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|hen,” says I, “ if you put mo ashore beyont,” for we were«cariu’
the land all the time, “ and sure I can ax thim for to lind me the loan
•f n gridiron,” says I, “Oh by gor, the butther’s coinin’ o’the
rir ah ' it, in»nirn< si now,’’ says he, “you gmmnorA,” says he, “sure
towld yell bef’ire that’s t'lance—and sure they’re all furriners (for
eijncrs) there,” sat s the captain. “ Well,” say sl, “ and how do
yon know but I’m as good a fun it'.or my self as any o’ thim.” “ W hat
de you mane I” siyshe. “1 mane,” says I, “what I towld you
that I’m as good a In finer myself us tiny o’tliim.” “Make me sen
sible,” say s lie. “By da;!, may be that’s more rmr me, or greater
nor me could d...” says I ; and we began to laugh at him, for 1 tlio’t
I’d pay him oil lor his bit o' consult about the (itrman ociant.—
“ Leave iiffyom Immlmggin,” says ho, “ 1 bid you, and tell me what
it is you mane, at all at nil.” “ Parley ruo Irongsay," says I.
“Oh your Im aldo smvent, savs lie, “ i»v got you’re a scholar Pad
dy." “Troth, you mav s..v that,” sacs I. “ Wliv, you’re a clever
fellow, 1 'ad,.':;,' says the captain jeerin’ like. ‘"Troth you’re not
the fust said that, ’ said I, “ whether vou joke or no.” “ Ob, but
I’m in airnest,’’ says the captain, “ ami d > you tell me Paddy,” says
hr, “that you spike I'linch!” “ Piirlti/r.h> Prongsay," says I,
“ that bangs Banagber, and all the world knows Bauagltcr
hangs the divil—l never met the like o'vou, Paddv,” says he—
“ pull away boys and put Padds ashore, and mav bo we wont get a
good belly-ful b.d’ore long.” So w ith tint it was no sooner said than
done ; they pulled an ay and got close into shore in less than no time ;
and rim the boat up in a little creek, and n beautiful creek it was,
with a lovely w hite stl.rand, an illigaut place for ladies to bathe in
the summer; and out I got, aid its still’ eu i igh I was in my limb.-,
afther being cramp'd up in the boat, and perished with the could
and hunger ! But I contrived to scrim’ !e on, one way or the other
towards a little bit of a wood that was close to the shore, and the
smoke cttrlin out of it quite temptin’ like.
“ By my sowl,’ says I, “ I’m all right : there’s a house there'
lays I—and sure enough there was, and a parcel of men, women
and children tiling their dinner round a table quite convanenlly.—
And so 1 wint up to the door, and I thought I’d bo very civil to thim,
as I heerd the Flinch ir.tsalw.iu mighty perlite intirely—and 1
thought I’d skew them I knew what gee ! manners was. So I took
•IT my hit and m iking a low bow, says 1 “God save all here.’—■
Well, to be sure thee all stopt siting at wans! and began to stare at
me, and faith tin v almost looked me out of comitennnee--and 1
thought to my si If it was not good tnaum t s at ttll--nibre be token
from furriners, which thev call so mighty perlite ; but I never minded
that, in regard of rantin' the gridiron and so, savs I, I beg vour par
don, for the liberty I take, but its only bein’ in disthnss in regard
of ating,’ sty,-, i, ‘tlr.it 1 make bowld to trouble you, and if you
could lind mo the lortn of a gridiron,’ stys I, knowing whit was in
their minds, “ in,lade its thrue fir you,’ siysl; “I’m lathered to
pieces, and God knows I’m qitcre enough, but its by reason ot the
storm,’ says I, “ which dhrive us ashhore here below, anil we’re all
starvin,’ says I. So thev began to look at each other again, and
myself seeing at w oust that dirtv thoughts was in their heads, and
that they tuk me for a poor beggar comin to crave charity ; with
that, says 1, “ Oh not at all,’ savs I, “ by no manes, wo have plen
ty o’ mate ourselves, there below, and we’il dhress it,’ says 1, “ if
you would be fdasr.l to lind us the loan of a gridiron,’ says I niakin
• low bow. Well, sir, the devil a bit but they stared at me twice
worse nor ever, and faith 1 begun to think that may be the captain
was wrong, and that it was not France at all, at all, and so says I, I
h«« pardon sir, savs I, to a line old man, with a head of hair as w hite
as silver; “may be I’m under a mistake says I, but 1 thought I was
in France, sir, are’nt you furrinerssays 1, ‘Parley voo Frongsay ?’
‘We moseer,’ says he. ‘Then would you lind me the loan of a
gridiron, says I, if you please,’ Oh, it was then that they stared at
me as though I bad seven heads ; ami faith myself began to feel |
ilusthered like and onaisy—and so say I, making a bow and a scrape j
agin, ‘ 1 know its a liberty I lake, sir, says 1, but its o’ in the regard
of bein cast away, and if you plase, sir, says I—Parley voo Frong
say.’ ‘Wee, monster,’ says he, mighty sharp. ‘Then would!
vou lind me the loan of a gridiron? savs 1, and you’ll oblige me.’ ’
Well sir. the owld chap began to munseer me, but the divil a bit ov I
gridiron he’d give me; and so I began to think they were all negars, '
(niggards) for all their tine manners; and troth my blood begun to
rise, and says I, ‘ by my sow! if it was you in disthriss,’ says 1, ‘ and i
if it was to uul.l Ireland you kem, its not only the gridiron they’d i
give you, it you ax’d it, but something to put on it too. and the dhrop !
o’ dhrink in the bargain, and tend milt faille.'
Well, the word ccud mile faille seemed to strike his heart, and the !
•old chap corked his ear, and so 1 thought I’d give him another offer, i
•nd make him sensible at least, and so says I, wanst more, quite !
slow, that he might understand-—‘ Parley—voo—Frongsay, monseer?’
‘Wee munseer,’ says he; ‘then lind me the loan of a gridiron,’i
says I, ‘ and bad hi kto y ou.’ \\ <ll, bad win to the bit ov it h’ed (
gi’nie, and the ould ch ip begins bowin and scrapin and said some- ;
thing or other about a long tongs. ‘ Phoo !—to the divil I pitch your- I
sei and your tongs, says I, dont want a tongs rt all, at all; but cant ;
you listen to reason,’ says I. ‘ Parley voo Frongsay ?’ ‘ Wee niun- .
seer.’ ‘ Then thunder and turf, w ill you lind me the loan of a grid
iron, and howl 1 your prate.’ Well, what would you think, but he I
shook bis ould nodd, as much as to say lie wouldn’t; and so says 1
‘ But luck to the likes ov that I ever seen—troth if you wor in my
country its not in that away they’d use you ; the curse of the crows !
an yon, you ould sinner, says I, lite divil a longer I’ll darken your
dooi.’ So he seen 1 was vexed, and I thought, as 1 was turning
away, I seen him begin to relint; and that his conscience throubled :
him ; amt says I, turniii back, ‘ Well, I’ll give you one chance more,
you null thi. f • are vou a Christian at all. at all ! are you a furriner?
says I, that alt the world calls so perlite? bad luck to you; do you
understand your language? Parley voo Frongsay,’ says I. Wee
munseer,’ says be. ‘ Then blood and onus, says I, will you lind me
the loan of a gridiron ? Well, sir divil receave the bit of it he’d
gi* me—and so with tint ‘ the curse ov the hungry an you, you ould
negarly villain, says I ; the back ov my hand and the sowl ov my fut
to you: that you may want a gridiron yourself yet, says 1, and
wherever I go, high and low', rich and [Toor, shall hear ov you,’ savs
I; and with that 1 left them there, sir, and kem away—and in troth
its often since, that I thought that it mas remarkable.
DEATH OF MR. GILL.
We announce, with great pain and regret, the death of our worthy
friend and partner, Mrs. Tilojtv:; GiLi.,aftei a short and distiessing
illness. lie left the o.Cice on t. udav afternoon in perfect health,
nnd walked up to his tcsidi .. ■ in Orchard, near Houston street.
The weather, it will be recoil.-cte , was unseasonably dose and
sullrv, and in a long and quick w alk Im became over heated before be
reached home ; but, instead of resting himself, and as usual taking
liis tea, he p roceeded in that heated condition to his garden, and
commenced planting seed and flowers. It is supposed that in stoop
ing to go through with this labor, the blood rushed to his head, and
he fell in an appopletic lit, from wh ch lingered until four o’clock this
morning, when lie brt allied his I ist, in the fifty eight year cf bis
ago,—having never spoken from the moment of the attack, and ;
receiving prompt at.d tide medical assistance, and watchful atten
tion from his fttirily and friends.
Mr. Gji.l was the oldest citizen attached to the press in this city '
»t the time of his death. He came into the otttce t'f the Evening
Post about the time it was first established by the late lUf. Coleman
and Mr. I'urriliam, am! remained twenty five years in that eslabtis'.' 1
ntent, until the proprietors, in grateful consideration for Iris valuable I
services, gave him an interest in the concern, which he sold cn 1
joining us in the. publication of the Evening Star. He has we may
say, grown up with the city—few persons were better known. Men,
now in btrsmes;, remember him from their boyhood, always behind
his desk, the most attentive rrn I closely assiduous to Iris duties, hav
ing a kind and plea ,mt word for every person, and a disposition the
most enlarged am! liberal—a temper the most kind, amiable and
conciliating, and an integrity the most unsullied.
He leaves a wife and five children, to whom Ire was ever a most
indulgentand kind friend and parent, laboring late and early to pro
mote their comfort and happineis, and denying himself many of
those enjoym-'iits of ft it nds, amusements, and the social cirtde, to be
with them, and tninsster to their wantsand wishes.—2Vcw i'ork Star
I.ovr.— That blind, thonglnless, empty, headless, characterless
sentiment, whi< h has been idolized by the poet and novelists of mo
dern times—did not exist at till in the days of Pericles, Alcibiades,
Pompey, or Cresar. It was in early times a mere physical propen
sity, without intellect, ambition, or poetry—in modern times a
vague, undefrnable impulse ted by poets and troubadours, and ending
in empty larders, raggetl husbands, and nine small children bawling
for bread and shoes.— N. Y. Herald.
The new capitol, or State House of North Carolina, at Raleigh, is
described in the Raleigh Star as a superb building, of 160 feet in
length, 90feet in height, built of granite, and surrounded with mas
sive columns of the same material, 5J fe< t in diameter, and 30 feet
in height. The model is the classic Parthenon at Athens. There
is a splendid dome and a great number of.spacious apartments, be
sides the two legislative Lulls. Cost .95i>0,00('. — Pennsylvanian.
Early earn.— We have seen a stalk of Corn, from the garden of
Dr. Fitch, of this place, already in tassel and very luxuriant. It is of
the kind called Canada Corn, brought by Dr. F. from the North,
last summer; and the patch from which it was taken, will in all pro
bability afford roasting cars in «four weeks from this time. South-
Carolinian,
Steamboat Savannah.— It is but necessary for tiny individual to
visit and take a view of this boat, to be satisfied with her; she is
strongly built inevery respect ; and neatly fitted up for the accommo
dation of passengers. Tin: Savannah will ply regularly between this
and Charleston. Our up country friends, particularly those, of Ma
con ami its’vicinity, with the facilities afi'otded them between the Rail
Road and this Steamboat, (besides others) can be landed as soon, or
sooner, in Charleston as byway of Augusta. We hope they wil
embrace it.— Savannah. publican.
The. Steamboat Southcaner.— This fine boat intended as a packet
to plv between Charleston, Savannah and St. Augustine, completes
the line of Steam Navigation from Maine to Florida. The South
erner tuns outside, and is considered a fast boat—has also a very
experienced gentleman as commander. We recommend any thing
in the way of steam, hut Steam Doctous.—Regulated as our boats
are, having gentlemanly and careful commanders, wo can compete
with any State; and the frequent intercourse between this and our
Sister Citv, cannot but be looked upon with gratification, by our citi
•nsin the interior.— lb.
’ i REDUCTION CONVENTION.
1 ! The following will give our readers a view of the proceedings of
the Convention, now in session, in Milledgeville for the purpose of
devising some plan to change the Constitution, so as to reduce and
i equalize th i General Assembly of Georgia.
1 „, - -
i 'I’IIE COMMITTEE to whom was referred the reso
• hition of the Convention, req.tiring them to report apian for
the reduction of the number ol the Members of the General
1 Assembly of this State, beg leave to report the following as a
substitute for the seventh section of the first article of the Con-
1 ; stitution now in force:
The House of Representatives shall be composed of members
. i from all the counties which now are, or hereafter may be inclu
ded within this State, according to their respective numbers of
free white persons, and including three-fifths of all the people of
. , color, to be ascertained ]>y an actual enumeration, tn be made
. from time to time, at intervals of seven years, as now by law
' provided. Each county shall be entitled to one member.
Each comity having a representative population as above speci
fied, of live thousand persons, shall be entitled to oneadditional
i member, ami each county having such representative popula
tion of twelve thousand persons, shall be entitled to two addi
tional members, but no county shall have more than three mem-
Itei s.
T!:; number of members of which the House of Representa
tives will be composed according to the aforesaid ratio, and the
k..-t census, shall not heretifter be increased, except when a new
county is created : audit shall be the duty of the Legislature,
at their session, to be holden next after the enumeration provi
ded for by law, so to regulate the ratio of representation as
to prevent such increase. ’
Ihe Re|w sentatives shall be chosen annually, on the first
Mommy of October, u:t".il such day of election shall be altered
by law.
< .ic C ommittee report the follow ing as a substitute for the
third section of the first article of the Constitution now in
! force.
I ne Senate shall consist oi forty-six members, who shall be
respectively resident in the Senatorial districts for which they
shall be elected, but this number may be increased by the cre
ation (’I new counties, in the ratio of one Senator for every two
comities, tint! it at atty time the number ol counties shall not
admit of such division without leaving a surplus, such remain
ing county shall be attached to some contiguous Senatorial
district.
A Senatorial district shall consist of two contiguous counties,
and it shall be the duty of the Legislature at their first session
alter the ratification ot this section, and from time to time when
it may be necessary, to define and specify the counties, which
shall constitute each Senatorial district.
The Senate shall be elected on the first Monday in October,
until such day of election shall be altered by law.
MR. SPRINGER’S PLAN.
The following shall be the Third Section of the First Article
of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.
The Senate shall be elected annually on the first Monday in
October, and shall be composed ot one member from each of
the forty-six Senatorial Districts following :
i 1 Chatham and Eflingham. I
- 2 Scriven and Burke,
I 3 Richmond and Columbia,
1 4 Lincoln and Wilkes,
1 5 Eibert and Madison,
; 6 Habersham and Lumpkin,
! 7 Union and Rabun,
1 8 Forsyth and Hall,
i 9 Jackson and Franklin,
10 Clarke atTH Oglethorpe,
!11 Greene and Putnam,
12 Taliaferro and Warrctr,
‘ 13 Hancock and Baldwin,
| 14 Washington and Jefferson,
15 Emanuel and Montgomery,
16 Bulloch and Bryan,
17 Tattnall and Liberty,
18 Mclntosh and Glynn,
I 19 Camden and Wayne,
20 Ware and Lowndes,
21 Telfair and Appling,
22 Laurens and Wilkinson,
I 23 Pulaski and Twiggs,
And n henever hereafter the Legislature shall lay off and es
tablish a new county, it shall be added to the most contiguous
Senatorial District.
The following shall be the Seventh Section of the First Ar
ticle of the Constitution of the State of Georgia:
The House of Representatives shall be composed of members
from all the counties which now are, or hereafter may be, in
cluded within this State, according to their respective number
of free white persons, the enumeration to be made according to
the last census. Each county containing five thousand inhab
itants. agreeably to the foregoing plau of enumeration, shall be
I entitled to two members; eight thousand, to three msinbers ;
I and no county shall have more than three members, but each
1 county shall have one member. When the next State Census
is taken, the ten counties having the highest number of free
, white inhabitants above eight thousand, shall each be entitled
to three members ; the tnenty-two counties having the highest
number of free white inhabitants above five thousand and under
the first ten, shall have two members each, and the balance ofs
the comities one each, making, according to the last census, I
135 members: Chatham 3, DeKalb 3, Gwinnett 3, Henry 3,
Jackson 3, Merriwether 3, Muscogee 3, Newton 3, Talbot 3, '
Troup 3, Bibb 2, Cass 2, Cobb 2, Coweta 2, Elbert 2, Frank
lin 2, Houston 2, Hall 2, Harris 2, Habersham 2, Jasper 2,
Lumpkin 2, Monroe 2, Pike 2, Putnam 2, Richmond 2, Slew
' art 2, Upson 2, Walton 2, Warren 2, Washington 2, and each
! of the remaining counties one member each.
Mr. Jones, from Muscogee, submitted the following plan for
reducing the Representation :
1. The Federal basis to be adopted.
I’m the Senatorial Branch, the ratio shall be 20,000 for one
Senator and, the Senatorial Districts will be as follows:
1 Chatham, 15,944
Bryan, 2,168 >
Effingham, 2,070
2 Bulloch, 2,864
Emanuel, 5,568
Tattnal,
Montgomery, 4,084
Liberty, 5,086
Mclntosh 3,932
Glynn
Wayne 4,184
3 Camden 4,186
Appling
Ware 3,711
Telfair
Irwin 3,979
Lowndes 4,367
Thomas 4,921
4 Decatur 4,141
Early 3,699
Baker
Lee 4,871
Randolph 5,329
Dooly 3,727
5 Pulaski 4,031
Laurens 4,506
Washington 6,069
Wilkinson 5,714
6 Scriven 3,832
Burke 9,349
Richmond 10,360
7 Jefferson 4,545
Warren 8,318
Columbia 8,265
8 Lincoln 4,613
Wilkes 8,389
Elbert 9,318
9 Taliaferro 3,738
Oglethorpe .9,729
Clarke 8,514
10 Hancock 7,541
24 Bibb and Crawford,
25 Jones and Jasper,
26 Butts and Monroe,
27 Morgan and Walton,
28 Newton and Henry,
29 DeKalb and Gwinnett,
30 Gilmer and Murray,
31 Cass and Cherokee,
32 Cobb and Campbell,
'33 Coweta and Fayette,
34 Merriwether and Talbot,
35 Pike and Upson,
1 36 Houston and Macon,
37 Dooly and Irwin,
38 Thomas and Decatur,
39 Baker and Early,
40 Lee and Sumter,
,41 Randolph and Stewart,
42 Muscogee and Marion,
43 Harris and Troup,
44 Heard and Carroll,
!45 Paulding and Floyd,
146 Chattooga,WalkerDade.
I Putnam 8,592
, Baldwin 5,363
111 Greene 8,474
Morgan 1,375
i Walton 8,948
112 Crawford 6,504
| Twiggs 6,591
I Houston 9,852
13 Muscogee 13,172
II Stewart 8,559
114 Talbot 11,830
Macon 4,045
1 Marion 3,687
| Sumter 3,645
15 Jasper 8,990
l| Jones 7,820
I Bibb 7,568
1 16 Upson 11,168
Monroe 12,390
17 Harris 11,198
> Merriwether 12,000
18 Troup 12,413
Heard 4,180
Carroll 3,811
’ 20,404
19 Coweta
Campbell
DeKalb 22,950
20 Pike
Henry
I’ayette 24,242
21 Gwinnett
I Newton
Butts 22,355
22 Madison
Jackson
• Hall 21,994
23 Franklin
Habersham
Lumpkin 21,780
24 Rabun
Gilmer 1
Union
Murray
Cherokee
Forsy th
Cobb 22,472
25 Cass
Floyd
3d. For the House of Representatives, the ratio of Repre
sentation shall be as follows :
That 3,000 population shall give one member—7,ooo two
members, and one member more for every five thousand addi
tional population.
Under this ratio, the Counties will, at present be entitled, ac
cording to the last Census, to the following Members :
Population.
Chatham, 15,944 3
Biyan, 2,108
Eflingham, 2,072 4238 1
Bidloch, 2,864
Emanuel, 2,704 4938 1
Tatnall, 2,202
Montgomery, 1,889 3359
Liberty, 5,086 1
Mclntosh, 3,932 1 '
Glynn, 2,911
Wayne, 1,273 4184 1 :
Camden, 4180 1
Appliuf, 1,774
V.'are, 1,940 3054 1 <
Telfair, 2,350
Irwin, 1,629 3979 1
Lowndes, 4367 1
Thomas, 4921 1
Decatur, 4141 1
Early, 3698 1 i
Baker, 2,250 i
Lee, 2,621 4871 1
Randolph, 5329 1
Dooly, 3,927 1 .
Pulaski, 4031 11
Laurens, 4506 1
Scriven, 3832 1
Burke, 9349 2
Richmond, 10,660 2
Jefferson, 4545 1
Washington, . 8069 2|
Wilkinson, 5714 1
Houston, 9853 2 i
Sumpter, 3645 1 '
Marion, 3687 1 <
Macon, 4045 1 <
Stewart, 8559 2 ]
Muscogee, 13172 3 J
Harris, 11098 2 1
Talbot, 113302
Crawford, 6505 1 <
Bibb, 7568 2 .
Twiggs, - 6591 1 ]
Jones, 7820 2 <
Baldwin. 5363 11
Hancock, 7145 2
Warren, 831 S 2
Columbia, 8265 2
4th. The number of members in the Senate and House of
Representatives shall not be increased, and the Legislature shall
pass a law at the first session after each census shall be taken,
from time to time, to change the ratio for the Senate and House
of Representatives, so as to continue that number.
MR. BARCLAY’S SUBSTITUTE.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of mem
bers from all the counties, which now' are or hereafter may be
included within this State: Each county shall be entitled to
one member, and to an additional member, or members accord
ing to their respective number of free white persons, and col
ored people, viz: each county containing six thousand free
white persons shall be entitled to two members ; each county
containing in the aggregate seven thousand free white persons
and colored people, shall be entitled to two members; and
each county containing ten thousand free white persons shall
be entitled to three members, and no county shall have more
than three members.
The State be laid off into Senatorial Districts, two adjoining
counties to constitute a District, and that the Senators (and
Representatives) be elected annually on the first Monday of
October, until such day of election be altered by Law, and
shall be composed of one Senator from each District, to be
chosen by the electors thereof, and when the counties are odd
the odd counties shall be attached to an adjoining Senatorial
District, until by the increase of counties it shall be necessary
to classify them into new Districts, which shall be in al! cases,
of adjoining counties.
The following classification of counties into Sentorial Dis
tricts be adopted, and remain until the creation of a new coun
ty or counties by law.
1 Chatham and Effingham.
2 Scriven and Burke.
3 Richmond and Columbia.
4 Lincoln and Wilkesl
5 Elbert and Madison.
6 Habersham and Lumpkin.
7 Union and Rabun.
8 Forsyth and Hall.
9 Jackson and Franklin.
10 Clark and Oglethorpe.
11 Greene and Putnam.
12 Taliaferro and Warren.
13 Hancock and Baldwin.
14 Washington and Jefferson.
15 Emanuel and Montgomery.
16 Bulloch and Bryan.
17 Tattnall and Liberty.
18 Mclntosh and Glynn.
19 Camden and Wayne.
20 Ware and Lowndes.
21 Telfair and Appling.
22 Laurens and Wilkinson.
23 Pulaski and Twiggs.
No new county be hereafter created, so as to reduce the free
white people of the county or counties, out of which it is taken
below one thousand five hundred, nor unless one thousand five
hundred free wdiite people be included in the territory out of
which it is proposed to be made.
SUBSTITUTE BY MR. MARSH OF BURKE.
The Senate shall consist of four Senators front each Judi
cial District pf this State, to be elected annually on the first
Monday in October, until some other day be appointed by
law. Not more than one Senator shall be elected residing in
the same County. The manner of holding and certifying the
elections for Senators shall be prescribed by tile Legislature.
No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained
the age of twenty-five years, and who is not a citizen of the
United States, and shall have resided in this State at least three
years, and in the District from which he is returned, at least
one year immediately preceding his election, unless absent upon
lawful business of the United Slates or of this State.
SUBSTITUTE BY MR. JONES OF MUSCOGEE.
The Senate shall consist of twenty-five members, who shall
be respectively resident in the Senatorial districts for which
they may be elected, and shall be elected on the first Monday
in October in each year, until such day of election shall be alter
ed by law.
The Senatorial districts shall be composed of the following
counties, to-wit:
1 Chatham
Bryan
Effingham
2 Bulloch
Emanuel
Tattnal
Montgomery
Liberty
Mclntosh
Glynn
Wayne
3 Camden
Appling
W are
Telfair
Irwin
I joh tides
Thomas
4 Decatur
Early
Bakei
I >ee
Paulding
Walker
Dade
Chattooga 18,664
Population.
Lincoln, 4613 1
Wilkes, 8389 2
Taliaferro, 3738 I
Greene, 8474 2
Putnam, 8592 2
Jasper, 8990 2
Monroe, 12390 3
Upson, 11168 2
Troup, 12413 3
Merriwether, 12038 2
Bibo, 7009 2
Butts, 4559 1
Heard, 4183 1
Coweta, 8612 2
Fayette, 5610 1
Henry, 11023 2
Newton, 10300 2
Walton, 8943 2
Morgan, 7375 2
Clarke, 8514 2
Oglethorpe, 8729 2
Elbert, 9318 2
Madison, 4191 1
Jackson, 10425 2
Gwinnett, 10076 2
De Kalb, 9853 2
Campbell, 4415 1
Carrol], 3811 1
Hall, 7378 2
Franklin, 8699 2
Habersham, 7422 2
Lumpkin, 5669 1
Cherokee, 4180 1
Forsyth, 4747 1
Cass, 6161 1
Cobb, 5630 1
Floyd, 2,832
Paulding', 2,226 5058 1
Walker, 2,833
Dade, 834 3445 1
Chattooga 4000 1
Murray, 3025 1
Rabun, 1,862
Gilmer, 1,486 3348 1
Union, 2194 1
124
24 Bibb and Crawfotd.
25 Jones and Jasper.
26 Butts and Monroe.
27 Morgan and Walton.
28 Newton and Henry.
29 DeKalb and Gwinnett.
30 Gilmer and Murray.
31 Cass and Cherokee.
32 Cobb and Campbell.
33 Coweta and Fayette.
34 Merriwether and Talbot.
35 Pike and Upson.
36 Houston and Macon.
37 Dooly and Irwin.
38 Thomas and Decatur.
39 Baker and Early.
40 Lee and Sumpter.
41 Randolph and Stewart.
42 Muscogee and Marion.
43 Harris and Troup.
44 Heard and Carroll.
45 Paulding and Floyd.
46 Chattooga, Walkerand Dade.
Randolph
Dooly
5 Pulaski
Laurens
W ashington
Wilkinson
G Scriven
Burke
Richmond
7 Jefferson
| Warren
I Columbia
8 Lincoln
Wilkes
Elbert
3 Taliaferro
Oglethorpe
Clarke
10 Hancock
Putnam
Baldwin
11 Greene
Morgan
W alton
12 Crawford
Twiggs
Houston
13 Muscogee
Stewart
14 Talbot
Macon
Ma rion
Sumter
15 Jasper
Jones
Bibb
16 Upson
Monroe
17 Harris
Meriwether
18 Troup
Heard
Carroll
19 Coweta
Campbell
DeKalb
20 Pike
When new counties shall be formed of any of the present
counties, they shall be attached to the Senatorial districts to
which the counties out of which they may be formed belonged.
Mr. Hudson, of Putnam, offers the following as a substitute
for the whole:
The Senate shall consist of forty members and no more, who
shall be elected in the following manner: The State shall belaid
offjjy the next General Assembly, into ten separate districts, to
be called Senatorial Districts, and to be composed of contiguous
counties which will make the districts the most compact, and to
contain, as nearly as can be done, an entire equality of free white
persons, and including three-fifths of all the people of color,
agreeable to the last census taken agreeably to law, and each of
the said ten districts shall be entitled to four Senators; but no
county in any district shall have or be entitled to but one Sena
tor —the first election for Senators to take place on the first
Monday in October, 1840. The ten Senatorial Districts here
in provided for, shall be reorganized statedly during the annual
session of the General Assembly next after the census hereafter
shall be taken according to law, so that an equality of Repre
sentative population, and contiguous and compact counties
shall, at the time of their organization, constitute the said Sen
atorial Districts as nearly equal as can without dividing coun
ties.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of three
members each from the five counties having the largest number
of free white persons, and including three-fifths of all the people
of color, agreeable to the last census taken agreeably to law;
and the thirty-five counties having the next largest number of
free white persons, and including three-fifths of all persons of
color, agreeably to the last census taken, shall have two mem
bers each; and all the balance of the counties which now are,
or hereafter may be in this State, shall be entitled to one mem
ber each : the first election for members to the House of Repre
sentatives shall take place on the first Monday in October, 1840,
and statedly thereafter. At the first animal’session of the Gen
eral Assembly after the census shall be taken, a new apportion
ment of the members of the House of Representatives shall be
made; so that the five counties containing the largest represen- |
tative population at the time of the apportionment, according to '
the census last taken, shall always be entitled to three members
each ; and thirty-five counties containing the next largest Rep
resentative population, shall be entitled to twb members each ;
and all the balance of the counties in this State which now are„
or hereafter may be, shall be entitled to one member each, and
no more.
Mr. JENKINS’ substitute for so much of the Report, as contem
• plates laying off the State into Senatorial Districts.
The Senate shall be elected, annually, on the first Monday in Oc
tober, and shall be composed of forty-two Senators, to be chosen
from the several judicial districts of the State, as now organized as
follows: The Eastern, Southern and Cherokee judicial Districts,
shall be entitled each to three Senators ; the Middle, Ocmulgee, and
Northern judicial districts shall be entitled each to four Senators;
the Western, Chattahoochee, and Coweta, judicial districts shall be
entitled each to five Senators; the Flint district shall be entitled to
six Senators. It shall be the duty of the Genet al Assembly to lay off
each judicial district into so many Senatorial districts as there are
Senators herein above allotted to it; having reference to Represen
tative population, upon the Constitutional basis, and to existing coun
ty lines ; and until that shall be done by the General Assembly,
there shall be elected annually on the first Monday in October by
general ticket in each judicial district, the number of Senators here
inbefore allotted to it, which elections shall be held and the returns
consolidated and certified as the General Assembly may by law di
rect. No future change in the judicial districts now existing, shall
effect any change in the arrangement hereinabove made; but, for
purposes of representation in the Senate, the districts shall remain
lite same. It shall be the duty of the General Assembly once in se
ven years, to-wit: at its session immediately succeeding the taking
of each census to make a new apportionment of Senators among the
several judicial districts aforementioned and to reorganize (so far as
may be deemed necessary) the smaller districts aforementioned, hav
ing reference to representative population upon the basis hereinbe
fore prescribed.
A table showing the ratio of representation in the Senate upon
the plan of the above amendment.
40,437 Eastern 4
39,974 Southern > 119,764. —3 Senators each—9. Ratio, 13,307.
39,353 Cherokee )
51,208 Middle )
52,328 Ocmulgee [ 158,373.-4 do do 12. do 13,197.
54,837 Northern j
63,324 Western )
65.889 Chattahoochee > 195,778 —5 do do—ls do 13,051.
66,565 Coweta )
Flint 74,975 —6 do do—6 do 12,4 95
The first column of numbers, shews the representative population
of each district; the 2nd, the aggregate representative population of
the several classes, and the last column the ratio of representation in
each.
Air. Stark, of Butts, offered the following substitute :
The third section of the first article of the Constitution of the
State of Georgia, shall read as follows :
The Senate shall be elected annually-on the»first Monday in
October, until such day of election shall be altered by the Leg
islature ; and shall be composed of four members from each of
the Senatorial Districts following: that is to say, the counties of
Wayne, Bullock, Camden, Glynn, Mclntosh, Bryan, Lib
erty, Effingham, and Chatham, shall the first district.
The Counties of
Columbia, Washington, Montgomery, Tatnall, Emanuel,
Scriven, Burke, Jefferson and Richmond, shall form the sec
ond district.
The Counties of
Taliaferro, Wilkes, Madison, Elbert, Warren, Hancock,
Oglethorpe, Lincoln and Clark, shall form the third district
The Counties of
Motgan, Walton, Jackson, Gwinnett, Hall, Franklin, Hab
ersham, Rabun, Union and Lumpkin, shall form the fourth dis
trict.
The Counties of
Baldwin, Greene, Putnam, Wilkinson, Jones, Jasper, Lau
rens, Twiggs and Pulaski, shall form the fifth district.
The Counties of
It win, Appling, Ware, Lowndes, Thomas, Dooly, Randolph,
Telfair and Houston, shall form the sixtli district.
The Counties of
Pike, Monroe, Crawford, Bibb, Macon, Butts, Henry, Fay
etee, DeKalb and Newton, shall form the seventh district.
The Counties of
Early, Baker, Lee, Decatur, Sumter, Stewart, Marion, Har
ris and Muscogee, shall form the eighth disttict.
The Counties of
Talbot, Upson, Troup, Heard, Coweta, Merriwether, Car
roll, Campbell and Cobb, shall form the ninth district.
The Counties of
Dade, Chattooga, Floyd, Walker, Murray, Gilmer, Forsyth,
Cherokee, Cass, Paulding and Cobb, shall form the tenth Sen
atorial district.
And in choosing the Senators in each district, the votes shall
be taken by Counties; each county having one vote, and a ma
jority of all the counties in each District shall be necessary to
a choice. And the Legislature shall, from time to time, make
such laws for the purpose of consolidating the returns, and for
the holding of new elections in cases of failure to elect, as may
be necessary.
The seventh section of the first article shall read as follows :
The House of Representatives shall be composed of members
from the following Counties and Representative Districts, ac
cording to their respective numbers of free white persons, and
including three-fifth of al! the people of color; to be ascertain-
Henry
Fayette
21 Gwinnett
Newton
; Butts
22 Madison,
I Jackson,
' Hall,
123 Franklin,
Habersham
Lumpkin
24 Rabun
Gilmer
Union
M urray
Cherokee
Forsyth
Cobb
25 Cass
Floyd
Paulding
W alker
Dade
Chattooga,
ed by ac'ual enumeration to be made from time, at intervals of
seven years, as is now by law provided. Each County having
a representative population as above specified, of four thousand,
or upwards, shall be entitled to one member ; of eight thousand,
to tvyo members; of twelve thousand, to three members. No
county shall have more than three members. And until the
next enumeration shall take place, the several counties and Re
presentative Districts shall be entitled to the following number
of Representatives respectively.
Decatur, 1
Thomas, 1
Lowndes, 1
Ware, 1,940
Telfair, 2,350—4,290 1
Camden, 1
Glynn, 2,911
Wayne, 1,273—4,184 1
Mclntosh, 3,932)
Libeity, 5,086 ) 2
Bryan, 2,168
Bulloch, 2,864—5,032 1
Chatham, 3
Effingham, 2,072
Scriven, 3,832 —5,904 1
Emanuel, 2.704
Montgomery, 1,882 —4,586 1
Tatnall, ~ 2,202
Appling, 1,771—3,973 1
Irwin, 1,629 )
Dooly, 3,727 1
Baker, 2,250 )
Early, 3,698) 1
Randolph, 1
Lee, 2,621 )
Sumter, 3,645 ) 1
Stewart, 2
Pulaski, 1
Laurens, 1
Burke, 2
Jefferson, 1
Washington, 2
Wilkinson, 1
Twiggs, 1
Houston, 2
Macon, 1
Marion, 3,687 )
Muscogee, 13,172)
Harris, 2
Talbot, 2
Crawford, 1
Bibb, 1
Jones, 1
Baldwin, 1
Hancock, I
Warren, 2
Richmond, 2
The number of members in both branches of the Legisla
ture, shall not be increased, but when a new County is formed,
it shall be attached to the most contiguous Senatorial District,
and shall continue a part of the county Or counties from which
it may have been taken, for the purpose of having its share in
the election of Representatives until the next succeeding Sep
tennial enumeration.
The Legisla ure may, from time to time, if necessary, after
etich Septennial enumeration, arrange the Senatorial and Rep
resentative Districts; but shall, on no account, impair or di
minish the political equality of each County in the election of
Senators ; and the equality of representation on the Federal
basis in the House of Representatives, according to such ratio
as the Legislature may fix, shall always be maintained. The
Representatives shall be elected on the same days appointed for
the election ol Senators, until such day be altered by law.
SUBSTITUTE OF MR. WATSON OF MUSCOGEE.
The Senate shall be elected annually on the first Monday in
October ; each county having, according to the Federal basis,
a Representative population of 12,000, shall be entitled to one
Senator. The remaining counties shall be divided into Districts-'
consisting of two contiguous counties, which said Districts shall
be entitled to one Senator each—And when the Census is ta
ken hereafter, should any District or Districts have a Repre
sentative population of 2,400, then each of the Counties of such
District or Districts shall be entitled each to one Senator.
The Districts shall be as follows:
1 Chatham,
2 Merriwether,
3 Alon roc,
4 Muscogee,
5 Troup,
6 Decatur and Thomas,
7 Lowndes and Ware,
8 Camden and Glynn,
9 Mclntosh and Wayne,
10 Bryan and Liberty,
11 Appling and Telfair,
12 Dooly and Irwin,
13 Baker and Early,
14 Bulloch and Tattnall,
15 Lee and Randolph,
16 Stewart and Sumter,
17 Macon and Marion,
18 Houston and Pulaski,
19 Laurens and Montgomery,
20 Jones and Baldwin,
21 Effingham and Scriven,
22 Burke and Richmond,
23 Jefferson and Emanuel,
24 Washington and Wilkinson,
25 Bibb and Twiggs,
The House of Representatives shall be composed of members
from all the counties which now are, or hereafter may be inclu
ded within this State: Each county containing 12,000 repre
sentative population according to’the Federal basis, shall be
entitled to 3 members, each county containing 5,000 inhabitants
shall be entitled to 2 members, and the balance of the counties
1 each: Provided nevertheless, that each county having one
Senator shall be entitled to only two members in the House of
Representatives.
SUBSTITUTE OF MR. RIVES OF HALL.
The Senate shall be composed of four members from each.
Judicial Circuit as now laid off, and shall be elected annually
on the first Monday in October, by the voters of such Judicial
Circuit respectively ; each voter may vote for four candidates
for Senator, but for no two in the same county ; in the event of
the formation of any new eounty which may take a part of any
two Judicial Circuits it shall be attached to, the one having the
smallest white population.
Resolved, That the above be substituted for the 3d section
of the Ist article of the Constitution.
The House of Representatives shall be composed of mem
bers from all the counties which now are, or hereafter may be
included within this State, according to their respective numbers
of free white persons, to be ascertained by actual enumeration,
to be made from time to time, at intervals of seven years, as
now by law provided, viz: Ten counties having the greatest
free white population shall be entitled to three members each -
thirty counties having the next greatest free white population
shall be entitled to two members each; and all the remaining
counties to oflb member each ; the apportionment of the members
among the counties under this plan shall be made according to
the the last census, until the next, and then by that, &c.
The Representatives shall he chosen annually on the first
Monday in October, until such day of election shall be altered
by law.
MR. HUM. OF CLARKE, OFF
THE SENATORI
1 Camden and Wayne. ,
2 Glynn and Mclntosh. [
3 Liberty and Bryan.
4 Chatham and Effingham, i
5 Scriven and Bulloch.
6 Burke and Emanuel.
7 Appling and Tatnall.
8 Montgomery anti Telfair. I
9 Laurens and Pulaski.
10 Twiggs and Wilkinson.
11 Jefferson and Washington.'
12 Richmond and Columbia, [
13 Lincoln and Wilkes.
14 Warren and Taliaferro.
15 Baldwin and Hancock.
16 Greene and Morgan.
17 Oglethorpe and Madison.
1 Columbia, 2
I Lincoln, 1
Wilkes, 2
I Taliaferro, 3,738
I Greene, 8474-12,212 3
I Putnam, 2
Jasper, 2
Butts, 1
Monroe, 3
Upson, 2
Pike, 1
! Merriwether, 3
Troup, 3
Heard, 1
Coweta, 2
Fayette, 1
Henry, 2
Newton, 2
Walton, 2
Morgan, 1
Clark, 2
Oglethorpe, 2
Elbert, 2
Franklin, 2
Madison. 1
i Jackson, 2
! Gwinnett, 2
DeKalb, 2
I Campbel], 1
I Carroll, 3,811
Paulding, 3,226 —5,037 1
Cobb, 1
Forsyth, 1
Hall, 1
Habersham, 1
Rabun, 1,862 •
Union, 2,194—4056 1
Lumpkin, 1
Cherokee, 1
Cass, 1
Floyd, 1
Gilmer, 1,486
Murray, 3,025 —4,511 ' 1
Chattooga, 4
Walker, 5,460 S 1
Dade, 834) .
HI
26 Crawford an’d Upson,
27 Harris and Talbot,
28 Columbia and Lincoln,
29 Hancock and Warren,
39 Taliaferro and Wilkes,
31 Greene and Morgan,
32 Jasper and Putnam,
33 Butts and Henry,
34 Fayette and Pike,
35 Coweta and Heard,
36 Campbell and CarroF
37 Elbert and Franklin,
38 Madison and Oglethorpe,
39 Clark and Jackson,
40 Newton and DeKalb,
41 Walton and Gwinnett,
42 Habersham and Rabun,
43 Forsyth and Hall,
44 Lumpkin and Union,
45 Cobb and Paulding,
46 Cherokee and Gilmer,
47 Cass and Floyd,
48 Murray and Walker,
49 Chattooga and Dade.
ERED THE FOLLOWING AS
[AL DISTRICTS.
18 Clark and Jackson.
19 Elbert and Franklin.
■2O Habersham and Hal).
21 Union and Rabun.
[22 Lumpkin and Forsyth.
23 Gilmer and Murray.
24 Chattooga, Dade &. Walker.
25 Floyd and Cass.
26 Cherokee and Cobb.
27 Paulding and Carroll.
'2B Campbell and Fayette. •
|29 DeKalb and Gwinnett.
30 Newton and Walton.
[3l Henry and Butts.
32 Jasper and Putnam.
[33 Heard and Coweta.
34 Troup ano Merriwelhen