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VOL. 11.
Part of the New Constitution.
ARTICLE VII— EDUCATION.
Section 1. Par. 1. There .'-'halt be
a thorough sytpin of coinmon schools
lor the education of children in the
elementary brunches of an English
education only, as nearly uniform ns
practicable, the expenses of which
shall he provided for by taxation, or
otherwise. • The schools shal be free
to all children of the State, but sep
arate schools shall be provided for the
white and colored r ces.
Section 2. Par. 1. There shall be
a State School Commissioner ap
pointed by iho Governor, and con
firmed by "the Senate, whose term of
office shall be twb years, and until
Ilia successor is appointed and quali
fied. His office shall bo at thesdat
oi governiu'-nt, and he shall be paid
a salary not to exceed two thousand
dollars per annum. The General
Assembly may substitute for the
State School Commissione r such offi
cer or officers, as may be deemed
necessary to p> rteot the system of
1 üblic education.
Section a. Par. 1. The poll tax,
fany educational fund now belonging
to the Sta'c (except the endowment
of the debt due to the University of
Georgia, a special !ax on shows and
exhibni ns, and on the sale of spir
ituous or malt liquors —which the
G.-noral Assembly i. hereby authorized
to assess—and the proceeds pt any
commu'sitofi tax for military service,
and all taxes that may be assessed on
Such domestic animals as, from their
nature and habits, are destructive to
o her prep,rty, are hereby set apart
mid devoted to the support of com
mon schools.
Section 4 Par. I Ant! tatty may
be grained to counties, upon the tec-
Uiniiieiidatioh ol two grand juries,
and to iiitiuU.'ipsl eurp nation- upon
tin- r>commendation ot the corpora'
aut iority, to rstab'ish mid maintain '
public schools in th r respective .
limits, ly local taxation ; lint lit 1
Hicli local laws shall take vile ' until
the same shall have been t-uiemiu-d
to a vote of the qualified voters in
each county c.r launh-ipai evtrpot at ion.
mid apptoved by a tvo-th tua vote ol
persons qttal.fi and to vote at such elec
tion ; an t the Gene al Assembly may
prescribe who shah vote on such ■
question.
Sec ion 5. Par. 1. Existing local I
school systems s! ail riot be. affected
by this Constitution. Nothing con- j
tain, and in section first of this article ]
shad be construed to deprive schools j
in this State, not common schools, j
from participation in tlso edueatioual |
fund of the State, as to all pupils
therein taught in the elementary
branch, s of an English educaion.
Section G. Par. 1. The Trustees
of the University of Georgia may ac
cept bequ sts, donations and grants
cl laud, or ot,h. r property, for the use
of said University. In addition to
the payment of the annual interest on
the debt due by the State to tltc Uni-
V. r ity, tlie General Assembly may,
from time to time, make such dona
tion to any College or University for
the education oi the colored people
(n t exceeding one) as ttie condition
ol the treasury will authorize.
Par, 2. And the General Assembly
may also, from lime to time, make
such appropriations of money as the
condition oi the treasury will author
ize to any college or univer-ity, not!
exceeding one in number, now estab-.
1 sited or hereafter to be established j
in tins State for the education of per- I
.sins of color.
ARTICLE IX—HOMESTEAD AkP LXIUP-,
HONS.
Section 1 Par. 1. There shall be I
exempt from levy and side, by virtue
of any process whatever, under the
laws of this State, except as hen-m
--atter cxcoptpd, of the property ol
every head of a family, or guardian,
or trustee of a family of minor chil
dren, or every aged or infirm person,
or person having the cate or support,
of dependent lema'cs of any age,
who is not the head of a family, realty
or personalty, or both, to the value |
in the aggregate ol sixteen hundred i
dollars.
Section 2. Par. 1. No court or j
ministerial officer in this State shall
ever hare jurisdiction or authority to j
enforce any judgment, execution or
decree again f the property set
apart for such purpose, including
: ucn improvements as may bo made
thereon, from time to time, except for
pix.es, for the purchase money of the
.ame, for labor done thereon, Lr
BUENA VISTA, MAEION COUNTY, GA„ SEPTEMBER 1877.
material lurnished therefor, or Ur
the removal of encumberanccs tht-re
on.
Section 3. Tar. 1. The debtor
shall l ave power to waive or renounce
(in writing) his right to the benefit
of the exemption provided for in this
article, except wearing apparel and
not exceeding S3OO worth of house
hold and kitchen furniture and pro
visions for one year, to bo selected
by hitnself and wife, if any ; and ho
shall not, after it is set apart, alien
ate or encumber the property so ex
empted, but it may be sold by the
debtor, and his wife, if any, jointly,
with the sanction of the judge of the
Superior Court of the county, where
the debtor resides or the land is
situated, the proceeds to be rein
vested upon uses.
Section 4- Par. 1. The General
Assembly shall provide, by law, as
early as practicable, f>r the setting
apart nr.d valuation of said property.
But nothing in this article shall he
construed to affect or repeal the ex
istiug laws for exemption of property
from sale, contained in the present
code of this State in paragraphs 2040
to 2049 inclusive aud the acts
amendatory thereto. It may be op
tional with the applicant to take
either, but not both ot such exemp
tions.
Section 5. Fur. 1. The debtor
shal have authority to waive or re
nounce in waiting his right to the
benefit of the exemption provided for
in section four, except as is excepted
in section three of th.s article.
Section 6. Par. I. The applicant
shall, at anytime, have the right to
supplement his exemption by adding
to an amount, nir< ady set ap al. which
is itss than the whole amount of ex
emption herein allowed, a sufficiency
■to make h • ex mption equal to the
wh de amount.
Section 7. Par. 1. Homesteads
and exemptions of personal property
which h:.iv,, l.'en heretofore set apart
bv virtue of tin' piovisions of the ex
isting c nstiuitiou of this State, and
in accotdatjee with the laws for the
■•nforeesuent ' hereof, or which may be
hen-after set apart, at any time, shall
be and remain valid as against till
debis and llabi ities existing at the
time of the adoption Of this constitu
tion, to the same extent that,tln-y
wou (l have been had said existing
constitution not been revised.
Section 8. Par. 1. Right.? which
have become vested under previously
existing laws shal! not be effected by
anything herein contained, In all
casct in which homesteads have been
set apart under the constitution ol
1808, and the laws made in pursu
ance thereof, and a bona fide sale of
such property has been subsequently
made, at and the full purchase price
then of has been paid, all right ot ex
emption in such property by reason
of having been so set apart, shall
cease in so far as it effects the right
of the purchaser. In all such cases
where a part only of the purchase
price has been paid, such transaction
shall bo governed by the laws now of
force in th-is State, m so far as they
affect the rights of the purchaser, as
though said property had not been
set apart.
Par. 9. Parties who have taken a
homestead of realty under the con
stitution of 18G8, shall have the right
of said homestead, and reinvest the
oroeotds of the sale of the homo by
order of the judges ol the Superior
Courts of this State.
ARTICLE SI-COUNTIES AND COUNTY
OFFICERS.
Sec! ion l Par. 1. Each county
shall be a body corporate, with such
powers and limitations as may be
prescribed by law. All suits by or
against a county shall be in the name
thereot ; and the metes and bounds
of the several counties, shall remain
as now prescribed by. law, unless
changed as hereinafter provided.
Par. 2. No new County shall be
created.
Par. 3. County lines shall not be
changed unless changed under the
operation of u general law for that
purpose.
Par. 4. No county site shall be
chauged or removed except, by a two
thirds vote of the Qualified voters ol
the county, voting at ah election held
for that purpose, and a two thirds
sotc of the General Assembly.
Par. 5, Any county may be dis
solved and meigetl with contiguous
counties, by a two-thirds \oto ot' the
qualified dectoisof such county, vot
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ing at an election held for that pur
pose.
Section 2. Par. t. The counly
officers shall bo elected by the quali
fied voters of their respeedfo coun
ties, or districts, and shall hold their
offices for two years. They shall be
removed on conviction for malprac
tice in office, and no person shall be
eligible to any of the offices referred
to >n this paragraph, unless he shall
have been a resident ot the county
for two years, and is a qualified voter.
Section 3. Par. 1. Whatever tri
bunal, or officers, may hereafter be
created by the General Assembly for
the transaction of county matters,
shall be uniform throughout the.
State, and of the same name, juris
diction and remedies, except that the
General Assembly may provide for the
appointment of commissioners of
roads and revenue in any county.
article xii—The laws of general
OPERATION IN FORCE IN THIS STATE.
Par. 1, The laws of general oper
ation in this State are, first, as the su
preme law: the Constitution of the
United States, the laws of the United
Sta.cs in persuance thereof, and all trea
ties mmle under tha authority of the
Uidled States.
Par. 2. Ah next in authority there
of: this constitution.
Par. 3. In subordination to the
foregoing: All laws now of force in
this State, not ineotisistar.t with this
constitution, and the ordinances of this
convention, shall remain of force until
the same are modified or repealed by
the General Assembly. And the tax
and appropriation acts passed at the
session of the General Assembly of 1877,
and approved by the Govoonor of the
State,, and not inconsistent with the
constitution, arc continued of force un
til altered by law.
Par. 4. Local and py’vsto ac'.s passed
for the ben-lit of counties, cities, towns,
and private persons or corporations, not
in<o>nitent wi ll the supreme law, or
wilb this constitution, and which have
not expire/1 nor been repealed, shall
have the force of statute law, subject to
judicial decision as to their validity
when passed, and to any limitations im
posed by thei. own terms.
Par, a. AM rights, privileges and
immunities which may have vested in,
or accrued to, any person or persons, or
corporation in his, her, or their own
right, or,jn any fiduciary capicity, tin
der, and in virtue cf, any act of the Gen
eral Assembly, or any judgment, decree,
or older, or other proceedings of any
court of common jurisdiction, in this
court heretofore rendered, shall be bald
inviolate by all courts before which
they may be brought in question; unless
attacked for frtuut.
Par. 6. All judgments, decrees, or
ders, aud other proceedings; of the sev
eral courts of this S ate, heretofore
made, within the limits of their several
jurisdictions, are hereby ratified and af
firmed, subject only to reversal by mo
tion for anew trial, appeal, bill of re
view, or other proceeding, in conform
ity with the law of force when they
were made.
Par. 7. The officers of the govern
ment now existing shall continue in the
exercises of their several functions until
their successors are duly elected, ap
pointed and qualified : But that noth
ing herein is to apply to any officer,
whose office in ay be abolished by this
constitution.
Par. 8. The ordinances of this con
vention shall have the force of laws un -
til otherwise provided by tbe General
Assembly, except the ordinances in
reference to submit the homestead and
capital question to a vote of the people,
which ordinances after being voted
nn, shall h ave tile effect of constitu
tional provision.
article xm—amendments to the con
STITUToNS,
Eection 1, Par. 1 Any amend
merit, dr amendments to this constitu
toin may be proposed in tbe senate or the
house of representatives, and if the same
shall be agreed by two-thirds of the
members elected to each of tha two
houses, such proposed amendment or
amendments shall be entered on their
journals, with the yeas and nays taken
thereon. And the General Assembly
shall cause such amendment or amend
ments to be published in one or more
newspapers in each congressional dis
trict, for two month previous to the
holding of the next general eleciion, and
shall a'-o provide for a submission of
such proposed amendment or amend
ments, to the people at said next gen
eral election, and if the people shall rat
ify such amendment cr amedndmet '-.
by a majority of the elr. tor -, qualified to
vote fot members to the General Assem
bly, voting thereon, such amendment or
amendments, shall become a part of
iK’s constitution. When njffre titan
Wfo' ujtm&tlffmiffiT IS mtSniUten
time, they shall be so submitted as to
enable the electors to vote on each
amendment separately.
Par. 2. No convention of tbe people
shall be called by the General Assembly
to revise, amend, or change this consti
tution unless by the concurrence of two
thuds of all the members of each house
of the General Assembly. The repre
sentation in said convention shall be
passed on population as near as practica
ble.
Section 2. Par. 1. This constitu
tion shall be submitted for ratification
or rejection to the electors of the State,
at an election to be held on tbe first
Wednesday in December, one thousand
eight hundred and seventy-seven, in the
several election diatiicts of this State, at
which election every person shall be en
title to a vote who is entitle to vote for
members to the General Assembly under
the constitution and laws of force at the
date of such election ; said election to
be held and conducted as is now pro
vided by iaw for bolding elections for
members of the General Assembly. All
persons voting at said election in favor
of adopting this constitution shall write
or have printed on their ballots the
words “For Ratification and all per
sons opposed to the adoption of this con
stitution shall write or have printed on
their ballots tin words ‘'Against Ratifi
cation.”
Par. 2. The voles cast at said elec
tion sha’i be consolidated in each of the
eounti *a ot this -Stale, as is now required
by law iu elections for members cf tbe
General Assembly, and returns thereof
made to the Governor ; and should a
m -joritv of all the votes cast at said
election be in favor of ratification, he
shall declare the said constitution adopt
ed, and make proclamation of the result
of said e'ection by publication in one or
more newspapers in each congressional
district of the State, but should a major
ity of the votes cast he agaiust ratifica
tion, he shall in the same manner pro
claim the said constitution rejected,
A Fatfuicr’s Wife,
Matilda Fletcher tbits describes a j
farmer's wife, who is not Only beau
tiful and wise, but possesses seveial
cardinal virtues in addition :
“The most beautiful woman I have
ever known was a farmer's wife, who
attended to the household duties ot
a family of four, and also assisted in
gardening and the light farm work,
and yet I never saw her hands rough
and red : I never saw even a freckle
on her nose. Impossible, you say;
how did site manage? I never asktd
her, but she did have some envious
neighb re, who went slouching along
with red, scaly hands, sunburnt faces
and their hair matted with dust and
oil, who let me into the dreadful se
cret. They informed me with an
ominous shake of the head, that she
was the proudest minx (hat ever
lived ; that she actually wore India
rubber gloyes when she used the
broom and scrubbing-brush ; and
always when she worked out doors ;
that she had a bonnet made of oil
silk, completely covering her head,
face and neck, leaving only apertures
lor seeing and breathing ; thus se
curing perfect freedom from the sun,
wind and dust. D and you ever hear
of such depravity ? She also fastened
her dish cloth to a stick, so that she
need not put her hands into hot
water. For tho same reason she ac
cotnplished her laundry work with a
machine ami wringer. . And then to
see her in the afternoon tricked out
in a fashionable dress, with bright
colored ribbons at her throat and a
rose in her hair, entertaining in the
parlor as though she was the greatest
ady in the land, was mote than their
patieuce could endure. And her
husband? He had such satisfied ex
pressions that it was a perfect aggra
vation to ordinary people to look at
him. He deserved to be happy, be
catised he encouraged and helped her
to cultivate beauty in hot-self, her
family and her home ; and I don’t
know but her success principally be
longed to him, because he bought all
the new inventions that could lighten
her labors, and till the delicate and
pretty things she needed to adorn her
home, and when she was sick he
wouldn't, let her touch work untii she
was well and strong.”
A Game al Dietimiiig.
When Sir William Johnson was
Snjmrinteudcnt of Indjun Affairs in
xiik .A'.ulley. iq 17.)") Cm yit Id
Staunchest friends™was’ fhe otcT Mo
hawk sachem, Hendrick,. Sir Will
iam had great confidence iff the old
chief's judgment, and seldom made
a move against the hostile Indians
and French without consulting him.
“If they are to fight they are too few;
if they ate to be killed they are too
many,” was his laconic response to
Johnson’s inquiry touching the pro
piiety of sending out a small body of
men Much he had organized agaiust
an unexpected invasion.
On a certain occasion Sir William
was unpacking a large box of cloth
ing Which he had just received from
England. Hendrick chanced to be
present and was particularly at
tracted by a richly embroidered old
coat which he saw brought fourth
and shaken out in its glittering splen
dor of gold lace and gilded buttons
and bright 3ilk facing. The old In
dian’s eyes sparkled, and he could
scarcely keep his hands from tbe
coveted prize. But he held back
and held his piece for a time.
On the following morning, how
ever, the chief waited upon the Gov
ernor for a purpose, as was evident
from the intensity of his look.
“Sir Wiliiam,” said be, with wide
open eyes and a general expression
of wonder, “me have a great dream
last night. Me dioam that you say
to me, ‘Good Hendrick you have
been my fri nd and now I will reward
vou And you gave me the new coat
with the bright gold on it, that came
in the box.” The baronet reflected
>i lew moments, and then finally
said :
‘lt is true, Hendrick, you have
been mv friend. The coat is yours ’
The chief went away fairly beside
himself with delight.
A few days after that, said Sir
William to his dusky friend:
“Hendrick, I hud a dream last
niglu,”
“Ait? And what did my white
brother dream ?”
T dreamed that you took me by
the hand and said to me : ‘Sir
William Johnson, you have been my
true friend, and I will give you proof
of my great love for you,’ and you
gave to me the tract of land on the
Great River aud Canada Creek,” de
scribing a square territory embracing
nearly one hundred thousand acres
of choice land.
The old chieftain was for a little
while utterly counfouuded. This
was the fairest portion of his domain.
But he was not to be outdone in
generosity.
“My pale faced brother,” he said,
“the land is yours.”
After a pause he added, with a
significant nod.
“Sir William, we don’t dream any
more. You dream too big for me ’
The title of the land was confirmed
to Sir William by the British Govern
ment, and called the Royal Grant.
The land was north of the Mohawk,
aud lay mostly in what is Herkimer
county, N. Y.
Two gamblers were in Levenwoith
Kansas, several years ago, with about
SJO in their pockets. They desired to
cet money enough to go to California.
They went to separate hotels. One reg
istered as a physician, and advertised
a rom dy for cholera. Tbe other put
up a large quantity of yeast powders in
sample packages, with a little croton oil
in each and hired a boy to destribute
them. Soon family after family were
effected by the croton oil, and felt what
they believed were simptons of cholera.
The sale of the cholera remedy was enor
mous, and the gamblers were enabled to
go to California. They now tell the
story through the Virginia City Enter
prise,
An extraordinary woman is Eliza
beth Taylor, alias “Happy Ned.” Her
husband was a sea captain and after
his death she disguised herself and
engaged in tho life of a sailor, and
for several years made an able
bodied sailor without discovering her
sex. During the civil war she was
engaged in blockade running. After
the war she went from Liverpool and
entered a farm where she broke
horses to harness and saddle ; would
plow and do all other labor of men.
On this farm sbo became intrigued in
a horse scrape and her sex became
known. She has since been a subject
of legal discipline for disorderly con
duct,
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- Six year-old—‘Mamma, what are
twins made for?’ Precocious elder
brother—'‘So that*eanuiObis'ettft <Jt;t
philopccnas.
‘Six feet in his boots!’ said Mr?.
Partington ; ‘and what will the itn
perunce of this world come to. I
wonder ? Why, they might as welt
tell me that the man hgd gix Leads
in his hat.’
A Baltimore belle, just from Yasser
College, when told by a waiter in a,
restaurant that 'hey had no goose
berries, exclaimed : ‘What has hap
pened to the g<>o,s,e V The waiter
wilted.
Nothing like waiting. A Canada
hotel waiter waited for a rich wife,
and the graceful manner in which tie
knocked a fly off the left ear ot the
sugar-bowl made hint the husband of
a Boston heiress,
A man who had practiced twelve
years with a revolver, and who could
drive a nail at sixty feet with a bul
let was killed by a club in the bands
of an Arkansas man who couldn't
shoot a barn.
Each day in turn serves to dissi
pate, one by one, the superstitions of
antiquity, but there isn’t enough time
marked down bn the calendar to
suffice to wean a boy from spitting on
his bait before he attempts to catch
any fish.
For a thousand years or more,
history tells us that this world was
veiled in pagan obscurity, but neither
Darwin nor Huxley has ever told us
why a woman that stammers can
carry off the gold modal for kissing.
The papers relate an anecdote of a
beautiful young lady, wbo bad be
come blind, having recovered her
sight after marriage. It is no un
common thing for people’s eyes to bo
opened by matrimony.
Last Sabbath a minister earnestly
discoursing about Peler and Paul,
-aid they were a good pair. Good
hand ! sleepily mannered a half
wakened sport in aback pew. ‘Take
the pot; nothing here but ace high!'
The bdy stood by the stable door
And watched the pensive mule;
A thoughtful attitude it wore,
An air serenely cool.
That boy approached its hinder end—
Let fall the pitying tears ;
‘He’s gone to meet his brother, and
His age was seven years,’
A daring Brooklyn man who ven
t tired to kiss a Boston girl thus tersely
del lets the resulting phenomena ;
‘She roso in sections—rigid, awful,
sublime - towered Medusa like —fixed
her stony staro a moment on nothing
ness, then telescoped, collapsed,
scooted, and I saw her uo more.”
A young lady becamo so much dis
satisfied with her lover that sho dis
missed him. In revenge he threat
ened to publish her letters to him.
‘Very wellshe replied, “I have no
reason to be ashamed of any part of
my letters excopt tho address.”'
‘Who Was the first man?’ asked a
school teacher of a little girl. She
did not know. The question was put
to the next, an Irish child, who ans
wered loudly, “Adam, sir,” with ap
parent satisfaction. “Law,” said
the first scholar, contemptuously,
“yon needn’t feel so grand about it.;
he wasn’t an Irishman !”
A man with four wives was brought
before a Dutch justice for commit
ment on a charge of bigamy. ‘Four
wives’’ exclaimed the astonished
Hans. ‘Four wives! Dat was a
most hiuocious crime. Discharge
bim at vonst, Ef he lif mit four
vives he got banishment enough, I
lif mit von und I got too much bun
ishment already,
A few weeks ago, some young men
tried to establish a debating club in a
Missouri town. The question under
discussion tbe first night was “Is
love a stronger passion than anger?’
The debate waxed warm. One young
man had just alluded to the drown
ing of the Egyptians in the Red Sea
'as an instance of the Lord’s love for
the Israelites. In answer, his oppo
nent said : ‘Why, Mr. President, it
was anger, sir. Tho Lord got tho
Egyptians in a tight place, and Ho
slapped it to ’em, sir.’ Verdict for
the ‘anger’ party."
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