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LIST OF ACTS
Passed during the Session of the Legislature
for the year 1818.
1. An act to pardon Rebecca Wootton.
2. An act to paidon Tiiomas Bassett.
3. An act to authorise tlie justices of the in
ferior court of Oglethorpe county, to levy an j
extra lax, etc.
4. An act to appoint trustees of the Jackson
county academy, and to incorporate the same.
5. An act to ameikl an act entitled an act, to
amend Uie third section of an act entitivd an act, j
pointing out the duty of sheriff's in selling lands
under execution, etc.
6. An act to incorporate the New Pp*t baptist 1
church in Liberty county.
7. An act to remove and make permsnent the
scite of the public buildings of M‘lntosl county,
at the town of Darien.
8. An act to appoint commissioners fir better
regmating and governing the vinage of Salem.
9. Act to aiter and amend the fourteenth sec
tion of an aCt entitled an act to protect the es
tates of orpnane, etc.
10. An act to incorporate Sardis academy, in
Jasper county.
11. An act to authorise the inferior courts of
\Viikinson and Wiikes counties to levy extra
tax s, etc.
12. An act to authorise the inferior court of
Jasper county, to levy an extra tax.
13. An act more effectually to secure the
good citizens of tnis state in their titles to their
lands on tne several streams and water courses
in the same.
14. An act to amend and explain the several
acts heretofore passed in relation to tne town and
common of Wrigntsborougn, in the county of
Columbia.
15. An act to authorise the trustees of Marion
academy, in the county of Twiggs, to til. suc.i
vacancies as may hereafter happen in the board
of trustees.
16. An act to authorise the Roman Catholic
church in Augusta, and tne trustees of each and
eve y other church in the said city, to rent out
a pa. i of the lots conveyed to them for religious
purposes.
17. An act to authorise the justices of the in
ferior court of Columbia county, to levy an ex
tra tax.
18. An act to a.ter and amend a part of the
fiis section of an act, passed tue 10th Decem
be;, 1817, and to apportion the road labor in the
county ot (Lynn, so far as respects the islands ot
Si Simon’s and Jckyi.
19. An act to alter and amend an act entitled
an act, to levy a tax lor tne support of govern-
Tnc.it loi tne political year 1816, passed tue 16th
December, 1815, and aisc- to alter and am. ;.d an
act passed the 19th December,* 1816, entitled an
act—to prevent the circulation of notes emitted
by unenartered banks, and for other purposes.
20. An act to authorise the inferior coud of
Bmke county, to levy an extra tax.
21. An act to authorise uie inferior court of
Washington, to levy an extra tax.
22. An act to increase the salaries of public
officers of this state.
23. An act to incorporate the Eatonton acade
my library society, in toe county of Putnam.
24. An act to incorporate the bank of Darien.
25. An act to aiter and amend the first section
of the third article of tne constitution.
26. An act to incoi poi ate tne “Union Axe
and Firemen,” of the city of Savannah.
27. An act to after tne time of holding the in
ferior courts and the spring term of tne superior
court of the county of Madison, and the spring
teimofthe inferior court of the county ot Wiikes.
28. An act-to authorise the justices of the in
ferior court of 1 eifair county io levy an extra
tax for the purpose of building a court-house and
gaoi in said county.
.29. An act to aiter and amend the fourth sec
tion of the second article of the constitution.
30. An act to dispose of, and distribute tne
late cessions of land, obtained from tne Creek
and Cherokee Indians.
31. To incorporate the baptist church at Be
tliesda in Green county.
32. To secure to John Courts, for the term
of ten year's, the exclusive right of running a line
of stages between Darien and Miiledgeviile.
33. lo authorise tne inferior courts ol RiiJi
mand and Jefferson counties, to adopt measures
and levy a tax for keeping roads and bridges in
repair.
34. To repeal so much of the act passed 19tn
December, 1817, appropriating money for tne
improvement of the internal navigation of the
state, as makes the appropriation tor Savannah
and Tugalo rivers conditional:—and to make tne
said appropriation independent.
35. To make Darien a city, and to amend the
act incorporating the same.
36. To amend an an for the better regulation
of the town of Danic isviile.
37. To repeal an act to revise and amend the
road laws, as far as respects Laurens county.
38. To incorporate Sparta academy.
39. To incorporate Hillsborough academy, in
Jasper.
40. To amend the road laws of M‘lntosh coun
ty-
-41. To change the name of Betsy Duke to
Betsy Duhart.
42. To amend an act, to establish a mayor’s
court in the city of Savannah, etc.
43. To authorise the inferior court of M‘ln
tosh to levy an extra tax for support of the pool.
44. To authorise the inferior court of Jones
county to levy an extra tax
-45. To authorise the inferior court of Ema
nuel tc dispose oi the public lots belonging to
the county.
46. To authorise the university
of Georgia to execute titles
Franklin county.
47. To alter and amend the road laws.
48. For tne relief of Alexander Gordon.
49. To exempt from military duty, certaif in
dividuals, not citizens of the United States. >
50. To authorise the commissioners oi die A
lalamana river, to cut two canals.
51. To divorce Tabitha D. and Thomas Ua
pier.
52. To authorise the inferior court of Lincoln
county, io transcribe the records of their courts
into bound books.
53. To ament an act to prohibit slaves fivm 1
selling certain commodities.
54. To amend an act passed in 1798, for lie
regulation of the town of Louisville, etc.
55. To prevent assignments or transfers of
property to a portion of creditors, to the exciu- 1
sion and injury of others, by persons who fai in
trade, etc.
56. To appropriate monies for the political
year 1819.
57. For the relief of Anderson and Jeter Hirfks.
58. To amend an act authorising the inftfior
courts to discharge insolvent debtors, passdf in
1809.
59. To relieve criminals and others confined
in gaol.
60. To incorporate the Savannah steam-ship
company.
61. To divorce Nancy and Jesse Thompson.
62. To repeal an a t passed tire 16th Decem
ber, 1811, and uie act passed the 19th Decem
ber, 1816, on tne subject of tire penal code of
tnis state, and to amend the act pass and the 20th
December, 1817, to amend the penal code of
tins state.
63. To amend the act to carry into effect the
penal code. \
64. To organize the counties of Walton,
Gwynneti., Haft and HaLe sham, etc.
65. To uutnorise tne inleiior court of Rich
mond county, to sell the court-house and otlrer
property, etc.
66. To incorporate the Savanublr river navi
gation company.
67. For uie better management of the estates
of ieftots. lunatics and persons insate.
68. Fc authorise John S. Giascotk and others
t practice law in tnis stale.
69. for the reliel ot Francis Williamson.
70. To iay off six judicial circuits.
7 1. To revise and consolidate the militia laws
and repeal tne tavany iaws.
72. Fo lease to Jane Rucker, the lot she now
occupies on t e town common of Miftedgeville.
73. 1 o explain and enforce the judiciary act
of 1799, as respects special pleading, etc.
74. 1 o establish tne lees of tne public officers
on grants sot land laUiy obtained.
75. lo vest tne buiiai ground of Augusta, in
the trustees of the protes.a..t episcopal church.
76. To amend tne 4th and sth sections of the
3d article of the constitution.
77. To extend the powers of sheriffs and con
stables in cei tain cases. -
78. To grant powers to the commissioners of
pilotage of the port of Darien.
79. To .ai*.- (iff the act of confiscation the name
of John M*Cormick.
80. To limit tne time for persons to take out
grants on lands surveyed on head-rights and coun
ty warrants.
81. Toconsolidate and amend the acts for the
better regulation of the town oi Miiledgeviile.
82. To prevent the issuing and circulating of
unchartered notes.
83. To raise a tax for tin* political year 1819.
84. To establish a company for the inland navi
gation from Ogechee to Savannah river.
85. Pointing out the mode of collecting a cer
tain description of debts.
86. ’Fo lay off'streets in the town of Jeffersdn.
87. An act to transfer unto H. S. Wardrobe,
widbw of the late colonel Wm. Wardrobe, a dc
ceas and alien, and hei heirs and assigns, all the
right and iuc cf t,e state to a certain tract of
and on the island of S . Si nous, in the county
of Giynn.
88. To render navigable the Oconee river a
bove Miiledgeviile to Hudson’s Ford in Clarke
county.
89. To compensate persons who have or shall
s; ize African negroes illegally introduced into
tiie state.
90. Appropriating money for the improvement
of Bi ier creek.
91. To amend the 7th section of the Ist article
of the constitution.
92. More effectually to enforce an act respect
ing free persons of color.
93. To incorporate the Savannah free tw.lvooj
society.
94. To continue in force for 10 years the act
stablishing a ferry over tire Alatamaha at Fort
Barrington.
95. To authorise the inferior court of Pulaski
county to levy an extra tax.
96. To amend the act incorporating the town
of Brunswick, &c.
97. To establish certain ferries at the conflu
ence of Savannah and Broad rivers.
98. To incorporate the stock-holders of the Sa
vannah Theatre.
99. To define the limits between the counties
of Hancock and Washington.
100. To extend the jurisdiction of the mayor’s
court of Augusta.
Ron IVv , the famous highland chieftain, so
distinguished in a late popular work bearing his
name, died a natural death, at his own house in
the Braisof Balquhidder, about the year 1738,
am! was buried in the church yard of that, parish.
R h Roy, who was executed in Edinburgh on the
4th of February, in 1754, was his youngest son.
LATEST FROM ENGLAND.
Charleston, December 23.
Wc yesterday received by the s,,ip Factor,
captain Hamilton, in 25 days from Madeira, Lon
don papers of the 27th and 28th October, several
days later than before received. They contain
no news of importance. Sornp extracts will be
found in tnis day's paper.
It appears by the French papers, that instead
of one single treaty binding all the powers in tne
same obligation, France has concluded a separate
convention to the same effect witli each of tue
allies.
Captain Hamilton informs us, that he saw at
Madeira, London prints as late as the 7th Nov.
but could not obtain any. They were principally ,
occupied with accounts of tne arrival almost dai
ly, of detachments of the army of occupation from
France. Nearly all the sovereigns composing
the congress of Aix-la-Chapelle, had visited Par
is, after the adjournment; having left their minis
ters and agents to settle the minor points in dis
cussion, and to close the business.
The queen’s health appears to have been
much the same as our last accounts left ic. Daily
reports were still pubiisned by her attending phy
sicians.
London, October 27.
We have received French papers to the 26th.
The elections are proceeding witn rapidity, and j
the interest which they excited naturally decreas
es as their probable results begin to reveal them
selves. Messrs. Menager and de St. Cricq, (die j
director-general of the customs) have already i
been elected for the department of Seine and;
Marne. The ultra liberals had made powerful i
exertions to procure the return of the veteran La
Fayette, but he was still tne last on the list, wnen
ttvo out of three members re ;uired had been
enosen.
A private letter from Manchester, dated Oct.
21, gays—-“ The cotton-spinners are in f lift and ac
tive employment; and from the immense foreign
orders tiiat are daily arriving for twist, there is
no likelihood of any immediate slackness in their
operations. In addition to me immense quanti
ties recently sent off for Russia, and Hamburgh,
very extensive ordeis are now under hand for tne
same destination. Were no fresh oiders to ar
rive, I am given to understand tnat it win take a
considerable time to complete tnose already con
tracted for; and there is every reason to hope that
the stagnation in our own demand, will shortly
cease, as the extensive trade which is daily in
creasing with South-America, bids fair to com
pensate for any declension we may suffer in our
commerce with the United States.”
An English snip coming from Bombay, was
lately wrecked near Suez. The whoie cat go,
which was for account of the Pacha of Egypt, and
was estimated at 250,0 >0 piasters, is lost.
Sir Gregor MacGregor sai.s in a few days for
South-America, in tne brig Hero.
October 28.
A Madrid article states, that the Marquis de
Cnaa Yrujo %• \u>t to V> th mil Aster for foieigi*
affairs, but that the porte-feuiile of t at depart
ment is to be placed in t..e hands of either of don
Lozano de Terres, or of don Pierre Gomez La
brador.
The accounts from Aix-la-Chapelle state, that
the ratification of England to the convention, for
the evacuation of France, arrived there on tne
18th instant.
An article from Valenciennes says, that the
conferrcnces at Aix-la-Chapeuc will close on the
4th of next month.
A letter from Margate, dated the 25th instant,
says—“ The typhus fever has lately been raging
here to an ala ruing extent.”
The following is an extract of a letter from
Dover, dated on Monday:—“lmmense quantities
of baggage,belonging to the a. my of occupation.
continue daily to be landed from France, and tins
morning one of the Cualftam lighters came in
with 200 men, the sick and invalids of th> differ
ent regiments about to embark so E..g.and.—
Upwards of 40 waggons and carls nave bee.,
pressed to day from tnis town and neighborhood
for the removal of the baggage ami sick. A mini-’
ber of vessels have sailed from this port witnin the
last three days to bring over the army, the fiist
division of which may he expected dourly.”
Mr. Buchanan, of Greenock, author of the
Walks of Clyde, has transmitted to Mr. Walter
Scott, the broch of Rob Roy’s wife, the Scottisn
Amazon, Its circle appears to be of silver, stud
ded with what was once the vogue, bristow. It is
sad that its authenticity cannot be disputed.
Valenciennes, Oct. 21.
The duke of Wellington arrived in this city
yesterday. He was accompanied by oniy two
aids-de-camp.
Private Letters from Paris , October 22.
The emperor Alexander will not remain twen
ty-four hours in Paris, as I informed you in my
last letter. He will sup, have an interview witn
the king, and set off in the night. The king oi
Prussia will make a little longer stay—nis apart
ments are ready at the hotel of his ambassador.
No one here believes she reports wnicii arc cir
culated relative to the misunderstanding between
the three sovereigns. It is generally considered
that these rumors arc only the invention of ma
levolent characters or stock-jobbers.
Baron Alexander dc Humboldt is expected in
Paris to-day, on iiis return from Aix-la-Chapelle.
A report prevails that he will succeed the count
de Goltz, who would be appointed to the Prussian
embassy at London.
It is now decidedly known that the last loan for
the liberation of the territory has been exclusive
ly negociated with the house of Baring and La
bouchere, and their clients.
It is confidently said that the number of the ex
iles who have obtained leave to return to France
is only eight. Marshal Soultand general Grou
chy were, it is said, to have been included; but a
further delay has been resolved respecting them,
and also the poet Amauit. It is stated that the
duke I)* \ngnulemc has given anew proof of Via
generous ami noble disposition, by earnestly sol.
citing the return of gcuci ai Grouchy, thus forget
ting the aggravated wrongs he experienced dur
ing the unhappy campaign in the* south, in 1815,
Aix-LA-CturEii.r., Oct. 18.
The English have recently disc barged a great
number ol foreigners who served in their corps
d’atnice in France. There are s--me regiments
almost wiiolly disbanded. They were principal
ly Germans, who were made prisoners of tvar in
Spain, and afterwards entered into the service of
England. Several of them, being natives of tne
Rhenish provinces, have recently passed through
Aix-ia-Chapolle.
The documents yesterday transmitted to con
gress, consist of, first, the report of judge Biand,
one of the commissioners sent by the executive
to South-America, occupying nearly 300 closely
written folio pages.
Secondly, a letter from Mr. J. R. Poinsett, of
South-Cai oiina, to the secretary ol state, commu
nicating, by ■ equest of tne executive, such infor
mation respecting South-America, and itsall'ai s,
as nis iong residence in those countries, and sub
sequent twerefroiir, nave enabled nun
to give. This letter is also very long, filling
ab ut 200 folio pages.
Tnirdljr, of correspondence between the secre
tary of state and don Louis dc Onis, the minister
of Spain, from the 23d of March to the 30ln of
November last, inclusive, occupying about 250
folio pages.
Fourthly, correspondence between Mr. Er
ving, American minister at the court of Spain,
and don Jose Pi.arro, Spanish secretary of state,
f om the Btli of July to the 31st of August inclu
sive, fi li. gmoie than 100 pages.
li would appear, from the call yesterday made
by the house of representatives on tne president
of the United States, that something is yet want
ing, to complete tne chain of information-— Xat.
Intel. Dec. 16.
The statement of the amount of discounts at
?he i cspectivo offices of discount and deposit of
the bank of tne United Sraies, has created a con
siderable sensation in most of our cities. The
dispi oportion of me amount of discounts at the
several branches, is, indeed, at tne first giance,
sufficiently great, a,id impresses the mind with
the belief that discounts have been made, by the
mother bank and its bi anchi s, move to accommo
date speculators in its* stock, tnan enterprising
merchants or industrious citizens. But a wri
ter in the Federal Gazette, lias thrown out a sug
gestion on the subjc t, which is entitled to con
sideration. The bai.x (he says) like all ether
corporations, owes a preference to its members;
the government of u.e United Staus a targe
sto, kaoider, for instance, crj ys advantages of
aa exclusive nature —and it is reasonable, it is
srid.that t. e other stockholders should, in pro
p r o . to their respective interests, enjoy ivcry
at v tage, net-inconsistent with its charter, wnich
t ,o ftii e- ors can conveniently grant to them.—
On these premises, the disproportion of the
amount of discounts, the writer says, stands fully
justified—the amount of loans at otherbrancl.es,
in proportion to the stock held there, being actu
ally greatet than either at Philadelphia or Baiti
moie, w e e much the largest discounts have
bem mace.— ib. Dec. 17.
•mmm
The question respecting the M ssachusettS
claim, came up, in the routine of business in the
house es repi esen atives on Friday last; but, by
the course it took the public are disappointed of
the anticipated debate and decision. Tlu uulo
cates of the claim were unwilling to take it up,
and, by theii desire, the bill siumbers on the ta
ble until the termination of the session shaft ter
minate also its exi t- nee. T .ere is not, we be
lieve, tl e i*. as’ pi s ev t of its b ing called up
du ing he presen session; and, if n were caned
up, the p o- ei dings of yesterday indicate the cer
tainty ot its r je< tion.—Of the probability of this
fate, it is presumed tne friends of tne bill were
aware, and therefore declined consuming the
time ot the house by a fruitless discussion; pr. f r
ring rather to take their chance at a future con
gress,.when time shaft have mellowed the re
collection of the occurrences connected with tnis
claim, and softened the asperity which some of
them were calculated to excite.— ib. Dec. 19.
Extract of a letter to the editor of the Weekly
Register, dated“Ojielousas, Nov. 5.
‘'The restless Lallemand has left the Trinity;
bis followers, poor deluded beings, are arriving
• ■ere daily, almost naked and half famished. —
A kind if proclamation has just been received
here from general Juan de Castanado, command
mg (500 or 700 it ib said) Spanish troops tump
ed on the Sabine, addressed “to the nearest au
thorities of the congress of the United States,”
staling that lie had come from the interior for
tne purpose of driving off” the pirates residing at
Galveston, which he says belongs to Spain, pray
ing the authorities to quiet the public mind, as
his intentions Were not hostile to the U. States.
“ 1 his manifesto will be sent on by this mail
to \\ ashington City, from whence you will no
doubt gi t a perfect copy. The dons as usual are
a day after the fair. Crops here are promising;
negroes high, and lands looking up, awaiting the
current of i migi ation, which has set this way.”
A \ew-Oi leans paper of the 12th November,
says “ I be establishment at Galveston, has at
length been broken up, and general Humbert,
with his suit, has arrived in this city: they were
found on board of a vessel which has arrived in
the l iver, as a prize to the U. States ketch Sur
prise, lieut. M‘Keever. We are ignorant of the
real cause of this abdication of the chief, and the
dispersion of the band. Some say that an agent
of the American government ordered them
away—others assert that the vicinity of the Span
ish army from St. Antonio, occasioned so much
uneasiness to them that they deemed it best not to
remain.’*