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TIIOM ASTON, GA.
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April ~ 1859— 1 y.
THOMAS BEALL,
attorney AT LAW,
fedl>—ly THOM ASTON, GA.
. J\ w. ALEXANDER,
attoknky at law,
rov2s-1v TUOM ASTON, GA.
C. T. Goode.
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- THOM ASTON, GA.
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AF TIIOMASTON, GA.
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” ln S else—and, if possible, cared lew*. But I
I vi .. p.'i l -° ln^orni my old friends and jiatrons that
?:\v no ' v auieh better, and if they desire to re
bv calli) r, >rr!Qer re^a tionß, that they can easily do so
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A. C. MOORE.
Governor’s Message.
Felloiv-Citizens of the Senate and
House of Representatives :
In the seventeenth Section of the first j
Article of the Constitution ot this State, it
is declared that “every hill shall be read I
three times, and on three separate days, I
in each branch of the General Assembly,
before it shall pass, unless in case of actual
invasion or insurrection and in the same
section it is further declared that “all Acts
shall he signed by the President in the Sen
ate and the Speaker in the House of Itep
resentatives.”
BILLS LOST, WHICH WERE NOT ENGROSSED
AND ENROLLED.
On the day of the adjournment of the
Legislature, at its last session, so large a
number of hills passed both Houses that it
was not possible for the Engrossing and
Enrolling Clerks to copy and prepare all
for the signatures of the President of the
Senate and Speaker of the before
the hour ot adjournment. Consequently,
all hills in this condition were lost. Had
they been enrolled after tlie Legislature
had adjourned, they could not then have
been signed by the President in the Senate
nor by the Speaker in the House of Repre
sentatives.
NOT SIGNED BY PRESIDING OFFICERS.
A number of other Bills which had been
properly enrolled and prepared for signa
ture, hut which, by some oversight in the
hurry of business, had not been signed by
{ either one or the other of those otHcers,
were brought to the Executive Office, about
the time of adjournment ; and finding, on
examination, after the Houses had adjourn
ed, that the constitutional provision above
mentioned had not been complied with, I
withheld my signature from them, believ
ing that it could not then £rive them the
force of law. These Bills are herewith re
turned to the respective Houses in which
they originated. It is believed that many
of them were never read a second time, on
any previous day of the session, hut that,
when they came up in their order fora sec
ond reading, the captions or title only, and
not the entire Bills, were read. The Con
stitution is imperative that not only the
title, hut the Bill shall he read, as well on
the second its on the first or third reading,
j If any one reading may be dispensed with,
all may : and the Bill, no matter how im
portant, may he passed upon three read
ings of its title only, while its provisions
; are unknown to many of the members of
I each House.
HASTY AND INCONSIDERATE LEGISLATION
CONDEMNED.
The numerous examples of hasty and
inconsiderate legislation, which we so often
witness, are becoming a source of great
detriment to the State, and should be dis
couraged by all prudent legislators. One
of the great evils of the age is, that we leg
islate too much. Asa general rule, the
failure ot a Bill that has merit in it is less
j to he regretted than the passage of a bad
law. Wholesome rules of law with which
1 the people have become familiar, should
1 not be changed, unless for good cause, af
ter very mature deliberation. A failure on
the part of the Legislature to observe this
rule, has involved our laws in much un
! certainty, and has often kept the people in
ignorance of their true meaning. Our leg
-1 islators have frequently given too little at
tention to their duties during the earlier
part of the session, and have left the great
; er part of the business of the session to be
! transacted within the last few days before
adjournment. Hence, their inability to
1 give to each important measure, brought
before them at the close of the session, the
’ attention and deliberation necessary to its
proper disposition. The consequence has
i been, that we have had much inconsistent
■ and unwise legislation. It we would learn
wisdom bv experience, we might do much
to correct this evil in future. I feel it my
duty to use all the influence and power of
niy position to that end. I shall not, there
fore, hesitate to lay aside and withhold my
sanction from all such bills passed in the
hurry and confusion which usually precede
an adjournment, as fail to command the
: approbation of mv judgment, together with
I all such as have not been plainly and cor
rectly enrolled and signed by the proper
; officers.
j TRIVIAL, LOCAL, INDIVIDUAL AND CLASS
LEGISLATION.
I would further suggest the propriety of
dispensing with a great deal ot the trivial,
local, private and class legislation which is
introduced into almost every General As-
I sembly, much of which is useless because
it benefits no one, and much of it is unjust
and mischievous, because it benefits a few
individuals at the expense of the many.
Let it be remembered, that each useless lo
cal Act introduced and passed pumbeis the
Journals and pamphlet of Acts, and that
the State pays out of money raised from
the people by taxation, tor printing 4,
copies of the Journals of each House and
5,000 copies of the Act itself, and that one
day spent by the General Assembly in t ie
passage of such Acts costs the State o\ ei
! $2,500, in pay of members, o&cers and
‘THE UNION OF THE STATES:-DISTINCT, LIKE THE BILLOWS; ONE, LIKE THE SEA”
THOM ASTON, GEORGIA, SATURDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 12, 1859.
other expenses. A proper and just regard
for economy demands reformation in this
particular. The same objections that are
applicable to trivial and local legislation,
apply to much of our private or individual
and class legislation, with many other ob
jections on account of its injustice and ine
quality. It would, in my opinion, be much
better tor the Legislature, with few excep
tions, to lay down general rules of law, and
let all alike regulate their conduct by them.
EXERCISE OF THE VETO POWER.
Entertaining these views,-1 have, during
my term in office, frequently withheld my
sanction from bills of the character above
described. In so doing, Ido not consider
that I have been wanting in respect for the
General Assembly. The Constitution has
assigned to ‘the Governor, as well as to
General Assembly, official powers and du
ties, and the people should hold him res
ponsible for the independent exercise ot‘
his official powers, as well as the faithful
discharge of his ‘official duties. Neither
House of the General Assembly feels that
it is wanting in respect for the other when
it refuses to pass a bill which it does not
approve, though it may have been passed
by the other. The Constitution declares
that the Governor “shall have the revision
of all bills passed by both Houses, before
the same shall become laws and it only
| gives to the General Assembly power to
pass laws, “notwithstanding his dissent/’
by two-thirds of both Houses.
If the Governor, therefore, out of res
; pect for the two Houses, signs a bill which
his judgment does not approve, he denies
!to the people the exercise of that Execu
tive revision, which, under the Constitu
tion, they have a right to demand, as a
protection against hasty or unwise legisla-
I tion.
NEW COUNTIES.
I beg leave to call tlie attention of the
General Assembly to our new county leg
islation. There may have existed a neces
sity, a few years since, for the creation of
several new counties. Some of the old
ones, which were laid out when the popu
lation Was very sparse, were found to be
too large for convenience when they became
more densely settled, and legislative inter
ference became necessary. Since the pre
cedent of forming new counties lias been
established, it is believed it has already
been followed further than the public in
terest may have required. Bills for the
organization of new counties covering small
strips of territory, are now passed, which,
ten years since, would have met with no
favor in the Legislature.
The number of applications for new coun
ties increases in a ratio almost double that
;of the number made at each session. \\ e
I now have 132 counties in the State. The
’ whole amount of tax paid into the State
1 Treasury by each of a considerable 1111 -
I her of our counties, is less, by several hun
dred dollars, than the amount drawn by
each of ihem from the Treasury in pay
ment of its members, and for other usual
and necessary purposes. This deficiency
of several hundred dollars must, therefore,
be made up to each out of tax paid by
others. I recommend in the future, ns a
general rule, to which I think there should
be few, if any, exceptions, that no new
county be formed which does not embrace
within its limits a territory at least as large
as the average size of the present counties,
without reducing the old counties from
j which it is taken, each to a less area thnn
: that proposed for the new county ; and
that no such Act be passed until the Leg
islature is satisfied that the State tax to
be paid by the proposed new comity, when
formed, will be at least sufficient to reim
burse the State for all moneys which she
will be compelled to pay from her 1 reasu
ry 011 account of its formation ; and that
! each county from which territory shall have
been taken* to form the new one. will be
left with the like ability.
REDUCTION OF THE NUMBER OF SENATORS
AND REPRESENTATIVES.
The further fact that the number of
Senators and Representatives is increasing
with the increase of the number of new
counties, is, to my mind, another reason
why few it any other new counties should
he formed. Our Legislative Assembly is
already much too large, expensive and un
wieldy. A Senate composed of one hun
dred and thirty-two members differs but
little from a House of Representatives, ex
cept in name. It is almost impossible for
so large a body to maintain that calm and
dignified decorum, and to act with that
j coolness, deliberation and caution, which
are indispensable to the proper discharge
of the high functions of a wise and grave
Senate ; which, when properly organised,
is justly looked to as one of the strongest
bulwarks of liberty in a republican govern
ment.
I would, therefore, most respectfully but
earnestly urge upon your consideration, the
importance of an early change of the Con
stitution, so us to reduce the number of
Senators and Representatives. I would
suggest that the Senate he reduced to
thirty-three members, which would be an
average ot one for every four counties , and
the House of Representatives to 152 num
bers, which would he two to each of twen
ty counties having the highest representa
tive population, and one to each of the re
maining counties. Each of these bodies
would then be quite large enough for the
proper discharge of all its constitutional
functions. Each county would have a dis
tinct and separate voice in the House ot
Representatives, the twenty strongest hav
ing each two Representatives. The adop
tion of this suggestion would reduce the
present number of Senators and Represen
tatives, from three hundred and one,, to
one hundred and eightv-five, being a re
duetion of one hundred and sixteen. Up
on the score of just economy, this reduc
tion should be made, if the efficiency and
wisdom of the General Assembly will be
nothing impaired by it. Let us look at the
question for a moment, in this light.—
Should the example of the last General
Assembly, the members of which voted
themselves each six dollars per day, be fol
lowed as a precedent, (t lie propriety of
which has been doubted.) these one hun
dred and sixteen Senators and Representa
tives will, in future, draw from the Treas
ury six hundred and. ninety-six dollars per
day, during the session. If the session
continue hut forty days, this will amount
to $27,840 00 each session. To this add
s3l 00 to each, which is about the aver
age mileage of a member, and the mileage
of the one hundred and sixteen would
amount to $3,590 00 ; which, added to
the per diem pay as above fixed, makes a
total of $31,430 00, thereby saving to the
State, should the proposed reduction be
made, that sum, each session of forty days ;
should the session he longer, the sum will
be greater. But it is believed now that
the sessions are annual, that the people do
not expect them to be protracted beyond
forty days, and that no sufficient reason
exists for so doing, as all the necessary bu
siness, with diligent attention during the
earlier part of the session, may he dispatch
ed within that time. The above sum is
now raised annually by taxation from the
people, and is, in my opinion, expended in
a manner worse than useless—as the Gen
eral Assembly, under its present organiza
tion, is believed to he a less safe and effi
cient body than it would be if organized
upon the plan above proposed. For the
purpose of ascertaining the sense of the
people directly upon this subject, I recom
mend that a law be passed by the present
Legislature, authorizing the call of a con
vention of the people, to take into consid
eration the propriety of the proposed change,
or such other change as will accomplish
the object, together with other necessary
alterations of the Constitution. Should a
reasonable reduction be made, the saving
of expense at a single session of the Legis
lature would nearly pay the expenses of
the convention. The Legislature, as at
present organized, including per diem and
mileage of members, clerk hire, Ac., costs
tho Suite about $2,520 00 for every day
it is in session.
PAY C-r CLERKS AND PER DIEM OF MEMBERS
SHOULD BE FIXED BY LAW.
In this connection, I will remark that
the item of clerk hire, alone, has frequent
ly been most exorbitant and unreasonable.
It is believed that much of this unecessary
expense has resulted from the practice too
often adopted by the Chief Clerk and
Secretary, of employing a large number of
super-munemrios. During the session of
1853, and 1854, the clerk hire in the House
of Representatives amounted to $24,410,
and in the Senate to $7,346. Since then,
a law lias been passed, limiting the number
of clerks to be employed ; and I recom
mend a further enactment, fixing the pay
of each clerk, except two enrolling clerks,
at $4 00 per day, and the enrolling clerks
each at $5 00 per dav. There would be
no difficulty in obtaining the services of
any number of clerks needed, at these
prices, who arc quite as competent as tlto.se
heretofore employed at six and seven dol
lars per day. The Secretary ot the Senate
and Clerk of the House of Representatives,
during the last session ot the Legislature
(which lasted only thirty-nine days,) receiv
ed each seven dollars per day, and an ad
ditional sum of five hundred dollars, ap
propriated to each. The appropriation
and per diem together amounted to nine
teen dollars and ninety-seven cents, each,
per day, besides all the contingent expenses
incident to the office of each - , which were
also paid out of the Treasury. Neither of
these officers had, I think, five days of
official labor to perform after the adjourn
ment of the Legislature.
I recommend that the compensation of
each of these officers, he fixed by law ; and
I would suggest that the actual contingent
expenses of the office of each be paid, and
that each receive not exceeding ten dollars
per day for the time he is engaged in the
duties of his office, without further appro
priation. lam satisfied that it would also
be better to fix the per diem of the mem
bers of the Legislature by law, than to
leave it, as heretofore, to be determined by
themselves at each session.
On account of the lateness of the hour
in the session when the bill appropriating
money for the support of the government,
is usually passed and presented to the
Governor for his sanction, he is sometimes
left to the alternative of giving it his sanc
tion, when it contains items of appropria
tion, which are in his judgement, unneces
sary and exorbitant, and which he does not
approve : or, of vetoing it and calling an
extra session of the Legislature to pass an
appropriation bill without those items ;
which would cost as much larger sum thnn
the amount contained in the parts of the
bill to which he objects.
If the compensation of the members and
of all officers of every character connected
with the body, were fixed by law, much of
this embarrassment would he avoided ; as
any proposed charge would then be brought
up in a separate bill and acted upon with
reference to its individual merits. Indeed,
propriety would seem to dictate that no
appropriation of doubtful expediency,
should be fastened upon the regular appro
priation bill, the legitimate object of which
is only to appropriate the several sums ot
money which are known to he necessary to
support the government. All other pro
posed appropriations should he acted up
on separately, leaving each to stand or fall
on its own merits.
CHANGE OF THE CONSTITUTION.
In accordance with mv recommendation
a hill passed each branch of the General
Assembly, at its last session, by a consti
tutional majority, entitled “An act to
change the Ist section of the 3d article of
the Constitution of the State.” The ob
ject of the proposed amendment is to au
thorise a change of venue in the trial of
criminal cases, when, in the opinion of the
presiding Judge, the ends of justice may
require it ; so that a defendant indicted for
murder or other crime, in one county, may
if the Judge deems it necessary to the ends
of justice, be transferred to, and tried in
another county adjoining the one in which
the crime is charged to have been commit
ted. The hill was properly enrolled, and
was signed by the Speaker of the House of
Representatives, hut was not signed by the
President of the Senate. As the Consti
tution requires that'll hill of this charac
ter shall pass two successive legislatures,
each by a two-third majority, before it
shall become a part of the Constitution,
and as a diversity of opinion seems to ex
ist among members of the legal profession,
as to the necessity of the signatures of the
presiding officers of the Legislature during
the session at which the hill was first pas
sed, I thought it advisable to publish the
bill, as required by the Constitution, (which
has been done,) and to submit it, with the
facts, for your consideration. 1 deem the
proposed change of the Constitution an
important one, for the reasons given in my
last Annual Message.
AMENDMENT OF THE PENAL CODE.
While on the subject of criminal law I
desire to call the attention of the legisla
ture to other changes, which 1 deem im
portant. When a defendant, under the
present law is convicted *of a crime, the
punishment of which is death or peniten
tiary imprisonment, and the case is carried
to the Supreme Court and the judgment of
the Court below is affirmed, the defendant,
if he is not out on bail, must remain in
jail, a chaige to the county, until the next
term of the Superior Court, which is some
times nearly six months, before he can be
sentenced. To.avoid this delay of justice
and the consequent unnecessary expense
to the county, in such cases, I would sug
gest that the law be so changed as to au
thorise the Judge of the Superior Court in
such cases, to re-pronounce the sentence,
in vacation at Chambers, upon motion of
the Solicitor General without delaying the
execution of the law till the next regular
term of the Court ; which delay sometimes
enables the guilty to escape, and which in
almost every case imposes a heavy tax up
on the county.
By the 18th section of the 14th Divis
ion of the Penal Code, it is enacted “that
any person against whom a true bill .of in
dictment is found for an offence not affect
ing his or her life, may demand a trial at
the term when the indictment is found, er
at the next succeeding term thereafter,
which demand shall be placed upon the
Minutes of the Court, and if such person
1 shall not be tried at the term when the de
mand is made, or at the next succeeding
term thereafter, Provided, that at both
terms there were juries empanelled and
qualified to try such prisoner, then he or
she shall be absolutely discharged and ac
quitted of the offence charged in the in
dictment.”
The Supreme Court first held that the
defendant might make the demand at any
term after the finding of the bill of indict
ment. They have since held that the de
mand can only he made at the term when
the indictment is found, or at the next suc
ceeding term. For the pur] ;se of making
the law more certain, I recommend that
this section be so amended as to permit the
defendant to make t He demand at the term
when the bill of indictment is found and a ,
statement of the case read in open Court
by the Solicitor General, or at th first or
second term thereafter, or at the third term i
if the Solicitor fails to read the statement 1
of the ease in open Court at the term when
the bill is found, or to notify the defend
ant or his counsel that the bill has been
found true by the Grand Jury. And on
the other hand, for the purpose of promo
ting thcends of justice by securing a speedy
trial of offenders, 1 recommend such change
in the law ns shall compel defendants in
criminal cases, to pome to trial, at furthest
by the second term of the Court after the
term, at which the bill of indictment is
found, unless further time he given by the
Court on account of very special Providen
tial cause.
Pardoning Power.
During my term in office I have seldom
exercised the pardoning power. While I
admit that there are rare cases, as in the
case of newly discovered evidence after the
conviction, which might reasonably have
changed the result, had it been before the
Court on the trial, and a few other cases,
where the power should be exercised, I do
not doubt that its exercise may be, and of
ten is much abused, i have therefore
thought it my duty to exercise it with
great caution, believing that it is far bet
ter, as a general rule, fur the safety and
welfare of society, that the decisions of the
Courts and Juries deliberately made, with
all the facts before them, should not ho
disturbed. I have no sympathy with that
sickly sentimentality, which always, for
getful of the injuries inflicted upon the in
nocent bv the guilty criminal, would in
the name of mercy, turn loose upon the
community every felon in whose favor a
sympathetic appeal can he made. I have
not only refused the exercise of the par
doning power —exceptjin a few very spe
cial cases, such as in my opinion were con
templated by those who formed our Con
stitution—but I have also refused to res
pite defendants in cases of murder, when
in my opinion, after an examination of the
evidence, the finding of the jury, and the
judgment pronounced by the Court, were
in conformity to law, and the principles of
justice. In such cases my opinion is, that
the officers of the law should not ho hin
dered in its execution ; and I have not
therefore, suspended the sentence, nor re
ferred the case to your consideration. The
Constitution does not say that the Gover
nor, in such cases, shall grant a respite,
but only ilmt'he may do it. It is evident
therefore, that it is made his duty to ex
ercise a sound - discretion, in determining
whether or not the case is proper to he re
ferred to the decision of the Legislature.
Penitentiary, and State Asylums.
For a statement of the present condi
tion and management <>f the Penitentiary,
the Lunatic Asylum, the Academy fur the
Blind, and ol‘the Institution for the Edu
cation of the Deaf and Dumb, I refer you
to the respective Reports of the persons in
charge of those institutions.
General Eli McConnell, Principal Keep
er of the Penitentiary, in his official capac
ity, by my instruction, took control of its
repairs and reconstruction, as contempla
ted by the act of the last Legislature,
which appropriated *30,000 for that pur
pose. He is erecting the buildings with
convict labor ; and as each building is com
pleted, the value of its construction is to
be estimated by good mechanics, who are
disinterested, and the sum awarded by
them, is to he paid to hiinfas Principal
Keeper for the use of the Penitentiary,out
of the appropriation. The appropriation
will not, probably, be sufficient to defray
the expense of the erection of all necessary
buildings for work-shops, Dining-room,
Chapel, extension of Cell building, drc.—
After these shall have been completed, it
is important that the walls be re]mired and
parts of them entirely rebuilt. I there
fore recommend an additional appropria
tion of twenty-five thousand dollars, to
complete the necessary repairs and recon
struction,
Western and Atlantic Railroad.
For information in reference to the con
dition, management and incomes of thn
Western & Atlantic Railroad, fur the year
ending 30th September last, you are refer
red to the Report of Dr. John W. Lewis,
its very vigilant, efficient and worthy Su
perintendent.!. I feel that I do but an act
of justice when I say that in my opinion,
the State has at had connected
with the Road, in any capacity, a more
competent, trustworthy and valuable pub
lic servant. It will be seen by reference
to his Report, that the sum of $‘402,000
in cash has been paid into the State r \
ury from the net earnings of tjie Road du
ring the fiscal year ending the 30th Sep
tember last ; and it will be seen by the re
port of the State Treasurer arid Comptrol
ler General, that four hundred and twenty
thousand dollars have been paid into the
Treasury during the fiscal year ending 20th
Oct. 1800. The old iron on about 25 miles
of the track, has, since Ist January, 1858,
been taken up and its place supplied with
heavy new rail. The Road-bed and all the
superstructure and machinery are kept in
excellent order. Xo uew* debts are con
tracted which are not promptly paid igontb
ly. it demanded ; and no agent appointed
(concluded next week.)
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