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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTIONALIST.
[Reported for the Constitutionalist.]
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
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Mn,i.®PGE vi Lt*, March 3.
HOUSE.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The House re-assembled at 3 o’clock.
BILLS ON THIRD BEADING.
Bill to facilitate the collection of debts. Lost.
Bill to alter and amend Section 1290 of the
Code. Passed.
Senate bill to repeal an act requiring cotton
and woolen factories to publish lists of their
stockholders. Passed. ?
NEW MATTER.
Mr. Hardeman, of Bibb, introduced a bill to
incorporate the Georgia Lands Lumber Com
pany.
Mr. Sims, of Bartow—Bill to incorporate the
town of Styleston. in Bartow county.
Leave of absence was granted to Mr. Sand
erst, of Taylor, till Tuesday next, and to Mr.
Dodson, of Catoosa, for 5 few days, on account
of sickness.
House adjourned till Monday morning, 9
o’clock.
SENATE.
„ March sth.
The Senate met at 10, a. m., pursuant to ad
journment, the President in the Chair.
Prayer by Rev. Dr. Manson, of the Senate.
The journal was read and corrected. It ap
pears there was an error in the announcement
that the bill to vest certain lands of the State,
lying near the city of Macon, in the corporate
authorities of said city, had passed. The bill
failed by one. Mr. J. A. W. Johnson moved to
re-eonsider the action of the Senate on said. bill.
The motion prevailed by a vote of IS to 12.
senate Bills On third reading.
Bill 10 donate the lands of the State lying in
the Okofonoke Swamp, as a permanent endow
ment for the Georgia Orphans’ Home. Passed.
Bill to prevent the distillation of grain, and
for other purposes. Passed.
Bill to accept by the State the laqd donated
by the L T nited States, for the purposes of col
leges to promote agriculture aud the mechanic
arts. Passed.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill legalize the proceedings oi the Southern
stockholders of the Brunswick and Florida
railroad, and to change the name of said rail
road. Passed.
Bill to change the county of Scriven from the
first to the fifth Congressional district. Passed.
Bill to authorize the Justices of the Inferior
Court of Bullock county to levy and collect an
extra tax for building a court house and bridges
in said county. Passed.
Bill to allow parties time to make writs of
certiorari in certain cases. It allows ten days.
Passed.
Bill to revive the military code of Georgia as
it existed before the war. Passed.
Bill to facilitate the trials against tenants hold
ing over. Lost.
Bill to incorporate the Muscogee Insurance
and Industrial Association. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Southern Mining Com
pany. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Lookout Valley Min
in <£ Company.
Bill for the relief of executors, administrators,
guardians and trustees in certain cases. Passed.
The reconsidered bill to vest certain bonds of
the State In the city authorities of Macon was
taken up and made the special order for Wed
nesday next.
The Senate adjourned till 3 o’clock, p. m.
HOUSE.
March sth.
The House met at 9 o’clock, a. in., pursuant
to adjournment.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The journal was read and approved.
The rules were suspended and the bill to au
thorize the Governor to remit a portion of State
tax upon certain contingencies was taken up
and passed.
Resolution was adopted allowing the Secretary
of State to have a clerk.
Senate bill for organizing county courts was
made the special order for Tuesday next.
Bill to pardon Epsy Woods, a convict in the
penitentiary was passed.
Bill to allow Chatham Free School to sell cer
tain lands. Passed.
Bill to pardon J. W. Martin, a convict.—
Passed.
Bill to amend section 4275 of the Code. The
bill makes house burning aud burglary at night
punishable with death.
Bill to regulate rate of interest in this State.
Postponed indefinitely.
House adjourned till 3 o’clock, p. m.
SENATE.
March 5Tn.
The Senate re-asseinbled at 3 o'clock, p. m.
house bills on third reading.
Bill to compel Steamboat, Railroad and Ex
press Companies to give receipts for freight.
Passed. *
Resolution for the pardon of Epsey Wood, a
female convict. Passed.
Bill to authorize the Justices of the Inferior
Court of Clark county to issue county bonds.
Ppssed.
Bill tb change the line between Palding and
Carrol counties.
Bill to incorporate the North Western Mining-
Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Okefenokee Land and
Canal Company. Lost.
Bill to incorporate the North Georgia Petro
leum Mining Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Georgia Manufactur
ing and Paper Mill Company. Passed.
Bill for the relief of the Deaf and Dumb Asy
lum. Passed.
Resolution to allow the Secretary of State a
clerk. Agreed to.
Resolution to authorize the Superintendent of
Western and Atlantic railroad to aid persons
living near said road in building stock gaps.
Agreed to. J ,
Resolution that the General Assembly will
not entertain any proposition to relieve stock
holders from personal liability except in certain
cases. Indefinitely postponed.
Resolution to authorize the Governor to ap
point a fit aud competent person to aid the
Hon. David Irwin ini completing the laws. Lost.
A message was received from Iris Excellency
conveying information in relation to the fi
nances of the State. The message, with accom
panying documents, was referred to a commit
tee consisting of Messrs. Redding, Strickland,
J. A. W. Johnson, Bower and Butler.
The balance of the session was spent in read
ing House bills the third time.
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
March sth.
The House met at 3o’clock, p. m.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to punish horse stealing with death.—
Bill to allow decrees in equity to be rendered
in chambers. Passed.
S Bill to prevent illegal seizures in this State.—
' Passed. _
‘ Bill to incorporate the Georgia Express Com
pany. Passed.
Bill to amend section 4,797 of the Code. —
Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Savings Bank of Au
gusta. Passed.
Bill to repeal 4,414 section of the Code. Lost.
Bill for the relief of officers of the Bank of
Savannah. Passed.
! Bill to allow aliens to own land in Georgia. —
! Laid on the table for the present.
The House adjourned till to-morrow morn
ing, 10 o’clock.
SENATE.
March 6th.
The Senate met at the hour of 10 o’clock,
a. m., pursuant to adjournment.
After prayer, the journal was read and ap
proved.
Mr. Thornton moved to reconsider the reso
lution (lost) to authorize some fit and compe
tent person to aid the Hon. David Irwin in re
vising the Code. Passed.
A message was received from his Excellency
the Governor, returning the bill to provide for
the stay of executions, without his approval.'
The bill was then taken up and, by constitu
tional majority, passed over the Executive veto.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to declare Olivia Wallace the adopted
child of S. B. Jones. Passed.
Bill to amend section 4467 of the Code.—
Passed. ,
Bill to legalize certain marriages contracted
during the war. Passed.
Bill to repeal ISSd paragraph of the Code. —
Passed.
Bill to regulate the distribution of the com
mon cchool fund of Echols -ounty. Passed.
Bill to change the line between Murray and
Gordon counties. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Atlanta Mining and
Rolling Mill Company. Passed.
Bill to authorize the ordinaries of this State
to administer oaths. , Passed.
Bill to legalize certain contracts otj guardians,
executors and administrators. Passed.
Bill to amend the charter of the Brunswick
Insurance Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Elijay Mining Compa
ny. Passed.
Bill to incorporate Grjmd Bay Manufacturing
Company. Passed.
Bill to authorize the Inferior Court of Rich
mond county to levy and collect an extra tax.
Passed.
Bill in relation to judgments against trust
estates. Lost. s
Bill to extend the corporate limits of the city
of Rome. Passed.
Bill to exempt from street duty members of
the Hook and Ladder Company of Atlanta-
Passed,
Bill to constitute the town of Madison a city.
Passed. i
Bill to provide for the election of superin
tendents of roads and bridges in the several
counties of the State. Passed.
Bill to amend the charter of the city of Bruns
wick. Passed.
Bill to change the time of holding the Superior
Courts of Lee county. Passed.
Bill to submit to" the voters of Georgia the
question whether the penitentiary shall be
abolished. Passed.
The bills were then read the first and second
time.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
March 6.
The House met at 9 o'clock.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The journal was read and approved.
The bill to allow aliens to hold' land in the
State, lost on yesterday, was reconsidered.
Leave of absence granted to Mr. Martin and
Mr. Dodson.
NEW MATTER.
Mr. Barnes, of Richmond—A bill to incorpo
rate the Augusta and Summerville RWilroad
Company.
Mr. Swearingen, of Decatur—A bill to incor
porate the Mechanics’ Savings Bank.
Mr. Harrison, of Chatham—A bill to legalize
the appointment of L. J. B. Fairchilds as treas
urer of the county of Chatham.
The special order—the bill to organize coun
ty courts —was laid on the table for the present.
’ The rest of the morning session was taken up
in discusssing the general appropriation bill.
House adjourned.
The House reassembled at o’clock, p. m.,
and spent the whole afteTnooji in the consid
eration of the General Appropriation bill, and
adjourhed without reaching a vote.
SENATE.
March 7th.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock, a. m.
Prayer by Rev. S. E. Brooks, of the Baptist
church.
The journal of the preceding day was read
aud approved.
The bill to change the time of holding Infe
rior Courts of Lee county was reconsidered.
The bill extending the corporate limits of the
city of Rome was reconsidered and laid on the
table the balance of the session.
The special committee to whom tiie subject
was referred, reported a bill to appropriate
$300,000 for the relief of the indigent poor of
this State which was read.
The insolvent debtors bill was made the
special order for next Saturday.
BILLS ON 3d READING.
Bill to provide for certain employees on the
Western and Atlantic railroad. Passed.
Resolution requesting and authorizing the
Governor to appoint some suitable and fit per
son to aid Hon. David Irwin in the revision of
tiie Code. Lost.
Resolution requesting superintendent of
W. & A. R. R. to report at the next session of
the Legislature what amount of iron said road
has in its possession belonging to the Bruns
wick railroad. Lost.
Bill to provide for the payment of teachers of
poor schools for the year 1865. Passed.
Bill to fix the rates of jail lees. Lost.
Bill to change the line between Lee and Ter
rell counties. Lost.
Bill to allow Dr. Craig to practice medicine
and charge for the same. Lost.
Mr. Kenan introduced a resolution which was
adopted, tendering to Hon. H. V. Johnson a
seat on the fioor of the Senate during his stay
at the capital.
Resolution authorizing the auditing of certain
claims against the State during tiie administra
tion of Provisional Governor Johnson. Passed.
Resolution, in relation to corn ’purchased
for the State, by Seago, Palmer & Cos., of At
lanta. Lost.
Resolution in relation to foreign immigrants.
Lost.
Bill in relation to indented servants, amenda
tory of section 1842 of the Code. Passed.
Bill to amend section 4007 of the Code. Pass
ed.
Bill to authorize the arrest of criminals flee
ing into a different county from that in wnich
the offense was committed. Passed.
Bill to alter the law in relation to drainage.
Passed. » ,
Bill to confine railroads in their .charges to
their charters. Postponed.
Mr. Kenan introduced a bill to incorporate
the Planters’ Loan and Banking Association.
The balance of the session was spent in read
ing House bills the firat and second time.
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
March 7th.
The House met at 9 o’clock, a. m., and after
passing the general appropriation bill, ad
journed.
The House re-assembled at 2 o’clock, p. m.
The bill to organize county courts in each
county and to define the jurisdiction of the
same was passed. On motion of Mr. Russell,
of Chatham, the provision in the bill as it pass
ed the Senate, that requires the county judge of
Chatham to be a practicing attorney was stric
ken out. At the instance of Mr. Hardeman,
of Bibb, tiie same provision in relation to the
county of Bibb was stricken out of the bill.
Bill to incorporate the Union Express Com
pany. Lost.
Adjourned till 7 o’clock, p. m.
NIGHT SESSION.
At the hour of 7, p. m., the House re-eon
vened.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to repeal an act assented to March 21st,
1864, and to re-enact the former laws in regard
to publishing the decisions of the Supreme
Court. Lost.
i Bill to relieve lax collectors for the year 1865
from the obligation of their bonds. Lost.
Bill to amend section 291 of the Code. Lost.
Bill to alter and amend part 4, title 7, para
; graph 4532 of the Code. Lost.
Bill to alter and anuiu| 1564 section of ihc
Code, in relation to peddlers. Lost.
! Bill to extend the charter of the Roswell Man
j ufacturing Company. Passed,
j Bill for the relief of Jasper J. Owen and Wil-
I liam Owen, of Franklin county. Passed.
[ Bill to amend 3988 section of the Code.—
I Passed.
I Bill to legalize and make valid acts of uotaries
public in certain cases. Passed.
Bill to amend 3604 section of the Code.—
Passed.
Bill to amend an act to incorporate the Geor
gia Home Insurance Company. Passed.
Bill to appoint new commissioners for the
town of Hardwick and to incorporate the same.
Passed. J
Bill to establish a military school at Fort Val
ley. Lost.
Bill to alter and amend the laws of this State
in relation to the Justicps of the Superior
Court. Lost.
Adjourned.
SENATE.
March 8.
The Senate met at 10 o’clock, a. ni.
Prayer by Rev. S. S. Brooks.
The journal was read and approved.
The bill to change the line between Lee and
Terrell counties (passed,) was reconsidered.
The bill to alter the charter of Hawklnsville
was passed.
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to fix the pay of officers and members of
the General Assembly. Passed. The pay of
the House and President of the Senate is fixed
at sl2 per day ; that of the other members at
$9 per day.
Bill to authorize the Governor, in ease the
State is not allowed to assume the Federal
debt, to arrest the collection of State taxes on
lands the present yoflr. Passed.
Bill to authorize the Justices of the Superior
Court of Randolph county to issue bonds.—
Passed.
•Bill to authorize the Inferior Courts of Thom
as and Liberty counties to levy and collect an
extra tax. Passed.
Bill to compensate the commissioners for
preparing the Freedmcn’s Code. It aliows
each of the four 8500. Passed. i
Bill to authorize the superintendent of the
Western and Atlantia Railroad and the Terasu
rer of the State to execute a bond for the pay
ment to the United States of dues for iron, &e.
Passed.
Bill to allow the ordinary of Mclntosh county
to keep liis record more than a mile from the
court house. Passed.
Bill for the relief of Milley Howard. Passed.
Bill to change the line between Muscogee and
Chattahoochee counties, so as to make the Upa
toie the boundary. Passed.
Bill to increase the pay of the compiler of the
law to $750. Passed.
Bill to repeal the laws forbidding the circula
tion of United States currency. Passed.
Bill to amend the charter of the town of
Sparta. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the town of Springfield.—
Passed.
Bill to amend the charter of the town of Baiu
bridge. Passed.
Bill to amend section 1290 of the Code.—
Passed.
Bill to allow certain charitable schools in Sa
vannah to sell lands donated to the same.—
Passed.
Bill for the relief of John S. Edmondson. —
Passed.
Bill to alter section 2416 of the Code. Pass
ed.
Bill for the relief of Moses F. Collins, of the
county of Whitfield. Passed.
Bill in relation to Records. Passed.
Bill to authorize courts in certain counties to
be held in other plages besides the court
houses. Passed.
Bill to amend the Code in relation to vagrants.
Passed.
Bill to make provision for the division of
lands among distributees in certain counties
where no provision is made for such division.
Passed.
Bill to remit the unpaid taxes for the years
1864 and 1865. Referred to the Judiciary Com
mittee.
Bill to alter the rules of evidence in certain
eases. Passed.
Bill to alter section 1307 of the Cods> Passed.
Biil to alter section24Bo oftheCode. Passed.
Bill to authorize his Excellency to raise money
by the issue of Stale bonds. Passed. It au
thorizes the raising of $1,500,000.
Bill to change the line between Putnam and
Jasper. Lost.
Bill to incorporate the Brunswick aud Alta
nialia Canal Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporatethe Carroll Manufacturing
Company. Passed.
Bill to authorize the Inferior Court of Bartow
county to issue bonds to raiserevenue for coun
ty purposes. Passed.
Bill for the relief of mained soldiers. Pass
ed; It provides for supplying at the expense
of the State artificial legs and arms to mained.
soldiers in the late Confederate army.
Biil to incorporate the Eagle and Phoenix
Manufacturing Company of Columbus, Georgia.
Passed. T
Mr. Gresham introduced a resolution au
thorizing the appointment of a committee of
lawyers to examine the digest of the Supremo
Court decisions in course of preparation by A.
O. Bacon, Esq., of Macon, Ga. Referred to the
Judiciary Committee.
Bill to’ incorporate the Oostanaula Steamboat
Company, with powers of insurance. Passed.
Bill to incorporate tlie.Yonah Gold Company.
Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Cuthbert Manufactur
ing Company.
Mr. Butler introduced a bill to incorporate the
Augusta Savings Bank. The same bill had pass
ed both houses but lacked some formality to
render it valid.
Bill to incorporate the Augusta Mutual In
surance Company. Passed.
Bill to amend the charter of the Merchants’
Insurance Company. Passed.
Rill to incorporate the Central Railroad and
Canal Company. Made the special order for
to-morrow.
Bill to incorporate the LaGrange Savings
Bank. Lost.
Bill to incorporate the Augusta Insurance
Company. Passed.
Bill to incoporate the Gordon Mining and
Manufacturing Company. Passed.
Senate adjourned. (
HOUSE.
March 8.
The House met at 9 o’clock, a. m.
Prayer by the chaplain.
The journal was read and approved.
Mr. Moses, pf Muscogee, moved to reconsider
so much sf the journal of yesterday as relates to
the rejection of a bill to incorporate the Union
Express Company. Lost.
Mr. Russell, of Chatham, moved to reconsi
der so much of the journal as relates to the
rejection of a bill to change the name of the
Home Insurance Company, of Savannah, to the
Georgia Citizen Company. The motion pre
vailed and the bill passed.
Bill to authorize the appointment of J. B.
Fairchild treasurer of Chatham county. Pass
ed.
Bill to incorporate the Augusta and Summer
ville Railroad Company. Passed.
Bill for the relief Dickson Taliaferro, Jr., of
Whitfield county. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Atlanta Street Railroad
1 Company. Lost-
Bill to regulate the liabilities of executors,
administrators and guardians, and to regulate
settlements with the same. Passed.
Bill to authorize the Inferior Court of Pickens
county to appropriate any money in the treas
ury oi said county arising from the sale of eot
tqn to the support of the indigent poor of said
county. Passed.
Bill to authorize the Inferior Courts of the
several counties in this State to purchase farms
and houses for paupers, and to levy a tax to
pay for the same. Passed.
Bill to authorize (lie ordinaries of this State
to issue temporary letters of admisistration in
certain cases. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the town of Stylesboro.—
Passed.
, BUI to incorporate a Stfeet Railroad Compa
ny in the city of Savannah. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Alabama aud Georgia
Manufacturing Company. Passed.
Mr. Mosds, of Muscogee, introduced a bill to
regulate charges of railroad and express com
panies, and to prevent extortion by the same.
Bill to . repeal seetltm 4424 of the Code.—
Passed.
The Stay Law, vetoed by the Governor on ac
count of constitutional objections to the same,
was taken up and passed by a constitutional
majority. Ycays 121, nays 7.
Leltve of absence granted to Mr. Stallings, of
Coweta, the balance of J,hc session.
House adjourned,
AFTERNOON SESSION.
, March 8.
The Senate met at 3 o’clock.
house bills on 3d reading.
Bill to incorporate the Columbus Manufac
turing Company. Passed. The corporation is
to exist for 50 years.
Bill to incorporate the American Insurance
and Industrial Agency. Passed.
BUI to incorporate the chartered Long Branch
Hydraulic Hose Mining Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Little River Mining
Company." Passed.
Bjll to incorporate the Franklin Mining and
Manufacturing Company. Passed.
Bill to Incorporate the Gate City Car and Ma
chine Works. Passed.
Bill to increase the fees of clerk of Supreme
Court and county officers. Passed.
' Bill to authorize the- Inferior Courts of the
several counties to levy and collect an extra
tax for the benefit of indigent soldiers of the
late Confederate army, and the indigent fami
lies of deceased soldiers. Tax not to exceed 100
per cent* on the State tax. Passed.
Bill to chang'd the time of holding the Supe
rior Courts of Lee couuty. Passed.
Bill for the relief of administrators, guardians,
&c. Passed. It relieves such from any liabili
ties for having taken Confederate bonds.
Bill to change the line between Laurens and
Wilkinson. Lost.
Bill to define the liabilities of vendue masters.
Lost. ,
Bill to allow executors to resign their trusts.
Lost.
Bill to allow Justices Court at Glenniore,
Ware county. Lost.
Bill to alter section 648 of the Code. Lost.
Bill to alter the mode of’paying the solicitor
of Eastern Circuit. Lost.
Bill to limit the time when companies char
tered by this Legislature must organize. Lost.
Bill to fix the fees at ordinaries. Passed.
Adjourned.
HOUSE.
aeterWoon SESSION.
March 8.
The House re-assembled at 2 o’clock.
BILLS ON 3D READING.
Bill to regulate the labor of convicts, upon
public works, and to define the. powers of the In
ferior Courts and.the Governor in regard to the
same. Passed.
Bill for the relief of George Cox, of Whitfield
county. Passed.
Biil to incorporate tiie Chattahoochee Manu
acturing Company. Passed.
, Bill to incorporate the Mechanics’ Savings
Bank of Augusta. Passed.
Bill to prescribe the marital relation between
freedmen. Passed.
Bill to define the duty of tax receivers. Lost.
Bill to exonerate sheriffs and other collecting'
officers from liabilities in certain cases. Passed.
Bill to alter and amend sections |585, 594 and
603, and repoal section 588 of the. Code. Lost.
Bill to regulate administration of estates of
deceased persons. Los}.
Bill,creating liens upon growing crops. Lost.
Leave of absence granted Mr. Spear the lwl
lanee of the session.
night Session.
The House met at 7 o’clock.
The bill to amend the charter-of the city of
Macon was passed.
Bill to allow the redemption of real estate
sold under execution, in two years. Passed.
Bill to organize and establish an orphan’s
house in the State. Passed.
Bill to add an additional elause to the 2531
section of the Code. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Columbus Manufac
turing Company. Passed.
Bill to prescribe and regulate the relation of
parent and child among persons of cojpr.—
Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Savings flank of Au
gusta. Passed.
Bill to amend the 1350 section of the Code.
Passed.
Bill to reduce the bonds of officers of certain
counties. Lost.
Bill to define the rights of persons owning
latfflings on rivers. Lost.
Senate bill to require persons exempt from
jury duty to serve as tales jurors. Lost.
Bill to incorporate the Fulton Medical Col
lege. Passed.
Mr. Moses introduced a bill to authorize the
ordinary of Newton county toissue letters of ad
ministration to L. A. Watley, a non-resident.
Adjourned.
SENATE.
• March-9.
The Senate met at 9 1-2 o'clock, a. m., pur
suant to adjournment.
Prayer by Rev. S. E. Brooks.
The-journal was road and approved.
Mr. Thornton moved to reconsider the bill,
lost on yesterday, to make vendue masters re
sponsible for property sold by them. The mo
tion prevailed.
BILLS ON THIRD READING. '
Bill to incorporate the Southern Savings
Bank and Association. Passed.
Reconsidered bill to incorporate the La
grange Savings Bank. Passed,
Reconsidered bill to change the line between
Lee and Terrell counties. Passed.
Reconsidered bill to make vendue masters
responsible for property sold by tiiem. Pass
ed.
Bill to incorporate the Southern Bank of
America. Passed. ’
Bill to increase the liabilities of express
companies. Lost.
Bill to give trustees* courts jurisdiction in
cases of larceny, where the theft was not more
than of S2O. Lost.
Bill to alter section 1629 of the Code. Pass
ed.
Bill to extend the charter of the Central
Railroad and Canal Company. Passed.
Bill to incorporate the Steam Cotton Mill
Company. Passed.
The bill to vest the State’s land near Macon
in the corporate authorities of said city being
the special order, was taken up, and was under
discussion at the time of closing this report.
AFTERNOON SESSION.
The Senate met at the hour of 3 o’clock.
The bill to vest in the eit&autharities of Ma
con certain lands of the Sfate—being the un
finished business—was taken up, and, after con
siderabje discussion, was lost. Yeas, 13 : nays,
15.
The bill to’ incorporate the Planter’s Loan
and Banking Association was taken up and
passed.
Senate adjourned.
HOUSE.
March 9.
The House met at 9, a. in.
Prayer by ttie chaplain.
The journal of the preceding day was rend
and approved.
A resolution was adopted in relation to the
appointment of n committee to select a site for
the penitentiary.
Ttie bill for the relief of the banks was indef
initely postponed.
Bill to encourage immigration. Passed.
House adjourned. ~ „** '
! HOUSE.
AFTERNOON SESSftjN.
The House met at 3 o’clock, and took up
BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Bill to extend the limits of Thomasville.—
Passed.
Bill to donate the Oku feu ok ec swamp lands
to I'ne Georgia Orphans’ Home. Passed.
Bill accepting for the State donation of land
from the United States'to States and Territories.
Passed. > ' <
Bill to authorize transfer of criminal eases in
Inferior Courts to the'County Courts. Passed.
Bill to define and regulate court contracts in
the County Courts. Passed.
Bill to authorize married women to deposit,
money in Savings Banks. Passed.
Bill to prevent the consumption of grain by
distilleries. Lost.
Bill to incorporate the Georgia Land and
Lumber Company. Passed.
Adjourned, to meet at 9 o’clock to-morrow
morning.
HOUSE.
March 10.
The House met at 9 o’clock, pursuant to ad
journment.
Prayer by the chaplain. <
The. journal of the preceding day was read
and approved.
The bill to amend the charter ot Thomasville
was reconsidered.
bills on Tmnn reading.
Bill for the relief of L, AT Whatley, admin
istrator. Passed,
Bill limiting the charges of express com
panies. Passed.
Bill to extend the corporate limits of Thoui
asvillc (reconsidered.), Passed.
, The liomested bill reported by a conference
committee was passed.
Bill to require freedmen to have certificates
of employment. Lost.
Bill to authorize frdinartes to issue letters
testamentary in certain cases. Lost.
Bill to allow freedmen equality In giving in
testimony. Lost.
Bill to repeal section 285 of the Code.—•
Passed.
Adjournod.
SENATE.
Makch 10.
Tiie Senate met at half-past nine o’clock,a. m.
Prayer by tiie Rev. 8. E. Brooks, of tin; Bap
tist Church.
The journal of the preceding day was read
and approved.
On motion of Mr. Butler, 100 copies of tiie
report of the committee appointed by the Pro
visional Governor to Investigate the financial
condition of the State during tiie war, were or
dered to be, printed for tiie use of the Senate.
Tiie. bill incorporating the Augusta Savings
Bunk was passed.
HOUSE BILLS ON THIRD READING.
Rill to enable judges of tiie Superior and In
ferior Courts to fill certain vacancies. Passed.
Bill to amend section 3988 of the Code.—
Passed.
‘ Bill to define the liabilities of executors, Ac.
Passed.
Bill to amend soction 4434 of the Code.—
Passed.
Bfll to legalize the appointment of L. J. B.
Fairchilds as couuty treasurer of Chatham
county. Passed.
Bill for the relief of Jasper J. Owen. Passed.
Bill for the relief of Dickerson Taliaferro.—
Passed.
Bill requiring cost to be paid in certain cases.
Passed.
Bill to make valid certain acts of notaries
public. Passed.
Bill to amend section 3604 of the Code.—
Lost. <
The Senate resolution in relation to the ap
pointment of a committee (if competent lawyers
to examine and report on a digest of Supreme
Court decisions in course of preparation by A.
Oi Bacon, Esq., was passed.
’The Senate was in session at tiie time of clos
ing this report.
Answer to “Wise” Questions— Henry
A. Wise has been writing to Fernando Wood,
of New York, on sundry political matters, and
in about the middle ot the letter, as published,
we find these questions: “ Can you inform me,
then, why, the war having ceased, peace has
not been proclaimed? Why civil jurisdiction
lias not been allowed ?” Ac. These are perti
nent questions ; but Mr. Wise has not display
ed much wisdom in going to Mr. Wood for
answers. lie should have procured a full re
sponse by looking around hirn at home. There
is no room for doubt that peace would have
been proclaimed long ego if thfriSouthorn States
had not been afilicled by fiery orators and
newspaper editors, mid other uneasy spirits,
who keep up agitation, abuse the'Government
that has been so lenient with them, and thus
help to keep society there in an unsettled and
turbulent condition. They are the. men, for tiie
most part, who stir up the bad blood, the con
tention, tiie strife, the violence, the riotous de
monstrations which give occasion for the pres
ence of the military, and those are the occur
rences that have held back the well-known de
sire of the President to proclaim peace and re
store the Southern States entirely to the juris
diction of their civil tribunals*. Some recently
reported speeches of Mr. Wise himself, said to
have been made in the Richmond courts, and
the wild ravings of the Richmond Examiner,
may be cited as examples of the agitations we
refer to, and that have exercised a potent in
iluenee in keeping the Southern States tinder
military rule. When they take away these rea
sons for withholding the proclamation of peace,
they will hasten the day for that proclamation.
Mr! Wise would do better to ask advice and in
formation from Alexander Stephens than from
Fernando Wood —VhiladelpFtia Ledger.
WasijinGton, March B.—Representative
Bout well to-day made a report from the Com
mittee on Reconstruction, signed by himself
and Representative Washburnc, ot Illinois, in
which they state that tliecOlored people of Ten
nessee are undoubtedly loyal, and half of the
white people arc disloyal. East Tennessee is
strongly loyal, and Middle atid West Tennes
see arc disloyal. There arc about 120,000 white
males of the voting age, and 80,000 colored
males of the voting age irl the State, making in
all 200,000. The bill proposes to exclude seven
tenths of the loyal population. They propose
an amendment to the proposition by offering
another condition for the admission of Tennes
see : That, in conferring tiie elective franchise,
no distinction shall be made as to race or color.
The Tribune's Washington special says:
The mania for destroying the various articles of
furniture iu the Executive Mansion for the pur
pose of securing mementoes still seems to be
unabated. A man and woman were yesterday
arrested for entting the curtains in the east
room, and taken before the Superintendent of
Police, who held the parties for further investi
gation, -