resolved, That if there has been no correspondence or information received on the subject referred to in the foregoing resolution, between the Executive authorities of this State and the Government of the United States, that then his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to adopt such measures as he may deem expedient, to obtain from the proper departments of the Government of the United States, such information relative to the disposition of the improvements or plantations thus purchased and abandoned, and lay the same before the Legislature during the present session. Approved Nov. 21, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 21 November, 1829. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Turner H. Tripp, claiming compensation for services rendered by him to the State. Whereas it appears by a certificate from the Judge of the Western circuit that a suit was progressing against the securities of the Unicoy Turnpike Company in the Superior court of Habersham county, and it further appears by the documents accompanying said petition that the sum of three thousand six hundred and sixty dollars claimed by the State, has been settled with the Directors of the Central BankThey therefore respectfully submit the following resolution: Resolved, That the sum of ninety dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the use of the said Turner H. Tripp, and that the same be placed in the appropriation law. Approved, Dec. 4, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 21 November, 1829. The Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement to whom was referred the annual report of the Commissioners of the Chatahoochie River, above the Coweta Falls, have had the same under their consideration, and ask leave to make the following Report, viz: First, the report is informal and does not comply with the requisitions of the Circular of the Executive, because it gives no account of the money on hand; it is informal and unsatisfactory, because there are no vouchers by which this committee can arrive at any conclusion how or what amount of

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money has been expended, or whether it has been applied to the legitimate objects of the appropriation, nor can the committee discover from the report how or in what manner the public hands were employed during the time they could not work on the river. Your committee are therefore of opinion that it is expedient to adopt the following resolution: Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be requested forthwith to order the commissioners of the Chattahoochie river above the Coweta falls, to lay before the Executive a statement of the amount of money on hand and vouchers for all the money they have expended, and if they have loaned any part of the public funds, they be required to make out a schedule of the notes together with the names of the makers and their securities and the probability of the final recovery or loss of the same, and that they also be required to shew in what manner they have employed the public hands when they were not at work on the river, and that his Excellency be requested to lay the same before the Legislature. Approved, Nov. 28, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 21 November, 1829. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives That the sum of twelve dollars and sixty-nine and an half cents be paid to S. J. Mays of Clark county, the amount paid by him for tax for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, which he was not bound to pay by law, and that the same be inserted in the appropriation bill. Approved, Nov. 27, 1829.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, 25 November, 1829. Resolved, That both branches of the General Assembly convene in the Representative chamber on Thursday next at three o'clock, for the purpose of electing a Brigadier General of the second brigade of the first division of Georgia Militia, to fill the vacancy created by the promotion of Brigadier General David Taylor. Approved, Nov. 26, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIEES, Saturday, 28 November, 1829. The Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement to whom was referred the report of the Commissioners who have under their superintendance and direction the improvement of the Savannah River, below Augusta, ask leave to Report That in obedience to the requisition made by the Executive, the commissioners of the river Savannah, below Augusta, on the twentieth of October last, made a report of their operations and expenditures, during the years eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, as well as during the season immediately preceding the date of their reportalso a statement of the money and property belonging to the State in their hands. After a careful examination of the report and accompanying documents, your committee cannot refrain from expressing their unqualified approbation of the conduct of the commissioners as evidenced in their report, and the spirit of enterprize tempered with discretion, perseverance and economy which it exhibits.

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These considerations induce your committee to anticipate with confident expectation that the balance of the appropriation remaining on hand at the date of the report, (say ten thousand one hundred and thirty nine dollars and twenty cents,) and the property purchased to facilitate their operations and then in their possession, (say two flat boats, in which is [Illegible Text] a pile driving machine, one Augusta boat, and one Petersburg boat, with all the cordage and implements necessary to take a purchase on logs, besides lumber, tools and other articles of value, exclusive of the boats and cordage, of about two hundred dollars,) will be applied and managed to the best advantage, and so as to produce the most beneficial results in the improvement of the navigation of Savannah river below Augusta. Approved, Dec. 4, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, 3 Dec. 1829. The committee, to whom was referred the Comptroller General's letter, and the accompanying documents to wit: the annual report of the Attorney and Solicitors General, that is George W. Crawford, Joseph W. Jackson of the Eastern district, Richard L. Simms, of the Flint, Samuel Armstrong Bailey of the Chattahoochie circuit and Mark A. Cooper, of the Ocmulgee circuit, have taken such notice of the papers submitted to them as the documents above would admit of, by which it appears that various sums of money have been collected by those officers and stated to be paid to the Treasurer, Comptroller, and to the Central Bank; and that various debts are in a train for collection, and various others, considered bad and doubtful, and some cases are returned as having been arranged by receiving property in lieu of the demand, to wit: property taken in the Town of Macon for the debt of Joseph Benett and Elisha Tarver four thousand one hundred and twenty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents, debt and interest this case arranged under a resolution of Legislature.

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Your committee would recommend the passage of the following resolution, and that they be discharged from the further consideration of this matter. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby resolved, That the Comptroller General be instructed to continue his vigilance in collecting the out-standing debts of the State, and that it shall be the duty of the Comptroller General, in his annual report to the Legislature, to state particularly the amount collected by the Attorney General, and by each of he Solicitors General, and on what demands and the amount retained by each for commissions. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be authorised and required to take such measures as may be deemed expedient and for the benefit of the State, by sale, renting or otherwise, the property in Macon, which has been received in settlement of the debt against Joseph Benett and Elisha Tarver, and in accordance of the resolution under which said property was received in payment of said debt. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, 3d Dec. 1829. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Fleming Bates, Tax collector of Lowndes county, have had the same under consideration, and ask leave to Report That in their opinion the Tax collector acted in good faith, without any other intention than the public good, when he proceded to collect the default tax of James D. Shanks, for the years eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight; and whereas your committee are of opinion that said Shanks did not have time to relieve himself from the penalties of the law for neglecting to

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give in his taxable property by giving in to the Clerk of the Inferior Court, before execution was issued against him by said collector,in order that justice may be done both the persons before named, your committee ask leave to offer the following resolution: Resolved, That the Comptroller General be requested to cause orders to be issued to the Sheriff of Lowndes county to stay all further proceedings on two executions issued by him against Fleming Bates, tax collector of Lowndes county, for the years eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred twenty-eight, and that said executions be returned to the Comptroller General's office, and that the same be cancelled. And be it further resolved, That one half of the default tax collected by said Bates, of James D. Shanks as a default tax for the years eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight be refunded to the said Shanks. Approved, Dec. 12, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, 3d Dec. 1829. The Joint Committee on Finance to whom was referred the report of Wm. B. Taylor, the Surveyor appointed by his Excellency the Governor under a resolution of the twentieth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight to examine and re-survey the eleventh district of Irwin, recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the sum of three dollars per mile be paid to Wm. B. Taylor for each mile actually run or surveyed by him, as full compensation for his services in examining and re-surveying the eleventh district of Irwin, and that his Excellency the Governor be requested to issue his warrant for the same, upon the said Wm. B. Taylor producing a certificate from the Surveyor General seting forth a performance of the work and the amount due. Approved, Dec. 12, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, 3d Dec. 1829. The Joint Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the Treasurers report and abstract, with a list of warrants drawn by the Governor for the political year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and the Comptroller General's report and abstract, Report That they have attentively and very carefully discharged the duties assigned them, and after a full, free and strict examination of the Treasury, they find the money in the Treasury and all the payments made by the Treasurer for the political year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to precisely agree with his report and abstracts; they therefore beg leave to request that the Treasurers report and abstract, with a list of warrants drawn by the Governor for the political year eighteen hundred and twenty nine, may be taken as a part of this report. They feel it to be a pleasant duty to state that the affairs of the Treasury are kept in a business like and satisfactory manner, which reflects credit on the present incumbent. The committee have in like careful and attentive manner strictly examined and compared the report of the Comptroller General, and find said report to precisely agree with the amount of checks in his office; they therefore beg leave to request that his report and abstract herewith submitted, may be taken as a part of this report and also a list of defaulting tax-collectors. The Committee take great pleasure in stating to the Legislature that the active vigilance of the Comptroller General has enabled him to collect during the last political year, from defaulting Tax collectors the sum of seventeen thousand fifty-two dollars and ninety-six cents. They state with pleasure that the office is kept in a satisfactory manner, evidencing that its incumbent is not more a man of active industry than he is a man of business. Approved, Dec. 12, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 5 Dec. 1829. The Committee to whom was referred the petition of Luke J. Morgan and Isaiah Faver, have had the same under their consideration, and think the prayer of the petitioners reasonable, and that the same ought to be grantedwherefore they present the following resolution: Resolved, That the State do release, acquit and discharge Luke J. Morgan and Isaiah Faver from any farther liability under a judgment and fi fa in favor of the State vs. John A. Cuthbert, Luke J. Morgan and Isaiah Faver, obtained in Putnam Superior Court, and that the Solicitor General of the Ocmulgee Circuit be authorised and directed to enter a release and satisfaction on said fi fa as to said Morgan and Faver: Provided that nothing herein contained shall be construed so as to release John A. Cuthbert, the principal, from any part of said fi fa. Approved, Dec. 12, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 5 Dec. 1829. The Select Committee to whom was referred the petition of Jehu Campbell and Martin L. Harden, have had the same under consideration, and believe the prayer of the Petitioners to be reasonable and ought to be grantedthey therefore respectfully submit the following resolution: Resolved, that the Solicitor General of the Ocmulgee Circuit be, and he is hereby directad to order a suspension of all proceedings upon the judgment obtained in Morgan Superior Court in favor of the State of Georgia against Jehu Campbell and Martin L. Harden, and to have the execution returned to the proper office with the entry thereon of satisfaction. Approved, Dec. 12, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 5th December, 1829. Resolved, That both branches of the General Assembly will convene in the Representative Chamber on Thursday next, at 3 o'clock, P. M. for the purpose of electing a Brigadier General of the first brigade of the seventh division, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Brigadier General Richard Venableand also a Brigadier General of the first brigade of the first division, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Brigadier General Edward Hardenand for four Directors on the part of the State in the Bank of the State of Georgia; two in the [Illegible Text] Bank of Georgia; and five Directors in the Bank of Darien. Approved, Dec. 10, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 5th December, 1829. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That all the seats made for the Representative Chamber, and not now in use in the State-House, be appropriated for the use of the Baptist Church in Milledgeville, until called for the Legislature. Approved, Dec. 12, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Monday, December 7, 1829. Whereas John Burnett, jr. late tax collector of Glynn county, did pay over, as tax collector, to one Thomas Winn, sheriff of said county, all and singular the taxes for the year 1812 and 1813, collected by himAnd whereas the executions on which the receipts for said taxes were indorsed have been since lost or mislaid, and new executions have been issued against the said John Burnett, aforesaid; and he the said John Burnett, has in his possession receipts for said taxes from the Comptroller-General of the State of Georgia: Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby resolved by the authority aforesaid, That all proceedings on said executions be staid, and John Burnett, jr. be released and exonerated, he having paid the said taxes as required by the laws of the State. Approved, Dec. 12, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, December 12, 1829. The Committee on Finance, to whom was referred the communication of the Treasurer and Comptroller-General to his Excellency the Governor, on the subject of fractions improperly re-sold, have had the same under their consideration, and ask leave to report the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and Honse of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That whenever it shall be made satisfactorily to appear to his Excellency the Governor that at any sale of forfeited fractions, the fraction or fractions so re-sold had been paid for by the first purchaser, in terms of the law regulating the first sale, then,

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and in that case his Excellency the Governor is hereby authorised to issue his warrant on the Treasurer, in favor of the last purchaser, for the amount he, she or they may have paid on account of such improper sale, upon he, she or they surrendering up his, her or their certificate or certificates for the same. Approved Dec. 18, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 12th December, 1829. Resolved, That the Treasurer of this State be required to pay over to Mortin N. Burch twenty-six dollars twelve and a half cents, the said Burch having been compelled to pay said sum unjustly to the tax collector of Jefferson county, for the year 1827, and that the same be added to the appropriation bill. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 12th December, 1829. The Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to whom was referred the report of Sowel Woolfolk, Secretary and Treasurer of the Board of Commissioners for the Chattahoochee river, below the Coweta Falls, and the statement of William D. Lucas, one of the Board of said Commissioners, ask leave to report, That they have attentively examined the documents and minutes of the proceedings of said Board of Commissioners, submitted for their consideration, and regret that their investigations

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have resulted in a settled conviction that there has been mismanagement of the affairs of said Board of Commissioners, and that the interest of the State requires that a thorough investigation and settlement of the affairs of said Board of Commissioners should take place without delay. Your committee would therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolutions by the General Assembly: Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised to appoint some fit and proper person, whose duty it shall be to make a settlement with the Board of Commissioners of the Chattahoochee river, below the Coweta Falls, and receive from said Commissioners any monies, evidences of debt, or property in their hands, belonging to the State, and make a report of his proceedings to his Excellency the Governor without delay. And your committee further respectfully recommend that the Secretary and Treasurer of the said Board of Commissioners have permission to withdraw the minutes and the board of Smith, Lucas, and Lamar, according to the request contained in his report. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 12th December, 1829. The Committee on the State of the Republic, to whom was referred the talk of the President of the United States to the Creek Indians, and the letter of the Secretary of War to the Cherokee Delegation, together with other documents developing the policy of the Executive Government of the United States, concerning the Aborigines of this country, Report, That this is a subject full of interest to the politician and to the christian. A concise review of this policy may be productive of some good, and cannot be productive of any harm.

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All experience has shown that the association of the white man with the red has generally, if not uniformly, proved injurious to both. This fact is deemed conclusive as to the propriety of a separation. But if any thing more were necessary to demonstrate the necessity of a separation, it would be found in the fact that neither the General Government nor missionary societies can prosecute their benevolent purposes concerning the Indians, without serious obstacles, so long as there may be a free association of Indians and white men. It is too manifest to escape observation, that white men of abandoned characters are most apt to associate with Indians, and to exert a baleful influence on their morals and their counsels. The strength of the reasoning on this head is greatly increased when it is recollected that many of the Indians occupy positions in which they will be always exposed to collisions with the state authorities. Indeed, it may be assumed as a fact, that the State Governments never will consent that any tribe of Indians shall exercise the powers of sovereignty within the chartered limits of the States; that they will have to submit to the State laws, or remove beyond their limits. Much may be said on original principles concerning the rights of the States in this regard, but these are considered as questions no longer open for discussion: they have been settled by the usages of Europe and Americaby judicial decisions, and Legislative enactments. The Supreme Court of the United States long since decided that the Legislature of Georgia, in 1795, had the power of disposing of the unappropriated [Illegible Text] within its own limits. At a subsequent period it decided that titles to lands in this country rested on the right of discovery. This right residing (with some modification perhaps,) at the time of the American revolution, in the government of Great Britain, was conquered from that country, by the American arms. Subsequent to that period, it has been strengthened, in a number of instances, by conquests over different tribes of Indians; for instance, the Cherokees in 1791, and the Creeks at a later period. These tribes, with others, have been permitted to enjoy a mere occupancy of their lands, chiefly for the purpose of haunting, and have been taken under the guardianship of the United States; but this occupancy, merely permissive, and this guardianship, merely gratuitous, have in no wise destroyed the rights of the States, individually or collectively. If some of the States have accepted or engaged the aid of the General Government, for the purpose of extinguishing Indian

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titles, this may enable them to avoid the trouble and expense attending the extinguishment, but does not destroy their own right to extinguish. One of the best illustrations of civil or political right, in relation to Indian lands, is obtained from a compilation made by the Rev. Dr. Jedediah Morse, acting as an agent of the General Government, in his report and appendix to Mr. Secretary Calhoun. From these it appears, more especially from the authority of an eminent lawyer, quoted at page 279, that the Indians are entitled to a limited or qualified property in the soil, a right to occupy and enjoy, under certain modifications, but with no power to convey, nor indeed to do any other acts of ownership. The right of soil, or the absolute property, and the jurisdiction over it, belong to the State. The interest in the soil carries with it the right to buy off, or otherwise remove, the incumbrance of Indian occupancy. This right of the State is full and absolute. Even if the hunter State should be changed for the agricultural, the Indians are entitled to no more of their territories, after the change, than is requisite to give them, from cultivating the earth, a support equal to that which they derived from their whole territory, in the hunter State. Morse's Report, p. 68. Such is a substantial statement of some of the leading principles of customary law as it bears upon the situation of the Indians. Should it be said that the right of disposing of their soil; the right of jurisdiction or of prescribing the rule of action in their territories; and the right of removing their occupancy, constituting the sovereignty over their territories, belong to the Union, and that the Indians have not been left at the mercy of the individual States; it may be answered that the sovereignty over the Indians and Indian lands in the territories of the United States, if not in the new States, formed as they are from the territory of the Union, may be accorded to the General Government; but the rights of the old thirteen, sustained as they are by law and by adjudication, will never be abandoned. The Committee on the State of the Republic, reserving the right of giving, in another report, if necessary, a more full exposition of the laws and usages concerning Indians, have, on the present occasion, only given such a brief view of those usages as will place the policy of the General Government in stronger relief before the nation.

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Such being the usages concerning Indians, the policy adopted by the General Government is clearly proper, at least so far as it is intended to induce them to remove, beyond the limits of the States, or to withdraw from those limits; and to extend to them, in some favorable position, the aid and protection of the government. The advantages resulting from a location beyond the limits of the States depend on an exemption from the mischievous intercourse of bad white men, and from the collisions of rival sovereignty, and upon the unobstructed exertions of the government, and various benevolent associations, for their benefit. In this view of the subject, it is not wonderful that the religious public are beginning to use their exertions to promote emigration to the delightful region beyond the Mississippi; for however the son of the forest may be entitled to the rights of humanity, and however the States may be disposed to avoid collision with the General Government, in relation to Indian affairs, a dependent situation within the States is attended with evils too obvious and too serious to be overlooked. These evils to the Indians might be greatly enhanced by the manner of exercising the power, entering into the composition of sovereignty, of buying off, or otherwise removing, the permissive occupany of the territory claimed by them: for although the President of the United States has given a guarantee of this occupancy, it is not perceived that this guarantee rests on any valid foundation; and it may therefore be presumed that it will ultimately be withrawn, when the President shall have reviewed the whole ground, including the exposition of Indian titles, made by an authorised agent, with the apparent sanction of a late administration of the General Government. In view of the premises, the committee recommend the adoption of the following resolution, viz: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General As embly met, That they approve the policy of the General Government towards the Indians, so far as it is calculated to induce them to remove beyond the operation of those causes which evidently tend to retard their improvement, and to extend to them, in a favorable position, the fostering protection and assistance of the country. Resolved, That copies of this report and resolution be transmitted to the President of the United States, and to the delegation in Congress from this State. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Saturday, 12th December, 1829. The committee to which was referred the petition of Benj. F. Hardman, Solicitor General of the Northern circuit, have had the same under consideration, and are of opinion that the prayer of the petitioner is reasonable and just and ought to be grantedThey therefore offer the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the sum of one hundred and fifty-seven dollars be allowed to the said Benj. F. Hardman, as a compensation for his services in collecting and paying over to the Cashier of the Central Bank the sum of nineteen hundred and fifty-three dollars, for prosecuting to judgment suits to the amount of sixteen hundred and forty-six dollars, and for settling cases, pending suits therein to the amount of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine dollars, and for the foreclosure of two mortgages, in all which cases the State was a party; and that the same be inserted in the bill appropriating [Illegible Text] for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 12th December, 1829. Whereas doubts are entertained by the present Trustees of the poor school fund of the several counties of this State, in relation to the payment of accounts due to teachers prior to the appointment of said Trustees, and which have not been paid by their predecessorsTherefore Resolved, That the Trustees of the poor school fund of said counties be, and they are hereby authorised and required to accept and pay off all accounts due for the tuition of poor children prior to their acceptance of the appointment of Trustees,

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(and which have not been paid by their predecessors,) in the order the same become due Provided the persons claiming such accounts shall render the same under oath. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and required to pay over the amount of the poor school fund set apart for this State. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 12th December, 1829. The committee to whom was referred the report of the Comptroller General on the subject of the proceedings had against Thomas Hughes and his securities, a defaulting tax collector of Jackson county, for the year 1813, have had the same under consideration, and find from said report that an execution issued on the 2d day of December, 1814, in favor of the State, against said Hughes, for $65 92 cents, which amount was collected by the Sheriff of Jackson county and paid over by him to Thomas W. Cobb, the then Solicitor General, and satisfaction entered on said execution, as appears by the affidavit of Allen Mathews and Wm. Potts, the SheriffAnd it further appears, that on the 30th day of Jan. last, a second execution issued against said Hughes and his securities for $74 66 cents, which money was paid over by Judge Cobb, in August lastThey therefore offer the following resolution: Resolved, That the Comptroller General be, and he is hereby required to enter up full satisfaction in favor of Thos-Hughes and his securities, as defaulting tax collector of Jackson county, for the year 1813, and that he call in said executions and cause satisfaction to be entered thereon accordingly. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Monday, 14th December, 1829. Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives of this General Assembly shall each receive a copy of the Laws and Journals of the present session, when printed, and that copies be delivered them accordingly by the proper officers of their respective counties. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 12th December, 1829. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Murtha Griffin of Wilkes county, praying to be relieved of a tax about to be enforced against him, have had the same under consideration, together with the evidence, and are of opinion that the prayer of your petitioner is reasonable, and founded in justice, and therefore ought to be granted, said tax having been illegally assessed, as it satisfactorily appears that he was not the rightful owner of said tableThey therefore beg leave to recommend the following resolution: Resolved, That the Comptroller General be, and he is hereby required to allow the tax collector of Wilkes county, on final settlement, the amount of the aforesaid tax, illegally assessed against said Murtha Griffin, as owner of a Billiard Table, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. Approved, Dec. 18, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wednesday, 16th December, 1829. The Joint Committee on the Penitentiary have taken into consideration the several references made to themhave examined the reports of the Inspectors of the Penitentiarythat of the Principal Keeper, and the several departments connected with the Institution. The Institution appears to have been managed with care, prudence and discretion. The several superintendants have met with the approbation of the several committees appointed particularly to examine the respective departments; and the fidelity, energy and [Illegible Text] manifested by the Inspectors, give good assurance that they have had a single eye to the improvement of the system of punishment, and the improvement of the means to sustain the Institution. With some alteration in the system generally, the repairs of the building and walls, the erection of cells, and other improvements which will suggest themselves to the Inspectors and the Keeper, there is no doubt that the Institution will be able to sustain itself without aid from the government. Such seem the views for which it was established, the change of punishment alike inefficient in itself, and revolting to the feelings of the christian and the philanthropist.Your committee have not thought it necessary to embody, in this report, an extended view of the fiscal concerns of the Institution. The report of the Inspectors having been already admitted to the Legislature for their examinationthey would therefore only express the hope that an Institution, established upon principles of humanity, will be cherished by our government, as a mean for the suppression of crime, calculated alike to intimidate the youthful violater of the law, and the more experienced convict. Experience has proven that placing the brand of infamy is seldom attended with reformation, and your committee cannot but believe that a system of punishment approved by the most enlightened parts of the world, will meet with the approbation of the citizens of Georgia, who are ever willing to make progress in the road of civilization and refinement, and will never be the first to retrograde to the practices of an age of cruelty and barbarism. Approved, 21st Dec. 1829.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATES, Thursday, 17th December, 1829. Whereas the number of members which, under the present provisions of the constitution of this State, compose the General Assembly, is considered by many of the good citizens of the State by far too numerous, and consequently unnecessarily expensive for an economical peopleFor the purpose therefore of ascertaining the voice of the people on this all-important and interesting subject: Be it therefore resolved, That all the voters of Georgia, who feel for the interest and prosperity of the State, and who wish to reduce the number of the members of the General Assembly of Georgia, be required, on the first Monday in October next, to say on their Tickets, if in favor of a reduction, Reduction if against, No Reduction. Resolved further, That the superintendants of elections on that day keep a poll of the same, and certify it to the Governor, a statement of the poll, and that he cause the same to be laid before the next General Assembly; and that he cause these resolutions to be published once a month in the Gazettes at Milledgeville, until the election. Approved, 21st Dec. 1829. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, 17 December, 1829. Whereas it appears that on the list now in the Executive Department, of persons entitled to draws in the Land Lottery authorised by the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-one that Thomas Kennon of Captain Leonard's district in Morgan county, is returned on said list as being entitled to two draws, and did draw in said lottery, lot number forty-four in the seventh district of Houston countyAnd whereas it is represented to this Legislature that Thomas Kennon,

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who is now in life did not give in for a draw or draws in said lottery, but Thomas Kinman who is now dead did give in for two draws in said lottery, but whose name does not appear on the list of persons entitled to a draw or draws in said lottery from said district; it is therefore believed that a mistake has taken place, and that Thomas Kinman and not Thomas Kennon drew lot number forty-four in the seventh district of Houston county. Resolved therefore, That His Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and instructed to have a grant issued in the name of Thomas Kinman of Captain Leonard's district, Morgan county, for lot number forty-four in the seventh district of Houston county, on payment of the usual grant fees: Provided, that he shall receive sufficient evidence that Thomas Kennon did not give his name for a draw or draws in said lottery of eighteen hundred and twenty-one, in Captain Leonard's district, Morgan county. Approved, Dec. 21, 1829. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Friday, 18 December, 1829. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor cause to be published in such Gazettes of this State as he may select, such of the public acts passed during the present session, as he may deem necessary should receive immediate promulgation. Approved, Dec. 21, 1829.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 19 December, 1829. Resolved, That John B. Coleman, Abraham Lord, Ben. O. Keton, William Stafford, Martin G. Mims, Thomas Johnson and Abraham Dyson, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of Lee county Academy. Approved, Dec. 21, 1829. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, 19 December, 1829. The Select Committee to whom was referred the petition of Charles C. Burch, contractor for the addition to the State House, praying compensation for extra work and losses sustained by him in the erection of said building, have had the same under consideration, and Report That the limited time allowed your committee for the investigation of the evidence on which said claims are founded, have not permitted them to go into it as fully as they could wish. The examination however, which they have given the subject has satisfied the committee that the petitioner is entitled to some relief from the Legislature for the losses sustained, and for extra work performed by him in the erection of the State House edifice. In order to afford an opportunity of more fully investigating said claims, and of doing justice to the petitioner, in the premises, your committee beg leave to submit the following resolution: Resolved, That the petition and claims of Charles C. Burch be submitted to three Commissioners, all of whom shall be well qualified to judge of said work, and the propriety of said claims, said commissioners to be appointed by his Excellency the Governor who shall examine and report

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to the Governor, the quantity of work done by the petitioner, which is not contained in the specifications of his contract (if any) the value of the same, also to inspect the work contained in the specifications of said contract, and provided it shall be found not to be done in the manner set forth in said contract, then and in that case to make such deductions as may to them seem just and equitablealso the value of the well sunk by said Burch, in front of the State-house together with the loss (if any) sustained by him in consequence of failures on the part of the State's contractors for materials, to comply with their engagements, whose reports in whole or in part, shall be subject to the approval or disapproval of his Excellency the Governor. Said commissioners shall be sworn before entering upon the discharge of their duties. Resolved further, That should his Excellency approve the same in whole or in part, he shall draw his warrant on the fund appropriated for the crection of the addition to the State house, for the amount so reported and approved in favor of said petitioner. Resolved, That the said commissioners shall be allowed a reasonable compensation for their services, to be approved of by his Excellency the Governor, and when so approved, his Excellency the Governor shall be authorised to draw his warrant in favor of said commissioners on any monies in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Documents setting forth the petitioners claims, are herewith submitted, which the committee desire to accompany this report. Approved, Dec. 21, 1829.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Monday, 21 December, 1829. Whereas there are considerable balances of public money in the hands of various river commissioners; and whereas the act of the present session has provided a new plan for directing the operations on our rivers: Resolved therefore, by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the Governor appoint one or more competent agents, to ascertain the situation of the public funds, and property in the hands of any river commissioner or commissioners, or their agents, to collect and pay into the Treasury the balances aforesaid, to dispose of the property aforesaid for the public benefit, and to institute suits when necessary, for the purpose of carrying this resolution into effect: Provided, that in cases in which the commissioners have faithfully discharged their duties, and in which it may be consistent with the views of the General Assembly, as indicated by their proceedings during the present session, the Governor may exercise a sound discretion in enforcing or suspending the operation of this resolve. Approved, Dec. 21, 1829.

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LIST OF TITLES. Academies, Page 3 Appropriations, 14 Attachments, 17 Banks, 19 Clerks, 24 Counties, 25 Courts, 31 Churches, 42 Damages, 46 Deeds, 47 Dower, 49 Divorces, 50 Executions, 69 Elections, 70 Evidence, 92 Guardians, 96 Indians, 98 Jurors, 102 Lands, 103 Militia, 105 Medical, 107 Mines, 108 Mortgages, 109 Poor, 110 Penitentiary, 113 Relief Laws, 118 Roads, 139 Rivers, 152 Sheriffs, 160 Slaves, 168 Taxes, 178 Towns, 181

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INDEX. A. ACADEMIES. Duty of Trustees of the poor school fund defined, 3 The Governor required to make a distribution of the fund for the endowment of, 5 In Monroe, Troup, Campbell, and Randolph counties incorporated and trustees appointed, 8 Academy fund, of Emanuel county, added to poor school fund, 6 Academy buildings of Glynn county, authorised to be sold, 7 Academy in Decatur county, incorporated and commissioners appointed, 10 In Carroll county, incorporated and trustees appointed, 12 In Randolph county, money appropriated for, 16 In Campbell county, money appropriated for, 16 In Houston county, commissioners appointed, 251 In Lee county, resolution appointing trustees, 277 Academical and Poor School Fund of Montgomery county consolidated, 11 Of Decatur county separated, 13 Athens Female Academy incorporated and trustees appointed, 9 APPROPRIATION of monies for the support of Government for 1830, 14 ATTACHMENTS, Against Insurance companies to issue in certain cases, 17

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Administrators' Bonds to be recorded by clerks of courts of ordinary, 24 Augusta, acts amended respecting the court of common pleas of, 34 Butchers and venders of meats of, relieved, 134 Laws amended respecting slaves in, 173 Independent Fire Company of, incorporated, 184 Resolution for the election of Judge of court of common pleas of, 204 Report on the Bank of, 204 Attorneys and Solicitors from adjoining States and territories, admitted to practice law in this State, 41 Attorney and Solicitors General, report and resolution relative to, 259 Appling county, bond reduced of the Sheriff [Illegible Text] 163 Arsenal in Savannah, provisions for the building of, 186 In Milledgeville, report and resolution relative to, 247 Arsenals in Milledgeville, Augusta and Savannah, resolution relative to, 248 Agriculture and Internal Improvement. Report on the Oconec River, 207 On the Altamaha River, 208 On the Savannah, Ogeechee and Altamaha Canal, 210 On Ocmulgee River below Macon, 221 On Ocmulgee River above Macon, 246 Report and resolution relative to Chattahoochee River, 256 Report relative to Savannah River, 258 Report on Chattahoochee River, 266 Altamaha River, report on, 208 Acts, Public, the Governor authorised to have published certain, 276 B. Baker county, repeal of a section of an act respecting the poor school and academy fund of, 12 Bank, Central, the act establishing the, amended, 19 Report on, 223 Bank of Darien, authorised to redeem its bills in Central Bank, 23 Report on, [Illegible Text]

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BANKS. Reports on Bank of Augusta, Fire Marine Insurance Bank, and the Merchants and Planters of Augusta, 204 Report on the Macon Bank, 206 On the Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, 207 On the Planters Bank of the State of Georgia, 231 Report respecting the tax paid by them, 233 Report on the Bank of the State of Georgia, 234 Bank Directors, resolution for the election of, 264 Butts county, jurisdiction of, extended over Ocmulgee River, 27 Time of holding October term of Superior court in, altered, 36 Raldwin county, time of holding Superior and inferior courts altered, 31 Baptist church, in Columbus, the Governor authorised to issue a grant for land to, 44 In Warrenton, incorporated, 44 In Milledgeville, resolution giving the use of seats to, 264 Bostick, Nathaniel L. and Sarah J. his wife, divorced, 54 Bryan, Elizabeth, and Elias Bryan, her husband, divorced, 57 Bell, Elizabeth, and Thomas Bell, her husband, divorced, 58 Brown, Abraham, and Betsey Brown, his wife, divorced, 63 Barron, Ann, and James Barron, her husband, divorced, 67 Burke county, the act establishing election districts in, amended, 82 Road laws altered as respects, 150 Bell, Newton, name changed to Newton Green, 122 Bexley, James, name changed to James Smith, 122 Beauchamp, Martha, constituted heir to Isaiah Parker, 123 Bailey, David J. admitted to practice law, 130 Black, William A. admitted to practice law, 130 Butchers and Venders of meats in Augusta, relieved, 134 Berry, Edmund G. and James, relieved, 137 Belcher, Wiley, suit ordered to commence against, 162 Bryan county, presiding Magistrates at elections to be paid, 166 Bonds of the Sheriffs of Irwin, Carroll, Early, Randolph, Rabun, Appling, Campbell, [Illegible Text], Lowndes and Lee, reduced, 163 Of the Sheriff of Wayne county reduced, 166 Taken by Sheriffs, Coroners and contables, for delivery of goods, made valid, 167

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Bainbridge, in Decatur county, incorporated, 186 Boundary line between Georgia and Florida, report on, 215 Bostick, Ann, resolution relative to, 218 Bates, Fleming, resolution relative to, 260 Burnett, John, resolution relative to, 265 Burch, Mortin N. resolution relative to, 266 Birch, C. C. report and resolution relative to, 277 C. Campbellton Academy, in Campbell county, incorporated, 8 Money appropriated for, 16 Campbellton, in Campbell county, incorporated, 189 Campbell county, election precincts established, 76 Sheriff of, authorised to advertise in Macon, 162 Bond reduced, 163 Clark County, Female Academy in Athens incorporated, 9 Part of, added to Madison county, 28 Carroll county academy incorporated, 12 Carroll county, election districts established in, 84 Bond of the Sheriff of, reduced, 163 Resolution to send Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to, 223 Carrollton, in Carroll county, incorporated, 201 Central Bank, the act establishing this bank amended, 19 Report on, 223 CLERKS of the courts of ordinary required to record Guardians and administrators' bonds, 24 Of Wayne county, to keep their offices at the court house, or within one mile and a half thereof, 25 Of superior and inferior courts, duties of, more fully defined, 39 Courts of ordinary, clerks of, required to record Guardians and Administrators bonds, 24 Records of, authorised to be transcribed, 38 COURTS. Superior, time of holding, in Baldwin county, altered, 31 In Twiggs county, altered, 31 In Franklin county, altered, 32 In Rabun county, altered, 32 In Dooly county, altered, 33 October term in Butts county, altered, 36 In the Chattahoochee Circuit, altered, 37 Records of, required to be transcribed, 38

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COURTS. Inferiortime of holding, in Baldwin county, altered, 31 In Talbot county, altered, 33 When sitting for ordinary purposes, authorised to order the sale of negroes belonging to estates, c. 36 Required to transcribe the records of the superior and inferior courts, and courts of ordinary, 38 Common Pleas of Augusta, acts amended respecting it, 34 Chattahoochee Circuit, time of holding superior courts of, altered, 37 Resolution for the election of a Judge for, 203 Chattahoochee River, above the falls, report and resolution relative to, 256 Report on, 266 CHURCHES. An act concerning church of White Bluff, 42 The Governor authorised to issue a grant for land in Columbus to Baptist church, 44 Baptist church in Warrenton incorporated, 44 Conner, Wilson, and Mary Ann Conner, his wife, divorced, 52 Cannon, Catharine, and John Cannon, her husband divorced, 53 Cherokee Territory, added to several counties, 98 Cherokee Nation, resolution for appointing commissioners to proceed to, 252 Chatham County, ungranted lands in, appropriated to charitable societies, 103 Time of meeting of board of commissioners of public roads for, altered, 146 Sheriff or constables of, authorised to enter the dwellings of sailor landlords, 164 Collins, Mary Ann, name changed to Lucy Ryerson Cook, 123 Cherrytree, Lewis J. name changed to Lewis J. Pendarvis, 123 Columbia county, grand and petit jurors of, relieved, 128 Crawford county, sale of land in 1st district formerly Muscogee, made valid, 129 Authorised to levy an extra tax, 180 Resolution for sending Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to, 223 Military Guide, 245

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Campbell, John A. admitted to practice law, 130 Chandler, Gray A. admitted to practice law, 130 Camden county, road laws altered as respects, 147 Constables, made elective by the people, 160 Bonds taken by, for delivery of goods, made valid, 167 Coroners, bonds taken by, for delivery of goods, made valid, 167 Clinton, slaves and free persons of colour in, regulated, 176 Canals report on Savannah, Ogeechee and Altamaha canal, 210 Coweta county, resolution for sending Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to, 223 Military Guide, 245 Campbell, John, and M. L. Harden, report and resolution relative to, 263 Commissioners of Rivers, resolution relative to, 279 D. Decatur county. Academy incorporated, 10 Another election district established in, 83 Bainbridge, in, incorporated, 186 Darien Bank, authorised to redeem its bills in Central Bank, 23 Resolution relative to failure of, to pay tax, 223 Report on, 205 Darien, the act of incorporation amended, 195 DeKalb county, fraction No. 248, in 6th district of Gwinnett county, added to, 30 Inferior court of, authorised to relieve Guess and McPost, 133 Resolution for sending Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to, 223 Dooly county, time of holding superior court in, altered, 33 An election district established in, 81 DAMAGES. Mode of assessing damages on claims of property tried in Superior and inferior courts, defined, 46 DEEDS. Commissioners to be appointed out of the State, to take acknowledgement of, c. 47 DOWER. Concerning feme coverts conveying their, 49 Dick, Charoline E. and James Dick, her husband, divorced. 60

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Duke, Berry Coleman, name changed to Berry Coleman Tate, 122 Deed Records in clerk's office of superior court of Henry county, legalised, 124 Drawers of land in 11th district of formerly Irwin now Lowndes county, relieved, 127 Daniel, Nancy and Lucy Jane, names changed to Nancy and Lucy Jane Crisp, and legitimatized, 136 Debtors to the State, resolution relative to, 259 E. Emanuel county, poor school and academy fund of, consolidated, 6 Sheriff of, authorised to advertise in Milledgeville, 161 Election Districts established in Lee county, 26 In Twiggs county, 70 Two additional, established in Walton county, 72 Established in Habersham county, 74 In Marion county, 75 In Campbell county, 76 In Wilkinson, Randolph, and Carroll counties, 84 In Jasper county, 87 In Lowndes county, 89 In Muscogee county, 90 One changed in Wilkes county, 72 Altered in Meriwether county, 73 One in Putnam county established, 78 One altered in Pike county, 79 One more established in Glynn county, 80 One established in Dooly county, 81 In Burke county, the act amended establishing, 82 One more established in Decatur county, 83 One established in Harris county, 86 One established in Telfair county, 92 Abolished in Tattnall county, 88 Elections by the General Assembly, resolution for, 203 Resolution for, 203 Resolution for, 204 Resolution for electing State house officers, 232 Resolution for, 250 Resolution for electing Generals, 258 Resolution for electing bank directors, c. 264

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Estates of Testators, intestates or wards, slaves belonging to, may be sold by order of court of ordinary, 36 Executions and Judgments, assignment of, authorised and made uniform, 69 Evidence, mode of procuring written testimony, c. 92 Early county, bond reduced of the Sheriff of, 163 Eastern circuit, resolution for electing Judge of, 203 F. Fund, Poor School, duty of the trustees defined, 3 Female Academy, in Athens incorporated, 9 Females, manner of taking testimony of, regulated, 94 Franklin county, time of holding superior court in, altered, 32 Authorised to levy an extra tax, 181 Franklin College, laws of, to be published with the Journals of Senate, 233 Feme Coverts, concerning dower conveyed by, 49 Fairchild, Rachel, and William Fairchild, her husband, divorced, 65 Fortson, Eliza, and William Fortson, her husband, divorced, 66 Free persons of color, an act concerning the guardianship of, 97 The laws amended respecting the trial of, 172 The laws amended respecting, 173 Prohibited to set types in printing offices, 175 And slaves in Clinton and Macon regulated, 176 Free white persons, penalty for kidnapping, 118 Frudulent draws of land in certain counties, not to be returned after the 1st of July, 105 Fortunate drawers in the land lotteries of 1818, '19, and '21, time extended to take out their grants, 118 In the lottery of 1827, time extended, 120 In the lottery of 1827, time extended, 120 In the lotteries authorised by the acts of 1825, relief to certain, 121 Fishing, manner of, in Ocmulgee river, directed, 152 Obstructions for, in Savannah River prevented, 154 Several acts respecting fishing in Ocmulgee river amended, 157 Fire company in Augusta, incorporated, 184 Fire and Marine Insurance Bank of Augusta, report on, 205

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Florida, report on the boundary line between Georgia and, 215 Flint River, Commissioner appointed for South West prong of, 222 Fayette county, resolution for sending Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to, 223 Finance, report of the committee of, 262 On fractions resold, 265 Fractions resold, report of the committee of Finance on, 265 G. Glynn county, Academy buildings of, authorised to be sold, 7 An act regulating the trading of merchants, c. repealed as respects, 28 An additional election district established in, 80 Road laws altered, as respects, 151 Resolution for sending Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to, 223 Guardians' Bonds, to be recorded by the clerks of courts of ordinary, 24 Guardianship of minors, an act concerning, 96 Of free persons of color, an act concerning, 97 Gwinnett county, fraction No. 248, in the 6th district of, added to DeKalb county, 30 The act amended incorporating Lawrenceville, in, 194 Grantham, William M. and Rachel, his wife, divsrced, 50 Gann, William, and Polly Gann, his wife, divorced, 51 Gaines, Henry S. and Mary Gaines, his wife, divorced, 58 Grizzle, Joseph, and Matilda Grizzle, his wife, diverced, 62 Gregory, Stacy, and Green A. Gregory, her husband, divorced, 65 Garrett, John, and Elizabeth Garrett, his wife, divorced, 68 Gambling, penalties against, 113 Green, Jane and Ezekiel, name changed to Jane and Ezekiel Parish, 122 Godfrey, Susannah, Nancy, Freeman, and Enoch, names changed to Susannah, Nancy, Freeman, and Enoch Mulky, 123 Gibbs, R. name changed to R. Durham, 123 Groom, Nancy, name changed to Nancy Hagan, 123 Guess, James, and Lindsey McPost, relieved, 133 Green, Alston H. resolution relative to, 222

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Georgia Justice and Prince's Digest, to be sent to several counties, 223 Government House, resolution relative to, 232 Generals resolution for electing a Major General, 232 Resolution for electing one major and four brigadier Generals, 250 Resolution for electing one Brigadier General, 258 Resolution for electing two brigadier Generals, 264 General Assembly, resolution relative to reduction of the number of members of, 275 Griffin, Murtha, resolution relative to, 273 H. Habersham county, manner of drawing money for [Illegible Text] schools for, 6 Election districts established in, 74 Military guide to be sent to, 245 Harris county, part of, added to Muscogee county, 30 Another election district established in, 86 Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to be sent to, 223 Hare, Mary, and Willis Hare, her husband, divorced, 50 Hulsey, John, name changed to John Wesley Charles, 122 Henry county, deed records in clerk's office Superior court of, legalized, 124 Harbuck, Mary Barbara, Thomas Henry, and Eliza Jane, names changed to M. Barbary, Thomas H. and E. J. Fisher, 126 Hemphill, Hiram, admitted to practice law, 130 Hales, John, relieved, 138 Hall county, resolution for sending Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to, 223 Harris, Augustin, resolution relative to, 245 Houston county Academy, commissioners appointed, 251 Harden, M. L. and John Campbell, report and resolution relative to, 263 Hardeman, Benjamin F. report and resolution relative to, 271 Hughes, Thomas, resolution relative to, 272 I. Insurance Companies, attachment against, to issue in certain cases, 17

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Intestates, court of ordinary authorised to order the sale of slaves belonging to, 36 Indian testimony, regulated, 101 Indian Territory, in the occupancy of the [Illegible Text], added to several counties, 98 Indian plantations or improvements, resolution relative to, 255 INDIANS. Report concerning the policy of the General Government towards the, 267 Irwin county, road laws altered as respects, 146 Sheriff of, bond reduced, 163 Military guide ordered to be sent to, 245 J, Judgments and Executions, assignment of, authorised and made uniform, 69 Jasper county, election districts established in, 87 Authorised to establish an asylum for invalid poor, 110 JURORS certain duties of Grand, defined, 102 Grand and Petit, of Columbia county, relieved, [Illegible Text] Jones county, authorised to establish an asylum for invalid poor, 110 Resolution relation to poor school fund of, 250 Jackson, Robert Douglas, name changed to Robert Jackson Douglas, 123 Jenkins, J. R. name changed to A. J. Sutton, 123 Jefferson county, road laws altered as respects, 150 Judges, resolution for electing Judge Eastern circuit, 203 Court Common Pleas, Savannah, 203 Chattahoochee circuit, 203 Court Common Pleas, Augusta, 204 K, Kennedy, Elizabeth, and Wm. J. C. Kennedy, her husband, divorced, 54 Keating, Richard T. resolution relative to, 230 Kinman, Thomas, resolution relative to, 275 L, Lee county, laid off into elect on districts, 26 Sheriff of, authorised to advertise in Macon, 162 Bond reduced, 163 Trustees appointed for the academy in, 277

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Liberty county, an act regulating the trading of merchants, c. repealed as regards, 29 Lloyd, James, and Bythena Lloyd, his wife, divorced, 64 Lowndes county, additional election district established in, 89 Drawers of land in [Illegible Text] district of formerly Irwin, relieved, 127 Bond of Sheriff reduced, 163 Presiding magistrates at elections to be paid, 166 LANDS ungranted in Chatham county, appropriated to charitable societies, 103 Fraudulently drawn in certain counties, not to be returned as such after the 1st of July next, 105 Sold in Crawford county by the Sheriff, made valid, 129 Lincoln county, volunteer companies encouraged in, 106 Military Guide to be sent to, 245 Lotteries, of 1818, 19, and 21, time extended for taking out grants, 118 Of 1827, time extended, 120 Of 1827, relief for certain fortunate drawers in, 121 Lester, James D. relieved, 125 Lawrenceville, in Gwinnett county, the act of incorporation amended, 194 Locust Stake Road, report and resolution on, 209 Lampkin, Jack, resolution relative to, 219 Louisiana and Missouri, report on the resolutions of the State of, 235 Laws and Journals, resolution to deliver to each member of the legislature one copy of, 273 M, Monroe county, Redlick Academy in, incorporated, 8 Volunteer companies in encouraged, 106 Authorised to establish an asylum for invalid poor, 110 Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to be sent to, 223 Montgomery county, academy and poor school funds of consolidated, 11 Marion county, part of, added to Muscogee county, 25 Election districts established in, 75 Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to be sent to, 223 Military Guide to be sent to, 245

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Muscogee county, part of Marion county added to, 25 Part of Harris county added to, 30 Election districts established in, 90 Madison county, part of Clark county added to, 28 Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to be sent to, 223 McCravey, Cyntha, and David S. McCravey, her husband, divorced, 53 McDonald, John, and Flora McDonald, his wife, divorced, 56 McCollum, Hamultal, and Joseph McCollum, her husband, divorced, 61 Meriwether county, the act establishing election districts in, altered, 73 Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to be sent to, 223 Military Guide to be sent to, 245 Minors, an act concerning the guardianship of, 96 MILITIA. Manner of holding election for field officers, 105 Volunteer companies encouraged in Monroe and Lincoln counties, 106 Report on exemption for militia duty, 247 Report and resolution concerning the militia system, 248 MEDICAL Academy of Georgia, name changed and powers extended, 107 MINES, Ores and Minerals, act repealed concerning, 108 MORTGAGES on real estates, an act regulating the foreclosure of, 109 Merrit, Joseph, name changed to Joseph Perry, 123 [Illegible Text] Robert, admitted to practice law, 130 McPost, Lindsey, and James Guess, relieved, 133 Madray, George, relieved, 135 Macon, slaves and person of color in, regulated, 176 Corporate limits of, extended and determined, 181 Report on the Bank of, 206 McIntosh Reserve, resolution ordering to be sold reverted property at, 204 Merchants' and Planter's Bank of Augusta, report on, 205 Marine and Fire Insurance Bank, report on, 207 Military Resolution relative to distribution of arms in Augusta, 219 The Guide to be ordered to be sent to Coweta, Marion, c. 245 Resolution relative to arms in Savannah, 247 Resolution relative to military arms generally, 248 [Illegible Text] and Louisiana, report on the resolution of, 235

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Market Road from Decatur, DeKalb county, to Columbus, resolution respecting, 249 Mays, S. J. resolution relative to, 257 Morgan, Luke J. report and resolution relative to, 263 Members of the General Assembly, resolution relative to delivering a copy of Laws and Journals to [Illegible Text] of, 273 Resolution relative to a reduction of, 275 N, Nelson, Maria, and Ambrose Nelson, her husband, divored, 55 O, Officers [Illegible Text] of electing militia field officers, 105 Resolution for electing State-House officers, 232 Ores, Mines and Minerals, an act respecting, repealed, 108 Orphans, relieved, as fortunate drawers in the lottery of 1827, 121 Owners and drawers of land in 11th district of Irwin, formerly, now Lowndes, relieved, 127 Ocmulgee river, manner of fishing in, directed, 152 Several acts amended respecting fishing in, 157 Report on Ocmulgee river below Macon, 221 Do do do do above Macon, 246 Oconee river, report on, 207 P, Poor School Fund Duty of the Trustees defined, 3 And academy fund of Emanuel county consolidated, 6 For Habersham county, manner of drawing, 6 And academy fund of Montgomery county consolidated, 11 And academy of Decatur county separated, 13 Of Jones county, resolution relative to, 250 Resolution concerning the Trustees, 271 Poor Children, the Governor to make a distribution of the fund for the education of, 5 Pool, Jane, and Julman R. C. Pool, her husband, divorced, 67 [Illegible Text] county, an election district established in, 78 Pike county, an election district in, altered, 79 POOR Jasper, Jones, and Monroe, counties authorised to establish asylums for invalid, 110 Washington county, authorised to establish an asylum for invalid, 112

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PENITENTIARY. Penal code amended and penalties against gambling, 113 Manner of punishing convicts changed, c. 115 Report on, [Illegible Text] Penal Code, altered and amended, 113 Altered and amended, 118 Persons, penalty for kidnapping free white, 118 Pratt, William, name changed to William Campbell, 122 Phelps, John A. name changed to John A. Barclay, 122 Public Lands, grants to issue to purchasers when certificates have been lost, 125 Parker, William, name changed to William Bryant, 126 Prince's Digest, and Georgia Justice, to be sent to several counties, 223 Phinholoway Creek, commissioners appointed to examine, 228 Public Education and Free Schools, resolution for the appointment of persons to collect information [Illegible Text], 228 Resolution for publishing minutes of Senatus Academicus and Board of Trustees, and laws of Franklin College, 233 Planter's Bank of the State of Georgia, report on, 231 Public Hands, resolution to suspend the selling and hiring of, 252 Public Printing, report and resolutions on, 353 Public Acts, resolution authorising the Governor to have published, 376 R, Redlick Academy, in Monroe county, incorporated, 8 Randolph county, academy in, incorporated, 8 Money appropriated for academy in, 16 Election districts established in, 84 Sheriff's bond reduced, 163 Commissioners to select a site for the public buildings, 191 Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to be sent to, 223 Military Guide to be sent to, 245 Rabun county, time of holding superior courts altered, 32 Sheriff's bond reduced, 163 Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to be sent to, 223 Records of superior and inferior courts and courts of ordinary, authorised to be transcribed, 38

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Ryerson, David, authorised to act as guardian of M. R. Taylor, 132 ROADS and Rivers in this State, the improvement of, provided, 139 Roads Time of meeting of the commissioners for Chatham county altered, 146 Report and resolution on Locust Stake Road, 209 Resolution respecting a market road from Decatur to Columbus, 249 Road Laws, altered as respects Irwin county, 146 Camden county, 147 Jefferson county, 150 Burke county, 150 Glynn county, 151 RIVERS. Manner of fishing in Ocmulgee river directed, 152 Obstructions of navigation and free passage of fish in Savannah river prevented, 154 Several acts concerning fishing in Ocmulgee river amended, 157 Report on [Illegible Text] river, 207 Report on Altamaha 208 Report on Ocmulgee river below Macon, 221 Do do do do above Macon, 246 Commissioners appointed to examine Satilla river, 253 Report and resolution relative to Chattahoochee river, 256 Report relative to Savannah river, 258 Report on the Chattahoochee river, 266 River Commissioners, resolution relative to, 279 Reverted Property, at the McIntosh Reserve, ordered to be sold, 204 S, Solicitors and Attorneys from adjoining States and Territories, admitted to practice law, 41 Solicitor General of the Chattahoochee circuit, resolution for the election of, 203 Sowell, William, and Milly Sowell, his wife, divorced, 52 Swett, Berian, name changed to Berian Henderson, 122 Stewart, John W. name changed to John W. Winslett, 123 Sale of Land in 1st district originally Muscogee, made valid, 129 Securities of Alfred Thompson relieved, 131 Sauls, Eliza, Elijah, Henry, and Elias, names changed to Eliza, Elijah, Henry, and Elias Shuman, 136

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Smith, William, name changed to William B. Smith, 137 Savannah river Obstructions of navigation and free passage of fish in, prevented, 154 Report on the Savannah, [Illegible Text] and Altamaha Canal, 210 Report relative to, 258 SHERIFFS. Of Emanuel county to advertise in Milledgeville, 161 Of Campbell county to advertise in Macon, 162 Of Lee county, to advertise in Macon, 162 Of Irwin, Carroll, Early, Randolph, Rabun, Appling, Campbell, Scriven, Lowndes, and Lee, bonds reduced, 168 Of Chatham, authorised to enter the houses of sailor landlords, 164 Relieved in cases of serving writs and processes, 165 Of Wayne county, bond reduced, 166 Bonds taken for delivery of goods, made valid, 167 Scriven county, Sheriff's bond reduced, 163 Sailor Landlords, Sheriffs or constables, authorised to enter the dwellings of, 164 SLAVES or free persons of color, their coming into the State prevented, 168 The several laws respecting the trial of, amended, 172 Acts amended respecting slaves in Augusta, 173 Prohibiting to set types in printing offices, 175 And free persons of color in Macon and Clinton regulated, 176 Savannah, Jurisdiction of the corporation extended, 187 Rates of wharfage, c. established, 196 Resolution for electing Judge of the Court Common Pleas, 203 St. Mary's Library Society, incorporated, 190 Senator in Congress, resolution for electing, 203 Stephenson, Rowland, report and resolution relative to, 205 State-House Resolution concerning the lobby of Senate Chamber, 229 Report and resolution relative to C. C. Birch, 277 State-House Square, resolution relative to fencing, 254 State-House Officers, resolution for electing, 232 Senate Chamber, resolution concerning the lobby of, 229 Senatus Academicus, minutes of, to be published in the Journals of Senate, 233 Seats of the Representative Chamber, ordered to be sold, [Illegible Text]

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Seats, resolution giving the use to Baptist Church, 264 State of Georgia, report on the Bank of the, 234 Satilla river, commissioners appointed to examine, 253 T, Troup county, Vernon Academy in, incorporated, 8 Town of Vernon in, incorporated, 182 Resolution for sending Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice, 223 Resolution for sending Military Guide, [Illegible Text] Twiggs county, time of holding superior court altered, 31 Election districts established in, 70 Talbot county, time of holding inferior court in, altered, 33 Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice to be sent to, [Illegible Text] Testators, slaves belonging to the estates of, court of ordinary authorised to order the sale of them, 36 Thompson, Polly, and John W. Thompson, her husband, divorced, [Illegible Text] Tattnall county, election districts abolished, 88 Telfair county, another election district established, 92 Testimony, mode of procuring written, 92 Of females, manner of taking regulated, 94 Of Indians, regulated, 101 Toombs, Robert A. admitted to practice law, 130 Thompson, Alfred, securities of, relieved, 131 TAX ACT of 1830, 178 Tax, Crawford county authorised to levy an extra, 180 Franklin county, 181 Tariff, report on the, 241 Tripp, Turner H. resolution relative to, 256 Taylor, William B. resolution to relative to, 261 Trustees of the Poor School Fund, resolution concerning, 271 V, Vernon Academy, in Troup county, incorporated, 8 Vernon, Town of, in Troup county, incorporated, 182 Volunteer Companies, in Monroe and Lincoln counties, encoraged, 106 W, Wayne county, Clerks of, to keep their office at the court house, 25 Sheriff's bond reduced, 166 Presiding magistrates at elections to be paid, [Illegible Text] Public site in, established, [Illegible Text]

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Wards, slaves belonging to, court of ordinary authorised to order the sale of them, 36 White Bluff Church, an act concerning, 42 Warren county, Baptist Church in, incorporated, 44 Wives to inherit their husband's estates, dying intestates and without issue, 49 Williams, Seaborn, and Martha Williams, his wife, divorced, 56 Williamson, Rachel, and Lilbourn Willimson, her husband, divorced, 59 Walton county, two addition electional districts established in, 72 Wilkes county, one election district in altered, 73 Wilkinson county, election districts established in, 84 Washington county, authorised to establish as asylum for invalid poor, 112 White Persons, penalty for kidnapping free, 118 Williamson, Emily, name changed to Emily Penticost, 123 White, Amanda C. F. name changed to Amanda C. F. Bracewell, 123

Acts of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia Georgia Law, Georgia Georgia. Acts and resolutions of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia MILLEDGEVILLE: CAMAK RAGLAND, PRINTERS 18301100 English

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia. PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN OCTOBER, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. 1830 . 18301000 18301100 18301200 PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY. MILLEDGEVILLE: CAMAK RAGLAND, PRINTERS. 1831.

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia. PASSED IN OCT. NOV. AND DEC. 1830. ACADEMIES. AN ACT, to authorize the Agent appointed by the Commissioners of the Free School of Emanuel county, to loan out the funds of said Schools, to call on all those persons who have borrowed of said funds to renew their notes, or pay the amount due on said notes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the agent appointed by the Commissioners of the Free Schools of Emanuel county to loan out the Free School Funds, is hereby required to advertise at the court house in said county, requesting all persons indebted to said fund to come forward and renew their notes or pay the amount due. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That if any person who are indebted to said fund, shall neglect, or refuse to [Illegible Text]

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with the notice, as aforesaid given, and in that case the agent is required to proceed to collect the same by law, and when collected to be by said agent paid over to Inferior court of said county, for the purpose of educating the poor children of said county, and that said agent shall be allowed five per cent for all the money collected and paid over by him, and on the amount of all notes renewed: Provided, That nothing herein contained, shall be so construed, as to exempt from any legal liabilities which any former Commissioner, or Commissioners, Trustee, or Trustees, or any other person may have incurred in the management of the poor school or academy fund of the said county of Emanuelany law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23, 1830. AN ACT, to appoint eleven additional Trustees of the University of Georgia, and to provide a permanent additional fund for the support of the same, and to declare the number of Trustees which shall be necessary to form a Board, and to authorise a loan of ten thousand dollars to the Board of Trustees of said University, and to provide for the education of certain poor children therein mentioned. Whereas, it is believed that the interests of the University of Georgia will be promoted by the appointment of an additional number of trustees, so as to increase the board to the number of twenty-eight. And whereas, the late fire in Athens, which destroyed the new College edifice, the library and many of the mathematical

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and other instruments, necessary for the purposes of instructing youth, has placed the College in such a situation as to be of little use or benefit to the State, or the people, unless legislative aid is afforded, to enable the board of trustees to rebuild the edifice, and replace the library and instruments. And whereas, also, it is necessary and proper that the University of Georgia, should have a regular and ample income for the purpose of meeting at all times the exigencies and necessities which time and circumstances may produce in that institution, so that it may be enabled fully to accomplish the ends, and purposes contemplated by the State in its foundation. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the board of trustees of the University of Georgia, shall consist of the number of twenty-eight, and that the following persons, to wit: Thomas W. Murray, [Illegible Text] M. D. King, James C. Watson, Zachariah Williams, David A. Reese, Daniel Hook, Jacob Wood, Wilson Lumpkin, Howell Cobb, Stephens Thomas, and James Tinsley be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the same, in addition to the number at present constituting the said board. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of six thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby annually appropropriated to the University of Georgia, as a fund for the use of said institution, for the purpose of enabling the board of trustees to rebuild the college edifice, and replace the library and instruments which were destroyed by the late fire at Athens, and for the purpose of defraying the annual expenses of said college. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said sum shall, and may be drawn from the Central Bank, from the interest accruing upon the capital of the stock of said Bank, by the treasurer of the board of trustees, by producing to the said Bank, the resolution of the board to that effect, which said sum shall be drawn in the following manner, to wit: [Illegible Text] sum of three thousand dollars on the first day of May, and the sum of three thousand dollars on the first day of

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November, annually, and every year, until this act shall be repealed. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior court of each county, in this State, immediately after the passage of this act, to select from among the poor of their county, one young man who shall be between the age of fifteen and eighteen years, whose duty it shall be to notify the board of trustees of said selection, and it shall be the duty of said board to cause each applicant so reported, to be boarded, and educated at Franklin College, out of the funds hereinafter mentioned, free of any charge. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That a majority of all the members constituting the board of trustees of said col-shall be requisite to form a quorum competent to the transaction of the business of said board of trustees. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of ten thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, as a loan to the trustees of the University, for the purpose of rebuilding the college edifice, and replacing the library and instruments, which were lately consumed by fire, the said sum to be returned by said trustees, so soon as they may be in funds from the annual appropriation, provided for by the third section of this act; and the President and Directors of the Central Bank, are hereby authorised and required to deliver the said sum of ten thousand dollars to the treasurer of the board of trustees, at any time after the passing of this act, and take his receipt for the same specifying, that the same is received as a loan. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws which militate against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1830.

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AN ACT, to incorporate the Presbyterian and Methodist Georgia Education Societies. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing [Illegible Text] this act, the Presbyterian and Methodist Georgia Education Society, at present known in this State, shall be each known and called by that name respectively; and that the present Presidents, Vice-Presidents, Trustees, Secretaries and Directors, of each of said Societies respectively, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the one, the Presbyterian Georgia Education Societythe other, the Methodist Georgia Education Society.And as such shall each be capable and liable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorised to make such bye-laws and regulations as may be deemed necessary, for the government of said societies; Provided, Such bye-laws are not repugnant to the Constitution and Laws of this State, and for that purpose may have and use a common seal, and fill all vacancies that may occur in the offices of said societies. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said officers of each society respectively, shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property, real and [Illegible Text], all donations, gifts, grants, privileges and immunities whatsoever, which may belong to the said societies, or which may hereafter be conveyed, or transfered to them and their successors in office respectively, to have and to hold the same, for the proper benefit and behoof of said societies. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 20, 1830.

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AN ACT, to incorporate the Culloden Academy, in the county of Monroe; the Mount Vernon Academy, in the county of Monroe; the Centerville Academy in the county of Talbot; the Columbiana Academy, in the county of Jackson; the Claxton Academy, in the county of Warren; the Monticello Union Academy, in the county of Jasper; the Wood Lawn Academy, in the county of Monroe; the Talbotton Female Academy, in the county of Talbot; the Davisborough Academy in the county of Washington; the Jenkins Academy, in the county of Harris; and [Illegible Text] appoint Trustees for the said several Academies. 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 James J. Banks, John W. Persons, Arthur Ginn, Henry E. Williams and Newdaygate Ousley, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate by the name and under the title of the Trustees of the Culloden Academy: And that Edmund Jackson, John M. Jordan, Osborn Rogers, Ambrose Chapman, John Brown, Roger McCarthy and Willis Barron, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed, and declared to be a body corporate, under the name and title of the Mount Vernon Academy, in Monroe county: And that John C. Boynton, H. P. Snead, L. P. Breedlove, S. J. Thomas and Thomas Pearson, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed, and declared to be a body corporate, under the name and title [Illegible Text] the Centerville Academy, in the county of Talbot: And that Joseph T. Cunningham, John T. Story, Samuel Knox, Jun. James Applebey and James Liddle, and [Illegible Text] successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Columbiana Academy, in the county of Jackson and declared to be a body corporate, under the name and title of the Trustees of the Columbiana Academy. And that Hiram Hubert, Samuel Barksdale, Archibald Seals, Littleton Johnson and William Harrell, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Claxton Academy, in the county of Warren, and declared to be a body corporate, under the name and title of the Trustees of the Claxton Academy. And that David A. Reese, Flemming Jordan, Edward Y. Hill, Moses Champion, John W. Burney, Reuben C. Shorter and Benjamin F. Ward, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby appointed, Trustees of the Monticell Union Academy, in the county of Jasper, and declared to [Illegible Text]

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a body corporate, under the name and title of the Trustees of the Monticello Union Academy: And that Thomas M. Evans, Josiah M. Jordan, Andrew Tilmer, Braxton Bird and James D. Lester, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed, Trustees of the Woodlawn Academy, in the county of Monroe, and declared to be a body corporate, under the name and title of the Trustees of the Woodlawn Academy: And that James Bell, Elisha Tarver, Henry Mims, Norborn B. Powell, Robert G. Crittenden, Charles Smith John P. Blackman, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Talbotton Female Academy, and declared to be a body corporate, under the name and title of the Trustees of the Female Academy, in the county of Talbotton: And that Jeody Newsom, William P. Hardwick, Daniel Harris, James Gaines and James M. Franklin, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Davisborough Academy in the county of Washington, and declared to be a body corporate, and under the name and title of the Trustees of Davisborough Academy: And that Springer Gibson, Thomas Mahone, John Kennon, John Passmore, Hiram Reid and George K. Chatham, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Jenkins' Academy, on the South East corner of Lot No. three, in the twenty-second district, of Harris county, and declared to be a body corporate, under the name and title of the Jenkins' Academy: Each of said corporations, shall have the power of using a common seal. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said several Trustees in their corporate capacities be, and they are hereby declared to be vested with the several rights and immunities, and subject to the same regulations as are set forth and embodied in an act of the General Assembly, passed on the ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled an act to incorporate the Lawrenceville Academy, in the county of Gwinnett, and to appoint Trustees for the same. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to amend an act, entitled an act, to authorize the Commissioners of McIntosh county Academy, to establish one or more schools, for the education of poor children. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, an enumeration shall be made by the justices of the Peace, for the Upper Sandhill district of McIntosh County, of the number of children of poor persons in that district, and make a return thereof, to the Commissioners of the Academy of McIntosh county, who, on receiving the same, shall cause to be paid over to William Baggs, Jourdan Ryalls and John O'Berry, a sum not less than one tenth, nor more than one fourth, of the clear income of the said Academy, arising from rents, and debts derived to that institution from the sale of lots in Darien, originally granted to the said Academies, which said sum shall be paid annually, between the 1st of January and the 1st of April, in each year. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the said Commissioners and their successors in office, shall cause the said sum to be laid out in paying a teacher of the said poor children in the said Sandhill district, but said teacher shall not teach school more than three months at one time, at any school house in said district, but shall go round and teach in different parts, say not less than four, in each year in the aforesaid district. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the death, refusal to serve or removal of the aforenamed Commissioners, that it shall be the duty of one or more of the Justices of the Peace in said district, to give ten days notice, and proceed to hold an election in the same, for a Commissioner to fill the place of those who may not act as aforesaid, and report his actings and doings to the Commissioners of the Academy of McIntosh county, which said Commissioners shall incorporate the same in their report, to the [Illegible Text] Academicus.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That all laws, acts parts of acts that militate against this act are, and they are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830. AN ACT to authorise and require the Trustee of the [Illegible Text] school fund of the county of Houston, to pay to the Commissioners of the Academy at Perry, and the Commissioners of the Flint River Academy, certain portion of the Academy found of said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Trustee of the poor school fund of Houston county, is authorized and required, to pay over to the order of the Commissioners of the Academy, situate at Perry, in the county of Houston, the sum of one hundred dollars, to be by them expended in repairing said Academy building; out of the Academy fund, that said Trustee may draw from the Treasury, for the year, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Trustee of the poor school fund of the county of Houston, be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to pay over to the order of the Commissioners of the Flint River Academy, in the county of Houston, one half of the Academy fund, annually, until he shall have paid them the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That should the Trustee of the poor school fund, neglect or refuse to comply with

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the provisions of this act, when properly called upon, upon complaint to the Inferior court, said court are hereby authorised to proceed against said Trustee as for contempt. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830. AN ACT, for the appointment of three additional Commissioners to the Mineral Spring Academy of Wayne county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority af the same, That immediately after the passage of this act, Robert Hazlehurst, and James H. Couper, and John Willey be, and they are hereby appointed additional Commissioners to the Mineral Spring Academy of Wayne county; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives, THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. [Illegible Text] R. GILMER, Governer. Assented to, Dec. 14th, 1830.

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AN ACT, to amend an act, entitled an act, to incorporate the County Academy, in the Town of Newnan, in the county of Coweta, and to appoint Trustees for the same, passed December sixteenth, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, so far as to appoint five additional Trustees for said Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Levi Wilcoxen, Payton Pinkard, Philip Ware, James McLure, and Earnest L. Wittich be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Newnan county Academy, in the county of Coweta, in addition to those now acting as trustees of said academy. Sec. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, the number of trustees of said academy aforesaid, shall be twelve, who, and their successors in office shall be, and they are hereby declared a body corporate; with all the power and privileges confered on the trustees of said academy, by an act of the General Assembly, approved the sixteenth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, entitled an act, to incorporate the county academy in the town of Newnan, in the county of Coweta, and to appoint trustees of the same. Sec. 3. And be it enacted by the authority of the same, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and they are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to Dec. 23, 1830.

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AN ACT, to amend an act, passed the sixteenth of May, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one, appropriating the fines and forfeitures arising from criminal prosecutions in the county of Lincoln, to the use and benefit of the Lincolnton Academy, and to authorise the Commissioners of said Academy, to loan out their academical funds at interest. Whereas, the above recited act, declares that all fines and forfeitures arising from prosecutions on the criminal side of the court of said county, and also, all penalties and forfeitures whether, arising from bonds to prosecute, or bonds for the appearance of any offender, or of other penal statute of this State within the said county of Lincoln, shall be vested in the Commissioners of the Linconlton Academy, for academical purposes. And whereas, since the passing of said act, there are other Academies incorporated in the said county of Lincoln, whose acts of incorporation does not give them an equal share of said fines, and forfeitures with the said academy at Lincolnton, and it is but just and right that the said academies should share the said fund alike, for remedy whereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all and every incorporated academy in said county of Lincoln, shall hereafter be entitled to an equal share of the fund which may arise from fines, and forfeited bonds as expressed in the above recited act to which this is an amendment. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the clerk of the Superior Court of said county of Lincoln, within one month after the receipt of any of the fines and forfeitures in said act contemplated, to pay over to the Commissioners of said incorporated academies an equal share of said fines and forfeitures, as contemplated in this act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be in the power of the Commissioners of the Lincolnton academy, to loan out the fund of said academy, or any part thereof at interest; the person to whom the same is loaned, shall give bond with approved security, in double the sum loaned to the President of said board of Commissioners, for the use of said academy, conditioned to pay from time to time, according to the order of said Commissioners, and where the

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person to whom the same is loaned, shall not pay according to the order of the Commissioners, he shall then pay at the rate of twenty per cent, for such sum as may be required of him, so long as he holds the same, which bond should it become necessary, may be sued for in the name of the President of said board, or his successor for the use of said academy, without the appointment of an attorney for that purpose. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That should the said Commissioners of Lincolnton academy think it not advisable to loan out said fund at interest, they shall place the same in the hands of a treasurer by them appointed, who shall give like bond as mentioned in the preceding section, and with the like penalties in said section contained. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of law militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14th, 1830. AN ACT to authorize the payment, to the Trustees of the Franklin county Academy, of all arrears, or dividends now due, or to which said institution may be entitled, and to provide for the payment to the same, of all dividends, that may hereafter be declared in favor thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That his Excellency the Governor be and he is hereby authorised and required to

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draw his warrant on the Treasury in favor of the Franklin county Academy, for all arrears or dividends that may now be due, or to which, the said Academy may be entitled, and to pay the same to the Trustees, or any of them, of the said institution, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, the Trustees of the said Academy, shall be entitled to draw and receive any dividends that may hereafter be declared in favor of said Institution: Provided, the said Trustees shall, from and after this time, make their report, and account for any monies they may so receive, to his Excellency the Governor, or the Senatus Academicus, agreeably to an act passed on the twenty-second December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, entitled an act for the better distribution and application of the poor school fund, and to point out the mode of accounting for the disbursement of the Academy and poor school funds; and his Excellency the Governor is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the same, upon application being made by one of the Trustees of the said Academy, Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 21st Dec. 1830. AN ACT to incorporate and appoint Trustees for the Mount Pleasant Academy, in Oglethorpe county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same. That Mark [Illegible Text].

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Chesly Arnold, Robert S. Smith, Britton Stamps and William Hartsfield, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for the Mount Pleasant Academy, in Oglethorpe county. Sec. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name [Illegible Text] style of the Trustees of Mount Pleasant Academy, and as such shall be capable and liable in law to [Illegible Text] and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorised to make such bye laws and regulations, as may be necessary for the government of said Academy: Provided, such bye laws are not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State, and for that purpose, may have and use a common seal, and appoint such officers as they may think proper, and remove the same from office. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said Trustees of the before mentioned Academy, shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property both real and personal, all giftsdonationsgrantsrightsprivileges, and immunities whatsoever, which may belong to said institution, or which may hereafter be conveyed or transferred to them, or their successors in officeto have and to hold the same for the proper benefit and behoof of the said Academy. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall happen by death, resignation or otherwise, of any one or more of the Trustees of said Academy, their survivors or a majority of them, shall fill such vacancy. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 14th Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to incorporate the Thomasville Academy, in the county of Thomas. 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 Duncan Rae, Archibald McMillen, Malcom Furgason, Hardy Bryant, Malcom McKinnon, Aaron Everitt, John Jones, Reddin Wooten and Jushua McCann, be, and they are hereby appointed and they and their successors in office, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate by the name and under the title of the Trustees of the Thomasville Academy, with privilege of using a common seal. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees their successors in office, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate, in the manner they may think calculated to promote the interest of the aforesaid institution, and to erect a suitable edifice for the promotion of Literature, all monies specialties belonging, or in any wise appertaining to the said institution. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid Trustees, or a majority of them, are hereby authorized to make such bye-laws and regulations as may be necessary for the government of said Academy: Provided, that such bye-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and that they be entrusted with all manner of property, both real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges and immunities whatsoever, which may belong to said institution by virtue of this act, or which may hereafter be made, conveyed or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees aforesaid, and their successors in office, shall, and they are hereby declared to be capable of suing or being sued, pleading and being impleaded, and of using all necessary and lawful means, for securing and defending any property, debts or demands whatsoever, which they may claim or demand in right of said institution, and also of recovering the rents, issues and profits of the same, or any part or parcel thereof. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That should any vacancy happen by death, resignation or removal, of any of the

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Trustees of said Academy hereby authorised and established, it shall be filled in such manner as a majority of the remaining Trustees may point out in their regulations at their first meeting after the passing of this act, or at any meeting thereafter: Provided, that the same shall not exceed twelve months. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall have power to select a Treasurer who shall give bond and approved security to the said board of trustees for the time being, or their successors in office, in the sum of ten thousand dollars for the faithful discharge of the trust reposed in him. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1830. AN ACT to incorporate Jefferson Academy, in the county of Putnam and appoint Trustees for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be established at or within a convenient distance of a place called and known by the name of Stanford's Cross Roads, in the county of Putnam, an Academy to be called and known by the name of Jefferson Academy, and that Carey Cox, Sen'r. Moses Harvey, William A. Slaughter, Elisha Mathis, William Holt, Hugh

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F. Rose and John Minter, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name and style of the Trustees of Jefferson Academy, and as such, be capable and liable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorised to make such bye-laws and regulations as may be necessary for the Government of said Academy: Provided, such bye-laws are not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and for that purpose may have and use a common sealappoint such officers as they may think proper, and remove the same from office for improper conduct or neglect of duty. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the said Trustees shall be capable of accepting and be invested with all manner of property, real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges, and immunities whatsoever, which may belong to said institution, or which may hereafter be conveyed, appropriated or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the proper benefit and behoof of said Academy, and they shall be entitled to a proportional share of all monies which may hereafter be appropriated to the Academies in said county by the laws of this State approtioning funds for the benefit of county Academies: Provided, that the Trustees of Jefferson Academy, and their successors in office, shall not be entitled to receive a proportion or dividend of said fund, appropriated for the benefit of county Academies, except on condition of their keeping in their employ at said Academy of Jefferson, a Teacher capable and qualified to teach the Classics, and shall actually have one or more Students engaged in the study of Classical acquirements, which fact being annually made known to the justices of the Inferior Court of said county of Putnam, by the certificate of the Trustees of said Academy, and their successors in office, shall entitle them to a proportional share or dividend of all the funds as aforesaid. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy may happen by death, resignation or otherwise, of any of the Trustees of said Academy, the survivors or a majority of said Trustees shall fill the same in such manner as shall be pointed out by the bye-laws and regulations of the Trustees aforesaid. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented, to, 2d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT, to add an additional number of Commissioners to the Pulaski county Academy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Robert N. Taylor, Jacob Watson, John Rawls, and William L. Took be, and [Illegible Text] are hereby added to the Commissioners of the Pulaski county academy. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners of said academy, or a majority of them be, and they are hereby fully authorised to draw from His Excellency the Governor, the academical funds now remaining in the Treasury, which have been apportioned to said county, and undrawn, and all which may hereafter be apportioned to said county, and appropriate the same to academical purposes, according to the spirit and intention of the law, in such cases made and provided. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. [Illegible Text], 1830. AN ACT, to incorporate and appoint Trustees for the Franklin Academy in Troup county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John C. Webb,

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Lodwick Alford, John Taylor, Peter Dudley, and William Maul, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees for the Franklin academy in Troup county, on fraction number two hundred and eighteen, in the fifth district of Troup county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees and they successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, under the name and style of the trustees of the Franklin academy, in Troup [Illegible Text] and as such shall be capable and liable in law to sue, and [Illegible Text] sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorised to make such bye-laws and regulations, as may be necessary for the government of said academy: Provided, Such bye-laws are not repugnant to the Constitution, or laws of this State, and for that purpose may have use a common seal, and appoint such officers as they may think proper, and remove the same from office. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees of the before mentioned academy, shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property, both real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges and immunities whatsoever, which may belong to the said institution, or which may hereafter be conveyed, or transferred to them, or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same, for the proper benefit and behoof of said academy. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, of any one or more of the trustees of said academy, their survivors, or a majority of them shall fill such vacancy, in such manner as may be pointed out by the bye-laws of said academy. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1830.

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APPROPRIATIONS. AN ACT, to appropriate Monies for the support of Government, for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the [Illegible Text] of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, viz: The salary of His Excellency the Governor, shall be three thousand dollars per annum. The Secretaries of the Governor (not exceeding three) one thousand dollars, each per annum. The Secretary of State two thousand dollars. The Treasurer two thousand dollars. The Comptroller two thousand dollars. The Surveyor-General two thousand dollars. The Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate, six hundred dollars each per annum: Provided, That no warrant shall issue for the first quarters salary of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, until the Executive shall have satisfactory evidence, that the said Secretary of Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives have respectively made, or caused to be made and attached to the Journals of the present session good and sufficient indexes. The Judges of the Superior courts, each twenty-one hundred dollars. The Attorney-General and seven Solicitors General, two hundred and twenty-five dollars each per annum. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That for the printing fund not exceeding twenty thousand dollars. And the further sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same are hereby appropriated and set apart as a contingent fund, subject to the orders of the Governor, during the political year eighteen hundred and thirty one. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That for the compensation of the Members of the Legislature, four dollars each per day, during their attendance: Provided, That nothing

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herein shall be so construed, as to authorise any member of either branch of the General Assembly to receive said four dollars after they have left the Legislature, for the remainder of the session; be appropriated, and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles in coming to, and returning from the seat of Government; and the sum of six dollars each per day, to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives, during their attendance; and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles in coming to, and returning from the Seat of Government. To the Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate, during the Session of the Legislature, six dollars each per day, and the sum of sixty dollars for contingent expenses each. To two Engrossing Clerks, and an assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, and two Engrossing Clerks in the Senate, six dollars each per day. To the Clerk of the Committee on Finance, one hundred dollars. To the Clerk of the Committee on the State of the Republic, one hundred dollars. To the Clerk of the Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, the Judiciary Public Education and Free Schools, one hundred dollars each. To the Clerk of the Joint Committee on the Penitentiary, one hundred dollars. To Messengers and Door Keepers of the Legislature, four dollars each per day, during the present Session. To Henry Darnell the sum of one hundred dollars for airing, scouring and taking care of the Senate and Representative Chambers, and making fires on wet days. To Peter Fair the sum of one hundred dollars for winding up the clock and keeping clean the stair cases, passages c. And the sum of twenty thousand dollars as a Road and River fund, to be considered as a part of the contingent fund. To Thomas F. Gibbs ninety two dollars pursuant to a concurred resolution. Five hundred dollars for furnishing and repairing the Government house pursuant to a concurred resolution. To Richard L. Simms, Solicitor General of the Flint circuit, seventy-seven dollars agreeable to a concured resolution. To John Bethune six hundred and forty dollars, agreeable to a concurred resolution. To Edmund Gresham forty-one dollars, agreeable to a concurred resolution.

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To James Clayton and Wm. L. Fambrough, twenty-nine dollars. To Carlton Wellborn late Surveyor General, six hundred dollars. And to Samuel A. Bailey late Solicitor General, four hundred and seventy dollars agreeable to concurred resolutions. And two hundred dollars to Hezekiah M. Harman, as compensation for a fraction drawn by him in the late Land Lottery, and sold by the Commissioners of fraction sales. And four hundred dollars to Richard K. Hines, pursuant to concurred resolutions. Three thousand dollars to be applied by the Inspectors to carry into effect the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, for the repair and reform of the Penitentiary building. Eight dollars and fourteen cents to Walter H. Weems, admistrator, de bonis non, of John T. Graves, dec'd. Seven dollars twelve and half cents to Benjamin D Simms, agreeably to concurred resolutions. And five dollars and forty seven cents to Reubin A. Nash, tax of Edwin Hart, paid by said Nash through mistake. To Charles C. Birch, one thousand and seven dollars and seventy six cents. To Washington Poe, two hundred and seventy six dollars agreeable to concurred resolutions. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Governor be authorised to refund the first payments made upon land sold under mistake by the State, out of any money not otherwise appropriated. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d. 1830.

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BANKS. AN ACT to incorporate a Bank in the Town of Columbus, to be called the Farmers' Bank of Chattahoochie. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General [Illegible Text] met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That a Bank shall be established in the Town of Columbus, the Capital Stock whereof, shall be three hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, with the privilege of increasing the Capital at any time the Stockholders may desire it, to the sum of six hundred thousand dollars, which increased capital shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That subscriptions for constituting the capital of said Bank, shall be opened on the first Monday in June next, in the Town of Columbus, under the superintendence of Benjamin B. Tarver, Moses Butts, and Barkley Martin, for one thousand shares: At the Town of Forsyth, under the superintendence of Lewis L. Griffin, Evans Myrick and Benjamin Holland, for eight hundred shares: At the Town of Macon, under the superintendence of John T. Lamar, John T. Rowland and John Childers, for two hundred shares: At Milledgeville, under the superintendence of John Howard, James S. Calhoun and James C. Watson, for two hundred shares: At the city of Augusta, under the superintendence of Peter Bennoch, Alexander McKenzie and Augustin Slaughter, for three hundred shares. A majority of whom at each place, shall be competent to the discharge of their duties, and the Books of subscription, shall be kept open for the space of three days at each place (unless the number of shares allotted to each place, shall be

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sooner subscribed for, in which event it shall be the duty of the Commissioners to close the Books so soon as the stock shall be taken) during which time, it shall and may be lawful for any person or co-partnership, being citizens of the United States, corporation, or body politic, established in the U. States, (Banking institutions excepted) to subscribe for any number of shares not exceeding fifty: Provided, that if the whole number of shares be not taken up within the space of three days as aforesaid, it shall and may be lawful for any person or co-partnership, corporation or body politic, except as herein before excepted, to subscribe for any number of shares unsubscribed for as aforesaid, the sums respectfully subscribed for, shall be payable in manner following, viz: five per cent. at the time of subscribing, and fifteen per cent. at the expiration of four months thereafter, and the balance of eighty per cent. at such times as the same shall be required by the Directors: Provided, that sixty days notice of the time, at which such payment is required to be made, be given in one of the public Gazettes of Columbus, Macon, Milledgeville and Augusta, and provided, that no payment shall be required to be made on stock at time, between the first dayof July, and the first of November, in any one year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if there shall be a failure in the payment of any sum subscribed for by any person, co-partnership or body politic, when the same is required to be paid by this act, or when it shall be required to be paid by the Directors, the share or shares upon which such failure shall happen or accure, shall be, for such failure, forfeited and may be again sold and disposed of in such manner as the Directors shall order and provide, and the proceeds from such sale, together with the sum or sums, which may have been paid thereon, shall enure to the benefit of said corporation. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all those who shall become subscribers to the said Bank, their successors and assigns, shall be, and they are hereby created and constituted a corporation and body politic, by the name and style of The Farmers' Bank of Chattahoochie and by that name, shall be, and are hereby made, able and capable in law, to have, hold, parchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain, to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, ehattles, and effects, of whatsoever kind, nature or quality the same may be; and the same to sell, grant, demise, alien and dispose of; to sue and be sued, plead and

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be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in courts of record, and other places; and also to make, use, and have a common seal, and the same to al er, break and renew at their pleasure; and also to ordain, establish and put in execution such bye-laws, rules and regulations as seem necessary and convenient for the government of said corporation; Provided, that such bye-laws, rules and regulations be not contrary to the Constitution and laws of this State, or of the United States, and generally to do and execute, all and singular, such acts, matters and things, as to them shall or may appertain, subject nevertheless, to the rules, regulations, restrictions, limitations and provisions, hereinafter prescribed. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the well ordering of the affairs of said corporation, there shall be five Directors, who shall be elected as soon as gold or silver coin, or bills of the Bank of the United States to the amount of Fifty thousand dollars of the subscription for the said stock, shall have been received; and in each and every year thereafter, the Directors shall be chosen by the Stockholders or proprietors of the capital stock of said corporation, when a plurality of votes given in, shall be required to make a choice, and those who shall be duly chosen at any election, shall be capable of serving as Directors by virtue of such choice, until the end or expiration of the first Monday in November next, ensuing the time of such election and no longer; and the said Directors at their first meeting after each election, shall choose one of their own members as President, and in case of his death, resignation, removal from this State, or from the board of Direction, the said Directors shall proceed to fill the vacancy by a new election for the remainder of the year: Provided always, and be it further enacted, That as soon as the sum of twenty per cent. as aforesaid shall actually have been received by the Commissioners, at the several places where the books of subscription may have been opened on account of said stock, such sums shall immediately thereafter be transmitted to the Commissioners in Columbus, whose duty it shall be, on the receipt of the amounts so transmitted to give notive thereof, in one of the Gazettes of Columbus, Macon, Milledgeville and Augusta; and at the same time in like manner, notify a time and place within the town of Columbus, at the distance of thirty days at least, from the date of such [Illegible Text] for proceeding to the election of Directors, and it shall be then and there lawful for the election to be made; and the persons who shall then and there be chosen, shall be the first Directors, and shall receive from the Commissioners

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the money which may have been received by them, and shall be capable of acting by such choice until the end or expiration of the first Monday in November, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and shall forthwith thereafter [Illegible Text] the operations of the said Bank, at the said Town of Columbus: And provided further, that in case it should happen that an election for Directors should not be made [Illegible Text] on any day, when pursuant to this act, it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not for that cause, be deemed to be dissolved, but it shall be lawful on any other day, to hold and make an election of Directors in such manner as shall have been pointed out by the rules and regulations of the said corporation; And provided, that in case of the death, resignation or absence from the State of a Director, his place may be filled up by a new choice made by the remaining Directors for the remainder of the year. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Directors for the time being, shall have power and authority to appoint such officers and clerks under them as shall be necessary for executing the business of the said corporation and allow them such compensation for their services respectively, as shall be reasonable; and shall be capable of exercising such other powers and authorities for the well governing and ordering the affairs of said corporation, as to them shall appear [Illegible Text] to the interest of the institution. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the following rules, regulations, limitations and provisions, shall form and be fundamental articles of the Constitution of said corporation. 1st. The number of votes to which each Stockholder shall be entitled shall be according to the number of shares, he shall hold, each share to be entitled to one vote: Provided, That no share or shares shall confer a right of suffrage, which shall not have been holden at least three calender months previously to the day of election, and unless it be holden by the person in whose name it appears absolutely, and bona fide, in his own right, or in that of his wife, and for his, or her own benefit and use, or as executor, administrator or guardian, or in the right and use of some co-partnership, corporation or society of which he or she may be a member, and not in trust for, or to the use of any other person; any stockholder being absent, may authorise by power of attorney under seal, any other person to vote for him, her or them. 2d. None but a Stockholder entitled in his own right to thirty shares, and being a citizen of the State and not a Director

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in any other bank or branch bank, shall be eligible as Director; and if any one of the Directors after being elected shall cease to be a stockholder, his seat shall thereupon, become vacated, and the remaining Directors, or a majority of them, shall at their next meeting pass an order declaring him to be no longer a Director. 3d. The Stockholders shall make such compensation to the President, for his services, as shall to them appear reasonable. 4th. Not less than three Directors, shall constitute a Board for the transaction of business, of whom the President shall always be one, except in cases of sickness or necessary absence, in which case, his place may be supplied by any Director, appointed by the Directors present for that purpose. 5th. A number of Stockholders not less than ten, who together shall be proprietors of five hundred shares at least, shall have power to call a meeting, at any time, of the Stockholders, for purposes relative to the institution, giving at least sixty days notice, in a public Gazette at Columbus, Macon, Milledgeville and Augusta, specifying in such notice the object or objects of meeting. 6th. The Cashier of the Bank for the time being, before he enters upon the duties of his office, shall give bond with two or more securities, to the satisfaction of the Directors, in a sum not less than twenty thousand dollars with condition for his good behaviour, and the faithful discharge of his duties. 7th. The lands, tenements and hereditaments, which it shall be lawful, for the said corporation to hold, shall be only such as shall be required for its immediate accommodation, in relation to the convenient transaction of business, and such as shall have been bona-fide, mortgaged to it as security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted, in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales made under judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts, which said lands and tenements conveyed to it, in satisfaction of debts, or purchased at sales upon judgments obtained by said corporation, shall not be held or remain in possession of said corporation, for more than twelve months after said conveyance. 8th. The total amount of debts which the said corporation shall at any time owe whether by bond, bill, note or

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other security, shall not exceed three times the amount of their capital stock actually paid in, over and above the amount of specie actually deposited in the vaults for safe keeping. In case of excess, the Directors under whose administration it shall happen, shall be liable for the same in their individual, natural and private capacities, and an action of debt or on the case, may in such case be brought against them, or any of them, their, or any of their heirs, executors or administrators in any court of record in the United States, having competent jurisdiction, or either of them, by any creditor or creditors, of the said corporation, and may be prosecuted to judgment and execution, any condition, convenent, or agreement to the contrary notwithstanding. But this shall not be construed to exempt the said corporation or the lands tenements, goods and chattles of the same from being also liable for, and chargeable with the said excess; and such of the said Directors, who may have been absent when the said excess was contracted or created, or who may have dissented from the resolution or act, whereby the same was so created or contracted, may respectively exonorate themselves from being so liable by having their dissent, if present, entered on the minutes of the said corporation. 9th, The Directors shall have power to issue to the subscribers their certificates of stock, which shall be transferable on the books of the cashier only, by personal entry of the stockholder, his legal representative or attorney, duly authorised by special power for that purpose. 10th. The corporation shall in no case directly or indirectly be concerned in commerce or insurance, or in the importation or exportation, purchase or [Illegible Text] of any goods, wares or merchandize, (bills of exchange, notes and bullion only excepted) except such goods, wares and merchandize, as shall be truly transferred, conveyed or pledged to them, by way of security, for money actually loaned and advanced, or for debts due, or owing, or growing due, to the said corporation, or purchased by them, to secure such debts so due to the said corporation, or to effect the insurance on the property that may belong to, or be pledged to the said company for its security. 11th. The Bills obligatory and of credit, notes and other contracts whatever, on the behalf of said corporation, shall be binding and obligatory on said company: Provided, The same be signed by the President, and countersigned by the Cashier of said corporation; and the funds of the said corporation, shall in no case be held liable for any contract or

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engagement whatever, unless the same shall be so signed, and countersigned, or attested as aforesaid, and the books, papers and correspondence, and the funds of the company, shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the board of Directors and Stockholders, when convened according to the provisions of this act. 12th. The dividends of the profits of the corporation, or of so much thereof, as shall be deemed expedient and proper, shall be declared and paid half yearly, (the first half after the bank shall go into operation excepted,) and the said dividends shall from time to time, be determined by a majority of the Directors, at a meeting, to be held for that purpose, and shall in no case exceed the amount of the actual profits acquired by the corporation, so that the capital stock thereof, shall never be impaired. 13th. The Directors shall keep fair and regular entries in a book to be provided for that purpose, of their proceedings, and on any question when the Directors shall require it, the years and nays of the Directors voting, shall be duly entered on their minutes, and those minutes be at all times subject to the view of the stock-holders when at a general meeting, the same shall be required. 14th. The corporation shall exist and continue until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-two, and immediately after the dissolution of said corporation, effectual measures shall be taken by the Directors last appointed, and acting, for closing all the concerns of the company, and for dividing the capital stock and profits, which may then remain among the Stockholders, according to their respective interests. 15th. The persons and property of the Stockholders for the time being in said Bank, shall be pledged and bound in proportion to the amount of the shares, that each individual, or company may hold in said Bank, for the ultimate redemption of the bills, or notes issued by, or from said Bank, during the time he, she, or they, may hold such stock, in the same manner as in ordinary commercial cases, or simple cases of debt. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That no Stockholder shall be permitted to borrow money from said bank, upon the faith, or pledge of their stock, but shall be subjected to the same rules and regulations in borrowing money, there from, as any other customer of the Bank.

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Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That should the capital of said Bank, be hereafter increased as contemplated by this act, the said increased capital stock shall be disposed of, for the benefit of said corporation, in such manner as the Directors, for the time being, may think proper, or as a majority of the stockholders may direct. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That any Bank, or the branches of Bank, either by themselves, or their Agents, who may make a demand of specie from said Bank, shall be compelled to receive the bills of the Bank, or of the Branches making demand, in payment. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the Directors are hereby authorised to establish one, or more offices of discount and deposit, (not exceeding three) at such place, or places, as they may select in this State, for the purpose of discount and deposit only, and upon the same terms, and in the same manner as shall be practiced at the Bank, which shall be practised at the Bank which shall be established in Columbus, and to commit the management of said office, or offices, and the making of the said discounts, to such persons under such agreements, and subject to such regulations as they shall deem proper, not being contrary to law, or to the constitution of the Bank. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That in all cases of exchange of paper between the said Farmers Bank of Chattahoochie, and any other Bank, person or persons, the said Bank shall be bound to receive its own bills when tendered, and that the penalties imposed upon other banks of this State, for failure to redeem its bills in specie, shall attach and appertain to the said Farmers Bank of Chattahoochie. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 20, 1830.

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AN ACT, to Incorporate a Banking Company in the City of Augusta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same, it is hereby enacted, That a Bank shall be established in the City of Augusta, the capital stock whereof, shall be two hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares, of one hundred dollars each; and also with the privilege of increasing the said capital at any time thereafter, as the Stockholders may desire, to the sum of four hundred thousand dollars, to be divided into shares as aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That subscriptions, for constituting said Bank, shall be opened on the first Monday in February next, at the City of Augusta, under the superintendence of John Phinizy, Amory Selby, John H. Mann, Moses Roff, jr. William W. Montgomery, Alfred Cumming, Jesse Kent, George R. Rountree, and George L. Twiggs, or any three, or more of them; and the books of subscription shall be kept open for the space of four days, during which time, it shall, and may be lawful for any person, or corpartnership being citizens of the United States, corporation, or body politic, established in the United States, to subscribe for any number of shares, not exceeding fifty: Provided, that if the whole number of shares be not taken up within the space of four days as aforesaid, then and in that case, it shall, and may be lawful for any person, or copartnership being citizens of the United States, corporation, or body politic, established in the United States, to subscribe for any number of shares unsubscribed for as aforesaid; and the sums respectively subscribed for, shall be paid in manner following, viz: Two per cent at the time of subscribing, eight per cent at the expiration of sixty days, ten per cent at the expiration of sixty days more, and the balance of eighty per cent so subscribed for, at such times as the same shall be required by the Directors: Provided, that sixty days previous notice of the time at which such payment is required to be made, be given in one of the Gazettes of the City of Augusta: And provided, That no payment shall be required at any time between the first of July, and the first of October, in any year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if there shall be a failure in the payment of any sum subscribed by any person,

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copartnership, or body politic, when the same is required to be paid by this act, or when it shall be required to be paid by the Directors, the share, or shares, upon which such failure shall happen, or accrue, shall be for such failure forfeited, and may be again sold, or disposed of in such manner, as the Directors shall order, or provide, and the proceeds from such sale, together with the sum, or sums which may have been paid thereon, shall revert to the benefit of said corporation. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all those who shall become subscribers, to the said Bank, their successors and assigns, shall be, they are hereby created, and constituted a body politic, by the name and style of The Mechanics Bank, and by that name shall be, and are hereby made able and capable in law, to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy, and retain to them, and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattles, and effects of whatsoever kind, nature, or quality the same may be, and the same to sell, grant, demise, alien, or dispose of, to sue and be sued, plead, and be impleaded, answer, and be answered, defend, and be defended, in courts of record, or any other place whatsoever; and also, to make and have a common seal, and the same to break, alter and renew at their pleasure; and also, to ordain, establish, and put in execution, such bye-laws, rules and regulations, as shall be necessary and convenient, for the government of the said corporation: Provided, That such bye-laws, rules and regulations, be not contrary to the laws and constitution of this State, or of the United States, and generally to do, and execute all such acts, matters and things as to them may, or shall appertain, subject nevertheless, to the rules, regulations, restrictions, limitations and provisions herein prescribed. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That for the well ordering of the affairs of the said corporation, there shall be nine Directors, who shall be elected as soon as gold and silver coin, to the amount of twenty per cent. of the subscriptions for said stock, shall have been received, and in each and every year thereafter, the Directors shall be chosen by the Stockholders, or proprietors of the capital stock of said corporation, when a plurality of votes given in, shall be required to make a choice; and those who shall be duly chosen at any election shall be capable of serving as Directors, by virtue of such choice, until the end of the first Monday in January next, ensuing the time of such election, and no longer and the said Directors at their first meeting after each election,

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shall choose one of their number as President, and in case of his death, resignation, removal from the State, or from the board of direction, the said Directors shall proceed to fill the vacancy, by a new election for the remainder of the year: Provided always, That as soon as the sum of twenty per cent as aforesaid, shall have been received by the Commissioners, it shall be their duty to give notice thereof, in one at least of the Gazettes of the City of Augusta, and at the same time, and in like manner, notify a time and place within the said city of Augusta, at a period of thirty days at least, from the date of such notification, for proceeding to the election of Directors, and it shall be lawful for an election to be then and there made, and the persons who shall be then and there chosen, shall be the first Directors, and shall receive from the said Commissioners, the money which may have been received by them, and shall be capable of acting by virtue of such choice, until the expiration of the first Monday of January next, ensuing the time of making the same, and shall at any time after receiving the said money from said Commissioners, commence the operations of said Bank, at the said City of Augusta: And provided further, That in case it should at any time happen that an election of Directors should not be made upon any day when pursuant to this act, it ought to have been made, the said corporation shall not for that [Illegible Text], be deemed to be dissolved; but it shall be lawful on any other day to hold, and make an election of Directors in such manner, as shall have been regulated by the rules and bye-laws of said corporation: And provided, That in case of the death, resignation, absence from the State, or removal of a Director, his place may be filled up by a new choice for the remainder of the year by the remaining Directors. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the Directors for the time being, shall have power to appoint such officers and clerks under them, as shall be necessary, for executing the business of the said corporation, and to allow them such compensation for their services respectively, as shall be reasonable, and shall be capable of exercising such other powers and authorities, for the well governing and ordering the affairs of the said corporation, as to them, shall appear [Illegible Text] to the interest of the same. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the [Illegible Text] rules, regulations, limitations, and provisions, shall form and be fundamental articles of the constitution of the said corporation.

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1st. The number of votes to which each stockholder shall be entitled, shall be according to the number of shares he shall hold; each share to be entitled to one vote: Provided, That no share, or shares, shall confer a right of suffrage, which shall not have been holden three calendar months previously to the day of election, and unless it be holden by the person, in whose name it appears absolutely, and bona fide in his own right, or in that of his wife, and for his, or her sole use and benefit, or as Executor, Administrator, or Guardian, or in the right and use of some copartnership, corporation, or society, of which he, or she, may be a member, and not in trust for, or to the use of any other person; any stockholder being absent, may authorise any other person, a citizen of the United States, by power of attorney, under seal, to vote for him, or her. 2d. None but a Stockholder entitled in his own right, to ten shares, and being a citizen of the State, and not being a Director, for any other Bank, shall be eligible as a Director, and if any one of the Directors after being elected, shall at any time, during the term for which he shall have been chosen, cease to be a Stockholder, his seat shall thereupon become vacated, and the remaining Directors, or a majority of them, shall at their next meeting, pass an order, declaring him no longer to be a Director. 3d. The Directors shall make such compensation to the President, for his services, as shall appear to them reasonable. 4th. Not less than five Directors, shall constitute a board, for the transaction of business, of whom the President shall always be one except in case of sickness, or necessary absence, in which case his seat may be supplied by any Director appointed by the board of Directors present for that purpose. 5th. A number of Stockholders, not less than twenty, who together, shall be proprietors of two hundred shares, or upwards, shall have power at any time, to call a meeting of Stockholders, for purposes relative to the institution, giving at least sixty days notice, in one of the public Gazettes of the City of Augusta, specifying in such notice the object of such meeting. 6th. The Cashier, or [Illegible Text] of the Bank, before he enters upon the duties of his office, shall give bond with two or more securities, to the satisfaction of the Directors, in a sum not loss than twenty thousand dollars, with condition for his good behaviour, and the faithful discharge of his duties.

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7th. The lands, tenements, and hereditaments, which it shall be lawful for the said corporation to hold, shall be only such, as shall be requisite for its immediate accommodation, in relation to the convenient transaction of business, and such as shall have been bona fide, mortgaged to it as security, or conveyed to it, in satisfaction of debts, previously contracted in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales upon judgments, which shall have been obtained for such debts. 8th. The total amount of debts which the said corporation, shall at any time, owe either by bond, bill, note, or contract, shall not exceed three times the amount of their capital stock, over and above the amount of spece, actually deposited in their vaults for safe keeping. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the persons and property of the Stockholders, for the time being in said Bank, shall be pledged and bound in proportion, to the amount of the shares, that each individual, or company, may hold in said Bank, for the ultimate redemption of the bills, or notes, issued by, or from said Bank, during the time he, she, or they may hold such stock, in the same manner, as in common commercial cases, or simple cases of debt. The Directors, shall have power to issue to the subscribers, their certificates of stock, signed by their President, and countersigned by their Cashier, which shall be transferable on the books of their Cashier, only by personal entry of the Stockholder, his legal representative, or attorney, duly authorised by special power for that purpose. The company shall in no case, directly, or indirectly, be concerned in commerce, or insurance, or in the importation, or exportation, purchase, or sale, of any goods, wares, or merchandise whatever, (bills of exchange, notes, and bullion only excepted,) except such goods, wares, or merchandise, as shall be truly transferred, conveyed, or pledged to them by way of security, for money actually loaned and advanced, or debts due, owing, or growing due to the said corporation, or purchased by them, to secure such debts, so due to the said corporation, or to effect the insurance, on the property that may belong, or be thus pledged to the said company for its security. The bills obligatory and of credit, notes, and other contraets whatever, on the behalf of the said corporation shall be binding, and obligatory upon the said company

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Provided, The same be signed by the President, and countersigned, or attested by the Cashier of the said corporation, and the funds of the said corporation, shall in no case be liable for any contract, or engagement whatever, unless the same shall be so signed, and countersigned, or attested as aforesaid; and the books, papers, and correspondence, and the funds of the company, shall at all times be subject to the inspection of the board of Directors and Stockholders, when convened according to the provisions of this act. Dividends of the profits of the corporation, or of so much thereof, as shall be deemed expedient and proper, shall be declared, and paid half yearly, (the first half after the Bank shall have been in operation excepted) and the said dividends, shall from time to time, be determined by a majority of Directors, at a meeting to be held for that purpose, and shall in no case exceed the amount of the nett profits, actually acquired by the corporation, so that the capital stock thereof shall never be impaired. The Directors shall keep fair and regular entries in a book to be provided for that purpose, of their proceedings, and on any question, when two Directors shall require it, the yeas and nays of the Directors voting, shall be inserted on their minutes, and those minutes be at all times on demand, produced to the Stockholders at their general meetings. The corporation shall exist, and continue until the first day of January, one thousand eight hundred and sixty, and immediately after the dissolution of the same, effectual measures shall be taken by the Directors, last appointed, and acting, for closing all the concerns of the company, and for dividing the capital and profits which may remain then among the Stockholders according to their respective interests. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That no Stockholder shall be permitted to borrow money from the said Bank, upon the faith, or pledge of their stock, but shall be subjected to the same rules and regulations, in borrowing money therefrom, as any other customer of said Bank. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the said Bank shall be established at such place, as may be determined on by the Directors, below Washington Street, in the said City of Augusta. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 21st Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT, to extend the charter of the Bank of the State of Georgia, and the acts now of force amendatory thereto. Whereas, the Directors of the Bank of the State of Georgia, have applied by memorial and petition, to the General Assembly, for an extension of their charter, and the acts now of force, amendatory thereto. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the charter of the Bank of the State of Georgia, granted on the sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifteen, and the acts of the General Assembly, amendatory thereto, now of force, be, and the same are hereby prolonged to the sixteenth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-five. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d. 1830. AN ACT to incorporate the Macon Insurance company, and to define the powers and liabilities of said company. Whereas, the establishment of an Insurance Company in the Town of Macon is represented as being expedient and of great benefit, and that a sufficient capital can be raised, that will guarantee the most prompt and faithful indemnification

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for all losses which may be insured against by the said Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by authority of the same, That the following persons, viz: John T. Rowland, Charles A. Higgins, James A. Blanton, Edward D. Tracy, William Melrose, Robert Collins, Jeremiah Coles, Robert Coleman, John S. Childers, Leroy M. Wiley, Littleton Atkinson, Dwight Woodberry and F Taylor, be, and they are hereby constituted a Board of Commissioners, whose duty or a majority thereof, it shall be to convene at some convenient place in the town of Macon, at such time as they shall think best, of which due notice shall be given in the Gazettes of said Town, to receive subscriptions for stock in said Company. And when such portion of the stock shall have been subscribed, as hereinafter mentioned, shall authorize the Company to commence business, they shall give public notice thereof, requesting a meeting of the said stockholders for the election of Directors to manage the affairs of the said Company, whose duty it shall be to elect a President from their number. 2d. An annual election of Directors shall take place in Macon, in the month of December. 3d. The Directors shall have power to appoint a Secretary and all other officers necessary for the management of the affairs of the company. 4th. That the said President and Directors, and their successors shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, in name and deed and by the style and denomination of the Macon Insurance Company, and by the same name and style, shall have succession of officers and members, for the term of twenty years; and a common seal to use; they shall have authority to make, alter, amend, and change such bye-laws as may be agreed on by the President and Directors: Provided, such bye-laws be not repugnant to the laws or Constitution of the State of Georgia or the United States: And Provided also, that the property of the stockholders shall be liable for any debt contracted by the company. 5th. The capital of the said Company shall consist of one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, and the Company may commence business whenever fifty thousand dollars shall be paid in and deposited.

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The said Company shall have power and authority to insure property and effects of every nature and description, against all risks of Navigation, Fire and other Casualties. Also, to Assure Lives of all and every description, and to do all acts for which Insurance or Assurance Companies are usually established, organized and incorporated. 6th. That the said Company shall have full power and authority, under the style and name of the President and Directors of the Macon Insurance Company, to sue for and receive all such or sums of money, as may become due to the said Company before any tribunal having jurisdiction thereof; and the rights and privileges of the said company in any court, or any tribunal whatever to defend, and also to take, receive, purchase, hold and possess, any property, real or personal, for the use, benefit or advantage of the said company; and to sell, make over and dispose of the same and the said Company shall be, and are hereby declared to be, vested with all the powers and advantages, privileges and emoluments, of an association of persons incorporated for the intentions and purposes aforesaid: Provided nothing in this act shall be so construed as to permit said Company to use or exercise Banking privileges. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate: GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830. AN ACT to prevent the further issuing of change bills, to compel the issuers of such bills to redeem them, and to relieve persons who have issued them, from the penalties incurred under the former statutes of this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all persons who shall hereafter issue or put in circulation any change bill or

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bills, without legislative authority, shall be subject to all the pains and penalties of the third section of an act passed on the twenty-first day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, entitled an act to impose, levy and collect a tax for the political year, eighteen hundred and thirty on property, real and personal, and to inflict penalties for neglecting to comply with the provisions thereof. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That all forfeitures incurred by, and penalties inflicted upon persons issuing change bills, under and by virtue of the existing laws of this State be, and the same are hereby remitted: Provided nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to entitle any person or persons to the benefit of the provisions of this act, who may have failed or refused to comply with the requisitions of the second section of the herein before recited act, requiring all Brokers, private bankers, or exchange merchants, or firm or firms of Brokers, private bankers, or exchange merchants, note shavers, and their agents in this State, on or before the first day of August then next, to return on oath to the receiver of tax returns of the respective counties in this State, where he or they shall reside, or do business, the maximum amount of capital which he and they had employed since the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty, or intended to employ in their said business, during said year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in addition to the penalties imposed by the first section of this act, every person who shall issue change bills or bills of any denomination, without legislative grant, shall for each offence be fined in a sum not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars, one half of said penalty to go to the prosecutor. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Grand Jurors of the several counties of this State, at each term of the Superior Court to make deligent enquiry and present all violations of the third section of this act. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 25th Nov. 1830.

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CANALS. AN ACT to revive and amend an act passed the twentieth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, entitled an act, to incorporate the Brunswick Canal Company, and for other purposes in relation to the establishment of the said Company. Whereas, the chartered rights and privileges, granted to William B. Davis and others, by the recited act, having been limited to four years, and the same having reverted back to the State; and whereas, the failure to fulfil the objects of said act, within the four years limited by the above recited act, has not arisen from any want of zeal and exertion on the part of the said Davis. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same it is hereby enacted, That all the rights and privileges contained in the above recited act, be, and the same are hereby re-granted to, and vested in the said William B. Davis and Urbanus Dart, and their associates; and that the time for establishing the said Company, and completing a canal or rail-road, or both, from the Altamaha to Turtle river or Brunswick, be, and the same is hereby extended seven years, exclusively to the said William B. Davis and Urbanus Dart, and their associates; to take effect from the twentieth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That in case it should not be found convenient for the stockholders of said Company to form a Board of Direction composed of as many members as are named in the above recited act of incorporation, they may form a Board of a smaller number, not less than three, who shall compose a Board of President and Directors, and may proceed to execute all the necessary bye-laws. regulations and objects contemplated in the above recited act. It is the intent and meaning of this section, that, if a Canal or rail-road, or both, be effected from the Altamaha to Turtle

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River, or Brunswick, it is immaterial to this General Assembly, as to the number of Stockholders, and Directors of the said Company. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 14th Dec. 1830 CENSUS. AN ACT to provide for taking the Census of the State of Georgia, in pursuance of the requirement of the twenty-fifth section of the first article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior court for the several counties of this State, or any three of them, in each county respectively, within ninety days from and after the passing of this act, to appoint one or more persons in each county, not exceeding one, to each battalion district, in each county, whose duty it shall be to take a full and accurate census or enumeration of all free white persons, and of colour, residing therein on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the persons so appointed as aforesaid, to keep a book in which shall be recorded, the names of each head of a family, together with the number of persons returned by such head of family, as belonging to his or her family; distinguishing

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therein in separate columns, the free white persons from those of colour, the slaves from citizens; all deaf and dumb and lunatics, in a separate column; all white male children between the age of six and sixteen years of age, in a separate column, and all female white children between the age of six and sixteen, in a separate column; and it shall be their duty to return the same to the clerk of the Superior Court of their respective counties, certified under their hands and seals; on or before the first day of October, one thousand eight hundrd and thirty-one. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the several counties of this State, or any one of them, before issuing an order to any person or persons to take the Census of their respective counties; to administer to such person or persons, the following oath, to wit.I, A. B. do solemnly swear, (or affirm as the case may be) that I will to the best of my ability do and perform, all the duties required of me by law, as taker of the Census for the county of and faithfully and duly execute the trust confided to me, so help me God. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be the duty of the clerks of the Superior Courts of the several counties of this State, on or before the first day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to transmit to his Excellency the Governor, the returns to them made, by the takers of Census for their counties respectively; under their hands and seals, to be by him laid before the General Assembly of the State of Georgia. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That in case the Justices of the Inferior Court of the several counties, or any of them of this State, shall on any account fail to make the appointment of a person or persons to take the Census or enumeration of the county, within ninety days from and after the passage of this act; then the Justice of the Peace presiding over the district in which the Court House is situated, together with any two or more of the Justices of the Peace of said county, shall have and exercise like powers respecting the taking the Census of such county as are herein given to the Justices of the Inferior Court. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the Census or enumeration of any county, shall not be taken and returned, according to the provisions of this

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act; then and in that event, such county shall be entitled to but one Representative in the Legislature, until the Census of such county shall have been taken and returned, in conformity to the Constitution of this State. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons appointed to take the Census of any county in this State, under the provisions of this act, are hereby authorized and required to administer to all heads of families or others, before receiving his return of Census, or of the number of his family, the following oath; vizI, A. B. do solemnly swear, (or affirm as the case may be) that I will give in, as members of my family, only such as belonged to my family, either present or absent in the character of wife, children, slaves, and boarders and free persons of colour, on the first day of April, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That each person appointed to take the Census, under the provisions of this act, shall receive as compensation, the sum of twenty cents, for each family taken in [Illegible Text] him. A BURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830.

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COUNTIES. AN ACT, to form a new county, from the counties of Troup, Coweta and Carroll. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, all that territory lying within the following bounds, viz: commencing on the Chattahoochee river, at the corner of fraction number one hundred and sixty-one, and one hundred sixty three, in the fourth district of Carroll county; thence west, a straight line to the Alabama line, thence along said line, to the north west corner of lot number one hundred and sixty, in the fifteenth district, formerly Carroll now Troup county; thence a straight line to the corner of fraction, number forty eight, on the river, in the fourteenth district of formerly Carroll now Troup county; thence up said river, to the mouth of Potatoe creek, in the twelfth district of Troup county; thence a straight line to the south east corner of lot number one hundred and twenty, in the third district of Coweta county; thence a straight line to the north west corner, of fraction number one hundred and seventy-six, in the fourth district of Coweta, on the Chattahoochee river; thence a straight line to the beginning corner, shall form a new county, to be called and known by the name of Heard, in memory of Stephen Heard, late of the county of Elbert, deceased. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said county, shall be included in the Chattahoochee circuit, and form a part of the first brigade, of the ninth division of Georgia militia. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all officers, civil and military, that are included in the county of Heard, shall hold their respective commissions, in the same manner as if commissioned for said county. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Superior and Inferior courts, and county elections, shall be held at the house of [Illegible Text] Davis, until the Inferior court of said county, fix on a permanent site for the same; that George H.

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Casper, William [Illegible Text], Matthew Coleman, and Thomas C. Pinkard be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners with authority, to superintend the election of Justices of the Inferior court, and other county officers, and to do and perform all other acts, preparatory to the organization said county. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all lines, as mentioned in the first section of this act are, and shall be the permanent bounds of said county of Heard, and that the line running through the counties of Troup and Coweta, shall be run, and plainly marked by some suitable person, selected by the above named Commissioners, who shall be compensated for running said line, out of the county funds of said county of Heard, so soon as there shall be county funds to do so. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d. 1830. AN ACT to divide the county of Randolph, and lay out and form a new county therefrom. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the county of Randolph shall be divided as hereafter pointed out, viz: Commencing at the south east corner, of fraction number two hundred

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and eighty four, in the twenty-first district, of originally Lee, but now the county of Randolph, on the Chattahoochee river, and run due east along said range of lots, until it strikes the Lee county line; thence due north along said line, until it strikes the Marion county line; thence due west along said line, until it strikes the Muscogee county line; thence the same course, until it strikes the Chattahoochee river, and thence down said river to the beginning. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the territory aforesaid, shall form and compose a new county, to be known and called by the name of Stewart, in memory of General Daniel Stewart, a revolutionary soldier. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all officers, civil and military, who are by this act, detached from the county of Randolph, to the county of Stewart, shall hold their respective commissions in the same manner, as if commissioned for the county of Stewart. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the county of Stewart, shall form a part of the Chattahoochee circuit, and a part of the second brigade, of the ninth division of the militia of this State. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to Dec. 23d, 1830. AN ACT to alter a part of the line that divides the Counties of Hancock and Washington. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after

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the passage of this act, the center of the road leading from Lee Reeves' to John Gileses, by the Bridge, on Buffaloe creek, known as Long's Bridge, and by Elizabeth Traywicks, shall be the dividing line, of the county of Hancock and Washington; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives, THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21st, 1830. AN ACT, to add a part of the county of Houston, to the County of Crawford. 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 lots number one hundred and twenty-one, one hundred and twenty-two, one hundred and thirty-five, and one hundred and thirty-six, in the eighth district of the county of Houston, be added to, and become a part of the county of Crawford; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21st, 1830.

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COURTS. AN ACT, to incorporate the Justices of the Inferior court of Richmond county, and to invest the said Justices with full power and authority, to purchase any number of Slaves, not exceeding ten, and such horses and mules, and implements, as may be necessary to enable them to effectually work on the Public Roads, in said county, and keep them in good repair. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby eracted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, Absalom Rhodes, Valentine Walker, Holland McTyre, Edward Thomas, and William Shannon, and their successors in office shall be, and they are hereby created and made a corporation and body politic, by the name style of the Justices of the Inferior court of Richmond county, and by that name shall be, and are hereby made able and capable in law, to have, purchase, and receive any number of negroes, (not exceeding ten,) and such mules, horses, and implements, as in their judgment, may be necessary for working on, and keeping in good repair, the public roads of the said county of Richmond, and by the said name and style, are hereby made able and capable in law, to contract, and be contracted with, to sue, and be sued; and generally to the all lawful and necessary acts, for the purposes of effectually making, repairing, and keeping in repair all, or any of the public roads in the said county of Richmond. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Justices of the Inferior court of Richmond county, and their successors in office, are hereby authorised and empowered to use and apply to the purposes aforesaid, such part, or portion of the county funds of said county, as they, in their discretion may think fit and proper, and at such time, or times, and in such proportion, as, to a majority of [Illegible Text] Justices, shall seem most to the interests and prosperity of said county of Richmond. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d. 1830.

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AN ACT, to amend an act, entitled an act, to amend the several acts respecting the Court of Common Pleas of the City of Augusta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all suits, instituted in the court of Common Pleas, of the city of Augusta, shall in future be confined to party defendants, who reside at the time of commencing suit within the corporate limits of the city of Augusta. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That any law, or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21st. 1830. AN ACT, to provide for the payment of the expenses which have been, or may be incurred by the counties of Carroll, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall and Habersham, for prison fees, and officers fees in the prosecutions of crimes committed on the territory, claimed by the Cherokee Indians, which was added to the aforesaid counties, by an act passed on the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That for all prosecutions

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in behalf of this State, where the crime has been, or may hereafter be committed upon the unoccupied territory within the chartered limits of the State, attached to the counties of Carroll, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall and Habersham, and for all prison fees and officers fees incurred, or to be incurred by the arrest, or imprisonment of persons charged with crimes against the State, on said territory, shall be paid by the Governor, out of the contingent fund, when it shall be made appear to him, by the certificate of the Judge of the Superior court within whose jurisdiction such arrests, imprisonments, or prosecutions may have been, or may hereafter be had, that the person, or persons, so arrested, imprisoned, or prosecuted, have no visible means out of which to defray the expenses thereof, which payment shall be made to such officers, as said Judge shall state in such certificate to be entitled to receive the same; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor, Assented to, Dec. 21st. 1830. AN ACT, to alter and fix the times of holding the Superior courts of the Middle District. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General A ssembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the Superior courts of the several counties in the Middle district of this State, shall be held at the times following, to wit: SPRING TERM. In the county of Columbia, on the second Monday in March.

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In the county of Washington, on the fourth Monday in March. In the county of Montgomery, on the second Monday in April. In the county of Tattnall, on Thursday thereafter. In the county of Emanuel, on the third Monday in April. In the county of Scriven, on the fourth Monday in April. In the county of Burke, on the first Monday in May. In the county of Jefferson, on the third Monday in May. In the county of Richmond, on the first Monday in June. FALL TERM. In the county of Columbia, on the second Monday in September. In the county of Washington, on the fourth Monday in September. In the county of Montgomery, on the Thursday after the first Monday in October. In the county of Tattnall, on the second Monday in Ootober. In the county of Emanuel, on Thursday thereafter. In the county of Scriven, on the third Monday in October. In the county of Jefferson, on the fourth Monday in October. In the county of Burke, on the third Monday in November. In the county of Richmond, on the first Monday in January. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all petitions, bills, and subp[oelig]nas, and all processes whatsoever, returnable to said courts, at any other times than those herein mentioned, be and the same are made returnable the courts, to be held according to this act, and all parties, jurors, witnesses, and other persons required to attend said courts, or any of them, are required to attend at the times herein before stated. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this act shall be so construed, as to authorise, or require any court to be held in the county of Richmond, on the first Monday in January next. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor, Assented to, Dec. 21st. 1830.

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AN ACT, to alter and change the time of holding the summer session of the Superior court, also to change the time of holding the fall session of the Inferior court of Wilkes county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General A sssembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the time of holding the summer session of the Superior court of Wilkes county, shall be on the first Monday in July, in each and every year, instead of the third Monday in August as heretofore. Sec. 2. A nd be it further enacted, That the time of the fall session of the Inferior court of said county, shall be on the fourth Monday in September, in each and every vear, instead of the first Monday in November as heretofore. Sec. 3. A nd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all persons summoned, subpp[oelig]naed, or bound as suitors, witnesses, Jurors, or in any other capacity, to attend said courts, at the time which by the laws now in force are holden, shall be bound, by virtne of said summons, subpp[oelig]na, or other process heretofore issued, to attend said courts, as altered by this act. Sec. 4. A nd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all writs, precepts and processes of any kind or nature whatsoever, shall be made returnable to the terms heretofore recited. Sec. 5. A nd be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws, militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21st. 1830.

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AN ACT, to appoint a master in equity for the counties of Chatham, Richmond, and Bibb, respectively. Whereas, in causes in equity, in the Superior courts of said counties, accounts are frequently presented, embracing transactions of many years, voluminous, and referring to numerous vouchers for their proof, and which by reason of the time and labour, necessary to be spent in investigating them, and the limited periods appointed by law, for the sessions of said courts, cannot be particularly examined by a court and jury, and hence in practice, are commonly referred to auditors for examination; and whereas, experience has shown, that it is extremely difficult to procure competent individuals for this purpose, without compensation, and thus great delays in suits in equity frequently happen. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General A ssembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Judges of the Superior courts of the counties of Chatham, Richmond, and Bibb, respectively, are hereby authorised to appoint a master in equity, for each of the aforesaid counties, whose duty it shall be to examine, audit and report, upon all accounts and vouchers, relating to any suit pending in equity in any of the courts of said counties, which may be submitted to him under an order of court; and also to superintend under the discretion of the court, all sales which may be made by order of court, under decrees in equity. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the said masters in equity, shall be entitled to receive such compensation for their services in examining, auditing reporting upon accounts, as the court and jury trying the particular cause, in which such masters report, is made, shall determine, the amount of compensation thus to be determined, to be taxed in the bill of costs in the cause. Sec. 3. A nd be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That before entering on the duties of his office, each master in equity shall take, and subscribe the following oath, to wit: I. A. B. do solemnly swear, that I will faithfully discharge the duties of my appointment, to the best of my knowledge, so help me God. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d. 1830.

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AN ACT, to alter and change the time of holding the winter term of the Inferior court of Troup county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the time of holding the winter term of the Inferior court of Troup county, shall be on the second Monday in January, in each and every year, instead of the fourth Monday in December, as is now directed by law. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws, or parts of laws, militating against the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14th, 1830. AN ACT to alter the time of holding the Superior and Inferior Courts in the Flint Circuit, and in the counties of Jones and Jasper and Heard. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Superior Courts of the Flint Circuit, in this State, shall be held at the following times in each year, that is to sayIn the county of Bibb on the first Mondays in February and August. In the county of Houston, on the second Mondays in February and August.

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In the county of Crawford, on the third Mondays in February and August. In the county of Upson, on the fourth Mondays in February and August. In the county of Pike, on the first Mondays in March and September. In the county of Monroe, on the second Mondays in March and September. In the county of Fayette, on the third Mondays in March and September. In the county of Newton, on the fourth Mondays in March and September. In the county of Butts, on the first Mondays in April, and on the Thursday after the first Monday in October. In the county of Henry, on the second Mondays in April and October. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Inferior Courts of the Flint Circuit, shall hereafter be held at the times following, that is to sayIn the county of Bibb, on the first Mondays in May and November. In the county of Houston, on the second Mondays in May and November. In the county of Crawford, on the third Mondays in May and November. In the county of Upson, on the fourth Mondays in May and November. In the county of Pike, on the first Mondays in June and December. In the county of Monroe, on the second Mondays in June and December. In the county of Fayette, on the third Mondays in June and December. In the county of Newton, on the fourth Mondays in June and December. In the county of Butts, on the first Mondays in July and January. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That hereafter, the Superior Courts shall be held in the county of Jones on the third Mondays in April and October, and in the county of Jasper, on the fourth Mondays in April and October. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all writs, summonses and processes, now returnable to any of said Courts under the laws heretofore in existence, shall be severally returned to said Courts, according to the provisions of this act. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Superior Court, shall be held in the county of Heard,

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on the first Monday in May, and on the Friday, after the fourth Monday in October, and the Inferior Court in said county, shall be held on the first Mondays in February and July. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act be and he same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830. AN ACT to fix the time of holding the Courts for the trial of Caveats, against the passing of grants of land in the several counties of this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the courts for the trial of caveats against the passing of grants for lands, shall be holden in the several counties in this State, on the first Tuesday in each month, any law, usage or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to alter and change the times of holding the Inferior Court of the county of Franklin. Re it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Inferior Court of Franklin county, shall be held on the fourth Monday in January, and the fourth Monday in July in each year, and that all writs, and processes returnable to the aforesaid Court, shall be taken, considered, and held to be returnable to the aforesaid court at the times herein specified; and that all persons subpp[oelig]naed or recognised to appear at the aforesaid court, shall be liable to appear at the same, at the times herein specified, any law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1830. AN ACT to authorise the Justices of the Inferior Court of Gwinnett county, to define anew the prison bounds of said county and adapt the same to the site of the new jail. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Justices of the Inferior Court, be, and they are hereby authorized, so soon as they may deem it necessary and expedient, to define anew the prison bounds of said county, and adapt the same to the scite whereon the new jail is to be erected in said county.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the prison bounds hereby directed to be laid out, shall be (as regards the extent, surveying and recording of the same,) done in conformity to the act of the twenty-second December, eighteen hundred and thirty, on the subject of prison bounds. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 8th Nov. 1830. AN ACT to authorise the several courts of law and equity of this State, to award judgment against garnishees, in certain cases, and to point out the mode whereby such garnishees may be relieved from the operation of said judgment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in all cases arising under the laws of this State, which authorise summons of garnishment to be issued, when the garnishee shall return on oath, that he or she hath in hand goods or effects of the debtor, he or she shall state in his or her deposition the value of the same, and the court to which the same may be made returnable, shall proceed to award judgment against said garnishee, for the value of said effects, as stated in said deposition: Provided nevertheless, That the said garnishee may discharge said judgment, by delivering to the officer, having the execution in hand, the goods or effects so by him or her deposed to be in his or her possession. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the plaintiff at whose instance the said summons shall have been sued out, may make up an issue on said deposition which

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shall be submitted to a jury, and the said jury shall render a verdict for the value of such goods, or effects as may be proved to be in the hands of the garnishee, or for the value of such goods or effects as may be him or her, be admitted to be in hand, and the court shall proceed to give judgment accordingly, which said judgment may be discharged in the manner prescribed in the first section of this act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 21st Dec. 1830. AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act, to compel the Clerk of the Superior Court of Emanuel county, to keep his office at or within five miles of the Court-house of said county, passed the twenty-fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty five. Whereas, there was no penalty set forth in said act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, that for every months delay or neglect to obey the said act of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-five, by the said Clerk of the Superior Court of Emanuel county, he shall forfeit and pay the sum of thirty dollars, which fine may be collected by any court of said county, having jurisdiction thereof by good and sufficient proof being made of such negligence, and which fine when collected,

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shall become a part of said county funds, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 14th Dec. 1830. CHURCHES. AN ACT to incorporate the Methodist Episcopal Society at old Church in Burke county, and to vest in said Society the lot of land on which the said old Church is built. 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 Francis Ward, Green Bell, Peter Alday, Thomas Bostick and John Goodwin, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Methodist Episcopal Church in Burke county, and that the said Trustees and their successors in office, shall be invested with all manner of property which they may acquire or be possessed of by purchase, gift, bequest or otherwise, with all the privileges and immunities thereunto belonging, to have and to hold the same for the use and behoof of the said society. And they are hereby declared capable of suing and being sued, and using all legal means for recovering and defending any property, whether real or personal, which they may hold, claim or demand as Trustees as aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That whenever any vacancy shall occur in the said Board of Trustees, by death,

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removal, resignation or otherwise, such vacancy may be filled, by the members of said society, or a majority of them, under such rules and regulations as may be ordained and established by said Board of Trustees or a majority of them. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Board of Trustees shall have power to appoint such officers, and make and ordain such bye-laws and regulations as they may deem necessary for carrying into effect the provisions of this act: Provided such bye-laws and regulations, be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the lot or parcel of land on which the old Church is built, and now stands, and which has been considered as belonging to said Church, is hereby vested in the Trustees aforesaid, and their successors in office, for the use and benefit of the said Society: Provided, the said Trustees or their successors, shall in no case have authority to sell or lease the said lot of land or any part of it, or use it for any other purpose than for the common use of the worshippers at said Church. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 14th Dec. 1830. AN ACT to authorise the Governor to issue a grant to the Presbyterian Church, for a lot in the town of Columbus for religious purposes. Whereas, the Commissioners for laying out the town of Columbus, have set apart four lots for religious purposes, and the Presbyterian Church have selected lot C. in said town:

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised and required, upon application, to issue a grant for said lot, to the Elders of said Presbyterian Church in said town of Columbus, free of charges, to be held by them, or sold and conveyed, and the proceeds applied to the use of said Church or Society for religious purposes. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor Assented to, 14th Dec. 1830. AN ACT to incorporate the Baptist Church at Brushy Creek, in the county of Burke. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Joshua Key, Henry P. Turner, James J. Smith, Roland Moore and William Swann, and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Baptist Church at Brushy Creek, in the county of Burke, with power to hold any property, either real or personal, which may now belong to, or be hereafter [Illegible Text] by the said Church whether by purchase, gift, or [Illegible Text] with all the privileges and immunities thereunto [Illegible Text] for the only use and benefit of the said Church, and they are hereby declared capable of suing and being sued, and of using all legal means for defending and recovering any property whatsoever, which they the said Trustees may hold, [Illegible Text] or demand.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the above named Trustees, shall continue in office until the Saturday preceding the second Sabbath in June next, when the male members of the said Church, shall at their usual place of worship proceed to the election of five Trustees for the year thence ensuing, and on the Saturday preceding the second Sabbath in June in each and every year thereafter, or as soon thereafter as shall be convenient, an election shall be held in like manner, any member of the board being re-eligible, written notice being put up at the door of the Church, by any one or more members of the last Board of Trustees at least ten days previous to the day fixed on for such election, the Trustees to continue in office until their successors shall be elected. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any vacancies which may occur in the Board of Trustees by death, removal, resignation or otherwise, may be filled by a majority of the remaining members of said Board. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to appoint such officers, and to make and ordain such bye-laws and regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for carrying into effect the provisions of this act, and for the management of the temporal affairs of the said Church: Provided, such bye-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented, to, 2d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to authorise the re-building of the meeting house, generally known as the Double Branch meeting house, in the county of Lincoln, to make permanent the location of the same on that spot of land heretofore set apart, and to secure the right of religious worship to all religious denominations, and to appoint Commissioners for the same. Whereas, James Ware did reserve one acre of ground on his own land in said county, including the privilege of the spring known at this time as the Double Branch meeting house, for religious purposes, and whereas, certain individuals of said county, for the purposes of carrying their benevolent intentions [Illegible Text] effect in building a house on said spot of ground prays this legislature to incorporate the same as a free meeting house, for the use of all religious denominations. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the meeting house that may be placed on said acre of land, shall be free for all religious denominations, which meeting house shall be called by the name of the Double Branch meeting house, which meeting house shall at all times be free for all religious denominations. Sec. 2. And be it enacted by the authority of the same, That Robert Fleming, Jacob Caver, Stephen Stovall, Robert Searles, John Hardy, Jacob Holsenback and Robert Brown, and their successors in office, shall be a body corporate, and shall be known as the trustees of the Double Branch meeting house in the said county, and they and their successors in office, are declared to be a body corporate, and capable of suing and being sued, and using all legal means in protecting the said acre of land and the meeting house that may be placed on the same. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall happen the persons supporting the gospel in that settlement, shall have the power of filling the same. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 21st Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to incorporate the Methodist Episcopal Church in Decatur DeKalb county, and to appoint Trustees for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Methodist Church in Decatur DeKalb county, shall be known and called by the name of the Decatur Methodist Episcopal Church, and that Jephthah V. George. Jesse P. Jones, Robert Ward, Larkin Carlton and Drury Fowler and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Decatur Methodist Episcopal Church, and as such shall be capable and liable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorised to make such bye-laws and regulations as shall be necessary for the government of said Church: Provided, such bye-laws are not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and for the purpose aforesaid, may have and use a common seal, appoint such officers as they may think proper, and remove the same from office for improper conduct or neglect of duty. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Trustees shall be capable of accepting and being invested with all manner of property both real and personal, all donations, gifts, grants, privileges and immunities whatsoever, which may now belong to the said Church or which may hereafter be conveyed or transferred to them or their successors in office, to have and to hold the same for the proper use, benefit and behoof of said Church. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall happen in said board by death, resignation or otherwise, the survivors or a majority of them shall fill the same in such manner as shall be pointed out by the bye-laws and regulations of the Trustees aforesaid. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 14th Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT, to incorporate the Baptist Church at Buck Head, in the County of Burke. 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 James H. T. Kilpatrick, Henry Gilstrap, James Shepherd, Stiring Brinson, and Adam Brinson, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Baptist Church, at Buck Head, in the county of Burke, with power to hold any property, either real or personal, which may now belong to, or be hereafter acquired by the said church, whether by purchase, gift, or bequest with all the privileges and immunities thereunto, belonging for the use and benefit of the said church; and they are hereby declared capable of suing, and being sued, and of using all legal means, for defending, or recovering any property whatever, which they, the said trustees may hold, claim, or demand. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the above named trustees, shall continue in office until the Saturday preceding the first Sabbath in April next, when the male members of the said church, shall at their usual place of worship, proceed to the election of five trustees, for the year thence ensuing, and on the Saturday, preceding the first Sabbath in April, in each and every year thereafter, an election shall be held in like manner, any member of the board being re-eligible; and in the event, that there may be a failure to hold an election at the time above directed, an election may be held on any day thereafter, [Illegible Text] notice being put up at the door of the church by any one, or more members of the last board of trustees, at least ten days previous to the day fixed on for such election. Sec. 3. A nd be it further enacted, That any vacancies which may occur in the board of trustees by death, removal, resignation, or otherwise may be filled by a majority of the remaining members of the said board. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees, or a majority of them shall have power and authority to appoint such officers, and to make and ordain such bye-laws and regulations as they may deem necessary and proper, for the carrying into effect the provisions of this act, and for the

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management of the temporal affairs of the said church; Provided, Such bye-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 14, 1830. AN ACT, to incorporate the Mariners Church in the City of Savannah. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That George B. Cumming, S. B. Parkman, Ralph King, Joseph Cumming, Wm. Crabtree, jr. Homes Tupper, Thomas Clark, Joseph George, Joseph S. Pelot, F. M. Stone, Joseph Ganahl, Elias Reed, James Eppinger, John Lewis, and William Bee, and their successors in office be, and they are hereby delared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the trustees of the Mariners church. Sec. 2. A nd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said George B. Cumming, S. B. Parkman, Ralph King, Joseph Cumming, Wm. Crabtree, jr. Homes Tupper, Thomas Clark, Joseph George, Joseph S. Pelot, F. M. Stone, Joseph Ganahl, Elias Reed, James Eppinger, John Lewis, and William Bee, trustees as aforesaid, and their successors in office, or a majority of them, shall be invested with all manner of property, both real and personal, which they may acquire, or be possessed of by gift, grant, or purchase, and all privileges and immunities which may belong to the said church at the time of passing this act, or which may hereafter be made, conveyed, or transferred to them, or

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their successors in office, to have and to hold the same to the proper use benefit and behoof of the said church: and also, that the said trustees in office, or a majority of them, shall and they are hereby declared to be capable of suing, and being sued, impleading, and being impleaded, and of using all legal and necessary steps for recovering, or defending any property whatever, which the said church may hold, claim, or demand. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees of the said Mariners church, shall hold their office for, and during the term of one year, from and immediately after the passing of this act, and until their successors are appointed; and on some convenient day in each year, after the passing of this act, the contributors to the building of said church, shall assemble at some convenient place, or at the said church, and proceed by ballot, to elect from among their own body, fifteen fit and discreet persons as trustees, who shall hold their office for one year as aforesaid, from and after their said election, with the same powers, and for the same purposes as above mentioned. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the trustees of said church, or a majority of them, shall have the power to fill any vacancy which may happen in their board, by death, resignation, or otherwise, and when any vacancy may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, of any of the trustees, the board shall proceed in a reasonable time thereafter, by ballot, to fill each vacancy, or vacancies; and the person, or persons so elected, shall hold their office during the term for which their predecessor had been apappointed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1830.

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AN ACT, to Incorporate the Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, that Jesse Mercer, Moderator, Adiel Sherwood, Clerk, J. P. Marshall, assistant Clerk, James Armstrong, B. M. Sanders, Jonathan Davis, and Thomas Stocks, who compose the present Executive Committee of said Convention, and their successors in office, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and style of the Executive Committee of the Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia and by the said name and style, shall have perpetual succession and power to use a common seal, to alter and amend the bye-laws of the same: Provided, Such bye-laws be not repugnant to the laws and constitution of this State, or the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Executive Committee aforesaid, and their successors in office, elected agreeable to the constitution of said convention, shall have full power and authority, under the name and style of the Executive Committee of the Baptist Convention of the State of Georgia, by which name they shall sue, and be sued, in any court of law, or equity in this State, and to take, hold and enjoy any real, or personal property, to sue for, and recover all sum, or sums of money now due, or that may hereafter become due to said convention, at any court of law, or equity in this State, or at any tribunal having jurisdiction thereof, and the rights and privileges of said convention to defend in any tribunal whatever: also to receive any bequests, or donations whatever, made to said convention; and they shall be vested with all powers, privileges and advantages of a society incorporated; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1830.

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AN ACT, to Incorporate the Baptist Church near Newnan, in the county of Coweta. 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 Baptist church near the town of Newnan, in the county of Coweta, shall hereafter be known and called by the name of Newnan church; and that William Salisberry, Randle Robinson, Joel W. Terrell, Richard B. Wooten, and Peter Duncan, sr. and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of Newnan church, and as such shall be capable and liable in law, to sue, and be sued, to plead, and be impleaded, in any and all courts of law and equity, and may have, and use a common seal, and appoint such officers as they may deem proper, or necessary for the management of the affairs of said church, and are authorised to make and [Illegible Text] such rules, regulations and bye-laws as they may conceive necessary, or conducive to the government of the secular affairs of said church: Provided, Such rules, regulations and bye-laws, be not repugnant to the constitution of this State, or the constitution of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said trustees, and their successors, shall be capable of receiving and holding all manner of property by purchase, gift, grant, or otherwise for the use of said church. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on the fourth Saturday in January next, and on the fourth Saturday in January, of every year thereafter, it shall, and may be lawful for the male members of said church to [Illegible Text] at the said church, and under the superintendence of [Illegible Text] two members of said church, to elect five persons, being male members of said church, trustees of said church, for the year ensuing their election, and until their successors shall be elected; the evidence of which election shall be entered and [Illegible Text] in a book of record of said church, and in the event, that no election shall be held on the day herein designated; it shall and may be lawful for any two, or more male members of said church, at least ten days notice in writing, at the door of said church, and at some public place in said town, for the election of five trustees of said church, on a certain day in said notice to be named, and at the church

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on which day and place, it shall be lawful for the male members of said church, to proceed to the election of said trustees in manner, and for the term aforesaid; and in case of vacancy in said board of trustees, by death, resignation, or otherwise, it shall be lawful for the male members of said church to fill such vacancy by election in manner aforesaid, notice of such election having been given in the manner herein before directed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d. 1830. DIVORCES. AN ACT, to separate and Divorce Eliza Boon and Thomas C. Boon, her husband. 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 from and immediately after the passing of this act, the [Illegible Text] contract of marriage made and entered into between Eliza Boon, and Thomas C. Boon her husband shall, and is hereby fully and completely annulled, set aside, and dissolved as if no such contract had ever been made between the parties. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Eliza Boon, and Thomas C. Boon her husband,

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shall in future be, and they are hereby held as distinct and separate persons altogether, unconnected by any mystical union, or civil contract whatever, heretofore made, or entered into between the parties. Read the third time and passed, Oct. 26th. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 20, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Sarah Randal, and Washington Randal her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection and cival contract of marriage, made and entered into between Sarah Randal, and Washington Randal her husband, be, and the same is hereby annulled, set aside, and dissolved as fully and effectually, as if no such contract had ever been made, or entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Sarah Randal, and Washington Randal her husband, shall be held in future as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any union, or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 3, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 18, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to divorce Nancy Oliver, from her husband Joseph Oliver. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the matrimonial connection, or civil contract of marriage made between the aforesaid Nancy Oliver, and her husband Joseph, shall be completely annulled, set aside and dissolved as fully and effectually, as if no such contract had ever heretofore been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Nancy Oliver and Joseph Oliver, shall in future, be held and considered as distinct and separate persons altogether unconnected, by any mystical union, or civil contract whatever, at any time hereafter made, or entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 1st. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 8th. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Polly Cleghorn, and William Cleghorn her husband, and also to separate and divorce Henry J. M. Kennon, and Nancy Kennon his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted the by authority of the same, That from and after passage of this act, the matrimonial connection or civil contract of marriage made, and entered into between Polly Cleghorn, and William Cleghorn her husband, shall be completely annulled,

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set aside, and dissolved as fully as effectually to all intents and purposes, as if no such contract had ever been entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connexion, or civil contract of marriage, made and entered into, between Henry J. M. Kennon, and Nancy Kennon, his wife, shall be completely annulled, set aside and dissolved, as fully and as effectually, to all intents and purposes, as if no such contract had ever been entered into between them. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Polly and William her husband, and the said Henry and Nancy his wife, shall in future be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union, or civil contract whatsoever, heretofore entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 21, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 6th. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Bersheba Beard, and Mathias H. Beard her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the matrimonial connection and civil contract of marriage made, and entered into between the said Bersheba Beard, and Mathias H. Beard her husband be, and the same is hereby annulled, set aside, and dissolved as fully and effectually, as if no such contract had ever been made, or entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Bersheba Beard, and [Illegible Text] H. Beard her husband, shall be held in future, as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected

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by any union, or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 3d. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, Nov. 29, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce William B. Thomas and Elizabeth his wife, formerly Elizabeth Messer. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connection, or civil contract of marriage made, and entered into between William B. Thomas and Elizabeth his wife, formerly Elizabeth Messer shall, and is hereby declared to be fully and completely null, set aside, and dissolved, as if no such contract had ever been made, or entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said William B. Thomas and Elizabeth his wife, be [Illegible Text] in future, taken and known, as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union, or civil contract whatever, heretofore entered into between them. Read the third time and passed, 6th Dec. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, 1st. Nov. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to divorce and separate Reubin Thornton, and Anna Thornton his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the matrimonial connection, or civil contract of marriage heretofore existing between Reubin Thornton, and Anna Thornton his wife, is hereby set aside, and dissolved as fully and effectually, as if no such contract had ever been made, or entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Reubin Thornton and Anna Thornton, shall in future, be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union, or civil contract whatsoever, any law to contrary notwithstanding. Read the third time and passed, 19th Nov. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, 20th. Dec. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce John Long, and Nancy Long his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the contract of marriage heretofore entered into, and existing between John

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Long, late of the county of Washington, now of the county of Hancock, and Nancy his wife be, and the same is hereby declared to be annulled, and rendered utterly void, and that the said John Long be held and considered fully and effectually divorced and separated from his said wife. Read the third time and passed, Dec. 3d. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read the third time and passed, 26th. Oct. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Richard S. Thomason and Amelia Thomason his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the matrimonial connection or civil contract of marriage heretofore made and entered into between Richard S. Thomason and Amelia Thomason his wife, shall be, and the same is hereby completely annulled, set aside and dissolved, as fully and effectually as if no such contract had ever been made and entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Richard S. Thomason and Amelia Thomason his wife, shall in future be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore made and entered into between them. Read third time and passed, 3d Dec. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read third time and passed, 11th Dec. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to separate and divorce John Wanslow and Sarah Wanslow his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial contract of marriage made between John Wanslow and Sarah Wanslow his wife, shall be as fully and completely annulled, set aside and dissolved as if no such contract had been entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said John Wanslow and Sarah Wanslow his wife, shall be in future, held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union, or civil contract whatsoever, heretofore entered into between them. Read third time and passed, 3d Dec. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read third time and passed, 11th Dec. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. AN ACT to separate and divorce Warren Andrews and Nancy Andrews his wife. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the matrimonial conection or civil contract of marriage, made between Warren

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Andrews and Nancy Andrews his wife, shall be as [Illegible Text] and fully annulled and set aside, and dissolved, as if no [Illegible Text] contract had ever been made or entered into between [Illegible Text] Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Warren Andrews and Nancy Andrews his wife, shall in future, be held as separate and distinct persons, altoogether, unconnected by any mystical union, or civil contract whatsoever, heretofore entered into between them. Read third time and passed, 3d Dec. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read third time and passed, 25th Oct. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce John S. Pruinett and Rosannah (alias) Rodah Pruinett his wife, formerly Rodah Story. 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 [Illegible Text] the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connexion, or civil contract of marriage, made between John S. Pruinett and Rosannah (alias) Rodah Pruinett his wife, shall be as fully and completely annulled, set aside and dissolved, as if no such contract had ever been entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said John S. Pruinett and Rodah his wife, shall in future be held as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any

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mystical union, or civil contract whatever, heretofore [Illegible Text] into between them. Read third time and passed, 27th Oct. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read third time and passed, 20th Nov. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. AN ACT to separate and divorce Cherry McRae and John McRae her husband, and to change the name of the said Cherry McRae. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connexion or eivil contract of marriage, made and entered into between Cherry McRae and John McRae her husband, be, and the same is hereby annulled, set aside and dissolved, as fully and effectually, as if no such contract had ever been made or entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Cherry McRae and John McRae her husband, shall in future be held and considered as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any mystical union, or civil contract whatever, at any time heretofore entered into between them. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, the said Cherry McRae be known in law by the name of Cherry Malone, being her name prior to such her marriage with the said John McRae. Read third time and passed, 1st Nov. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read third time and passed, 29th Nov. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate.

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AN ACT to separate and divorce Elizabeth Tournage from Henry Tournage her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the matrimonial connexion and civil contract of union, heretofore entered into between Elizabeth Tournage and Henry Tournage, be, and the same is hereby annulled, set aside and dissolved, the same as if no such contract had been entered into between them. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Elizabeth Tournage and Henry Tournage, shall be taken, held and considered as separate and distinct persons, altogether unconnected by any contract whatever. Read third time and passed, 22d Dec. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Read third time and passed, 8th Dec. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate: AN ACT to separate and divorce Elizabeth Cook Curtis, formerly Elizabeth Cook Stevents, and Everitt Curtis her husband. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the matrimonial [Illegible Text] civil contract heretofore existing and entered into between Elizabeth Cook Curtis, (formerly Elizabeth Cook Stevents,) and Everitt Curtis her husband, be, and the same is hereby dissolved and set aside, and that the said Elizabeth and Everitt, be, and are

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hereby considered as separate and distinct persons, as much so, as if no such contruct had ever been entered into between them. Read third time and passed, 1st Nov. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives Read third time and passed, 22d Nov. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. ELECTIONS. AN ACT amend an act, entitled an act, to establish and regulate election districts in the counties of Walton, Fayette, Pike, Coweta, and Hall, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same, and to establish an additional election district in the county of Coweta. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in addition to the places in the county of Coweta, designated by the act passed December the nineteenth, in the year eighteen hundred twenty-eight, entitled An act to establish regulate election districts in the counties of Walton, Fayette, Pike, Coweta and Hall, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same, for the election of the officers and members therein specified, an election of such officers members and officers, shall be held at the place of holding Justices Court, in the seven hundred and forty-sixth district of Georgia militia, in said county, under

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the same rules and regulations, and be conducted and superintended in the same manner as in said act is directed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the returns of the elections at the several places in the county of Coweta designated in said act, and at the place herein mentioned for elections, shall be accompanied by a certificate of a Justice of the Inferior Court, or of a Justice of the Peace of said county, that the superintending freeholders were sworn as by said act is required. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That an additional election district shall be held at Pitts store, in the fifteenth district of formerly Carroll, now Troup county, under the same rules and regulations that govern other election districts in the county of Troup. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the provisions created, and the pains and penalties incurred by the fourth section of the act hereby amended, be, and they are hereby continued so far as may relate to the said election district herein established, and that all laws and parts of laws, contravening this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830. AN ACT to establish an election district in the county of Upson and punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby

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enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the general election for Representatives in Congress, Governor, Electors of President, and Vice President, members of the State Legislature and county officers, so far as respects the county of Upson, may and shall be held at Thomaston as heretofore, and also at the store house of Messrs. Blount and Davis, the place of holding the Justices Court in Captain Williams' district in said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one Justice of the Peace, or Justice of the Inferior Court of said county, and two Freeholders or two Justices as aforesaid, and one Freeholder may superintend said election held as aforesaid, after said Freeholders shall have taken the following oath, viz:I do solemnly swear or affirm that I will faithfully superintend this days election and make a just and true return thereof according to law, and the best of my abilities, so help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the superintendants of the said district election shall and they are hereby required on the day of the election aforesaid, to count out the ballots by them taken in, and make a fair and correct statement of the Polls, and one or more of the superintendants at the said district election shall meet a majority of the magistrates, who shall have presided at the court house in Thomaston on the next day after said election, and shall then and there compare and add the several returns or votes together, and certify to his Excellency the Governor, the persons so elected agreeable to laws of this State now in force. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote at more than one of said places of elections, for any of the respective candidates at the same election, or if any superintendant shall violate the trust confided to him by this act, such person, magistrate, or freeholder, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor; and shall on conviction thereof, before the Superior Court of said county, be fined in the sum of twenty dollars and imprisoned at the discretion of the court, for a term not exceeding twenty days. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any doubt shall arise as to the legality of any vote offered, it shall be the duty of the superintendants to administer in addition to the oath prescribed by law, the following oath, viz:I do solemnly swear or affirm, that I have not this day voted at any election for any Senator, or Representative,

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Governor, or member of Congress, elector of President or Vice President, or county officer, so help me God. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the place of Sheriff may be supplied by any lawful Constable or other person appointed by said superintendants; and that the said election shall in all other respects than those herein recited, be conducted in the same manner, and at the same time as is prescribed by the law now in force, regulating general and county elections. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws militating against the provisions of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830. AN ACT to establish an additional election district in the county of Lee, and to regulate the same, and to amend an act entitled an act, to lay off the county of Lee into election districts, passed December twenty-second, eighteen hundred and twenty-nineand to fix the time and place of holding the Courts in the counties of Stewart and Randolph, and the places of elections in said counties. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in addition to the places in said county at which elections are directed to be held, hereafter elections for Governor of this State, electors of President and Vice President of the United States, Representatives in Congress, members of the General Assembly of this

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State, and of county officers, shall be held at the house now occupied by Isam Glover, in the thirteenth district of said county, which shall be held, conducted and superintended, and the returns of such elections shall be made in the manner authorised and required by the law regulating election districts, in said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the election of Electors of President and Vice President of the United States, shall be held at the usual place specified in the act entitled an act, to lay off the county of Lee into election districts, passed the twenty-second December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and that the penalties in the law regulating election districts in this State upon persons superintending said elections and voting thereat, shall be enforced against the superintendants of the election hereby authorised, and persons voting at said election district. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the time of holding the Superior Courts in the county of Stewart, shall be on the Wednesday after the third Monday in February and August, and in the county of Randolph on the Friday thereafter, and the place of holding courts in Stewart county shall be at the Town of Lumpkin in the county of Randolph at the house of Joseph Thompson. Sec. 4. And be further enacted, that all elections hereafter to be held in the said counties of Stewart and Randolph for members of Congress, Governor, Electors of President and Vice President, members of the General Assembly and all county officers, shall be at the places aforesaid. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the time of holding the Inferior Court in the county of Stewart, shall be on the first Monday in June and December. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws repugnant to this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to add an additional election district in the county, of Jefferson, to those already established. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it may and shall be lawful for all elections for members of Congress, for Governor, for members of the State Legislature, and for all other State and county officers, to be held at the place of holding of Justices Court in Captain Woods district in said county, in addition to those already established. Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That the elections so held, shall be conducted under the same rules and regulations as are prescribed in the act regulating election districts in the said county, passed the twenty-third day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six. Sec. 3. A nd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 21st Dec. 1830. AN ACT to establish election districts in the counties of Newton and Monroe, and punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General A ssembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from

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and immediately after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for elections for Governor, elections for President and Vice President of the United States; Representatives to Congress; members of the Legislature and county officers; to be held at the house of Samuel Scott, in Captain Boltons district; at the store house of Samuel Catlin, in Captain Hudsons district; at the house of Ethan Brewer, in Captain Wright's district; and at the house of Thomas Stanford, in the five hundred and forty-seventh district of Georgia militia, in the said county of Newton; and also at the court house in the town of Covington, in said county. Sec. 2. A nd be it further enacted, That election districts, be, and they are hereby established in the county of Monroe, at the following places, to wit: At the house of Wiley G. Higgins, in the fourth district of said county; at the store of Joseph White in the fifth district of said county; at the place usually known as Sharpes store, in the thirteenth district of said county; at the house of Charles Evans, in the twelfth district of said county; at Cullodensville in the eleventh district of said county, and at William Dunns, in the third district of said county, and at the house of William Turner, in Captain Hathcock's district, and at the house of Ambrose Chapman, in Captain Reese's district, for the same purposes, and subject to the same regulations, as herein mentioned. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That one Justice of the Peace or one Justice of the Inferior Court of said county and two freeholders, may superintend the elections in said districts, after the said freeholders have taken the following oath:I do solemnly swear that I will faithfully and impartially superintend this days election; and make a just and true return thereof according to law, and the best of my ability, so help me God. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the superintendants of each of said district elections shall, and they are hereby required on the day of said elections to count out the ballots by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the polls, and one or more of the superintendents of said election districts shall meet one or more of the superintendents of the election held at the court house in each of said counties on the day next after the election, and there compare and add the returns of votes together, and transmit a true statement of the same to the Executive office, agreeable to the laws of this State now in force.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote or attempt to vote at more than one place in said counties the same day, or if any superintendent or magistrate of any of said district elections, shall violate the trust to him or them committed by this act, such person, superintendent or magistrate, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof before the Superior Court, shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars and be imprisoned at the discretion of the court. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff or his Deputy may be supplied by any lawful constable at said district elections and that said district elections, shall in all other respects, be held and conducted in the same manner and at the same times as is prescribed by the laws now in force in this State regulating elections. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to alter or change the mode of conducting the elections held at Covington and Forsyth, in said counties heretofore established, regulating the same. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 14th Dec. 1830. AN ACT to establish an election district in the county of Bulloch at the muster ground or place of holding Justices courts, for the forty-seventh district of Georgia militia. 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 after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful for the voters of the county of Bulloch, to convene at the muster ground or place of

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holding Justices courts for the forty-seventh district company Georgia militia, and to vote for Governor, Electors of President, Vice President, Representatives to Congress, and members of the State Legislature. Sec. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the election shall be superintended by one Justice of the Peace and two freeholders, or a Justice of the Inferior Court and two freeholders, each freeholder shall previous to taking his seat, shall swear that he will, well and truly superintend said election, and a just and true return make of all the votes taken at said precinct; and the return when so made, shall be added to the number taken at the court house, all of which returns, shall be signed by the superintendents and by them transmitted to the Executive Department. Sec. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any Constable of said county, shall, and is hereby authorised to act at said election; and where a Constable cannot be had, the superintendents shall appoint a private person for that purposewhich election shall be conducted according to the laws governing elections in said county, not repealed by this act. Sec. 4. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall vote or attempt to do so, at more than one place on the same day in said county, such person shall on conviction, forfeit and pay the sum of thirty dollars, for every such offence. Sec. 5. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 14th Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to authorise the holding elections at the house of Walter L. Campbell, in the seven hundred and seventieth district of Georgia militia, in the county of Houston, and to punish those who may attempt to violate the provisions of this act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, one Justice of the Peace or Justice of the Inferior Court, (when more cannot conveniently attend) with two freeholders, shall, and they are hereby authorised, when ever there is an election to be held in the said county of Houston, for Governor, Electors of President and Vice President, members of the Legislature, members to Congress, and county officers, to open and hold an election at the house of Walter L. Campbell, in the fifteenth district of said county, [Illegible Text] to the original survey, and seven hundred and seventieth district, Georgia militia, at which place any voter of said county may vote: Provided, he has not voted previously at the court house in said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That before the freeholders shall enter upon the duties, which they are herein privileged to perform, they shall take and subscribe the following oath, to be administered by the presiding Justice to wit:I, A. B. do solemnly swear or affirm (as the case may be) that I will carefully superintend this days election, and make a true return thereof, agreeable to law, to the best of my skill and knowledge, so help me God. Which oath shall be entered upon the rollkept and returned to the Executive Department, and shall be signed by said freeholders. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person authorised to vote in said county, may vote at said place of holding elections, but whenever the superintendents shall think a voter questionable, as to his right to vote, they shall, and are hereby authorised to administer to said voter the following oath, to wit:I, A. B. do solemnly swear, that I have resided in this county for the last six months, that I am twenty-one years of age, and have paid all legal taxes that have been required of me and that I have had an opportunity of paying, that I have not voted at any other place of holding elections for this county and will not do so this day, so help me God.

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Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any person who may have violated the oaths to be administered by this act, or may be found to have sworn untruly, shall be indicted for purjury and when convicted shall suffer the same punishment as is inflicted under the penal code of this State, upon those that commit perjury. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That for every violation of this act, not amounting to perjury but in violation of the principles of an act, passed on the eleventh day of February, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, the same punishment, as is contained in said act, shall be inflicted. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the place of the Sheriff may be supplied at said election by his Deputy, the Coronor, or any Constable of said county, or by any private person appointed by the superintendents: Provided, said private person, shall, before he commences his duty, take an oath to be administered to him by the magistrate, presiding, well and truly to perform the duty assigned him. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all acts and parts of acts, in any wise militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1830. AN ACT to alter and change the first section of an act entitled an act, to establish election districts in the county of Lowndes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby [Illegible Text] the authority of the same, That from and after the

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passing of this act, elections for Governor, members of the Legislature, members of Congress, Electors to vote for President and Vice President of the United States, and county officers, both civil and military, in the aforesaid county, shall only be held at the following places (to wit:) At the place of holding Justice's Court in captain Burnet's [Illegible Text] and at the place of holding Justice's Court in captain Studstill's district, and at the place of holding Justice's Court in captain Blair's district, and at the court house in said county; and the elections herein after to be held at the several places herein named, shall be held and conducted agreeable to the requisitions of the law to which this is amendatory, passed third day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 20th Dec. 1830. AN ACT, to repeal an act, passed the eighteenth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, entitled an act, to establish an additional election district in Capt. Anderson's district, in the county of Pulaski, and to establish an election district at the place of holding Justice's Court, in Capt. Silas M. Lester's district. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the above recited act, establishing an additional election district, in capt. Anderson's district,

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in the county of Pulaski be, and the same is hereby repealed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, there shall be an election district established at the place of holding Justice's court in capt. Lester's district, in Pulaski county. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all elections for Governor, members to Congress, members of the State Legislatue, for Electors of President and Vice-President, and for Justices of the Inferior court be, are hereby required to be conducted at said place, and at all other [Illegible Text] in said county, subject to the same rules and regulations as are provided to govern election districts in said county. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 20th. 1830. AN ACT, to amend an act, passed the eleventh day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, to establish election districts in the counties of Irwin, Appling, and Ware, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same, so far as it regards the county of Appling. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, all elections which may be held in the county of Appling, for Governor, for members of Congress, for members of the General Assembly, and for all county officers, shall be held at the court house in said county, in addition to the several places now appointed, for holding said elections in said county.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said elections shall be held and conducted in the manner pointed out in the act, to which this act is [Illegible Text]. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21st. 1830. AN ACT to create an additional election district in the county of Henry. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful to hold all elections for Governor, Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, Members to Congress, Members to the State Legislature, and for all county officers, at the house of Middleton F. Nall, the place of holding Justices courts in capt. Field's district in said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one Justice of the Peace, or one Justice of the Inferior court, and two freeholders may superintend such elections, after the said freeholders having taken an oath faithfully and impartially to superintend the same, and make a just and true return of the same according to law. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That one of the said managers shall on the day succeeding the election, meet at

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the court house in the town of McDonough, and there compare the several checks and returns together, and transmit a true statement of the same to the Executive Department, agreeably to the laws of this State now in force. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the place of Sheriff, or his Deputy, may be supplied by any lawful constable at said district elections, and in case of failure, or neglect of a proper officer, the managers of said election, may proceed to appoint some fit and proper person, who shall discharge the duties of sheriff at said election, and that in all other respects, the said district elections, shall be held and conducted in the same manner, and at the same time as is prescribed by laws of this State, regulating elections; any laws, or parts of laws to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 22d. Dec. 1830. AN ACT, to alter and amend the several acts, regulating the superintending elections for Governor, Electors, members of Congress, members of the Legislature, and county officers, so far as respects the county of Gwinnett. Whereas, the said several acts, require all elections for Governor, Electors, members of Congress, members of the Legislature, and county officers, to be superintended by two Justices of the Peace, or Justices of the Inferior court, together with two free holders, or a majority of them, and whereas, it is some times inconvenient to have said elections superintended, for remedy whereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General A ssembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful, for

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all elections for Governor, Electors, members of Congress, members of the Legislature, and county officers, so far as it respects the county of Gwinnett, to be superintended by one or more Justices of the Peace, or Justices of the Inferior court, together with two freeholders, not being themselves candidates, the said Justice to administer to the said freeholders, the following oath.I, A. B. do solemnly swear, or affirm (as the case may be) that I will superintend the said election, snd make a just and true return of the same, to the best of my knowledge so help me God. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the two Justices of the Peace, in the districts wherein the said several precinct elections are held in said county, to carry this law into effect. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That whenever it may so happen, that the place of a sheriff cannot be supplied by a constable, the said Justice, or Justices shall appoint some person present, to open and close the several elections in said county. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830. AN ACT, to alter and amend the third section of an act, entitled an act, to alter and amend an act, entitled an act, to alter the place of holding the elections forcounty officers in this State, passed the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and eleven, so far as respects the counties of Henry and DeKalb, passed the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by the authority

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[Illegible Text] of the same, That so much of the above recited act, as requires General Elections, and elections for county officers to be held at the house of William Fain, in capt. Howel's district be, and the same is hereby repealed, and that the aforesaid elections, shall hereafter be held at the house of John A. D. Childers in capt. Wilkinson's district; any law to the [Illegible Text] notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21st. 1830. AN ACT, to amend an act passed the twenty-second of December, one thousand eight hundred twenty-nine, making Constables elective by the People, and to raise fees so far as respects the counties of Wayne, Liberty and Glynn. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That immediately after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Peace for the counties of Wayne, Liberty and Glynn, in their respective districts, where there is no candidate for constable, to make out a list of all the persons liable to serve as constables, and draw for at least two, who shall serve the term of one year. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the fees of constables in the counties of Wayne, Liberty and Glynn, shall be raised in addition to their former fees, twenty-five per cent. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Justices of the Peace, in the aforesaid counties, shall have the power of appointing constables to act at any time,

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when there is no regular constable to be had; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14th. 1830. AN ACT, to amend an act, establishing election districts in the county of Jasper. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, there shall be established additional election districts in the county of Jasper, viz: one at Hillsboro, at the place of holding the Justices court in capt. Irwin's district, and one at the house of Elisha Horton, in capt. McKorcle's district, at which place it shall be lawful, for all persons authorised to vote for members of Congress, members of the Legislature, c. to vote for Governor members of Congress, members of the State Legislature, all county officers, and electors for President and Vice-President of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said elections shall be held at such time, in such manner, and under such restrictions as are prescribed by an act, establishing election districts in the county of Jasper, passed twenty-second December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14th. 1830.

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AN ACT, to provide for the payment of one of the presiding Magistrates from each election district in the county of Ware, for attending at the court house on the day after the election for the purpose of consolidating the returns. 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 one of the presiding officers at each of the election districts in said county, shall be allowed and receive from the county Treasurer, and if there be no treasurer, from the Clerk of the Inferior court, out of the county funds, the sum of one dollar each for their trouble in attending at the court house, on the day after the General Election, for the purpose of consolidating and making returns of said election. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor Assented to, 20th Dec. 1830. AN ACT, to alter and amend an act, passed on the eighth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-three, so far as regards the county of Richmond, entitled an act, to alter so much of an act, entitled an act, to regulate the general elections of this State, and to appoint the time of meeting of the General Assembly of this State, so far as the same requires the elections to be held at the place of holding the Superior courts, so far as respects certain counties therein named, and to amend an act, relating to the county of Franklin. 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 elections for Governor, Electors of President and Vice-President of the United States, members of Congress, Senator and

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Representatives in the State Legislature, and for all county officers in the county of Richmond, shall be holden at four several places herein after named, and at no other place, to wit; at the City Hall in the city of Augusta, and at the place of holding the Justices court, in the one hundred and twenty-first, captain's or company district, and at the place of holding the Justice's court in the one hundred and twenty-fourth, captain's or company district in said county, and at the house of Thomas Newman, on the Milledgeville road. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the elections shall be holden at the above places, at the time and in the manner and form, prescribed by the above recited act, and returns thereof, shall be made according to the provisions of the same. Sec. 3. A nd be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws, militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d, 1830. AN ACT to prescribe the manner of holding elections at the several election districts, in the several counties of this State, and to punish those who may defeat, or violate the election laws of force in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of June next, one Justice of the Inferior court, or one Justice of the Peace, and two freeholders, or two of the aforesaid Justices, and one freeholder, shall superintend the elections, in each and every election district, which now is, or which hereafter may be established in any of the counties of this state, for the election of Governor, members of Congress, members of the General Assembly, electors of President and Vice-President, or county officers. Sec. 2. Be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the freeholders aforesaid, shall not be [Illegible Text] to [Illegible Text]

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the elections aforesaid, until they, and each of them, shall first have taken the following oath, viz:I, A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a freeholder, resident in this county of, that I will faithfully superintend this days election, and make a just and true return thereof, according to law, and to the best of my ability, so help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the superintendents, or a majority of them, of the district elections in the several counties of this state shall, and they are hereby required, on the day of the elections by them held, in the respective districts, and at the places designated by law, for holding such elections, to receive and count out the votes by them taken in, keep a fair statement of the polls, and conduct the elections in all respects, according to the election law of this state, now in force, eleventh February, one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine, so far as said law is now in force. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of one, or more of the superintendents of the district elections, in the several counties of this state, to meet at the court house, of their respective counties, on the day after the election, and then and there, together with the superintendents of the election held at the courthouse, or a majority of them, and count, compare, and add together, the returns to them, produced by the superintendents of the district elections of the county, and return and certify to the Governor, the result of the elections for that county, agreeably to the election law of force in this state, passed the eleventh day of February, in the year one thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all returns of district elections, made by freeholders in their several counties, according to the provisions of this act, shall be signed by them as such. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any doubt shall be suggested, as to the legality of any vote offered at any election, held in any election district, in any of the counties of this state, it shall be the duty of the superintendents of such election, before receiving such vote, to administer to the person offering it, together with the oath now prescribed by law, the following oath, viz:I, A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I have not this day voted at any election, held at any place, in this state, for [Illegible Text]

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members of Congress, Electors of President and Vice-President, members of the Legislature, or county officers, so help me God. And it shall be duty of the superintendents of such elections, to return to the Clerk of the Inferior court, a list containing the names of all voters, who have taken the oath prescribed by this section, of this act, which list shall be filed in the office of said clerk. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the duties of sheriff, as pointed out by law, at the district elections in this state, shall be performed by any constable, or any other person appointed by the superintendents, and that said election shall in all respects, except those [Illegible Text] recited, be conducted in the manner, and with the solemnities, and at the places prescribed by the laws now in force in this state, regulating general and county elections. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if any person shall vote at more than one place, of holding elections in any county of this state, at any election for Governor, members of Congress, electors of President and Vice-President, members of the Legislature, or county officers, or if any Justice as aforesaid, or freeholder presiding at any election in any of the districts of any county of this state, shall in manner fail to perform the duties herein required of him, or shall violate the trust herein confided to him; such person, Justice of the Peace, or freeholder, shall be deemed guilty of a high misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, before the superior court, or any of them, of this state, shall be punished according to an act, passed in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, regulating general elections, and the penalties therein prescribed for the violations of the said law, by the magistrate, or superintendents, is hereby extended to persons voting contrary to the provisions of this act. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any and every person, who shall be convicted of voting at any election, who shall not have been authorised to do so, in accordance with the constitution of this state, shall be punished by a fine, of not less than thirty dollars, or by imprisonment, at the discretion of the court, in the common Jail of the county. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the magistrate, or freeholder, who shall carry the district election returns to the court-house, according to the provisions of this act, shall in all the counties of the eastern circuit, except the county of Bullock, be allowed the sum of

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three dollars, to be paid out of the county treasury of the respective counties of said district, as aforesaid. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the elections held at the several election districts in this state shall be opened between the hours of seven, and ten in the morning, and shall be closed at the hour of six in the evening. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the two Justices of the Peace, in their respective districts, where precinct, or district elections are held, to carry this law into effect. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. [Illegible Text] to, 23d Dec. 1830. AN ACT, to establish election districts in the county of Irwin, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the [Illegible Text] of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall, and may be lawful for general elections for Governor, members to Congress, electors for President and Vice-President of the United States, members of the Legislature, militia officers, and county offihers, to be held at the following places, to wit:At the house of John Gibbs, or the place of holding Justices court, in capt. McCall's district, in said county; at the house of

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William Bradford or place of holding Justices court, in capt. McCleland's district, in said county, at the house of James Wallis, in the sixth district, or at the place of holding Justices court in said district, of said county, and at the court house of said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That one Justice of the Inferior court, or one Justice of the Peace, and two freeholders may superintend the elections in said districts, after the freeholders have taken the following oath:I do solemnly swear, or affirm, that I will faithfully superintend this days election, and make a true return thereof, according to law, and the best of my ability so help me God. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents of said district elections, shall, and they are hereby required on the day of said election, to count out the ballots by them taken in, and make a fair statement of the polls, and one or more of the superintendents of said elections, shall meet one, or more of the superintendents of the election, held at the court house in said county, and there compare and add the returns, or votes together, and transmit a true statement of the same, to the Executive office, agreeable to the laws now in force in this state. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall vote at more than one place in said county, for the same election, or if any magistrate, or superintendents of said district elections, shall violate the trust confided to him by this act, such persons, or magistrates shall be deemed guilty of high misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, before the superior court of said county, shall be liable to a fine of fifty dollars, or be imprisoned at the [Illegible Text] of the court, for a time not exceeding ten days in the common Jail of said county. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the presiding magistrate at each of the election districts of said county, shall be allowed, and receive from the county Treasurer, out of the county funds, the sum of one dollar and fifty cents each, for their trouble in attending at the court house, on the day after the election, for the purpose of consolidating and making returns of said election. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the place of the sheriff, or his deputy, may be supplied by any lawful constable, or where there is no lawful constable, the superintendents shall be authorised to appoint some fit and proper

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person, to open and close the polls of said district elections, shall in all other respects than those herein recited, be conconducted in the same manner, and at the same time, as is prescribed by the law now in force in this state, regulating general elections. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 20th, 1830. AN ACT, to repeal an act, entitled an act, to lay off the counties of Emanuel and Tattnall, into Election districts, passed the ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-four, so far as respects the county of Emanuel; and an act, to establish election districts in the county of Twiggs, and to punish those who may attempt to defeat the same, passed on the twenty-second day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and itis hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the above recited acts, so far as respects the counties of Emanuel and Twiggs be, andthe same are hereby repealed; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to Dec. 23d, 1830.

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AN ACT, to change the place of holding Elections, at the Church on St. Simons Island, to the house of James Frevin in Frederica, to appropriate the rent of certain public lands on said Island, to the support of a Free School on the same, and more effectually to provide for the Education of the Poor in Glynn county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful to hold all elections at the house of James Frevin, in Frederica, on said Island. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the rent accruing from the Academy Lands on said Island, originally granted for the use of Christ Church on said Island, during the Colonial Government, be paid to the Pastor of said church, if he will attend in connection with the duties of Pastor of said church, to a poor school on said Island, for five days in every week. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That should the rent of said public lands be insufficient to defray the expenses of said poor school; the Trustee of the poor school fund is hereby authorised and required to pay [Illegible Text] of said fund, such an additional sum of money as in his judgment, he may deem fit and proper for the support of said poor school, and the said Trustee is hereby required to establish with the least possible delay, two more poor schools in the county of Glynn, at such sites as may be best calculated to promote the benevolent views of the Legislature in educating the poor. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That should the said funds be unequal to the support of said poor schools, the said Trustee may employ the Academy funds to support the poor schools in said county, and the said Trustee is hereby required (in addition to the report required by law) to render annually a correct statement of all disbursements of said funds, to the Grand Jury of said county, whose duty it shall be to present all defalcations, or misapplication of said funds, to the Judge of the superior court, who shall cause the Solicitor to institute a suit for the recovery

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of said misapplied funds; all laws and parts of laws to the contrary noswithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives, THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 2d, 1830. AN ACT, to establish three additional election districts in the county of Troup. 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, there shall be established three additional electoral districts in Troup county; at the house of Samuel Thompson, in the third district; at the house of L. Gilleland in the twelfth district, and at the house of Peter Dudley, in the fifth district of said county; at which places, it is hereby made legal for any person entitled to a vote for members of the General Assembly of this State in said county, to vote at the aforesaid places, for Representatives from this state, in the Congress of the United States, members of the Legislature, electors to elect the President and Vice President of the United States, Governor of this State, and all county officers, which elections shall be held and conducted under the same rules, regulations, and penalties as are prescribed in a law, passed at the annual session of the Legislature, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, to establish an election district in the county of Troup; all laws to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1830.

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AN ACT, to change the Election of Tax-Collectors in the several counties of this State, so far as to provide for said officers to be elected, and qualified to collect the Taxes due for the year preceding their appointment. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it may and shall be lawful for the superintendents at the elections to be held in the several counties of this state, on the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, for county officers, c. to omit to hold an, election for tax-collector of said year, nor shall any such election be had until the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred thirty-two, when at that time, and on the first Monday in each and every year thereafter, there shall be elections held in the several counties throughout this state, under the same rules and regulations as heretofore with this exception, viz:They shall be elected for the purpose of collecting the taxes due for the year preceding their appointments. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and required to commission the persons so elected, and to require their qualification to be in accordance with this act; any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 2d. 1830.

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INDIANS. AN ACT to prevent the exercise of assumed and arbitrary power, by all persons under pretext of authority from the Cherokee Indians, and their laws, and to prevent white persons from residing within that part of the chartered limits of Georgia, occupied by the Cherokee Indians, and to provide a guard for the protection of the gold mines, and to enforce the laws of the State within the aforesaid territory. 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 after the first day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, it shall not be lawful for any person, or persons, under colour or pretence, of authority from said Cherokee tribe, or as head men, chiefs, or warriors of said tribe, to cause or procure by any means the assembling of any council, or other pretended Legislative body of the said Indians, or others living among them, for the purpose of legislating, (or for any other purpose whatever.) And persons offending against the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and subject to indictment therefor, and on conviction, shall be punished by confinement at hard labour in the Penitentiary for the space of four years. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the time aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons under pretext of authority from the Cherokee tribe, or as representatives, chiefs, headmen, or warriors of said tribe, to meet, or assemble as a council, assembly, convention, or in any other capacity, for the purpose of making laws, orders, or regulations for said tribe. And all persons offending against the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor and subject to an indictment, and on conviction thereof, shall undergo an imprisonment in the Penitentiary at hard labour for the space of four years. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the time aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for any

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person or persons, under colour, or by authority, of the Cherokee tribe, or any of its laws or regulations, to hold any court or tribunal whatever, for the purpose of hearing and determining causes, either civil or criminal; or to give any judgment in such causes, or to issue, or cause to issue any process against the person or property of any of said tribe. And all persons offending against the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a high misdemeanor, and subject to indictment, and on conviction thereof shall be imprisoned in the Penitentiary at hard labor for the space of four years. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the time aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for any person or persons, as a ministerial officer, or in any other capacity, to execute any precept, command, or process, issued by any court or tribunal in the Cherokee tribe, on the persons or property of any of said tribe. And all persons offending against the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of a trespass and subject to indictment, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished by fine and imprisonment in the jail or in the Penitentiary not longer than four years, at the discretion of the court. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That after the time aforesaid, it shall not be lawful for any person, or persons, to confiscate, or attempt to confiscate, or otherwise to cause a forfeiture of the property or estate of any Indian of said tribe, in consequence of his enrolling himself and family for emigration, or offering to enrol for emigration, or any other act of said Indian in furtherance of his intention to emigrate. And persons offending against the provisions of this section, shall be guilty of high misdemeanor, and on conviction, shall undergo an imprisonment in the Penitentiary at hard labor for the space of four years. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That none of the provisions of this act, shall be so construed as to prevent said tribe, its headmen, chiefs, or other representatives from meeting any agent or commissioner, on the part of this State or the United States, for any purpose whatever. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all white persons residing within the limits of the Cherokee nation, on the first day of March next, or at any time thereafter, without a license or permit, from his Excellency the Governor, or from such agent as his Excellency the Governor,

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shall authorise to grant such permit or license, and who shall not have taken the oath hereinafter required, shall be guilty of an high misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by confinement in the Penitentiary at hard labour, for a term not less than four years: Provided, that the provisions of this section shall not be so construed, as to extend to any authorised agent or agents, of the government of the United States, or of this State, or to any person or persons, who may rent any of those improvements, which have been abandoned by Indians, who have emigrated West of the Mississippi: Provided nothing contained in this section, shall be so construed as to extend to white females, and all male children under twenty-one years of age. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all white persons, citizens of the State of Georgia, who have procured a license in writing, from his Excellency the Governor, or from such agent as his Excellency the Governor, shall authorise to grant such permit or license, to reside within the limits of the Cherokee nation, and who have taken the following oath, viz:I, A. B. do solemnly swear (or affirm, as the case may be,) that I will support and defend the Constitution and laws of the State of Georgia, and uprightly demean myself as a citizen thereof, so help me God, shall be, and the same are hereby declared, exempt and free from the operation of the seventh section of this act. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised to grant licences to reside within the limits of the Cherokee nation, according to the provisions of the eighth section of this act. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no person shall collect, or claim any roll from any person for passing any turnpike gate or toll bridge, by authority of any act or law of the Cherokee tribe, or any chief or headman or men, of the same. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby empowered, should he deem it necessary, either for the protection of the mines, or for the enforcement of the laws of force within the Cherokee nation, to raise and organise a guard, to be employed on foot, or mounted as occasion may require, which shall not consist of more than sixty persons, which guard shall be under the command of the commissioner or agent appointed by the Governor, to protect the mines, with power to dismiss from the service; any member of said guard,

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on paying the wages due for services rendered, for disorderly conduct, and make appointments to fill the vacancies occasioned by such dismissal. Sec. 12. A nd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That each person who may belong to said guard; shall receive for his compensation at the rate of fifteen dollars per month when on foot, and at the rate of twenty dollars per month when mounted, for every month that such person is engaged in actual service, and in the event that the commissioner or agent herein referred to, should die, resign or fail to perform the duties herein required of him, his Excellency the Governor, is hereby authorised and required to appoint in his stead, some other fit and proper person to the command of said guard, and the commissioner or agent, having the command of the guard aforesaid, for the better discipline thereof, shall appoint three sergeants who shall receive at the rate of twenty dollars per month, while serving on foot, and twenty-five dollars per month, when mounted, as compensation whilst in actual service. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said guard, or any member of them, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to arrest any person legally charged with or detected in, a violation of the laws of this State, and to convey as soon as practicable, the person so arrested before a Justice of the Peace, Judge of the Superior or Justice of Inferior Court, of this State, to be dealt with according to law, and the pay and support of said guard be provided out of the fund, already appropriated for the protection of the gold mines. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to declare void all contracts hereafter made with the Cherokee Indians, so far as the Indians are concerned, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That no Cherokee Indian shall be bound by any contract hereafter to be entered into with a white person or persons, nor shall any Indian be liable to be sued in any of the courts of law or equity in this State, on such contract. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d, 1830. JUDICIARY. AN ACT, to amend an act, entitled an act, the more effectually to quiet and protect the possession of personal property, and to prevent the taking possession thereof, by fraud or violence, passed the twenty-fifth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-one. Whereas, it becomes necessary to establish, and regulate the fees of the officers, for their services in carrying into effect, the above recited act. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the fees of the officers required to

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carry into effect, the before recited act shall be, for and after the following rates, to be paid by the party, against whom the decision of the Justice may be made, and for which execution shall issue as on other judgments, for affidavit to obtain a warrant, and making out the same, sixty-two and half cents; for trying the same, sixty-two and half cents; for making out a recognizance; and returning the same to court, thirty-one and a quarter cents; for making out a commitment, thirty-one and a quarter cents, for each subpp[oelig]na for witnesses, twelve and half cents; the sheriff, or constable, for serving a warrant upon the person, or persons, included in the same, as adverse claimants, or offenders, shall receive the same fees, as allowed by law in criminal cases; and for taking the possession of the property included in the warrant, shall receive the same fees as allowed by law, in cases of attachment. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws, or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21st. 1830. AN ACT, to compel purchasers of mortgaged property, purchasers of life estates, or estates for term of years, in personal property, at sheriff's coronor's or constable's sales, to give bond. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of purchasers of personal property, under the incumbrance of mortgage, or

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mortgages, at any sheriff's, coroner's, constable's sale, to give bond and security, to the said sheriff, coroner, or constable, in double the value of the property so sold, (of which the officer selling shall be the judge,) conditioned not to move said property out of said state, and deliver up the same to the mortgagee, his heirs, or assigns, on demand made after foreclosure of said mortgage or mortgages: Provided the mortgagee, his agent, or attorney, shall tender an affidavit, previous to the sale thereof, to the officer selling said property, stating that he, she, or they, are just bona fide mortgagees thereof, and that he, she or they, apprehend the loss of said property, unless bond be given in terms of this act. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any person shall purchase at any sheriff's, coroner's, or constable's sale, a life estate, or an estate for term of years in personal property, it shall be the duty of said sheriff, coroner, or constable, to require of said purchaser, bond and security as aforesaid, for the delivery of said property, to the party entitled in remainder: Provided, the same is required by said party, his agent, or attorney, who shall make affidavit of their right to said property, which shall be tendered to the officer selling, previous to sale, which bonds when taken, shall be filed in the clerks office, of the superior court, of the county, where said sale is made subject to be sued on, for the benefit and use of the said party, whenever the particular estate is determined, which said court shall have power on sufficient cause shewn, to compel said obligor, to give additional security, from time to time, as justice may require, on ten days previous notice being given. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That on failure of said purchaser, to give bond and security as aforesaid, it shall be the duty of said sheriff, coroner, or constable, to resell the said property, at the risk and loss of such purchaser. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws, militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1830.

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AN ACT, to amend an act, entitled an act, to regulate the admission of evidence, in certain cases, in the several Courts of law, and equity in this State, and to provide for the recording of conveyances of personal property. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the certificate of any public officer, under his hand, and seal, of office, if one is attached thereto, either of this state, or any county thereof, in relation to any matter or thing, pertaining to their respective offices, or which by presumption of law, properly pertains thereunto, shall be admitted as evidence, before any court of law, or equity in this state: Provided nevertheless, That nothing in this act contained, shall be so construed, as to prevent any court to require the production of the original to which said certificate may appertain, or that it may be accounted for. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws, and parts of laws, militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21st. 1830.

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AN ACT to prevent personal property which is the subject of an action of trespass, or trover, from vesting in the defendent or defendants, to such action, by virtue of a recovery and judgment by the plaintiff, except so far as to be subject to be sold under the execution, which shall, or may issue upon such judgment of the said plaintiff, obtained by him in the said action of trespass, or trover, and to make such property first liable to the payment of the damages, recovered in said action. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, when a verdict for damages, shall be found, or rendered in favor of a plaintiff, in trover, or trespass, and a judgment shall be signed thereon, the said verdict and judgment, shall not have the effect to change the property, which is the subject matter of the said suit, or action, or to vest the same, or any part thereof, in the defendant, or defendants, to the said suit, or action of trespass or trover, until after the damages and costs recovered by the plaintiff, in such action are paid off and discharged, except, so far as to subject the said property to be sold under and by virtue of an execution, issuing on said judgment, in said action of trespass, or trover, and to make the same liable to the payment [Illegible Text] the damages and cost, recovered in said action. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That no judgment obtained against the said defendant, to such suit or action, of trespass or trover, prior in point of time to the said judgment, so obtained by the said plaintiff, in such action of trespass or trover, shall have any lien, or binding force on the said property, which is the subject matter of such action of trespass or trover, until after the damages and costs recovered by such verdict, and judgment of the plaintiff, in such action of trespass or trover, are first paid off and discharged. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws, which militate against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 25th. 1830.

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AN ACT to alter the Jury's and Attorney's fees in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in each civil case, tried in the several courts of record of this State, the jury fee shall be three dollars, and the Attorney's fee shall be two dollars. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1830. AN ACT to amend the second, third, and fourth sections of an act, entitled an act, to amend an act to provide for the payment of costs in certain cases, passed the thirteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty, as amendatory of an act, entitled an act to provide for the payment of costs in certain cases therein mentioned, passed the thirteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixteen. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That in all cases, hereafter, that when any person shall be prosecuted for any criminal offence, as enumerated in the act passed the thirteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and sixteen, that all the property, the person or persons, may have in his, her, or their right, at the time of his, her, or their arrest,

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shall be deemed and held subject to the payment of all costs, which may have accrued, by reason of said prosecution. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Judges of the Superior Courts, in the event of any person, or persons, being found guilty, or upon report made to the court, of an escape from the jail, or from an officer, having in custody any criminal, charged with the commission of any criminal offence, as aforesaid, to cause judgment to be entered up for all costs, which may have accrued, by reason of said arrest, and prosecution, in order to save the county, where the offence may have been committed, or the arrest, and escape, had from the liability of costs. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of all arresting officers, and all others entitled to costs, on any conviction, or on any proceedings for the commission of crime, where an escape is made from the jail, or from an officer, before confinement in jail, as aforesaid, to hand in their accounts, into the clerk's office, of the Superior Court, within ten days after conviction, or escape of any criminal as aforesaid, and in all cases where the arresting officer, does not levy on a sufficiency of property of the person, or persons, so charged, where there is property, which shall be judged of by the Court, he shall not be permitted to take costs, from the county, and in receiving of costs, shall be last paid. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of said Clerk, after the judgment of said court, in cases of conviction, or of the report of the escape of any person or persons as aforesaid, within ten days after the receipt of the accounts in any case as aforesaid, to issue executions for the amount appearing to be due, by reason thereof, directed to, and collected by the Sheriff, as other cases: Provided nothing herein contained shall be so construed, as to prevent courts from imprisoning persons found guilty, as aforesaid, until all costs are paid, or release any property, which may have been levied on as aforesaid, where escapes may be effected, either from the jail, or an officer having in custody, any person, or persons, charged with the commission of crime. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, repugnant to this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1830.

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AN ACT to prescribe the mode of proceeding under writs of [Illegible Text] exeat, and to amend the laws regulating the granting of writs of injunction, by the Judges of the Superior Courts of this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That in all cases where persons may be hereafter arrested by virtue of writs of [Illegible Text] exeat, they shall be discharged on their giving bond, with good and sufficient security, either that they will not depart this State, or for the payment of the eventual condemnation money. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in all cases in equity, when the judge of any circuit may be a party to such suit, or when the complainant will and shall make an affidavit, that the judge of the circuit where the cause is pending, or to be instituted, is interested in the subject matter of such cause in equity, it shall and may be lawful, for any judge of the Superior Courts of this State, to sanction such bills in equity and grant such writs of injunction, and others as may be according to law, to effect the object of such bills. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1830.

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AN ACT to authorise the issuing of writs of ne exeat, at the instance of persons claiming personal property, in remainder and reversion, and to preserve the rights of such persons. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That it shall and may be lawful, for any Judge of the Superior Court of this State, on application to him by bill, at the instance of any person, or persons, claiming personal property, in remainder, and reversion, to grant a writ of ne exeat, or other sufficient process, to restrain the person, or persons, having the control or possession, of such property from removing the same beyond the limits of this State; or to give good and sufficient security, residing in the county, to the party claiming, in a sufficient penalty to be fixed by such judge, that the property shall be subject, and accessible to the demand of the person, or persons, entitled thereto, in the county wherein such property may be at the time of issuing of such writ: Provided, That the person, or persons, or one of them, suing for the benefit of such writ, shall make affidavit of his, her, or their right to, and of the value of the property in question; and that he, she, or they, entertain serious apprehensions, that the property will be removed beyond the limits of this State, and that his, her or their rights, will be [Illegible Text], unless a remedy be afforded for the preservation thereof. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Superior Court shall at the term to which such writ and bond, may be returnable, and at any subsequent term, on exceptions to the sufficiency of the bond, or of the security, or on a representation on oath, that the securities, or some of them, have removed, or are about to remove, from the county, determine thereon, and may in its discretion, require a new bond, or additional security, for the preservation of the property in controversy; and may pursue such course therein, and in the matter of said bill, as to justice may seem proper. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23, 1830.

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LAND. AN ACT to authorise the survey and disposition of lands within the limits of Georgia, in the occupancy of the Cherokee tribe of Indians, and all other unlocated lands within the limits of said State, claimed as Creek land, and to authorise the Governor to call out a military force, to protect Surveyors, in the discharge of their duties, and to provide for the punishment of persons who may prevent, or attempt to prevent, any Surveyor from performing his duties, as pointed out by this act, or who shall wilfully cut down and deface any marked trees, or remove any land mark, which may be made in pursuance of this act, and to protect the Indians, in the peaceable possession of [Illegible Text] improvements, and of the lots on which the same may be situate. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all the Territory within the limits of Georgia, and now in the occupancy of the Cherokee tribe of Indians; and all other unlocated lands within the limits of this State, claimed as Creek land, shall form and be divided into four sections as follows, to wit: all that part of said territory, which lies east of a line, commencing on the line which divides North Carolina and Georgia, thirty six miles due West, from the North West corner of the first district in Rabun county, running thence south to the Chattahoochie, shall form what shall be called section first. All that part which lies west of the line aforesaid, and east of a line commencing twenty-seven miles due West, from the first named corner, running thence South to the Carroll line, or to the boundary line dividing the organized, and unorganized parts of the State, shall form the second section. All that part of said territory, which lies West of the line last aforesaid, and East of a line commencing twenty-seven miles due West, from the last mentioned corner, and running thence South until it strikes the Carroll line or Alabama line, shall be called the third section. All the remaining part of said territory, shall form what shall be called section fourth.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That each of the sections, herein before laid out and described, shall be divided into districts of nine miles square, as near as practicable, the district lines running parallel to the lines dividing sections, and crossed by other lines at right angles, and said districts so laid out, shall be again sub-divided by lines to be run in like directions into square tracts, containing one hundred and sixty acres, marked and numbered, according to the plan heretofore pursued under the instructions of the Surveyor General. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all fractional parts of Surveys which may be created, containing one hundred acres or upwards, shall be held and deemed prizes, and all fractions under one hundred acres, shall be reserved for public use, and be disposed of as a future Legislature may direct. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That ninety-six district surveyors, shall be apportioned to the different counties, so that the twenty counties having the largest white population, shall have two surveyors each, viz: Greene, Jasper, Jones, Monroe, Morgan, Newton, Oglethorpe, Putnam, Walton, Warren, Washington, Wilkes, Franklin, Gwinnett, Habersham, Jackson, Henry, DeKalb, Hall and Elbert, the balance of the counties being fifty-six in number, shall have one surveyor each, which surveyors shall be elected on the first Monday of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, by the citizens entitled to vote for members of the Legislature, at their respective places of holding elections for members of the General Assembly, in their respective counties, and the presiding magistrates, at each and every such election, shall make a return of the same to his Excellency the Governor, under their hands and seals, within thirty days, after said election, they shall likewise give a certificate, to the persons elected in their respective counties, agreeably to the foregoing apportionment. With regard to choice of districts, the Surveyor General shall decide by lot, and in case any of the counties should fail to elect a surveyor agreeable to this section the Governor shall appoint to fill such failure, and in case any vacancy shall happen by death, resignation or otherwise, the same shall be filled by their respective counties, in the same manner as they were first elected: Provided, that nothing herein contained shall be so construed, as to make any member of the present Legislature, cligible to the office of surveyor, to survey said territory.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That twelve persons shall be appointed by joint ballot of this Legislature, neither of whom shall be a district surveyor, to run and plainly mark the several district and sectional lines, herein directed, whose duty shall be apportioned by the Surveyor General, as nearly equal as practicable, and any person elected a surveyor, who shall fail to perform the duties of his office, as required by the provisions of this act, shall be considered as forfeiting his bond, and himself, and his securities, be immediately liable therefor, and no ticket shall be counted unless it contains the names of twelve persons. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the surveyors respectively, shall give bond in the sum of ten thousand dollars, to the Governor and his successors in office, with such security as he, or a majority of the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county in which such surveyor may reside, shall approve, conditioned for the faithful performance of the duties required of them, by this act, which bond shall be deposited in the Executive office. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the surveyors appointed, in pursuance of this act, to make the surveys of the sections, and districts, to which they may be appointed, in their own proper persons, to mark, or cause to be marked, plainly and distinctly, upon trees, if practicable, otherwise on posts, all stations and all lines which may be required to be run, for the purpose of making the surveys of their respective sections and districts immediately upon being required so to do by the Governor; to cause all such lines to be measured with all possible exactness, with a half chain containing thirty-three feet, divided into fifty equal links, which shall be adjusted by the Surveyor General, according to the standard in his office; to take as accurately as possible the meanders of all water courses, which shall form natural boundaries to any of the surveys; to note in field books to be kept by them respectively, the name of the corner and station trees, which shall be marked and numbered under the direction of the Surveyor General, also all rivers, creeks and other water courses, which may be touched upon or crossed in running any of the lines aforesaid, transcripts of which said field books, after being compared with the originals, by the Surveyor General, and certified and [Illegible Text] on every page, by the surveyor returning the same, shall be deposited in the Surveyor General's office, and become a record, and the district surveyors shall, unless prevented by unavoidable cause, make a return of their [Illegible Text] and works, within

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one hundred and twenty days from the time they are notified to enter upon the discharge of their duties, containing a map of their district, in which shall be correctly represented and numbered, all lots and fractions of said district, and all waters therein delineated, as the Surveyor General may direct, and also representing the extent of improvements on each lot or fraction, as nearly as they can estimate the same, and also return at the same time a detached plat of each lot and fraction, which said district may contain, certified and signed by such surveyor, which plat shall be filed among the records of the Surveyor General's office, and from which copies shall be taken to annex to grants. And said surveyors shall conform to such instructions as they may receive from time to time, from the Surveyor General, during their [Illegible Text] in office: Provided, the same do not militate against this act. And the surveyors appointed to lay out section and district lines, shall unless prevented by unavoidable cause, make return of their work to the Surveyor General, within ninety days from the time they shall be required to enter upon the duties of their office, of all such surveys as shall have been made by them. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the district surveyors to be appointed by this act, shall receive two dollars and fifty cents, for every mile that shall be actually run or surveyed, as a full compensation for the duties required of them by this act, out of which they shall defray the whole of the expense incident to their offices. And his Excellency the Governor, is hereby authorised and required to issue his warrant on the treasury, in favor of each of the aforesaid surveyors, upon his being called into service, to the amount of three hundred dollars, to enable him with the [Illegible Text] delay to enter upon his duties, and the balance to which such surveyor may be entitled shall be paid to him in like manner, upon his producing a certificate from the Surveyor General, setting forth a performance of the work, and the amount due. Sec. 9. And be further enacted, That the surveyors who may be appointed to run section and district lines, shall receive three dollars and fifty cents, for each mile they may run and survey, as a full compensation for their services, out of which they shall pay all incidental expenses, and the Governor is required to issue his warrant on the treasury in favour of each of said surveyors, for the sum of three hundred dollars, upon their being called into service, and in like manner to pay any balance which may be due when the work is completed, and the Surveyor General shall certify the same.

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Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That should there be more districts than are contemplated by this act, and surveyors elected for, or in case the appointment of any surveyor should become vacant, by death, resignation or otherwise, after he shall have commenced the performance of his duties, his Excellency the Governor, is requested and authorised to fill said vacancy, from the county from whence the failure took place. And in case any surveyor shall be found incompetent, or fail to execute the duties required of him by this act, his office shall be vacant, and his vacancy filled in like manner. Sec. 11. And be it further enacted, That the surveyors to be appointed in pursuance of this act, shall before they enter upon their duties, take and subscribe the following oath: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am twenty-one years of age, that I will well and faithfully to the best of my skill and abilities, discharge the duties which may be required of me, as surveyor in the territory of which I am elected, a surveyor, so help me God; which oath the Surveyor General, is required to administer. The oath to be administered to chain men by their respective surveyors, shall be as follows: I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that to the best of my skill and judgment, I will measure all lines on which I may be employed as chain carrier, as accurately and with as little deviation from the course pointed out by the surveyor as possible, and give a true account of the same to the surveyor, so help me God; and similar oaths shall be administered by the surveyors, to all axe-men, and markers. Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That the land to be surveyed under the provisions of this act, shall be classed under the following heads, viz: First quality river land, second quality river land, first quality oak and hickory upland, second quality oak and hickory upland, third quality oak and hickory upland, first quality pine land, and pine land; and it shall be the duty of surveyors, charged with the business of dividing the districts into lots, to note upon the seperate plat of each lot which he is required to file in the Surveyor General's Office, the quality of each lot according to the foregoing classes, the number of the same; the enumeration to commence in all square districts in the North-west corner and to run East. Sec. 13. And be it further enacted, That the following shall be the description and qualification of persons entitled to give in their names for a draw or draws under this act, to

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wit: Every male white person, of eighteen years of age, and upwards, being a citizen of the United States, and an inhabitant within the organized limits of this State, four years immediately preceding the time that his Excellency the Governor, shall issue the notification as contemplated by this act to the persons whose duty it may be take in draws, including such as have been absent on lawful business, shall be entitled to one draw. Every deaf and dumb or blind person of like residence, who has not drawn a lot of land in a former lottery, shall have one draw, unless provided for by this act, as an orphan. Every male person of like description, having a wife or legitimate male child or children, under eighteen years of age, or unmarried female child or children, resident as aforesaid, or who were born and have ever since resided in this State, shall have two draws, and no person shall be entitled to a draw or draws who has a family residing out of this State, or whose family has not resided in this State, for four years as aforesaid, provided said applicant for a draw or draws has had a family so long, and excepting officers of the army or navy of the United States, and others in the employment of the United States, who may under the other provisions of this act be entitled to a draw or draws. All widows with like residence shall be entitled to one draw, and wife and children in this State, of persons who have been absent from the State three years, shall be on the same footing as to draws, as if the said husband was dead, and the title to such lots as said females or children may draw be vested permanently in them as though they were widows and orphans: All families of orphans, resident as aforesaid, or who have resided in this State from their birth, under the age of eighteen years, except such as may be entitled in their own right to a draw or draws, whose father is dead, shall have one draw. All families of orphans consisting of more than two shall have two draws, but if not exceeding two, then such orphan or orphans shall be entitled to one draw, to be given in, in the county and district where the eldest of said orphans, or where the guardian of the eldest resides, and if such orphan or orphans have no guardian, then by the mother or next friend: All widows of like residence, whose husbands were killed or died in the service of their country, or on their return march in the late wars with Great Britain, or the Indians, shall be entitled to a draw, exclusive to that otherwise allowed to widows by this act: All orphans whose father was killed or died in the service of their country, or on their return march in the late wars against Great Britain or the Indians, shall be entitled to a draw, exclusive of that otherwise allowed by this act to orphans, and no orphan or family of orphans shall be excluded

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from a draw or draws by reason of such orphan or family of orphans, having been carried beyond the limits of this State, provided they have returned and are now inhabitants of this State; and all and every unmarried female, over the age of eighteen years, whose father was killed or died as aforesaid, shall have one draw; and all persons who served in the Indian wars from one thousand seven hundred and eighty-four to one thousand seven hundred and ninety-seven, or any part thereof as soldiers of this State, being at that time residents of the same, and at this time citizens thereof, shall be entitled to one draw each as such, and the widow of such person shall be entitled to one draw as such, and the orphan or orphans of such person shall be entitled to one draw as such, in addition to the draw or draws to which they may be entitled under the other provisions of this act: Provided, such person is not entitled under this act to an extra draw as a revolutionary soldier, or as the widow of a revolutionary soldier, and Provided also, that such person did not at any time during the revolutionary war, take protection under the British or Tories: Provided, that nothing herein contained, shall be so construed as to entitle any person or persons to a draw or draws in the present contemplated land lottery who, may have been fortunate drawers in any previous land lottery, except such persons as have drawn land as one of a family of orphans, and who have arrived at the age of eighteen years, but such person shall be entitled to one draw, and the remainder of such family of orphans shall be entitled to one draw, and except persons who may have drawn land, as soldiers who served a tour of duty under the authority of this State, or the United States: And provided, that all widows of revolutionary soldiers, shall have one draw in addition to those already contemplated by this act; and that all revolutionary soldiers, who were not fortunate drawers as revolutionary soldiers, in any of the former land lotteries, shall be entitled to two draws as revolutionary soldiers: Provided, that the citizens of this State, who come under the provisions of this act, as above contemplated, and who volunteered or were legally drafted in the late war against Great Britain, or the Indians, and refused to serve a tour of duty, either in person or by substitute, or who may have deserted from the service of this State, or of the United States, shall not be entitled to the provisions of this act, as above contemplated, nor any of those who illegally avoided a draft by removal or otherwise; and no person or persons who have removed from the organized limits of the State, for the purpose of avoiding the laws of this State, or have absconded for debt, shall be entitled to a draw or draws under this act: And in case land is drawn by

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minors, the grant shall issue accordingly, upon payment of the usual fees, and every citizen of this State, who served a tour of duty under the authority of this State, or of the United States, of two months or more in the militia of this State, during the late war against the British or Indians, shall be entitled to one extra draw: Provided they have not drawn land on account of said service in any former lottery: And provided, that when such service has been rendered by a substitute, the person employing such substitute, shall be entitled to the draw, and not the substitute, and they shall take the following oath. I do swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of this State, and that I served a tour of duty in the militia of this State of two months or more in the late war against the British or Indians, in person or by substitute: All persons whose names appear on the books of the Surveyor General's office as having drawn a lot of land in any of the lotteries heretofore drawn in this State, and have not drawn any other lot, and whose name does not appear to said lot in the Executive office, but appears on the books in the Executive office to have been drawn by some other person, shall be entitled to the provisions of this act: Provided, that nothing herein contained, shall be so construed to exclude those who have heretofore drawn only as soldiers, revolutionary soldiers and widows of revolutionary soldiers, from a draw or draws that they may be entitled to as citizens. Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That no person who is or has been either directly or indirectly concerned or interested with a certain horde of Thieves known as the Pony Club, shall be entitled to the provisions of this act, in respect to draws, and no person who has been at any time convicted of a felony in any of the Courts of this State shall be entitled to a draw or draws under this act. Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That no person who in person or by agent may have dug gold, silver, or any other metal since the first day of June last, in the lands to be surveyed or disposed of under this act, shall be entitled to a draw or draws under this act; and no person who employed any white person, negro, mulatto, or Indian, to dig gold in said Cherokee country, shall be entitled to a draw under this act, who may have employed any white person, negro, mulatto, or Indian, and did dig gold, as aforesaid, since the first day of June, eighteen hundred and thirty. Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That no person or persons who are residents on any part of the lands contemplated

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to be disposed of by this act, shall be entitled to a draw or draws under any of its provisions. Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, that the right of navigating the streams in said territory be, and the same is hereby reserved to the State. Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to allow any convict in the Penitentiary to give in for a draw or draws in the present contemplated land lottery: Provided, nevertheless, That the child or children who have resided in this State four years of any of said convicts, shall be entitled in the same manner they would be entitled if they were orphans, and may be given in for by their mother or other persons, under whose care they may be, and the grant or grants shall issue accordingly to any land so drawn: Provided, That no such convict has drawn in any of the former land lotteries of this State in his own name. Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That lists of persons entitled to draws under this act shall be made out by the Inferior court of each county, or such person as they may appoint, not exceeding two to each battalion, within four months from the date of such proclamation as his Excellency the Governor shall issue requiring the same to be done, and said Inferior court of the several counties in this State, or the persons they may appoint, shall attend in each captains' district at least twice, giving ten days notice of the time and place, for the purpose of taking the names of persons entitled to draws, and the names of the persons entitled shall be entered by the receivers in a book to be kept for that purpose, a transcript of which book, fairly made out, shall be transmitted to the Executive, and the original deposited with the Clerk of the Superior court of the respective counties; and should the Inferior court of any county fail to take in such names themselves, or to make proper appointments within two months after they are required by proclamation to do so, then the clerk of the Superior court (or his legal deputy in his absence) in such county, may make such appointments, and said receivers, before they enter upon their duties, shall take and subscribe the following oath, to wit:I do solemaly swear (or affirm) that I will not receive or register any name, except the person giving in shall first take the oath prescribed by this act, and that I will make a just and true return of all such persons' names as may severally take the oath or oaths prescribed by this act, so help me God; which oath any Justice of the Inferior Court, or of the Peace, is hereby required to administer, and the person or persons

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taking in names as aforesaid shall administer to all applicants for draws, other than widows, guardians or next friends of orphans, idiots and lunatics, the following oath, viz:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a citizen of the United States, and have resided in this State four years immediately preceding the time of the notification issued by the Governor, except absent on lawful business, and am an inhabitant of the same, that I am eighteen years of age, that I have (or have not) a wife or child or children, that I have not given in my name for any draw or draws in the present contemplated land lottery, in any other part of the State, that I have not drawn a tract of land in any of the former lotteries in my individual capacity, or as an individual orphan, and that I did not directly or indirectly evade the service of this State or of the United States in the late wars against Great Britain or the Indians.And the widows of revolutionary soldiers shall take the following oath or affirmation, to wit:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am the widow of a revolutionary soldier on the American side, to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help me God. The following oath shall be administered to all married women entitled to draws on account of three years absence of their husbands, as contemplated by this act, to wit:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that my husband has been absent from this State three years, that he was a citizen of the United States, that I have resided the four last years in this State, except absent on lawful business, and am now a resident in this district, that I have not put in my name for a draw in the approaching land lottery in any other part of the State, and that I have not drawn any tract of land in any of the former land lotteries, either in my individual capacity, or as an individual orphan, to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help me God. The following oath shall be administered to the mother or next friend of any minor or family of minors, who may be entitled to a draw or draws on account of three years absence of their father, as contemplated by this act, to wit:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that the minor or family of minors whom I now return is, or are, entitled to a draw or draws under this act, to the best of my knowledge, so help me God. The following oath shall be administered to all revolutionary soldiers who shall apply for draws under this act:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I served as a soldier in the armies of the United States during the revolutionary war a tour or tours of duty, and that I did not at any time during the said war bear arms or act as a spy or emissary against the United States, or in any manner aid or abet the enemy thereof, and am entitled to a draw or draws according

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to the provisions of this act, so help me God. And all guardians or next friends of orphans or children of convicts in the Penitentiary shall take the following oath:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that the orphan or family of orphans, or the child or children whom I return is, or are, entitled to a draw or draws under this act, to the best of my knowledge, so help me God. The following oath shall be administered to all widows:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am a widow, that I have resided the last four years in this State, except absent on lawful business, and am now a resident in this district, that I have not put in my name for a draw in the present lottery in any other part of the State, and that I have not drawn land in any of the former lotteries, to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help me God. That all idiots and lunatics and deaf and dumb or blind persons, entitled to a draw or draws by this act, shall be given in by their respective parents or guardians or next friends, who shall take the following oath, to wit:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that the person whose name I now give in is an idiot or lunatic. or a deaf and dumb or blind person, that he, or she, is eighteen years of age or upwards, and entitled to a draw or draws under this act, that he, or she has not drawn land in any of the former land lotteries of this State, in his or her own name, or as an individual orphan, so help me God. Every person claiming a draw, as having served in the Indian wars between the years seventeen hundred and eighty-four and seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, shall take the following oath, to wit:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I served in the Indian war a portion of the time between the years, seventeen hundred and eighty-four and seventeen hundred and ninety-seven, as an inhabitant of Georgia, and that I am still a citizen of the same, and that I did not act as a spy or emissary of, or in any way aid or abet the British or Indians in the revolutionary war, so help me God. Every widow, and the guardian of the orphan or orphans of such persons, shall take the following oath, to wit:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am the widow (or that the orphan or orphans of whom I am the guardian, is or are the orphan or orphans as the case may be,) of a resident of Georgia who served in the Indian wars a portion of the time between the years seventeen hundred and eighty-four and seventeen hundred and ninety-seven. And the persons who shall be authorized to take in the names of those who are entitled to a draw or draws under this act, shall receive twenty-five cents from each of said applicants for each draw. Sec. 20. A nd be it further enacted, That if any person entitled by this act to a draw or draws in their own right or

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in the right of others, should by absence or other unavoidable causes, fail to give in his or her name, within the time herein prescribed, it shall and may be lawful for such person to make oath of the draw or draws to which he or she may be entitled beefore any justice of the Inferior court or of the peace of the county in which he or she may reside, and make return thereof to the Executive, at any time before the commencement of the drawing; and it shall and may be lawful for any person or persons entitled to a draw or draws in said lottery, who are about leaving the State on lawful business, to take the oath prescribed by the act, and deposit the same in the clerk's office of the Superior Court of the county where such person or persons may reside, and their names shall be registered according to the provisions of this act: Provided, such person shall swear that he intends to return and remain a citizen of this State. The following oath shall be administered to every unmarried female over the age of eighteen years, whose father was killed or died as aforesaid:I do solemnly swear (or affirm) that I am eighteen years of age, and that I am unmarried, that I have not put in my name for a draw in the approaching land lottery in any other part of the State, and that I have [Illegible Text] drawn any tract of land in any of the former land lotteries, and that my father died in the service or on his return march in the late war against Great Britain or the Indians, to the best of my knowledge and belief, so help me God. Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That five persons shall be appointed by joint ballot of the Legislature to superintend the drawing of the lottery, to be convened in Milledgeville by the Governor, when necessary, and that whenever this act imposes duties on the Governor, Surveyor General, Surveyors, Receivers of names or Commissioners, such duties shall be severally performed with as little delay as possible consistently with this act, and a due execution thereof. Sec. 22. And be it further enacted, That as soon as said lists are made out and returned, his Excellency the Governor, for the purpose of carrying the lottery into effect, shall cause the names of persons entitled to draws, together with other designatory remarks of residence, c. to be placed on tickets as nearly similar as possible, which shall be deposited in one wheel; and the prizes on tickets of the like description, shall be deposited in another wheel, which prizes shall consist of all square lots, and tracts of one hundred acres, and upwards, in said territory, not herein reserved; and from each wheel as nearly at the same time as may be, a ticket hall be drawn and delivered to the superintending managers,

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and so on until the whole number of prizes are drawn out, and said managers shall make due and particular entry of the names so drawn out and the prizes corresponding therewith, said names and prizes being first thoroughly mixed in their respective wheels; and his Excellency the Governor is required to give three weeks notice of the commencement of the drawing, Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That all persons who may draw lands under this act, shall be entitled to receive grants for the same, conveying fee simple titles, on paying into the Treasury of this State, the sum of eighteen dollars; and any person drawing, and failing to take out his grant within five years from the date of said draw, shall forfeit his or her right to receive a grant to the land so drawn, and the same shall revert to the State; orphans, and deaf and dumb, and blind persons, idiots, and lunatics excepted; and all persons who shall draw lands in this lottery, except orphans, idiots, and lunatics, shall, whether the same be granted or not, pay taxes thereon at the same rates, as for other lands of similar qualities, until they shall sell or relinquish the same to the use of the State by writing to be filed in the office of the Secretary of State. Sec. 24. And be it further enacted, That all returns made contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act, are declared to be fraudulent, and all grants issued in consequence of any draw made in the contemplated lottery, on such fraudulent returns, are hereby declared to be null and void, and the lands so drawn or granted shall revert and become the property of the State; and the question of the fraud shall be tried upon scire facias, to be issued from under the hands of the Clerk of the Superior Court of the county in which the land lies, in the name of the Governor of the State for the time being, upon the application of any individual, against the tenant in possession of the land alleged to be fraudulently drawn or against the drawer thereof, setting forth the circumstances of fraud in the said scire facias specially. Sec. 25. And be it further enacted, That all fictitious names, that may get into the lottery wheel by any means whatever, are hereby declared to be fraudulent, and any lot or lots drawn under a fictitious name or names, may be returned and condemned in the same manner as other lots fraudulently drawn. Sec. 26. And be it further enacted, That in all cases where any person intends to return any tract of land as fraudulently drawn, before he shall be allowed to do so, he shall first

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give bond and security in the sum of two hundred dollars to the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county where the land lies, conditioned to indemnify the individual drawer of such tract of land for all damages he may sustain, provided the land is not condemed as fraudulent. Sec. 27. And be it further enacted, That upon the return of said scire facias, with an entry thereon of service effected by any Sheriff of any county of this State, by leaving a copy thereof with the person named as defendant, or at his or her notorious place of abode, or by the return of said Sheriff, that the defendant is not to be found; Provided, the informer shall make affidavit that he does not believe the defendant resides in the StateUpon which return of the Sheriff, that the defendant is not to be found, on affidavit, the Court is hereby authorised to have service perfected by an order, for a three months publication, in one or more of the public gazettes of this State, which rule when duly published shall be considered as sufficient service to authorize an issue to be made up, under the direction of the Court, to try the question of fraud, and in case the jury shall find the return fraudulent, the court shall by judgment, pronounce the grant issued on such return, and draw to be void, and order it to be cancelled, which judgment when transmitted to the Surveyor General's Office, and Secretary of State's Office, and entered, of file, shall be of sufficient authority, to those officers, to cancel the plats and grants for such fraudulent draws, from their offices respectivelyAnd the land when condemned, shall belong one half to the State, and the other half to the informer, and subject to be laid off, between the informer and the State, by writ of partition to be issued under the direction of the Superior court of the county in which the land lies, and to the proceedings of said writ of partition, on behalf of the State, it shall be the duty of the Solicitors General, in the respective circuits, to attend, and when the said lands are so laid off, the informer shall be entitled to a plat and grant for his share, upon the payment of the legal office fees: Provided nevertheless, that no return made by, or on behalf of any orphan or orphans, shall be pronounced fraudulent, until his or their legal guardian shall have been made a party to the Scire Facias, or other discreet person appointed by the court, in which the case is tried, to defend the case for the said orphan or orphans: A nd Provided also, That the Scire Facias under this section issue within two years from the date of the drawing. Sec. 28. And be it further enacted, That no case after being commenced as aforesaid, by scire facias, shall be settled or

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compromised, by the informer or otherwise disposed of to the prejudice of the State, and in case it is, said land shall be liable to be returned by any other informer, in manner above prescribed, and division made thereof accordingly. Sec. 29. And be it further enacted, That no scire facias shall issue, until the applicant shall have made and deposited in the Clerk's office, from which the said scire facias shall issue the following oath, to wit:I do solemnly swear (or affirm,) that in making this information, I have no combination or understanding directly or indirectly, with the drawer, or any other person as the friend of, or on the part of the drawer. Sec. 30. And be it further enacted, That the Governor is required, to cause the surveyors to proceed with as little delay as possible, and when the surveys are so made, and returned to the Surveyor General's Office, the Governor is further required, to notify the lottery Commissioners to meet at Milledgeville, and proceed forthwith, to the drawing of the Lottery contemplated by this act. Sec. 31. And be it further enacted, That the Indians and their descendants, who reside upon said territory, and have made improvements thereon, shall be protected in the quiet and peaceable possession of such improvements, and of the lot or lots of land upon which the said improvements are made, until the General Assembly of this State shall enact to the contrary, or said Indians or their descendants shall voluntarily abandon such improvements, but no Indian, or descendant of an Indian, who shal be entitled to the benefit of this section, shall be at liberty to rent, sell or convey, his right of occupancy to any person or persons, unless it be to the government of this State, or of the United States, to and for the use of such drawers, and the persons drawing lots upon which Indian residences may be, shall not be allowed to disturb them in their occupancy of such improvements and lots: Provided, the benefits of this act shall not extend to those who have made new settlements in the gold region, within the present year, for the purpose of occupying and working the gold mines, but they shall be allowed to return to and occupy their former residences as others are provided for under this section: And Provided, no grant shall issue for any tract or tracts of land upon which said Indian residences may be until said Indian or Indians, or their descendants, shall have abandoned the same in manner and form as herein pointed out, nor shall the drawer or drawers of any such lot or lots,

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be subject to pay taxes for the same until they are entitled to obtain a grant or grants, for the same under the provisions aforesaid, and any person or persons, who may be the fortunate drawers of such lot or lots, upon which such residences may be located, who shall by threats, menaces, or violence, remove or attempt to remove, any Indian, or descendant of an Indian therefrom, or who, either in person, or by agent, shall take, or attempt to take possession of any lot of land, on which improvements be, shall forfeit their right to a grant or grants for the same, and such lot or lots shall revert to the State. Sec. 32. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons, whether Indians or others, shall willfully cut down or deface any marked trees, or remove any land mark which may be made in pursuance of the provisions of this act, previously to the distribution of lands, such person or persons shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by confinement in jail or in the Penitentiary, for a term not exceeding four years, at the discretion of the Court, Sec. 33. And be it further enacted, That any person or persons who shall by force, menaces or other means, prevent, or attempt to prevent any surveyor or surveyors from running any line or lines, or doing and performing any act required of him or them by this act, shall on indictment and conviction thereof be sentenced to the Penitentiary at hard labor for the term of five years. Sec. 34. And be it further enacted, That all vacancies which may occur, by death, resignation, or otherwise, of any lottery commissioner, previous to the completion of said drawing, as contemplated by this act, shall be filled by the Governor. Sec. 35. And be it further enacted, That the sectional surveyors shall, with as little delay as possible, proceed to the performance of the duties assigned to them under this act; and on the completion and return thereof to the Surveyor General, the Governor is authorised and requested to direct the election of two justices of the Peace, and two Constables, being white men resident in said territory, in every of such sections, to be held at such time, and at such place, and to be superintended and returned to the Executive by such person or persons, in every of such sections as the Governor shall direct, which Justices and Constables shall respectively take the oath and execute the [Illegible Text] required by law; and that all white males of full age, resident in said territory shall be entitled

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to vote for such justices and constables. And in the event that the President of the United States shall at any time during the ensuing recess of the Legislature succeed in executing the compact between the United States and the State of Georgia, in relation to the Cherokee lands, that the Governor shall order the district surveyors to proceed to the discharge of their duties, and to the completion of the survey of the districts, as required by this act, and to the occupancy of said territory, otherwise the survey of the districts shall be suspended until the next meeting of the general assembly, and until further enactment for this purpose. Sec. 36. And be it further enacted, That no county that is allowed two district surveyors, shall have sectional surveyors appointed therefrom. Sec. 37. And be it further enacted, That the Governor is hereby authorised and required to protect said surveyors, in the prosecution of said surveys, and call out for that purpose such portion of the militia as he may deem necessary for their effectual protection, should the said surveyors or any of them be interrupted in the prosecution of their labours. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 21st Dec. 1830. AN ACT to sell and dispose of certain fractions in the fifth district of Early county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Sheriff of Early county be, and he is hereby authorised and required to

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advertise and expose for sale, to the highest bidder, agreeable to the provisions of this act, all the unsold fractions in the fifth district of Early county, lying on the dry line of said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Sheriff aforesaid, to advertise in one of the public Gazettes in Milledgeville, and also at the court house in said county, at least thirty days before the day of sale, setting forth the numbers, and quantity of acres in each fraction, also the hours on which the sale will open and close. Sec. 3. A nd be it further enacted, That the highest bidder for any of the aforesaid fractions, shall be the buyer, who shall pay to the sheriff aforesaid, one fifth of the purchase money in cash, or current bank bills at par, on payment of which the said sheriff shall give to such purchaser or purchasers, a certificate, stating the amount paid, and the amount of such purchase money when due, and to be paid, in four equal annual instalments to be paid to the Treasurer of the State of Georgia. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any purchaser or purchasers, shall fail to pay the Treasurer of this State, any instalment at the time the same may become due or within sixty days thereafter, he, she, or they shall forfeit the sum paid, and the land revert to, and become the property of the State. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That when the last instalment is paid agreeable to the face of the certificate, given by the Sheriff aforesaid, it shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor to cause a grant to be filled up in the name of the holder or holders of said certificate on his, her or their paying the sum of four dollars to the Treasurer. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That within forty days after the sale of said Fractions, the Sheriff aforesaid, shall make a Report of the proceedings to the Treasurer of the State of Georgia, and pay over the money received and deposit a schedule of the Fractions sold, the amount of sales, cash received, balance, due for each Fraction, and from whom, and the Sheriff shall receive as compensation for his services, two and a half per cent, on the amount received, to be drawn for by warrant, from his Excellency the Governor, on the Treasurer of this State.

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Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the Sheriff aforesaid, shall enter on the duties required of him, by this act, so soon as he shall be apprised of its passage. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That said Sheriff shall give bond and security for the strict performance of his duty, in a sum of five thousand dollars, to his Excellency the Governor and his successors in office. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to Dec. 22d, 1830. AN ACT to provide for the temporary disposal of the improvements and possessions purchased from certain Cherokee Indians and residents. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That his Excellency the Governor is authorised and requested to appoint a proper person as agent to rent, for one year, from the first day of February next, and for each succeeding year, until other provision shall be made by the Legislature, all the improvements and possessions lying within the territorial limits of Georgia, and which have been purchased from Cherokee and Creek Indians and residents, under the provisions of the treaty of the sixth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, or by any other treaty, or any other manner by the U. States, at public outcry at the court house of the counties to which the territory is attached, in which said premises may be, be advertised at least fifteen days in three of the most public to Gazettes in this State, commencing at Carroll county on the

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fifteenth day of February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Provided, That no person or persons renting any such improvements, shall be permitted to dig for gold, silver or other valuable metals, or to employ and person of any description so to dig, but that such person so digging shall be subject to the pains and penalties as may be pointed out by law, to be inflicted on persons who may so dig on any other part of said territory. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said agent shall have full power and authority to rent the said improvements and possessions by private contract, to citizens of Georgia only. Provided, the same could not be rented at public outcry, taking notes with good security, payable to his Excellency the Governor, and his successors in office, on the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, for the payment of the rent. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Governor upon the appointment of said agent, shall furnish him with a list of said improvements, and possessions, and such other lands as are liable to rent under this act, and he shall proceed immediately to discharge the duties required of him by this act; the said agent shall moreover by the first day of June next, return to the Treasury a complete statement of his actings and doings in the premises, exhibiting the price received by him for each improvement or possession, and shall also at the same time, file in said department all notes taken by him for rent, except such as he shall retain by authority of this act in payment of his services. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That his Excellency the Governor upon the report of said agent, that it is indispensably necessary, shall order out a sufficient force to deliver possession of any improvement to the person or persons renting the same, and to protect them in the possession thereof. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the said agent, before he enters upon the duties required of him by this act, shall give bond to his Excellency the Governor in the sum of five thousand dollars, for the faithful discharge of the same. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That said agent be allowed to retain as full compensation for his services, ten per [Illegible Text] of the notes so received by him for rent. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to extend the time for fortunate drawers in the land lotteries of eighteen hundred and eighteen, eighteen hundred and nineteen and eighteen hundred and twenty-one, to take out their grants, and to reduce the fees on grants. 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 af the same, That all and every person who was a fortunate drawer in the land lottery by authority of the act, passed the fifteenth day of December, in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, and by authority of the act passed the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and nineteen, shall have until the twentieth day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, to take out his, her, or their grant or grants for the land drawn by him, her, or them, and that a grant or grants shall issue to him, her, or them for the same, according to the provisions of the twentieth section of said act, on paying into the Treasury of this State the sum of six dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all and every person who was a fortunate drawer in the said land lottery, by authority of the act passed on the fifteenth day of May, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-one, shall have until the twentieth day of November, eighteen hundred and thirty-one to take out his, her, or their grant or grants for the land drawn by him, her, or them, for the same according to the provisions of the twentieth section of the said act of eighteen hundred and twenty-one, on paying into the Treasury of this State the sum of six dollars. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act, nor any act heretofore passed in relation to the aforesaid land lotteries, shall be so construed, as to authorise any person or persons to receive a grant, for any lot of land drawn by any orphan, or family of orphans, nor shall the same be done until three years after the youngest of said orphans arrives at the age of twenty-one, nor to any lots drawn by persons who are deceased, since the said lotteries, or between the time of giving in for said draw or draws and the completion of the drawings thereof until after the expiration of three years from the time of their decease, nor to any lots

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heretofore particularized and set apart for the purposes of public education, and that all grants which may issue contrary to the true intent and meaning of this act shall be null and void. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same is hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Oct. 27, 1830: AN ACT to extend the time to fortunate drawers in the Land Lottery of eighteen hundred and twenty-seven to take out their grants and reduce the fees on grants. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all and every person who was a fortunate drawer in the land lottery by authority of the act passed the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and by virtue of an act passed the twenty fourth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty fiveand by virtue of an act, passed the fourteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty six, shall have until the twenty-fifth day of December, eighteen hundred and thirty seven, to take out his, her, or their grant or grants, for the land drawn by him, her, or them, and that a grant or grants, shall issue to him, her or them, for the same, according to the provisions of the twenty first section of the said act, on paying into the Treasury of this State the sum of eight dollars.

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Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating against this act, are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 10, 1830. AN ACT to amend and explain the third section of an act, entitled an act to extend the time for fortunate drawers in the land lotteries of eighteen hundred and eighteen, eighteen hundred and nineteen, and eighteen hundred and twenty one, to take out their grants, and to reduce the fees on grants, passed on the twenty seventh day of October, eighteen hundred and thirty. Whereas the third section of the above recited act, declares that no grant shall issue for any lot of land drawn by any orphan or family of orphans until three years after the youngest of said orphans arrives at the age of twenty one yearsAnd whereas, also, the said third section declares that nothing in the said act, or any act theretofore passed in relation to the said land lotteries, should authorise any person or persons to take out grants for tracts of land drawn by persons who are deceased since said lotteries, or between the time of giving in for said draw or draws and the completion of the drawing thereof, until after the expiration of three years from the time of their decease. And whereas, there may be doubts as to the proper construction of the said recited third sectionfor remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General A ssembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful for any orphan or family of orphans, and any Executor, or Administrator of a deceased person, or other person in behalf of the estate of such deceased person to

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take out any grant or grants of lands drawn by such orphan or family of orphans, or such person so deceased, at any time hereafter, and before the expiration of three years after the youngest orphan arrives at the age of twenty one years, and at any time before the expiration of three years from the taking out of letters testamentary or of administration on the estate of such deceased person or persons. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of the third section of the above recited act, or any other act or acts, as militates against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 20th Nov. 1830. AN ACT to provide for surveying and disposing of the unappropriated Islands in the Flint and Chattahoochee rivers, and for granting the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall be the duty of the county Surveyors of the counties lying on the East bank of the Flint River immediately after the passage of this act, to proceed to survey and plat, all unappropriated islands in said river, of ten acres and upwards, adjacent to their counties respectively, and furnish a plat of the same, designating the number of acres, to the Sheriff of his county, and one to the Surveyor General, for which the said surveyors shall be allowed their ordinary fees, except the island opposite Robert's ford, on said river, and over which the public road is now established leading from Thomaston to Columbus, and except also, those islands lying immediately

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West, and opposite the mill, and mill-dams of Robert Germany, and Tippins Phillips of Pike county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That the Sheriff of each county to whom the surveyor may have furnished such plat, shall immediately proceed to sell the islands so surveyed, for cash, at public outcry, at the court-house of his county, between the usual hours of sale, after giving one month's notice in some public Gazette, for which he shall be allowed his ordinary fees, and commissions. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the Governor to draw his warrant upon the Treasurer, in favor of the said Surveyors, and Sheriffs, respectively, for the payment of their fees and commissions, to be appropriated out of the contingent fund. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the Sheriff shall issue a certificate, to the purchaser, or purchasers, on the payment of the purchase money, and on the presentation of said certificate, or certificates, at the Surveyor General's office, a grant shall issue to the holder thereof without fees. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the island on said river, opposite to fraction number fourteen, in the first district of Troup county, originally, now Upson county, shall belong to, and be vested in the justices of the inferior court of Talbot county, for the purpose of keeping open the public road leading from Thomaston in Upson county, to Columbus, across said river, at a place known by the name of Robard's ford, at said island. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the several Islands lying in the rivers Flint and Chattahoochie, and not included in any of the counties of this State, shall be annexed to, and form part of the county, nearest to which the larger portion of any of such islands may be. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the fees of the Surveyors and Sheriffs, for the services herem required of them, shall in no case exceed the amount of the sale. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1830.

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MILITARY. AN ACT to authorise the Inferior Court of the county of Liberty to appropriate money for the purpose of procuring and improving a piece of Land to accommodate the militia of said county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Inferior Court of the county of Liberty, is hereby authorised to appropriate from the funds of said county, sufficient money, not exceeding the sum of three hundred and fifty dollars, for the purpose of procuring and improving a suitable piece of land at or near the centre of said county, to accommodate the militia of said county, in military meetings and musters, to be expended by, and under the direction of such person or persons as the said court may appoint. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall and may be lawful for said Inferior Court to take by lease or purchase, such piece or parcel of land as may be selected for the purpose aforesaid, and the same to hold in their corporate capacity, for the use and benefit of said county. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d 1830.

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AN ACT to repeal so much of the fourteenth section of an act, entitled an act, to revise and consolidate the militia laws of this State, and to repeal the cavalry laws now in [Illegible Text], passed December nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen; as regards the county of Jones. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall be lawful for the officers of the Clinton Independent Blues, to enlist any number of men from any of the district companies in the county of Jonesany law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives, THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 20th 1830. AN ACT for the encouragement of Volunteer Companies of militia, in this State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, every person over the age of twenty-one years, who shall serve during the term of ten years successively, as a member of any Volunteer Company, in the first brigade of the first division of the militia of this State, and and in the county of Richmond, shall at the expiration of said term, be exempted from military duty in time of peace, [Illegible Text] in cases of [Illegible Text] or insurrection.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That every person of the age of twenty-six or upwards, who has been not less than five years immediately preceding the passage of this act, a member of any volunteer company, in the first brigade, of the first division, of the militia of this State, and in the county of Richmond, shall at the expiration of eight years service from the date hereof, in the same company, be in the same manner exempted from military duty, in the first brigade, of the first division, of the militia of this State, and in the county of Richmond. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the evidence necessary to procure such exemption shall be the certificate of such term or terms of service, signed by the commanding officer, and first or orderly sergeant of the company in which it was performed. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against the operation of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d. 1830. MINES. AN ACT to authorise the Governor to take possession of the Gold, Silver and other Mines, lying and being in that section of the [Illegible Text] limits of Georgia, commonly called the Cherokee country, and those upon all other unappropriated lands of the State, and for punishing any person or persons, who may hereafter be found trespassing upon said Mines. Whereas, the Gold, Silver and other Mines, situate in the Cherokee country, within the jurisdictional limits of Georgia, are of right the property of GeorgiaAnd whereas,

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great waste has been committed by the trespasses and intrusions of numberless citizens of this and of other States, in digging, taking and carrying away large quantities of Gold from said MinesFor remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Governor is hereby authorised and required for, and in behalf of the citizens of Georgia, to take immediate possession of all the gold, silver and other mines which have been discovered, and of all those which may hereafter be discovered, as soon as practicable, in the said Cherokee country, within the chartered limits of Georgia, and of all those upon other unappropriated lands of the State, subject nevertheless to any disposition by legislative enactments, and that he be empowered, if it should in his judgment become necessary to employ such military force as may by him be deemed competent to take into possession the said mines, and to protect and defend them from all further trespass. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty thousand dollars is hereby appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, subject to the warrant of the Governor, to carry into effect the objects contained in the foregoing section. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, For the better securing said mines from trespass, that if any person or persons shall be guilty of digging for gold, silver or other metal upon said mines, or who shall take from or carry away any gold, silver or other metal from any of the said mines, unless authorised by law, he, she, or they shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be sentenced to hard labor in the Penitentiary for and during the term of four years. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons, not authorised by law, shall employ any white man, Indian, negro or mulatto, to dig for gold, silver or other metal, upon said mines, or to take or carry away any gold, silver or other metal from said mines, he, she or they, so employing said white man, Indian, negro or mulatto, to dig for gold, silver or other metal upon said mines, or to take or carry away gold, silver or other metal from said mines, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by confinement in the Penitentiary, at hard labor, for and during the term of four years.

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Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to confine any negro slave in the Penitentiary of this State. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That each and every negro slave and other property owned and employed in trespassing on said mines, by any person or persons convicted of the misdemeanors contemplated by this act, shall be confiscated and sold, and after the expenses of trial and condemnation shall have been paid, the nett proceeds of such sale, shall be paid over to the Treasurer of this State for the use thereof. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That his Excellency the Governor, is hereby authorised to appoint one or more agents, if he should deem [Illegible Text] necessary, for the protection of the gold mines in the Cherokee country, or other unappropriated lands of the State, and for the purpose of assisting in the enforcement of the laws of this State, over said country and land, whose duty it shall be to give to the civil authority, information of any trespass upon the gold mines, or violation of the laws of this State, and to see that the transgressors are promptly proceeded against, and to give information from time to time to his Excellency the Governor, of the actings and doings in said premises. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That such parts of this act, as relate to the punishment of trespassers upon the mines, within the limits of the Cherokee nation, shall not take effect until the first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That all persons who shall be arrested by virtue of this act, and shall be liable for costs, and who may be found unable to pay such costs as may be incurred, the costs thus incurred shall be defrayed by the State, any law to the contrary notwithstanding: Provided, that the provisions of this section shall not extend to persons residing within the old limits of the county where they may be confined. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 2d, 1830.

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MILLS. AN ACT to vest in Young Johnson and his associates, their [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] the right of erecting and using a floating [Illegible Text] the [Illegible Text] Ocmulgee, within the limits of the Macon Reserves, for a term of time, and on certain conditions therein expressed. 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 Young Johnson and his associates, his and their heirs or assigns, shall have the exclusive right of building and using a floating machinery or machineries, to propel a mill or mills on the waters of the river Ocmulgee within the limits of the Macon Reserves, for the term of twenty years: Provided, the said Young Johnson and his associates, their heirs or assigns, shall within two years from the passage of this act, have in complete operation at least one mill for grinding corn. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Young Johnson and his associates, or their heirs or assigns, before they commence their operations of building said floating machinery on said river, shall give bond and approved security to the Intendant and Commissioners of the town of Macon, in the penal sum of twenty thousand dollars, conditioned to pay all damages which may accrue to the bridge across the said river Ocmulgee, at Macon, by reason of the erection of said floating mill or machinery or the materials of which the same may be constructed: Provided, the same should be constructed above said bridge, and provided that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to authorise the said Young Johnson and his associates, their heirs or assigns, to erect any dam or dams on said river, or in any manner to obstruct the waters of, or the navigation of said river, under the penalty of an absolute forfeiture of all the rights and privileges hereby granted. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d, 1830.

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PENAL. AN ACT to authorise the punishment of persons, concealing the existence of Small Pox, or certain other contagious diseases. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Georgia in General Assembly met, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, any physician or other person or persons, who shall be knowing to the existence of any case of plague, small pox, varioloid, and their modifications, within the city of Savannah, or in its vicinity, and so knowing shall wilfully conceal the same, or who shall not immediately and promptly give information thereof to the Health officer of said city, or to the chairman of the board of Health, he, she or they shall be indicted for the same, and upon conviction, shall be subject to imprisonment not exceeding twelve months, in the common Jail, and a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, both at the discretion of the court. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d 1830.

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AN ACT to alter and amend the thirty fifth section under the sixth division of the penal code, of this State, passed on the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and seventeen, so far as to alter and amend the definition of larceny from the House. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, larceny from the House, shall be the entering or breaking any house with an intent to steal, or after entering or breaking said house, stealing therefrom, any goods, chattles, wares, merchandise, or any thing or things of value whatever, any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 25th, 1830. PILOTAGE. AN ACT to amend the several laws of force in this State, regulating the pilotage of vessels, to and from the ports and harbours of this State, and more distinctly to define the powers and jurisdiction of the Commissioners of Pilotage, for the several ports and harbours thereof. Whereas, it has been ascertained that under the laws now of force in this State, regulating the Pilotage of vessels, to

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and from the several parts and harbours of this State, certain powers granted to the Commissioners of [Illegible Text], for the ports and harbours aforesaid, are in violation of the Constitution and laws of this land, and that certain other other powers therein delegated, are inadequate for the purposes contemplated, for remedy whereof. 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 if any person having no authority or licence to act as a Pilot, or having had any authority, shall be suspended by the Commissioners of Pilotage, shall pilot any vessels inwards to, or outwards from, any of the ports or harbours of this State, for which a Pilot shall be licensed, that the person so acting as Pilot without authority or licence, shall be prosecuted by indictment in the Superior Court, for having acted as a Pilot without authority or licence, in a port or harbour in this State, in which a pilot or pilots have been licenced, and for each offence of pipiloting without a licence as aforesaid, the person so offending shall be subjected to a fine not exceeding one hundred dollars, and be imprisoned for a space of time not exceeding ten days, at the discretion of the Court. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That upon an affidavit being made, by any person before a justice of the peace, justice of the Inferior Court, or Judge of the Superior Court, of any person having acted as a pilot without authority, in any port of this State, or harbour thereof, for which a pilot shall be licensed, it shall be lawful for such justice or judge, to issue a warrant for the arrest of the person so acting as pilot as aforesaid, without authority, and to commit him to prison to take his trial under the first section of this act, unless he shall give bond with good security, in a sufficient penalty, for his appearance at the next term of the Superior Court of the county having jurisdiction of the offence; and the person issuing said warrant shall be entitled to add to his bill of costs, the sum of one dollar for taking said bond. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That every pilot to be licensed, shall give to the Commissioners of pilotage, a bond with two or more sufficient securities, to be approved of by said Commissioners, made payable to the Governor, in the sum of two thousand dollars, conditioned for the due execution of their office, and for their abiding by the decress, arbitraments, and awards of the Commissioners of pilotage made in pursuance of the authority vested in them by law; and that

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such pilot shall be liable by suit on his bond, instead of an attachment as contemplated by the fifth section of an act passed December, sixth, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, to regulate the pilotage of vessels to and from the several ports of this State. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all pains and penalties inflicted under and by virtue of the authority vested in the Commissioners of pilotage by this act, and by the act mentioned in the preceding section, shall be recovered by warrant of distress, under the hand and seal of said Commissioners, or any three of them, and sale of the offenders goods; which warrant shall be directed to the Sheriff of the county in which such port or harbour may be situated: and in case said Sheriff shall fail to levy said warrants, and to make return thereon to the said Commissioners, then and in such case, the Sheriff may be ruled before the Judge of the Superior Court, in term time, or in vacation, to make such return: Provided nevertheless, That in all cases of distress and sale occuring under the provisions of this section, it shall be the duty of the Sheriff to give at least sixty days notice in one of the public Gazettes of this State, of such levy and intended sale. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That ten Commissioners of pilotage, for the port and harbour of Savannah, shall be elected by the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah, at their first regular meeting in January next; any six of whom shall constitute a quorum to transact business; and no owner or part owner of a pilot boat, shall be eligible to the appointment of a Commissioner of pilotage. All vacancies occuring, shall be filled by the said Mayor and Aldermen; and six months absence shall be considered to vacate the seat of a Commissioner of pilotage. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That every Commissioner of pilotage, before he enters on his duty as such, shall take and subscribe the following oath or affirmation, to wit:I, A. B. do solemnly swear, (or affirm, as the case may be) that I am a citizen of the United States, and an inhabitant of the State of Georgia: and that I will truly and faithfully discharge the duty of a Commissioner of pilotage, without fear, favor, or affection, so help me God. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That in any case when a pilot shall be suspended, or when any fine exceeding the sum of twenty-dollars shall be imposed, by any sentence,

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judgment, or decision of the said board of Commissioners or when the licence or warrant of such pilot shall be annulled or revoked by any sentence, judgment or decision, of the said board of Commissioners, then and in such case, the person so fined, or pilot so suspended, or whose licence or warrant shall be revoked, may petition the Judge of the Superior Court of the county in which such sentence of judgment shall be passed or made, setting forth on oath the circumstances of the case: a copy of which petition shall be served on the acting Chairman of said board, or on the Secretary thereof, at least three days before the return of any rule thereon, and if upon the reading such petition, and upon the return of the rule nisi which he shall grant in such case, the said judge shall be of opinion that there is sufficient cause for the allowance of an appeal, he shall thereon direct an issue to be made up, between the said commissioners of pilotage and the said appellant; which shall be tried by a special jury to be selected from the pannel of the grand jury, in the usual manner, at the next term of the said court thereafter, unless good cause be shewn for a continuance: and if upon such trial, a [Illegible Text] shall be returned in favor of the appellant, then [Illegible Text] in such case, the said judge is hereby authorised and [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] an order, remitting such [Illegible Text], or restoring the [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] pilot, or the pilot whose warrant or licence has been revoked as aforesaid, and which order shall be final in the case. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That no person shall [Illegible Text] a certificate to act as a pilot, until he shall have served two [Illegible Text] years in a decked boat, and have given satisfactory evidence of character and skill. Every certificate pilot shall serve eighteen months, before he shall be entitled to an increased authority: Provided, That in case of emergency, the commissioners of pilotage shall, by and with the advice and consent of the Mayor of the city of Savannah, appoint such additional pilots as the said Mayor shall deem expedient; the restrictions contained in this section to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 9. And be it further enacted, That when the evidence of any person not a resident in the county wherein an appeal may be allowed, or whose present attendance in court cannot conveniently be had, may be required in any suit or proceeding in said court, under this act, it shall be lawful for the clerk of said court, to issue a commission to two or more [Illegible Text] therein to be named, authorising them to examine such person in the manner usually pursued in the Superior

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Court: Provided, the party seeking such evidence, shall serve the adverse party, or his or their attorney, with a copy of the interrogatories to be exhibited to the witness, at least three days before the issuing of the commission: and the examination of such witness shall be read on the trial of said case. Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That the whole of the third section, and the words, or any one of them, which follow the words, in his duty to the commissioners, in the first sentence of the seventh section, and the latter clause of the said seventh section, of the act passed the sixth of December, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, beginning with the words, if such suspended pilot shall under any [Illegible Text], and all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23, 1830. POOR. AN ACT to authorise and impower the Justices of the Inferior court of Morgan county to establish an Institutio in said county, for the relief of the invalid poor thereo and to invest in said court corporate powers, for the government of the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is [Illegible Text] enasted by the authority of the same, That from and [Illegible Text]

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after the passage of this act, the Justices of the Inferior Court of Morgan, to wit: Isaac Walker, William Porter, Elijah E. Jones, Thaddeus B. Rees and Roderick Leonard, (and their successors in office,) be, and they are hereby invested with full and sufficient power to establish an institution in said county for the relief of the invalid poor of said county, and that they are hereby authorised to appropriate one half of the Tax reserved to said county for the purpose of erecting said institution: Provided, however that the said Justices shall not be compelled to proceed to carry into effect this act, until they or a majority of them shall deem it to be expedient so to do. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Justices and their successors in office, shall be, and they are hereby constituted and appointed a corporate body for the purpose aforesaid, with full and sufficient power to pass all such bye-laws and regulations, not contrary to the laws and Constitution of this State, as they may deem to be necessary for the government of the same. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Justices be, and they are liable to sue and be sued, in the name of the Commissioners of the poor house, of the county of Morgan. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 2d. 1830.

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RELIEF. AN ACT for the relief of the securities of John [Illegible Text], tax Collector of Morgan county, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is [Illegible Text] enacted, by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, John G. Williams and John K. Browning [Illegible Text] for John Bellah, Tax Collector of Morgan county for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, be, and they are hereby fully and entirely discharged from their liability as securities upon the fi fa in favor of the State against said John Bellah as aforesaid: Provided, they place in the Central Bank, a note well endorsed according to the rules of said Bank, for the amount now due on said fi fa, subject to renewal and reduction in said Bank, as other notes discounted in said Bank. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That so soon as the said note shall be accepted by the said Directors, the same shall become a part of the Capital stock of said Bank and the said Directors shall file their receipt in the Treasury Department for that portion of the Taxes due the State for the county of Morgan, for the year aforesaid, which shall be secured by note. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are here-by repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 29th 1830.

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AN ACT to render legal and valid the election of Mayor of the city of Savannah and hamlets thereof, also all the ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, acts and doings of the Mayor and Aldermen of said city, and hamlets thereof, since the first day of July, eighteen hundred and thirty; also, to point out the number of Aldermen who shall compose a board, to transact business during certain periods of the year, and also, the number of Aldermen who shall be authorised to elect a Mayor, to empower the present and future Mayors of said city, to perform the duties of said Mayor until a successor shall be elected and qualified. Whereas, on the second Monday of September last, being the day prescribed by law for the election of Mayor of said city of Savannah, from the absence from the city of many of the Aldermen, there was not a majority of the Aldermen present to elect said Mayor and whereas, doubts may therefore be entertained of the legality of the election, then held by a minority thereof, and also of the acts of said Mayor and Aldermen, since said election. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the election of said Mayor by a minority of said Aldermen, convened in Council, on the said second Monday in September last, be, and is hereby declared to be as legal and valid as if the said election had been made by a full quorum or majority of said board of Aldermen on the day so prescribed law. Sec. 2. A nd be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all the ordinances, resolutions, rules, regulations, acts and doings of the Mayor and Aldermen of said city of Savannah in Council assembled, since the first day of July, in the present year of our Lord one thousand eight hundred and thirty, be, and are hereby declared to be as legal and valid as if the same had been passed by a full board of said Mayor and Aldermen, and as if the Mayor of said city so elected on the second Monday of September last, had been elected by a full quorum of said Aldermen. And whereas, it is difficult at certain periods of the year, to procure a full board of Aldermen for the transaction of business, and also to procure a full attendance on the day of election of Mayor of the saidcity.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, a majority of the Aldermen being in the city of Savannah at any time between the first of July and the fifteenth day of November, in each and every year hereafter, shall be, and the same are hereby declared to be a quorum for the transaction of all business in relation to said city, for and during said period: Provided, nothing in this act contained, shall authorise a less number than a majority of the whole number of Aldermen of said city, to grant or pay any money or monies for, or on account of said city or otherwise, out of the funds of said city. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, a majority of the Aldermen elected annually, on the first Monday in September, being within said city on the day prescribed by law, for the election of Mayor of said city, shall be, and are hereby authorised to meet and elect a Mayor of said city from the board of Aldermen, who shall then be in said city, shall be, and the same are are hereby declared to be a quorum for the purpose of said election. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, that the present Mayor and all the subsequent Mayors of said city, shall be, and are hereby authorised and required, provided they are members of the newly elected board of Aldermen, to exercise and fulfil the duties appertaining to Mayor of said city, until his or their successors shall be elected and qualified. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, [Illegible Text] of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1830.

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AN ACT for the relief of Henry H. Hall and Irvin Hall. Whereas, Henry H. Hall and Irvin Hall, did at the May term of the Superior Court of the county of Burke, in the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, enter themselves as the securities of one Kinchen Hall, for his appearance at the succeeding term of said Court, and the said Kenchen Hall having failed to appear a judgment has been entered up against the said securities for the sums of four hundred dollars each, the amount of said recognizance. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Inferior Court of the county of Burke, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to release the said Henry H. Hall and Irvin Hall, from the payment of the whole or any part of the said judgment, as they may think proper. Provided, they shall not be authorised to release them from the payment of the costs of said judgment. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14, 1830. AN ACT to repeal an act, entitled An act, for the relief of the Butchers and Venders of meats in the city of Augusta, passed on the fourth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the above recited

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act, entitled An act, for the relief of the Butchers and Venders of meats in the city of Augusta, passed on the fourth day of December, in the year of our Lord, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-nine, be, and the same is hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 2d, 1830. AN ACT to change the name of Joseph Smith to that of Joseph Fletcher, and the name of Lawena Wheelor to that of Lavinia Duke, and the name of Jackson Hogan to that of Jackson Mathews. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the said Joseph Smith, shall be called and known in law by the name of Joseph Fletcher, and the said Lawena Wheelor shall be called and known in law by the name of Lavinia Duke, and the said Jackson Hogan shall be called and known in law by the name of Jackson Mathews; any law usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14th. 1830.

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AN ACT for the relief of John Hardee, security on the Bond of Joseph Crews, given according to law, by the said Joseph Crews, as Tax Collector of the county of Camden, for the years eighteen hundred and five, six, and seven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, John Hardee, security on the Tax Collectors Bond, given by Joseph Crews, according to law, while Tax Collector of the county of Camden, for, and during the years aforesaid, shall be, and he is hereby released from all liability on said Bond: Provided, That nothing in this act contained, shall be so construed as to exonerate the said Joseph Grews, principal in said bond, or Edward Shearman his other security. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d 1830. AN ACT to alter and change the name of Henry Langford to that of Henry Dees, and to legitamatise the same, and to change the name of William W. Edwards to that of William W. Alford. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, that the person now known by the name of Henry Langford of Lowndes county, shall be called and known in law by the name of Henry Dees; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

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Sec. 2. A nd be it further enacted, That the said Henry Dees, is hereby declared to be fully and completely [Illegible Text], and entitled to all the rights and legal privileges and [Illegible Text] of taking, inheriting and receiving, all manner of property by the statute of distribution, as he would have been entitled to, had he been born in lawful wedlock, so far as respects the estate of his reputed father. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the name of William W. Edwards be changed to that of William W. Alford. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the purchasers of the [Illegible Text] interest, in lands which have been condemned as [Illegible Text] drawn in the counties of Bibb, Houston, Crawford, Monroe, Upson, Pike, Henry, Fayette, DeKalb and Newton. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any purchaser or purchasers of the States interest in lots of land which have been condemned in any of the aforesaid counties, as having been fraudulently drawn, who has or have forfeited the same, shall be entitled to all the benefits of his, or their said purchase as fully, as if he or they had incurred no such forfeiture: Provided, he or they shall pay into the Treasury of this State, by the first day of July next, all unpaid instalments with interest thereon, which are due upon said purchase. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the first purchaser of the States interest aforesaid, shall not be entitled to any

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benefit under the provisions of this act, when the land has been sold a second time by reason of the forfeiture. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1830. AN ACT to authorise the Justices of the Inferior Court of Jasper county, to remit a forfeiture incurred by Henry Dillon of said county. Whereas, Henry Dillon became liable on a recognizance bond, for the appearance of Sam'l. G. Stanly at the April term of Jasper Superior Court, eighteen hundred and twenty nine, and it being evident by the discharge of L. L. Wilson, who was presented with said Stanly, and for the same offence, and that had said Stanly appeared he would have been acquitted and the said Dillon released. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That from and after the passage of said act, the Justices of the Inferior Court of Jasper county, or a majority of them, shall be authorised to remit the whole or a part of said forfeiture, or execution against said Dillon, should they deem it expedient: Provided, said relief shall not be granted until it shall appear to said Justices of the Inferior Court by certificate, that all costs that have accrued in said cases have been fully discharged and satisfied. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 6, 1830.

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AN ACT to alter and change the names of certain persons therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, Lewis Elvington, Benjamin Elvington, Henry Elvington, Mathew Elvington, John Elvington and William Elvington, shall be called and known in law by the name of Lewis Vickers, Benjamin Vickers, Henry Vickers, Matthew Vickers, John Vickers and William Vickers; any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14th 1830. AN ACT to legitimatize and change the name of Georgia Caroline Pickard, to that of Georgia Caroline Paul, and the name of Loveda Ann Kellehand, to that of Loveda Ann Currie, and to authorise Missouri Adeline Clark and Minerva Caroline Clark to inherit and receive property, both real and personal, by virtue of the statute of distributions of this State, and to change the names of other persons therein named. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the name of Georgia Caroline Pickard, be, and the same is hereby changed to that of Georgia

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Caroline Paul and the name of Loveda Ann Kellehan to that of Loveda Ann Currie, and that they are hereby completely and fully legitimatized and entitled to all the right and privileges that they would have had if they had [Illegible Text] born in lawful wedlock, and capable of taking and inheriting and receiving all manner of property, by virtue of the statute of distributions of this State, as far as relates to the estate, both real and personal, of their reputed father. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That Missouri Adeline Clark and Minerva Caroline Clark shall, be, and they are hereby declared to be capable of receiving and inheriting all manner of property, both real and personal of Joshua B. Clark of Jones county, their reputed father: Provided, nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorise the aforesaid persons, to inherit to the exclusion of other children of their said reputed father, who have been, or may hereafter be born in lawful wedlock. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the name of James T. Herring of Emanuel county, be changed to James T. Powell, and the name of James Allen of Wilkinson county, be changed to that of James W. Swint, and the name of Mary Ann Lee to that of Mary Ann Solomons. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d. 1830.

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AN ACT for the relief of purchasers of fractions, towns lots and islands at the late land sales, made at Milledgeville, in the years eighteen hundred and twenty-eight and eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, and at the sales of town lots in the Towns of Macon and Columbus. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the purchaser of any fraction, town lot or island, sold at any of the late sales, whose right to the same may have become forfeited by a failure to pay any instalment, agreeably to the provisions of the acts, authorising said sales to be re-invested with the right to said fraction, lot or island, except such as may have been sold by authority of the State subsequent [Illegible Text] such forfeiture: Provided, he shall pay all or any instalment due and unpaid, with the interest due thereon, on or before the first day of July next. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1830. AN ACT for the relief of George Millen, William K. [Illegible Text] and Robert M. Goodwin, of the county of Chatham, from the operation of the act passed, twentieth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, concerning duelling. Whereas, it appears that George Millen, William K. Guerineau and Robert M. Goodwin, have violated the act concerning

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duelling, passed on the twentieth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and are thereby prevented from holding any [Illegible Text] civil or military, and whereas, citizens of the said county, respectable both as to character and number, have recommended the said George Millen, William K. Guerineau and Robert M. Goodwin, to the clemency of the Legislature, from the peculiar circumstances of their cases; and whereas, it is believed that a judicious exercise of clemency by the Legislature will conduce to abolish the barberous custom of duelling, and will certainly have the effect in preventing a repetition of the offence, by those to whom the Legislature have extended its mercy. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That immediately after the passage of this act, the said George Millen, William K. Guerineau and Robert M. Goodwin, be, and they are hereby relieved from all the pains and penalties incurred by a violation of the said act, concerning duelling, and that they be allowed to hold and exercise the duties of any office, either civil or military, as if the said act of the twentieth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight had not been passed: Provided nevertheless, That this act shall not have the effect or be so construed as to exempt the said George Millen, William K. Guerineau and Robert M. Goodwin, from the operation of the said act, when the violation of the same has been committed subsequent to the passage of this act. Sec. 2. And [Illegible Text] it further enacted, That all laws militating against this act, so far as the said George Millen, William K. Guerineau and Robert M. Goodwin are concerned, be and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT for the relief of the securities of Robert Henry, [Illegible Text] deceased, Tax Collector of Liberty county, and to authorize Robert Henry, jr. one of his securities, to collect the Taxes now due and uncollected in said county, for the years, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. Whereas, Robert Henry, sen'r. Tax Collector for the county of Liberty, for the years, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven, and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, died before he had collected all the taxes for said county, for the years aforesaid, which said taxes remain still uncollected. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General [Illegible Text] met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Robert Henry, jr. of said county, and of the securities of said Robert Henry, sen'r.dec'd, Tax Collector as aforesaid, be, and he is hereby authorised to collect and receive the taxes levied, for the county of Liberty, for the years, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, which remain uncollected, to issue executions whenever it may be necessary, to inforce the collections of said taxes and to do all other things necessary for the collections of said taxes in as full and ample a manner as the former tax collector was authorised to do, by law: Provided, the said Robert Henry, jr. before he shall enter upon the collection of said taxes, shall give bond and security, and take the oath required by law of Tax Collectors in ordinary cases. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws, or parts of laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to relieve John A. Jones, John D. Chapman, John R. Mahone, and the legal representatives of Abner Hammond, dec'd. from the payment of certain money as therein mentioned. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That John A. Jones, John D. Chapman, John R. Mahone, and the legal representatives of Abner Hammond, dec'd, and their securities, be, and they are hereby released from the payment of the balance due on a certain judgment obtained in the Superior Court of the county of Baldwin in favor of the Bank of Darien, against the said Jones, Chapman, Mahone, Hammond and others, securities: Provided however, That they shall satisfy and pay all costs of said suit, and that the sum which may be hereby released, shall be from the interest owned by the State, in the stock of said Bank. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 20th. Dec. 1830. AN ACT for the relief of the estate of James Nephew, dec'd. Whereas, the said James Nephew, in his life time was security to the State for William S. Taylor, Tax Collector for the county of McIntosh, for the years, eighteen hundred and thirteen, and eighteen hundred and fourteen; and whereas, the said William S. Taylor made default in settling his account thereof, with the Treasury of the State, in consequence of which, an execution was issued against him and the said James Nephew, as his security: upon which the said

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James Nephew had the said execution transferred to Wilkes county, the then residence of the said William S. Taylor, and where his [Illegible Text] then was: That the said execution was actually levied on the said Taylors property: who on the twenty-fourth of July, eighteen hundred and twenty, obtained an Executive order, staying further proceedings until first of January, ensuing: That the Legislature afterwards interfered, by a joint resolution, dated, the twenty-eighth day of November, eighteen hundred and twenty, whereby the Governor was requested to suspend all proceedings against William S. Taylor, formerly Tax Collector of McIntosh county and his securities, one year from and after the twenty-fifth of December, next: and whereas, the arrest or the proceedings under the said execution, was contrary to the wish and interest of the said James Nephew, as expressed, by his having the said Taylor's property levied on in Wilkes county, and consequently absolved him from all further responsibility: Yet nevertheless, an execution for the said Taylor's defaults, has recently issued against the said estate, founded on its supposed liability, which is contrary to both law and justice. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the estate of the said James Nephew, be, and is hereby fully released from all liability as security to the State, for William S. Taylor, and that the proper officer enter up a full discharge on the execution against such estate accordingly. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT for the relief of the citizens of the county of Crawford. 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 Tax Collectors of the county of Crawford, be, and they are hereby authorised and required to pay over to the Inferior Court of said county, the whole amount of the taxes collected by them respectively in said county, for the years, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and thirty, and eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and that on the production of proper receipts to the Treasurer and Comptroller General's Offices, the same shall be received in settlement on the part of said Tax Collectors, for the tax collected by them in each of the above mentioned years respectively. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Tax Collectors for the county aforesaid, for the years, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and eighteen hundred and thirty-four, be, and they are hereby required to pay into the Treasury of this State, the whole amount of the tax collected by them in said county for each of the years above mentioned, respectively, or so much thereof, as will be sufficient to refund the amount of the State tax received for the benefit of said county. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That in case there should be a deficit in the amount of taxes paid in from said county, for the years, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, eighteen hundred and thirty-three, and eighteen hundred and thirty-four, in reimbursing the amount received by said county, in the taxes of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, eighteen hundred and thirty, and eighteen hundred and thirty-one; then and in that case, said deficit shall be made good by the Tax Collector of said [Illegible Text], for the year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, paying into the Treasury of this State, out of the dividend of taxes granted to said county under the existing tax laws, [Illegible Text] equal to the amount of said deficit. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to authorise the Justices of the Inferior Court of Wilkinson county, to relieve Abraham T. Fairchild from the payment of a judgement entered against him as the security of Carroll Usery, upon a forfeited recognizance. Whereas, Abraham T. Fairchild, did heretofore enter himself as the security of one Carroll Usery, for his appearance at April term, eighteen hundred and thirty, of the Superior Court of Wilkinson county, and the said Usery having [Illegible Text] to appear, judgment has since been entered against the said Abranam T. Fairchild, the security for the sum of five hundred dollars, the amount of said bond. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Justices of the Inferior Court of Wilkinson county or a majority of them, be, and they are hereby fully authorised to discharge the said Abraham T. Fairchild, security as aforesaid, from the payment of the whole or any part of said judgment, as they may think proper, except from the payment of costs of said judgment: Provided, he should be otherwise liable to pay the same. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. [Illegible Text] to, 25th Nov. 1830.

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AN ACT to authorise and require the Comptroller General to remit the interest paid by, or due from William Scott, junior, Tax Collector of the county of Camden, and to relinquish to the Trustees of Camden county Academy, certain monies claimed by the State. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the Comptroller General, be, and he hereby is authorised and required to remit the interest charged against William Scott, jun'r. former Tax Collector of the county of Camden, and the Treasurer is hereby required to pay to the Commissioners of Camden county Academy, according to the amount that may have been received as interest on the taxes of said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Solicitor General of the Eastern Circuit, be, and he hereby is directed to relinquish to the Commissioners of Gamden county Academy, all monies claimed by the State, from the sale of the property of Elihu Atwater, over and above the principal sum due by the said William Scott, [Illegible Text] for the taxes of said county. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented, to, 23d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to exempt the officers and members of the Volunteer Corps of Cavalry, in the city of Augusta, known as the Richmond Hussars, from the performance of Jury duty, and also to exempt certain property therein named from levy and sale under execution. 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 officers and members of the Volunteer Corps of Cavalry, in the city of Augusta, known as the Richmond Hussars, shall be exempt and wholly excused from the performance of Jury duty, whether in the Superior, Inferior or Justices Courts in said county, as well as in the court of Common Pleas in, and for said city. And it shall be the duty of the Judges and Justices of the Courts aforesaid, to exclude from the Jury-boxes belonging to their several courts, the names of all such officers and members, and every summons to serve on any jury directed and served upon any of said officers or members, shall be null and void: Provided, That said company shall exceed seventy-five in number. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this act, each officer and member of said Corps of Cavalry, shall be allowed to have and keep one horse, saddle, bridle and other necessary equipments which shall not be subject to be levied on or sold by any ministerial officer, under or by virtue of any execution, distress warrant or other legal process whatsoever; and when any officer or member shall have more than one horse, then the provisions of this section shall apply to, and preserve from levy and sale, as herein before described, the particular horse on which said officer or member usually parades, and no other. Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws contrary to the provisions of this act, be, and they are hereby repealed, so far as they militate against the same. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1830.

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AN ACT to vest in George A. B. Walker, and Valantine Walker, [Illegible Text] of Freeman Walker, deceased, and their Executors, and [Illegible Text] forever. All the right, title and interest of the State of Georgia, in and to all that lot, piece or parcel of land, situate, lying and being on Washington and Green streets, in the city of Augusta, and known in the plan of said city, as lot number forty. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, all the right, title, interest, claim and demand of this State in, and to all that lot, piece, or parcel of land and premises, with the improvements and appurtenances, situate, lying and being on Washington and Green streets, in the city of Augusta, which lot is known in the plan of said city as lot number forty, shall be, and the same is hereby vested in George A. B. Walker and Valentine Walker, Executors of the last will and testament of Freeman Walker, [Illegible Text] and their Executors and Administrators, forever, in as full and ample manner as if the same had been regularly sold and conveyed to them by the Commissioners of [Illegible Text] property, escheator, sheriff or other proper officer, after all the requisite forms of law, had been complied with. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said George A. B. Walker and Valentine Walker, Executors as aforesaid, and their Executors and Administrators, shall have all and singular the rights, privileges, immunities, benefits and prerogatives of law, which would of right, belong, appertain, or apply to the State, if this act had not passed and the same shall attach, belong, appertain and apply to the said Executors and their Executors and Administrators, in right of their title and estate in and to the said property hereby conveyed: any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, [Illegible Text].

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AN ACT for the relief of Woody Jackson and John Hale, of Oglethorpe county, purchasers each of University lands, and to repeal an act, entitled an act, for the relief of John Hale, passed twentieth of day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight. Whereas, at the sales of the University lands, in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen, Woody Jackson and John Hale, each of Oglethorpe county, purchased lots, the former, numbers, three and four, and the latter, numbers, five, six, seven, and fraction number one, of the falling creek tract, for which they severally executed their bonds payable in four equal annual instalments to the Trustees of the University of Georgia, which said bonds have been sued upon, and carried into judgments by the Solicitor General of the Northern Circuit; and whereas twenty-four and four tenth acres of lots numbers, three and four have been recovered from said Jackson, and seventy-eight and nine tenths acres of lots numbers, five, six, seven and fraction number one, from said Hale in suits at law by adverse title; and whereas, loss of papers and other causes have concurred to make it impracticable for the Treasurer to carry into effect the provisions of the act, passed the twentieth of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight for the relief of John Hale. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the Solicitor General of the Northern Circuit, who has prosecuted ted said bonds to judgments, or his successors in office, and he or they are hereby required to allow to, and settle with the said Woody Jackson and John Hale, by entering on their several judgments against each, the following credits, viz: Upon the judgment against Woody Jackson, the sum of three hundred and nineteen dollars and eighty cents, and upon the judgment against John Hale, the sum of three hundred and fifty-one dollars and thirty three cents, the same being the full amount of the value of said lands respectively lost as aforesaid, estimated by the proportion lost and its original cost, to the original cost and quantity of [Illegible Text] sold. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Treasurer, and he is hereby required to credit the receipt which he holds of the Solicitor [Illegible Text] of the [Illegible Text]

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Circuit, for the several bonds aforesaid, with the amounts hereby respectively allowed as a credit due to each, as so much cash received from him. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the act entitled an act for the relief of John Hale, passed on twentieth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, be, and the same is hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d 1830. AN ACT to require the Commissioners of Pilotage for the Bar and River Savannah, to restore John Low a suspended Pilot to all the rights and privileges of a Pilot. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Commissioners of Pilotage of the Bar and River Savannah, be, and they are hereby authorised and required without delay, to restore John Low, a suspended pilot to all the rights and privileges of a pilot; any order, law, usage, or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to Dec. 23d, 1830.

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AN ACT to emancipate and set free, Joy, Rose and her two sons Jim and John, formerly the property of Ramond Demere, late of St. Simon's Island, in the county of Glynn. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, Joy, Rose and her two sons, Jim and John, formerly the property of Ramond Demere, late of St. Simon's Island, in the county of Glynn, be, and they are hereby emancipated and set free, as an acknowledgment of their extraordinary services in protecting the property of their owner, Ramond Demere of St. Simon's Island, from the depredations of the British Maurauders during the late war with Great Britain: Provided, That the Executors and heirs of the said Demere shall be held liable for the support and maintenance of said slaves, so far as to indemnify the county of Glynn or any other county against all damage by occasion of their infirmity and inability to support themselves. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Joy, Rose and her two sons, Jim and John, be, and they are hereby entitled to all the privileges, and subject to all the laws of this State, for the regulation and Government of free persons of colour. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives, THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d 1830.

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RIVERS. AN ACT to amend an act, to lay off, define and keep open the main channel of Savannah River, from Augusta to the mouth of Lightwood-log Creek, in Elbert county, so as to prevent the obstruction of navigation and the free passage of fish therein, and to punish those who may obstruct the same, and to point out the mode of their compensation, passed the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty nine. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That all persons violating the provisions of the third section of the above recited act, shall be liable to indictment for a common nuisance, before the Superior Court, having jurisdiction of the case, and on conviction thereof, shall pay a fine of one hundred dollars per day for every day such nuisance or obstruction shall remain unremoved, one half of such fine to go to the informer, and the other half to go to the county in which such conviction is had. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioners appointed by the authority of the act as before recited, be, and the same are hereby invested with full power to employ a competent surveyor to lay off and define the main channel of Savannah River and with like power to employ a boat and suitable hand to manage the same more effectually to the ascertainment and removal of all kinds of obstructions and encroachments to the navigation of the said River Savannah, and the free passage of fish up the same, and the expense of said work be paid for in conformity to the provisions of the fifth section of the act passed the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine; and all laws, usages, or customs to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1830.

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ROADS. AN ACT amendatory of an act to provide for the improvement of the Roads and Rivers in this State, passed the eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. 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 superintendents shall employ the hands and [Illegible Text] on the several market roads, and on such part thereof as may in their judgment conduce to the public interest: They shall also adopt such measures of general management as may best preserve the health and morals of the public hands, and effect the most usefulness: They may have authority to call into service any county or other surveyors, for the purpose of laying off or measuring, existing or projected roads, who shall be paid for such services by the counties in which such services may be rendered, not exceeding three dollars per day: They may be authorised to relinquish the management and care of any road which shall have been completed by the public hands, for any distance not less than ten miles to the Inferior Court of the county in which such roads may be, and said court shall thereupon direct the overseers of the district hands heretofore attached to said road, carefully to work upon and preserve the same. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the overseers of the public hands shall receive the sum of three hundred dollars each per annum, for their salaries, with common soldiers rations per day, and week: That the superintendents shall receive the sum of twelve hundred dollars per annum, without rations or other allowance, to be paid quarterly by the Governor: That the public hands shall be supplied with rations as follows: Three quarters of a pound of bacon, or one pound of pork, or one and one fourth pounds of fresh [Illegible Text], and two pounds of good corn meal per day each, and one pint of molasses, half a pound of salt, and one fourth of a pound of tobacco per week each; and that each of the public hands shall

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be furnished with two good suits of strong cotton cloth for summer wear, and two good suits of wool or wool and cotton cloth for winter wear, one good blanket, a wool hat and two good pair of coarse shoes per year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents in their respective divisions, have authority under such emergency or [Illegible Text] as may in their judgment render it necessary to direct the employment of such portion of the public hands as are not specially detailed for river service upon any river or rivers, not exceeding two months in any one year: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be so construed, as to prohibit the Commissioners of Flint river, from employing the public hands, for the improvement of said river, for any length of time in the year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, not exceeding six months. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the superintendents be authorised to direct the overseers of the public hands, to take and convert to the use of the public roads or rivers, any timber, stone, gravel, or other materials that may be required in the improvement of said roads and rivers, restricted however by the provisions of the general road law. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That his Excellency the Governor, be authorised to direct the sale of such of the public hands as may be designated by the superintendents to be incompetent to discharge the duties of able bodied men, or who by vicious habits or temper may be improper associates for the public hands. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the sum of five thousand dollars heretofore appropriated to the improvement of Broad river, be invested in the purchase of able-bodied male slaves, to be placed under the superintendence of a competent overseer, to work on the road leading from Augusta, via. Goshen, Petersburg, Elberton, Carnesville, and Clarkville, to Clayton in Rabun county, the said overseer to be under the direction of the superintendent of roads. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this law, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1830.

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AN ACT to amend an act, entitled An act, to authorise Ebenezer Jencks, to establish a toll on the Newington road, between Joshua Loper's in the county of Effingham, and the city of Savannah, passed on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and three, and to compel the said Ebenezer Jencks to keep said road in good repair, or to forfeit his right of taking toll during such time as the said road shall be out of repair, and also to appoint Commissioners to carry this act into effect, and to throw open said road under certain circumstances. Whereas, the said recited act requires the said Ebenezer Jencks to keep the said road in good repair. And whereas the Commissioners appointed by that act, are all dead, so that there are no persons who are legally authorised to cause the said Jencks to keep the said road in good repair, for remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That when the said road shall at any time hereafter be out of good repair, the said Ebenezer Jencks shall not have any right or title to charge the tolls authorised by the said act, or by an act amendatory thereof, passed on the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and four, until the said road shall have been put in good repair, and his gate shall be thrown open to all persons passing on said road, until the said road is so put in good order. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the following persons to wit: John H. Morel, John Shellman, Richard F. Williams, Edward Burguine, Andrew Bird, Allen Rawls and Howell Hines, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners of the said road, who shall constitute a board, a majority of whom shall have power to act, and transact all business in relation to said road; and they shall have power to inspect said road, whenever they may think necessary, and determine whether the same is, or is not in good repair, as required by the act to which this is amendatory. And whenever a majority of said board shall determine that the said road is out of repair, they shall notify the same to the said Ebenezer Jencks, or his agent, and require him to throw open his said gate, and to suffer all persons to pass without requiring any toll, until the said road shall be again put in good order, and the said board shall

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have authorised the said Jencks or his agent, again to receive toll; Provided, that thirty days notice shall be given by them, of such their determination, to the said Ebenezer Jencks, his agent, or the person receiving toll at said gate. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if the said Ebenezer Jencks or his agent, shall demand or receive toll from any person travelling on said road, during the time that his right is so as aforesaid, suspended, he shall be liable to pay a fine of twenty dollars, to any person who will prosecute for the same, for each and every offence, and each demand or receipt of toll from any individual shall constitute a misdemeanor, and be subject to indictment or presentment as other offences are, and upon conviction and sentence, one half of the fine shall go to the county and the other half to the informer. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That when any vacancy shall happen in the board of Commissioners, by death, resignation or otherwise, the same shall be filled by a majority of the surviving board of Commissioners, within the sixty days after such vacancy shall occur. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if the said Jencks shall abandon the said road, and refuse to keep the same in good repair, it shall be the duty of the Commissioners aforesaid, to turn over said road to the Commissioners of roads of Chatham county: Provided, That notice of such intention shall be given said Jencks, thirty days before said road shall be turned over. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS. President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22d, 1830.

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AN ACT to authorise and require the board of Commissioners of public roads on St. Simon's Island, to appropriate hands to open a road, canal and cuts on said Island. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the Commissioners of public roads on the Island of St. Simon's, shall appropriate thirty hands to clear out and deepen Oglethorpe's canal, through the centre of the Savannah, near the Church on said Island. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners of said roads be authorised and required, to appropriate thirty hands to open a public road from the seven mile post on said Island, in the direction a foot-path now goes, to west point landing on the south branch of the Altamaha river, for the convenience of the citizens residing on the eastern side of said Island. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners of said roads be authorised and required to employ annually, thirty hands to keep open the cuts through the marshes, between Frederica and Hog Call landing, on the main land of Glynn county, for the general accommodation of the inhabitants of said county. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Thomas F. Hazzard, Alexander C Wylly and James Frevin, be appointed special Commissioners to carry the same into effect, and attend annually to the employment of the said hands, until the said work is completed. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the hands so appropriated shall be taken from the male slaves liable to road duty on St. Simon's Island, and after the said work is completed, the said Commissioners shall continue to employ the said male slaves to drain the low grounds and ponds that overflow the road: with a view to improve the health, as well as the roads, on said Island, and that hereafter the said road, canal and cuts, be worked on at the same time that other public roads are repaired in Glyna county.

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Sec. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all acts and parts of acts, operating against this act, shall, and the same are hereby repealed, and of no effect. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 25, 1830. AN ACT to establish a ferry, from the new road recently opened through the lands of R. Grant and P. Butler, on the Altamaha river, in Glynn county, to Darien, in McIntosh county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That from and after the passing of this act, it shall be lawful to keep a ferry from the new road recently opened through the lands of R. Grant and P. Butler, on the Altamaha River, in Glynn [Illegible Text], to Darien in McIntosh county, to facilitate the intercourse between said counties. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Michael Ponsel is appointed ferryman of said ferry. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That as a compensation to the said Ponsel (or his successors in office,) for keeping in good repair the said ferry, that he is authorised to receive for conveying to and from Darien, a single passenger, one dollar. For conveying a man and horse two dollars. For, a horse and gig, three. For, a four wheel carriage, and two (or more) horses, four dollars, for each trip. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said [Illegible Text] is required to keep in good order and

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readiness one strong and safe ferry flat, and boats sufficient to punctually perform the duty of ferryman on said river, under such a penalty as the board of Commissioners or two thirds of them may impose. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws operating against this act, shall, and the same is hereby repealed, and of no effect. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1830. AN ACT to repeal the eighth section of an act, passed the ninth day of December, eighteen hundred and eighteen, entitled an act, to alter and amend the road laws of this State, so far as relates to the county of Jackson, and to point out and define the duties of the Justices of the Inferior Court and overseers of roads in said county, so far as relates to the width of roads and causeways. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the said eighth section of the above [Illegible Text] act, be, and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to the county of Jackson. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all overseers of roads in and for the county of Jackson, shall cause all main market roads much used for that purpose, to be cleared out at least thirty feet wide, and all causeways on such roads at least sixteen feet wide, and all other county roads twenty feet wide, and all causeways at least twelve feet wide.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior Court, and they are hereby authorised to designate and decide, what roads are main market roads and what county roads as contemplated by this act. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts thereof, that militate against this act, be and the same is hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 20th 1830. AN ACT to authorise the Justices of the Inferior Court of Oglethorpe county, or a majority, to hire or purchase negroes for the improvement of roads and bridges, and to lone out at interest the county funds. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Justices of the Inferior Court of Oglethorpe county, or a majority, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to purchase or hire negroes, and all necessary, cattle, tools and implements, and the same to employ at their discretion in the improvement of the public roads and bridges of said county, or such parts or portions thereof, as said Court may deem proper, to make any and all contracts necessary or conducive to the improvement of the roads and bridges in said county; and to loan out at interest, from time to time, upon good freehold security, all or any part of the county funds, to collect the same by suit or otherwise, as the Court may deem proper, and all previous loans

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of money made heretofore by said Court, is hereby made legal and come within the provisions of this act. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 23d Dec. 1830. SLAVES. AN ACT to regulate slaves in the county of Twiggs, and to punish their owners or managers in certain cases, and to prevent the sale of poultry by slaves, except in certain cases. Whereas, much evil exists in the county of Twiggs, in consequence of owners and managers of slaves, permitting them to hire their time, and live separate and apart from their owners or managers, and from the liberty given by the owners or managers of slaves, to them, to furnish victualing on public days, in said countyFor remedy whereof, Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first day of January next, it shall not be lawful for any owner or manager of any slave or slaves in the county of Twiggs, to allow him or them to hire his or their own time, to live on a separate town lot, from his owner or manager, or to hire themselves on any farm or plantation, or hire any slave or slaves to any other person to the intent that said slaves, may be allowed to live separate and apart from

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their owner or manager, or to be allowed to furnish victuals for sale or accommodation of any person or persons whatsoever, and that any owner or manager offending against this act, shall be deemed and considered guilty of a misdemeanor, and subject to indictment for the same, and on conviction, shall be fined in a sum not less then fifty dollars, nor more than one hundred dollars. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That any two or more freeholders may, whenever they know of any slave or slaves living separate and apart from their owner or manager, in the county aforesaid, and doing any act, which manifests to them that they are allowed to act for themselves or furnish victuals for any persons whatever, for pay or emolument, take said slave or slaves to the keeper of the common jail of said county, who shall receive them, and safely keep them until the owner or managers shall have paid all jail fees and given bond and security to abide the judgment of the Court on any indictment which may be instituted onder this act, and which jail fees shall be the same as in all other cases, for the imprisonment of slaves. Provided, That the jailer shall not be authorised to receive any slave from said freeholders until one or more of them shall file an affidavit, that said slave or slaves, has been apprehended with a view to the inforcement of this act. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That any person purchasing of any slave, any poultry without a written authority from the owner or manager of said slave, shall be held and deemed guilty of a misdemeanor and on conviction, shall be fined not exceeding twenty dollars. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d. 1830.

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AN ACT, to amend an act, regulating patrols, passed the eighteenth November, seventeen hundered and sixty-five, so as to vest the appointment of patrols in the Justices of the peace. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority af the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the Justice or Justices of the Peace in each captains district in this State, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and required to appoint patrols for their respective districts, make out a schedule of all persons liable to do patrol duty, and at the first Justice Court in their district, or in five days thereafter, they shall organise patrol companies as the law directs, and exercise all the powers in doing so, and enforcing the same, that are vested in the captains of the district companies or other militia officers, for neglect of duty, to be subject to like penalties or forfeitures. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts, which militate against the intent and meaning of this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 20th, 1830.

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TAX. AN ACT to impose, levy, and collect a tax for the political year, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, on property real and personal, and to inflict penalties for neglecting or failing to comply with the provisions thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the act passed on the eighteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, together with all acts, and parts of acts, which said act revived and continued in force, shall be, and they are hereby declared to be revived and continued in force, as the tax act for the political year, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all brokers, private bankers, or exchange merchants, or firm, or firms of brokers, private bankers, or exchange merchants, and their agents in this State, shall during the month of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, respectively return on oath, to the receivers of tax returns of the respective counties of this State, where he or they shall reside or do business, the maximum amount of capital which he or they employ, or intend to employ, in their said business at any time during said year, and the said brokers, private bankers, or exchange merchants, or firm or firms of Brokers, exchange merchants, or their agents, shall pay a tax of thirty-one and a quarter cents on every hundred dollars of capital so returned, to be levied, and collected by the tax collectors of the respective counties, as in other cases: Provided, That in all cases under this section, where a firm shall be required to make a return as above specified, that a return by one member for, and in behalf of the firm to which he belongs shall be deemed sufficient. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons, (except the incorporated Banks of this State,) shall be found after the first day of February next, and during the said year eighteen hundred and thirty-one, doing the business of a broker, private banker, or exchange merchant, or

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as their agent, without having made the return required by the second section of this act, it shall be the duty of the receiver of tax returns for the county where said broker or brokers, private banker or bankers, exchange merchant or merchants, or his, or their agent or agents, may reside, or do business, to return said broker or brokers, private banker or bankers, exchange merchant or merchants, or his, or their agent or agents, as defaulters, who shall pay a tax for said year of five hundred dollars, to be levied and collected by the tax collector as in other cases, or by a capias ad satisfaciendum. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That one half of the tax of each county so directed to be levied, shall be paid into the treasury of this State as heretofore, and the other half to the Inferior court of the respective counties, for county purposes, to be placed by them in the hands of the county treasurer, where there are treasurers, and where none, the clerks of the Inferior court for safe keeping, to be appropriated by said courts to the building court houses and jails, and to the building of public bridges, the improvement of public roads, and for the support of the poor, for the eduction of youth, as said courts, may severally direct, as most expedient, any law, usage, or custom, to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the justices of the peace in each captain's district in this State, to make a return to the receivers of tax returns, of all persons liable to pay said taxes in their respective districts (when called on by said receivers) and that all laws making it the duty of captains of districts to make returns to receivers, be, and the same are hereby repealed. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the taxes to be levied by this act shall be reduced at and after the rate of twenty-five per cent. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all venders of lottery Tickets, other than those authorised by the laws of this State, shall pay a tax of thirty-one and one fonrth cents, on every hundred dollars worth of Tickets, by them vended, and a failure so to do, shall be subject to the same penalties, as brokers are subject to by this act. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That the makers of all change bills hereafter to be issued, or which shall be reissued, shall pay as a tax thereon fifty per cent. upon the amount so issued or re-issued; and that such makers and issuers of

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change bills shall return to the receiver of tax returns in the county in which he may reside, upon oath, the amount that he may have issued since the passing of this act. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d, [Illegible Text]. TOWNS. AN ACT, to amend an act, passed the twenty-second day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to incorporate the town of Bainbridge, in the county of Decatur. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That on the first Tuesday in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and on the first Tuesday in January, in every year thereafter, it shall be lawful for all persons, inhabitants within the corporate limits of said town, entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly of this State, to assemble at the court house of said town, or some other convenient place, that a majority of the Commissioners may appoint, by giving a reasonable notice of the place appointed, and under the superintendance of one or more Justices of the Peace for said county, to elect by ballot five Commissioners, who shall continue in Office for one year, and until their successors are elected, and if it shall so happen, that such election [Illegible Text] not take place on the day before appointed, it shall [Illegible Text] lawful for the same to be held on any other day, in manner and form before prescribed by this act, upon

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giving ten days notice in two or more public places, in said town. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the aforementioned Commissioners and their successors in office, shall have power and authority to pass all bye-laws, rules and regulations, and all other matters of Police, as seem to them conducive to the health, peace and well being, of the inhabitants thereof. Provided, the same is not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and of the United States, and shall have full power and authority to appoint such officers, as may be necessary, to carry into effect and execute such rules and regulations, as they may think proper, from time to time to establish. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners and their successors in office, shall have corporate jurisdiction over all lands that may have been laid [Illegible Text], or may hereafter be laid out for said town, and shall have exclusive control of the appointment of patrols, and the enforcing of patrol laws, now in force in the county of Decatur, within the limits of said Corporation, and, be liable to the same authorities for the neglect of enforcing patrol duty, as militia officers are, and subject to like penalties, for neglect of said duties. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Commissioners and their successors in office, shall have power if they may think it expedient, to levy a tax not to exceed fifty per cent, on the amount of the general or State tax, upon the inhabitants of said town, to be disposed of by said Commissioners, or a majority of them, for the purpose of clearing out the streets of said town, or any other thing that they may think expedient and necessary, for the convenience and welfare of the inhabitants of said town. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws militating against this act, be, and it is hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d 1830.

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AN ACT to amend and explain the several laws heretofore passed, in relation to the village of Salem, in Clark county. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the following persons, to wit: John W. Birch, James C. Anderson, Thomas Thompson, James C. Branch and James Nott, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners of the village of Salem, in the county of Clark, and that they, or a majority of them, shall have the power to convene at any time after the passage of this act, and proceed to the appointment of a Clerk, and such other officers as they may deem necessary to carry this act into effect. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That said Commissioners, and their successors in office, shall be capable of purchasing, and to have, hold, receive, enjoy, possess and retain, for the use of said village of Salem, in perpetuity, or for any term of years, any estate or estates, real or personal, within the limits of said village, and alien, exchange or lease the same, or any part thereof, as they shall or may think proper, and by the style of the corporation of Salem, to sue and be sued, to plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered [Illegible Text], in any court of law or equity, in this State, and they shall be empowered from time to time, to make and establish such bye-laws, rules and ordinances as they may deem expedient, respecting the streets of said village, spring, the regulation of negroes and disorderly persons, and in general, any other bye-laws and regulations that shall appear to them requisite or necessary, for the security, welfare and convenience of said village, or for preserving peace, order, and good government within the same; and the said Commissioners, [Illegible Text] also be vested with full power and authority to make such assessments on the inhabitants of said village as shall appear to them expedient, and to affix and levy fines for all offences committed against the bye-laws of said village. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Commissioners shall hold their respective appointments, hereby given them until the first Saturday in January, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-two, and until their successors are elected

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and qualified. At which time and every subsequent year thereafter, the citizens of said village of Salem, entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall choose by ballot, five persons to succeed them as Commissioners of said village: Provided, nothing herein contained, shall be so construed as to prevent the re-election of any of the above named Commissioners: And Provided also, That such bye-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That any one or more Justices of the Inferior Court or Justice of the Peace for the county of Clark, are hereby authorised to preside at such election for Commissioners as aforesaid. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That should there be no election held on the day pointed out by this act, an election may be held on any other day; a Justice of the Peace first advertising ten days in said village, before said election. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14, 1830. AN ACT to alter and amend an act, entitled an act, for the better regulating of Vendue Masters in this State, so far as it respects the Town of St. Marys. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and by the authority of the same it is hereby enacted, That from and immediately after the passing of this act, the tax on Vendue

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Masters in the Town of St. Marys, shall be reduced from twenty-five dollars, to twelve dollars and fifty cents, and that the bond heretofore required, shall also be reduced to one half of the amount required under a former law. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d. 1830. AN ACT to amend an act, entitled an act, to make permanent the site of the public buildings in the town of Hamilton, Harris county, in the town of Newnan, Coweta county, in the town of Talbotton, in Talbot, and the town of Greenville, in Meriwether, and to incorporate the same, so far as relates to the said town of Newnan. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the persons and slaves residing within the corporate limits of the said town of Newnan, liable to work on the public roads, shall be exempt from labour thereon beyond the limits of said town, and shall be liable to work on the streets, squares and other parts of said town, as the Commissioners thereof shall require, by any rule or ordinance of said town, not contravening the general law of the State. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case an election shall not be held at the time, and in the manner prescribed by the act hereby amended, it shall and may be lawful for any justice of the peace of said county of Coweta, and one or more freeholders, residing in said town

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of Newnan, to give at least ten days notice in writing at three or more public places in said town, that an election will be held for Commissioners on a day and at a place in said notice to be designated; which election shall be held, conducted and superintended in the manner directed by said act, hereby amended. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14, 1830. AN ACT to incorporate the Beneficial Society of Augusta. Whereas, a voluntary association of individuals has been formed in the city of Augusta, under the name and style of the Beneficial Society of Augusta, for the purpose of assisting the members thereof, when they are by sickness rendered incapable of labourAnd whereas, the said individuals, for the better enabling them to effect the object of their association, are desirous of being incorporated. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the smae, That Eli Mustin, Benjamin Brantly, Henry Gorton, Edmund P. Hill, Simeon H. Patterson, Joseph Boulineau, John Finn, Washington Lawson, Ebenezer Wright, David Aughtry, John C. Green, A. Boulware, Wm. P. Bagley, S. Refo, W. W. Lawrence, Edward O Chaffee, H. Kanderer, O. P Boulware, Henry Johnson, Wm. J. Hobby, jun'r. John C. Griffin, Rees H. Lin, Nelson Baird, R. F. Bush, James Pace, B. F. Lyon and Joseph Collins, and all others who now are, or hereafter may become members of the said society, by admission according to the constitution and bye-laws of said society, are hereby declared a body corporate, under, and by the name and style

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of the Beneficial Society, of Augusta, Georgia, and by that name, shall have a succession of officers and members, and by the said name may sue and be sued, implead and be impleaded, in any court of law and equity, and shall have power to make and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter and change at pleasure, and the full power of establishing changing or amending such constitution and bye-laws, as may have been already, or may hereafter be formed and adopted by the said society: Provided, such constitution and bye-laws, be not inconsistent with Constitution and laws of this State, or of the United States. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Nov. 20, 1830. AN ACT to authorise the members of the Independent Fire Company of the city of Augusta, to raise by lottery a sum of money therein named, for the benefit of said Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the members of the Independent Fire Company of the city of Augusta, and their successors, be, and they are hereby authorised, to raise by lottery, a sum of money not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, for the benefit of said company. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Augustin Slaughter, Alfred Cumming, John P. King, Samuel H. Peck, Francis Ganahl, Jacob G. McWhorter, and Dugald Patterson, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, a majority of whom, shall be competent to superintend and conduct said lottery, and the said Commissioners are hereby authorised

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to form such scheme and to divide the same into as many separate classes or drawings as in their judgment shall most promote the interest of said company, and any sum or sums of money which may be raised by said Commissioners under, and by virtue of this act, after deducting the necessary expenses of said lottery, shall be by them paid over to the treasurer or other officer of said Company, duly authorised to receive the same, for the use and benefit of said company. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 20, Dec. 1830. AN ACT to extend to the city and port of Darien, all the Health and Quarantine laws now in force, relating, and applicable to the city of Savannah. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted, by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, all acts and parts of acts, and laws of this State, which have been passed, to regulate the Quarantine and other health laws, in, to, or for the city of Savannah, shall, and they are hereby declared to be in full force and effect, in the city and port of Darien, and the waters attached thereto, as much as if the same were expressly named herein [Illegible Text] And the most full and ample references shall be made to them, to and for the use of the city of Darien, and to protect its health, under the direction and supervisal of the Mayor and Aldermen of the said city of Darien, agreeable to any ordinance that they may pass: Provided, the same does not contravene, or impugn the Constitution of this State. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 14, Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to amend the several acts, for the incorporation and government of the Town of Macon, and to vest a certain lot in Macon in the Episcopal Church thereof. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the Commissioners of the town of Macon elected pursuant to the provisions of the several acts, for the incorporation and government of said town, shall have perpetual succession, and shall be capable to rent or lease for the use of said town, any improved or cleared lots on the common of said town, and by the style of the corporation of Macon, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or equity in this State, and they are hereby empowered from time to time, to make and establish such bye-laws, rules and ordinances as they may deem expedient, respecting the streets of the town, market, public houses, carriages, waggons, carts, drays, pumps, buckets, fire engines, intruders on the common, the extravagant waste of the timber on the common, the removal of boats and flats not in use in the summer and fall seasons of the year, to a sufficient distance from the town to prevent all inconvenience arising from their generation of insects, the care of the poor, the regulation of negroes and disorderly persons, and in general, any other bye-laws and regulations, that shall appear to them requisite or necessary, for the security, welfare and convenience of said town, or for preserving peace order, and good government within the same, and the said Commissioners shall also be vested with full power and authority to make such assessments, not exceeding the amount of the State tax, on the inhabitants of said town, and common as shall appear to them expedient, and to affix and levy fines for all offences committed against the bye-laws of said town, and are hereby authorised to appoint such officers as they may deem necessary to carry the same into [Illegible Text], and to affix the sasalaries and fees of such officers: Provided, nothing herein contained shall authorise the Commissioners to make any bye-law repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That no person living within the corporate limits of said town shall sell spirituous liquors in any quantity whatever, within said limits, to a slave without a ticket from his or her owner, overseer or employer,

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specially authorising him or her to purchase the same, under the penalty of thirty dollars. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That all offenders against the foregoing section, shall be prosecuted in the Superior Court, and upon conviction, the fine shall go one half to the county and the other half to the informer, except when the prosecution shall be commenced and conducted by the marshall, under the direction of the corporation and in that case the whole of the fine shall be paid into the treasury of said corporation and become a part of its funds. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That said corporation shall be vigilant in having all persons committing offences within the corporate limits of said town against the laws of this State, prohibiting the trading with slaves, prosecuted for same, and on conviction of any offender, prosecuted at the instance of said corporation, the fine imposed by the court, shall go to and become a part of the funds of said corporation. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised to issue a grant to the wardens and vestry of the Protestant Episcopal Church in Macon, for lot number five, in the fifty-first square of the town of Macon, in lieu of lot number six, in the thirty-ninth square of said town, which has been heretofore reserved to said Church, but sold for the use of the State through mistake, by the Commissioners. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 22d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to make permanent the site of the public buildings, in Morgan county, at the town of Madison, and to incorporate same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Madison, in the county of Morgan, shall be the permanent seat of the public buildings in said [Illegible Text] Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority of the same, That Elijah E. Jones, John W. Porter, Thomas J. Burney, James C. Cook and Felix Bryan, and their successors in office, shall be, and they are hereby made Commissioners of the town of Madison, and shall have full power, and authority, to pass all bye-laws, rules and regulations, which may be necessary, for the government of said town, and the good order and health of the same: Provided, That such bye-laws, rules and regulations, shall not be repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and that no penalty that is imposed, shall extend to life, limb or member, or to the corporal punishment of free white persons; And provided also, That said Commissioners shall not impose any poll tax upon the citizens of said town, which shall exceed one dollar, within the term of one year. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Commissioners, shall continue in office until the second Monday in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, on which day, and on the second Monday in January annually, thereafter, all the free white citizens of the said town, who shall have paid all taxes required of them, by the laws of this State, or by the rules and regulations of said corporation, and who, shall be entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly; shall assemble at the court house in said town, and by ballot elect, five other Commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, and shall be re-eligible, and that said election shall be held by any Justices of the Peace or Judges of the Inferior Court of Morgan county. Provided, That in the event of there being no election of Commissioners of said town in the manner and at the time herein pointed out, the Commissioners elected for the preceding year, shall continue in office, and remain the Commissioners of said town; until their successors are elected: And provided also, That in the event that there shall be no election [Illegible Text] at the time and manner pointed out in this act, the Commissioners of said town, may,

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and they are hereby empowered to order an election, for Commissioners, to be held in the court house in said town, at any time upon ten days notice being given of said election, upon the door of the court house, and other public places of the town. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That said Commissioners and their successors in office, shall be, and they are hereby empowered to use a common seal, and to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court of law or equity in this State. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 14, 1830. AN ACT to authorise the raising and establishing a fire company in the town of Macon, and to authorise the Commissioners of said town to raise a fund by taxation for the purchase of fire engines and their appurtenances. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for any number of persons not less than sixty, nor more than one hundred, who shall be citizens of this State, and inhabitants of the town of Macon, to form and associate themselves together as a fire company, under the style and denomination of The Fire Company of the town of Macon, at any time after the passing of this act, and they are further authorised to elect from among themselves, in like manner as provided in the militia law, officers to command them, not exceeding four, who shall be Commissioned by his Excellency the Governor.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the officers and men of the said Fire Company, shall be exempted from militia duty, except in times of actual invasion insurrection or alarm. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the Commissioners of said town of Macon, be, and they are hereby authorised, to raise a sum not exceeding two thousand dollars, by a tax on all the property within the corporate limits of said town, for the purpose of purchasing fire engines, with their appurtenances. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 21, 1830. AN ACT to incorporate the Town of Hawkinsville, in the county of Pulaski, and to appoint Commissioners for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Robert N. Taylor, John Rawls, John M'Call, Jacob Watson and David B. Halsted, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for the said town of Hawkinsville, and they or a majority of them, their successors in office, shall have full power and authority to enact all bye-laws and regulations, which may be necessary for the good order and government of the same, and do such other incorporated acts and regulations, as in their judgment shall be conducive to the good government of said town, and for the prevention of vice and other immorality: Provided such bye-laws and regulations, be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the Corporate limits of said town shall extend over Fractions, number two hundred and twenty-five and two hundred and twenty-six, in the 4th district, originally Dooly, now Pulaski county, on which said town is situated. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That one Justice of the Inferior Court or Justice of the Peace, with two freeholders of said county, shall be competent to hold and preside at said election for Commissioners as aforesaid, and that nothing herein contained shall be so construed as to prevent the reelection of said Commissioners pursuant to this act, and in case of death, resignation or removal, of any one or more of said Commissioners, the other Commissioners shall advertise such vacancy, giving ten days notice in two public places in said town, and shall then proceed to hold an election for others to fill said vacancies in terms of this act. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the first election for Commissioners of said town shall be held on the first Saturday in January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and on the first Saturday in January in every subsequent year thereafter, and said Commissioners shall be elected by persons who reside within the limits of said corporation or who are trading therein, entitled to vote for members of the Legislature. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That in case there shall be no election on the day pointed out by this act, an election may be held on any other day, by any Justice of the Inferior Court or Justice of the Peace of said county, giving ten days notice by advertisement in two public places in said town before such election shall take place. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, 2d Dec. 1830.

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AN ACT to make permanent the public site in the county of Irwin, and to name and appoint Commissioners for the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the first Tuesday in April next, the public site of the county of Irwin, shall be, and it is hereby permanently fixed and located on lot number two hundred and fifty-five, in the fourth district of said county: But provided the Commissioners herein after named, cannot obtain indubitable titles to lot number two hundred and fifty-five in the fourth district of said county, they shall be authorised to purchase any lot or part of any lot within two miles of said first mentioned place and to proceed as herein after prescribed. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said public site, be and the same is hereby named Irwinsville. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Robert H. Dixon, Jacob Young, William Bradford, Daniel Look and Reuben Marsh, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners for said town of Irwinville, with full power and authority to lay off the same into lots and expose the same to public [Illegible Text] in such manner and under such restrictions as they in their judgment deem best calculated to promote the interest of the county and town aforesaid. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the aforesaid Commissioners, to apply the proceeds of the sale of said lots, or so much thereof, as may be necessary to defray the expense of a court house and jail in the town of Irwinsville, in the county of Irwin. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners aforesaid, shall proceed as soon as the said lots, in the town of Irwinville, are sold to let the building of a court house and jail in said town, in the county aforesaid, for the use and benefit of the county of Irwin. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the place of holding the Superior and Inferior Courts, and elections for the county of Irwin, shall be at the present or usual place

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of holding courts and elections for said county until there is a court house built at the place that is contemplated by this act. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23d, 1830. AN ACT to incorporate the town of Fort Gaines, in the county of Early. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, that Gabriel Johnson, John Dill, Edward Delony, George W. Prescott and James V. Robison be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners of the town of Fort Gaines, in the county of Early. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Commissioners aforesaid or a majority of them, or their successors in office, shall have full power and authority to pass such bye-laws, or ordinances as they may deem necessary, for the good order and government of said town: Provided, The same is not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, and shall have full power and authority to appoint such officers as they may deem necessary, to carry the said bye-laws into effect, and to remove the same from office, for misconduct or neglect of duty.

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Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any vacancy may happen by death, resignation or otherwise, of any of the Commissioners aforesaid, or their successors in office, shall fill such vacancy in such manner as they may point out in their bye-laws. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize the Commissioners aforesaid, to extend the corporate limits of said town, beyond the limits of the lots now laid out in said town. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor Assented to, 14th Dec. 1830. AN ACT, to amend an act, passed the tenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled an act, to make permanent the site of the public buildings in the county of De Kalb, at the town of Decatur, and to incorporate the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, Reuben Cone, William Latimer, James Ligon, Cyrus Choice, and George D. Anderson, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners of the town of Decatur, who shall be vested with all powers, given to the Commissioners of said town by the above recited act, and shall hold their offices until the second Monday in January in the year eighteen hundred and thirty two, on which day in that and every succeeding year, the citizens of said town,

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[Illegible Text] to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall elect by ballot, five persons to succeed them in office as Commissioners of said town, which election shall be conducted and managed by one justice of the peace or justice of the Inferior Court and two freeholders of said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That if the citizens of said town, shall [Illegible Text] to hold said election on the day aforesaid, it shall be lawful to hold the same at any other time, any two citizens of said town, giving at least ten days public notice thereof, and the Commissioners hereby appointed, and those hereafter to be elected, shall respectively hold their appointments until their successors are elected as herein provided, and all vacancies which may occur in said board, shall be filled by the citizens of said town in like manner, and under like notice. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Commissioners shall have the entire control of the persons and hands within the limits of said incorporation, so far as it regards road duty, and may apportion and assign said hands to work on all the streets and allies of said town, in such manner as they may think proper, and as often as may be necessary for keeping the same in good order, provided, said hands shall not be compelled to labour exceeding fifteen days in any one year: And provided also, They shall not be liable to perform any road duty out of the corporate limits of said town. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Commissioners shall have full power and authority to assess such tax on the estates, both real and personal of the inhabitants of said town, as may be necessary for improving the public square and streets, and abating and removing such nuisances as may at any time annoy the health of said citizens: Provided said tax shall not exceed fifty per cent. on the general state tax, except a poll tax, which shall not exceed one dollar per annum. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said Commissioners shall have full power and authority to pass such bye-laws and ordinances as they may deem necessary, for the good order and well government of said town: Provided, they be not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State or of the United States.

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Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 23, 1830. AN ACT to make permanent the site of public buildings in the town of Lumpkin, Randolph county, and to incorporate the same. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the public buildings in the town of Lumpkin, in the county of Randolph, be, and the same is hereby declared the permanent seat of Justice for said county. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in February, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, and on the first Saturday in February in every year thereafter, all free white male persons in the corporate limits of said town of Lumpkin, as hereafter prescribed, who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall assemble at the court house in said town, and by ballot elect five Commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, or until their successors are elected, at which election one or more Magistrates shall preside, and in case of resignation removal, or death, of any of said Commissioners, the remaining Commissioners shall have power to fill such vacancy for the time being. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the corporate authority and jurisdiction of said Commissioners shall be extended to, and he exercised over all lots which now are, or which may hereafter be laid out, within said town.

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Sec. 4. A nd be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to pass all bye-laws and ordinances, which they or a majority of them, may deem necessary and expedient, for the well government and good order of said town, to lay and collect a tax for the support of said town, and do all other things as bodies corporate, which may not be repugnant to the constitution of this State, or the United States or the laws thereof. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if said election for Commissioners on the first Saturday in February next, or on the first Monday in February in any subsequent year thereafter, should not take place as prescribed, by this act, it shall be lawful for said election to be held on any other day, ten days notice of the same being given, by a Justice of the Peace or one of the Commissioners. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 2d, 1830. AN ACT, to authorise certain Commissioners therein named, to raise by lottery the sum of six thousand dollars, for the building a court house and Academy in the county [Illegible Text] Scriven. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall, and may be lawful for the Commissioners hereinafter named, to establish a lottery within four years after the passing of this act, to raise the sum of six thousand dollars, under such scheme or schemes, and regulations as they or a majority of them, may deem necessary and proper, for the purpose of building a court house and Academy in the county of Scriven.

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Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Augustus S. Jones, Peyton L. Wade, Robert McWilliamson, Jun. Isaac Bryan, Hardy Scarborough, Willis Young, Solomon Bryan, Culling Williamson, John S. Rieves, Moses N. McCall, Theophilus Williams, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to carry the aforesaid lottery into full effect. Sec. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any vacancy may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, of the aforesaid Commissioners, the surviving or remaining Commissioners shall fill the same in such manner as they or a majority of them, may deem proper. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when the said lottery shall be completed, the said Commissioners shall pay over to the order of the Justices of the Inferior Court of Seriven county, the sum of four thousand dollars and to the order of the Trustees of Scriven county Academy, the sum of two thousand dollars or in like proportion to be appointed, as contemplated by this act. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 22, 1830. AN ACT to authorise a lottery for the purpose of raising within a certain time, the sum of five thousand dollars, to be appropriated to the repairs of the streets of Milledgeville, and to the keeping the same in good order, and to appoint Commissioners to carry the said act into effect. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That it shall and may be lawful for the Commissioners hereinafter named, to establish

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a lottery within two years after the passing of this act, to raise the sum of five thousand dollars, under such scheme and regulations as they or a majority of them may deem necessary and proper for the purpose of repairing and keeping in good order the streets, in the town of Milledgeville. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Tomlinson Fort, Thomas W. Baxter, G. W. Murray, Burton Hepburn, William H. Torrence, Robert McCombs, Samuel Rockwell, Samuel Buffington and William W. Carnes, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners, to carry the aforesaid lottery into full effect. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any vacancy may happen, by death, resignation or otherwise, of any of the Commissioners aforesaid, the surviving or remaining Commissioners, shall fill the same in such manner as they or a majority of them may deem proper. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to Dec. 23d, 1830. AN ACT to incorporate the Augusta Theatre Company. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, William W. Montgomery, Thomas I. Wray, Jacob G. McWhorter, Francis Ganahl and Benjamin Baird, trustees of the Augusta Theatre Company, and their successors in office, together with all persons who now are, or may hereafter become subscribers to said Company, shall be, and they are hereby constituted and created a body corporate and politic, by the name and style of The Augusta Theatre Company, and the persons so incorporated, are

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hereby authorised and empowered to have and use a common seal, and the same to alter at pleasure, and by their corporate name aforesaid, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or equity, and also to ordain and establish such bye-laws, rules, and regulations, for the government of said corporation, as to them may seem necessary and convenient: Provided, the same be not repugnant to the Constitution and laws of this State, or of the United States. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Assented to, Dec. 20, 1830.

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RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE SENATE. Resolved, That both Branches of the Legislature will convene in the Representative Chamber, on Thursday next, at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of electing by joint ballot a Judge of the Superior Courts of the Ocmulgee Circuit, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Thomas W. Cobb; and a Brigadier General of the second Brigade of the seventh Division, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the removal of Harrison Jones. THOMAS STOCKS, President Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary, ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER. Approved, Nov. 4, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby requested and authorised, (should he deem it expedient,) to furnish the Glynn county Hussars, with such arms as may be necessary for their proper accoutrement. Read and agreed to, Oct. 22, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, 26th Oct. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 16, 1830.

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IN SENATE. Be it Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the Governor be instructed to transmit to the county of Habersham by the same conveyance by which he sends the Acts and Journals of the present Legislature, ten copies each, of Prince's Digest, and of the last edition of the Georgia Justice, for the use of the Justices of the Peace of said county. Read and agreed to, Nov. 6, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Nov. 8, [Illegible Text]. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Approved, Dec. 16, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved, That both Branches of the Legislature, will convene in the Representative Chamber, on Thursday next, at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of electing by joint ballot, a Judge of the Superior Courts of the Ocmulgee Circuit, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the death of Thomas W. Cobb, and a Brigadier General of the second brigade, of the seventh Division, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the removal of Harrison Jones. Read and agreed to, Oct. 30, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives. Concurred in, Nov. 2, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker, Attest W. C. DAWSON, Clerk.

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IN SENATE. Whereas, it appears from the certificate of Judge Colquit, that Sam'l. A. Bailey has represented the States interest in forty-two cases, in the Chattahoochie Circuit, in the condemnation of lots fraudulently drawn in the late land lottery, in prosecuting them to judgment and issuing writs of [Illegible Text] Be it therefore Resolved, That the sum of four hundred and twenty dollars, be allowed to Samuel A. Bailey, late solicitor general, of the Chattahooch e Circuit, for his services rendered to the State in the above cases. And be it further Resolved, That the sum of fifty dollars, be allowed Samuel A. Bailey, as compensation for services rendered to the State in drawing three original declarations against John H. Broadnax, Orandatus Carstarphen, Theodrick Montfort, in favor of the State. And be it further Resolved, That in all, the sum of four hundred seventy dollars, be allowed to the said Samuel Bailey, late Solicitor General of the [Illegible Text] Circuit, that the payment thereof be provided for, in the Act of Appropriation, to be passed at the present session. Read and agreed to, Nov. 5, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Nov. 8, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 16, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved, That the following joint standing committees be at liberty to appoint clerks, to-wit:On the State of the RepublicOn FinanceOn the PenitentiaryOn Public Education

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and Free SchoolsOn Agriculture and Internal ImprovementAnd on the Judiciary. Read and agreed to, Oct. 20, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary, In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Oct. 20, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 16, 1830. IN SENATE. Whereas, by a law passed on the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-three, entitled An act, to vest in the Mayor and Aldermen of Savannah, the right to appoint the health officer, for the port of Savannah, and to regulate the compensation to be allowed the said health officer, and harbour master of said port, for their services, and to repeal the several laws imposing a duty on tonnage, in the river and harbour of Savannah, and to appropriate the funds unexpended in the hands of the commissioners of pilotage heretofore authorised to receive the same. it was enacted that the commissioners of pilotage are hereby authorised and required to apply any unexpended balance in their hands, to the purpose of removing or lessening the obstructions in Savannah river, between the said city of Savannah, and five fathom hole. Be it therefore Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be, he is hereby authorised and required to cause an investigation into the manner in which the said commissioners of pilotage, have fulfilled the requisitions of the above recited act, and if it shall appear that the said commissioners shall not have applied the monies which they have received in the manner directed by law, that his Excellency, be further authorised and required to have the most efficient and prompt measures adopted for the recovery of said monies, from the said commissioners, any one and all of them, and that such monies as are be so recovered, be applied to the object already

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directed by law, in such manner as his Excellency the Governor shall direct. Read and agreed to, Nov. 19, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Nov. 29, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 16, 1830. IN SENATE. The committee on the State of the Republic, to whom was referred that part of the Governor's Message, which relates to the boundary line between the State of Georgia, and the Territory of Florida, with accompanying documents, have had the same under consideration, and REPORT: That the deep interest which Georgia has in the question of the final and satisfactory settlement of her boundaries, is such, as to impose on her constituted authorities the duty of prosecuting the subject to some final termination:And at this time, your committee believe that the constituted authorities of this State would be liable to the charge of dereliction of duty to her citizens, were they to permit the boundary which separates Georgia from the Territory of Florida, from the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, thence to the head of the St. Mary's river, to remain as it now does, unascertained, and not run and marked. Your committee in again presenting a condensed view of the subject referred to their consideration, will purposely be very brief, as the merits of the question have been so often presensed to the Federal Government, and particularly in the report and resolutions agreed to by the General Assembly of this State, on the sixteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, which your committee beg may be referred to, as presenting most of the evidences and facts, on which Georgia claims a final settlement of the boundary line between this State and the Territory of Florida.

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By referring to the Charter of Georgia, which was granted in the year seventeen hundred and thirty-two, to certain persons, and its surrender to the King of Great Britain, in the year seventeen hundred and fifty-two, by the trustees, and the proclamation of seventeen hundred and sixty-three, establishing the Government of East and West Florida, and extending the Southern boundary of Georgia, and the Commission of Governor Wright, at which time, both Georgia and Florida, were British Colonies or Provinces, dated the twentieth day of January, seventeen hundred and sixty-four, the only legitimate inference from each of the recited evidences, is, that the southern line of Georgia, was to run from the most southern stream of a river St. Mary's, and westward from thence, and consequently leaving the whole of the head waters of that river, within the boundary of Georgia, and every other public document which relates to the said boundary, either as a boundary line of the United States or the State of Georgia, is in palpable accordance with this conclusion, until the year eighteen hundred. In the year seventeen hundred and ninety-five, the Governments of the United States and Spain concluded a treaty, by the second article of which, it was agreed that a line should begin from a point at the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, and to run from thence to the head of the St. Mary's river. Under the provisions of said treaty, Commissioners were to be appointed to run and plainly mark said line, and Commissioners were accordingly appointed, and in the year, eighteen hundred, Mr. Ellicott, the Commissioner on the part of the United States, and the Commissioner on the part of Spain met, and attempted to run and mark the said line from the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, to the head of the St. Mary's, but from causes which it is now necessary to state in detail, the line was not run, but the Commissioners fixed on a spot near a branch of the river St. Mary's, and erected a mound, and agreed that the mound so erected by them, near the Okafanoke swamp, should be taken as the true head of the St. Mary's river, and that a line should be run from the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, to said mound, and that it should be taken as the true line: Provided, if said line did not pass within one mile north of said mound, it should be correct to carry it to that distance. Your committee after having recited some of the evidences on which Georgia claims that the boundary line between this State and the Territory of Florida, have not been either finally or satisfactorily settled, take leave to state, that until

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the year eighteen hundred and nineteen, very little was known of the section of country about the head of the St. Mary's river. The Okefenoke swamp, in which it has its head, anterior to that time, was an almost impenetrable wilderness, and was very little known to civilized man, and that the explorations made by the authority of the Legislature of this State in the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, were not intended to do more than to collect information of a part of the lands and boundary line of Georgia. But since that time the Indian right of occupancy has been extinguished to all of the lands in this State from the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, to the head of the St. Mary's river, and that section of this State is now generally settled, and the country generally known. It is therefore now believed that it will not be difficult or uncertain to ascertain the true head of the St. Mary's river. Your committee believe the Legislature will not discharge a duty it owes to the good citizens of this State, without once more asking and requesting the Federal Government to co-operate in this desirable object, and have the said line run and plainly markedYour committee have too much confidence in the authorities of the General Government, to indicate an opinion that the rights of Georgia are not attended to from improper considerations. The reports made to Congress by the Judiciary committees, to whom the subject has been referred; one on the twenty-first day of March, eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and another on the thirtieth day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty, have been carefully examined by your committee, but as the said reports do not contain any new evidence of the claim on which the United States maintain that the mound erected by Mr. Ellicott, to be truly carefully placed at, or near the head of the St. Mary's river; they have considered it improper at this time to make any examination of the conclusions arrived at, by the arguments relied on in said reports. In conclusion your committee are satisfied that it is their duty to state that if the question of the settlement of boundary between Georgia and the Territory of Florida, is not fully and finally settled under the provisions of the resolutions which are attached to this report, no further attempts should be made by this State, in the way now sought to effect the desirable object, but that the question ought to be carried for decision before the proper Judicial Tribunal, and to effect the objects embraced in this report, your committee recommend the adoption of the following resolutions:

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Resolved, That it is the opinion of this Legislature, that the dividing line between Georgia and Florida, ought to be run from the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, to the head of the most southern branch or head of the St. Mary's river, and that the said line ought to be marked without more or further delay. Resolved, That Congress be earnestly requested as an act of justice, during its next session to repeal, alter or amend the act of the fourteenth day of May, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, which provided for the running out and marking the line dividing Georgia from the Territory of Florida, and to make additional and suitable provisions for the appointment of Commissioners on the part of the United States, to join Commissioners on the part of Georgia, to run and plainly mark the dividing line between the State and the Territory of Florida, agreeable to the second article of the treaty of the twenty-seventh day of October, seventeen hundred ninety-five, between the United States and Spain. Resolved, That should commissioners be appointed on the part of the United States, during the next session of Congress, to meet commissioners on the part of this State, to run out and mark the dividing line between Georgia and the Territory of Florida; that as soon as his Excellency the Governor, shall or may be officially informed of the same, that he be, and is hereby empowered and requested to appoint without delay, a competent commissioner, artist, and surveyor, on the part of this State, to meet the commissioner on the part of the United States, and that he open a correspondeace on the subject with said commissioner, on the part of the United States, requesting a meeting of the commissioners on the part of this State, and the United States, at the earliest day convenient, for the purpose of discharging the duties assigned them, with the least possible delay. Resolved, That if the commisioners on the part of the United States and Georgia, shall meet agreeable to the provisions of the preceding resolution and shall fail to effect the objects of their appointment, that it is desirable that they report and recommend terms and conditions on which the said disputed and unsettled line ought to be fully and finally settled, if therefore the Federal Government shall give authority to the commissioner appointed by said government, to make such recommendation to the said governments, that his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby requested to give to the commissioner on the part of Georgia, instructions to join in such recommendation, if they should agree that the same is just and proper.

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Resolved, That should Congress as its ensuing session, refuse or neglect to make provision for running out and plainly marking the said line, by the appointment of a commissioner to meet the commissioner who may be appointed on the part of Georgia, that his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised and requested, as soon after the adjournment of the next session of Congress as may be consistent, to appoint two commissioners and an artist and surveyor, to meet as early after their appointment as may be convenient, and run out and plainly mark the said line, dividing Georgia from the Territory of Florida, from the junction of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, to the head of the St. Mary's river, agreeable to the second article of a treaty between the United States and Spain, of the twenty-seventh day of October, seventeen hundred and ninety-five, and that his Excellency the Governor, do in such case, inform the President of the United States, the time at which the commissioners on the part of Georgia, will proceed to run out and plainly mark the said line. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be requested to forward a copy of this report and resolutions to our Senators and Representatives in Congress, to be by them laid before Congress early in the ensuing session, with a request, that they may use in the most earnest manner, every means in their power to get the Government of the United States to meet Georgia by commissioners, with full power and authority to finally settle this long standing and unpleasant controversy. Read and agreed to, Nov. 19, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 16, 1830.

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IN SENATE. The committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to whom was referred so much of the message of his Excellency the Governor, and the accompanying documents, as relates to the improvement of the roads and rivers of this State, respectfully Report: That the utility of the system adopted by the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, cannot be said, as yet, to have been fairly tested; hut as far as your committee have been enabled to investigate the subject, they are perfectly satisfied, under the improvements, which experience will from time to time suggest, it cannot but be highly beneficial in its results. This conclusion, your committee consider themselves warranted in drawing from the reports of the superintendants, a synopsis of which, in tabular form has been furnished in pursuance of a call on the Executive Department for that purpose, and which your committee asks may be considered as a part of this report. Your committee would recommend to the attention and favorable consideration of the General Assembly, the improvements suggested in relation to the existing system, by David P. Hillhouse and Thomas Pace, Esqr's. the gentlemen who have had the superintendency of the improvement of the roads and rivers of this State, under their direction the past year, and which your committee herewith lay before the General Assembly. In conclusion, your committee would respectfully recommend the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved, That the tabular statements of the expenditures of the superintendents of the roads and rivers be printed in the Journals of this Legislature only. Read and agreed to, Dec. 18, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 20, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk.

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IN SENATE. The committee on the Judiciary, to whom was referred the communication of the Governor, on the subject of certain lots of land drawn in the lottery authorised by the acts of eighteen hundred and eighteen and eighteen hundred and twenty-one, and which have been relinquished to the State, Report: That the exclusive right to the following lots is in the State by voluntary release, executed by the persons drawing them, to wit:Lot No. 242 in the 7th district of Henry county. 396 16 Henry 30 17 Henry 161 1 Houston 101 8 Houston 127 6 Dooly 251 6 Dooly 220 10 Habersham That lot No. 244 in the 7th district of Henry county, was relinquished to the State by Wright Grooms, the fortunate drawer, and afterwards, on the 31st May, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, a grant was issued for the landThat lot No. 108, in the 15th district of Houston county, was relinquished by Green Wamack, and afterwards on the 26th November, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, a grant was issued for the same land. The committee believe that the voluntary relinquishment or release by the persons drawing those lots, conveyed full and absolute rights in the land so released. In relation to the two lots which were granted subsequent to the relinquishment, your committee are of opinion that such grants were issued inadvertently, and are voidThe right of a government to vacate its grants that issue through ignorance, mistake or upon fraudulent representation, is undisputed. In these cases, the fortunate drawers, after their relinquishment ceased to be entitled under the act, to the land in question, and grants issued under the circumstances, must be subject to the objection that the Executive was imposed on, or was mistaken in the issuing of grants. The fact of the relinquishment authorises the belief that the lands were so worthless, as to induce the dereliction for the sole purpose of exhonerating the drawers from the payment of taxes. Under this opinion, your committee, notwithstanding

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their conviction of the right of the State, believing that the lands are not of sufficient value to justify legislative interference, and the expenses of a sale, deem it inexpedient to adopt any measures for the vacating of the grants herein alluded to, and for the disposition of the lots, and pray to be discharged from the further consideration of the matter submitted, Read and agreed to, Dec. 7, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. IN SENATE, Wednesday, Dec. 1, 1830. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Hezekiah M. Harmon, have carefully examined the same, and are of opinion that the State in good faith are bound to make satisfaction to him, for the lot of land drawn by him, and sold as a fraction. The committee are of opinion that the fraction is worth more than it appears by the treasurers certificate it sold for, the purchaser of Harmon's having sold it for three hundred dollars; they therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved, That Hezekiah M. Harmon, be allowed the sum of two hundred dollars, as compensation for fraction, No. 161, in the 15th district of Carroll county, which was drawn by him, and sold by authority of the State, and that the same be placed in the appropriation bill of the present session. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk.

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IN SENATE. The joint committee on agriculture and internal improvements to whom was referred a settlement made by Washington Poe Esq, Agent, for the State to carry into effect a resolution passed the 21st of December, 1829, for ascertaining the situation of the public funds and property in the hands of the river commissioners, or their agents, so far as to settle with the commissioners of the Ocmulgee river, above and below Macon, also his report as agent for the State, to carry into effect a resolution approved on the nineteenth December, eighteen hundred and twentynine, to cause an investigation to be had and if possible, a collection made by suit or otherwise, of the debts due by the estate of [Illegible Text] M. Taylor, to the commissioners of the Ocmulgee river below Macon, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report; That they have attentively and carefully discharged the duties assigned them, and after a full and strict examination of the settlement, which was made by Washington Poe, Esq. (agent for the State) with the commissioners of the Ocmulgee river, above Macon; it appears from the agents report and settlement, that he has cash in hands, three hundred and fifty one dollars and evidences of debt amounting to seven thousand three hundred twenty-seven dollars and fifty seven cents, which includes the value of thirteen hands delivered to superintendant of roads; [add this to one thousand three hundred and five dollars and fourteen cents, paid into the Treasury, will make the sum of eight thousand nine hundred and eighty three dollars and seventy one cents, also, considerable property which was turned over to the superintendant of roads,] for a more detailed account reference can be had to return, No. 1. The agent remarks that those commissioners lost three hands, by death drowning and desertion. He feels satisfied, they have not [Illegible Text] the public property. It will be recollected, this appropriation for river above Macon, was ten thousand dollars. The agent in his report and settlement with the commissioners of the Ocmulgee river, below Macon, remarks after four months research, after repeated efforts to bring them to a settlement, after promises violated and engagements broken, he succeeded on the twenty seventh May last, in effecting a settlement with them, through their agent Mr.

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Samuel Gillespie. The settlement still is complex far [Illegible Text] being satisfactory. The commencement of this business was in the year eighteen hundred and sixteen. A company styled commissioners to improve the navigation of the Ocmulgee river, was incorporated by the Legislature of this State. The following year, ten thousand dollars was appropriated for the improvement of said river. In the year eighteen hundred and eighteen, the commissioners purchased ten hands, cost eight thousand dollars, two thousand dollars laid out in flats, working utensils, cloths and provisions; one negro was killed, two runaway, and one died, the balance was sold for three thousand seven hundred and fifty-seven dollars. In eighteen hundred and twenty-two the Legislature made a second appropriation, of ten thousand dollars, to be laid out in able bodied negro fellows, and titles to be vested in the State. How this second appropriation was disbursed, the agent states, it is impossible for him to find out as yet. In the year eighteen hundred and twenty-six, an additional sum of twenty thousand dollars was appropriated by the Legislature, for the improvement of the Ocmulgee river below Macon. In eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, thirty-eight negroes were purchased at four hundred and fifty dollars each, amounting to seventeen thousand dollars, as appears by the report of the commissioners to the Legislature in eighteen huedred twenty-nine. The commissioners deeming it advantageous to the State and to the company, to go into the boating business, did so; not getting freight enough, they concluded to enter into the cotton speculation in Macon, and grocery in Savannah. From the fall of cotton, or imprudence in purchasing, or both, they realised a loss instead of a profit. To make good this loss to creditors, they had to raise money from the sale of all of their boats, fourteen of the negroes, and the hire of twenty-seven hands for four or five months. The agent further states, that from the best information he can gather of this complex business, that the commissioners have owned in all, fifty two negroes, twenty-nine have been turned over to the superintendant of roads and rivers, two have absconded, seven have died and been drowned, and fourteen they had to sell to pay the debts due at the close of this cotton and grocery speculation. It appears on a final settlement of this business, that the States agents, had to pay debts due by the commissioners of the river below Macon, to the amount of one hundred and seventy-nine dollars and thirty-two cents. He deducted this amount from three hundred and fifty-one dollars cash he received of the river commissions

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above Macon. It then left in his hands a balance due the State, of one hundred and seventy-one dollars and sixty-eight cents, for this amount, see Comptrollers receipts, number eight, voucher. In compliance with resolution respecting the debt due by James M. Taylor, dec'd. to the commissioners of the Ocmulgee river, below Macon, the agent reports, that he investigated the same, and discovered proper testimony, has instituted a suit for the claim against the executors of James M. Taylor, dec'd. returnable to October term of Pulaski Superior Court. Your committee therefore, recommend the addition of the following resolutions, viz: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the settlement effected by Washington Poe, Esq. States agent, with the Ocmulgee commissioners above Macon, is satisfactory and complete: and that his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised, to have the most efficient means adopted to botain a complete settlement with the commissioners of the Ocmulgee river below Macon, and to have such action or actions intituted against said commissioners, or any of them, or their officers or agents, as may be deemed advisable for the recovery [Illegible Text] such moneys as they shall not have accounted for satisfactorily and in accordance with law. Resolved, That the commissioners of the Ocmulgee river, below Macon, make report to such agent as may be appointed by the Governor, the amount expended by them in the purchase of cotton and groceries; at what price each purchase was made; for what price each lot or parcel was sold, and by whom each purchase and sale was made, what number of commissioners was present, when this course was determined on; and who they were. Read and agreed to, Nov. 19, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830.

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IN SENATE. Resolved, That the Commissioners of the Ocmulgee river below Macon, make report to such agent, as may be appointed by the Governor, as to the amount expended by them, in the purchase of cotton and groceries, at what price each purchase was made, and for what each was sold, and by whom each sale was made, and what number of Commissioners were present, when this course was determined on, and who they were. Read and agreed to, Nov. 19, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. The joint Military Committee make the following Report: That by a communication from His Excellency the Governor, to the House of Representatives, there is in his possession, for the use of the State, nineteen hundred and eighty copies of the abstracts of Infantry Tactics of the United States Army undistributedThey therefore offer the following Resolution. Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor, be and he is hereby authorised directed to have forwarded to the Clerks of the Inferior Courts of the several counties in this State a sufficient number of the copies of the Infantry tactics of the United States army to supply the following officers each with one copy (viz) Colonels, Lieut. Colonels, Majors, Brigade Inspectors, Adjutants, and one for each Captain or Commanding Officer of districts.

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And be it further resolved, That the same be forwarded with the Laws and Journals of the present session, and that he pay for the same out of the contingent fund. Read and agreed to, Dec. 14, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. The joint committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to whom was referred a settlement made by Augustus B. Longstreet, Esq. Agent for the State, to carry into effect a resolution, passed the twenty-first December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, for ascertaining the situation of the public funds and property in the hands of the commissioners or their agents, so far as to settle with the commissioners of the Savannah river below Augusta, having had the same under consideration, beg leave to report. The committee have attentively and very carefully discharged the duties assigned them, and after a full examination of the settlement made by Augustus B. Longstreet, Esq. Agent for the State, with the commissioners, for the Savannah river below Augusta, and after deducting the amount of the disbursements, from the twenty thousand dollar appropriation, they find in his hands, five thousand and five hundred and nine dollars and eighty-nine and a half cents, besides a schedule of boats, tools, c. which was delivered over to the agent, by the commissioners. For the specific items in the account, a reference can be had to the settlement, forwarded to the Executive Department, the eleventh October, eighteen hundred and thirty; they therefore beg leave that this settlement may be taken as a part of this report. The agent states, that he has attentively considered every voucher, and found all correct; and that the commissioners desired

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to keep the vouchers for their own security, or they would have been forwarded. They therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution, to-wit: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the settlement made by Augustus B. Longstreet, Esq. agent for the State, with the commissioners of the Savannah river, below Augusta, is satisfactory and complete. Agreed to, Nov. 19, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby requested to send with the laws and journals of the present session, five copies of Princes Digest, to the county of Fayette, there being a deficiency of five copies for the use of the officers of that county. Agreed to, Dec. 1, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Concurred in, Dec. 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. The committee to whom was referred the memorial of Robert Coleman, have had the same under consideration, and

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after a careful examination of the case, are of the opinion that the prayer of the petitioner, is reasonable and equitable, and ought to be granted. They therefore beg leave to recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the officers of the Central Bank of Georgia, surrender to Robert Coleman, all the bonds on which his name appears, either as principal or as security, for the purchase money due the State for, and on account of four lots in the town of Macon, relinquished to the State in satisfaction of a judgment in favour of the State, against Elisha Tarver and Joseph Bennett, under a resolution assented to, on the 20th day of December, 1828. Read and agreed to Dec. 11, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the settlement effected by R. K. Hines, Esq. States agent, with commissioners of the Oconee river below Milledgeville, owing to circumstances beyond his control, is incomplete, and that his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised to have the most efficient measures adopted, to effect a full settlement with said commissioners and their predecessors, for monies received by them under Legislative appropriations. Agreed to, Nov. 19, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830.

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IN SENATE. Whereas, the Federal Union, Augusta Chronicle, and Macon Telegraph papers, are patronized by a large and respectable portion of the good people of this State; and whereas, it is highly important that all parties in Georgia should be acquainted with the provisions of the bill prohibiting trespassing upon the gold, silver, and other moneys c. And whereas, it appears from an Executice order, that said law, is only to be published in the Georgia Journal, Columbus Enquirer, and Athenian. In order then that information so important should be generally known. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is requested, to have said law published in the Federal Union, Augusta Chronicle, and Macon Telegraph, as directed to be published in the Journal, Enquirer and Athenian, and that he pay the same out of the contingent or printing fund. Agreed to, Dec. 6th, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of H. of R. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That Allen [Illegible Text] of the county of Muscogee, Jefferson Biddle, of the county of Harris, Henry Rogers, of the county of Troup, John McKnight, of the county of Coweta, Littleberry Watts, of the county of Campbell, be and they are hereby appointed commissioners, to examine and lay out a large market road, the nearest and most practicable route from the town of Columbus, to the town of Campbelton, in Campbell county, by the way of Lagrange and Newnan, or at near on the route as

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the ground will admit of, which said commissioners shall enter on their duties so soon hereafter as they shall be notified of the passage of this resolution, having first taken an oath before some officer, having power to administer the same, well and truly to perform their duty, according to the spirit and intention of this resolution, which road shall be cut out and improved by the hands liable to work on the same, in the several counties through which it may pass. Agreed to, Dec. 18th, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker H. of R. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the two rooms in the basement of the State-House, immediately under the office of the Central Bank, be until otherwise ordered, appropriated to the use of the Board of Physicians, of the State of Georgia. Agreed to, Dec. 9th, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Concurred in, Dec, 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker H. of R. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved, That the Justices of the Inferior court, of Rabun county, or a majority of them, are hereby appointed and

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required to investigate the conduct of John Kelly, of Rabun county, so far as relates to his actings and doings as a commissioner of the Locust Stake road, how he has applied the money appropriated, for said road and what amount, if any, remains in his hands, with power to compel witnesses to attend and testify in said case, and that they make their report to the Governor, as speedily as possible, and should it appear from said report that the said John Kelly, has misapplied said fund, the Governor shall cause suit to be commenced again him, on his bond with as little delay as possible. Read and agreed to, Dec. 21st, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBUR HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved, That the sum of four hundred dollars, be allowed R. K. Hines, agent of the State for services rendered in settling with the commissioners of the Oconee river, and that the same be inserted in the appropriation law of the present session. Read and agreed to, Dec. 15, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830.

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IN SENATE. Whereas, it appears by the certificate of T. B. Howard Comptroller General, dated the fifteenth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty, that Edward Way, Esq. tax collector of the county of Liberty, for the year 1829, did pay into the Treasury, by Charlton Hines, Esq. seventeen dollars and sixty three cents, more than was due by said Edward Way, Esq. tax collector as aforesaid. Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor, be requested to pay to Charlton Hines, Esq. seventeen dollars and sixty three cents, out of the contingent fund, the amount over paid as aforesaid for the said Edward Way, Esq. Agreed to, Dec. 16th, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23th, 1830. The military committee reported, that they have examined the arms and munitions of war, deposited in the Arsenal and Magazine at this place, that the quantity and quality referred to, by the report of the military store-keeper, which has been laid before us, all to correspond; and your committee do not hesitate to say, that all the articles deposited in the arsenal and magazine are kept in a complete and officer ike manner, which does credit to the officerand your committee further state, as there was one of the carriages of one piece of artillery in service at the time that the balance was painted for preservation. Your committee therefore recommend that the keeper of the public arms at this place, be, and he is hereby instructed

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to have the same painted in like manner, and that his Excellency the Governor do pay for the same out of the contingent fund. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In Senate, read and agreed to, Dec. 3, 1830. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. The joint committee on Banks, to whom were referred the report of the Merchants and Planters BankReport: That upon examining the condition of said Bank, they find nothing which does not the assurance given by the President of that Bank, that the Institution continues sound and its credit unimpaired. They are of the opinion that the faithful and judicious administration of the affairs of this institution, entitle it to the highest confidence of the Legislature and the people of Georgia. Read and agreed to, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker, Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. The joint committee on Banks, to whom was referred the annual report of the State, and condition of the Bank of the State of Georgia, and its offices or branches, after a careful examination of the same, with great pleasure, beg leave to present the following, report:

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That the situation of said bank presents a flattering and prosperous condition, and warrants your committee saying she is sound, and deserves, and merits the full and entire confidence of the State. Your committee deem it unnecessary, in this report, to set forth her actual condition in figures, but will content themselves with saying, that her specie on hand, is equal to any run, that can at any time be made on her, in the ordinary course of banking commercial transactions. They therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That the Bank of the State of Georgia, presents a sound and wholesome condition, and that its past management deserves fully the confidence of the people. Read and agreed to, Nov. 24, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. The joint committee on Banks, to whom were referred the report of the Bank of ColumbusReport: That upon examining the condition of said bank, they find nothing which does not warrant the assurance given by the President of that Bank, that the institution continues sound, and its credit unimpaired. They of the opinion that the faithul and judicious management of the affairs of this institution, entitle it to the highest confidence of the Legislature and of the people of Georgia. Read and agreed to, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830.

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IN SENATE, Saturday, Dec. 11, 1830. The committee to whom was referred the resolution of Senate, directing an enquiry, whether the Ogeechee navigation company, have fulfilled the object of their incorporation, and whether their power and privileges have not been forfeited. c.Report: That said company was incorporated on the fifteenth of December, eighteen hundred and thirty, with a grant, for a period of time not yet expired, of the usual privileges and immunities of a corporationthat by the fifth section of the act of the General Assembly incorporating said company, it is required that as soon as the president and directors shall have been elected, and such officers as shall be necessary for carrying on the business of the said incorporationthey shall proceed to open the river Ogeechee, from the mouth of Rocky Comfort, to the mouth of Canouchee; and to improve the navigation thereof, in such manner as the said company shall deem best calculated to promote the objects of their association. The objects of the said association, being thus clearly defined in the charter, your committee have instituted an enquiry into the fact, whether said company have effected the object contemplated in their charter, and are satisfied, that although the stockholders in said association did elect a president and other officers, with the view of proceeding to improve the navigation of said river, yet they have wholly failed and neglected to open the said river, to remove the obstructions to its navigation, and to effectuate the intentions of their incorporation. Your committee believe that where exclusive advantages are extended to an incorpated body, by legislative enactment, to the prevention of individual exertion in the same object, too close a scrutiny into their privileges cannot be instituted; and too much caution cannot be adopted in requiring a strict compliance with the duty voluntarily assumed by the corporationthat as monopolies are always detrimental to private enterprise, in cases where the privileged party are wholly regardless of the obligations assumed, and the public sustain injury, it is injustice to the latter that the monopoly should continue. In the case referred to the committee, the Ogeechee river has never been benefitted by the privileges conferred on

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this company; and although nearly twenty years have elapsed since their incorporation, yet nothing materially facilitating the navigation of this river, has been done by the association. Your committee conceive that the charter this company has been forfeited, and that the navigation of the river may be more certainly effected, if the power of the existing company be destroyed. They therefore submit and recommend the adoption of the following resolution: Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be requested to direct the Attorney General of this State, to institute proceedings in nature of a quo warranto against the president and directors of the Ogeechee navigation company, with the view of rescinding the charter of said company. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. I n the House of Representatives, Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. The joint committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to whom was referred a settlement made by R. K. Hines, Esq. agent for the State, to carry into effect a resolution, passed the twenty-first December, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, for ascertaining the situation of the public funds, and property in the hands of the river commissioners or their agent, so far as to settle with the commissioners of the Oconee river, below Milledgeville; have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to Report. The committee have carefully discharged the duties assigned them, in examining and investigating of the settlement of R. K. Hines, Esq. the States agent, to settle with the commissioners of the Oconce river, below Milledgeville. The agent states, that he has not attempted to procure a settlement of the appropriation by the Legislature, for improving of the Ocoonee river, prior to the act of eighteen

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hundred and twenty-six; by the second section of that act, the commissioners of the Oconee navigation, in whose favor the Legislature, by the acts of the fifteenth of December, eighteen hundred and fifteennineteenth December, eighteen hundred and seventeen, and the twenty-second December, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, appropriated the sum of twenty-three thousand dollars, and whose operations appear from time to time to have been reported to the Legislature, were directed to turn over to the commissioners then appointed, all the property, negroes, implements, c. in their hands belonging to State. The direction contained in this second section of the act, so far as the agent has been able to learn, has been but partially complied with, by the delivery of the negroes, implements, and one hundred shares of Bank stock. For a more detailed account, reference can be had to the report of the committee of the late board, at pages 3567 and 8, of their minutes. The report of the committee does not appear to have been agreed to by the board, nor any further attempts made to procure a settlement. There was doubts in the agents mind, whether the power was vested in him, to investigate this business, prior to the act of the twenty-sixth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, appropriating twenty thousand dollars. Therefore, he has confined himself in his settlement with the commissioners appointed by this act. The agent certainly has been active, able, vigilant and industrious, in the investigation and settlement with those commissionersThe following is a condensed view of the settlement. The appropriation 26th Dec. 1826, $20,000 00 100 shares of State Bank Stock, 10,000 00 Dividend on Bank Stock, 1,050 00 Cash of Col. R. Blount, 459 43 Sale of Bias, 455 00 Hire of public hands, 2,760 36 Interest on money loaned, 616 94 $35,341 72 DEDUCT. The amount of disbursements, $16,959 87 Solvent Notes for money handed to agent, 6,106 64 Solvent Notes for hire of hands handed to agent, 776 42 100 shares of Bank Stock, [Illegible Text] 00 Cash paid into Treasury, 1,400 00 Cash in hand States agent, 98 79 $35,341 73

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Also, sixteen hands was received and delivered to the Marshall, of Milledgeville, besides tools and sundry articles, which was returned over to David P. Hillhouse, Esq. Superintendant of roads. For a more specific account, a reference can be had to the settlement made with the commissioners. The disbursements, were principally in the erection of a Lock and Dam, wages to the manager, maintenance to the hands while on the river, and expences incident to these operationsThey therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution, to wit: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the settlement effected by R. K. Hines, Esq. State's agent with the commissioners of the Oconee river, below Milledgeville, owing to circumstances beyond his controul, is incomplete, and that his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorized, to have the most efficient means adopted to effect a full settlement, with the said commissioners, and their predecessors, for moneys received by them, under legislative appropriation. Read and agreed to, Nov. 19, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and Concurred, Dec. 22, [Illegible Text]. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved, That the Senators and Representatives, of this General Assembly, shall each be supplied with a copy of the laws and journals, of the present session, when printed the copies to be delivered to them by the proper officers, of their respective counties. Read and agreed to, Dec. 22, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Read and Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk, GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor Approved, Dec. 23d, 1830.

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IN SENATE. Resolved, That the Governor, be requested to send to each section or district, so soon as the same may be laid off in the Cherokee nation, or officers may be elected, in conformity with law, two copies of Prince's Digest, copies of all the laws passed since the year eighteen hundred twenty, and the acts and journals, of the present session of the General Assembly, of this State. Read and agreed to, Dec. 20, 1830. Attest, In the House of Representatives, Read and Concurred in, Dec, 22, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved, That the affairs of the Bank of Macon, have been so conducted, as to entitle that institution, to the approbation of the General Assembly and the confidence of the public. Read and Agreed to, Dec. 17, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary, In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved, That the Governor, be requested to cause to be printed in pamphlet form, one copy for each member of the present Legislature, the laws passed in relation to the Cherokee Indians, and the lands now occupied by them belonging to the State of Georgia, and to be transmitted to them as soon as practicable, after the adjournment of the present

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session, and to have such other laws as he may deem of immediate public utility, to be published in the Gazettes of this State. Read and agreed to, Dec. 22, 1830. Attest, In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in Dec. 22, 1830. IN SENATE. The judiciary committee, to whom was referred the Communication of his Excellency the Governor, in regard to the acts of the first session of the twenty-first Congress, beg leave to report the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor, be and he is hereby authorised and required to send to each county, in this State, with the laws and journals of the present session, two copies of the [Illegible Text] laws of the first session of the twenty-first Congress, one to be deposited in the office of the clerk of the Superior court, in each county, and one in the office of the clerk of the Inferior court, for the use of said county, and that the remaining copies of said acts, remain in the Executive office, for the use of the General Assembly, and the officers of the government. Read and agreed to, Dec. 13, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor Approved, Dec. 23, 1830.

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IN SENATE. Whereas, the policy heretofore pursued by the Federal Government, in getting up and sustaining a system of Internal Improvement, is highly prejudicial to the rights and interests of this State. Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That our Senators in Congress, be and they are hereby instructed, and our Representatives, requested to vote against all measures calculated to aid or foster a system of Internal Improvement. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be and he is hereby requested to communicate copies of these resolutions, to each branch of the Federal Legislature, and to each of our Senators and Representatives in Congress. Read and agreed to, Dec. 22, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the settlement effected by Washington Poe, Esq. State's agent with the Ocmulgee commissioners above Macon, is satisfactory and complete, and that his Excellency the Governor, be and he is hereby authorized to have the most efficient measures adopted, to obtain a complete settlement with the commissioners of the Ocmulgee river, below Macon, and to have such action or actions, instituted against said commissioners, or any of them, or their officers, or agents, as may be deemed advisable, for the recovery of such monies, as

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they shall not have accounted for satisfacterily, and in accordance with law. Read and agreed to, Nov. 19, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary, Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830 ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. Wednesday, Dec. 15, 1830. The committee on public education, and free schools, on examining the reports of the several Academies, and the accounts of the Trustees of the poor school, find matter deserving the attention of the General Assembly, and of all who regard the economical application of the funds appropriated to Academies and poor schools. In some of the accounts rendered, it is discovered that the trustees of Academies and of the poor school fund, have disbursed moneys, to compensate persons for conveying the apportionment of the Academy, and of the poor school from the Treasury. It is coafidently believed, that there is scarcely a county in the State, to which money may not be transmitted free of expense, if the persons, or bodies interested, would take the trouble to inquire and to avail themselves of suitable opportunities as they present themselves. Believing that it is improper, that these funds should be absorbed, or diminished, by allowing individuals douceurs or compensation, for conveying money from the Treasury to trustees of these institutions, your committee submit the following resolutions: Resolved, That charges in the accounts of trustees of Academies, or of poor school fund, for compensation of agents, for conveying money from the Treasury, is disapproved. Resolved, That it be recommended to the trustees, of the several Academies and of the poor school fund, to procure the transmission of the money apportioned to them, in such manner as may preclude expence.

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Resolved, That the foregoing resolutions, be published in the newspapers of this place, for the information and government, of all interested in the Academies, and poor school fund. Resolved, That the Tabular statements, of the returns of the Academic and poor school returns, be printed with the journals of Senate. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. IN SENATE. The sub-committee on banks, to whom was referred the report of the Augusta Insurance and banking company, report that notwithstanding the institution has experienced immense losses, at various times, by that destructive element, fire, in that city, yet its exhibit shows to us an improved condition, compared with the same period of the last year, and we think has the ability from its present condition, to redeem the amount which it has in circulation, and will be able in time to fulfil its engagements, with the public generally, and we are of opinion it deserves the confidence of the public. Read and agreed to. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary, In the House of Representatives, Read and concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830.

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IN SENATE. The joint committee on banks, to whom was referred the annual statement of the Bank of Augusta, beg leave to report. That on a careful examination of the exhibits, they find such evidence of the ability with which the affairs of that bank, have been conducted, and of its sound and stable condition, as fully to retain the high credit of the institution. The committee find, on examination of the statement, that the issues of the bank, have been kept within the bounds of moderation, amounting to a sum less than double the amount of the specie, actually in the vaults of the bank: that out of the sum of eight hundred and ninety thousand, five hundred and seventy five dollars, and thirty eight cents, of paper discounted, and due, and running to maturity, that only ten thousand, is considered bad, and sixteen thousand doubtful. These facts speak highly in favour of the persons, exercising the direction of the institution, and entitle them to the approbation of the Legislature, and the community. The surplus fund, over and above the regular dividends, amounts to the sum of one hundred and four thousand, nine hundred and forty eight dollars, and ninety four cents, which is held for the purpose of reimbursing the stock-holders, in the event of loss by bad debts, or other accidents. This plan of holding a large surplus fund to meet such exigencies, where the regular dividends, equal to legal interest, are paid, is highly to be commended, your committee therefore respectfully submit the following resolution. Resolved, That the ability and fidelity, with which the affairs of the Bank of Augusta, have been conducted, merit the approbation of the legislature, and entitle the bank to the fullest confidence of the public. Read and agreed to, Nov. 25, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. Read and Concurred in, Dec. 22, 1830. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830.

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RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Friday, Oct. 22, 1830. Resolved, That both branches of the General Assembly will convene in the Representative chamber, on Thursday the twenty-eight instant, at twelve o'clock, for the purpose of electing a Senator, to represent this State in the Congress of the United States, for the term of six years, from and after the fourth day of March next: ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Attest, A. B. HOLT, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1830 THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary of Senate. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 28, 1830.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Oct. 23, 1830. The committee appointed on the petition of Thomas F. Gibbs, have had the same under their consideration, and are of opinion, that the prayer of petitioner is reasonable, and ought to be granted, therefore they ask leave to offer the following resolution. Resolved, That the sum of ninety-two dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated to the payment of Thomas F. Gibbs, in full, for his services, as a fraction selling commissioner, in the years, eighteen hundred and twenty-seven and eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and that the same be inserted in the appropriation act. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. Attest, A. B. HOLT, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Oct. 28, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday Oct. 30, 1830. The committee to whom was referred the petition of James Clayton and William L. Fambrough, securities of William Oslin, tax collector for the county of Monroe, for the year eighteen twenty-eight, praying to be relieved from the damage of twenty per cent, on the principal amount, the said Wm. Oslin was in default, have had the same under consideration, and are of opinion that the prayer of the petitioners is reasonable, and ought to be granted, therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of by State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the amount

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of the twenty per cent. damage on the amount of the principal sum due the State, by William Oslin, tax collector of Monroe county, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-eight, and paid by his securities, William Fambrough and James Clayton, be, and the same is hereby ordered to be refunded to the said securities, and placed in the appropriation bill. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Saturday, Nov. 6, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Nov. 9, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wednesday, Oct. 27, 1830. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby requested and authorised to furnish five copies each, of Princes Digest, of Lamar's or Clayton's Georgia Justice, and of Schley's Digest, for the use of the officers of the newly created districts, in the county of Houston. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the H. of R. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Saturday, Nov. 6, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Nov 9, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Friday, Nov. 12, 1830. Resolved, That the sum of five thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars, be appropriated to pay the expenses of

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the public hands, salaries of the superintendants and overseers for the current quarter; and also for the purchase of suitable clothing for said hands for the winter, that his excellency the Governor, be requested to pay the same out of the contingent fund, appropriated for the year eighteen hundred and thirty, upon the application of David P. Hillhouse, and Thomas Pace, the superintendants of the improvements of the roads and rivers of this State, for such amounts as may be required by them respectively, for the purpose above mentioned. THOMAS HAYNES, Speaker pro. tem. Attest W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Friday, Nov. 12, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Nov. 13, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Nov. 6, 1830. The committee, to whom was referred the petition of Edmond Gresham, have had the same under consideration, and on a careful examination, of the papers submitted to them, find that the said Edmond Gresham, became one of the securities of Thomas Hughes, as tax collector of Jackson county, for the year eighteen hundred and thirteen, and they find that the said Hughes, was a defaulter as tax collector, for that year, to the amount of sixty-five dollars, ninety two cents, and that an execution issued against him and his securities, for the same in the latter part of the year eighteen hundred and fifteen which execution was paid off, and the money paid over to the Solicitor General, and full satisfaction, entered on the execution, which was also returned to the same officer, as will be more fully shewn by the affidavits of William Potts, who was the acting Sheriff of Jackson county, and the affidavit of Allen Mathews, and it further appears to your committee, by a report from the Comptroller General, that said money was not paid into the Treasury until the [Illegible Text] of August eighteen hundred and twenty nine, and not until a second fi fa issued against Hughes, and his

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securities and ordered to be collected, and it doth further appear that the said Gresham, in defending himself against said fi fa was mulcted in the sum of forty one dollars, and cost, which was entirely owing to the negligence of the public officers, they therefore offer the following resolution. Resolved, That that sum of forty one dollars, be and same is hereby appropriated for the use of Edmond Gresham, one of the securities of Thomas Hughes, tax collector of Jackson county, that being the cost incurred by him on account of the improper issuing of two executions, against him for the same debt, and that the same be placed in the appropriation law, THOMAS HAYNES, Speaker. pro. tem. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Tuesday, Nov. 9, 1830 THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Nov. 12, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Nov. 20, 1830. The committee, to whom has been referred the petition of Richard L. Simms, Solicitor General, of the Flint circuit find upon an examination of the paper submitted that he has collected and paid into the treasury, certain monies and has also given his professional services in other cases wherein the state has been interested, agreeable to his account which is deemed reasonable, they therefore offer the following resolution. Resolved, That the sum seventy seven dollars, be and the same is hereby appropriated to the said Simms, as a compensation for said services, and that the same be inserted in the appropriation law of the present session. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Friday, Nov. 26, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, J. A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Nov. 29, 1830.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Nov. 13, 1830. The committee to whom was referred, the petition of Charlton Wellborn, have had the same under consideration, and find the following to be the result. That the petitioner, whilst acting as Surveyor General of the State of Georgia, was directed by an Executive order, to make out instructions for, [Illegible Text] to examine the returns of nine sectional surveyors, also to make out instructions for, and to examine the returns of ninety four district surveyors, also to make out ninety four certificates of the square lots and fractions, of ninety four districts, for the use of the Lottery commissioners. That the above orders were promptly, and faithfully executed, and in doing so, it became necessary, for the petitioner to employ, and did employ an extra number of clerks at considerable expense. Your committee also discover, that at the time of the rendition of those services, the office of the Surveyor General was one of perquisits, more than salary, and that when the petitioner went into office, there was no law requiring of him such services, as those which have been rendered. The services rendered, your committee consider to have been clearly extra services, and the only question, if indeed it be a question, is whether they shall be paid for or not. Your committee believe that in all cases the laborer is worthy of his hire, and as the petitioner, has undoubtedly rendered essential service to the State, for which he has received no adequate compensation, besides the sums expended by him to complete said work in good time. They also find that the precedent has been set by former legislatures, and that similar services rendered by other Surveyor Generals, have been paid by the legislature, and the committee can [Illegible Text] no good reason why the petitioner should not have equal justice dealt out to him, accordingly; they therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved, That the sum of six hundred dollars, be paid to Charlton [Illegible Text] as a compensation for the services by him rendered, and as particularly set forth in his petition

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of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and that the same be placed in the appropriation law. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Tuesday, Nov. 30. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 2, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Nov. 13, 1830. The select committee, to whom was referred the petition of John Bethune, Surveyor General, praying compensation for extra services rendered by him, in making maps, plans and sketches of districts for the commissioners appointed for selling the fractions, islands and reverted lands, belonging to the State, and also for other maps, plans and documents furnished for the use of the State as, by reference to the account of the Surveyor General, herewith exhibited, the same more fully appears, have taken the same under their consideration, have examined the work done by the said John Bethune, also his account of charges for the same, and are of the opinion that his account is reasonable and just, and ought to be allowed, and recommend the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved, That the sum of six hundred and forty seven dollars, the amount of his account be allowed the said John Bethune, Surveyor General, for extra services rendered by him for the use of the State, as aforesaid, and that the same be inserted in the appropriation bill. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Tuesday, November, 30, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary, GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 2d. 1830.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Nov. 20, 1830. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Major John Scriven, praying the redemption of certain paper medium, issued under authority of this State, in seventeen hundred and eighty-six, respectfullyReport: That in seventeen hundred and eighty-six, an act was passed authorizing the emission of fifty thousand pounds in bills of credit, for the purpose of furnishing a circulating medium. The peace of seventeen hundred and eighty-two, found the State of Georgia as also the other States of the confederation, devoid of credit and without any medium for the commerce of the country, but revolutionary and depreciated money. The scarcity of gold and silver (as the act authorizing the issuing of the fifty thousand pounds expresses it) rendered it necessary to supply the good people of this State, with a medium of commerce of a sound and solid nature for want of which, they already suffered; and founded upon these premises, really and truly existing, the Legislature emitted this fifty thousand pounds, with the best intentions, with full confidence of its usefulness, its prop to public credit, and its entire security, from the pledge of a vast tract of valuable land, and the guarantee of the honour and faith of Georgia, superadded to mortgage of soil. This money continued to be a tender in law, and to be received in all payments due the public. From seventeen hundred and ninety, it was solely received by the Treasurer and public officers of the State; and as taxes increased, property sold under the confiscation requiring payments into the Treasury, other public demands, fines of courts and a variety of other causes, reduced this medium, and it was slowly, quietly, and almost unknowingly, so far absorbed by the Treasury, that the report of the Comptroller General, dated third December, eighteen hundred and elever., made in compliance with a call by the House of Representatives for information, shews that at that time there were outstanding, eleven thousand and nineteen dollars and eighty-seven and a half cents. Since that time there have been redeemed the sum of one thousand eight hundred and twenty-seven dollars and seventy four and a half cents, leaving an unredeemed balance against the State, of nine thousand one hundred and ninety-two dollars and thirteen cents, as appears from the report of the

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Treasurer of the fourth of this month, of this last sum, Major John Scriven owns two thousand six hundred and seventy-nine dollars and ninety six cents. That this money is still redeemable at the Treasury, for testimonials and head-right grants, and it is merely a question, whether the State shall redeem at once, or allow a debt now so long due, to be gradually and slowly extinguished. Upon this subject, your committee do not hesitate, and they respectfully recommend that the claim be paid without further delay. In accordance with this opinion, they respectfully submit the following resolution: Resolved, That the Treasurer or Comptroller of the State, be, and he is hereby authorised to receive the following bills: three hundred of twenty shillings; three hundred and sixty of ten shillings; four hundred and three of five shillings; two hundred and forty-nine of two shillings and six pence; two hundred and thirteen of one shilling, and one hundred and ten of six pence; making in the whole, the sum of six hundred and twenty-five pounds, five shillings and six pencetwo thousand seven hundred and seventy-six dollars and seventeen cents, and six-sevenths of a cent, computing dollars, at four shillings and eight pence, eitherfor any debts due the State, or for taxes after the said Treasurer or Comptroller, shall be satisfied of the genuineness of said bills. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Tuesday, Nov. 30, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 2, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Dec. 11, 1830. Resolved, That the members of both branches of the General Assembly, will, at three o'clock, P. M. on Friday next, the seventeenth inst. convene in the Representative chamber and proceed to the election of Directors on the part

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of the State, for the Bank of Darien, Bank of the State of Georgia and Planters Bank. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Tuesday, Dec. 14, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 15, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Dec. 16, 1830. The committee on Finance, to whom was referred the communications of the Comptroller General and Treasurer, with their accompanying Documents, have had the same under consideration, and find the statements therein made to correspond. It appears from the report of the Comptroller General, that during the political year, eighteen hundred and thirty, there has been paid into the Treasury from all sources, including ten thousand dollars of State Bank Stock; two hundred and forty-six thousand one hundred and forty-three Dollars and fifty cents, which sum added to one hundred and ninety one thousand and seventy six dollars and fifty cents, (the balance remaining in the Treasury at the close of the Political year, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine,) will shew an aggregate amount of four hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred and twenty dollars, for the support of Government, for the political year, eighteen hundred and thirty. During that political year, the whole expenditure of the State, including the purchase of hands to work on the roads and rivers, has amounted to two hundred and forty-seven thousand six hundred and eighty dollars and seventy-one cents; leaving a balance in the Treasury on the thirty-first of October, eighteen hundred and thirty, of one hundred and eighty-nine thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-nine [Illegible Text] ten thousand dollars of which, is in state bank stock, and the balance, say, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and twenty-nine cents, is now in the Treasury, subject

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to any appropriations which may be made for the political year, eighteen hundred and thirty-one. It appears from the abstract of Warrants drawn by his Excellency the Governor, upon the Treasury, that there has been warrants drawn to the amount of one hundred and ninety-thousand two hundred and three dollars and sixteen cents, chargeable to the following account, viz: Drawn chargeable to contingent fund of 1829, $9,725 64 Military fund of 1827, 3,187 56 Poor School Fund, 29,582 25 Appropriation for enlarging State House, 1,267 00 Special appropriation of 1822, 1,000 00 Fund for redemption of public debt. 216 96 Printing fund of 1829, 591 40 do. do. do. 1830, 12,112 92 Appropriation for the purchase of negroes to improve the roads and rivers, [UNK] 50,000 00 Appropriation for improving the roads and rivers, [UNK] 14,604 44 Appropriation for county Academies, 18,865 25 Contingent fund of 1830, 4,719 48 Special appropriation 1830, 1,877 41 Appropriation for Arsenal in Savannah, 8,804 58 Civil establishment for 1830. 33,748 07 Total. $190,303 16 For a detailed statement of the persons, in whose favor the foregoing amounts were drawn, your committee would refer to the [Illegible Text], accompanying his Excellency's communication to the General Assembly, which they hope will be received, (together with the reports of the Treasurer and Comptroller General,) as a part of this report, and that they be presented with the laws and journals. Your committee have critically examined all the books of the Comptroller General, they find the accounts kept by him, to be fair and accurate, showing the amount of the different appropriations, the amount of warrants drawn on each, and regularly charged to their appropriate fund, his books are kept neatly, and in a manner highly creditable to that officer. The committee have critically examined the books and entries of the Treasurer, for the political year, eighteen hundred thirty, and all the [Illegible Text] for that period, we find

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them correctly kept, easy to be understood, and to correspond with the Comptrollers report. The known ability and integrity of that officer, would make it common place to attempt to compliment him. Your committee are deeply impressed with a belief, that the state should adopt some means to withdraw her capital stock, from the Bank of Darien, either by purchasing up the capital stock owned by individuals at the market price, payable out of the interest accruing therefrom, in annual instalments, or refusing to recharter the institution, and bring its affairs to a close, as soon as the present charter expires; if the capital of that Bank, was added to the capital of the Central Bank, together with the balance remaining in the Treasury, at the close of the political year, eighteen hundred and thirty, it would furnish an addition capital of five hundred and four thousand five hundred thirty nine dollars, and twenty nine cents, added to the present active capital of that institution, would afford an additional annual interest of thirty thousand two hundred seventy one dollars and ninety five cents, which your committee believe, ought to be set apart, as a fund for defraying the annual expenses of the State, thereby affording a fund for that purpose, equal to one half of the State tax, now imposed, which would enable the State to relieve her citizens, of one half their present taxes, which is an object much to be desired in all countries, but more particularly in a republic like ours, where the government receives its powers, from the consent of the governed, who expect at the hands of the government, all the benefits derivable from a frugal economy of the public treasure. Your committee are aware, that they may be considered by some, as obtruding their opinions upon the General Assembly, by allowing themselves too much latitude in their report, but they are equally aware that those most conversant with the fiscal concerns of the State, and the genius of her people, will see enough of prosperity in the measure alluded to, in this report, to furnish them with an apology for being thus elaborate. Our ideas may be visionary, yet we believe if such a policy as we recommend were adopted, and a judicious revision of our tax laws were made, the citizens of this State in a few years might be almost, if not altogether, relieved from taxation; besides too, the office of Treasurer, might be easily dispensed with, and his duties performed entirely by the bank. If such were the regulations, no pretext or motive could induce the legislature, to [Illegible Text] in the

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collection of money due by individuals, to the bank, because if thereby they should embarrass its operations, so as to produce a deficit, that deficiency would have to be supplied by taxation, or a diminution of public expenditure. The former would be scarcely attempted, the latter would be beneficial, therefore they ask leave to offer the following resolution. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be and he is hereby requested to ascertain from the individual stock holders of the Darien Bank, upon what terms they will dispose of their stock to the State, and that he be requested to lay the information so obtained before the next General Assembly. Read and agreed to, ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, J. A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. Tuesday, Dec. 7, 1830. Whereas, the estate of Duncan G. Campbell and Felix G. Hay, has been by the receiver of tax returns for the county of Wikes, returned as being in default and charged with double tax for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine: And whereas, it is made manifest this legislature that there was no person, legally authorised to represent or give in the property of said estates, until after the time had expired for returning the same. Be it therefore resolved, That the Comptroller General, be and he is hereby authorised and required, to allow to the collector of taxes, for the county of Wilkes, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty nine, on final settlement, the sum of thirty one dollars, forty one and one quarter cents, it being the amount of double tax, charged for the State of Georgia, against said estates of Duncan G. Campbell and Felix G. Hay, for the year aforesaid.

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And whereas it further appears, that John Burch, has been improperly returned and charged with a double tax, in said county of Wilkes, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty nine, when in truth said John Burch, was at that time an inhabitant of Columbia county, and made his return and paid his tax in said county. Therefore be it resolved, That the Comptroller General, be and he is hereby required to allow the collector of taxes, for the county of Wilkes, for the year aforesaid, on final settlement the sum of four dollars, thirty one and a quarter cents, it being the amount of double tax, improperly charged for the State of Georgia, against said John Burch. And whereas it further appears, that the estate of John T. Graves, was by the receiver of tax returns for the county of Wilkes, returned as being in default, and double taxed for the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight, when there was no person legally authorised, to represent or give in the property of said estate, until after the time had expired for returning the same. And whereas it further appears, that Benjamin D. Sims, of said county, was improperly taxed in the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight, in the sum of fourteen dollars and twenty five cents. Therefore be it further resolved, That the treasurer be, and is hereby authorised and required to refund to Walter H. Weems, administrator debonis non, of John T. Graves, the sum of eight dollars fourteen and a half cents, that being the amount of the State's claim to double tax paid by him, for said estate, to the collector of Wilkes county, for the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight, and to Benjamin D. Sims, the sum of seven dollars twelve and a half cents, that being the amount of State tax improperly charged and received of him for the year eighteen hundred and twenty eight. Read and concurred in, ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Tuesday Dec. 21, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, J. A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. The committee on finance, to whom was referred the petition of Caleb B. Greenwood, find that the prayer of the petitioner is founded upon substantial justice, they find that in the year eighteen hundred sixteen, his father John Greenwood, purchased lands at the sales of the University lands in Oglethorpe county, and that he mortgaged the same to said trustees, for the payment of the purchase money. That said John Greenwood, about three years ago, departed this life, leaving a balance due the State, for said land, and that since his death, his estate has been sued on the bond, and judgments obtained, also the mortgage foreclosed. Since the death of John Greenwood, the land mortgaged has gone into the possession of Thomas Greenwood, the elder son of Thomas Greenwood, and it appears that a negro left the petitioner, has been levied on to satisfy said judgment, and it is reasonable and just, that the mortgaged property should first be sold, and as it is the law, of the land, and as no injunction can be filed against the state, to compel her to dispose of the mortgage premises first. Be it therefore resolved, That the Solicitor General, of the Northern circuit, be and he is hereby required, first to have the land mortgaged to the State, or trustees of the University of Georgia, sold and then if necessary to proceed according to law, to the sale of any property liable, not dismissing any levy made heretofore. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate read and concurred in, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1830. Whereas, Thomas Gardner, tax collector for the county of Bibb, has failed to pay into the Treasury of this State, the amount of taxes due from said county to the State for the year eighteen hundred and twenty-nine. Be it therefore resolved, That the Comptroller General do issue his execution against the said tax collector and his securities for the amount of said taxes. And be it further resolved, That the Treasurer of this State, and directors of the Central Bank, be, and they are hereby authorised and required to settle with the securities of the said Thomas Gardner, for such balance of the taxes as cannot be raised by levy and sale of said Gardner's property, on the same terms as are required by the act granting relief to the securities of John Bellah, late tax collector of Morgan county. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1830. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the commanding officers of the Savannah Fencibles and Georgia Volunteers, be and they are hereby authorised to transfer to the commanding officer of the Savannah Volunteer Guards, upon his giving proper security, such of the muskets in their

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possession belonging to the State, as shall not exceed seventy-five in number. ASBURY HULL, Speaker H. of R. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1820. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, The joint committee on Finance, to whom was referred the petition of Washington Poe, Esq. states agent, praying compensation for services rendered the State, in effecting a settlement with the Ocmulgee navigation company, above and below Macon, ask leave to make the following, Report: Whereas, it appearing by documents accompanying said petition, that a number of public hands, with all the working implements, have been collected by said agent, from said commissioners, and returned over to the superintendents of roads and rivers, and evidences of debt retained to the State, to the amount of seven thousand three hundred and twenty-seven dollars, and also the sum of fourteen hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-two cents, collected and paid into the Treasury; and services rendered the State, in defending two negro slaves, the States property, viz: Jerry and George, against a prosecution. The committee having endeavored impartially to consider the subject, thus submitted to their consideration, believe the prayer of the petitioner is just, and ought to be grantedTherefore offer the following resolution. Resolved therefore, That the sum of two hundred and fifty dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the use of Washington Poe, and that the same be placed in the appropriation law. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Monday, Dec. 20, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Read and agreed to, Dec. 18, 1830. The committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, to whom was referred so much of the message of his Excellency the Governor, and the accompanying documents as relates to the improvement of the roads and rivers of this State, respectfully report: That the utility of the system adopted by the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, cannot be said, as yet, to have been fairly tested; but as far as your committee have been enabled to investigate the subject, they are perfectly satisfied under the improvements which experience will, from time to time suggest, it cannot but be highly beneficial in its results. This conclusion your committee [Illegible Text] themselves warranted in drawing from the reports of the superintendants, a synopsis of which in tabular form has been furnished in pursuance of a call on the Executive Department for that purpose, and which your committee asks may be considered as a part of this report. Your committee would recommend to the attentive and favorable consideration of the General Assembly, the improvements suggested in relation to the existing system by David P. Hillhouse and Thomas Pace, Esq. the gentlemen who have had the superintendency of the improvement of the roads and rivers of this State, under their direction the past year, and which your committee herewith lay before the General Assembly. Resolved, That the tabular statements of the expenditures of the superintendants of the roads and rivers, be printed in the Journals of this Legislature only. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Monday, Dec. 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Dec. 18, 1830. The joint committee on Banks, to whom was referred the annual exhibit of the condition of the Planters Bank of the State of Georgia, respectfully report: That after such an examination into the statement furnished by said Bank, your committee are of opinion that the condition of said bank, as to its pecuniary concerns, is entirely prosperous and sound, and such as are entitled to the entire confidence, patronage and fostering care of the Legislature. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Monday, Dec. 20, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Dec. 18, 1830. The joint committee on Banks, to whom was referred the report of the Bank of Darien, have had the same under consideration and report: That on a careful examination of the exhibit of the affairs of the said Bank, as disclosed by the said report, they take pleasure in saying that the said Bank, as they believe, is entitled to, and continues to enjoy public confidence, its affairs appear to be correctly and satisfactorily managed, and the very small amount of bills of the said bank now in circulation, is a full guarantee to the holders, of the prudent management of said Bank, and the ability to redeem all or any promptly. Your committee are unwilling to close this report, without adverting to the fact that the Bank of Darien had at one time, more than one million eight hundred

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thousand dollars, of bills in circulation, and at the date of the report, now before your committee the bills of said Bank in circulation amounted to little more than two hundred thousand dollars, and that it must be gratifying to the public, that the Bank of Darien is now entitled to as much confidence as the other Banks in this State. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, J. A. CUTHBFRT, Secretary. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Monday, Dec. 20, 1830. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Read and agreed to, Dec. 7, 1830. Whereas, B. R. Bunkley, late tax collector of Camden county, having been prevented by the unexpected adjournment of the Court at the last term, from laying before the Grand Jury of said county, a list of insolvent debtors for taxes. Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is resolved by the authority of the same, That the said tax collector shall be, and he is hereby authorised and required to lay before the Grand Jury of the county aforesaid, at the next term of the Superior Court, the insolvent list aforesaid; and the said tax collector is hereby indulged until the next Court for the purposes aforesaid: Provided, he shall pay over to the Treasurer all taxes collected by him agreeably to law. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Monday, Dec. 20, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, J. A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830.

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HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, Dec. 16, 1830. The committee on finance to whom was referred the comptroller's letters with the accompaning documents, to wit: the annual report of the Attorney and Solicitors General, that is George W. Crawford Attorney General, and John W. Hooper, Benjamin F. Hardeman, Turner H. Trippe, Mark A. Cooper and Joseph W. Jackson, Solicitors General, have had the same under consideration, by which it appears that various sums of money have been collected by those officers, and stated to be paid into the treasury, and that various other debts are in a train of collection, some of them considered bad and others doubtful, your committee would therefore recommend, the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the Comptroller General, be instructed to continue his vigilance, in collecting the outstanding debts of the State. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Friday, Dec. 17, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, December 21, 1830. Resolved, That both branches of the General Assembly, with meet in the Representative chamber this day at three o'clock, for the purpose of electing five commissioners, to conduct the anticipated land lottery, and twelve sectional surveyors,

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for the purpose of laying off the Cherokee country, into sections of nine miles square. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk, In the Senate, read and concurred in, Tuesday Dec. 21, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 21, 1830. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Dec, 4, 1830. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Pierson Pettit and Jeremiah Griffin, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to report, that it would be unwise to establish the precedent, that private individuals might offer rewards, for the apprehension of offenders against the public laws of the land, and hold the State liable for such an amount as they might in their discretion think proper to offer. The Governor, is the regularly constituted agent of the State, in whose hands is placed the power of adopting, in the recess of the Legislature, all necessary measures to enforce the laws and secure the arrest of the violators of them. Inasmuch therefore as no reward was offered upon Executive authority, of the arrest of the offenders mentioned in the petition, your committee cannot recognize the force of the argument, by which the petitioners seek to establish the obligation of the State, to pay it. Your committee however are of opinion that it is equitable for the estate, to pay a just proportion of the said reward, and expenses, and therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution. Resolved, That the sum of twenty six dollars, twelve and a half cents, in addition to the sum of eighty one dollars, sixty two and a half cents, heretofore paid by David P. Hillhouse, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the use of Pierson Pettit and Jeremiah Griffin, and that the same be inserted in the appropriation act. And be it further resolved, That the sum of fifty dollars, be and the same is hereby appropriated for the use and [Illegible Text]

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of Jeremiah Griffin, for pursuing a negro fellow belonging to this State, to Mississippi, and apprehending and bringing him back. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be requested to pay out of the contingent fund, the one third of a reward of two hundred dollars, offered for the apprehension and delivery of Greene J. Saunders, who has absconded from justice, and who stands charged with the offence of inveigling slaves, upon the apprehension and delivery of the said Saunders. Read and agreed to, ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Tuesday, Dec. 21, 1830. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. Whereas, it appears by a communication, made by his Excellency the Governor, to this General Assembly, that the Chief Justice of the Supreme court of the United States, has sanctioned a writ of error, and cited the State of Georgia, through her chief Magistrate, to appear before the Supreme court of the United States, to defend this State, against said writ of error, at the instance of one George Tassels, recently convicted in Hall county, Superior court of the crime of murder. And whereas, the right to punish crimes, against the peace and good order of this State, in accordance with existing laws, is an original and a necessary part of sovereignty which the State of Georgia has never parted with. Be it therefore resolved by the Senate, and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That they view with feelings of the deepest regret, the interference

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by the Chief Justice of the Supreme court of the United States, in the Administration of the ciminal laws of this State, and that such an interference is a flagrant violation of her right. Resolved further, That his Excellency the Governor, be and he, and every other officer of this State, is hereby requested and enjoined, to disregard any and every mandate and process that has been, or shall be served upon him or them purporting to proceed from the Chief Justice, or any associate Justice or the Supreme court of the United States, for the purpose of arresting the execution of any of the criminal laws of this State. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be and he is hereby authorised and required, with all the force and means, placed at his command, by the constitution and laws of this State, to resist and repel, any and every invasion, from whatever quarter upon the administration of the criminal laws of this State. Resolved, That the State of Georgia, will never so far compromit her sovereignty as an independent State, as to become a party to the case sought to be made before the Supreme court of the United States, by the writ in question. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be and he is hereby, authorised to communicate to the Sheriff of Hall country, by express, so much of the foregoing resolutions, and such orders as are necessary to insure the full execution of the laws, in the case of George Tassels, convicted of murder in Hall county. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Assest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830.

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IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Saturday, Dec. 11, 1830. The select committee, to whom was referred the memorial of Charles C. Burch, have had the same under consideration, and report. That by a resolution of the General Assembly, passed on the nineteenth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty nine, a committee of three persons were appointed by his Excellency the Governor, to examine and report to the Governor, the quantity of work done by the said Burch, which is not contained in the specifications of a contract, entered into by the said Burch, with the State of Georgia, in building the new edition of the State House, also to make such reductions, as may seem just in the deficiency of the work c. The committee appointed by his Excellency, after performing the duties required of them, under the resolution as appears by their report, awarded to Charles C. Birch, the sum of thirteen hundred and fifty six dollars, and sixty eight cents, for work done and not contained in the specifications of his contract. The same committee, also report the amount of three hundred and forty eight dollars, and seventy two cents, as the value of the deficiencies, in the work done by the said Birch, not being according to the specifications of his contract. It will be presumed therefore, by the report of said commissioners, that Mr. Birch, is entitled to the sum of one thousand seven [Illegible Text] ninety six cents. It is due to your committee to remark, that after a careful examination of two of the commissioners, as to the evidence before them, and on which they made up their report, to observe that there was introduced before your committee, new testimony in support of the claim of the said Birch, which was not before the commissioners appointed, under the resolution of the nineteenth day of December eighteen hundred and twenty nine. The testimony submitted to your committee, leads them to the following result. That in addition to the sum of one thousand and seven dollars, and ninety six cents, found due by the State, to the said Charles C. Birch, by the commissioners appointed by his Excellency, under the resolution of the nineteenth day of December eighteen hundred and twenty nine, that the said Birch, is entitled to the further sum of fifteen hundred and fifty one dollars, and sixty five cents, making in all the aggregate sum of twenty five hundred and fifty nine dollars, and sixty one cents. Your committee, whilst they admire the precaution used by his Excellency,

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in guarding the Treasury of the State, and by no means [Illegible Text] his motive, in disagreeing to the report of the commissioners, are clearly of the opinion that the testimony introduced before your committee, explains away the evidence, upon which the Governor chiefly relied. It is worthy of remark that Mr. Marler, one of the commissioners who has found a clear balance of one thousand and seven dollars, and sixty five cents, in favour of Mr. Birch, has since funished his Excellency, with a written opinion varying in a material manner, the report which had received his sanction. Your committee therefore, beg to offer the following resolution. Resolved, That his Excellency, be instructed and required to draw his warrant, in favour of Charles C. Birch, on the fund appropriated for the [Illegible Text] of the addition, to the State House, for the sum of one thousand and seven dollars, and seventy six cents, in full compensation for all demands which said Birch, has against the State of Georgia. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 22, 1830. IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. Whereas, there are sundry mathematical instruments, belonging to this State, which were purchased for the use of the board of public works. And whereas, the said board has been dissolved, and the said instruments are now lying useless, and subject to great injury, for want of proper use, and attention. And whereas, the said instruments may be of great use, to the University of Georgia. Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor, be and he is hereby authorised

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and required, to cause the said instruments to be delivered to such person or persons, taking his or their receipt for the same, as the board of trustees may appoint to receive and convey them to Athens, for the use aforesaid, Provided nevertheless, That whenever the said instruments may be wanted by the State, for any purpose, the Governor may and shall be authorised, to call for the same and order them to be returned to the seat of Government. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk, In the Senate, read and concurred in, Wednesday, Dec. 22, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, J. A. CUTHBERT, Secretary, GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Thursday, Dec. 23, 1830. Resolved, That the Surveyor General, assign to the sectional surveyors, choice of sections according to the order in which they were elected. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In the Senate, read and concurred in, Thursday, Dec. 23, 1830. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, J. A. CUTHBERT, Secretary. GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor. Approved, Dec. 23, 1830.

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LIST OF TITLES. Academies, Page 3 Appropriations, 23 Banks, 26 Canals, 44 Census, 45 Counties, 48 Courts, 52 Churches, 64 Divorces, 75 Elections, 86 Indians, 114 Judiciary, 118 Land, 127 Military, 152 Mines, 154 Mills, 157 Penal, 158 Pilotage, 159 Poor, 163 Relief, 165 Rivers, 188 Roads, 189 Slaves, 197 Tax, 200 Towns, 202 Resolutions of Senate, 225 Resolutions of House of Representatives, 260

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INDEX. A. ACADEMIES. The agent appointed by the Commissioners of free schools in Emanuel county, authorized to loan out the funds, c. 8 Culloden, Mount Vernon, Centreville, Columbiana, Claxton, Monticello Union, Wood Lawn, Talbotton Female, Davisborough, and Jenkins, incorporated, 8 Commissioners of Academy in McIntosh county, authorized to establish schools for poor children, 10 Additional trustees appointed for Mineral Spring Academy, [Illegible Text] Wayne county, 12 The act incorporating Newnan Academy, amended, 13 Fines and forfeitures to be divided among the incorporated Academies in Lincoln county. 14 Lincolnton Academy authorized to loan out its funds at interest, 14 Arrears of dividends due to Franklin county Academy, authorized to be paid, 15 Mount [Illegible Text] Academy in Oglethorpe county, incorporated, 16 Thomasville Academy incorporated, 18 Jefferson Academy in Putnam county, incorporated, 19 The number of commissioners of the Pulaski county Academy, increased, 21 Franklin Academy in Troup county, incorporated, 21 Comptroller General authorized to relinquish to Camden Academy certain moneys, 182 Report and resolutions on public education and free schools, and on the reports of the Academies, 257

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APPOPRIATION ACT, for the political year 1830, 23 Augusta. The Mechanics' Bank incorporated, 34 Butchers and venders of meats relieved, 168 The Richmond Hussars relieved, 183 The Beneficial Society incorporated, 207 The Independent Fire Company authorized to raise by lottery a sum of money, 208 The Theatre company incorporated, 223 Report and Resolution on the Insurance and Banking company. 258 Report and resolution on the Bank of Augusta, 259 The act respecting the court of Common Pleas, amended, 53 Andrews, Warren and Nancy, divorced, 82 Appling county. The act establishing election districts in, amended, 98 Attorney's Fees altered and reduced, 123 Allen, James, name changed to James W. Swint, 174 B. BANKS. Farmers' Bank in Columbus incorporated, 26 The Mechanics' Bank in Augusta incorporated, 34 Charter of the Bank of the State of Georgia, extended 40 Report on the Merchants Planters Bank, 248 Report on the Bank of the State of Georgia, 248 Report on the Bank of Columbus, 249 Resolution in favour of the Macon Bank, 254 Report on the Augusta Insurance Banking Company, 258 Report on the Augusta Bank, 259 Report on the Planters Bank, 278 Report on the Bank of Darien, 278 Resolution for the election of directors, 268 Bills, Change, further issue of, prohibited, 40 Brunswick Canal Company, charter revived and amended 44 Burke County. Spring term of Superior Court to be held on the 1st Monday in May, 55 The Fall term on the 3d Monday in November, [Illegible Text] Bibb County. Master in Equity to be appointed for, 57

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Superior Court to be held 1st Monday in February and August, 58 Inferior Court to be held 1st Monday in May and November, 59 Purchasers of the State's interest in land fraudently drawn, relieved, 171 Butts County. Superior Court to be held 1st Monday in April and on the Thursday after the 1st Monday in October, 59 Inferior Court to be held 1st Monday in July and January, 59 Baptist Church, at Bushy Creek, Burke County, incorporated, 66 At Buck Head in Burke County, incorporated, 70 At Newnan, Coweta County, incorporated, 74 Baptist Convention, incorporated, 73 Boon, Eliza and Thomas C. divorced, 75 Beard, Bersheba and Mathias H. divorced, 78 Bulloch County. An election district established in, 93 Bellah, John, Tax Collector of Morgan County, relieved, 165 Butchers and venders of meats of Augusta relieved, 168 Bainbridge, Decatur County, act of incorporation amended, 202 Beneficial Society, of Augusta, incorporated, 207 Bailey, Samuel A. resolution in his favour, 227 Bethune, John, report and resolution in his favour, 266 Burch, John, resolution for his relief, 272 Bunkley, B. R. Tax Collector of Camden county, resolution for his relief, 279 Birch, Charles C. report and resolution in his favour, 284 C. Cobb, Howell, appointed Trustee of the University, 5 Culloden Academy, Monroe county, incorporated, 8 Centreville Academy, Talbot county, incorporated, 8 Columbiana Academy, Jackson county, incorporated, 8 Claxton Academy, Warren county, incorporated, 8 Coweta County. Additional trustees appointed for Academy in Newnan, 13 The act respecting election districts amended, 86 The act making permanent the site of the public buildings in Newnan, amended, 206 Columbus. Farmers Bank incorporated, 26 Purchasers of town lots relieved, 175 Bank of, report on, 249

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Change Bills, the further issue of, prohibited, 40 Canal Company, of Brunswick, charter revived and amended, 44 Canal. Report and resolution on the Ogeechee Navigation Company, 250 Census. Act providing for taking the census of 1830, 45 Counties. The county of Heard formed from the counties of Troup, Coweta and Carroll, 48 Randolph county divided and the county of Stewart formed, 49 Dividing line between Hancock and Washington altered, [Illegible Text] Part of Houston added to Crawford county, [Illegible Text] Crawford County, Part of Houston added to, [Illegible Text] Superior court to be held third Monday in February and August, [Illegible Text] Inferior court to be held third Monday in May and November, [Illegible Text] Citizens of, relieved, 180 Purchasers of State's interest in land fraudulently drawn, relieved, [Illegible Text] COURTS, Inferior court of Richmond county incorporated for the purchase of slaves, 52 Court of common pleas of Augusta, the act amended respecting it, 53 Superior Courts of the middle circuit, altered and fixed, [Illegible Text] Time changed for holding Superior and Inferior Courts of Wilkes county, 56 Masters in Equity to be appointed for the counties of Chatham, Bibb, and Richmond, 57 Winter term of Inferior Court of Troup county, altered, 58 Time of holding Superior and Inferior courts in the Flint Circuit and in Jones, Jasper, and Heard, altered and fixed, [Illegible Text] For the trial of caveats, c. fixed, [Illegible Text] Time of holding the Inferior Court of Franklin county, changed. [Illegible Text] Justices of the Inferior Court of Gwinnett county, authorised to define anew the prison bounds, [Illegible Text] Of law and equity, to award judgment against garnishees, c. [Illegible Text]

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Clerk of the Superior Court of Emanuel, compelled to keep his office within five miles of the court house, 63 Time and place of holding Superior Courts in Randolph and Stewart counties, and Inferior Court in Stewart county, fixed, 90 Carroll County. Payment provided for prison fees, and for the prosecution of crimes committed in the Cherokee Territory, 53 Columbia County. Spring term Superior Court, to be held 2d Monday in March, 54 Fall term, 2d Monday in September, 55 Chatham County. A master in equity to be appointed for, 57 Caveats. Courts for the trial of, fixed, 60 Clerks. Clerk Superior Court of Emanuel county compelled to keep his office within five miles of court house, 63 Resolution authorising certain committees to appoint, 227 Cleghorn, Polly and William, divorced, 77 Curtis, Elizabeth Cook and Everitt, divorced, 85 Constables. The act making them elective by the people amended as respects Wayne, Liberty, and Glynn counties, 102 CHURCHES. Methodist Episcopal society at old Church incorporated, 64 Grant to issue to the Presbyterian Church for a lot of land in Columbus, 65 Baptist Church at Bushy Creek incorporated, 66 Double Branch Church in Lincoln, authorised to be rebuilt, 68 Methodist Church in Decatur, DeKalb, county, incorporated 69 Baptist Church at Buck Head incorporated, 70 Mariners' Church in Savannah incorporated, 71 Baptist Convention incorporated, 73 Baptist Church in Newnan, incorporated, 74 A grant to issue to a lot in Macon for the Episcopal Church, 211 Collectors of Taxes, election changed, 113 Cherokee Indians. The exercise of power assumed by them prohibited, 114 Contracts made with them to be void, 118 Cherokee Land. Act for the survey and distribution of the territory by lottery, 127 to 143

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A copy of the laws passed at this session respecting the territory, to be furnished in pamphlet form every senator and representative, 254 Cherokee Improvements. Disposition of, provided for, 145 Cherokee Nation. Resolution for furnishing the officers to be elected in, with Prince's Digest, the laws and journals, c. 254 Costs. Acts respecting, amended, 113 Chattahoochie River, the survey and disposition of Islands in provided for, 150 Clark, Missouri Adeline and Minerva Caroline, authorised to inherit and receive property, c. 173 Camden County Academy. Comptroller General authorised to relinquish certain moneys, c. 182 Chapman, John D. relieved as security of Jaillet, 178 Clark County. Laws respecting the village of Salem amended, 204 Coleman, Robert, resolution for his relief, 242 Clayton, James, resolution for an appropriation in his favour, 261 Campbell, D. G. estate of, resolution for relief, 272 D. Davisborough Academy, Washington county, incorporated, 8 DeKalb County. Payment provided for prison fees, for the prosecution of offences committed in the Cherokee territory, 53 The act regulating election districts in, amended, 101 Purchasers of State's interest in land fraudulently drawn, relieved, 171 Double Branch Meeting House, in Lincoln county, authorised to be rebuilt, 68 Decatur, DeKalb County, Methodist Church in, incorporated, 69 Act of incorporation amended, 218 Drawers in land lottery of 181819 and 21, time extended for taking grants, and fees on grants reduced, 147 In land lottery of 1827, time extended for taking out grants, and fees on grants reduced, 148 The above act amended, 149 Dillon, Henry, Inferior Court of Jasper county, authorised to remit a forfeiture incurred by, 172

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Decatur County. The act incorporating Bainbridge, amended, 202 Darien, Town of, the quarantine laws extended to the, 209 Darien Bank Stock, resolution for ascertaining whether it can be purchased by the State from individual stock holders, 271 Darien Bank. Report and resolution on, 278 E. Emanuel County. Agent of the Free Schools authorised to loan out the funds at interest, c. 3 Spring term of Superior Court to be held 3d Monday in April, 55 Fall term on Thursday after the 2d Monday in October, 55 Clerk of Superior Court compelled to keep his office within 5 miles of court house, 63 The act of 1824, establishing election districts, amended, 110 Equity, Masters in, to be appointed for Chatham, Bibb, and Richmond counties, 57 Education Societies. Presbyterian and Methodist, incorporated, 7 ELECTIONS. Acts establishing election districts in Coweta county, amended, and another election district established in Coweta county, and another in Troup county, 86 An election district established in Upson county, 87 An additional election district established in Lee county, and the act establishing election districts in that county amended, 89 Place of holding elections in Randolph and Stewart counties fixed, 90 An additional election district established in Jefferson county, 91 Election districts established in Newton and Monroe counties, 91 An election district established in Bulloch county, 93 Authorised to be held at the house of Walter L. Campbell, in Houston county, 95 Act establishing election districts in Lowndes county, amended, 96

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An election district abolished in Pulaski county, and one established at the place of holding Justices court, in Lester's district, 97 Act establishing election districts in Appling county, amended, 98 An additional election district established in Henry county, 99 Acts regulating elections amended as respects Gwinnett county, 100 Act regulating elections in DeKalb county amended, 101 Act making constables elective by the people, amended as respects Wayne, Glynn and Liberty, 102 Act establishing election districts in Jasper county amended, 103 Payment provided for presiding magistrates, at elections in Ware county. 104 Act regulating elections amended as respects Richmond county, 104 Manner prescribed of holding elections in this State, 105 Election districts established in Irwin county, 108 Acts of 1824, and 1829, establishing election districts in Emanuel and Twiggs counties repealed, 110 Place of holding elections on St. Simon's Island changed, 111 Three additional election districts establishin Troup county, 112 The time of electing tax collectors changed, 113 Elections by the General Assembly. Resolution for electing Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit, and Brigadier General, 2d Brigade, 7th Division, 225 Resolution for electing Judge of the Ocmulgee Circuit, 226 Resolution for electing bank directors, 268 Resolution for electing senator to Congress, 260 Resolution for electing five commissioners of the land lottery, and twelve surveyors, 280 Estates for term of years. purchasers of, at sheriff's sales, to give bond, 119 Evidence, the act regulating the admission of, amended, 121 Early County. Fractions in the 5th district, to be sold, 143

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Edwards, William W. name changed to W. W. Alford, 170 Elvington, Lewis, Benjamin, Henry, Matthew, John, and William, names changed to Vickers, 173 Episcopal Church. A grant to issue for a lot in Macon for the, 211 Education, Public, report resolutions on, free schools, academies, and 257 F. Franklin College. Additional fund provided for, additional trustees appointed, a loan made, and the education of poor children provided for, 4 Flint River Academy, Commissioners of, entitled to receive a portion of the academy fund from the Trustee of the poor school fund of Houston county, 11 Franklin County Academy. Arrears of dividends due, authorised to be paid, 15 Franklin Academy, in Troup county, incorporated, 21 Farmer's Bank of Chattahoochie, incorporated, 26 Fayette County. Superior court to be held 3d Monday in March and September, 59 Inferior court to be held 3d Monday in June and December, 59 The act respecting election districts amended, 86 Purchasers of State's interest in land fraudulently drawn, relieved, 171 Resolution for furnishing Prince's Digest, 242 Franklin County. Time of holding Inferior court altered, 61 Fractions, in Early county, ordered to be sold, 143 Purchasers of, at the sales in Milledgeville, relieved, 175 Fortunate Drawers, in land lottery of 181819 and 21, time extended for taking grants, 147 In land lottery of 1827, time extended for taking grants, 148 The above act amended, 149 Flint River, the survey and disposition of Islands in, provided for, 150 Fairchild, Abraham T. relieved, 181 Ferry, to be established on the new road from Glynn county to Darien, c. 194 Fire Company, of Augusta, authorised to raise a sum of money by lottery, 208

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The raising of, in the town of Macon, authorised, 213 Fort Gains, in Early county, incorporated, 217 Florida, report and resolutions respecting the line dividing Georgia and, 229 Free Schools, report and resolutions on public education and, 257 Fambrough, William, resolution for an appropriation in his favour, 261 Finances, report of the committee on the, 269 Resolution respecting the debts due the State, 280 Federal Court, preamble and resolutions respecting the writ of error issued by Judge Marshall, 282 G. Gwinnett County, payment provided for prison fees, in the prosecution of crimes committed in the Cherokee Territory, 53 Justices of the Inferior Court, authorised to define anew the prison bounds, 61 Acts regulating elections amended as respects, 100 Garnishees, Courts of law and equity authorised to award Judgment against, in certain cases, 62 Glynn County. Act making constables elective by the people, amended as respects, 102 Place of holding elections on St. Simon's Island, changed, 111 Provisions for the education of the poor, 111 Gold Mines. A guard provided for the protection of, 116 Guerineau, William, K. relieved, 175 Goodwin, Robert M. relieved, 175 Generals. Resolution for electing Brigadier General, 225 Resolution for electing Brigadier General, 226 Glynn Hussars. Resolution for furnishing them with arms, 225 Gibbs, Thomas F. resolution for an appropriation in his favor, 261 Gresham, Edmond, report and resolution in his favor, 263 Graves, John T. estate of, resolution for relief, 272 Greenwood, Caleb B. resolution for his relief, 274 Gardner, Thomas, Tax Collector of Bibb county, resolution for requiring Comptroller General to issue execution against him, and resolution authorising the Treasurer and Central Bank to settle with his securities on the same terms as with the securities of John Bellah, 275

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Griffin, Jeremiah, report and resolution in his favor, 281 H. Hook, Daniel, appointed Trustee to the University, 5 Harris County. Jenkins academy incorporated, 8 Houston County. Trustee of poor school fund required to pay portion of academy fund to commissioners of academy at Perry, and Flint river academy, 11 Part of, added to Crawford county, 51 Superior Court to be held 2d Monday in February and August, 58 Inferior court to be held 2d Monday in May and November, 59 Elections authorised to be held at the house of Walter L. Campbell, 95 Purchasers of State's interest in land fraudulently drawn, relieved, 171 Resolution for furnishing the newly created districts with Prince's Digest, Georgia Justice, c. 262 Hay, Felix G. estate of, resolution for relief, 272 Heard County, formed from the counties of Troup, Coweta, and Carroll, 48 Superior court to be held on the 1st Monday in May and on the Friday after the 4th Monday in October, 60 Inferior court to be held on the 1st Monday in February and July, 60 [Illegible Text] County. Dividing line with Washington county altered, 50 Hall County. Payment provided for prison fees, in the prosecution of offences committed in the Cherokee Territory, 53 The act respecting election districts amended, 86 Habersham County. Payment provided for prison fees, in the prosecution of offences committed in the Cherokee Territory, 53 Resolution for transmitting Prince's Digest and Georgia Justice, 226 Henry County. Superior court to be held on the 2d Monday in April and October, 59

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An additional election district established 99 Purchasers of State's interest in land fraudulently drawn, relieved, 171 Hall, Henry H. and Irwin, relieved, 168 Hogan, Jackson, name changed to Jackson Matthews, 169 Hardee, John, security of Joseph Crews, tax collector of Camden county, relieved, 170 Herring, James T. name changed to James T. Powell, 174 Henry, Junior, Robert, security of Robert Henry, Sen'r. tax collector of Liberty county, relieved, 177 Hammond, Abner, estate of, relieved, 178 Hale, John, relieved, 185 Hawkinsville, in Pulaski county, incorporated, 214 Harmon, Hezekiah M. Resolution for his relief, 236 Hines, Richard K. Resolution respecting the settlement made by him with the commissioners of the Oconee river, 243 Report of the committee on this settlement, 251 Resolution approriating $400 to, 246 Hines, Charlton. Resolution in his favour, 247 I. Insurance Company, of Macon, incorporated, 40 Insurance Banking Company, of Augusta, report on, 258 Irwin County. Election districts established, 108 INDIANS. The exercise of political power by the Cherokees prohibited, 114 Contracts made with the Cherokees to be void, 118 Injunction, the laws regulating writs of, amended, 125 Indian Territory. Act for the Survey and distribution of, by lottery, 127 Improvements, purchased from the Cherokees, how to be disposed of, 145 Islands in Flint and Chattahoochee Rivers, the survey and disposition provided for, 150 Independent Fire Company, of Augusta, authorized to raise a sum of money by lottery, 208 Irwinsville, site of the public buildings in Irwin county, made permanent, and named, 216 Infantry Tactics, of the United States report and resolution respecting the, 240 Internal Improvements. Report and resolution of the committee on Agriculture, 234 Resolution requesting the members of Congress from Georgia to vote against all Internal Improvement bills, 256

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Resolution for printing with the Journals the tabular statements of the Superintendents of the Roads, 277 J. Jackson County. Columbiana Academy incorporated, 8 The road laws amended as respects, 195 Jasper County. Monticello Union Academy incorporated, 8 Superior court to be held 4th Monday in April and October, 59 Act establishing election districts amended, 103 Inferior court authorized to remit a forefeiture incurred by H. Dillon, 172 Jenkins Academy, in Harris county, incorporated, 8 Jefferson Academy, in Putnam county, incorporated, 19 Judiciary. Payment of fees, provided for, incurred for the prosecution of offences committed in the Cherokee Territory annexed to Hall, Habersham, Carroll, Gwinnett, and DeKalb counties, 53 An act respecting personal property, amended, and fees of officers established, 118 Purchasers of mortgaged property, life estates, c. to give bond, 119 Act regulating the admission of evidence amended, 121 The recording of conveyances of personal property, provided for, 121 Respecting personal property, when subject to actions of trespass or trover, 122 Jury's and Attorney's fees altered, 123 Acts respecting the payment of costs, amended, 123 The mode of proceeding under writs of ne exeat prescribed, and the act regulating writs of injunction amended, 125 The issuing of writs of ne exeat authorized, 126 Jefferson County. Spring term of the Superior court to be held third Monday in May, and the Fall term on the fourth Monday in October, 55 An additional election district established, 91

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Jones County. Superior court to be held on the third Monday in April and October, 59 Militia laws altered as respects, 153 Jury's Fees altered, 123 Johnson, Young, authorized to erect a floating mill on the Omulgee River, 157 Jones, John A. relieved, as security of Jaillet, 178 Jackson, Woody, relieved, 185 Jenks, Ebenezer, an act authorizing him to establish a toll on the Newington Road, amended, 191 Judges. Resolution for electing a Judge for the Ocmulgee circuit, 225 Resolution for electing a Judge of the Ocmulgee circuit, 226 K. King, A. M. D. appointed Trustee of the University, 5 Kennon, Henry J. M. and Nancy, divorced, 77 Kellehand, Loveda Ann, name changed to Loveda Ann Currie, 173 Kelley, John, resolution appointing Justices of the Inferior court of Rabun county to investigate the conduct of, as commissioner of Locust Stake Road, 245 L. Lumpkin, Wilson, appointed Trustee of the University, 5 Lincoln County. The act appropriating fines for Lincolnton Academy, amended, 14 Lincolnton Academy, authorized to loan out its funds at interest, 14 Long, John and Nancy, divorced, 80 Lee County. An additional election district established, 89 The act establishing election districts amended, 90 Lowndes County. Act establishing election districts amended, 96 Liberty County. Act making constables elective by the people amended as respects, 102 Inferior court authorized to appropriate money for procuring a piece of ground to accommodate the militia, 152 Robert Henry, Jr. security of Robert Henry, Sen. Tax Collector of, relieved, 177 Life Estates, purchasers of, at Sheriff's sale, to give bond 119

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Land. Act for the survey and distribution of the territory in possession of the Cherokees by lottery, 127 Fractions in Early county, to be sold, 143 Disposition of the improvements purchased from the Cherokees, provided for, 145 Report of the committee on the Judiciary, on lots which have been relinquished to the State, 235 Land Lottery, of 1818, '19 and '21, time extended for drawers to take out grants, and fees on grants reduced, 147 Of 1827, time for [Illegible Text] to take out grants extended, and fees on grants reduced, 148 The above act amended, 149 Larceny from the House, definition of, amended, 159 Langford, Henry, name changed to Henry Dees, 170 Lee, Mary Ann, name changed to Mary Ann Solomons, 171 Land Sales, in Milledgeville, purchasers of fractions at, relieved, 175 Lots in Macon and Columbus, purchasers of, relieved, 175 Low, John, a dismissed pilot, to be restored to his rights, 180 Lumpkin, Town of, in Randolph county, incorporated, 220 Longstreet, Augustus B. report and resolution on the settlement made with the commissioners of Savannah River below Augusta, 241 Laws of the United States, two copies of the laws passed at the session of the 21st Congress to be sent to each county, 255 M. Murray, Thomas W. appointed Trustee of the University, 5 Methodist and Presbylerian Georgia Education Societies, incorporated, 7 Monroe County. Culloden Academy incorporated, 8 Mount Vernon Academy incorporated, 8 Wood Lawn Academy, incorporated, 8 Superior court to be held 2d Monday in March and September, 59 Inferior court to be held 2d Monday in June and December, 59 Election districts established, 91 Purchasers of State's interest in land fraudulently drawn, relieved, 171

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Mount Vernon Academy, in Monroe county, incorporated, 8 Monticello Union Academy, in Jasper county, incorporated, 8 McIntosh County Academy, commissioners of, authorized to establish schools for poor children, 10 Mineral Spring Academy, of Wayne county, additional commissioners appointed, 12 Mount Pleasant Academy, in Oglethorpe county, incorporated, 16 Mechanic's Bank, in Augusta, incorporated, 34 Macon Insurance Company, incorporated, 40 Macon, Town of, purchasers of lots relieved, 175 Act of incorporation amended, and a grant to issue to a lot for the Episcopal church, 210 The raising of a fire company authorized, 213 Macon Bank, resolution in favour of, 254 Montgomery County. Spring term of Superior court to be held on the 2d Monday in April, and the Fall term on the 2d Monday in October, 55 Masters in Equity, to be appointed for the counties of Chatham, Bibb, and Richmond, 57 Methodist Episcopal Society, at Old Church, incorporated, 64 Methodist Episcopal Church, in Decatur, DeKalb county, incorporated, 69 Mariners' Church, in Savannah, incorporated, 71 McRea, Cherry and John, divorced, 84 Mines. A guard provided for the protection of gold and other, 116 The Governor authorized to take possession of the gold, silver and other mines in the Cherokee Territory, and to have trespassers punished, 154 Resolution for publishing the gold mine law in the Federal Union, Augusta Chronicle and Macon Telegraph, 244 Mortgaged Property, purchasers of, at Sheriff's sales, to give bond, 119 Military. Inferior court of Liberty County, authorized to appropriate money for procuring a piece of land to accommodate the militia, 152 Militia laws altered as respects Jones county, 153 Volunteer Companies, encouraged, 153

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Report and resolution on the Infantry Tactics of the United States, 240 Report on the arms in the arsenal at Milledgeville, 247 Resolution authorizing the transfer of muskets from the Savannah Fencibles to the Savannah Volunteer Guards, 275 Mills. Young Johnson authorized to erect a floating mill on the Ocmulgee River, 157 Morgan County. Inferior [Illegible Text] authorized to establish an institution for the invalid poor, 163 The site of the [Illegible Text] buildings made permanent, and the town of Madison incorporated, 212 Millen, George, relieved, 175 Mahone, John R. relieved, as security of Jaillet, 178 Madison, Morgan county, the site of the public buildings made permanent, and the town of, incorporated, 212 Milledgeville, Commissioners of, authorized to raise $5000 by lottery, 222 Merchants and Planters Bank, report and resolution on, 248 Mathematical Instruments. Resolution for delivering them to the University, 285 N. Newnan Academy, additional trustees appointed, 13 Newton County. Superior court to be held 4th Monday in March and September, 59 Inferior court to be held 4th Monday in June and December, 59 Election districts established, 91 Purchasers of State's interest in land fraudulently drawn, relieved, 171 Ne Exeat, the mode of proceeding under writs of, prescribed, 125 The issuing of writs of, in certain cases, authorized, 126 Nephew, estate of James, deceased, relieved, 178 Newnan. The act making permanent the public buildings of Coweta county in the town of, amended, 206 O. Oglethorep county, Mount Pleasant Academy incorporated, 16

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Inferior court authorized to hire or purchase hands for the improvement of roads, 196 Old Church, in Burke county, Methodist Episcopal Society in, incorporated, 64 Oliver, Nancy and Joseph, divorced, 77 Ocmulgee River. Report and resolutions on the settlement made by W. Poe with the commissioners, 237 Resolution respecting the commissioners, 240 Report on the settlement made by W. Poe with the commissioners, 256 Oconee River. Resolution respecting the settlement made by R. K. Hines with the commissioners, 243 Report on the settlement made by R. K. Hines with the commissioners, 251 Ogeeche Navigation Company. Report and resolution on, 250 P. Presbyterian, and Methodist Georgia Education Societies, incorporated, 7 Church, a grant to issue to, for a lot in Columbus, 65 Perry Academy, Commissioners of, entitled to receive a portion of the academic [Illegible Text] from the trustee of the poor school fund of Houston County, 11 Putnam County. Jefferson Academy incorporated, 19 [Illegible Text] County. Number of the Academy commissioners increased, 21 An election district changed to the place of holding justices court in Lester's district, 97 Pike County. Superior court to be held 1st Monday in March and September, and Inferior Court 1st Monday in June and December, 59 The act establishing election districts, amended, 86 Purchasers of State's interest in land fraudulently drawn, relieved, 171 Pruinett, John S. and Rosannah, divorced, 83 Personal Property, an act respecting the possession of, amended, and fees of officers established, 118 The recording of conveyances of, provided for, 121 Not to be vested in defendants in actions of

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trespass or trover, until all damages and costs are discharged, 122 Penal. Persons concealing the existence of contagious diseases to be punished, 158 The definition of larceny from the House, amended, 159 [Illegible Text] Small, and other contagious diseases, persons concealing the existence of, to be punished, [Illegible Text] Pilotage The several laws regulating the pilotage of vessels amended, 159 Powers and jurisdiction of the commissioners, defined, 160 Commissioners of, required to restore John Low, 186 Resolution for investigating the conduct of the commissioners of, of Savannah, 228 Poor. Inferior Court of Morgan county, authorized to establish an institution for the invalid poor, 163 Pickard, Georgia Caroline, legitimatized and name changed to Georgia Caroline Paul, 173 Patrols. Act regulating, amended, 199 Publication of the Gold Mine Law, resolution for publishing it in the Federal Union, Augusta Chronicle, and Telegraph, 244 Physicians two rooms in the State House appropriated for the Board of, 245 Poe, Washington, report on the settlement made by him with the commissioners of the Ocmulgee River, 256 Resolution in his favour, 276 Planters Bank. Report and resolution on, 278 Pettit, Pierson, Report and resolution in his favour, 281 Q. Quarantine Laws, now in force, extended to the town of Darien, 209 R. Reese, D. A. appointed Trustee of the University, 5 Richmond County. Inferior court incorporated for the purchase, of slaves, c. 52 Spring term Superior court to be held on the 1st Monday in June, and the Fall term on the 1st Monday in January, 55 Master in Equity to be appointed, 57 Act regulating general elections amended, 104

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Randolph County. Superior Court to be held on the Friday after the 3d Monday in February, and August, 90 Elections to be held at the same place, 90 Randal, Sarah and Washington, divorced, Richmond Hussars, relieved from jury duty, and their military equipments exempted from levy and sale under execution, 183 Rose, Joy, and her two sons emancipated, 187 Rivers, The act to define and keep open the main channel of Savannah River, from Augusta to Lightwood Log Creek, amended, 188 Report and resolution on the settlement made by W. Poe with the commissioners of the Ocmulgee River, 237 Resolution respecting the commissioners of the Ocmulgee River, 240 Report on the settlement made by A. B. Longstreet with the commissioners of Savannah River, 241 Resolution respecting the settlement made by R. K. Hines, with the commissioners of the Oconee River, 243 Report on the settlement made by R. K. Hines, with the commissioners of the Oconee River, 251 Report on the settlement made by W. Poe with the commissioners of the Ocmulgee River, 256 Rabun county. Resolution appointing the justices of the inferior court to investigate the conduct of John Kelly, commissioner of Locust Stake Road, 245 Representatives and Senators. Resolution for supplying them with a copy of the laws and journals, 253 Resolution for supplying them with the laws passed at this session respecting the Cherokee territory, 254 Relief. For the securities of John Bellah, Tax Collector of Morgan county, 165 Respecting the election and duties of Mayor and aldermen of Savannah, 166 Of Henry H. Hall and Irwin Hall, 168 Of the butchers and venders of meats of Augusta, 168 Name of Joseph Smith changed to Joseph

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Fletcher, Lawena Wheeler to Lavinia Duke, and of Jackson Hogan to Jackson Matthews, 169 Of John Hardee, security of Joseph Crews, 170 Names of Henry Langford changed Henry Dees, and William W. Edwards to W. W. Alford, 170 Of purchasers of the State's interest in land fraudulently drawn in Bibb, Houston, Crawford, Monroe, Upson, Pike, Henry, Fayette, DeKalb and Newton, 171 Inferior Court of Jasper County authorized to remit a forfeiture incurred by Henry Dillon, 172 Names of certain persons changed, 173 Names of certain persons changed, and the same legitimatized, 173 Of Purchasers of fractions at the sales in Milledgeville, and of lots in Macon and Columbus, 175 George Millen, W. K. Guerineau, and Robert M. Goodwin, relieved, 175 Robert Henry, Jun. security of Robert Henry, Sen. relieved, 177 Of John A. Jones, John D. Chapman, c. 178 Of the estate of James Nephew, 178 Of the citizens of Crawford county, 180 Inferior Court of Wilkinson County authorized to relieve Abraham T. Fairchild, 181 Comptroller General authorized to remit interest paid by W. Scott, and to relinquish to Camden county Academy certain moneys, 182 Of the Richmond [Illegible Text] of Augusta, 183 Of G. A. B. and Valentine Walker, 184 Of Woody Jackson and John Hale, 185 Of John Low, a pilot of Savannah, 186 Of Joy Rose and her two children, emancipated, 187 Roads and [Illegible Text] Report and resolution on, 234 Roads. The act of 1829, providing for the improvement of the roads amended, 189 The act authorizing E. Jenks to establish a toll on the Newington road, amended, 191 Commissioners on St. Simon's Island, authorized to appropriate hands to open a [Illegible Text] c. [Illegible Text]

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A ferry from the new road on lands of Grant and Butler; in Glynn county, to Darien, to be established, 194 Road laws as respects Jackson county amended, 195 Inferior Court of Oglethorpe County, authorized to purchase hands for the improvement of, 196 Resolution appointing commissioners to lay out a road from Columbus to Cambellton, 244 Resolution for an appropriation for the expenses of the public hands and salaries of the Superintendents and overseers, 262 Report and resolution for publishing with the journals the tabular statements of the Superintendents, 277 S. Schools, agent of, in Emanuel County, authorized to loan out the funds of said schools, 3 State Bank of Georgia, charter extended, 40 Report on, 248 Stewart county, formed from the county of Randolph, 49 Superior court to be held at the town of Lumpkin in Randolph county on the Wednesday after the 3d Monday in February and August, 90 Inferior court on the 1st Monday in June and December, 90 Elections to be held at Lumpkin, 90 Scriven county Spring term of Superior court to be held 4th Monday in April, and Fall term the 3d Monday in October, 55 The commissioners of the Academy authorized to raise money by lottery, 221 Small Pox. Persons concealing contagious diseases to be punished. 158 Savannah. An act respecting the election and duties of the mayor and aldermen, 166 Smith, Joseph, name changed to Joseph Fletcher, 169 State's Interest, in land fraudulently drawn in Bibb, Houston, Crawford, Monroe, Upson, Pike, Henry, Fayette, DeKalb, and Newton, purchasers relieved, 171 Scott, Jun. William, Tax Collector of Camden county, relieved, 182

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Savannah River. The act to define and keep open the main channel of, from Augusta to Lightwood Log Creek, amended, 188 Report on the settlement made by A. B. Longsteet with the Commissioners, 241 St. Simon's Island, commissioners of roads authorized to appropriate hands to open a road, on said Island, 191 Place of elections changed, and lands appropriated for the education of the poor, 111 Slaves, in the county of Twiggs regulated, 197 Act regulating patrols amended, 199 Salem, town of, in Clark county, laws respecting amended, 204 St. Mary's, act respecting vendue masters, amended as respects, 205 State House. Two rooms appropriated for Board of Physicians, 245 Senators and Representatives. Resolution for supplying them with a copy of the laws and journals, 253 And with a copy of the laws passed at this session respecting the Cherokee Territory, 254 Sims, Richard L. Report and resolution in his favour, 264 Scriven, Major John, report and resolution for his relief, 267 Sims, Benjamin D. Resolution for his relief, 272 Surveyors, sectional, resolution respecting the manner of choosing sections, 286 T. Thomas, Stephens, appointed Trustee of the University, 3 Tinsley, James, appointed Trustee of the University, 5 Talbot County. Centreville academy incorporated, 8 Talbotton Female academy incorporated, 8 Thomas County. Academy incorporated in Thomasville, 18 Troup County. Franklin academy incorporated, 21 Another election district established, 87 Three additional election districts established, 112 Tattnall County. Spring term of Superior court to be held on Thursday after the 2d Monday in April, and Fall term 2d Monday in October, 55 Thomas, William B, and Elizabeth, divorced, 79

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Thornton, Reuben and Anna, divorced, 80 Thomason, Richard S. and Amelia, divorced, 81 Tournage, Elizabeth and Henry, divorced, 85 Twiggs County. Act of 1829, establishing election districts repealed, 110 Slaves in, regulated, 197 Tax Collectors, time of election changed, 113 Tax Act of 1831. 200 Theatre company, of Augusta, incorporated, 223 Tassels, George, the Cherokee, preamble and resolution respecting the writ of error issued by Judge Marshall in the case of, 282 TOWNS. The act incorporating Bainbridge amended, 202 Laws respecting Salem, in Clark county, amended, 204 Law respecting vendue masters amended as respects St. Mary's, 205 Act making permanent the public buildings of Coweta county, in Newnan, amended, 206 The beneficial society of Augusta, incorporated, 207 The independent fire company of Augusta, authorised to raise money by lottery, 208 The quarantine laws extended to Darien, 209 Laws incorporating Macon amended, and a grant to issue for a lot to the Episcopal Church, 210 The site of the public buildings in Morgan county, at Madison, made permanent and the town incorporated, 212 The raising of a fire company in Macon authorised, 213 Hawkinsville, in Pulaski county, incorporated, 214 Site of the public buildings of Irwin county, made permanent, and named Irwinsville, 216 Fort Gains in Early county, incorporated, 217 The act incorporating Decatur, in DeKalb county, amended, 218 Lumpkin, in Randolph county, incorporated 220 Commissioners of Scriven county academy, authorised to raise money by lottery, 221 Commissioners of Milledgeville authorised to raise money by lottery, 222 Augusta Theatre company incorporated, 223

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U. University of Georgia. Additional fund provided for, additional trustees appointed, money loaned, and education of poor children provided for, 4 Resolution for delivering Methematical instruments owned by the State to, 285 Upson county Superior court to be held 4th Monday in February and August, 59 Inferior court to be held 4th Monday in May and November, 59 Election districts established, 87 Purchasers of State's interest in land fraudulently drawn, relieved, 171 V. Volunteer companies. Act for the encouragement of 153 W. Watson, James C. appointed trustee of the University, 5 Williams, Zachariah, appointed trustee of the University, 5 Wood, Jacob, appointed trustee of the University, 5 Woodlawn Academy, in Monroe county, incorporated, 8 Washington county. Davisborough Academy, incorporated, 8 Dividing line with Hancock county, altered, 50 Wayne county. Additional commissioners appointed for the Mineral Spring academy, 12 Act making constables elective by the people amended as respects, 102 Wilkes connty. Time of holding Summer session of the Superior court, and fall session of Inferior court, altered, 56 Wanslaw, John and Sarah, divorced, 82 Walton county. The act amended respecting election districts in, 86 Ware county. Payment provided for presiding magistrates at elections, 104 Wheelor, Lawena, name changed to Lavima Duke, 169 Wilkinson county. Inferior court authorised to relieve A. T. Fairchild, 181 Walker, George A. B. and Valentine, executors of Freeman Walker, relieved. 184 Wellborn, Carlton, report and resolution in his favor, 265

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APPENDIX. COMPTROLLER GENARAL'S OFFICE, Milledgeville, Geo. Nov. 5th, 1830. To the honorable the Speaker, and members of the House of Representatives. I have the honor herewith to transmit to the House [Illegible Text] Representatives, a statement of the receipts and [Illegible Text] at the Treasury, during the political year 1830, [Illegible Text] from the 1st day of November 1829, to the 31st of [Illegible Text] 1830, and also a list of Tax Collectors, in default. My [Illegible Text] attention has been given to the collection of [Illegible Text] due from these collectors, and though I have been [Illegible Text] in some few cases to succeed, I am fearful the State [Illegible Text] suffer a loss of the greater part now reported to be due [Illegible Text] most of them are reported to be insolvent. I have also the honor, in compliance with a resolution [Illegible Text] the last Legislature, to submit a statement of the [Illegible Text] collected by the Attorney General, and by each of the [Illegible Text] General, on what demands, and the amount retained [Illegible Text] each for commissions. The report of Richard L. Simms, Solicitor General [Illegible Text] the Flint circuit, is also presented it being the only [Illegible Text] made to this office. Respectfully submitted, T. B. HOWARD. Comptroller General.

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HINES HOLT, Treasurer, in account current with the State of Georgia, for receipts and disbursements at the Treasury, during the political year 1830, viz: from the 1 st of November 1829, to the 31 st October 1830. DR. For amount received on the following accounts, to wit: General Tax of 1803, 481 43 General Tax of 1807, 9 42 General Tax of 1811, 66 72 General Tax of 1815, 107 14 General Tax of 1820, 1,455 37 General Tax of 1824, 95 85 General Tax of 1825, 591 39 General Tax of 1826, 165 15 General Tax of 1827, 356 82 General Tax of 1828, 59,069 24 General Tax of 1829, 15,442 36 State Stock, [Illegible Text] 90 Dividend on Bank Stock, [Illegible Text] Tax on Bank Stock, 18,524 55 Fund from fees on Grants and Testimonials, ,927 Fund from fees on Grants for land drawn for in 1820, 14,518 Fund from fees on Grants for land drawn for in 1821, 6,698 Fund from fees on Grants for land drawn for in 1827, 26,976 Fund from fees on Grants for Fractions sold under Act of 1822, 306 Fund from fees on Grants for Fractions sold under Act of 1823, 180 Fund from fees on Grants for Lots in Macon, 80 75 Fund from fees on Grants for Lots fraudulently drawn, 136 Fund from fees on Grants for Lots No. 10 and 100, 32 Fund from fees on Grants for Copy Grants, 228 44 Fund from fees on Grants for Reverted Lots in Baldwin, Wilkinson and Wayne, 80 Fund from fees on Grants for Fractions sold under Act of 1827, 180 Fund from fees on Grants for Lots and Reserves at Macon, 45 Fund from fees on Grants for Lots in the 1st District of Muscogee, 6 Fund from fees on Grants for Lots in Columbus, 45 Fund from the sale of Lots No. 10 and 100, 1,098 57 Fund from fees on Grants for Lots fraudulently drawn, 4,602 05 Fund from fees on Grants for Lots in the 1st District Muscogee, 704 39 Fund from fees on Grants for Fractions sold under Act of 1823, 10 79 Vendue Tax, 3,048 73 Tax on Pedlars, 4,173 State Bank Stock, 10,000 Fund from fees on Grants, for lots at the McIntosh reserve, in Butts County, 4 50 Dolls. 246,143 50 Remaining in the Treasury on the 31st October 1829, 191,076 50 Dolls. 437,220 00 CR. By amount paid to Governor's Warrants, chargeable to the following accounts, viz: Fund for the redemption of the public debt, Dolls. 216 96 Special Appropriation of 1822, 1,000 Special Appropriation of 1829, 218 Special Appropriation of 1830, 1,676 03 Appropriation for county Academies, 19,296 01 Appropriation for Enlarging the State House, 1,267 Appropriation for Improving the Roads and Rivers, 14 604 44 Appropriation for the purchase of Negroes to Improve the Roads and Rivers, 50,000 Appropriation for an Arsenal in Savannah, 8,804 58 Poor School Fund, 29,998 15 Military Fund of 1827, 3,483 [Illegible Text] Contingent Fund of 1829, 10,110 31 Contingent Fund of 1830, 4,242 06 Printing Fund of 1829, 603 27 Civil Establishment of 1829, 10,887 50 Civil Establishment of 1830, 23,910 57 President and Speakers Warrants, 55,249 40 Printing Fund of 1830, 12,112 87 Dolls. 247,680 71 Balance on hand on the 31st October 1830, [Illegible Text] 29 Dolls. 437,220 00 COMPTROLLER GENERAL'S OFFICE, GEORGIA, [UNK] Milledgeville, November 5 th, 1830. Respectfully submitted, T. B. HOWARD, Comptroller General.

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A list of Tax Collectors in default in [Illegible Text] James M. Linsey, Camden, 1802, 27 John Boog, Camden, [Illegible Text] 74 87 John Boog, Camden, 1804, 414 05 Joseph Crews, Camden, 1805, 162 95 Joseph Crews, Camden, 1806, 582 72 Joseph Crews, Camden, 1807, 437 80 William Scott, Jr. Camden, 1814, 962 19 George H. Davidson, Bryan, 1806, 23 55 Peter H. Collins, Columbia, 1807, 47 48 Benjamin S. Lanier, Scriven, 1807, 22 80 Benjamin S. Lanier, Scriven, 1810, 159 04 R. W. Williamson, Scriven 1817, 103 58 William Oliver, Scriven, 1820, 811 81 James Boston, Scriven, 1822, 178 [Illegible Text] James Powell, Glynn, 1806, 116 39 James Powell, Glynn, 1807, 69 47 James Powell, Glynn, 1809, 254 30 James Kenedy, Glynn, 1814, 1,326 85 William Piles, Glynn, 1815, 727 05 Robert Payne, Glynn, 1816 1817, 2,749 66 William Purvis, Glynn, 1818, 992 79 John Stewart, Liberty, 1811, 133 42 Murdock McLeod McIntosh, 1801, 137 98 John Couper, McIntosh, 1803, 937 06 John Couper, McIntosh, 1804, [Illegible Text] 64 John Couper, McIntosh, 1805, 1,079 14 John Couper, McIntosh, 1807, 865 16 William D. Tayler, McIntosh, 1814, 986 80 Peter Deveaux, Chatham, 1809, 471 87 Peter Deveaux, Chatham, 1810, 11,758 49 William Noble, Morgan, 1808, 20 72 Epps Duke, Morgan, 1811, 102 22 Daniel S. Pierce, Wilkinson, 1812, [Illegible Text] 95 Isaac Hall, Wilkinson, 1821, 1,135 35 David E. Kemp, Wayne, 1818, 9 77 David E. Kemp, Wayne, 1819, 20 23 Lemuel Owen, Putnam, 1819, 4,172 72 Silas Overstreet, Tattnall, 1818, 418 25 Silas Overstreet, Tattnall, 1819, 410 19 Silas Overstreet, Tattnall, 1820, 460 43 Thamas H. Handley, Richmond, 1819, 7,518 83 James Loyless, Warren, 1820, 1,780 33 William A. Carr, Early, 1820, 29 41 William Waller, Senr. Washington, 1821, 2,181 92 Philip Bosworth, Fayette, 1822, 44 73 John Wells, Bryan, 1823, 52 23 Francis West, Fayette, 1823, 141 21 Edward Adams, Jr. Jackson, 1825, 149 66 Richard Grimsly, Early, 1825, 146 88 John Caldwell, Fayette, 1826, 30 46 Frederick Mills, Pulaski, 1826, 23 82 Joseph Echols, Coweta, 1828, 46 82 William Gilleland, Fayette, 1828, 524 29 Fleming Bates, Lowndes, 1828, 6 30 John Connell, Montgomery, 1828, 121 10 John Bellah, Morgan, 1828, 467 46 Dolls. 48,240 [Illegible Text] Respectfully submitted, T. B. HOWARD, Comptroller General.

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COMPTROLLER GENERAL'S OFFICE, Milledgeville, 30 th, April 1828. A LIST Of defaulting Tax Collectors, against whom executions have issued, which [Illegible Text] from the docket and books in this office, to remain unsatisfied, forwarded to the Solicitor General of each circuit. EASTERN CIRCUIT. Collectors Names. County and year. Date of Executions. Am't. for which they issued. Remarks. Randolph McGills, Camden, 1800, 10th April, 1807, 156 72 57 46 paid since. Randolph McGills, Camden, 1801, 10th April, 1807, 89 50 James M. Lindsey, Camden, 1802, 20th August, 1805, 28 99 1-2 John Boog, Camden, 1803, 10th April, 1087, 74 96 Do. Camden, 1804, 10th April, 1807, 414 05 Joseph Crews, Camden, 1805, 18th March, 1812, 352 96 200 00 paid since. Do. Camden, 1806, 18th March, 1812, 783 02 200 00 paid since. Do. Camden, 1807, 18th March, 1812, 1221 26 783 47 of which is paid. William Scott, Jr. Camden, 1814, 30th Nov. 1816, 2,703 07 bearing interest from 1st Dec. 1815. James Belcher, Chatham, 1803, 10th April, 1817, 481 43 8-4 Peter Deveaux, Chatham, 1809, 12th April, 1813, 8,437 32 Do. Chatham, 1810, 24th Feb. 1814, 11,753 49 James Powell, Glynn, 1806, 2d Dec. 1814, 281 95 165 57 paid since. Do. Glynn, 1807, 18th March, 1812, 98 27 Do. Glynn, 1809, 18th March, 1812, 254 30 Robert Lcach, Glynn, 1810, 18th March, 1812, 3 15 John Burnett, Glynn, 1813, 2d Dec. 1814, 169 25 bearing interest from 1st Dec. 1814. Richard T. Keating, Bryan, 1807, 7th Feb. [Illegible Text], 629 24 Do. Bryan, 1809, 18th March, 1812, 152 47 Do. Bryan, 1810, 18th March, 1812, 146 62 John Couper, McIntosh, 1803, 15th April, 1807, 937 05 Do. McIntosh, 1804, 15th April, 1807, 1,048 64 Do. McIntosh, 1805, 15th April, 1807, 1,079 14 Do. McIntosh, 1807, 2d Dec. 1814, 865 14 1-2 the Collector being dead, issued agaisnt securities alone. Theodoric Montfort, McIntosh 1806, 7th Feb. 1809, 217 88 Frederick S. Fell, Chatham, 1812, 15th Dec, 1814, 234 92 James Moore, Glynn, 1824, 15th May, 1826, 545 49 William King, Camden, 1795, 8th July, [Illegible Text], 1,607 49 Richard Wall, Chatham, 1800, 10th April, 1817, 4,219 94 1-4 4,189 12 paid since. James Powell, Glynn, 1805, 7th Feb. 1809, 654 97 200 00 paid since. Robert [Illegible Text], Glynn, 1811, 12th April, 1813, 1,451 60 1-4 1,439 86 1-4 Coms. included. Murdock [Illegible Text], McIntosh, 1801, 15th April, 1807, [Illegible Text] 35 1-2 MIDDLE CIRCUIT. Peter H. Collins, Columbia, 1807, 23d March, 1812, 99 03 3-4 51 40 since paid. Daniel Marshall, Columbia, 1796, 8th July, 1800, 365 56 125 00 since paid. Do. Columbia, 1797, 8th July, 1800, 341 20 125 00 since paid. Do. Columbia, [Illegible Text], 8th July, 1800, 1,094 13 3-4 490 since paid. Benjamin S. Lanier, Scriven, 1808, 23d March, 1812, 279 58 3-4 165 69 1-4 since paid. Do. Scriven, 1810, 23d March, 1812, 1,098 65 829 74 since paid. William Coursey, Scriven, 1795, 8th July, 1800, 80 67 1-2 Roger [Illegible Text], Scriven, 1799, 25th Sept. 1802, 433 63 1-2 150 since paid. James Caswell, Scriven, 1805, 7th Feb. 1809, 359 19 1-2 236 00 since pd. Do. Scriven, 1806, 7th Feb. 1809, 331 19 1-2 215 90 since paid Arthur Lott, Montgomery, 1795, 8th July, 1800, 25 14 Do. Montgomery, 1796, 8th July, 1800, 32 25 John Brown, Burke, 1799, 15th April, 1807, 401 70 1-4 Silas Overstreet, Tattnall, 1818, 19th March, 1821, 418 96 Do. Tattnall, 1819, 19th March, 1821, [Illegible Text] 04 John L. Emanuel, Scriven, 1815, 20th April, 1820, 81 95 Thomas H. Handley, Richmond, 1819, 19th March, 1821, 8,746 12 William Waller, Senr. Washington, 1821, 10th May, 1223, 2,181 92 David Wimberbly, Washington, 1825, 21st March, 1827, 1,083 81 980 00 paid since. Silas Overstreet, Tattnall, 1820, 11th June, [Illegible Text], 460 45 William W. Oliver, Scriven, 1820, 20th May, [Illegible Text], 1,138 44 James Boston, Scriven, 1822, 10th March, 1824, 289 41 9 89 paid since. OCMULGEE CIRCUIT. Epps Duke, Morgan, 1811, 12th April, 1813, 807 31 562 90 3-4 paid since Cyrus Billingslea, Morgan, 1812, 2d Dec. 1814, 112 29 Daniel S. Pierce, Wilkinson, 1812, 12th Aug. 1814, 527 71 141 00 paid since.

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Samuel Dent, Putnam, 1810, 22d March, 1812, 1,073 81 1-2 269 89 paid since. Edward Butler, Morgan, 1824, 22d March, 1826, 1,863 91 1,100 paid since. Isaac Hall, Wilkinson, 1821, 10th May, 1823, 1,137 37 Lemuel Owens, Putnam, 1819, 19th July, 1821, 4,173 70 John Simmons, Jones, 1819, 19th July, 1821, [Illegible Text] 70 NORTHERN CIRCUIT. John Bishop, Hancock, 1811, 12th April, 1813, [Illegible Text] 50 [Illegible Text] 78 1-4 paid since. James Lockhart, Lincoln, 1808, 18th March, 1812, 493 89 1-4 815 93 3 4 paid since. James Lawlis, Warren, 1820, 27th Feb. 1824, 2,202 64 81 12 James Bynum, Hancock, 1795, 15th June, 1807, 84 69 1-2 James Bynum, Hancock, 1796, 15th June, 279 04 1-2 WESTERN CIRCUIT. Jack F. Cock, Clark, 1809, 23d March, 1812, 1,585 [Illegible Text] 3-4 [Illegible Text] 55 paid since. Edward Adams, Jr. Jackson, 1825, 15th May, 1827, 151 97 SOUTHERN CIRCUIT. Jacob Young, Irwin, 1824, 22d March, 1826, 51 56 Daniel Cornwall, Pulaski, [Illegible Text], 20th March, 1825, 491 92 John Sikes, Telfair, 1820, 15th July, 1822, 132 16. 100 00 paid since. CHATTAHOOCHE CIRCUIT. Philip Bosworth, Fayette, 1822, 18th Feb. 1824, 164 [Illegible Text] 120 00 paid since. Francis West, Fayette, 1823, 20th March, [Illegible Text], 241 21 100 00 paid since. T. B. HOWARD, Comptroller General. TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Milledgeville, Nov. 5, 1830. To the honorable the Speaker, and members of the House of Representatives, I have the honor, to lay before you a statement of the receipts and payments at the Treasury, during the political year eighteen hundred and thirty, of the amount remaining in the Treasury, on the 31st ultimo, is included the sum of ten thousand dollars, in stock of the State Bank of Georgia. I have the honor to be very respectfully, HINES HOLT, Treasurer.

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A STATEMENT Of the receipts and payments at the Treasury, of the State of Georgia, from the 1 st day of November 1829, to the 31 st day of October 1830, both days inclusive. DR. CASH. For amount received from the 1st day of November 1829, to the 31st October 1830, both days inclusive, and placed to the credit of the following accounts viz: General Tax of 1803, 481 43 General Tax of 1807, 9 42 General Tax of 1811, 66 72 General Tax of 1815, 107 14 General Tax of 1820, 1,455 37 General Tax of 1824, 95 85 General Tax of 1825, 531 39 General Tax of 1826, 165 15 General Tax of 1827, 356 82 General Tax of 1828, 59,069 24 General Tax of 1829, 15,442 36 State Stock, 10,947 90 Dividend on Bank Stock, 64,750 00 Tax on Bank Stock, 18,542 55 Fund from from fees on Grants and Testimonials. 927 00 Fund from fees on Grants, for land drawn for in 1820, 14,518 00 Fund from fees on Grants, for land drawn for in 1821, 6,698 00 Fund from fees on Grants, for land drawn for in 1827, 26,976 00 Fund from fees For fractions sold under act of 1822, 306 00 Fund from fees For fractions sold under act of 1823, 180 00 Fund from fees For lots in Macon, 80 75 Fund from fees For lots fraudulently drawn, 136 00 Fund from fees For lots No. 10, and 100, 32 00 Fund from fees On copy Grants, 228 44 Fund from fees On Grants for reverted lots in Baldwin, c. 80 00 Fund from fees For fractions sold under act of 1827, 180 00 Fund from fees For lots and reserves at Macon, 45 00 Fund from fees For lots in 1st district of Muscogee, 6 00 Fund from fees For lots in [Illegible Text], 45 00 Fund from fees For lots in McIntosh, reserve, 4 59 Fund from the sale of lots No. 10 and 100, 1,098 57 Fund from the sale Of lots [Illegible Text] drawn, 4,602 05 Fund from the sale Of lots in 1st district of Muscogee, 704 39 Fund from the sale Of fractions under act of 1825, 10 73 Vendue Tax, 3,043 73 Tax on Pedlars, 4,173 00 State Bank Stock, 10,000 00 [Illegible Text] in the Treasury, on the 1st day of November 1829, 191,065 50 Dolls. 437,220 00 CR. CASH. By amount of Governor's and President and Speaker's Warrants, [Illegible Text] to the following accounts, viz: Fund for redemption of the public debt, 216 96 Special appropriation of 1822, 1,000 00 Special appropriation of 1829, 218 00 Special appropriation of 1830, 1,676 03 Appropriation for county [Illegible Text] 19,296 01 Appropriation For enlarging the State House, 1,267 00 Appropriation For improving the roads and rivers, 14,604 44 Appropriation For the purchase of negroes c. 50,000 00 Appropriation For the Arsenal in Savannah, 8,804 58 Poor school fund, 29,998 15 Military fund of 1827, 8,483 56 Contingent fund of 1829, 10,110 31 Contingent fund of 1830, 4,242 06 Printing fund of 1829, 603 27 Printing fund of 1830, 12,112 87 Civil establishment of 1829, 10,887 50 Civil establishment of 1830, 23,910 57 President and Speaker's warrant, 55,249 40 247,680 71 Remaining in the Treasury, on the 31st day of October 1830. 189,589 29 Dolls. 437,220 00 TREASURY DEPARTMENT, Milledgeville, Nov. 5, 1830. Respectfully submitted, [Illegible Text] HOLT, Treasurer.

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A STATEMENT OF WARRANTS Drawn by the Governor on the Treasurer, between the first Monday in November, 1829, and the first Monday in November, 1830. CONTINGENT FUND, 1829. No. date. In whose favor. To what account chargeable and for what purpose drawn. 1 2d Nov. 1829. Homer V. Howard, For fire wood furnished for the State, 26 10 8 4th Nov. 1829. E. H. Pierce, For paying expresses with the returns of the last general election, 112 49 10 4th Nov. 1829. William Christian, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Hall county, 1826, 13 34 11 5th Nov. 1829. J. B. Holmes, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Wilkes county for 1824, 90 63 12 5th Nov. 1829. R. R. Bunkley, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Camden county for 1827, [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 14 5th Nov. 1829. A. R. Jarvis, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Decatur county for 1827, 66 43 17 7th Nov. 1829. W. A. Hopson, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Thomas county for 1827, 4 97 18 7th Nov. 1829. C. C. Birch, For plastering done in the Surveyor General's office, 110 50 24 7th Nov. 1829. Edward Johnson, For work done for the Surveyor General's office, 14 00 25 16th Nov. 1829. H. M. Marks, For coming as an express to the Governor from Col. U. Lewis at Columbus in in July last. 51 00 27 24th Nov. 1829. Edward Johnson, For work done for government, [Illegible Text] 00 31 3d Dec. 1829. S. Cannaday, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Appling county for 1826 and 1827, 15 00 34 7th Dec. 1829. William Little, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Taliaferro county for 1827, 12 95 35 8 Dec. 1829. Thomas B. Stubbs, For fire wood furnished for the State, 97 96 36 8 Dec. 1829. Craft Greene, [Illegible Text] sundry articles furnished for the use of the State, 24 37 38 9th Dec. 1829. Samuel A. Wales, For his services as a Commissioner to colect testimony as to Indian boundary line and expenses, 228 00 39 9th Dec. 1829. Charles Gates, For his services as a Commissioner to collect testimony as to Indian boundary line, 85 00 49 14th Dec. 1829. E. H. Plerce, For Parchment furnished for the use of the State, 80 50 56 17th Dec. 1829. Lemuel Wootten, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Wilkes county for 1827, 42 22 58 17th Dec. 1829. D. J. Blackburn, For taking the Census of Ware county, 25 50 63 19th Dec. 1829. Joseph Durrence, For his insolvent list as tax collector for [Illegible Text] county for 1822, 28 74 65 19th Dec. 1829. John Bellah, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Morgan county for 1827, 12 98 76 22d Dec. 1829. Tho's F. Greene, For postage account against Executive Department between 25th August last and this date, 329 80 84 11th Jan. 1830. Samuel Tucker, For plastering c. done in Secretary of State's office, 43 37 162 5th Feb. 1830. Wm. B. Taylor, For further advance to him for re-surveying the 11th district of Irwin county, 400 00 173 13th Feb. 1830. David Bell, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Chatham county for 1828, 187 62 205 12th Mar. 1830. Lewis S. Moon, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Walton county for 1828, 54 18 207 12th Mar. 1830. L. Lawshe, For the expense of advertising and his commission as sheriff on the sale of 9 lots, 20 03 236 9th April, 1830. Wm. B. Taylor, For the balance due him for examining and re-surveying the 11th district of Irwin county, [Illegible Text] 75 242 13th April, 1830. William Greene, For the balance due him for stationary furnished for the use of the State during the past year, 336 50 252 29th April, 1830. Edward Butler, For the insolvent list as tax collector for Morgan county for 1823 and 24. 188 51 293 3d May, 1830. A. M. Horton, For the insolvent list as tax collector for Morgan county for 1828, 64 38 297 17th May, 1830. T. F. Greene, For articles furnished for Surveyor General's office, 25 62 313 15th June, 1830. T. B. Stubbs, For articles furnished for the use of the State, 4 50 315 16th June, 1830. Wm. C. Dawson, For compiling and arranging the Laws and Resolutions of this State from 1820 to 1829, inclusive, 5000 00 316 16th June, 1830. David B. Mitchell, S Rockwell, E. Hamilton, I. L. Harris, W. Y. Hansell, For examining W. C. Dawson's compilation of the Laws and Resolutions with the originals, 500 00 322 23d June, 1830. James McCrary, For his insolvent list as tax collector for Baldwin county for [Illegible Text], 2 38 9,725 64

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MILITARY FUND, 1827. 2 [Illegible Text] Nov. [Illegible Text] J. P. Brooke, For 6 days service rendered in [Illegible Text] as a Brigade Inspector, 24 00 7 [Illegible Text] Nov. [Illegible Text] J. A. Meriwether, For 12 days service rendered in 1829 as a Brigade Inspector, 48 00 9 [Illegible Text] Nov. [Illegible Text] R. V. Hardman, For 15 days service rendered in 1829 as a Brigade Inspector, [Illegible Text] 00 13 5th Nov. [Illegible Text] M. Wilcox, For 40 days service rendered in 1829 as a Brigade Inspector, 160 00 19 9th Nov. [Illegible Text] A. B. Griffin, For turnishing a detachment ordered out by Gen. Woolfolk in August last, 200 75 21 12th Nov. [Illegible Text] E. B. Beall, For 8 days service rendered in 1829 as a Brigade Inspector, 32 00 22 [Illegible Text] Nov. [Illegible Text] Z. W. Tait, For 14 days service rendered in 1829 as a Brigade Inspector, 56 00 [Illegible Text] 14th Nov. [Illegible Text] T. H. Kenan, For the [Illegible Text] of hands to carry into effect a Resolution relative to the public arms, 52 00 [Illegible Text] 17th Dec. [Illegible Text] Wm. Beall, For 11 days service rendered in 1829 as a Brigade Inspector, 44 00 [Illegible Text] 19th Dec. [Illegible Text] H. B. Hathaway, For 10 days service rendered in 1829 as a Brigade Inspector, 40 00 64 19th Dec. [Illegible Text] E. Strong, For 8 days service rendered in 1829 as a Brigade Inspector, 32 00 [Illegible Text] 1st. Feb. [Illegible Text] F. M. Stone, For his 1st quarters pay as Military storekeeper Savannah, 60 00 [Illegible Text] 1st. Feb. [Illegible Text] T. H. Kenan, For his 1st quarters pay as Military storekeeper Milledgeville, 100 00 [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Mar. [Illegible Text] L. A. Regail, For amount paid by him for the transportation of arms and [Illegible Text] to Augusta. 72 02 [Illegible Text] 20th April, [Illegible Text] J. A. Meriwether, For 11 days service rendered in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 44 00 [Illegible Text] 3d May, 1830. F. M. Stone, For his 2d quarters pay as Military storekeeper Savannah, 60 00 [Illegible Text] 3d May, 1830. T. H. Kenan, For his 2d quarters pay as Military storekeeper Milledgeville, 100 00 [Illegible Text] 28th May, 1830. Wm. C. Wayne, For 40 days service rendered in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 160 00 [Illegible Text] 16th June, 1830. J. H. Cunningham, For 7 days service rendered in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 28 00 [Illegible Text] 17th June, 1830. P. T. Schley, For 10 days service rendered in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 40 00 [Illegible Text] 28th June, 1830. W. N. C. Mills, For 40 days service rendered in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 160 00 [Illegible Text] 19th July, 1830. John Cureton, For 15 days service rendered in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 60 00 [Illegible Text] 2d Aug. 1830. F. M. Stone, For his [Illegible Text] quarters pay as Military storekeeper Savannah, 60 00 [Illegible Text] 2d Aug. 1830. T. H. Kenan, For his 3d quarters pay as Military storekeeper Milledgeville, 100 00 [Illegible Text] 9th Aug. 1830. N. B. Williams, For 9 days service rendered in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 36 00 [Illegible Text] 12th Aug. 1830. [Illegible Text] M. Kelly, For his pay as a member of a Court Martial for the trial of Captain Seaborn Jones. 24 00 [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Aug. 1830. Edward D Tracy, For his pay as a Judge Advocate of the above mentioned Court Martial, 32 00 [Illegible Text] 20th Aug. 1830. N. W. Long, For 25 days service rendered in 1830 as a Division Inspector, 100 00 [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Aug. 1830. B. S. [Illegible Text], For his pay as a member of a Court Martial for the trial of Capt. S. Jones, 32 00 [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Aug. 1830. J. W. Hooper, For 34 days service rendered in 1830 as a Division Inspector, 136 00 [Illegible Text] 31st. Aug. 1830. B. H. Bazemore, For his [Illegible Text] as a member of a Court [Illegible Text] ordered for the trial of Captain S. Jones, 32 00 [Illegible Text] 7th Sept. 1830. Jno. C. Webb, For 26 days service rendered in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 104 00 [Illegible Text] 10th Sept. 1830. Jno. O. Moore, For his pay as a member of a Court Martial for the trial of Capt. S. Jones, 32 00 [Illegible Text] 15th Sept. 1830. John Chain, For the pay of himself and five other members of the above mentioned Court Martial, 161 20 [Illegible Text] 18th Sept. 1830. H. B. Hathaway, For 7 days service as a Brigade Inspector, 28 00 [Illegible Text] 21st Sept. 1830. [Illegible Text] V. C. [Illegible Text] For his pay as a member of a Court Martial for the trial of Capt. S. Jones, 27 [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 30th Sept. 1830. [Illegible Text] Watson, For his pay as a President of a Court Martial for the trial of Capt. S. Jones, 27 20 [Illegible Text] 7th Oct. 1830. Rob. Birdson, For his pay as a member of a Court Martial for the trial of Capt. S. Jones, 32 [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 9th Oct. 1830. I. E. Slatter, For his pay as a member of a Court Martial for the trial of Capt. S. Jones, 32 00 417 9th Oct. 1830. W. P. Harris, For his pay as member of a Court Martial for the trial of Capt. S. Jones, 32 00 [Illegible Text] 15th Oct. 1830. Wiley Williams, For 27 days service in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 108 00 [Illegible Text] 18th Oct. 1830. John Chambers, For his pay as a member of a Court Martial for the trial of Capt. S. Jones, 26 67 [Illegible Text] 19th Oct. 1830. John B. McCarter, For 12 days service in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 48 00 [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] Oct. 1830. Rob. V. Hardman, For 14 days service in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 56 00

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429 [Illegible Text] Oct. 1830. Mark [Illegible Text] For [Illegible Text] days service in 1830 as a Brigade Inspector, 112 00 431 28th Oct. 1830. Samuel Rockwell, For 4 days service in 1830 as a Division Inspector, 16 00 466 30th Oct. 1830. F. M. Stone, For his 4th quarters pay as Military storekeeper Savannah, 60 00 467 30th Oct. 1830. T. H. Kenan, For his 4th quarters pay as Military storekeeper Milledgeville, 100 00 3,187 56 POOR SCHOOL FUND. 3 2d Nov. 1829 Trs't. P.S.F. Warren Co. For that county's proportion as perdistribution made in 1827, 579 46 6 3d Nov. 1829 Trs't. P.S.F. Monroe Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1825 1827 1,060 74 32 3d Dec. 1829 Trs't. P.S.F. Wayne Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1824-25 27 225 47 33 5th Dec. 1829 Trs't. P.S.F. Effingham Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1825 27 257 27 41 9th Dec. 1829 Trs't. P.S.F. DeKalb Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1827 314 16 44 10th Dec. 1829 Trs't. P.S.F. Glynn Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1824-25 27 108 27 46 11th Dec. 1829 Trs't. P.S.F. Habersham Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1827 346 38 47 11th Dec. 1829 Trs't. P.S.F. Habersham Co. For amount appropriated to Trustees P. S. F. Habersham county by the appropriation act for 1829 520 31 50 14th Dec. 1829 Trs't. P.S.F. Laurens Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1827 319 00 [Illegible Text] 12th Jan. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Liberty Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 258 20 91 15th Jan. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Houston Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 218 69 92 15th Jan. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Baldwin Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 550 70 97 19th Jan. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Meriwether Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 271 53 99 19th Jan. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Talbot Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 327 12 106 27th Jan. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Gwinnett Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 1,063 27 108 28th Jan. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Fayette Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 325 74 112 30th Jan. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Jones Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 1,371 09 151 3d Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Upson, Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 645 35 154 3d Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Oglethorpe Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 947 96 155 3d Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Jaspers Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 1,563 13 157 4th Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Wilkes Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 1,074 91 161 5th Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Hancock Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 862 04 166 11th Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Pulaski Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 379 34 172 13th Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Henry, Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 671 46 180 18th Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Lowndes Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 267 08 184 22d Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Troup Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 388 78 185 23d Feb. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Taliaferro Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 312 [Illegible Text] 199 5th Mar. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Richmond Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 680 70 200 5th Mar. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Putnam Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 1,192 68 206 12th Mar. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Walton Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 840 91 216 23d Mar. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Chatham Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 750 71 224 1st April 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Butts Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 520 84 226 2d April 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Decatur Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 141 [Illegible Text] 229 5th April 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Muscogee Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 191 28 235 8th April 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Greene Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 913 [Illegible Text] 238 12th April 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Clarke Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 793 44 240 13th April 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Washington Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 979 [Illegible Text] 294 8th May 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Lincolon Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 [Illegible Text] 92 296 15th May 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Coweta Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 224 21 317 17th June 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Jackson Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 [Illegible Text] 07 321 19th June 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Warren Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 1,008 14 339 11th Aug. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Crawford Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 272 75 381 12th Aug. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Columbia Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 628 81 390 26th Aug. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Campbell Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 407 98 396 4th Sept. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Hall Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 1,168 94 403 22d Sept. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. [Illegible Text] Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 340 44 407 28th Sept. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. [Illegible Text] Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 361 27 412 2d Oct. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Newton Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 850 71 418 14th Oct. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Lee Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 137 37 422 18th Oct. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. [Illegible Text] Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 100 77 432 28th Oct. 1830 Trs't. P.S.F. Harris, Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution made in 1830 for 1828-29 302 15 29,582 25 APPROPRIATION FOR ENLARGING THE STATE HOUSE. 16 6th Nov. 1829, Orris Paine, For articles furnished and work done in the Representative Chamber, 190 15 30 28th Nov. 1829, C. C. Birch, For and on account of his contract for building an addition to the State House, 907 18 [Illegible Text] 14th April, 1830. C. C. Birch, For balance due him on the above mentioned contract, 100 00 [Illegible Text] 17th May, 1830. Orris Paine, For one month's pay as Superintendant of of the addition to the State House, ending 24th Nov. [Illegible Text] 50 00 426 20th Oct. 1830. Everard Hamilton, For auditing, since 29th Oct. 1829, accounts for additions to the State House, 19 67 1267 00

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SPECIAL APPROPRIATION, 1822. 59 18th Dec. 1829. A. [Illegible Text] Tr. University, For deficiency in the dividend, in October last, on the Stock in the State Bank, taken for the University, 500 00 333 25th June, 1830. do. do. For deficiency in the dividend, in April last on the Stock in the State Bank, taken for the University, 500 00 1000 00 FUND FOR THE REDEMPTION OF THE PUBLIC DEBT. 227 2d April, [Illegible Text] Eben'r Jackson, sen'r. For one eighth of an audited certificate for 1735 dolls. and 71 cents, issued in the name of David Hillhouse, 216 96 PRINTING FUND, 1829. 4 3rd Nov. 1829. S. W. Minor, For inserting in his paper advertisements for the State, 11 50 5 3rd Nov. 1829. W. I. Bunce, For inserting in his paper advertisements for the State, and State's subscription to January 7, [Illegible Text] 78 66 15 6th Nov. 1829. O. P. Shaw, For inserting in his paper advertisements for the State, and State's subscription to January 7, 1830, 63 62 20 10th Nov. 1829. Rose Slade, For inserting in their paper advertisements for the State, and State's subscription to March, 1830, [Illegible Text] 75 26 18th Nov. 1829. M. Bartlett, For inserting in his paper advertisements for the State, 18 00 28 26th Nov. 1829. Robertson Bevan, For inserting in their paper advertisements for the State, 27 00 43 10th Dec. 1829. T. A. Pasteur, For inserting in his paper advertisements for the State, 78 75 45 11th Dec. 1829. T. A. Pasteur, For inserting in his paper Sale of Lots in Columbus, 41 00 48 12th Dec. 1829. J. G. McWhorter, For inserting in his paper advertisements for the State, 69 87 55 16th Dec. 1829. M. Smith, For inserting in his paper advertisements for the State, 16 50 79 1st Jan. 1830. C. E. Bartlett, For inserting in his paper advertisements for the state, 22 50 93 19th Jan. 1830. C. E. McIntyre, For inserting in his paper advertisements for the State, [Illegible Text] 00 177 17th Feb. 1830. Lamar Marks, For inserting in their paper advertisements for the State, 22 50 318 17th June, 1830. P. L. Robinson, For inserting in his paper Sale of Columbus Lots in 1829, and for State's subscription to July 1830, 20 25 328 8th July, 1830. C. E. Bartlett, For inserting in his paper Sale of Columbus Lots in 1829, 16 50 591 40 PRINTING FUND, 1830. 90 14th Jan. 1830. Burritt Polhill, For printing done for the Legislature and publishing Laws in their paper, 682 69 133 20th Feb. 1830. Burritt Polhill, For printing 300 copies of the Rules of Court established in 1829, 75 00 195 2d March, 1830. O. P. Shaw, For publishing Laws in Iris paper, c. 57 00 204 11th March, 1830. A. C. [Illegible Text] For publishing Laws in his paper, c. 16 17 210 16th March, 1830. Lama Marks, For publishing Laws in their paper, c. 153 25 231 5th April 1830. A. H. [Illegible Text] For publishing Laws in his paper, c. 61 69 233 6th April 1830. Rose Slade, For publishing Laws in their paper, c. 106 25 [Illegible Text] 1st May, 1830. George Oates, For the State's subscription to the National Intelligencer and Richmond Enquirer for one year, 15 00 301 22d May, 1830. John G. Polhill, For printing done for the Surveyor General's Office, c. 28 81 330 16th July, 1830. John G. Polhill, For publishing Proclamations in relation to the Cherokee Indians, 32 50 341 28th July, 1830. Camak Ragland, For publishing Laws in their paper, and advertisements for the State, c. 462 87 342 28th July, 1830. Camak Ragland, For printing the Laws and Journals of 1829, 5831 25 405 27th Sept. 1830. [Illegible Text] Orme, For publishing in their paper Laws and Advertisements for the State, and printing for State Officers, and for State's subscription to February, 1830, 476 94 406 28th Sept. 1830. A. C. McIntyre, For publishing in his paper an Act extending time for taking out Lottery grants, 15 00 415 9th Oct. 1830. Jacob P. Norton, For publishing in his paper an Act extending time for taking out Lottery grants, and for State's subscription to Nov. [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] 50

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[Illegible Text] 14th Oct. 1830. Grantland Orme, For an advance to them on account of their contract for printing and binding Dawson's compilation of the Laws and Journals, 4000 00 428 25th Oct. 1830. P. L. Robinson, For publishing in his paper the Act extending the time for taking out Lottery grants, 45 00 12,112 92 APPROPRIATION FOR THE PURCHASE OF NEGROES TO IM- PROVE THE ROADS AND RIVERS. 93 15th Jan. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 4 Negroes purchased by F. M. Stone, Agent of the State, 1,552 00 94 15th Jan. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 2 Negroes purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 931 25 95 18th Jan. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 5 Negroes purchased by S. Barnett, Agent of the State, 2,045 71 96 18th Jan. 1830. Miller Grieve, For 2 Negroes purchased by L.J. Dupree, Agent of the State, 850 00 101 22d Jan. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 1 Negro purchased by F. M. Stone, Agent of the State, 430 00 102 22d Jan. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 5 Negroes purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 2,070 00 103 25th Jan. 1830. Miller Grieve, For 2 Negroes purchased by L.J. Dupree, Agent of the State, 825 00 104 25th Jan. 1830. Samuel Boykin, For 2 Negroes purchased by L.J. Dupree, Agent of the State, 875 00 110 29th Jan. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 4 Negroes purchased by F. M. Stone, Agent of the State, 1,600 00 111 29th Jan. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 3 Negroes purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 1,358 83 150 3d Feb. 1830. B. Pope, For 2 Negroes purchased by L. J. Dupree, Agent of the State, 825 00 153 3d Feb. 1830. W. H. Smith, For 2 Negroes purchased by L. J. Dupree, Agent of the State, 900 00 159 4th Feb. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 1 Negro purchased by S. Barnett, Agent of the State, 450 00 165 11th Feb. 1830. [Illegible Text] E. Glover, For 2 Negroes purchased by F. Jordan, Agent for the State, 925 00 169 12th Feb. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 4 Negroes purchased by F. M. Stone, Agent of the State, 1,575 00 170 12th Feb. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 4 Negroes purchased by S. Barnett, Agent of the State, 1,700 00 171 12th Feb. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 1 Negro purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 451 00 174 17th Feb. 1830. J. Drummond, For 1 Negro purchased by C. Campbell, Agent of the State, 364 00 175 17th Feb. 1830. H. Mealing, For 1 Negro purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 436 00 181 19th Feb. 1830. P. R. Gilmer, For 1 Negro purchased by L. J. Dupree, Agent of the State, 450 00 187 25th Feb. 1830. Wm. [Illegible Text] For 1 Negro purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 460 00 188 25th Feb. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 6 Negroes purchased by S. Barnett, Agent for the State, 2,750 00 189 25th Feb. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 1 Negro purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 426 00 190 25th Feb. 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 8 Negroes purchased by F. M. Stone, Agent of the State, 3,126 00 194 2d March 1830. H. Buchanon, For 1 Negro purchased by F. Jordan, Agent of the State, 475 00 197 5th March 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 8 Negroes purchased by S. Barnett F. Stone, Agents of the State, 5 by Barnett and 3 by Stone, 3,475 00 202 11th March 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 5 Negroes purchased by McTyre and Stone, Agents of the State, 4 by McTyre and 1 by Stone, 2,356 00 211 18th March 1830. F. M. Stone, For Jail Fees and subsistance of Negroes purchased by him for the State, 48 69 212 18th March 1830. F. M. Stone, For his Commissions on amount paid for Negroes purchased by him for the State, 496 65 213 18th March 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 1 Negro purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 410 [Illegible Text] 218 24th March 1830. J. R. Cargile, For 2 Negroes purchased by F. Jordan, Agent of the State, 875 00 219 26th March 1830. H. Cosnard, For 1 Negro purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 450 00 221 26th March 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 5 Negroes purchased by H. McTyre, Agent of the State, 2,288 00 222 29th March 1830. J. T. Camp, For 1 Negro purchased by C. Campbell, Agent of the State, 500 00 223 31st March 1830. H. Phelps, For 4 Negroes purchased by C. Campbell, Agent of the State, [Illegible Text] 00 230 5th April, 1830. F. Bryan, For 1 Negro purchased by C. Campbell, Agent of the State, 500 00 [Illegible Text] 7th April, 1830. H. McTyre, For his commissions on amount paid for Negroes purchased by him for the State, 561 85 [Illegible Text] 12th April, 1830. John Walker, For 1 Negro purchased by C. Campbell, Agent of the State, 450 00 246 20th April, 1830. John Hill, For 4 Negroes purchased by F. Jordan, Agent of the State, 1,825 00

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250 20th April, 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 2 Negroes, purchased by S. Barnett, Agent of the State, 902 00 292 3d May, 1830. W.D. Charter, For 1 Negro purchased by C. Campbell, Agent of the State, 500 00 302 24th May, 1830. W.D. Charter, For 1 Negro purchased by C. Campbell, Agent of the State, 475 00 309 1st June, 1830. L.J. Dupree, For his commissions on amount paid for Negroes purchased by him for the State and expenses incurred on account of said Negroes, 246 25 310 2d June, 1830. Jno. Hill, For 1 Negro purchased by F. Jordan, Agent of the State, 475 00 331 17th July, 1830. Edw'd Cary, Cash'r, For 8 Negroes purchased by Barnett and Hillhouse for the State, 1 by Barnett and 2 by Hillhouse, I,325 00 332 17th July, 1830. Samuel Barnett, For his commissions on amount paid for Negroes purchased by him for the State and expenses incurred on account of said Negroes, 560 30 338 26th July, 1830. D.P. Hillhouse, For his commissions on amount paid for Negroes purchased by him for the State, 41 25 337 23d Aug. 1830. Charter Campbell. For his commissions on amount paid for Negroes purchased by him for the State, 238 20 395 1st Sept. 1830. D. P. Hillhouse, For 2 Negroes purchased by him for the State, 830 00 408 30th Sept. 1830. Fleming Jordan, For his commissions on amount paid for Negroes purchased by him for the State, 228 75 411 1st Oct. 1830. D.P. Hillhouse, In part of his commissions on the amount paid for 2 Negroes purchased by him for the State, 26 27 00 50,000 00 APPROPRIATION FOR IMPROVING THE ROADS AND RIVERS. 83 9th Jan. 1830. Thomas Pace, An advance to him as Superintendant of hands on the Roads and Rivers, 2,000 00 86 12th Jan. 1830. David P. Hillhouse, An advance to him as Superintendant of hands on the Roads and Rivers, 3,000 00 193 2d March 1830. David P. Hillhouse, An advance to him as Superintendant of hands on the Roads and Rivers, 500 00 237 9th April 1830. Thomas Pace, An advance to him as Superintendant of hands on the Roads and Rivers, 1,000 00 245 14th April 1830. M.J. Smith, One quarter's pay as Overseer of the hands at Milledgeville, 75 00 247 26th April 1830. David P. Hillhouse, An advance to him as Superintendant of hands on the Roads and Rivers, 2,500 00 304 26th May 1830. Thomas Pace, An advance to him as Superintendant of hands on the Roads and Rivers, 1,500 00 339 26th July 1830. David P. Hillhouse, An advance to him as Superintendant of hands on the Roads and Rivers, 2,000 00 383 23d Aug. 1830. Charter Campbell, For Jail fees and expenses incurred on account of Negroes purchased by him for the State, 29 44 391 26th Aug. 1830. Thomas Pace, An advance to him as Superintendant of hands on the Roads and Rivers, 1,500 00 410 1st Oct. 1830. David P. Hillhouse, An advance to him as Superintendant of hands on the Roads and Rivers, 500 60 14,604 44 APPROPRIATION FOR COUNTY ACADEMIES. 29 28th Nov. 1829. Trs's Acad's Rabun Co. For that county's proportion as per distribution in 1828, 188 65 37 9th Dec. 1829. do do Jasper do do do do do 188 65 40 9th Dec. 1829. do do Hall do do do do do 188 65 42 9th Dec. 1829. do do Early do do do do do 188 65 51 15th Dec. 1829. do do Seriven do do do do do 188 65 52 15th Dec. 1829. do do Morgan do do do do do 188 65 53 16th Dec. 1829. do do Bulloch do do do do do 188 65 54 16th Dec. 1829. do do Ellingham do do do do do 188 65 61 19th Dec. 1829. do do Jackson do do do do do 188 65 62 19th Dec. 1829. do do Oglethorpe do do do do do 188 65 66 21st Dec. 1829. do do Carroll For amount appropriated for an Academy in that county by the appropriation act, passed in 1829, 815 00 67 21st Dec. 1829. do do Carroll For that county's proportion as per distribution in 1828, 188 65 75 21st Dec. 1829. do do Randolph For amount appropriated for an Academy, in that county by the appropriation act, passed in 1829, 815 00 80 6th Jan. 1830. do do Baldwin For that county's proportion as per distribution in 1830, 382 91 81 7th Jan. 1830. do do Laurens do do do do 1828 1830 571 56 82 8th Jan. 1830. do do Chatham do do do do 1830 382 91 85 12th Jan. 1830. do do Harris do do do do 1828 1830 571 [Illegible Text] 87 12th Jan. 1830. do do Liberty do do do do 1830 382 91 105 26th Jan. 1830. do do Warren do do do do do 382 91 107 27th Jan. 1830. do do Habersham do do do do do 382 91

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109 29th Jan. 1830. do do Richmond do do do do 1828 1830 371 56 152 3rd Feb. 1830. do do Upson do do do do 1830 882 91 156 4th Feb. 1830. do do Gwinnett do do do do do 382 91 158 4th Feb. 1830. do do Wilkes do do do do do 382 91 176 17th Feb. 1830. do do Burke do do do do do 382 91 178 18th Feb. 1830. do do Fayette do do do do do 382 91 179 18th Feb. 1830. do do DeKalb do do do do do 382 91 182 20th Feb. 1830. do do Muscogee do do do do do 382 91 186 23d Feb. 1830. do do Twiggs do do do do do 382 91 192 26th Feb. 1830. do do Randolph do do do do do 382 91 196 2d March 1830. do do Henry do do do do do 382 91 201 5th March 1830. do do Taliaferro do do do do do 382 91 209 16th March 1830. do do Crawford do do do do do 382 91 214 19th March 1830. do do Greene do do do do do 382 91 217 24th March 1830. do do Butts do do do do do 382 91 228 3rd April 1830. do do Baker do do do do do 382 91 [Illegible Text] 5th April 1830. do do Hancock do do do do do 382 91 248 26th April 1830. do do Houston do do do do do 382 91 254 30th April 1830. do do Putnam do do do do do 382 91 295 15th May 1830. do do Coweta do do do do do 571 56 299 18th May 1830. do do Jasper do do do do do 382 91 307 31st May 1830. do do Clarke do do do do do 382 91 320 18th June 1830. do do Walton do do do do do 382 91 325 29th June 1830. do do Jones do do do do do 382 94 329 8th July 1830. do do Washington do do do do do 382 91 340 28th July 1830. do do Troup do do do do do 382 91 392 28th Aug. 1830. do P S.F. Lowndes do do do do 1828 1830 571 56 393 28th Aug. 1830. do do Lowndes do amount appropriated for an Academy in that county by the appropriation act, passed 22d December; 1826, 815 00 405 24th Sept. 1830. do Acad. Bibb do that county's proportion as per distritribution in 1830, 382 91 18,676 60 CONTINGENT FUND, 1830. 100 20th Jan. 1830. Everard Hamilton, For bees wax, to be used in the Secretary of State's office, 24 18 147 1st Feb. 1830. Peter Fair, For his 1st quarters pay as Messenger to the Executive Department, 100 00 148 1st Feb. 1830. Anthony Newson, For the 1st quarters pay of the State House guard, c, 240 00 149 1st Feb. 1830. Sec'y Executive Depament, For their fees on lottery and fraction grants, passed in 1st quarter of 1830, 203 93 160 4th Feb. 1830. Edward Johnson, For binding books for the offices of Secretary of State, Treasurer and Comptroller General, 30 00 163 9th Feb. 1830. Thacker B. Howard, For the postage of official letters to him as Comptroller General, 21 52 164 10th Feb. 1830. W. D. Jarret, J. Marlow and J. G. Bates, For their services as commissioners to examine and report, as to C. C. Birch's contract, for buiding addition to State House, 100 00 167 11th Feb. 1830. Jacob T. Chout, For work done in the Surveyor General's office. 2 50 203 11th Mar. 1830. Thomas F. Greene, For postage due by Executive Department, for letters, pamphlets, c. between 22d December, and this date. 542 17 208 15th Mar. 1830. E. H. Pierce, For paying small incidental expenses of the State, 100 00 220 26th Mar. 1830. C. C. Birch, For extending State House fence, so as to include the Churches, 112 00 225 1st April, 1830. Calvin Blake and others, For apprehending James Stafford, under an Executive proclamation, 100 00 244 14th April, 1830. William Green, For an advance to him, to purchase stationary for the State, 500 00 251 29th April, 1830. John L. Moore, For a tin gutter for the Government house, 54 12 289 3d May, 1830. Peter Fair, For his 2d quarters pay as Messenger, to the Executive Department, 100 00 290 2d May, 1830. Anthony Newsom, For the 2d quarters pay of the State House guard c, 240 00 291 3d May, 1830. Secretaries Ex. Dep't. For their fees on lottery and fraction grants, passed in the 2d quarter of 1830, 53 95 300 22d May, 1830. William W. Farnum, For carrying laws and journals to 14 counties agreeable to contract, 40 00 303 24th May, 1830. Thomas F. Greene, For postage due by the Executive Department, between 12th March last and this date, 247 51 306 29th May, 1830. William A. Moore, For carrying laws and journals, to 13 counties as per contract, 50 00 303 1st June, 1830. Thomas H. Kenan, For cleaning c. 40 muskets belonging to the State, 60 00 312 14th June, 1830. Edward Johnson, For binding books for Executive Department and Secretary of State's office, 12 50 326 2d July, 1830. Leonard Perkins, For pen knives c. furnished for the several offices, 23 12

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[Illegible Text] 7th July, 1830, Thomas H. Kenan, For cleaning, c. 162 [Illegible Text] belonging to the State, 248 00 334 19th July, 1830, Martin Hall, For carrying laws and journals to [Illegible Text] counties as per. contract, 105 00 376 2d Aug. 1830, Peter Fair, For his 3d quarters pay as Messenger, Executive Department, 100 00 377 2d Aug. 1830, Anthony Newsom, For the 3d quarters pay of the State House guard c, 240 00 378 2d Aug. 1830, Secretaries Ex. Dep't. For their fees on lottery and fraction grants, passed in 3d quarter 1830, 67 91 389 24th Aug. 1830, William Rogers, For shelving a room in the State House and altering Senate lobby, 45 00 398 9th Sept. 1830, Thomas F. Greene, For postage due by Executive Department, for letters [Illegible Text] c. between 24th May last and this date, 343 67 414 8th Oct. 1830, Isaac T. Cushing, For repairing the Seal Press, in the Secretary of State's office, 20 00 423 18th Oct. 1830, Lewis Weitman, For his insolvent list as Tax Collector of Effingham county, for 1828, 27 70 425 19th Oct. 1830, Jesse Johnson, For his commissions on the amount paid by him as Sheriff, into the Treasury, on account of the sale of a lot fraudulently drawn, 1 28 430 28th Oct. 1830, Jonathan Elliott, For 16 copies of the 3d and 4th volumes of debates, on the Federal Constitution, 90 00 483 29th Oct. 1830, William Little, For his Insolvent list, as Tax Collector for Taliaferro County, for 1828, 29 71 468 30th Oct. 1830, Peter Fair, For his 4th quarters pay as Messenger to the Executive Department, 100 00 469 30th Oct. 1830, Anthony Newsom, For the 4th quarters pay of the State House guard and for candles furnished for their use. 240 00 470 30th Oct. 1830, Secretrries Ex. Dep't. For their fees on lottery grants and grants for fractions, town lots and fraudulent lots, passed in the 4th quarter, 108 91 Dolls. 4,719 68 SPECIAL APPROPRIATION, 1830. 68 22d Dec. 1829, S. J. Mays, For amount allowed him in the appropriation act for 1830, 12 50 69 22d Dec. 1829, T. H. Tripp, For amount allowed him in the appropriation act for 1830, 90 00 70 22d Dec. 1829, B. F. Hardeman, For amount allowed him in the appropriation act for 1830, 157 00 71 22d Dec. 1829, A. M. Bostick, For amount allowed her in the appropriation act for 1830, 10 16 72 22d Dec. 1829, M. N. Burch, For amount allowed him in the appropriation act for 1830, 26 12 73 22d Dec. 1829, R. L. Sims, For amount allowed him in the appropriation act for 1830, 127 05 74 22d Dec. 1829, A. H. Green, For amount allowed him in the appropriation act for 1830, 20 60 77 24th Dec. 1829, E E. Park, For amount allowed him in the appropriation act for 1830, [Illegible Text] 00 89 13th Jan. 1830, Crs. Locest Stake Rd. For amount allowed them in the appropriation act for 1830, 500 00 139 1st Feb. 1830, J. S. Calhoun, For his 1st quarter's pay as an Inspector of the Penitentiary, 56 00 140 1st Feb. 1830, James Camak, For his 1st quarter's pay as an Inspector of the Penitentiary, 56 00 141 1st Feb. 1830, B. A. [Illegible Text] For his 1st quarter's pay as an Inspector of the Penitentiary, 17 23 142 1st Feb. 1830, Samuel Boykin, For his 1st quarter's pay as an Inspector of the Penitentiary, 36 92 [Illegible Text] 1st Feb. 1830, Peter Fair For his 1st quarter's pay for winding up State House clock, c, 25 00 144 1st Feb. 1830, Henry Darnell, For his 1st quarter's pay for taking care of the Senate and Representative rooms, c. 25 00 282 3d May, 1830, J. S. Calhoun, For his 2d quarter's pay as a Penitentiary Inspector, 56 00 283 3d May, 1830, James Camak, For his 2d quarter's pay as a Penitantiary Inspector, 56 00 284 3d May, 1830, B. A. White, For his 2d quarter's pay as a Penitentiary Inspector, 56 00 285 3d May, 1830, Peter Fair, For his 2d quarter's pay for winding up State Hoase clock, c. 25 00 286 3d May, 1830, Henry Darnell, For his 2d quarter's pay for taking care of Senate and Representative chambers, c. 25 00 369 2d Aug. 1830, J. S. Calhoun, For his 3d quarter's pay as a Penitentiary Inspector, 56 00 370 2d Aug. 1830, James Camak, For his 3d quarter's pay as a Penitentiary Inspector, 56 00 371 2d Aug. 1830, B. A. White, For his 3d quarter's pay as a Penitentiary Inspector, 56 00

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372 2d Aug. 1830, Peter Fair, For his 3d quarter's pay for winding up State House clock, c. 25 00 373 2d Aug. 1830, Henry Darnell, For his 3d quarter's pay for taking care of Senate and Representative rooms, c 25 00 461 30th Oct. 1830, James Camak, For his 4th quarter's pay as a Penitentiary Inspector, 56 00 462 30th Oct. 1830, B. A. White. For his 4th quarter's pay as a Penitentiary Inspector, 56 00 473 30th Oct. 1830, J. S. Calhoun, For his 4th quarter's pay as a Penitentiary Inspector, [Illegible Text] 38 464 30th Oct. 1830, Peter Fair, For his 4th quarter's pay for winding up State House clock, c. 25 00 465 30th Oct. 1830, Henry Darnell, For his 4th quarter's pay for taking care of the Senate and Representative rooms, c. 25 00 Dolls. 1,877 41 APPROPRIATION FOR AN ARSENAL IN SAVANNAH. 168 12th Feb. 1830, Clark Lufburrow, On account of their contract for building an arsenal for the State, in Savannah, 1,500 00 191 25th Feb. 1830, Ed. Cary, Cashier, For amount due R. W. Habersham, for drawing the contracts and C. Stephens, for surveying a lot, for an arsenal in Savannah, 45 00 [Illegible Text] 5th Mar. 1830, J. R. Thompson, On account of his contract for building said arsenal, 400 00 241 13th April, 1830, Clark Lufburrow, On account of their contract for building said arsenal, 2,000 00 249 26th April, 1830, J. R. Thompson, On account of his contract for building said arsenal, 300 00 311 7th June, 1830, Clark Lufburrow, On account of their contract for building said arsenal, 1,500 00 335 21st July, 1830, William T. Williams, For his services in contracting for and superintending the building of said arsenal, 500 00 [Illegible Text] 23d July, 1830, Clark Lufburrow, For the balance due them for building-said arsenal, 2,098 58 337 26th July, 1830, J. R. Thompson, For the balance due him for building said arsenal, 461 00 Dolls. [Illegible Text] 58 CIVIL ESTABLISHMENT, 1830. [Illegible Text] 26th Dec 1829 Sam'l A. Bailey, For amo't of 1st qr's salary due [Illegible Text] as a So. Gen'l. 27 20 113 1st Feb 1830 Geo. r. Gilmer, do his 1st qr's salary as Governor 750 00 114 do do do Geo. R. Clayton, do do do do Sec'y. Ex. Department, 250 00 115 do do do E. H. Pierce, do do do [Illegible Text] do do 250 00 116 do do do D. M. Grieve, do do do do do do 250 00 117 do do do E. Hamilton, do do do do do of the State 500 00 118 do do do Hines Holt, do do do do Treasurer 500 00 119 do do do John Bethune, do do do do Surveyor General 500 00 120 do do do T B. Howard, do do do do Comptroller do 500 00 121 do do do W. Y. Hansell, do do do do Sec'y of the Senate 150 00 122 do do do W. C. Dawson, do do do do Cl'k Ho. Rep's. 150 00 123 do do do Wm. H. Crawford, do do do do Judge of the Sup'r Courts 525 00 124 do do do A. S. Clayton, do do do do do do do 525 00 125 do do do T. W. Cobb, do do do do do do do 525 00 126 do do do W. T. Colquitt, do do do do do do do 525 00 127 do do do T. G. Holt, do do do do do do do 525 00 128 do do do Wm. W. Holt, do do do do do do do 525 00 129 do do do Wm. Law, do do do do do do do 525 00 130 do do do C. B. Strong, do do do do do do do 525 00 131 do do do Geo. W. Crawford, do do do do Attorney General 56 25 132 do do do J. W. Jackson, do do do do Solicitor do 56 25 133 do do do M. A. Cooper do do do do do do 56 25 134 do do do B. F. Hardeman, do do do do do do 56 25 135 do do do Thomas Porter, do do do do do do 56 25 136 do do do R. L. Sims, do do do do do do 56 25 137 do do do T. H. Tripp, do do do do do do 56 25 138 do do do J. W. Hooper, do do do do [Illegible Text] do 29 05 256 3d May do Geo. R. Gilmer, do 2d do do Governor 750 00 257 do do do [Illegible Text] R. Clayton, do do do do Sec'y Ex. Department 250 00 258 do do do E. H. Pierce, do do do do do do 250 00 259 do do do D. M. Grieve, do do do do do do 250 00 260 do do do E. Hamilton, do do do do Sec'y of State 500 00 261 do do do Hines Holt, do do do do Treasurer 500 00 262 do do do John Bethune, do do do do Surveyor General 500 00 263 do do do T. B. Howard, do do do do Comptroller do 500 00 264 do do do W. Y. Hansell, do do do do Sec'y of Senate 150 00 265 do do do W. C. Dawson, do do do do Cl'k Ho. Rep's 150 00 266 do do do Wm. H. Crawford, do do do do Judge of the Sup'r Courts 525 00 267 do do do A. S. Clayton, do do do do do do 525 00 268 do do do W. T. Colquitt, do do do do do do 525 00 269 do do do T. G. Holt, do do do do do do 525 00 270 do do do wm. W. Holt, do do do do do do 525 00 271 do do do Wm. Law, do do do do do do 525 00 272 do do do C. B. Strong, do do do do do do 525 00

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273 do do do A. G. Saffold, do do do do do do 473 72 274 do do do G. W. Crawford, do do do do Attorney Gen'l 56 25 275 do do do J. W. Jackson, do do do do Solicitor General 56 25 276 do do do M. A. Cooper, do do do do do do 56 25 277 do do do B. F. Hardeman, do do do do do do 56 25 278 do do do J. W. Hooper, do do do do do do 56 25 279 do do do Thomas Porter, do do do do do do 56 25 280 do do do R. L. Sims, do do do do do do 56 25 281 do do do T. H. Tripp, do do do do do do 56 25 343 2d Aug do Geo. R. Gilmer, do do do do Governor 750 00 344 do do do Geo. R. Clayton, do do do do Sec'y Ex. Department 250 00 345 do do do E. H. Plerce, do do do do do do 250 00 346 do do do D. M. Grieve, do do do do do do 250 00 347 do do do E. Hamilton, do do do do Sec'y of State 500 00 348 do do do Hines Holt, do do do do Treasurer 500 00 349 do do do Johu Bethune, do do do do Surveyor General 500 00 350 do do do T. B. Howard, do do do do Comptroller do 500 00 351 do do do W. Y. Hansell, do do do do Sec'y of the Senate 150 00 352 do do do W. C. Dawson, do do do do Cl'k Ho. Rep's 150 00 353 do do do Wm. H. Crawford, do do do do Judge Sup'r Courts 525 00 354 do do do A. S. Clayton, do do do do do do 525 00 355 do do do W. T. Colquitt, do do do do do do 525 00 356 do do do T. G. Holt, do do do do do do 525 00 357 do do do W. W. Holt, do do do do do do 525 00 358 do do do Wm. Law, do do do do do do 525 00 359 do do do A. G. Saffold, do do do do do do 525 00 360 do do do C. B. Strong, do do do do do do 525 00 361 do do do G. W. Crawford, do do do do Attorney General, 56 25 362 do do do M. A. Cooper, do do do do Solicitor do 56 25 363 do do do B. F. Hardeman, do do do do do do 56 25 364 do do do J. W. Jackson, do do do do do do 56 25 365 do do do J. W. Hooper, do do do do do do 56 25 366 do do do Thomas Porter, do do do do do do 56 25 367 do do do T. H. Tripp, do do do do do do 56 25 368 do do do R. L. Sims, do do do do do do 56 25 434 30th Oct do Geo. R. Gilmer, do do 4th do Governor 750 00 435 do do do Geo. R. Clayton, do do do do Sec'y Ex. Department 250 00 436 do do do E. H. Pierce, do do do do do do 250 00 437 do do do D. M. Greive, do do do do do do 250 00 438 do do do E. Hamilton, do do do do Secretary of State, 500 00 439 do do do Hines Holt, do do do do Treasurer, 500 00 440 do do do John Bethune, do do do do Surveyor General, 500 00 441 do do do T. B. Howard, do do do do Comptroller General, 500 00 442 do do do Wm. Y. Hansell, do part of 4th quarters salary as Sec'y of Senate, 126 92 443 do do do Jno. A. Cuthbert, do do do do do do 23 08 444 do do do Wm. C. Dawson, do 4th do do Clerk of the Ho. of Rep's. 150 00 445 do do do Wm. H. Crawford, do do do do Judge of the Sup'r Courts, 525 00 446 do do do A. S. Clayton, do do do do do do 525 00 447 do do do W. T. Colquitt, do do do do do do 525 00 448 do do do T. G. Holt, do do do do do do 525 00 449 do do do Wm. W. Holt, do do do do do do 525 00 450 do do do William Law, do do do do do do 525 00 451 do do do C. B. Strong, do do do do do do 526 00 452 do do do A. G. Saffold, do do do do do do 525 00 453 do do do G. W. Crawford, do do do do Attorney General, 56 25 454 do do do Mark A. Cooper, do do do do Solicitor General, 56 25 455 do do do B. F. Hardeman, do do do do do do 56 25 456 do do do John W. Hooper, do do do do do do 56 25 457 do do do Jos. W. Jackson, do do do do do do 56 25 458 do do do Thomas Porter, do do do do do do 56 25 459 do do do R. L. Sims, do do do do do do 56 25 460 do do do T. H. Tripp, do do do do do do 56 25 33,748 07 RECAPITULATION. Drawn Chargeable to account of Contingent Fund, 1829, 9,725 64 do do do Military Fund, [Illegible Text], 3,187 56 do do do Poor School Fund, 29,582 25 do do do Appropriation for enlarzing the State House, [Illegible Text] do do do [Illegible Text] Appropriation, 1822, 1,000 00 do do do Fund for Redemption of the Public Debt, 216 96 do do do Printing Fund, [Illegible Text], 591 40 do do do Printing Fund, [Illegible Text], 12,112 92 do do do Appropriation for the purchase of Negroes to improve the Roads and Rivers, 50,000 00 do do do Appropriation for improving the Roads and Rivers, 14,604 44 do do do Appropriation for County Academies, 18,676 [Illegible Text] do do do Contingent Fund, [Illegible Text], 4,719 [Illegible Text] do do do Special Appriation, 1830, 1,877 41 do do do Appropriation for an Arsenal in Savannah, 8,804 53 do do do Civil Establishment, [Illegible Text], 33,743 07 Whole Amount, 190,114 54 NOVEMBER 1st, 1830. GEORGE R. CLAYTON, [Illegible Text] Executive Department.