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About The Columbus times. (Columbus, Ga.) 1841-185? | View Entire Issue (Dec. 23, 1841)
I, IST UK ACTS riSSED AT THE LATE SESSION OF THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. 1 To reduce me coinpeii-aiioii of the mem hers ot the general ss.stnihly the saiary nl his excellency ilje Governor, and oilier pub lic officers therein named. sJ. To authorise llie Judge of the Snperioi Court ot'the Middle Circuit, to hold an extra session in the county of Jefferson, 3. To authorise constables to serve sum mons nine days before tlie sitting 'l the com t. to winch they are mule rttum bie. 4. To repeal an act entitled, an acd to re peal an act entitled an act to add a part ol Newton county to J isper comity, assented to 22J December, 1831; amt also to trans fercertain suits trout the county of Jasper to the county of Newton, assented to 26th De cember, 1840. 5. To deline the mode and manner of ta king bonds in cases ol boil in this state. 6. To repeal an act entitled, an act to reu ulate the intercourse between the banks ol tins slate and other institutions and brokers,] passed on the 22.1 December, 1823 —also, to alter and amend the act authorising the re covery of damages against banks, and the act of the last Gitieial Assembly requiring the banks of this slate to adeem their liabil ities in specie. 7. To authorise William Moore to erect a dam across a part of ihe Chattahoochee river, i on his own land, in the 20ih district, originally ; Muscogee, now Harris county. Also, James E lmondson to erect a mill dam across the, Coiiasauga river on his own land, in the 10.li district of Murray county. 8. To alter and amend the several acts in relation to the Georgia Railroad and Banking Company. 9. To es ablish an additional election pre cinct in the county of Lowndes. 10. To incorporate the Wardens and V es try of St. John’s Church in Savannah, and m authorise the remaining trustees ol the Methodist Episcopal Church in Adieus to fi.l anv vacancies that exist in their board. 11. To regulate the sale of articles manu factured in the penitentiary of the stale ol Georgia—to point out the mode ol payment tlicretbr —to make persons liable for the loss occasioned by the iiimcomplianee with the; terms of sale—to deposit tne proceeds in the ] Central Bank of Georgia—to authorise the 1 principal keeper to draw on the same—tol compel the payment nl his drains, and to pro : hibit the officers of the penitentiary from dis bursing any of the materials intended for ihe use of the penitentiary, and to require the principal keeper, inspectors and book keeper* to make their quarterly reports within thirty days from the expiration of each quarter. 12. To incorporate Grace Church, Clarks ville. 13. To alter and amend the 3.1, Till and 12di sections of the Ist article, and the 3d section of (he 3d article, and the 15th section of the 4th article of the constitution ol this state. 14. To add five additional trustees for the Attapulgus Academy in the county of Deca tur. 15. To repeal an act entitled, an act com pensating tfie Justices of the Inferior Court of the county of Appling—assented to Dec. 23.1, 1839. 16. To consolidate the offices of receivers of tax returns and tax collectors ot” this state so far as relates to the county of Decatur. 17. To enable copartners who are plaintiffs in the courts of law and equity in this 6tate, to maintain and prosecute their -uits in said courts in certain cases, without being compel led to adduce proof of their copartnership. IS. To authorise Marlin G. Slaughter, James M. Mobley, Wm. J. Scott, and Henry Hendrick, to plead and practice law in the several courts of law and equity in this state, and to prescribe their liabilities touch ng the same. 19. To repeal the section of an act enti tied, an act to appoint eleven additional trus tees of the University of Georgia, and to provide a permanent additional fund for the support of ihe same, and to declare the num ber of the trustees which shall lie 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 lor the ed ucation oi certain poor children therein men tioned—approved 21st Dec. IS3O. 20. To reduce the amount of sheriff’s bonds, so far as relates to the county of Irwin. 21 To continue and establish ihe terries of Evan Howell and Geo. M. Wafers across the Chattahoochee river, on their own land, in Gwinnett and Forsyth counties, and to regulate the manner of admeasurement of space in relation to ferries. 22. To authorise a reduction ot the capi tal slock of the Mechanics’ Bank, which is in the city of Augusta. 23. To authorise the commissioners of die poor school of Cherokee county to pay over to Joseph Donaldson, die siim ol four hund red and twenty five dollars, the balance due him for building Etowah Academy ; am! .he commissioners of common schools in Twiggs, to pay a sum of money to Emmir-iah Daniel. 24. To consolidate the offices of receivers of tax returns and tax collectors of this state, so tar as relates lo the county of Sumter. 23. To incorporate certain persons under the name anil stvte of “ the Dahliuu-gn Tan nerv anil Leather Mnnufaelmithr Company.” 2(3. To mcirporate Griffin Mile and Fe rn de Academy in Pike county, and to appoint trustees tor the same. 27. To authorise his Excellency, the Gov ernor, to furnish the corps of Macon \ oimv teers at Macon, with seventy-five sand of arms—the Mclntosh Ringers Willi rifles or yagers— and a company of cavalry in Walton county with swords and pistols. 23. To alter and change itie lines between the counties of Oglethorpe and Madison, be tween tire counties of Tattnall and Montgo mery, between the counties <0 If ihershattV and Frunklm, between the comities of Ran dolph and Biker, and to repeal the 2d section of an act assented to 23.1 Dec. 1840, i t iative to the dividing line b -tween toe counties ol Dade and Walker, and loptoude for the run ning ol’ said lint*. 30. To authorise Wm. B. Terhune, James Malone, J unes S. Hook, Francis M. Reese, Samuei R. Weems V\ m. .!. Dunwoodv and Wm. B avis to plead and practice law hi ih.- everal courts of law an I equity in this state, and to prescribe ttieir li.ibiiiiy touching (lie same. 32- To incorporate the trustees nf the Bin Spring Academy in the county of Randolph, the trustees of the Pine Bowery Academy, in 4he enmity o! Upson, the trustees oi the Meth odist Episcopal Church at Clarksville, in flab ersham county, and the Madison P.esbvteriati Church in the county ol Mo gan. 33. For the relief of Win. Martin, Moses D. Hirris, John K. Hirdtnan and Edwin W. Johnson, and their executors and administra tors. 34. To alter and am ml the 4 It and lit! sec;tons of an act entitled, an act to authorise the business of bai-kin?. and to repeal the same—assented to 2l>"h Dec. 1833. 33 l'i> authorise TiiaiMrus S. Sturgis mul E. R. Gil liug.ot* the c iiinty of Muscogee,- Thomas R. R. Cobh, of the county o! C lark, and Hugh McCall M >ore, of t e comity ol Laurens, to plead and practice in the severs courts of law and equity in this state, op cer . tain conditions therein expressed. 23. To repeal the 2 1 section of an net to; compel steam anJ Thompsnnao doctors to; pay the annual tax of regular medical doctors and la tv versos this slate,, assented to 29t!i Dae. 1335. 37. To authorise the Commissioners of the poor scho J loud in the several, cotttilies ol this stale to piy out of said tmids arrearages due teachers fortdaelring Door children in the years 1337, 1833 and 1833, ! 36. To authorise the Inferior Court of Pu laski county, to levy an extra tax on the citi zens of said county, to enable said county to puv for the erecting of a jail in said county. ’ 39. To autliorist the Juslicesot the Inferior Court of Tattnall county, to fix ihe rates ol roil at the several ferries on the Ohoopie river mi said county. 46. To repeal a part Os an act entitled an act to appoint commissioners to iay out and open anew road through a part of Camden couuty and to designate the hands who shall he hired to work thereon, also to establish a ierry across Ihe Great teal l lla river, and fix the rates of lernage at li.e sains 1 , absented to D c. 23d, 1836. 41. l o authorise the Justices of the luferi or Court of Jefferson county, or a majority’ of t ,em, to levy an extra tax for the purpose of paying [rent jurors m said county on cu tain considerations. 42. To change the times of bolding the lulei .or Courts in the couuty of Sumter, and ihe Superior and lulerior Courts in the coun ty of Stewart and to regulate lire manner of adjourning tiie lulerior Courts ol Stevvait county. 43. To authorise the Justices of the Inferi or courts of llcimiond and Columbia coun ties, or either of them to cause the dividing ime between.said counties to be resurveyed, and plainly marked. 44 To repeal certain laws now in force, relative to the publication of assessment and saie ol properly lor taxes in the city of Bruns wick, in one newspaper in the city ol Mil ledgeville. 45. To authorise the compensation of man agers of elections, in the county ot Pulaski, and for making returns from the various pre cincts. 46. For the relief of Solomon Spurlock, John P. Glover, senior, and John P. Glover, junior. 47. To appropriate a sum of money to the county of Chattooga for academical purposes, and lo appoint trustees for the same. 48. To appoint three additional trustees for the Dahlonega Academy in the county of Lumpkin. 49. To alter and amend the several acts relating to the Court of Common Pleas and Oyer and Terminer for the city of Savannah. 50. To au'Korise Eli T. Haynes to erect a mill dam across the Cenasaga river on his own land, in the county of Murray. 51. To incorporate the White Sulphur Springs Academy in the county of Meriweth er, and appoint trustees'for the same. 52. To authorise the Justices of the Peace of the lo2d district, G. M., Hancock county, to hold their courts in the court house of said county. 53. To authorise Mrs. Betsey Williams, an infirm widow lady of Tattnall county, and Bailey B. McCoy, ot Lumpkin county, to ped dle without license. 54. An act to repeal part of an act incorpo rating the town of McDonough. 55. To repeal an act compensating grand and petit jurors in the county of Walker. 56. To alter and amend laws respecting the drawing of grand and petit jurors, so far as relates to Chatham county. 57. To revise an act to incorporate Gaines ville in Hall county. 58. To repeal road laws so far as respects the county of Cherokee. 59. To organise volunteer companies in the counties of Union, Ware, Talbot, and Haber sham. 60. To incorporate the volunteer infantry company in the city of Macon, and to author ise the sheriff of Richmond county to levy executions issuing from the 10th Regiment G. M. 01. To authorise life directors of the Cen tral Bank to issue §30,000 in notes of 1 and 2 dollar bills of higher denomination. 62. To appropriate money for the relief of David Stewart, of Walker county. • 03. To appropriate money lo Macon coun ty, for academical purposes, and appoint trus tees for the same. 6-1 To alter and amend the several acts heretofore passed for the government of the city of Macon. 65. To incorporate St. Stephen's Church in MifledgevJ e, and to appoint trustees ol White Sulphur Springs in Ifall county. 66. To make valid the acts of the commis sioners of the poor schools under act of 1840. 67. To autliori>e a grant to issue to Enos Tate, for lot No. 109, 20th district of Lee. 68. To incorporate the Ladies’ Education Society in the city of Macon. 69. To reduce sheriff’s bonds of Laurens comity. 70. To regulate the time of holding courts in Twiggs county. 7L To incorporate the Pea Vine Baptist and Presbyterian Churches in Walker,countv. 72. To compensate grand and petit jurors in Elter: county, and to repeal previous acts upon the subject. 73. To incorporate certain vo.unteer com panies. 74. To authorise (lie clerks and sheriffs of the Coweta circuit to advertise in any paper in said circuit. 75. Flu- the relief of Josiah Bowdoin, and Joslajh M. Spencer. 70. To incorporate the"town of Davisville, i in the county of Pike. 77. To authorise iris Excellency the Gov ernor to furnish the corps of Jones Cadets at Clinton, with fifty stand of arms. 78. For the relief of ll;e widow and orphans of Joshua Goaldsberrv, deceased, and the heirs of Isliam Me Bee, deceased. 79. To repeal an act to compensate grand and petit jurors, so far as relates to the coun ty of Franklin. 80. To declare and make valid, bir.ding and legal, ail bonds given, or that may hereafter be given in this sta e tiy administrators and j guardians, payable to the court of ordinary, j members .cl the interior court, judges of the | interior court, justices of the court of ordina ry, judges of tiie inferior court sitting for or -1 dinary purposes, <Sxc -81. To change ‘he name of Neville Neyie . to that of Gilbert Neville Neyie. 82. To appropriate money-for the political !year 1842, 83. To establish e'rietion precincts in the count es of Habersham and Floyd. 84. To incorporate Bethel Baptist Church, in Jones county. 85. To change the names of certain per ; sons, and to authorise the superior cour-s to change ilie names of persons, &c. Bj. I o establish a tobacco inspection in the town of Athens, and to provide for tire ap point ot inspectors. 87. To alter and amend the act for the more effectually receiving the probate of wills, limiting the time for executors to qualify,and widows to make their dower, and to change the mode of ascertaining and fixing in certain c.ises (lie dower of widows. . 88. To alter and amend the road laws of Bryan county. 89. To provide for the resurvey of the 19th district of the 4 h section of originally Cher okee, now Dade county, and to cause the offi cial bond of Horace it. War.!, the surveyor, to be placed m suit. 90. To authorise the Surveyor General to issue grants to certain lots at’ land therein specified, to certain persons therein mentioned. 91. For the relief of William o. Cone of Bibb county. 92. To provide for the payment of teachers who taught school in the several common school districts in Balts county, who have not’ been paid. 93. To incorp ira‘e‘the South New Port Church in Mclntosh county. - , SI. To alter the. times of holding the stipe- : rior and inferior courts of Bibb county. 95. To exempt the Artillery corps of Sa- Vaii; ah from jury and inquest duty. 93. Relative to the returns of executors,! administrators and guardian?. 97. To alter and change the names of cer tain persons. 99. To grant Virgil IL Walker of Harris county, the water privileges in the Chattahoo chee rarer, adjacent to his own land. 99. To incorporate the “Chamber of Com merce” of Savannah. 100. To authorize and require ihe Govern or to have suits commenced on ail bonds given for the forthcoming of public arms, drawn bv volunteer companies which have been dissolved. 101. 1 o give to ship carpenters, ship wrights, spar makers, engineers, blacksmiths, painters, machinists, and other artizaes who may lie employed in the building, repairing And painting ot vessels, cralt, and steamboats, and turmshing materials for the same, a sum mary process against said vessels, craft and steamboats, so far as relates to the county of Chat ham and city- of Savannah. 102. To authorize the Inferior Court of Crawford county, together with the clerk and sheriff! to revise the jury boxes of said count., and to authorize the Interior Court to draw jurors for the next Superior Court. 103. To repeal the proviso of the second section of an act passed consolidating the of fices of Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector in several counties, so far as relates to the counties of Pulaski and Rabun. 104. To amend the attachment laws, so far as to authorize the sheriffs and constables of this stafo, to follow property with attachment, that may be run any where in the State, and if found, to levy on said property, and bring back to the county from whence said attach ment issued for trial, and also to amend the garnishment laws, so far as to allow garnish ments to issue after judgement, and execution issued, in any county where said execution may be. 105. To repeal an act to authorize Joseph Wilson, of Cass county, to establish a toll bridge across the Ouslanaula river, on his own land, and to fix the rate of toll for the same, passed 22d Dec. 1840, and to authorize the said Wilson, Ins heirs and assigns, to erect a mill dam and a toll bridge across the Coosa vvattee river, on lot No. 106 in the 7th dis trict and 3d section, in said county of Cass, arid fix the rate? of toll for crossing on said bridge. 106. For the relief of Henry B. Overstreet, of Decatur, 8. Tinsley, of Franklin, anti P. Pcssey, of Carroll'county. 107. To compensate jurors in the county nl Bibb. 109. To repeal an act to compensate the Grand and Petit Jurors of Talbot county. 109. To cause a straight line between the counties of Sunnier and l.ee to be run, and to provide for the payment ol the same. 110. To change the name of John Moulton, of Laurens county, to that of John Gay. 111. To compensate grand and petit Jurors of the county of Montgomery. 112. Declaratory ot the road laws now of force in the county of Jefferson 113. To authorize the Inferior Court of Glynn county to appoint Commissioners of roads. 114. To alter and change the county line between the counties of Warren and Talia ferro, so as to include the residence of Abner Darden, in t he county of Taliaferro. 115. To extend the time for fortunate drawers in all the Land Lotteries and in the Gold Lottery, to take out their grants, except the counties hereinafter excepted. 116. To repeal the 2d and 3d sections of an act entit led an act to repeal an act, to alter and amend an act more effectually to secure the solvency of {ill the Banking Institutions in this State, as passed on the 24th Dec. 1 832 assented to 21st Dec. 1833, assented to 23J Dec. 1840, and to prescribe the plans and penalties against private banking and ihe is suing change bills, and for other purposes therein mentioned. 117. To make permanent the water line for certain wharves on the shore of Hutchin son’s Island, in Savannah .river, opposite the city of Savannah, and lor theappointing Com missione s to carry t lie same into effect. 118. To incorporate Sparta Camp Ground, to appoint Trustees for the same, &c. 119. To incorporate Jonesville Congrega tional Church, m the county of Mclntosh. 120. To incorporate the City Hall Compa ny of Savannah. 121. .To establish, alter and change certain election precincts in ce;tain counties therein named. 122. To incorporate Farmers Academy in the county of Elbert, and Jacksonville Acad emy, in the qdunly of Telfair. 123. To incorporate the Chatham Mutual Fire Insurance Company. 124. To authorize certain, instruments therein mentioned to be recorded and read as evidence. 125. To add Levi Phillips, now of Camp bell, to the county of Covveia. 126. To amend an act entitled an act to establish a tribunal for the trial of staves in the county of Bryan, pas.-ed 2ist"Dec. 1839. 127. ‘ o add the county of Macon and the “ Flint River Blues ”96 the second brigade oi the 10th division, G. M. 128. To give painters who may paint houses in the county of Glynn, a hen upon such* houses ol equal dignity with the Jien of master masons and master carpenters, given by the several laws, now of force, in said county. 129. To al-er and amend the road laws of 1818 and 1823, so far as relate to the county ol Lincoln. 130. To impose a special tax on the per j sons and property of the citizens of the city of | Columbus, residing and being in the same an I nuaiiy hereafter, and to provide for the coilee i lion thereof, and to punish those who may re j fuse or attempt to defeat the provisions ! thereof. 131. To repeal an act incorporating the Bank of Darien, passed the loth day ot Dec. ; 1818, arid also an act to extend the charter or j die Bank of Daneu, and the aots now in force ! amendatory thereto, passed 19. h Dec. 1834, ■amt to-provide for the settlement of the affairs : of said Bank. 132. For thereliefof the drawers or owners of certain lands in the first district of Musco gee county. 133. To legalize and make valid certain acts of Clerks oi the Superior Courts of the Stale, and to regulate the admission of evi denco in the several courts ot law and equity in this State, so lar as relates to certain {ta pers, and to legalize the act of A. V. Calvin. 1 Deputy Sheriff of Camden county. 134. To amend an act “to incorporate the , town of Albany, in Baker county, and to allow T. Fort, N. Fitt, and J. C. Harris, and the.r ‘ associates, toereet a bridge"across Flint River, 1 passed 27th Dec. 1838 ‘’—and also"to enlarge ! and describe the boundaries of Albany, arid j incorporate the same ; to provide for the elec tion o! a Mayor and City Couneihnen, and i other officers, and to confer upon thorn certain ! specified powers, and for other purposes ! therein mentioned. 135. To repeat an act to reduce the amount ! cf tire sheriff’s bond, in the coun’y ot Marion, assented to2oth Dec.'lß3B. 135. To require all endorsers to sue the 1 principal in his, her, or their district. 137 To facilitate the collection of debts ; against incorporations and the stockholders thereof. 138. To alter arid change the line’ between 1 the counties of Hancock and Greene, so far as to include the residence of Wm. Ware in : the county of Greene'. 139. T o authorize the orphans of Obadiah ; Echols to grant a certain lot of land therein ; mentioned! 140. To incorporate the Wrights boro’ Academy, in the county of Columbia, and to ! appoint trustees for the same. 441. Toauthorize and require the sheriff • of Hi? county of Lumpkin to sell at public out : err the Flare’s interest in lot No. 033, in the 1 *-ih district of the Ist section of originally Cherokee, now Lumpkin county. 142. To authorize and require the Inferior Court of Emanuel county to cause ihe new Court-house in said county to bebuib on the new lot laid off for the same by said Court. 143. To incorporate the Methodist Episco pal Camp Ground in the county of Washing ton, known by the name of the Zoar Camp Ground. 144. To authorize the sa c of stocks in the B.nk of the Mate of .Georgia, and in the Bank of Augusta, for the bills of the Central Bank of Geu’gia. 145. For the relief of certain Banks which have suspended specie payments, and against which judie.al proceedings have been insti tuted for the forfeiture oi the charters. 146. To organize the Lunatic Asylum of the Stale of Georgia ; and to provide tor the government o! the same, and. to appropriate a sum of money tor the same. 117. To authorize the sher.ff of Merivveth er county to sell the State’s interest in aU lois or fractions of land lying in said county. 148. To incorporate, the ifo'jiy Turnpike Company. 149. To incorporate the Lookout Turnpik and Racoon Turnpike Companies. 159. To authorize the Inferior Court of W arren county to revise the grand and petit jury boxes. 151. To authorize the overseers of the roads in Walker, Gwinnett, Forsyth, Chero kee, Bibb, Sumter, and Gilmore unities, to ap point wardens, and to define their duties,&c, 132. To change the names ot certain per sons i herein named, &c. 153. To incorporate the White Oak Meth odist Episcopal Camp Ground, &c. in Colum bia county -154. For the relief of Andrew Milter and John Brown, of Cass county, from the pay meat of a judgement rendered and execut ion issued against, them on their penal bond 155. For the relief or certain persons of counties therein named, from taxes illegally assessed against them. 156 Requiring judges to grant rules abed lute against sheriffs in certain cases. 157. To alter and amend the claim laws of tins Sta+e. 158. To extend the provisions of an act to facilitate the recovery of money out of the hand's of sheriffs, coroners, justices of the peace, constables, clerks of the Superior and Inferior Courts, and Attorneys at Law, passed 23d December, 1822, to certain cases therein named. 159. ‘1 o authorize John W. Lewis’to con struct a mill dam across the Eowah river, on ins own land, in the-List disf. of Cass county. 169. The belter to secure and protect the citizens of Georgia in the possession oi their slaves. 161. To authorize a grant to issue to the otptians of Win. Harvie fur lot No. 369 m the 7th dist. of Early c unity. 162. -To add lot No. 10, in the 13th (list.of Fayette, to Dekalb county ; to add lot No. 16 in the 1 till dist. of Newton, to Henry county, and to run and define the line between the counties of Chattooga and Floyd. 163. To change the name and style of the Commissioners of the Academy of Effingham county, and to authorize the trustees to appro priate a part of-the annual income to theedu cation of ihe poor of said comity. 164. To remove ail disabilities whatever, from persons in this State, from testifying in any of the Courts thereof, or having their oath or affirmation when the same is necessary to receive any right or interest whatever, by reason of any religious opinion he, she o; they may entertain or express. 165. To alter and amend the 6th section of the Judiciary Act of 1799, solar as relates to notices provided for, in said section, and to regulate the mode of issuing Sc.re Facias* in cases therein mentioned, 166. To amend the several acts in relation to the city of Augusta, ihe Court of Common Pleas thereof, and the bridge across the Savan nah river, and to revive an act. therein speci fied, for the benefit of certain persons therein mentioned. 167. To pistil.bit from sale or gift, all primed or-written books, papers’, pamphlets, writing paper, ink, and -.all o'.her articles of stationary ol any kind whatever, to any .slave or Ires per son of color in this S3".ate, and to punish these who may violate the provisions of this act. 168. Lo alter and amend the act to author ize the sheriffs of the counties of Decatur, Thomas, Lowndes, Ware and Wayne, to sell the fractions in said counties, and lor oilier purposes; to provide lor carrying the same into eHoot,so iur as relates, to the county Ql Decatur, and to declare certain notes void. 169. To provide payment for individuals who taught school in.the 2221 district of the county of Clarke, under the provisions of the Common ochuoi system oi iB3B and 1839 and to provide, payment for persons who taught school in the county of Walton, under the provisions of the same. act.—and to author ize ihe Inferior Court ol Walton county to pay over to the trustees of the poor school ot said county the remaining balance of said common school fund, to become a part ol the .pour school fund for 1842. 170. To incorporate the. Union, Lumpkin, and Habersham Turnpike Company, and to grant certain privileges to the same-—ami to authorize John D. Stapleton, Jonas. Griffin, and 11. W. Spears to erect -a t urnpike over the Kinchafouna Swamp, in Stewart county, and coiled tolls foLcrossing the same. 171. To require the Judges of the Supe riot- Court of this State to write out and place upon the minutes of 4a;d Courts, their decis ion in lull, in ail cast s, of motions for new trials, whether the came be. granted or re jected, and in all cas.es of judgement of writs upon certiorari, mandamus, or habeas corpus, and upon all “millions in arrest ol judgements, and to provide for the collection, publication, and distribution of the same. 162. To repeal the Ist section of an act passed 21st December, 1839, to alter and amend the act establishing tlie Central Bank, passed 22d December, 1828, and to amend the acts of incorporation of said bank. 173. To authorize the Inferior Court of i Burke county to levy extra taxes, for county | purposes, and fund the debts due by said i county, and to issue scrip thereon, and also, I to repeal an act authorizing the Inferior Court |of Lowndes county to levy an extra tax, as j sented to 25 h Dec. 1837. | 174. To compel officers commanding regi ! merits, and where there is but one battalion !m a county, the-officers commanding ba’ t-al- I ions, to have one annual drill for the instruc i lion of the officers of said regiments and bat j talions. i 175. To exempt from levy and sale under ! execution certain property therein mentioned; 176. To repeal part oi tin-Ist section ol an i act passed 12 h December, 1604, touching the : distribution of intestate estates, 6'C. 177- To give to all persons employed on! I-steam boats and “other water crafts on the; I CJiaUoJioochee, Altarrjahn, and Ocmulgep riv-j !ers, a 3ien on said steamboat or other water! craft, for his/her, or their wages, and for wood 1 and provision furnished, arid to point out and! faciliate the mode of collection of the same. ; 176. To alter and amend the first section of the third article of rite Constitution of this 2 Ftato. 179. To extend the time for the completion] of the Central Railroad, and to reduce the number of Directors of the Central Railroad and Batik in? Company. 180. To alter and change the times of hold ing the Inferior Courts in the counties of Car-’ rol and Decatur. 181. To amend the act incorporating the Georgia Insurance and trust Company. 182. To incorporate Shady Grove Baptist Church, in Forsyth county. 183. To authorize Wm. L. Canauß and his associates, to eredi a turnpike-road across the ! Fine mountain, in Harris county, at or near’ Kings Gap, and also at or near Lagrange Gap, and to define their rights and priviliges. * 164. To incorporate certain Academes. 185. To repeal a part of an act for the compensation cl’ the grand and Petit Jurors ot Ware county. 180. To incorporate VVallhourvilla Union Church in the county of Liberty. 187. To change tiie line between the counties of Richmond and Burke, so as to in clude the residence of James T. Rovvlaiw, i;i Rich nond county. 188. To incorporate the Georgia conference and to vest therein the title to certain proper ty, with authority to dispose of the same. 189. To amend an act to protect religious socie’.es in the exercise of their dudes, ap proved Dec. 19, 1792, and an act to amend the foregoing act, approved Dec. 22, 1898. 190. To remove the public site of Dooly county, and to make permanent the sane : and to authorize and legalize the assessment ot a county tax. 191 To amend an act. incorporating the Habersham and Union Pump ke Company, and to legalize and make valid the former acts of the stockholders aiid commissioners of said company. 29. To admit. J. M. Burroughs, < f Greene, Thomas P. SaiFold. of Morgan, Thomas R. R. Cobb, of C ar , llenrv J Lang, of Richmond, and C. H. Thorne, of Muscogee, to plead and practice in the several courts of law and equi ty in this State. 31. To suspend operations on a part of the ’ Western and Atlantic Railroad, and ;o provide for the execution of contracts on a pint oi the same, and for other purposes therein specified. EDWARD EVEitETT'S OPISIOXS OX SLAVURYi 1. His opinions m 18i2tj, irmn a speecli de-j livtred m Ihe House ol Repttsemauves, as; quoted by the whig.papers. “If ih iv are any members in this house oi that c ass of politicians 10 whom die yentle maii from North Carolina (Mr. Saunders) al luded, as ha vino the disposition thottiih not die (lower, to disturb the compionnse con Untied m die Constitution on this point, [the tlireee-fiitits representative principle.] lam riot ot the it burlier. Neither am 1 one ol those citizens of die Ninth to whom another honorable member lately reftrted, m a publi cation to which bin name was subscribed, who would dunk rt unmoral ami irreligious to j 111 in ptiniim down a servile rebellion at the South; { am no soldier, sir ; my habits and education are immilitaiy; but there is no cause in which / would sooner buckle-a knapsack to rrij hack , | and put a musket on my shoulder than that . —■ ; 1 won.d cede the whole contmei t 10 any one who would take H—to E inland, to Fiance, to Spain : I would see it sunk iti the - bottom ol the oceun he lore I would see any part ot this lair America convened into a continental Havli, bv liiat avvfitl piircessof bloodshed and desolation, hy which alone such a catastrophe could be I > round it on. The great relation of servitude, in some form or other, with greater or less and. pa> t-res from the theoretic gquahVj of man, is inseparablefrom our nature-, i know of no way by ‘which this form of servitude shall he fixed, but by political institution. 1 cannot admit dial tehgiott has but one voice to the slave, and that this voice is, ‘ Rise against vour master. 5 No. sir, the New Testament savs, ‘SI ves, obey your masters; 5 and ihomdi l know lull well that, in the benignant operation of Christianity, which gathered master and slave atound the sa me communion table, this unfoitunate institution disappeared in Europe, yet 1 cannot admi that, while it subsists, its duties are not pie-supposed ‘nt-d sanctioned bv religion. And altlnmg h I cer tainly afn not called upon to meet the charges brought against bus institution, yet trudi obliges me-tosay a wool line on the subject. 1 know the condition oi the working classes in other count! irs ; 1 am itliimatciv ac quainted with it in some coo'jjh i,-s; aid 1 have no hesitation in loving that, I believe the slaves m tins country me- better clmhed and fed and less hardly worked, than the peasantry of some of the most prosperous Stales on l lie contiU“iit ol’ Europe. Cm safer 11 1 e-c! = t ci<s 0:1 population read Malthas. V, hat keeps popti iati .it down? Poverty, want, starvation, dis ease, .ind ail the ills oi lile; it is the-e thai check population all- over the world Now the slave population tu the United States in creases (Visits than tire white, masters inelu ded- What is die inlUence as to the phvsi eal condition ot tire iwo classes of society?—- These are opinions I luce long eweriahned , and lotto- since publicly-professed on this subject, and winch 1 here repeat, in answer to the intimation to which l hare already alluded. Bui, s.r. when slavery comes to enter into the Constitution as a-political element—when it comes to al lect the distribution of power arrnuigst the States-of the Union, that is a mat lev of agree merit. If I make an agreement on this ‘sub ject, 1 vviil adhere to it. like a man; protest against any inletence being made from it ol the kind which was made by the honorable mover ol these resolutions,” llis-chang-e of ( -pinion iii IS3S ivlen a CANDIDATE FOR * - OVERNOR of MaSS IC.IllISettS. His letter m Mr. Quincy—inrnist.cif with his consent P>r publication in Garrison’s L.b eratoc of May 4di 183S. Heston. 26'h April, Dear Sir:—l have’ your favor oi’ the 21s! accompanied with the volt fine containing tlie account ot ttie t< or ol Messrs, Thome atid Kimhall in the West indies, for which you will be pleased to accept my ihanks, i have perused this highly inletesitttg imitative with the greatest sausiacAMW. from the moment uf the passage of tlie law miking p ovision in’ the immediate or prospective aholition of • slavery it) the British cobnial possessions, i have looked, with the deepest solicitude, ior lidjngs of its operation. The sneers, of the measure, as it seemed to me, would afford a better hope than'had hel’o e existed, that a like blessing might be enjoyed hv the portions of the United Slates, where .slavery prevails. The only ground on winch 1 had been ac customed to hear the continuance of slavery delimited at tire South, was that of necessity, and tire impossibility of abolishing it, without producing consequences of the most disastrous character to both parlies. The passage ol a law provid ng for the emancipation of nearly a .million of slaves in the British co onies, seemed to afimd lull opportunity of bringing i this mom; iitous ciuesiion’ to the decisive test of experience. If the result proved sathfae torv, i have never doubled that it would seal the . late.of slavery throughout the civilized world. A> far as the observation of Messus. j Ti.tmie Se K.tmba ii extended, the result isof the i most gratifying character. It appears to place i beyond a doubt that the experiment of im mediate emancipation, adopter! by the colour-i al Legislature ol Antigua”, has fully succeeded t in that sland; and tlie plan of apprenticeship mother po tionsoi’ the West Indie--, as weliis could trave been exacted from the obvious 1 inherent v ces of that measa e. 1 has gi>,en new views of the practicability of emanepa-} tioa. L has been effected tn Antigua, as ap pears from unquestionable authorities con tained in the work of Messrs. Thome and K*tubal), not merely without danger to the master, but without any sacrifice of hi, ttt'er j ests. I cannot-but,think that the iuOn-matron collected in rite volume will have a p>vyerfur eff c’ oil public.opinion, not only in.me Nor them States, but in the Southern Strtes. I see r pealed references in this /olume to the mission of Messrs. Sturge and Uarvey.— I am not aware that any publ catim has been made bv those gentlemen. If the fact is nth e revise, and you have the volume n your pos session, you Would greatly obhg; -me “by tne loan of it fiVr a Tew days. 1 am dear sir, with mneli regard. Your friend-and jervant. Ki. W Apr D A VKJtETT. Edmund Qa-incy, E <i 3d. His letter to Mr. Bordet, the chairman of an abolition committee of interrogations. They put the following queries to him : ‘•lst. Are you in favor of the immediate abolition, by law, of slavery in tiie District of Columbia and of the slave traffic between the States of this Union ! 2J. Are vou opposed to the admission into the Union of any new State, the Constitution and Government of which tolerate domestic slavery !” He answer ‘d in the affirmative, as follows. The letter was also published in Garrison’s paper, Nov. 1899. gov. everett’s answer. Watertown; Oct. ‘24 1899 Dear Sir—On Saturday last I duly received your letter of the 18 h, propounding to me ‘certain interrogatories,and earnestly request ! ing an early answer. | You are aware that several Resolves, on ‘he subject of those inquiries and their km j dred topics, accompanied by a very able re j port, were introduced into tire Senate of the i Commonwealth the year before last, by a joint j committee of the two Houses, of which the j late greatly lamented Mr. Alvord was chair man. Those resolves having Aeon somewhat enlarged by amendment, were adopted by the ; Legislature. j They appear to me to cover the whole ground of your two interrogatories. Having cheerfully cooperated in the passage of the resolves, and concurring in the general reasonings by which they arc sust lined in the powerful report of the chairman.of the committee, I respond to both your inquiries in the affirmative. The first of the three subjects embraced in ,y. ur inquirv, is the only one of them which came before Congress, while 1 was a member. 1 voied in the negative, on a motion to lay upon the table the petition of the American Antisiavery Society, for the abolition of slavery in tiie District-, f Columbia, and on the oilier motion of tiie like character, intended to cast oil the consideration of tiiis class ot petitions. Your friend and servant K 1 > WARD 12 VERE TT. Hon. Nath’l 13 Boi.den. 4th. This letter refers to a series of resolu tions in the Massachusetts Legislature, which Mr. Everett adopted as his own. \\ e have served up the resolutions, and they are added here : s:h. “Resolves relating to slavery and the slave trade in the District of Columbia, and idie Territories of tire United States. Resolved, That Congress lias, by the Con stitution, power, to abolish slavery and ihe slave trade in the District of Columbia, ami that there is nothing in the terms or circum s anc sos the acts of cession hy Virginia and j Maryland, or otherwise, imposing any legal 1 or mi ral restraint upon its exercise. Resolved, That the inhuman traffic in ! slaves, carried on and through the District of i Columbia, is a national disgia.ee and a national j siii,, and ought to be abolished. Resolved, Thai Congress has, by the Con [stitution, power to abolish slavery in the Ter j riiories of the United .States. I Among the reasonings of the report on these j. resolutions, are the following-:, j “Your committee are therefore unanimously |of the opinion* that the power to abolish sia | very and the slave trade in the District of Cu ; luipbia, does reside exclusively and absolutely in Congress—that Congress is the depository J-f this pocer for national, as wed las local | purposes, and may exercise it, with a regard j to the rights of ail, independently of the will and mt.e,re-sis of any particular district or I Stale, excepting so far as these are elements |of the national will and prosperity ; and lh.it | for the wise arid just use of this authority, its members are. responsible (politically) not to the people of the Dis'rict, or of Virginia or Ma ryland, but to the whole people of ;he United States, whose representatives they are “ Your committee are also of the opinion, as individuals, tl at Congress ought immediately to exercise this power in the total audition ol slavery in the District of Columbia. ! Resolves relating to the slave trade be tween the Stales. Resolved, That Congress lias, by the Con stitution, powerto abolish the traffic in slates between different States of the Union. Resolved, That the exi-rehe of this power is demanded by the principles of humanity and justice. Resolves relating (o the admission of new Stales into the-Union. Resolved, That no new State should here after be admitted into the Union, whose eon stitutionof government shall permit the exis tence of domestic slavery. These resolutions were ail adopted by tire Whig Legislature of Massachusetts, appro ved by Edward Everest, her Whig Governor, land may now be found on her statute book of that.year ; and they are specially referred to. I try Mr. Everett, as containing his deliberate I opinions-in 1839. j sth. Tito opinions proclaimed by the Abo litionists themselves, of Mr. Everett’s changes |of opinion on the subject of slavery, and ins new affinities with them. When he gave his answers in 1830, Ga-ri sorr welcomed him as an Afo'Uontst. ’From the Liberaror. Nov. 8, 1859 The-Governor of this Commonwealth has answered unequivocally m the affirmative, jto the questions u hether he is in favor oi the i immediate abolition of shivery in ’he District of Columbia, and the save trade between the I several States. Edward Everett'now speaks the ianguago of a Pa iio, a Republican, and a Christian. ‘ We believe it is tire real language ;of his soul. When, a few years since, he ! toofc the opposite ground, he did violence to his convictions of right, and committed agrie vous error. W e are disposed to obliterate ali l that has gone before, ami to commend him hu ms honorable course, ‘i o reier invidiously, ; to what ho said when public sentiment was deeply corrupt, would oe ungenerous; to .charge him wi':tjbeing insincere, at she pres ent 11 me, w ould be unjust; to accuse him of seek mg popularity, would be equally tinchar. itable. “ it is not yet a popular thing, for the I Chief Magistrate of this Commonwealth to j avow himself in favor of immediate emancipa ; tion ; and until he shall prove recreant, to his 1 present professions, it is to be tak- n lor gran ted that iic weans just what Ire says. In our 1 ooimon, he ought to receive the undivided ! support oi the antislavery voters of this Com ! mtiuweakh; nay, they are pledged to g.ve i him ‘heir support, inasmuch as ho has de cl tired fojmse-lt to us m iiivuri* ci c*.iCr jiTUici ! pies and measures.” When the humiliation was held up in t’ne I Hecate, and whig presses were vouching for r fiveroft’s mend-hip for tlie .Bontii, the iri Uof Mem, scouted tins pretension, and I „ftcr repubii&hing the letters above, tall cd of | the southern claim Ur Everett, in no following 1 scorn*ui iciOis i ‘The suspense about Mr. Everett’s nomina tion, has really exci ed quite a hurricane m the Northern press. They are even aston ished ai Southern arrogance aid impudence. This is.cheer,ng, for it shows that they have a little manly feeling loft. I're-ses that are dumb to the uuu'.teraoJe cruellies daily per petrated against the slave, are roused to iuri ous indiuuutton al tire idea that slave holders should assume censorship over Northern opm ions. But according ;o the.r old servility t hoy ■re foreswearing Mr. Everettfs abolitionism! They say he is not an abolitionist at all, or not so in any ‘•odious sense of ihe.t- rni.” In ins tliey betray either utter ignorance or con* -urnmate meanne-s. Jf Edward Everett is not to al intents and purposes as much an tunned.a'e abolitionist as Gerret Smith or Ar thur l appan, he is a hypocrite. Tie w-rs once tii autrabuiiUonist, but tire proofs of Ins couver sion are unequivocal and on record, and we nope for the credit of his stale, he will not deny hern. VVe.shall give the document. We wind up this record with the votes in tie Senate, on.the confirmation of the nomina dyn. _ Yeas.—Messrs. Bates, Berrien, Choate, rV'/y of Kcit’ncky, Clayton, Dixon, Jlv-rms, < jirahatn, Huntington, Mangum, Ahrrwkp Miller, Morehead, Phelps, Porter, Prentiss, Rices, Simmons, Smith of Indiana, Southard, Tullmadge, White, Woodbridge.—23. Nays.—Messrs. Allen, Archer, Benton, Buchanan, Calhoun, Clay of Alabama, Cuth bert, Fulton, King, Linn, Mcßoberts, Mou ton, Preston, Sevier, Smith of Connecticut, Sturgeon, Tappan, Woodbury, Young—l 9. THE TIMES. The union of ihe slates and the sovereignly of ihe states COLUMBUS, DECEMBER 23, 1841. FOR CONGRESS, WALTER T. COLQUITT, EDWARD J. BLACK, MARK A. COOPER. TIIE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE—TIIK CURRENCY. A select committee on “ Finance and the Currency” has been raised in the House of Representatives ol the U. S., to consider the portion of the executive communication re ferring to that subject, aud to make a suitable report thereon. This committee is c tnposed of a strange mixture, being constituted thus : Messrs,Cushing, of Mass.; John P. Ken nedy, ot Md. ; Giuner and Wise,o! Va.; Gar rett Davis, ol Ky.; Roosevelt, ol N. V.; Prof tit, ol Inti.; McKay, ol N. C.; and Win. W. | irvvtn, of Penn. ’ Messrs. Cushing, Gdiner, Wise and Prof- I tilt are Tyler \\ Inge, as distinguished from ; Wings proper, and from Democrats —the first and ihe two last believe in the power of Con gress to incorporate a Bank, yet stand by the l*resident, be he Bank ur Anti-Hank —and the other is opposed to a Bank under any circum stances. Messrs. Kennedy, Davis and Irwin are Clay I Whigs, or Wings proper—for a National ! Rank in the must enlarged meaning of the j term, Air. Tvierlo the contrarv notvv iihstand i ‘ngv Messrs. Roosevelt and McKay are Deim . crats—advocates of the Sub-treasury, and op posed to a Bank iu any form. Who is wise enough to prefigure the off spring of such a committee ! PRESIDENT’* aiEKSAGE—7 1122 CASE. .E ‘1 HE CAROLINE. The attitude assumed toward England and her aggressions,- instead of being linn yet con ciliatory, is deprecatory and pusillanimous. In the case of ihe Caroline, instead oi avowing he determination of our Government to insist upon ample redress, tie submissively indulges “the laps that the British Government vviil see the propriety of renouncing, as a rule for future action,..the precedent winch has been, set in the alkpr at tSehJosser.” b’o, when Britain shall sanction another out-, rage, vve are. to indulge ourselves again, con soled with the hope that she will not consider it precedent number 2.—Charleston Mercury. We remarked last week —as the result of our first impressions of the message of Pr < - dent Tyler—that it did not hold a proper or dignified tone in the case of.the steamer Car uliue—or intimate, even infernitially , that the demand for atonement would be persisted in. On the contrary, ihe last sentence of that por tion of the message which treated of the Car oline affiair, evidently surrendered the present claim of the American Government for mu nition, indulging “the hope that the British Government will see the propriety of renoun cing, as a rule of future action , the precedent* which lias been set in the affair at bchlosser 1” Observing in several journals, both friendly and opposed to the present Adrninistratior, strong commendations of the portions ol the message having reference to our foreign rela tions, we examined again the remarks of Prcs->- ideirt Tyler to discover wherein we had mis apprehended his views in the case of tire Car line steamer —and to enable our readers to make a similar examination, all cf the message which alludes to the affair in question is here j subjoined: I regret that it is not in my power to make known to yuu an equally satisfactory conclu sion in the case of the Caroline steamer, with ibe circuinstances connected with the destruc tion of which, in December, 1837, by an . rmed force fitted out in the Province of Upper Canada, you are already made ac quainted. No such atonement as was due for ihe public wrong done to tbe United States by I this invasion of tier territory, so wholly irre j concilable with her rights as an independent power, h is yet been made. In the view taken l,y tins Government,the inquiry whether the vessel was in the employment of those who w ere prosecuting-an unauthorized war against that Province, or was engaged by the owner in the business of transporting passengers to and from Navy island in hope of private gain which was most probably tbe case, in no degree alters the real question at issue between the two governnaeuis- This Government ca never concede to any foreign Govumment-the power, except in a case of the most urgent anil extreme necessity, of invading its territory, either to arrest the persons or destroy the property of those who may have violated the Government, or have disregarded the munici pal law sos such foreign Government, or have disregarded their obligations arising under the law ot nations. The territory of the U. luted States must be regarded as sacredly se cure against all such invasions, until they shall voluntarily acknowledge their inability to ac quit. themselves of their duties to others;.— And in announcing this sentiment, I do hut af firm a principle which no nation on earth vvould.be more ready to vindicate, at all haz ards-, than the people arid Government of Great Britain. If, upon a full investigation of the fact®, it shall appear that the ow ner of the Caroline was governed by a hostile intent,or had made common cause with those who were in the iccupancy of Navy Island, then, so far as he i is - concerned, there can be no claim to indemni fy for the destruction of his boat, which this ’ Government would teel iiselt bound to prns ’ ecu te —since he would have acted rnt only in j delegation of the rigjits of Great Britain, hue lin clear violation of the laws of the United .States ; but that is a quest on which, however I settled, in no maimer involves the higher con sideration of the violation of territorial sove reignty and jurisdiction. To recognize it as an admissible practice that each government, in its turn, upon any sudden and unauthor ized outbreak, which, on a frontier the extent of which renders it impossible for either to have an efficient force on every mile of it, and which outbreak, therefore, neither may be able to suppress in a day, may take vengeance into its own hands, and without even a re monstrance, and in the absence of any press ing or overruling necessity, msv invade’ the
