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SATURDAY, January 24, 1789*
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
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INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
I FREEDOM of the PRESS, and TRIAL by JURY, to remain inviolate forever. Confutation of Georgia. , 'J2
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gence. Advert if SAc. will be gratefully received , and every kind of Printing far formed.
The CONVENTION of tie STATE of
GEORGIA to the Freemen oj the said
State.
Fellow Citizens,
WE have the honor to lay before you a
Constitution, which we think the inofl
likely to meet with your approbation,
and answer the purposes of govern
ment.
Was the power of adopting the fame unquestion
ably vetted in the Convention, we (hould not hesi
tate to declaie the fame to be the immediate Con
stitution of the (late ; but as the judging of this
right appears to be in the Convention, we are de
licate in determining, and therefore have thought
proper to intorm you thereof, and adjourn until
the second Tuefday in June next, when the ex
ceptionable parts it any there (hould appear may
be pointed out, which will govern our luture de
cision thereon.
HENRY OSBORNE, Frefident ,
and Delegate from Camden.
Thomas Stafford, Camden ,
George Handley, Glynn ,
F. O’Neal, 7 r
John M'Queen, 5 Ltbert y-
James Gunn, i
Ths, Gibbons, l Chatham.
Asa Emanuel, J
Benj. Lanier, *1
J. Green, l Effingham.
O. Bowen, J
Thos. Lewis, 1 D ,
David Emanuel, \ burke '
W. Stith,jun. 1
W. Stith, l Richmond'.
John Wereat, J
Geo. Mathews,
James Williams, . Wilkes.
Elijah Clarke,
R. Wilkinson, n .
Jof. Williams, WaJJ.ington.
Abm. Barnett, }
Davis Gresham, C Greene .
Wm. Fitzpatrick,
John Gorham, S
N. Cleveland, C Franklin .
M. Woods, )
r AuguflOy 20th January , 1789.
The Constitution of the State of Georgia.
'«RTI C L E I.
Sefl. I, legiflative power (hall be veftcd
I in two separate and diflindt branch
es, to wit, a Senate and House of
THE
Representatives, to be Ailed, “ the General As
sembly.”
Sett. 11. The Senate (hall be eledled on the firft
Monday in October in every third year, until iuth
day of elediion be altered by law, and lhall be ccm
potcd of one member from each county, chosen
by the eledtors thereof and lhall continue ii r the
term of three years.
SO. ill. No peifen (hall be a member of the
Senate who (hail r.ot have attained to the age of
twenty-eight years, and who shall not have l een
nine years an inhabitant of the United States, and
three years a citizen of this slate ; provided that r.o
perlon now eligible to a (cat in the leg’flature be
precluded ; and (hall be an inhabitant of that coun
tv for which he (hall be eledled, and have redded
therein fix months immediately preceding his
eledtion, and (hall be poftcfTed in his own right of
two hundred and fifty acres ot land or lome proper-*
ty to the amount of two hundred and fifty pounds.
Sett* IV. 7he Senate (hall elcdf by ballot a Pre
sident out of their own body.
Sett* V. The Senate (hall have iblety the power
to try all impeachments.
Sett . VJ. j he elcdlion of members for the House
of Representatives (hall be annual, on ti e firft
Monday in Odfoher, until such day of eledtion he
altered by law'; and shall be cempoftd of members
from each county in the following proportions:
Camden, two; Glynn, two; Liberty, four; Cha
tham, five; Lfnngham, two; Burke, four; Rich
mond, four; Wilkes, five; W/a(hington, two;
Greene, two; and Franklin, two.
Sett . VII. No person (hall be a member of the
House of Representatives who (hall net have at
tained to the age of twenty-one years, and have
been seven years a citizen of the United States;
provided that no perion now eligible to a feat in
the legislature be precluded ; and (hall be an inha
bitant of that county for which he (1 all be eledled,
and have resided therein three months immediate
ly preceeding his eledtion, and (hall be peflefied in
his own right of one hundred ar d fifty acre. 4 of bnd
or other property to the amount of one hundred
and fifty pounds.
Sett. VIII. The Hcufe of Representatives (hall
choose their Speaker and other efihers.
Sett. IX They (hall have solely the power to
impeach all perlons who have been or may be in
office.
Sett. X. No person holding a military ermmif
fion or office of profit undet this or the United
States, or cither of them, (except (i f ires of the
Brace and officers cf the militia) (hall be allowed
to take his ieat as a member ol either branch of the
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