Newspaper Page Text
VOLUME XLIV.
4
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, DECEMBER 29, 1863.
NUMBER 52.
yl, OR ME & SON,
EDITORS and proprietors.
STEPHEN F. MILLER,
b associate editor.
Terms after first of June, 1863.
■ f r,er annum, in advance, $ 5 00
6 ‘b* nP ««MEKT *d»cr«sing.
er square of ten lines for the first,
^j’for each subsequent insertion.
‘ n iL te s of Respect. Resolutions by So-
- Obituaries, &e,, exceeding six lines,
ci eti ' >s ’ c iar ged as transient advertising.
t0 be C " r legal advertising.
^citations for Letters of Administration, by
idiiTnistrators, Executors, Guardians, &c„
A r ..uion for Letters of Dismission
from Administration,
V nlica'.ion for Letters of Dismission
(. .^Guardianship, ;**
Application for leave to sell Land and ^
7*"'V' "
Votice to Debtors and Creditors
1 1p , 0 f personal or perishable property,
J square If ten lines
? Sal , s t) f Land and Negroes, per square of
Sheriff ’s
Fac h levy of ten lines, or less,. ...
jl„ r tgag e sales of ten lines, or less,
ill advertisements of sales by Sheriffs ex*
reedin'! fines, "’ill be chaiged in pro
portion.
Clerk’s—
v,reclosure of Mortgage and other month-
//advertisements, $1 50 per square of ten
lines for each insertion.
Establishing lost papers, per square of
tea lines,
Eor a man advertising his wife, in advance, 10 00
Vo deviation from the above scale of prices un-
d<*r anv pretence.
Remittances by mail at our risk.
3 00
6 00
4 00
5 00
4 00
2 00
5 00
3 00
6 00
8 00
We are authorized to announce
L N. CALLAWAY a candidate
for Tax Collector of Baldwin coun
ty at the election on first Wednesday in January
December 1,1863
43 td
JOHN J. KEEN respectfully an
nounces himself to the people of
Laurens county as a candidate for
the office of Sheriff at the election on the first
Wednesday in January next. . - _
December 1. 1863 48 ot
AX7E ARE authorized to announce SAMUEL
YV H. HUGHES as a candidate for Tax Re-
reiver of Baldwin county, at the ensuing January
election.
December 3, j863 49 tde
E ARE authorized to announce the name
V V of JOHN R RESPESS as a candidate
for Tax Collector of Baldwin county, at the ensu
ing election in January next.
November 3.1863 44 tde
W E ARE authorized to announce the name
of SAMUEL B. COLLINS as a candidate
for Tax Receiver of Baldwin county, at the elec
tion in January next. Having served in the. army
until disabled by a wound, disqualifying him tor
further service, he present his claims to the citi
zens.
December 8,1863. 49 tde
\X7E ARE authorized to announce TOBIAS
YY A. CARAKER as a candidate for Tax
Collector of Bahiu in county, au the ensuing Jan
uary election.
December 8, 1M 3 49 tde
IT7M. G. ROBINSON is a candidate for Re-
YY eeiver of the Tax Returns of Baldwin co_un-
ty at the next election, and respectfully solicits
the support of the voters of the county generally,
December 8, 1863 49 tde
W K AUE authorized to announce the name
of JAMES C. SHEA as a candidate for
Tax Receiver of Baldwin county, at the election
in January next.
December 4,1863 49 tde
J AMES M. HALL, Sen., respectfully an
nounces himself to the people of Baldwin
county a candidate for the office of Tax Receiver
at the approaching election in January.
December 12, 1863 50 3t
J J. GUMM is a candidate for Tax Collecto
• at the election in January next-
December 8, 1863 49 tde
\ AHA LBS - 0F SOAP for sale at the
Milledgeville Hotel.
F. A. HUSON.
^October 13,1863 41 tf
C ITY TAX NOTICE.—My books are now open
fur the collection of the City Taxes, assessed
hy the Council for the present year. Office under
the Milledgeville Hotel.
JAMES C. SHEA, Clerk
Milledgeville, July 28, 1863 30 tf
t’olloii Cards, Coffee & Sole Leather.
1 A A PAIR WHITTMORE’S Cotton Cards,
Avlvf number 10.
oUOlbs. COFFEE.
500 lbs. SOLE LEATHER.
Just received and for sale by
J. GANS & CO.
Milledgeville, April 14, 1863 15 tf
Tanning.
r PHE SUBSCRIBER will TAN all HIDES
■*- brought to his Tannery for one-third.
WILLIAM HARPER.
December 8. 1863 49 6t*
Notice.
Office Ga. Relief & Hospital Associa’s f
Augusta, Ga., June 23d, 1863. j
1 MESSENGER of the Georgia Relief & Hos-
- A pital Association will leave Atlanta on or near
Dull of each month for Mississippi, and will
OKe charge of all boxes and packages intended for
, Georgia troops in that. State, and will carry
|nem to some safe point near the army and deposit
mem, and notify the owners, or deliver them to
the owners, if practicable, free of charge. The
oxes and packages must be marked with the
names of the owners, their company and regiment,
u to the care of the Georgia Relief and Hospital
Association. Atlanta, Ga. The Association will
1 be responsible for any box containing perish-
* L ai tieles, such as green vegetables, &e. Box-
n aild Packages will be deposited at the Wayside
H °We, Atlanta, Ga.
v W. H. POTTER. Gen’l, Superint’dt.
newspapers of this State will please copy daily
ri, |g the first week oteach month, and send bills
tin* office. \y. II. POTTER. Gen’l Sup’t.
7.1:163 - 27 lstwern
^ p EClAL NOTICE —The undersigned having
t / em °ved from Milledgeville,-desires and-ifi-
Jj ' 5 to close up his business matters of that
7 Ce as speedily as.possible. All persons indebt-
. are notified that my notes and accounts are in
® hands of J. A: Breedlove and P. H. Lawler,
are -authorized to collect and make settle
mi . ‘ ^ n °t arranged at an early day,settle
Uts will be enforced bylaw.
. * A. C-VAIL, Agent.
August 19,1862 33 tf
(] EEDERATE TAX —Those w ho have not
or tl their Taxes, must pay by the 22d iust.,
, l,e J' will be liable to pay ten per cent, addition-
u P°n the amount of Tax. '
J. C. WHITAKER,
n C. T. C-. of Baldwin county.
December 15, 1863 50 St
TETOGQ BIT THE GOTEKNOB.
EXECUTIYE DEPARTMENT,
Milledgeville, Dec.. 15th, 1863.
Th? following bills passed in the hurry of busi
ness near the end of the session, have been vetoed
by the Governor, to-wit: *
A bill tor the relief of William J. Toole, a citi-
this State. I withhold my assent from this
bill for the reason, that it, in effect, grants a di
vorce to the applicant, by authorizing him again
to contract marriage. The Constitution vests the
exclusive jurisdiction in such cases, in the Superior
Courts
While the legislature may relieve a party, who
has contracted an illegal maniage, from indict
ment and punishment under the penal Code, it has
no right to dissolve the bonds of matrimony, or to
authorize a married man or woman, to contract an
other lej-al marriage, till the former marriage has
been dissolved by the proper Court, and the right
of the party to marry again, has been recognized
by the judgment of the Court, which, in the lan-
guage of the Constitution? ‘‘shall regulate the
rights and disabilities of the parties.
A bill for the relief of Jane B. Eave of the coun
ty of Polk, and Ellen Mathews of the county of
Baldwin.
I withhold my assent from this bill, on the
ground, that it relieves the parties from their mar
riage obligations, which is virtually a divorce.—
This, the legislature has no right to grant as the
Constitution has given the exclusive jurisdiction
in that case, to the Superior Courts.
A bill to incorporate the Confederate Coal Min
ing Company, in the county of Dade.
I withhold my assent from this bill, for the rea
son, that it contains no personal liability clause
for the protection of the creditors, in case of the
insolvency ot the Company,
A bill to incorporate the Columbia and Augus
ta Railroad Company.
I withhold my assent from this bill for the rea
son that it restricts the taxing power of the State.
I am unwilling to charter any corporation and
exempt its property from taxation for any term of
years, while the property of citizens is so heavily
taxed.
A bill to renew the Banking privileges of the
Georgia Railroad and Banking Company.
I withhold my assent from this bill, because it
does not appear that it passed by a majority of
two-thirdsin each house, as required by the Con
stitution of this State. And for the further rea
son, that I do not think the Banking privileges of
the Company should be renewed, till it will con
sent to relinquish the exemption from taxation
upon the Road and other property of the Compa
ny which is contained in the original charter.
At the time the charteY was granted, the present
condition of the country, with the high taxation
imposed upon all other proporty was not antici
pated, aifPas there are plenty of Hanks in the
State, and the renewal of the charter is for the
benefit of the Company, and as the State is un
der no pledge, express or implied, to renew the
charter, she has a right to put the Company on
terms, that it relinquish its exemption ' from
taxation, before the new charter is granted. If
it does not consent to do so, and the State does
not consent to renew the Bank charter, both par
ties stand upon their rights, and neither is guilty
of any bad faith to the other.
ST, \
t- 5
Milledgeville, Dec. 15th, 1863
To the House of Representatives :
I feel it my duty to refuse my assent to the bill
which originated in the .House, entitled an act, to
authorize the tax payers of the State to pay their
Sfc*e and county tax in Confederaie Treasury
Notes, and for other purposes.
The bill declares that the ‘‘tax payers of this
State may pay their State and county taxes in the
Treasury Notes of the Coufederate'States, and the
Tax Collectors of the several counties, are hereby
authorized and required to receive said notes
when tendered in payment of taxes.’’ To this,
there is no objection ; but it gives the tax payers no
privilege which they do not already enjoy, as the
State has received Confederate^reasury Notes for
all tax*.8Hnd other public dues, from the time the
first r.ct.3 tvas tendered to her Collectors till the
present d.iy-
1 presume however, that the exception which fol
lows the language above quoted, is the maiu ob
ject of the bill. It is in the following words :—
“Except such persons as may, after this act shall
have gone into effect, refuse to receive Confeder
ate Tieasury Notes in payment of any claim due
them in their individual capacity, or as a corpora
tion, or agents, or who shall refuse to receive Con
federate Treasury Notes in payment for produce or
merchandise, in which case, the tax due on such
claim, or produce, or merchandise shall be paya
ble in specie ; provided, this exception shall not
apply to promissory notes payable in specie, and
so expressed on the face. ’
The Constitution of the Confederate States de
dares that no State shall “make any thing but gold
and silver coin a tender in payment of debts,” or
pass any “law impairing the obligation of con
tracts.”
The paspaj|!»f this bill, is a legislative attempt
to do indirctly what the Constitution declares
shall not be done; make Confederate 'Ireasury
Notes a tender in payment of debts. In the pres
ent state of tl* currency, it is a heavy penalty for
the State to compel one of her citizens to pay his
tax in specie when others pay in Confederate
Tr>*a=ury Notes." This bill then proposes to com
pel creditors to receive Confederate Treasury
Notes as a legal tender in paymeut of debts under
a heavy penalty for refusal. If the State has no
right to make any thing but gold and silver com
a ‘tender in payment of debts, has she a right to
impose penalties upon creditors for refusing to re
ceive any thing else in payment ? If so, all that
is necessary, is to declare what else shall be a le-
make the Realty i»„vy .oocrh.
and she compels her citizens to receive it as a ten
der in payment of debts due them Again, no
State shall pass any law impairingtheoM.gat.op
non tracts A, purchased ahorse ot n, three
years since, wbicl/was worth one hundred dollars
fn gold, and gave his note foroue hundred dollars
due one month after date. When due. he refused
to make payment. He now comes to B when one dol
lar in gold is worth tweuty dollars in currency. and
when the horse, which he purchased for one bun-
words, if he refuses to take five dollars in treasury
notes for his barrel of Hour, which is its ordinary
gold value 7 Upon what principle of equity is it
that a barrel of flour is worth sixteen times as
much Confederate currency as a note given for a
barrel of flour upon the gold basis is worth ?
This bill proposes to inflict the same penalty
upon him who refuses to receive Confederate
Ireasury notes for produce or merchandise as it
does upon him who refuses to receive it in pay
ment of debts given for property on the specie
basis. Bat it does not say what price persons may
charge in Confederate notes for produce or mer
chandise. If they price produce or merchandise
worth five dollars at eighty dollars and receive pay
ment in Confederate notes when tendered, they
escape the penalty. Then why not permit the
owner of the promissory note to* price his note at
its value in the currency, and punish him only
when he refuses to receive its value in Confeder
ate notes when tendered 7
Again, the act excepts from the penalty those
who refuse to take Confederate Treasury notes in
payment for “promissory notes payable ic specie
and so expressed upon the face.” Many persons
have borrowed gold and given notes for it who
have not expressed in the face of the notes that
they are payable in specie. If two notes of equal
amount are given for gold leDt, and one says upon
its face pavable in specie, and the other simply
says for value-received, and the holders refuse to
take Confederate notes in payment, I confess my
inability to see the justice of compelling one to pay
his tax in specie, while the other is permitted to
pay in treasury notes, because his note chanced
to have on its face the expression “payable in
specie.” Nor do I see t le equity of the differ
ence in any case where the note is given for spe
cie value, whether expressed in the face of the
note payable in Specie or not.
But it may be said there are principles of public
policy which override private interest; and that
the public safety requires that the currency be
sustained, and treated as gold in all individiyal
payments. Public policy aud justice require that
the currency be received at its market value.
No more, no less. And in this connection, it should
not be forgotten that the Confederate Congress
does not estimate it as equivalent to gold, but
draws a clear distinction by compelling the hold
ers of gold to give in and pay Confederate tax
upon the value ofthe gold in Confederate Treasury
notes, lind the Confederate collectors have estima
ted the difference at eight and ten for one. We
need not attempt to shut our eyes to a fact well
known to every intelligent man woman and child
in the Confederacy and to our enemies, and which
is acknowledged by the Confederaie Congress,that
the Confederate currency is greatly depreciated,
and that Confederate Treasury coles are not worth
par in specie. It would be wiser to acknowledge
by our legislative action what all our constituents
know, and to use all constitutional and proper
means by taxation and otherwise to improve the
currency, than to attempt to sustain its value by
compelling one class of citizens to receive it as
geld, and permitting all others to treat it as of
but little value.
If this bill had excepted all notes given for spe
cie value prior to the depreciation of the currency
there might have been some justice in its passage.
JOSEPH E. BROWN.
SVc-L^ will bring fifteen hundred dollars in
the market, and proposes to pay B on ® Jjun<*red
dollars in Confederate Treasury notes and the in
terest for the note. B refuses to take it, because
[he contract was made upon th ®S Id _J|J“^ r a Sj
nblis-ation is for the payment of gold or its
equivalent The legislature compels B to receive
the money or submit to a severe penalty. Does
not tffis impair the obligation ot the contract,
aud is it just 1 ......
But aside from constitutional objections «»s
bill ought not to become a law, as it c.n ^ctit
oiit u,, e , f debtors, who received gold
no one, but a class oi oeuv haTeffivflIJ t o their
with the present currency^ ^
many
much
they
cases, would not
currency ^ to the creditor
ceived, as they q p . have noticed that
in discharge of /l 10 ,. de . • J ^ the most
this is the class of inffividuHls wbo ^
bitter Treasury Notes in payment of
r nThi? All oUmr persons can see.the injustice
old debts. All otn ® r J’ c .. deblor w ho got the a-
ofsuch aten d er, b the oftheDOfe in g0 ]d
mount mentioned in Bee : t . What reason
or its equivalent, c»n - ven f or property
is there, why aprotnisso y be est i m ated at
upon the gold basis, sb barrel
its value in Confederates notes ^ ^
of flour or a pound of bacon t ^ bacon at
Confederate Treasury *“ di times, is worth
erate Treasury , a anr ; s now worth $8U in
•* 50- lt * nWnryStes, how is it that a fivp
Confederate .^ a l r y . barre l of fl ur on the gold
dollar note.g!ven for a b dollar8 ib Coufeder
basis is-now worth only h ^ tbe hold?r
ate Treasury notes J And fiye dolUra
of the note if he refuse b ; 8 ta xes in gold,
treasury notes for P* / or one, aud permit
which wiU c«a h him tweji^fo. t forf80> d „n-
tin owner of the . Wby not say he too
pose no penalty on hi . jjf |[Osrefa*ea to re-
Report •( the Joint Standing Committee on
the State Lnualic Asylum.
The Joint Committee of the Senate and House
of Representatives on the State Lunatic Asylum,
submit the following report:
A visit to ihe Asylum enables the committee to
speak from personal inspection, in commendation
of the harmonious adaptation of the Asylum and
its management, throughout all its departments,
to the accomplishment of the philantropic pur
poses of the Slate in its erection. Order and
cleanliness strike the eye, with pleasing effect, as
the various apartments are brought under obser-
vation. Managed as the institution is, under the
considerate, humane and skillful superintendent,
Dr Green, it cannot otherwise than prove to be an
incalculable blessing to that class of our people,
a proper solicitude for whose welfare prompted its
projection. While the committee admire tbe mag
nificence of the institution in its architecture and
arrangements, they are more deeply impressed by
the moral significance of the fact, that the State
of Georgia, as the general parent of her suffering
children, and in the discharge of an obligation in
volved in that relation, thus signally manifests
her tender regard for them, in so liberal an expert
diture of her treasure. Withotft intending to ex
press an opinion, at this time, as to the policy of
receiving into the Asylum insane negroes or de
mented inebriates, the committee are well satisfi
ed, that for the present such a policy cannot be
carried cut as contemplated by the law, as it
stands in the Code. Aud in view of the incompat
ibility of the architectural arrangements to such
an end, they would suggest that as the law re
mains unrepealed, the Superintendent, Dr. Green,
be considered as relieved from a compliance with
so much of the law as requires the reception and
accommodation of such patients, until suitable
apartments are erected by the State for their care.
The appropriations asked for. at this session of
the General Assembly, exceed those of the pre
vious year only in the amount asked for making
suitable compensation to the “Trustees and Treas
urer, sub-officers aud Attendants.” The increase
upon the appropriation, for the same purpose, lor
the past year, is about seventy five per cent. Your
committee think that the amount is reasonable;
demanded, in their judgment, by the prevalent
high prices for all tho me<*ns of living, and ought
to be granted. Dr Green, in unselfish devotion
to the interests of the institution, presents no re
quest for any increase of Ins salary.
TJjo sum of tweuty thousand dollars it is asked
shali be appropriated, exclusively to enable the
Siiperin'eiident to make purchase of supp ies of
the lead’ng articles ot subsistence in tin fall oi
1^64. for the use of tbe institution during 'he en
suing year. As is well known, such supplies can
usually be more readily aud cheaply obtained dn
ring the fall than afterwards, and it is to secure to
the institution this advantage, that this appropii
ation is asked. The amount would properly be
chargeable to the appropriations for lb6o,and is
not an increase contemplated in the disbursements
of the fiscal year 1864.
In addition to tbe regular appropriations for
the the year 1864, it is asked by the .‘Superinten
dent that the sum of fifty thousand be appropri
ated as a contingent fund, to be used only in the
event that the advance in the prices ot neediul
supplies, for the support or continued existence of
the institution, should create a positive necessity
for it; the regular appropriations being inadequate
to that end. And such sum or any part thereof
cau only be used for the purposes of the institu
tion when the Governor is satisfied that such fur
ther aid is necessary.
Your committee recommend the proposed ap
propriations to be granted.
Your committee in closing their report desire to
give expression to their high appreciation of the
devotion and fidelity of Dr Green to the cause of
the Asylum ; and beg leave to render their thanks
to bis wife, and to his gentlemanly assistant. Dr.
Powell, for their courtesies to the committee while
on their Tisit. J. A. ADAMS,
Chairman Senate Committee.
T. A. PARSONS,
Chairman -House Committee,
A Badge of 'Female Disloyalty.—We
find tbe followirg paragraph in the news
column of the New Orleans Era: •
Not to wear crinoline has become a
badge of secesb principles in the South
west. Although hooped skirts are plenty
at Memphis, the rebel wftmen have agreed
among themselves . not to wear them. It
is their secret sign-—their badge—their
rebel flag- No longer allowed to flauut
past our brave lellows with their emblems
of treason pinned to their dresses and bon
nets, they have hit upon this plan. They
will wear no more hoops That ig their
rebel mark now, and one the other day,
when asked if such was the mason, she
tossed up her bead and said: “Yes, it is,
and you Yankees can’t make ua wear
hoops, neither.”
lets passed by the Legislature of 186-3, and sign-1
ed by the Governor.
1. To legalize and make valid all ad
jouruments of the Superior Courts of the
State by the Clerks of said Courts, where
the presiding Judges may have been ab
sent, and may have failed to issue an order
for adjournment from Providential cause.
2. To amend an act to incorpoiate the
town of Dawson in Terrell county.
3. To change the name of the Athens
Steam Company, and increase its capital.
4. To authorize and require the Inferior
Court of Chatham county to levy and col
lect an extra tax for certain purposes.
5. To incorporate the Oglethorpe Insu
rance Company of Savannah.
6. For the relief of the President and
Directors of the North-Western Bank of
the Slate of Georgia.
7. To alter and change the place of
holding the Superior and Inferior Courts
of McIntosh county.
S. To compel overseers and track mend
ers on the different Railroads in this State
to file a list of the marks and brands of all
stock killed upon their sections.
9. To rel’eve James Ravanel and Sam
uel P. Ravanel of South Carolina, nomiu
ated executors of R. C Davis, deceased,
from legal liability on accouut of non-res
idence.
10. To alter and change the hour of
meetings of the General Assembly of
Georgia.
11. To incorporate an Insurance Com
pany in the city of Macon to be called the
Empire State Insurance Compauy.
12. To alter aud amend an act relative
to the selling of liquor in Spring Place,
Murray county.
13. To repeal an act to compensate offi
cers and freeholders for holding general
elections in Emanuel county. Also to
compensate Petit Jurors in said county.
14. To amend an act to incorporate the
Stonewall Insurance Compauy.
15. For the relief of certain counties
therein named.
16. To alter and amend several acts in
corporating the city of Atlanta.
17. To increase the salaries of the Comp
troller General, State Treasurer aud Sec
retary of State.
18. To allow the Clerks of Ordinary, to
•draw the Common School fund due their
respective couuties, for the years 1862 and
1863.
19. To repeal the six hundred and thir
ty-third section of the Code, relative to
Road Commissioners.’
20. To amend an act to repeal an act
to extend the civil jurisdiction of the Jus-,
tices of the Peace in Savannah, assented
to I7th February, 1854.
21. To exempt certain lands from tax
ation.
22. To define the oaths of Notaries Pub
lics.
23. To continue in force the act, to pro
vide against the forfeiture of % the several
Bank Charters of this State.
24. To allow all soldiers in service, to
vote at Municipal elections.
25. To repeal an act consolidating the
offices of Tax Receivers and Collectors.
26. To appropriate funds to the use of
the Georgia Relief and Hospital Associa
tions.
27. To amend an act to charter and in
corporate a Bank in Augusta, by the name
and style of the Traders and Importers’
Bank.
28. To amend the oath of tax payers
for the year 1864.
29. To carry into effect, so much ofthe
2d section of the 4th article of the consti
tution, as relates to divorces.
30. To provide for the suppression of
tbe unlawful distillation of grain and oihs
er commodities. •
31. To add certain sections to tbe penal
code.
32. To increase the pay of the two Sec
taries and Recording Clerk of the Execu
tive Department, aud the Clerk of the
Comptroller Geueral’s Office,—the PrincN
pal Keeper of the Penitentiary, aiid the
Superintendent of tbe Military Institute.
33. To ameud-au act, incorporating the
Southern Insurance Company.
34. To change the time of holding the
Inferior C-'urt of Pike county.
35. To alter and amend the 611 section-
of the Code.
36. To amend the 1630th section of the
Code.
37. To repeal section 4439 of the revis
ed Code, aud to substitute another in lieu
thereof.
38. For the support of the Georgia Acad
emy of the Blind.
39. To alter and change the time of
holding the Inferior Courts of Miller and
Stewart couuties.
40. To amend the 786 section of the
Code, relative to taxing defaulters.
41. To provide for paying the 4tb Geor
gia Brigade, the half-pay still due them,
for the time they were in the service of the
State.
42. To authorize the employment of a
Clerk in the. Treasury Department.
43. To confer certain powers upon the
Judge of the city Court of Augusta.
44. To re organize the Jury boxes of
the several couuties of the State, and to
point out who shall be liable to serve as
J urors.
45. To incorporate an Insurance Com
pany, to be called the Home Insurance
Company.
46. To alter and amend the Charter of
the city of Columbus, relative to the elec*
tion of its officers.
47. To amend the first section of an act
incorporating the city of Griffin.
48. To extend the time of making re
turns ofthe children entitled to tbe benefit
of the Educational fuud.
49. For the relief of Wesley Sheffield
of Miller county, and to appropriate mouey
for the same.
50. To amend the charter of the Bank
of Whitfield of Dalton Ga.
51. For the relief of Jas. T. Patterson
and Kate B. Patterson,
52- Regulating tbe advertising of sales
by administrators, executors, and Guardi*
an$.
53 To repeal an act authorizing tbe
Clerks of the Superior and Iuferior Courts
and tbe Ordinary of Charlton county to
keep their offices at their residence.
54. To legalise all marriages between
first cousins which have been contracted
since January 1863.
55. To change the county line between
Sumter aud Terrell counting aud to make
Kinchafoonee creek the line for tbe same
56. To increase tbe pay of tbe State
Printer.
57. To provide for raising revenue, lor
the political year 1864, and for other pur
poses.
58. To authorise the Governor bf the
State, to grant a license for the manufac
ture of Alcohol, for medicinal and mechan
ical purposes.
59. To appropriate money for the sup
port of the Luuatie Asylum, for the year
1864, and for other purposes.
60. To extend the corporate limits of
the town of Lawrenceville, in the county
of Gwinnett, to increase the power of the
board of Commissioners of said town, and
to provide for the compensation of the
President.
61. To amend the 1855th paragraph of
the revised Code of Geoigia.
62. To amend the 2480th Section of the
revised Code of Georgia.
63. To authorise and empower the Or*
dinaries of the several counties in the State
to pay over to the Inferior Courts, any
surplus of fuuds in their hands belonging
to the Educational funds for the relief of
indigent families of soldiers.
64. To appropriate money for the sup
port of indigent families of soldiers who
may be in the public service, and for tho
support of indigent soldiers who may be
disabled by wounds or disease in the ser
vice of this State, or of the Confederate
States, for and during the year 1864, and
to provide for the application of the same,
to the purposes aforesaid, and for other
purposes, and to provide in part for the
same by levying a tax upon the capital
stock of the several banking corporations
of tliis State."
65. To cancel certain portions of the
Georgia Treasury notes lately issued,
by issuing Treasury certificates of depos
ite, and for other purposes-. •
66. To alter and change the oath of tax
payers of the State
67. To alter and amend an act. entitled
an act, to prevent the unnecessary con
sumption of grain by distillers and manu
facturers of spirituous liquors in Georgia,
approved Nov. 22, 1862;—also to alter and
amend an act supplementary to the said
recited act, assented to Dec. 11,1862, and
for other purposes.
6S. To amend aa act, entitled an act, to
authorise all volunteers aud other troops
in the service from this State, to vote at
all elections without reference to the place
where they may be in service at the time of
such elections, and for other purposes, as
sented to Dec. 11.1862.
69. To- extend the time for the collec
tion of taxes in the county ot Walker, and
to provide a guard for the tax collector in
said couuty, and all tbe counties similarly
situated.
70. To change the rank of the Adjutaut
and Inspector General of the State, aud
for other purposes.
71. To amend an act, entitled an act, to
authorise the Justices of the Inferior
Courts of the several counties in this State
from time to time in their discretions, to
levy such extra taxes as they may deem
necessary to equip volunteers or other sol
diers from their respective counties, and
to provide for the indigent families of sol
diers, to authorise the collectien of the
same, and to legalise their previous action
in the premises, aud for other purposes,
approved Nov. 29, 1861, so as to except
the county of Warren, from the 2d section.
72. To reorganise the militia of Geor
gia, aud for other purposes.
73. To ameud the Habeas Corpus laws
of this State.
74. To levy aud collect a tax ou the
nett iucomes and profits of all person^and
corporate bodies, and nett profits of all
persons making incomes by purchase and
sale of real or personal property, and for
other purposes.
75. To iaprease the per •yliem pay of
school teacuers entitled to the benefit of
the poor school fund of the State.
76. To change the place of holding the
Superior aud Jnlerior Courts of the county
of Glynn.
77. To repeal that portion of the 22S7th
section of the Code of Georgia, as prohib
its the creation of trusts for male persons
of sane mind.
78. To define and puuish tbe offence of
skinning cows or any other kind of stock
cattle, siieep or goats, aud refusing to pay
for the bides.
79. To repeal paragraph 1658 of pait
second, title second, chapter 1st, article 1,
section 1st, of the revised Code of Georgia,
and to legalise marriages in violatiou of
the same, and for other purposes.
80. To amend an act, entitled an act, to
authorise guardians, trustees, executors
and administrators to invest in Confederate
bonds, and in land and negroes, assented
to Dec. 16, 1861.
SI. To provide for tb,e burial of paupers
in this State.
82. To prevent illegal impressments of
property in this State, and to punish for the
same.
83. To protect Camp Grounds from in
trusion, and for other purposes.
84. To allow Ordinaries of this State, to
charge and receive certaia'fees.
85. To amend the 3d section of the
Code, and carry into effect ou the 1st of
January 1864, an act passed by the pres
ent General Assembly, separating the offir
ces of Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax
Collectors of this State.
86. To repeal the 3d and 12th sections
of the Code of Georgia, relative to the
construction of Statutes.
87. To define the time that county
Treasurers in the several counties pt this
State, «hall bold their offices,
88. To repeal so much ofthe 2509,2510,
2512, and 3618th sections of .the Code of
Georgia, as requiring three months no
i tice to be given in a public gazette, of
^application for titles upon bonds of de
ceased persons, and provide for the trial of
snch cases when objections are filed, and
to provide for the payment of cost in snch
cases.
S9. To punish any person who rnay
hereafter conceal or assist any deserter in
resisting a legal arrest in this State.
90. To provide for raising a revenue for
the political yyar 1864, and to appropriate
money for the support of the Government
during said year, and to make certain spe
cial appropriations and for other purposes
therein mentioned.
9K To reduce the amount of the bond
of the Sheriff of McIntosh county.
92. To amend the charter of the Macon
aud Western Rail road Company.
93. To authorise the Treasurer and
Comptroller General, to issue one million
of dollars of change bills for the State of
Georgia.
94. To amend and continue in force, an
act to appoint Commissioners for the coun
ty Academies of Walton, Gwinnett, Hall,
Habersham, Rabun, Warreu and Pulaski,
and to incorporate the same, assented to
Dec. 25, 1821 so far as Walton county is
concerned, and for other purposes.
95. To amend au act, approved Jauuary
22, 1862, making Marietta a city.
96. To refund to Harriet M. R. Mont-
molliu, administratrix of John S. Mont-
moliiu, late of Chatham county, deceased,
tbe amount of a double tax paid by her,
for the year 1863, in Chatham county.
97. To authorise the Greensboro’ Fe
male College, to sell their property, real
and personal, for tbe payment of their
debts.
Resol nrions.
1. Thanks to Gen. Bragg and his gallant
command for the bravery displayed at
G'uickamauga.
2. Requesting the establishment of a
mail route in the county of Charlton.
3. Supplying certain counties with pro
visions.
4. Requesting the action of Congress
for the relief ofindigent soldier’s families.
5. Appointing Thursday, 10:h Dece.m-
ber, as a day of humiliation ami prayer.
6. To suspend the collection of Tax in
Kind in certain cases.
7. Providing for the purchase of the Tax
m Kind*in certain counties for the use of
the indigent poor.
8. Relative to supplying spun yarn to
soldiers families.
9. To revoke the appointment of officers,
and appoint citizens in their place.
10. To authorize the Governor to fur
nish the counties not yet supplied with
cotton yarn, at the same prices that he has
heretofore furnished counties.
11. An expression of the determination
of Georgia to prosecute the present war
with the utmost vigor and energy.
12. Expressive of au unabated confi
dence in the ability and devotion and en
lightened patriotism of President Davis.
13. Granting free transportation to sol
diers on furlough.
14.. Requesting the appointment of citi
zens of counties to collect the Tax in Kind.
15. To establish a mail route between
Clarksville and Dahlonega," by way of
Blue Creek and Cleveland, and from Ath
ens, Georgia, to Auburn. Gwinnett county,
via Jug Factory, in Jackson county and
G. W. Smith’s Store in Walton county.
16. Relative to tbe disposition of certain
battle flags.
17. In reference to a Volunteer Navy.
]8. Requesting the establishment of a
mail route between Milltown and Nashville
in Berrien county.
19. To consolidate certain Standing
Committees.
20. To consolidate Staudiug Commit
tees.
21. Of respect to tbe memory of Capt.
T. G. Raven.
22. Authorising the Governor to furnish
certain books to the Auditor of tbe West
ern and Atlantic Railroad.
23. lu -elation to the appointment of a
Committee of Conference.
24. To establish a Mail Route aud for
other purposes.
25. For the appointment of a Commit
tee to investigate ‘ the condition of tho
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
26- Relative to freights, passage .&R., on
tbe Western and Atlantic Railroad.
27. In reference to the pay of detailed
Volunteers; giving them the same pay as
other persons similarly employed.
28. Requiring tax payers to make re
turns of tbe number of sheep and dogs
owned by each fax payer.
29. In relation to the tax act of Con
gress.
30. Declaring what State Officers are
exempt from conscription.
31. Requesting Congress to pass laws,
allowing our Volunteers to elect their own
Field and Company officers.
32*. To increase, the pay of non commis
sioned officers and privates iu the CoufevU
erate sevice.
33 In leference to the compilation of
the Laws of the present General Assem
bly.
34. To appoint a Committee to secure
copies of the Sermons, delivered by the
Rev. Drs Higgins and Marshall, on Fast
Day, for publication.
35. Requesting the establishment of a
certain Mail Route in the State.
36. In relation to taxation.
The Falling Bark Policy.—Gen. E. Kir-
bv Smith, whose military skill aud valor
entitles his opinions to respect, says, in a
letter recently published :
“It is to the interest of the Confederacy
to employ and draw the enemy into tbe
interior. It weakens him and strengthens
us.
“The enemy, by lengthening his lines,
necessitates a reduction ot bis forces, a-
vailably for attack or defense in a general
engagement, by tbe large number requisite
for guarding railroads, bridges, ordnance,
quartermaster aud commissary at ores, and
keeping open communication with his base
of l^plioOe* 9