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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