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and that they shall respectively take an
oath before his Excellency the Governor
that they will respectively .truly do and
perform all the duties required of them as
aforesaid.
Sec. 18. And be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, ‘l'hat his Excel
lency the Governor be and lie is hereby
authorized and required forthwith to em
piny such* number of fit and competent
agei ts as to him may seem necessary
whose duty it at.aH *>e to purchase for the
use of the State the additional number of
ablcd bodied negroes directed and intend
ed to be purchased by virtue of this act,
and who shall be allowed for their trouble
such compensation as may to his Excel*
lency the Governor seem just and reason
able—and further, that when ever any
such negro or negroes for the use of the
State according to the provisions of this
act, it sha’l be his duty carefully to exam
ine the tittle and to tskea bill of sale for
the negro or negroes so purchased by him
to the Governor of the state of Georgia f.n
the time being and his • u :ct:S>ois in otlice,
for Itie use of saui ei ,ti j , and to cause the
same to beduiy executed, authenticated,
ami proved according to law, and transmit
the same to ins Excellency the Governor,
to be filed and recorded in the office of
the Secretary of State: and his Excellency
the Governor is hereby authorized to
accept the draft or drafts of the said agent
lor the amount of the purchase money of
the said negro or negroes and to draw
warrants fur iheeame on the Treasurer to
hp jviui nut nf the monev appropriated for
that purpose by the second section or uns
act.
Sec. 19. Ami be it further enacted by
tho authority aforesaid, That the super
intemiants shall not be permitted to fur
nish in their own proper persons or by
any agent they in iy appoint any article
or articles for the support or niantaiuace
or clothing of the said hand's, or any im
plements, tools, or camp equipage which
may be r< quired for their use or the pro
gress of the improvement of the said
roads and livers, but shall procure all
mid every article which may be required
as above at the lowest market price.
Sec 20. And be it further enacted by
the authoiity aforesaid, That nothing
contained in this act, shall be so constru
ed as in manner to etf et the operation
ol the road laws now in force in this
State, gave ami except in so far as the
same may inteilere with the free exer
cise of the powers hereby vested in, anp
the full and faithful dischaige of the du
ties hereby required to be performed by
the sact superintedatits and overseers or
hereie before provided.
Sec. 21. And be it further enacted by
f >’ 2 authority aforesaid, Tint ail laws and
parts of laws militating against this act,
be and the same are'hereby repealed.
•CAiiiN E i’.
I'thY .hi C 1830.
Monday next is the election
day, throughout the state, lor
county ollicers ; the following
gentlemen are all the candi
dates that we have heard of lor
this county—
SHERIFF.
Col Athelstand Andrews.
Capt. Nathan Jones,
Edward Matthews, esq.
llardy Pitts, esq.
John S. U. Wilson, esq.
Joseph Wright, esq.
CLERK SOP. COURT.
Thomas Gibson, esq.
John Moore, esq.
CLERK INF#. COURT.
Thomas Gibson, esq.
TAX RECEIVER.
Jethro Darden, esq.
James C, Gibson, esq.
TAX COLLECTOR.
William Castle.be> ry, esq.
Samuel Flemming, esq.
SURVEYOR.
James Pace, esq
CORONER.
Andrew Bush* Boze Kitchens
and William W. Martin, esqrs.
The great length of the riv-i
er anil Hoad Bill, which will be
found on our first page, pre-i
vents the insertion of other
matter prepared for this paper.
The last Legislature of this
state passed 170 acts—South
Carolina passed 27.
The 11 th Seelion of an Act, passed,
MilledgevHit, Ga. Decem
ber 22 1829.
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Be it further enacted, £sC’
That if any slave negro, or free
pi rson of color, or any white
person shall teach any other
slave negro, or free person of
color, to read or to write, either
written or printed characters,
the said free person of color
or slave, shall be punished by
fine and whipping, or fine, or
whipping, at the direction of
the court, and if a white per
son so offending, he, she, or
they, shall be punished with
fine, not exceeding five hun
dred dollars, and imprison
ment in the common jail, at the
discretion of the court, before
which said offender is tried.
A list of acts, of a public na
ture, passed at the last session.
To repeal an act entitled an act to set a
part and reserve for the use of tue State
all valuable mines, ores and minerals, ike.
To admit attorneys and solicitors from
adjoining States and Territories, to plead
and practice in the courts of Georgia.
To alter the name of the Medical Acad
emy of Georgia, aud to extend it* corpo
rate powers.
To point out the mode of taking the
testimony of females in certain cases.
To extend the time for fortunate draw
ers in the land lottery of i827 to take out
their grants—(extended to the 25th De
cember, 1830.)
To authorise and require the Govern*
ment to mak° disbursements of the funds
set apart for education of poor children,
and lor the endowment ot country acade
mies.
1 o change (he manner of punishing
convicts in the Penitentiary, and for the
better regulation of the same,* also for
also for adding to and amending the Pen
itentiary buildings, and for applying the
money appropriated for the support of the
Penitentiary tor the year 1829, to the
repairs and alterations in the Penitentiaiy
buildings herein contemplated.
To require the clerks of the Courts of
Ordinary tu record all guardians and ad
ministrators bonds.
To add the Territory in the possession
of the Cherokees to the counties of Carrol
DcKalb, Gwinnett, Hall, and Habersham
—to extend the laws over the same—to
annul the laws passed by the Cherokees
—to provide for the compensation of of
ficers serving process therin—to regulate
the testimony of Indians: and to repeal
the act of 1828 upon this subject.
Art act concerning the guardianship of
minors.
To amend the charter of the Central
Bank and to provide for the disposition
and sale of the forfeited lands.
To amend the attachment laws so aa to
permit persons insured by agents of in
surance offices to issue attachments against
the property and effects of said insurance
companies and to garnishee its agent or
agents.
To compel the written
testimony which may be in the pos
session of persons not parties to the
suit and not residing in the county
where the suit may be pending.
To make valid the bonds taken by
the Sheriffs of this State, and their
Deputies, Coroners and Constables
from defendants in execution for the
delivering of property levied on by
them.
Tax act of 1830.
To amend the act of 20th December
1 1826, to amend the act to enaMc feme
coverts to convey their estates and
for confirming and making valid all
conveyances and ackn nvledgments
heretofore made by feme coverts pas
sed the 24th April 1760, so far as the
same relates to feme covorts convey
ing their dower also to enable the wife
to inherit the whole estate of her de
ceased husband.
To amend the act concerning guar
dianship of free persons of color.
To define and make certain the
mode of assessing damages upon the
trial of claims of property in the Su
perior and Inferior courts.
To amend the Judiciary of ’99, so
far as relates to mortgages on real
estate.
To define the duty of the Trustees
of the poor school fund in the different
counties.
To limit the time of fraudulent re
turns in the late acquired territory.
To authorize the transfer and as
signment of judgements and Execu
tions and to make certain the prac
tice with regard thereto.
To prevent slaves and free negroes,
from setting types in printing offices.
To define the duties of Grand Ju
rors as to the time when they are
bound to notice offences (provides that
they are not bound till they are sworn
in,)
To alter the acta of 1811 and 1810,
fc relation to slaves and free persons
of color.
For the relief of James B. Lester,
and to authorise the Governor to issue
Grants to purchasers of public lands
when the cirtificate has been lost, and
the whole of the money has been paid
To amend the penal code of 1817.
To amend the Bth section of the re
vised militia laws and repeal Use cav
alry laws ot 1818.
To amend the laws for the trial and
punishment of slaves and free persons
of color.
To authorize the Inferior courts of
the several counties to transcribe the
records of the Superior and Inferior
courts of the several couulies and the
courts of ordinary and to define the
duties of Clerks, &c.
To authorize the appointment of
Commissioners out of this state to take
the acknowledgements of deeds and
other instruments of writing and un
dcr seal and to admit the same to re
cord in this State and also take affida
vits.
For the relief of certain drawers in
the land lotteries of 1825, and to point
out the manner in which laud drawn
by illegitimates shall discend.
To make Constables elective by
the people and point out the inode to
take their bonds and their duties.
For the relief of Sheriffs in certain
cases.
To appropriate money for the sup
port of Government for 1830.
To alter and amend the Bth and
9th sections of the 9th Division of the
Penal Code of 1817.
To amend the law regulating quar
antine in the sea ports of this State—
to prevent the circulation of written
or printed papers, circulated to create
disaffection among the colored popu
lation of the State—to prevent said
people from being taught to read and
write, and to repeal the act of 1824,
entitled an act to repeal the act of
1817, prohibiting the introduction of
slaves into the State.
To authorize the courts of ordinary
to order a sale of slaves belong to es
tates, or wards.
To extend the time for fortunate
drawers in the Land Lotteries of 1818
— ’ 19, and ’2l take out their grants
(extended to the Ist November 1830.)
The Village Record, edited by Mr.
Miner, a member of Congress, in an
article on the controversy between
Mr. Gilmer and Mr. Forsyth, copied
into the intelligencer, having remark
ed that the course pursued by Mr. F.
was the consequence of‘some person
al, or political feud,’ between those
gentlemen, Mr. Forsyth has published
a contradiction of that assertion in the
following words;—
To the Editor of the Nat ional •„
Washington, Do,. ;
Silt—Being no longer the G i,' v .
nor of Georgia, l consider tins ; ;
liberty to request the insertion j.*.
National Gazette, of the endust.;
tide from the Village Record, cxti?.. \
ed from the National Intelligencer y
the 9th of June last, and oft;.;. [
of Judge Holt, of Georgia,
the falsehood of the only pari, f ’
Miner‘s statement about which l
sider itjfnecei-SAry to give luyidf
trouble. * *, ‘
I am, sir, respectfully, yocr <>!?;;<]•.
ent sevant, JOHN FORSYTH.
[Here follows the article hi h a..;
unnecessary to copy,] T
Augusta, 30th Nov. 1829/
Dear Sir—l have convers h with
Mr. Gilmer on the subject of the con
troversy which arose out of you, l
Proclamation declaring h:s scat- .j-,.
Congress vacant.—As to any ;--n villa
and political feud, said by souhe iu
have existed between you, an in Hr
the Proclamation, he says to me, i-.ird
authorizes me to say to you, he . kae.w
nothing of it. Your acquaintance, be
says, was very limited, having sddwui
met you, either in public or private
life; and that, though you differed on
certain constitutional questions, lids
was merely a difference of opinion,
which never created any thing like %
political feud; but that, on the contra
ry, you have both infornily acted with
the same political party, and supinn t
cd by common friends.
With respect, yours. &, *.
WM. W HOLT.
To the Hon. John Forsyth.
GOVERNORS OF TOE STATES.
The following is a list of the acting
Governors for the sever'd States fj?
1830,
Maiue Nathan Cutter
New Hampshire Benjamin Pierce
Vermont Samuel C. Crart
Massachusetts Levi Lincoln
Rhode island James Fenner
Connecticut Gideon Tomlinson
New York KnosT. Tliroop
New Jersey Peter D. Vroon, Jr.
1 Pennsylvania George Wolf
Delaware David H zzard
Maryland Daniel M riin
Virginia William 13. Giles
North Carolina John Owen
South Carolina Stephen 1). Miller
Georgia George It. Gilmer-
Alabama Gabriel Moore
Mississippi Gerard C. Brandon
Louisiana H, Beauvais,
Tennessee William Carroll
Kentucky Thomas Metcalf
Ohio Alien Trimble
Indiana James R. Ray
Illinois Ninian Edwards
Missouri John Miller -
From the Washington Telegraph, •
EAST ROOM.
•‘The East Room has been fitted op
in a very neat manner, The paper is
of fine lemon color, with a rich doth
border, four new mantels have ale >
in the room, of black mar
ble with Italian black and gold fronts,
each fire place has a handsome grain
fixed—they were however, in tho
house before. New bronzed and steel
fenders, and setts of brass fire irons ,
and chimney hooks have betfo added
—each mantel is furtiishevl with a
mirror, the plates of which measure
100 by 58 in, framed in a very beau
tiful style, and a pair of ten- light
lamps, bronzed and gilt with a row
of drops around the fountain, nnd a
pair of French China vases, richly
gilt and painted with glass shades and
flowers. There are three very splen
did chandaliers, each for eighteen
candles, the style of which is entire
ly new; the color of the glass and rot
ting perhaps exceeds any thing of (he
kind ever seen. A small, bronzed
and gilt work, corresponding with the
mantel lamps, the niches and reces
ses of which are supplied Willi eight
French bronzed end gilt bracket
lights, each for five candles. The
carpet, which contains near stH)*yai ds
is of fine BrutjeU; fawn, blue an A