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Gwinnett Herald.
IAWRENCEVILLE, OA.
Wednesday, Nov. 8, 1871.
The Legislature was organised last
Wednesday, bj the electior\,of I- X.
Trammel, of Dalton, President of tbe
Senate; T. W. J, Hill, Secreret-sry
and G. W. Anderson, Door-keeper,
Colonel Smith, of Columbus, Speaker
of tbe House, Waddell, Clerk, and
W. J, Dorn, Door keeper.
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Bullock’s Resignation.
We publish, this week, Bullock’s
tetter, explaining the reason wliieh
induced him to resign. Prominent
among the reasons given is the
alleged fact that if impeached he
Could not get a fair trial.
This reminds ns of a story
wed it ad to that inimitable story
teller, J. W. FI. Underwood, ol
Rome. A fast young gent of out*
of our cities, hud been down town
and got into a difficulty with one
of the b’hoys, and came off second
best in the fight, very much to his
mortification. Directly afterwards,
he met some of his friends and
told them of his misfortune. They
sympathised with him in his mor
tification and proposed to go back
with him, saying, we will see
that you have a fair fight. '■'Fair
fight!" says he ; “why, yes, we’ll
sec thot you have a fair fight.”
"Is that all?" “Yes, what mored>>
you want?” "Well, if that's all ,
there's no use going-, I have already
had that, and got whipped like the
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The Situation.
Gov. Bullock having resigned,
Benjamin Conley, of Augusta,
President of the Senate, is by vir
tue of his office, under tlie Consti
tution, Governor, until bis succes
sor is elected and qualified. At
least this is the construction which
the Legislature has given that
clause of tbe Cohstitution which
provides for such contingencies.
It is as follows :
In ca«e of the death, rrsignation
or disability of the Governor, tbe
President of tlie Senate shall exercise
the Executive powers of the Govern
ment until such disability be removed
or a successor is elected and qualified.
The General Assembly shall have
power to provide by law for filling
unexpired terms by a special election
Whether this is the propei con
struction or not, it shows that the
Legislature, in the present emor
gency, does not intend to assume
any doubtful powers. We arc
informed that a bill lias been in
troduced, providing for an elec
tion for Governor, which is likely
to pass. T liis, we are satisfied, is
tlie most prudent course, and one
which will receive tlie approval of
a large majority of tic people of
Georgia.
Indications from Washington
are that President Grant is waiting
impatiently for something to be
done in this State which will jus
tify him in suspending the writ
of habeas corpus and declaring
martial law throughout the State.
Gov. Bullock’s address was not
intended for tlie people of Geor
gia, to whom it was addressed,
but for Northern consumption
It was, we believe; part of a deep
laid scheme, concocted perhaps, at
Long Island iast summer, to over
turn civil power in the State; and
but another step towards central
ization to which we have been
lending since the close of the
war.
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Special to the Atlanta Constitution.
Washington, Nov. 1, 1871.
Editsrs Constitution: * * *
It is believed here that Bullock
has fled to Cauda.
Present indications are that the
whole South will be put under
martial law within thirty days.—
Private dispatches to this effect
were sent to Nt-w Vork financiers
to-day. p
Georgia Legislature.
Fiiiday, November 3, 1871.
SENATE.
Tire Senate met at 10 o’clock,
a. m., President Trammell in the
chair.
Prayer by ReW Aminiu-I\Vrighl.
The roll was called, and the j
journal of last day's proceedings \
read and approved.
A message from tlie House an
nouncing the organization of. that
body was received.
Mr. Brock offered a resolution j
that a committee of three be ap- j
pointed by the President to co- !
operate with the committee from
the House, to notify the Governor ,
of the organization- of the Legis- j
lature.
The Senate refused to take up
the resolution.
The standing committees wcie
then announced.
Air. Lester introduced a resolu
lion providing for \ joint Commit
tee to wait upon Gov. Conley and
notify him of the organization of
the tw o Houses, which, ou motion
of Air. Burns, was taken up and
adopted.
Messrs. Lester, .Tones and Brock
were appointed.
Mr. Candler Offered a resolution
directing the Secretary to have
printed one hundred copies of the
rules of the Senate for the use of
the Senate. Adopted.
Mr. Hillyer offered a resolution
that a committee of three be ap
pointed to consider the best means
of reducing the expense of the
Journal of the Senate, ami the
proper method of keeping the
same correctly. Adopted.
Mr. Uintou introduced a resolu.
turn that each member of the Sen
ate be furnished by the Messenger
with a copy of the Journal of the
last Legislature.
Mr. Col man moved to amend by
adding the laws of 1870.
The.resolution and amendment
were adopted.
Mr. Candler offered a resolution
that the Committee on Privileges
and Elections be directed to in
quire into the rights! Mr. William
Henry to occupy a seat in the
Senate as Senator from the 441 h
District, which was adopted.
Also, directing the t sine to in
quire into the right of Mr. Thomas
Crayton to occupy a seat as Sen
ator from the 12th District.—
Adopted.
Bills were read the seconb time.
Mr. Jordan offered a resolution
provding for the setting apart of a
certain oortion of the gallery for
the exclusive use of ladies.—
Adopted.)
Leave of absence was granted
to Mr. Bruton.
Mr. Jones, chairman of the spe
cial committee appointed to pro
cure the services of a minister or
ministers, to open the sessions of
the Senate with prayer, reported
the names of Rev. E W. Warren,
Rev. A. Wright and Rev. J. C.
Ketcham.
The report of the committee was,
on motion, adopted.
Mr. Steadmah—A bill to pro
vide for the payment of the debt
of Clarke ebunty.
Mr. Hillyer presented a memo
rial asking aid from the United
States Government for connecting
the Mississippi River with the At
lantic by the cutting of certain
canals across the territory of this
State, and offered a resolution that
our immediate ropresentativcs in
Congress be requested to use
every exertion to secure the grant- ]
ing of the aid South by the me
morial, and that the Governor be
requested to furnish copies of the
memorial to such representatives
and to certain other persons.
Mr. Smith—A bill to fix the
salary of the officers and members
of the General Assembly’.
This bill fixes the pay of each
member at $240 per annum, and
the officers at #320 each, and al
low twelve clerks each to the Sec- |
tary and Clerk.
Mr. Lester—A bill to incorpo
rate the Savannah and Thunder- i
bolt Railroad.
Mr Candler—A bill to repeal an
act to extend the lien of set off
and recoupment to all debts con- !
traded before June Ist, 1865, and
to forbid the collection of the game
until all legal taxes due therein
shall have been paid.
HOUSE.
The (louse mot pursuant to ad
journment, Speaker Smith presiding.
Prayer by Rev. Mr. Strickland.
Hon. J. D. Woodall was sworn in
as a member from Talbot.
A. Dukes, of Morgan county, was
alsotsv«t>i'n in.
The Journal of yesterday was read.
A message from the Senate was
receive 1 announcing that the Senate
was organized and ready for business.
Mr. Riley moved to reconsider so
much of yesterday’s proceedings as
relate to granting leave of absence
to Mr. Page, of Lee, Mr. Riley stated
that lie understood that the Sheriff
was after Mr. Page, who is under an
indictment for crime.
Joiner v of Dough tery, said that lie
knew Mr. Page was sick, and that
he ought not to be forced to attend.
Mr. Jones, of Macon, moved to lay
the motion to reeousider on the ta
ble. Lost*
Mr. Simmons, of Gwinnett, offered
a resolution providing for the ap
pointment of a committee to enquire
into the cause of the absence of Mr.
Page. The motion to reconsider
prevailed. Mr. Simmons’ resolution
was then adopted.
Messri. Simmons, of Gwinnett
Riley and McWhorter were appoint
ed on saiihcommittee.
Mr. Hoge moved to suspend the
special order in order to have a res
olution read. This motion did not
prevail.
The drawing of seats next took
place.
Mr. iloge offered a resolution that
a joint committee bo appointed to
notify Hon. Benjamin Conley, acting
as Governor, that both branches of
the Legislature nre now organized
and ready to receive from him any
communications he may see proper
to transmit.
Mr Ciunming, of Richmond, offer
ed as a substitute, a resolution de
claring that, in tlie opinion of this
Genera’ Assembly, Hon. L. N. Tram
mell, President of the Senate, is en
titled to exercise the duties of the
Executive until an election can be
held under the Constitution of this
State, and also providing for the ap
pointment ol a committee to trans
mit copies of this resolution to tlie
Hon. Benjamin Conley and lion, L.
N. Trammell.
Mr. Scoot moved tlie adoption of
the substitute.
On this motion Mr. Pierce called
the previous question, w hich call v as
sustained.
On the motion to adopt -the sub
stitute the yeas and navs were called,
with tlie following result—yeas 41 ;
nays 112.
A message from the Senate was
received notifying the House that the
Senate had adopted a resolution pro
viding for the appointment of a joint
committee to notify lion. Benjamin
Conley, acting as Governor, that
both branches of tlie General Assent
bly are organized and ready to receive
communications which he may see
proper to transmit.
Mr. Ilogo’s resolution was taken
up as soon as the substitute was lost.
On the motion to adopt the years
and nays were called for.
This call was not sustained.
Hie motion to adopt Mr. Hoge’s res
olution was then put and carried.
Mr. Hunter offered a resolution declar
ing that tlie Legislature will proceed
at once to provide for the eleetion
of a Governor in terms of the Consti
tutioin.
1 his resolution was only read.
Mr. Jackson’s bill to repeal the
Holcombe bill was read tlie second
time.
Mr. Hall, of Upson offered a bill
for the election of Governor.
Georgia Threatened.—lntima
lions have boon made to the President
that certain portions of Georgia are
suffering from the hold acts of bands
ot Ku-Klux. Members of the Outrage
Committee are of opinion that evi
dence has been produced which
would warrant decisive steps to be
taken by the Administration ir sup
pressing disorders in Georgia, and ;
therefore, efforts will be made to put
down these distuibances. Although
the President has not been fully
advised concerning the exact situa
tion of affairs in that State in this
connection, it is firmly believed
among Senators well posted in regard
to the South that when the facts come
to be laid before the Administration
it is not at all improbable that the
writ of habeas corpus will be suspend
ed in Georgia.— Washington Chron
Govenor Bullock Resigns.
His Reasons for this step — An Ad
dress to the Republicans and Union
Men of Georgia .
Ex. Dep't State of Geokgia,
Atlanta, Ga. October 23,1871
To my Political Friendsand the Peo
ple of Georgea:
I have this day received infor
mation, the truth of which I can
not doubt, that the political con
spirators who seek the overthrow,
not only of the reconstructed gov
ernment of Georgia, but of the
United States, have secured the
pledges of a sufficient number of j
the incoming members of the Low
llouse of the General Assembly to
vi'te, without previous investiga
tion for Articles of Impeachment
against tne immediately after they
have assembled and organized on !
Wednesday, the first day of No
vember next ; and that having
adopted such article's in the House
a sufficient number of Republican
Senators will be unseated to en
sure conviction upon the articles
so presented. I also learn that
the Judge of the Supreme Court,
who is personally and politically
bitterly hostile to me, has inform
ed his Iriends that this program
me lias been perfected, and that
be lias been selected to preside
over the Senate during the trial ;
and that the Senator representing
Gen Toomb’s district is to be
elected President of the Senate and
immediately announce himself as,
and claim to be, Governor during
♦he pending impeachment and
thereafter for the balance of my
unexpired term.
Upon this state of facts I have
decided to resign the office of Gov
enor, to take effect before the
meeting and qualification of the
new members of the new body,
and thereby defeat this nefarious
scheme of these desperate politic
conspirators
By this course I shall protect
my political friends in the Senate
from the expulsion that has been
i foreordained in order to secure my
I impeachment, and, at the same
j time, save the State from the dis
j asters that would be sure to follow
in tin' wake of success outlie part
! of the unpardoned aud unrepen
tant Rebel leaders, who, though
j comparatively few in numbers,
move the masses by the irresista
ble pressuie of sectional hale and
social proscription.
1 have maintained my official
position against the assaults of
these people upon the course of
equal rights and Republican Gov
ernment just as long as it is pos
sible for me to be of service, and
now, for the purpose of again de
feating this latest onslaught of
these destroyers, I have resigned
this office into the hands of that
noble and unswerving friend of
right and justice, the Hon. Benja
min Conley, who, under the Con
| stilution, by reason of be g Pres
ident of tlie Senate, becomes Gov
ernor during the unexpired part
of my term, or until a successor
is elected by the people. No
charge has yet been brought
agaiuet him, because he lias not
heretofore been supposed to be
an obstacle in tlie way of the con
spirator’s success If assaults
are now made upon him the coun
try will understand the purpose
for which they are made.
As for myself, being divested of
official position, the charges of every j
character which these people are
sure to make and proclaim against
me can be brought before the court*
aud 1 shall never siiink from any !
judicial inquiry that is divested of
political bias and prejudice. May 1
be pardoned for a word of warning
to the men who fought for the Un
ion !
Six months ago in Georgia the
mass of the people were acquiescing
in the results of the war, and were
willing to accept those results as be
ing finalities, hut under the latter
public teaching of certain old leaders
who need not be named, the whole
situation has changed, and leading
gentlemen, even in the Democratic
partv, who dared to speak in favor
of ai quiescence and peace have been
assailed and denounced, and the
people so intimated that they dare
not follow the advice.
These conspirators fear, above all
else, the re-election of General Grant.
Their insidious efforts to mislead him
as to the true situation in the South
having utterly failed, they now fear
that some persistent and irresistible
maintainance of the right under civil
administration which so brilliantly
marked Gen. Grant’s military advan
ces in the overthrow of the rebellion
may defeat their revolutionary pur
poses.
I am now fully persuaded and sat.
isfied that these men purpose to con
trol the Government, and reverse the
political reaults of the past few years
by peaceful means, if they can, or by
foul means, if they dare. Failing in
this, another attempt at separation
will be made,
If evidence of this were wanting,
we need but point to the public and
private utterances of those who were
foremost in secession and rebellion,
and now denounce and ignore the
lundamental law —the Constitution of
the United States.
Will the country head and take
care, before it is too late to prevent
another war with its frightful conse
quences ?
If my action in this emergency had
been postponed until after the meet
ing of the incoming body of legisla
tors, the Executive branch of our
State Government would have been
absorbed by the conspirators itt the
Legislative branch, and there would
have been ho check upon the whole
sale repeal and destruction of all the
great measures of-re form and prog
ress that we have labored so hard to
establish. The free school system
would be abolished, the colored citi
zen denied every right guaranteed to
him, and the Whole work of internal
improvement carried on by northrrn
capital would be swept away. The
growing spirit of lawlessness and
proscription for opinion’s sake is dai
ly rendering the property and lives
of Union men and Republicans more
and more unsafe, and I fear the worst
consequences if the Executive office
.should be filled by one not only in
sympathy with those who urge on
and inflame this feeling, but who is
moved and actuated bytbem. With
no one in the Executive office to call
upon the General Government for
protection, its friends and supporters
would be handed over witliont mercy
to the assaults of their enemies.
For these reasons I have detei min
ed On this step, believing that much
which has already been accomplished
can he preserved through the wise
and firm check upon revolutionary
measures that will be giver, by Gov.
Conley in control of the Executive
branch ol tlie Government, and that
thereby the good of the whole peo
ple of Georgia will he promoted ; and
I shall cheerfully give to Gov. Con.
ley all tlie information and assistance
within my power that he may desire.
Rufus B. Biju.ock.
Tiie Legislature. —The General
Assembly did iniprotant things yes
terday. It reognized Conley as exerei
sing the Executive powers of the Gov
ernment; it inaugurated a movement
to provide for the special election ofa
Governor in Decmber; it vindicated
Assembly and the people
of Georgia from the infamous slanders
of Bullock; it started retrenchment
by bills to reduce the pay of mem
bers and clerks, and to lessen the cost
of the public journals; and it put in
progress the measure to investigate
the State road frauds, and crimes of
the Radical administration by a com
mittee of able and resolute citizens
outside of the Legislature.
The whole action of the Legisla
tive body lias been calculated to crush
the Radical slanders against the State.
The permission of Conley to exercise
the Executive functions until a Gov
ernor can be elected, when in the
honest opinion of many, Preklent
Trammell should do the gubernato
rial duties, is a concession for peace,
and a refutation of the charges of a
revoltionary spirit on the part of the
Democracy that cannot be over-esti
mated.— Constitution.
HP In response to an inquiry of a
scientific publication : VVence comes
fleas? a Western journal says it does ‘
not care a nickle, but would like to
kuow where in thunder they go to
when you go for them.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
Georgia, Gwinnett County.
By virtue of the statute in such cases
made ami provided, notice is hereby
given that my wife, Malinda Graham, has
become a public or free trader, and as
such is liable for all her contracts, and
nmy enforce the same as a “fetm sole ”
Ihis Novemder 3, 1871.
nov 6«lm] MOSES W. GRAHAM.
Gwinnett County Sheriff Sale.
Will be sold, before the Court-house
door, in Lawtenceville, Gwinnett county,
Ga., within the legal hours of sale, oil
the first Tuesday irt December next, the
following properly-, to.wit:
Due hundred and six acres of land,
more or l ss, in tub 7th land district of
said county, part i f lot No. 371, levied
on as the property of defendant. George
W. Dodd, by virtue of a fifa from Justice
Court, 550 district, G. M., of Willis F.
Scales vs. Geo. \V. Dodd and Lemuel
Jackson, executors, aud Delilah Dodd,
executrix, ot G. J. Dood, deceased, hy
Anderson Wells, 1,. C., and turned ovej
tome. This November 6th, 1871.
novSlm M. V. BRAND. Sheriff.
Estray Notice.
Tolled before me, as an estray, on tlie
2d day of November, 1871. by Frances
Mewborn, of the 514th district, G. M .
of Gwinnett county, Ga., a dark red,
muly cow, unmarked, has a call about a
week old. Said cow about ten years old,
! an i appraised by Aziriali Noel and John
Dolt, freeholders of said district, to be
worth Twenty five Dollars, and the taker
up should have Three Dollars for feeding
I and taking care of her.
The owner is hereby notified to appear
i before me, prove property, pay cost and
ex pens sad take her aw y, or she
wi’l be sold on the premises ol lire said
Fiances Mewborn, the taker up, ou Sat
urday, the lltli day of November. 1871.
I This November 2ii, 1871.
JAMES T. LAMBIN’. Ordy.
Gwinnett County Bible Society.
Having mad*' a considerable purciiase
of Bibles and Tes'ameuts for the Societ) ,
to meet the payment of the same the uu
ders gned would earnestly request those
who subscribed ami have not yet paid,
to call and pay the same to the under
signed. 'I here is now due about SGO.OO
on list subscribed July 4th, 1869.
JAMES D. SPENCE,
See 1 and Dep.
Lawrenceville, Gu„ Oct. 25, 1871.
Admiiiistiator’s Sale.
Agreeable to an order from the curt
of Ordinary of Gwinnett county; will be
sold, before the Comt-liouso’door, in Law
renceville, on the first Tuesday in l)e
cembernext, within the legal hours of
sale, the following lands, to..wit: One
Hundred Acres, adjoining Hosea Wil
banks, Solomon Puckett and others,
part of a fraction. Known as the old
Sizemore place. Also One Hundred
Acres, more or less, part of a tract of
land, originally granted to McAdams;
also, filteen acres, with a mill shoal on it;
also, another fifteen acres, with a shoal,
part of survey gt anted Chari s Clemons;
also 89bf acres, part of lot No. 181, in
the 7th district. Gwinnett county, known
as the Pit:nmn lot; also 13by of fraction
formerly owned by Shadrach Waldrup.
All sold for tlie benefit ot heirs and cred
itors of James Cain, deceased. Terms*
credit of 12 moutss.
ADAM POOL.
oet 25-ids Administrator.
Georgia , Gwinnett County.
Four weeks after date, application will
lie made to tlie Court of Ordinary ol
said county for leave to sell the land be
longing to the estate of William J. Mar
tin, deceased.
JOHN W. MARTIN,
oct 4-4 w Administrator.
GEORGIA, Gwinnett County.
Thomas V. Allen having refused, hi
wife. Dilona Allen, Inis applied for ex
emption of personalty, and I will pass
upon the same at 10 o'clock, a. m.. on
the first cay ol Novemb r, IS7I. This
October 20th. 1871.
JAMES T. LAMKIN
oct 25-2 w Ordinary.
Ailminislrator’s Sale.
I will sell, before the Court house door,
in the town of Camming, Ga., between
the legal hours of sale, on the first Tues
day in December next, 318 acres, more
or less, of land, about 10 miles south of
Gumming, Ga., on the Chattahoochee
River, about 4 miles west of Suwaimee
Depot; on the Richmond and Atlanta
Air-Line Railroad; about 35 acres cleared
up. All good land, and good improve
ments every way. Known as tlie Charles
C. Jackson plantation. 'Thenumbers are
these: 1073; 1074, 1081; 1148; 1149;
1150; 1151 and 1106; all containing 40
acres each, more or less, except 1148,
which contains only 88 acres; ali in the
2d district and Ist section of Forsyth
county, Ga.. adjoining lands of Martin
Terry, Abraham and S. D. Buise, P. R.
and 0. Hutchins and others. Sold for
distribution among the heirs of said C.
C. Jackson, deceased. Terms cash.—
October 12th, 1871.
JOHN TERRY, Executor,
O. C. Jackson, deceased,
oct 25-dts, pr fee sls
FORSYTH COUNTY.
Forsyth Administrator's Sale.
Will be sold, before the Conrt-house
door, in the town of Cunirning, Forsyth
county, Georgia between the legal hours
of sale, on the first Tuesday in Decem
ber next, tire following described lands,
to wit. Eight acres of land lying nine
miles southwest of Gumming, lots No.
895 and 906, containing forty acres each,
more or less, in ihe 2d district, Ist sec
tion of said county of Forsyth, known
as the Canadius Barnett place; well im
proved in every respect. Sold as the
property of Canadius Barnett, deceased,
lor the benefit of the heirs and creditors
of said deceased Terms cash. October
19. 1871. WESLEY S. KAGLEY.
nov l-Ids (pr fee 810] Executor.
Forsyth Administrator's Sale.
Will be sold, before the Court house
door, in the town of Camming, Forsyth
county, Georgia, between the legal hours
i sa ' t ’> on Ihe first Tuesday in Decem
ber next, the following property, to-wit:
One hundred acres of land, lying ten
miles southwest of Camming, Nos. 899,
900 end 902, containing forty ucres
each, more or less, in the 2d district. Ist
sect ion of said county, and known as the
Austin Phillips’ place; well improved in
overy rtspect. Sold as the property of
said Austin Phillips, deceased, for the
benefit ot heirs and creditors of suid de
ceased. Terms cash. October 19. 1871
W ESLKY S. BAOLEY. Adm’r, i
de bonis non, with the wilt ariftcxcd.
nor 1-tds pr fee $lO
1
G WIN NETT COUNTY
Georgia, Gwinnett County.
H. N. Minor applies for letters of
guardianship of the property of the
Minor orphans of Daniel Minor, deceased:
This is to cite all persons concerned to
he and appear at my office on or before
the first Monday in December next, and
show cause, if* any they can, why said
letters should not be grauted to appli
cant. This October 16th, 1871.
JAMES T. LAMKIN,
oct 18 4 w Ordinary.
Georgia, Gjviunett County.
William AgSmith applies to me for
letters of administration on the estate of
William Powell, deceased: .
'This is to cite all persons concerned
to be and appear at my office on or be
fore the first M onday in December uext,
and show cause, if any they can, why
said letters should not be granted. This
October 10th, 1871.
JAMES T. L\MKIN,
Oct 18-lw Ordinary.
Administrator’s Sale.
Georgia, Gwinnett County:
By virtue of an order from the onrt
of Ordinary of said county, will be sold,
before the Court-house door, in Law
renceville, on the first Tuesday in Decetn -3
her next, within he legal hours of sale,
the following described lands belonging
to the estate of D T. Willirms, deceasedt
One hundred and fifty acres, more or ,
less, of lot No. 301. in the 6th districtJ
i of said county, lying near Norcross, oJ
: the Atlanta and Richmond Air-Li™
Railroad. The greater part of this trafl
is in the woods, and is good up-lancfiQ
heavily timbered; and there is, also, otl
it, a small shoal, sufficient for a grist
mill and other light machinery. To be
sold lor the benefit of the heirs and cred
itors. Terms case. This 16th Octobet*,
1871. GEO. H JONES,
oct 18-tds Administrator,
To Contractors
BUILDERS
Sealed Proposals for Re-Building
the Court-House at Luwrencerille,
Gwinnett County, will be received
until 12 o’clock, M., on Tucsdaw
the sth day of" December, 1871. ■
The building will be of brick, six®
feet long, forty feet wide, and the walla
to be twenty-seven feet high, the loweifl
story to bp two sept. and the upper stora
twrn’y inch-'s t i<-k. There is to he twfl
pat tit ion walls running across the lwustv
lea .insr a hall twelve teet wide, and one
brii-k wall dividing the t orth half of thd
building in'o two nips, these walls tfl
be ene story high. 'I hire will be foufl
rooms down stairs for offices, and [H
stair way running up between the
rooms in the south ol the building, ’l l
Court-room will be up stairs, with tw®
jury rooms in the rear of the Judge - '
seat. There will to four chimneys and
six fire places' The court room and »fti
ces to be ceiled overhead.
The contractor will be rcqi md to
finish said building by the first day of
September, 1872, and supply all the ma
terial for completing the same, except)
the brick now on hand, which are cleaned
and hacked up ready for use, and estimat
ed at about ninety thousand, b<sides the
bats, of which there is as many as will
be necessary for the whole house, and
about two thirds enough rock ior the
sou ndation.
For full specifications of the plan and
the terms of payment, apply to the un».
dersigned.
JAMES T. LAM KIN,
October ll,1871»tf Ordinary.
SSOO REWARD.
Gwi.unktt Court or Ordinary, )
September 11th, 1871. j
1 he Court-house of said county having
been burned on the night of the 10th
instant, and it being evident that said
burning Was the work of an incendiary:
It is, therefore, on recommendation of
the Orand Jury, ordered that, a reward
of FIVE HUNDRED DOLLARS be,
and the same is hereby offered for the
apprehension of said incendiaries, or per
sons who are guilty of said arson, with
proof to convict, said guilty parties of
the crime aforesaid.
Given ur der my hand and official sig~
nature, the day and year aforesaid.
sep 13-ts J. T. LAM KIN, Ord’y.
Georgia, Gwinnett County. ,
Okdinary’s Office, I
Augist 28, 1871. J
11 is ordered that there be collected by
Moses Martin, Tax Collector for said
county, 30 per cent, upon the State tax,
to Pay jurors; 15 per cent, upon the
State tax for the support of paupers; 4}£
per cent, upon the State tax lor repairs
on the court house; 5 per cent, upon the
State tax to pay for building bridges,
and 20 per cent, upon the State tax for
| general county purposes, making in the
aggregate 74 % per cent, upon the Stated
tax which is hereby levied for the yeaJ
1871. The State tax is 40 cents uprl
the SIOO 00, and the county tax 29 4fl
cents. Total State and county 69 4-ai
cents upon SIOO 00.
J. T. LAM KIN,
aug 30 ts Ordinary.
GEORGIA, Gwinnett County.
Adam Pool applies for letters of guar
dianship ot Rebecca J. Cain, minor and
j orphan of James T. Cain, deceased:
! This is to cite all persons concerned to
i be and appear at my office, on or before
j the first Monday in December next, and
j show cause, it any they can, why letters
! should not be granted to applicant.
This October 23d. 1771.
JAMES T. LAM KIN,
oct 25-4 w Ordinary.
Administrator’* Sale.
By virtue of an order from the Court
of Ordinary of Gwinnett county. Ga.,
will la sold, before the (,'oart-house door,
in the town of l.uwrenceville, Gwin
nett comity, Ga., on the Ist Tuesday in
December next, within the legal hours of
sale, the following lands belonging to
the estate ol Euberl B. Smith, late of
said county, deceased, to-wit: 230
acres, more or less, parts of hds No. 165,
156 and 157, all lying and being in the
sth district ol Gwinnett county, und
six miles Wow Lawrenceville. on the
Monroe road. Sold fnr toe benefit of the
heirs and creditors. Terms cash. This
23d day of Oc'ober, 1871.
„„ , A. J. SMITH,
net 25- ;d« Ad uinistratri*.