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Mr. Calvin’s Vagrancy Bill
Hon. Martin V. Calvin, of Rich
mond, has done the state good
service in the passage of bis bill
prescribing who are vagrants in
Georgia, providing a speedier
method of arresting parties alleged
to be vagrants and prescribing a
more specific procedure and pun-
ishmint.
Georgia, in common with most
of the southern states, suffers to
no small extent because of the
numerous loafers who congregate
about the depots, cheap dives and
street corners in town, while the
farmers seek in vain for laborers in
the field. Frequently efforts are
made to induce these loafers in the
towns to go to the country and
work on the farms, but they will
not do so. They have too easy a
time in town, living by their wits
or upon the charity of negro cooks
and house servants, who give them
food and thu9 enable them
to spend a life of profligacy. Mr.
Calvin’s bill - designates as va
grants: Persons wandering or
strolling about in idleness, who
are able to work and have no prop
erty to support them.
Persons leading an idle, immor
al life, who have no property to
support them, and who are able
to work and do not work.
All persons able to work, having
property to support them, and who
have no visible or known means
of a fair,honest and reputable live
lihood. The term "visible and
known means of a fair, honest and
reputable livelihood,” as used in
this section, shall be construed
reasonably continuous employs
ment at some lawful occupation
for reasonable compensation or a
hxed and regular income from
or othe* - investment, the income
from which is sufficient for the
support and maintenance of such
vagrant.
Persons having a fixed abode,
who have no visable property to
support them, and who live by
trading or bartering stolen prop
erty.
Professional gamblers living in
idleness.
All able bodied persons who are
found begging for a living or who
quit their houses and leave their
wives and children without means
of subsistence.
All persons able to work and
who do not work, but hire out
their minor children and live on
their wages.
It is made the duty of every
county officer, the police and town
marshal or other like officials to
give information concerning all
vagrants within their knowledge,
or persons whom they have reason
to suspect as being vagrants, to
any officer empowered to issue crim
inal warrant, and it becomes his
duty to issue a warrant for the ap
prehension of the alleged vagrant
to be brought before him for
trial.
If the officers in the towns and
counties of the state will carry out
the letter and the spirit of this
law there will soon be a marked
decrease in the number of loafers
who hang abut the streets and
live as parasites upon those who
labor. The Augusta Chronicle.
Excursion to Savannah.
There will be an excursion over
the A. C. L. from Montgomery to
Savannah on August the 17th.
Tickets sold for special trains only
but good to return on all regular
trains up to including August 20.
Train will leave Bainbridge 12:18
p. m. Fare round trip. #2.50.
STAR
BARBERSHOP,
WILLF. THORNTON,
Proprietor.
Established 1865.
| Mr. Dan McQIII.
Dan McGill, of the firm of May-
son Hill & McGill, one of Atlan
ta's rising young attorneys, has
been honored by the Commercial
Law League of America by being
elected to the presidency of the
organization.
The Commercial Law League
of America is now in session at
Mackinac Island, Mich., and Mr.
McGill, as a representative of the
Atlanta bar, has been attending
the sessions. When the news
reached the city of his election
quite a number of his friends sent
him congratulatory messages.
Mr. McGill has been a member
of the firm of Mayson, Hill & Mc
Gill for two years, having come to
this city from Bainbridge, Ga.,
and is taking his stand among the
leading counsellors of Atlanta.—
Constitution.
Mr. McGill has many friends
here, where he was reared, who
will be delighted to hear of his
prosperity. He is a young man
who has worked hard and faith
fully at his chosen calling and the
success he is meeting with is mer
ited and well earned. His friends
will watch his career with interest
and expect him to win still greater
honors.
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State of Georgia—Decatur County:
Mrs. K. M, Nicholson ) In the Superior
vs. > Court, May
E. A. Stewart. > Term 1908.
It being represented to the Court by
the petition of Mrs. K. M. Nicholson
that by deed of mortgage dated the I8th
day of December 1601 E. A. Stewart
oonveyed to the said K. M. Nicholson
the west half of lot of land number two
hundred and fifty-nine in the Nineteenth
District of Decatnr County, Geoigia,
containing one hundred and twenty-five
acres, more or less, for the purpose of
securing the payment ot the promisory
note made by the said E. A. Stewart to
the said K. M. Nicholson due on the 18th
day of December 1902 for the sum of
one hundred dollars, which amount be
sides interest is now due and unpaid. It
is ordered that the said E. A. Stewart
do pay into this Court by the first day of
the next term the principal, interest and
costs due on said mortgage or show cause
if any he has to the contrary, or that in
default thereof foreclosure be granted
to the said K. M. Nicholson of said
mortgage and the equity of redemption
of the said E. A. Stewart therein be for
ever barred, and that service of this rule
be perfected on the said E. A, Stewart
according to law.
W. N. Spenoe,
Judge S. C. A. C.
A true copy from the minutes of this
Court.
C. W. WlMBERLEY, Clerk.
LEAVE TO SELL.
Georgia—Decatur County:
Notioe is hereby given that the under
signed has applied to the Ordinary of
said county for leave to sell land be
longing to the eetate of D. A. Camp
bell for the purpose of distribution
among the heirs of said estate. Said ap
plication will be heard at regular term
of ciurt of ordinary for said county to
be held on the first Monday in Septem
ber 1903. This August 4th 1603.
J. H. Emanuel,
Administrator estate D. A. Campbell.
GUARDIANSHIP.
GEORG I A—Decatur County,
John T. Saunders, a resident of said
state, having duly applied to be appoint
ed guardian of the personal and prop
erty of Maggie. Girtie L. and Earnest C.
Saunders, minor children of James T.
Saunders, deceased. ;Notice is given
that said application will be heard at my
office at 10 o’clock a. m., on the first
Mouday in September, next. This
August 3d, 1903.
T- B. Maxwell, Ordinary.
CITATION. ‘
GEORGIA—Decatur County.
To all whom it may concern:
H. C. Allen having in proper form ap
plied to me for permanent letters of ad
ministration on the estate of C. D.
Adams, late of said county, this is to
cite all and singular the creditors and
next of kin of said C. D. Adams to be
and appear _ at my office on the first
Monday in September, and show cause,
if auy they can. why permanent admin
istration should not be granted to said
H. C. Allen on said C. D. Adams estate.
Witness my hand and official signature,
this August 4th, 1903.
T. B. Maxwell, ordinary.
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All calls given prompt attention.
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Gunsmithingand Sheet Met
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Old roofs repaired and repainted.
Orders solicited.
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