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ATLANTA, GEORGIA,
Wednesday, November 10, I860.
PREAMBLE TO THE CONSTITUTION.
We, the people of the State of Georgia, in or
der to form a |>ennanent Government, establish
justice, insure domestic tranquility, and secure
the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our pos
terity—acknowledging and invoking the gui
dance of Almighty God, the author of all gooo
Government, do ordain and establish this Consti
tution for the State of Georgia:
Till: CONSTITUTION
or the
STATE OF GEORGIA.
ARTICLE L
Declaration of Right*.
1. Protection to person and property is the
duty of government.
2. No person shall l»e deprived of life, liberty,
or property, except by due process of law.
3. The writ of hnlieas corpus shall not be sus
pended, unless, in case of rebellion or invasion,
the public safety may require it.
4. A well regulated militia, being necessary to
the security of a free Btatc, the right of the peo
ple to keep and bear arms, shall not be infringed.
5. Perfect freedom of religious sentiment be
and the same is hereby secured, and no inhabi
tant of this Suite shall ever be molested in per
son or property, nor prohibited from bolding any
public office or trust on account of his religious
opinion.
6. Freedom of speech and freedom of the press
are inherent elements of political liberty. But
while every citizen may freelv speak, or write, or
print on an}’ subject, be shall lie responsible for
the abuse of the liberty.
7. The right of the people to appeal to the
courts, to petition government on all matters of
legitimate cognizance and peaceably to assemble
for the consideration of any matter of public
concern shall never be impaired.
H. Every person charged with an offense against
the laws of the State shall have the privilege
and benefit of counsel; shall lie furnished on de
mand a copy of the accusation and list of the
witnesses on whose testimony the charge against
him is founded; shall have compulsory process
to obtain Use attendance of h'u own witnesses;
shall be confronted by the witnesses testifying
aguinst him, and shall have a public, and speedy
trial by an impartial jury, as heretofore practiced
in Georgia.
0. No person shall be put in jeopardy of life
or lilierty more than once for the same offense,
save on liis or her own motion for a new trial af
ter conviction, or in case of mis-trial.
10. No conviction shall work corruption of
blood or general forfeiture of estate. •
11. Excessive bail shall not be required, nor
excessive fines imposed, nor cruel and unusual
punishments inflicted.
12. The i lowers of the courts to punish for
contempts shall be limited by legislative acts.
13. Legislative acts in violation of the consti
tution are void, and the judiciary shall so declare
them.
14. Ex post facto laws, laws impairing the ob
ligation of contracts, and retroactive laws inju
riously aff ecting any right of the citizen, are pro
hibited.
15. Laws should have a general operation, and
no general law affecting private rights shall be
varied in a particular case by special legislation,
except with the free consent, in writing, of all
persons to be affected thereby; and no person
being under a legal disability to contract is capa
ble of such free consent.
10. The power ol taxation over the whole State
sluill be exercised by the General Assembly only,
to raise revenue for the support of government,
to pay the public debt, to provide for the com
mon defense, and for such other purposes as the
General Assembly may be specially required or
empowered to accomplish by this Constitution.
But the General Assembly may, by statute, grant
the |lower of taxation for designated purposes,
with such limitations as they may deem expedient
to county authorities aud municipal corporations
to be exercised within their several territorial
limits.
17. In cases of necessity private ways may be
granted upon just compensation toing first paid ;
and with this exception private property shall
not be taken save for public use, and then only
cm just compensation to be first provided and
paid, unless there be a pressing unforeseen neces
sity, in which event the General Assembly shall
make early provision for ouclr compensation.
18. The right of the people to be secure in
their persons, houses, papers and effects, against
unrensonablo searches and seizures, shall not be
violated; and no warrant sliall issue but upon
probable cause, supported by oath or affirmation,
and particularly describing the place or places to
be searched, and fhe person aud things to lie
seized.
10. The person of a debtor shall .not bo dc
tained in prison, after delivery for the benefit of
his creditors of all his estate, not expressly ex
empted by law from levy and sale.
20. The Government of the United States liav
lug. as a war measure, proclaimed all slaves held
or owned iu this State, emancipated from slavery,
and having carried that proclamation into hill
practical effect, there shall henceforth be, within
the State of Georgia, neither slavery nor involun
tary servitude, save as a punishment for crime,
after legal conviction thereof: Provided, this
acquiescence in the action of the Government of
the United States, is not intended to operate ns a
relinquishment, waiver, or estopel of such claim
for conqieusntiou of- loss sustained by reason of
the emancipation of liis slaves, as any citizen of
Georgia may hereafter make upon the justice and
magnanimity of that Government.
21. The enumeration of rights herein con
tained is a part of this Constitution, but shall not
be construed to deny to the people any inherent
rights which they have hitherto enjoyed.
ARTICLE tl.
Section 1.
I. The Legislative, Executive and Judicial De
partments shall be distinct; and each department
shall be confided to a separate body of magistracy.
No person, or collection of persons, being of one
department, shall exercise any power properly
attached to either of the others, except in eases
herein expressly provided.
2. The legislative power shall be vested in a
'GVneral Assembly, which shall consist of a Sen
ate and House of Representatives, the members
whereof shall to elected, and returns of the elec
tions made in the manner now prescribed by
law, (until changed by the General Assembly) on
the 15th day of November, in the preseut year,
and biennially thereafter, on the first Wednesday
of October, to serve until their successors sliall
be elected; but the General Assembly may, by
law, change the day of election.
8. The first meeting of the General Assembly
under this Constitution, shall be on the first
Monday in December next, after which, it shall
meet annually 'trti the first Thursday in Novem
ber, or on such other day as the General A9sem
bly may prescribe. A majority of each House
shall constitute a quorum to transact business,
but a smaller number may adjourn from day to
day and compel the attendance of its absent
members, as each House may provide. No ses
sion of the General Assembly’, after the first
above mentioned, shall continue longer than forty
days, unless pfolo’ngcd by a vote of two-thirds of
each branch thereof.
4. No persons holding any military commission
or other appointment, having any emolument oi
compensation annexed thereto, under the State
or the United States, or either of them, (except
Justices of the Inferior Court, Justices'of the
Peace, and officers of the militia) nor any de
faulter for public money, or for any legal taxes
required him, shall have a scat in either branch
of the General Assembly; nor shall any Senator
or Representat ive, after Ills qualification as such,
be elected by the General Assembly, or appointed
by the Governor with the advice and consent of
two-thirds of the Senate, to any office or ap
pointment hating any emolument or compensa
tion annexed thereto, during the time for which
he shall have been elected.
5. No person convicted of any felony before
any Court of this State, or of the United States,
shall be eligible to any office, or appointment of
honor, profit, or trust, within this State until he
shall have been pardoned.
<1. No person who is a collector or holder of
public money, shall be eligible to any office in
this State, until the saipe is; accounted for and
paid intothe treasury.
Section2.*
There sliall be fort y-four Senatorial Districts .in
the State of Georgia, each composed of three
contiguous comities, from each of which districts
one Senator shall'to choseri,.until otherwise ar
ranged, as hereinafter provided. :
The said Districts shall to constituted of coun
ties as follows:.
The 1st District; of Chatham, Bryan Effing
ham. j
The 2d, of Liberty’, Tattnall and McIntosh.
The 8d, of Wayne, Pierce and Appling.
The 4th, of Glynn, Camden and Charlton.
The fith, of Coffee, Ware and Clinch.
The fith, of Echols, Lowndes and Berrien.
The ?tli, of Brooks, Thomas and Colquitt.
The 8th, of Decatur, Mitchell and Millor.
The 0th, of Early, Calhoun and Baker.
The 10th, of Donglierty, Loe and Worth.
The-11th, of Clay, Randolph and Terrell.
The 12th, of Stewart, Webster and Quitman,
The 18th, of Sumter, Schley and Macon.
The 14th, of Dooly, Wilcox and Pulaski
The 15th, of Montgomery, Telfair and Irwin.
The 10th, of Laurens, Johnson and Emanuel
The 17th, of Bulloch, Scriven and Burke.
The 18th, of Richmond, Glasscock and Jefferson.
The 19th, of Taliaferro, Warren and Greene.
The 20th, of BaldwimHancock and Washington.
The 21st, of Twiggs, Wilkinson and Jones.
The 22d, of BibbiMonroe and Pike.
The 23d, of Houston, Crawford and Taylor.
The 24th, of Marion, Chattahoochee and Mus
cogee.
The 25th, of Harris, Upson and Talbot.
The 26tli, of Spalding, Butts and Fayette,
The 27th, of Newton, Walton and Clarke.
The 28th, of Jasper, Putnam and Morgan.
The 29th, of Wilkes, Lincoln and Colombia.
The 30th, of Oglethorpe, Madison and Elbeit.
The 31st, of Hart, Franklin and Habersham,
The 32d, of White, Lumpkin and Dawson.
The 33d, of Hall, Banks and Jackson.
The 34tli, of Gwinnett, DeKalb and Henry.
The 35th, of Clayton, Fulton and Cobb.
The 36th, of Meriwether, Coweta and Campbell.
The 37th, of Troup, Heard and Carroll.
The 38th, of Haralson, Polk and Paulding.
The 39th, of Cherokee, Milton and Forsyth.
The 40th, of Union Towns and Rabun.
The 41st, of Fannin, Gilmer and Pickens.
The 42d, of Bartow, Floyd and Chattooga.
The 43d, of Murray, Whitfield and Gordon.
The 44tli, of Walker, Dade and Catoosa.
If a new county be established, it shall be
added to a district which it adjoins. The Sena
torial districts may be changed by the General
Assembly, but only at the first session after the
taking ol each census by the United States Gov
ernment, and their number shall never be in
creased.
2. No person shall be a Senator who shall not
have attained the age of twenty-five years and
be a citizen of the United 8tates, and have been
for three years an inhabitant of this State, and
for one year a resident of the district from which
he is chosen.
8. The presiding officer shall be styled the
President of the Senate, and shall to elected vivo
voce from their own body.
4 The Senate shall have the sole power to'tiy
all impeachments. When sitting for that pur
pose, they shall to on oath or affirmation, and no
person shall to convicted without the concur
rence of two-thirds of the members present.—
Judgment, in cases of impeachment, shall not
extend further than removal from office, and dis
qualification to bold and enjoy any office of
honor, profit, or trust, within this State; but the
party convicted shall, nevertheless, be liable and
subject to indictment, trial, judgment and pun
ishment according to law.
Section 3.
1. The House of Representatives shall be com
posed as follows: The thirty-seven counties hav
ing the largest representative population, shall
have two Representatives each. Every other
county shall have one Representative. The des
ignation of the counties having two Represen
tatives sliall be made by the General Assembly
immediately after the taking of each census.
2. No person shall be a Representative who shall
not have attained to the age of twenty-one years,
aud to a citizen of the United States, and have
been for three years an inhabitant of the State,
and for one year a resident of the county which
he represents.
3. The presiding officer of the House of Rep
resentatives shall be styled the Speaker, and shall
be elected viva voce from their own body.
4. They shall have the sole power to impeach
all persons who have been or may be in office.'
5. All bills for raising revenue or appropria
ting, shall originate in the House of Representa
tives ; but the Senate may projiose or concur in
amendments, us in other bills.
Section 4.
1. Each House shall be the judge of the elec
tion returns and qualifications of its own mem
tors; aud shall have power to punish them for
disorderly behavior or misconduct, by censure
fine, imprisonment or expulsion; but no member
shall be expelled except by a vote of two-thirds
of the House from which he is expelled.
2. Each House may punish, by imprisonment
not extending beyond the session, any person not
a member who shall to guilty of a contempt by
any disorderly behavior in its presence; or who,
during the session, shall threaten injury to the
person or estate of any member for anytliing said
or done in cither House; or who shall assault or
arrest any witness going to or returning from, or
who shall rescue, or attempt to rescue, any per
son arrested by cither House.
3. The members of both Houses shall be free
from arrest on attendance on the General Assem
bly, and in going to and returning therefrom, ex
cept for treason, felony, or breach of the peace.
And no member shall be liable to answer in any
other place for anything spoken in debate in
either house.
4. Each House shall keep a journal of its pro
ceedings, and publish them immediately after its
adjournment. The yeas and nays of their mem
hers on any question, shall, at the desire of one-
fifth of the members present, be entered on the
journals. The original journals shall be pre
served (after publication) in the office of the Sec
retary of State; but there shall be no other re
cord thereof.
5. Every bill, before it shall pass, shall be read
three times, and on three separate and distinct
days in each House, unless in cases of actual in
vasion or insurrection. Nor shall any law or ori
dinance pass, which refers to more than one sub
ject-matter, or contains matter different from
what is expressed in the title thereof.
6. All acts shall lie signed by the President of
the Senate and Speaker ol the House 1 * of Repre
sentatives ; and no bill, ordinance or resolution,
intended to have the effect of law, which shall
have been rejected by either House, shall be
agaiu proposed under the same or any other ti
tle, without the consent of two-thirds of the
House by which the same was rejected.
7. Neither House shall adjourn for more than
three days, nor to any other place, without the
consent of the other; and in case of disagree
ment between the two Houses, on a question of
adjournment, the Governor may adjourn them.
8. Every Senator and Representative, before
taking his seat, shall take an oath or affirmation
to support the Constitution of the United States
and of this State; and also, that he hath not
practiced auy unlawful means, either directly or
indirectly, to procure liis election. And every
person convicted of having given or offered a
bribe, shall be disqualified^ from serving as a
member of either House for the term for which
he was elected.
9. Whenever this Constitution requires an act
to be passed by two-thirds of both Houses, the
yeas and nays on the passage thereof shall be en
tered on the journals of each.
Section 5.
1. The General Assembly shall have power to
make all laws and ordinances consistent with
this Constitution, and not repugnant to the Con
stitution of the United Stales, which they sliall
deem necessary and proper for the welfare of the
State.
2. They may alter the boundaries of counties
and establish new counties; but every bill to es
tablish a new county shall be passed by at least
two-thirds of the members present in each branch
of the General Assembly;
8. The General Assembly shall have power to
appropriate money for the promotion of learning
and science, and to provide for the education of
the people, and shall provide for the early re
sumption of the regular exercises of the Univer
sity of Georgia, by the adequate endowment of
the same.
4. The General Assembly shall have power,
by a vote of two-thirds of each branch, to grant
pardons in cases of final conviction for treason,
and to pardon or commute after final conviction
in capital cases.
5. It shall be the duty of the General Assem
bly, at its next session, and thereafter,*as the pub
lic welfare may require, to provide by law for
the government of free persons of color; for the
protection and security of their persons anA pro
perty, guarding them and the State against any
evil that may arise from their sudden emancipa
tion, and prescribing in what cases their testi
monv shall be admitted in the courts ; for the
regulation of their transactions with citizens; for
the legalizing of their existing, and the contract
ing and soleinnizatiou of their ftiture marital re
lalions, and connected therewith their rights of
inherita.ice and testamentary capacity; and for
the regulation or prohibition of their immigration
into this State from other States of the Union or
elsewhere. And further, it shall to the duty Of
the General Assembly to confer jurisdiction upon
courts now existing, or to create county courts
with jurisdiction in criminal cases excepted from
the exclusive jurisdiction of the Superior Court,
and in civil cases whereto free persons of color
may be parties.
Section 9.
1. The General Assembly shall have no power
.to grant corporate powers and privileges to pri
vate companies, except to banking, Insurance,
railroad, canal, plank road, navigation,mining,
express, lumber, manufacturing and telegraph
companies, nor to make or change election pre
cincts ; nor to establish bridges and terries; nor
to change names or legitimate children; but shall
by law, prescribe the manner in which such
power shall to exercised by the courts. But no
bank charter* Shall to granted or extended, and
no act passed authorizing the suspension of spe
cie payment by any chartered bank except
by a vole of two-tliiros of each 1 branch of the
General Assembly.
2. No money shall be drawn from the Treasu
ry of this State, except by appropriation made
by law; and a regular statement and account of
the receipt and expenditure of all public money
shall be published from time to time.
3. No vote, resolution, law, or order shall pass,
granting a donation or gratuity in favor of any
person, except by the concurrence of two-thirds
of the General Assembly.
4. No law shall be passed by which a citizen
shall be compelled directly or indirectly, to be
come a stockholder in, or contribute to a railroad
or other work of internal improvement, without ’
his consent, except the inhabitants of a corporate
town or city. This provision shall not to con
sidered to deny the power of taxation for the pur
pose of making levees or dams to prevent the
overflow of livers.
ARTICLE III.
Section 1.
1. The executive power shall be vested in a
Governor, the first of whom under this Constitu
tion, shall hold the office from the time of his in-
auiniration as by law provided, until the election
and qualification of his successor. Each Govern
or subsequently elected shall hold the office for
two years, and until his successor shall be elected
and qualified, and shall not be eligible to election
after the expiration of a second term for the pe
riod of four years. He shall have a competent
salary, which shall not be increased nor dimin
ished during the time for which he uliall have
been elected; neither shall he receive within
that time any other emolument from the United
States, or either of them, nor -from any foreign
power.
2. The Governor shall he elected by the per
sons qualified to vote for members of the Gene
ral Assembly, on the 15th day of November, in the
year 1865, and biennially thereafter, on the first
Wednesday of October, until such time be alter
ed by law, which election shall be held at the
places of holding general elections in the several
counties of this State, in the manner prescribed
for the election of members of the General As
sembly. The returns tor every election of Gov
ernor shall be sealed up by the managers, sepa
rate from other returns, and directed to the Presi
dent of the Senate and Speaker of the House of
Representatives; and transmitted to the Govern
or, or the person exercising the duties of Gov
ernor for the time being; who shall, without
opening the said returns, cause the same to to
laid tofore the Senate on after tlie day the
two houses shall have been organized; aud they
shall be transmitted by the Senate to the House
ol* Representatives. The members of each
branch of the General Assembly shall convene
in the Representative Chamber, and the Presi
dent of the Senate, and the Speaker of the House
of Representatives, shall open and publish the
returns in presence of the General Assembly;
and the person having the majority of votes giv
en, shall be declared duly elected Governor of
this State; but if no person have such majority,
then from the persons having the highest number
of votes, who shall be in life and shall not de
cline an election at the time appointed for the
Legislature to elect, the General Assembly shall
immediately elect a'Govemor viva voce; and in
all cases of election of a Governor by the Gene
ral Assembly, a majority of the votes of the
members present shall be necessary for a choice.
Contested elections shall be determined by both
Houses of the General Assembly, in such man
ner as shall be prescribed by law.
3. No person shall be eligible to the office of
Governor who shall not have been a citizen of
the United States twelve years, and an inhabit
ant of this State six years, and who hath not
attained the age of thirty years.
4. In case of the death, resignation, or disabili
ty of the Governor, the President of the Senate
shall, exercise the executive powers of the govern
ment until such disability to removed, or a suc
cessor is elected and qualified. And in case of
the death, resignation, or disability of the Presi
dent of the Senate, the Speaker of the House of
Representatives shall exercise the power of the
government until the removal of the disability or
the election and qualification of a Governor.
5. The Governor shall, before he enters on the
duties his office, take the following oath or af
firmation : “I do solemnly swear or affirm (as the
case maybe,) that I will faithfully execute the of
fice of Governor of the State of Georgia; and
will, to the best of my abilities, preserve, protect
and defend the constitution thereof, and of the
constitution of the United States of America.”
Section 2.
1. The Governor shall be Commander-in-Chief
of the army and navy of this State, aud of the
militia thereof.
2. He shall have power to grant reprieves for
offenses against the State, except in cases of im
peachment, and to grant pardons, or to remit any
part of a sentence, in all cases after conviction,
except for treason, murder, or other capital of
fenses in which cases he may respite the execu
tion, and make report thereof to the next Gene
ral Assembly.
3. He shall issue writs of elections to fill va
cancies that happen in the Senate or House of
Representatives, and shall have power to con
vene the General Assembly on extraordinaiy oc
casions ; and shall give them, from time to time,
information of the state of the republic, and re
commend to their consideration such measures
as he may deem necessary and expedient.
4. When any office shall become vacant by
death, resignation, or otherwise, the Governor
shall have power to fill such vacancy, unless
otherwise provided for by law^- and persons so
appointed shall continue in brace until a succes
sor is appointed agreeably to the mode pointed
out by this Constitution, or by law in pursuance
thereof.
5. A person once rejected by the Senate shall
not be re-appointed by the Governor to the same
office during the same session or the recess there
after.
6. The Governor shall have the revision of all
bills passed by both Houses before the same shall
become laws, but two-thirds of each House may
pass a law notwithstanding his dissent; and if
any bill should not be returned by the Governor
within five days (Sundays excepted) after it has
been presented to him, the same shall be law,
unless the General Assembly, by their adjourn
ment, shall prevent its return. He may approve
any appropriation and disapprove any other ap
propriation in the same bill, and the latter Shall
not be effectual unless passed by two-thirds of
each House.
7. Every vote, resolution, or order, to which
tLe concurrence of both Houses may he neces
sary, except on a question of election or adjourn
ment, shall be presented to the Governor; and
before it shall take effect, be approved by him
or being disapproved, shall be re-passed by two
thirds of each House, according to the rules and
limitations prescribed in case of a bill.
8. There shall be a Secretaiy of State,
Comptroller General, a Treasurer, and Surveyor
General, elected by the General Assembly, and
they shall hold their offices for the like pe
riod as the Governor, and shall have a compe
tent salary, which shall not be increased or di
minished during the period for which they shall
have been elected. The General Assembly may
at any time consolidate any two of these offices,
and require all the duties to be discharged by
one officer.
9. The great seal of the State shall be deposi
ted in the office of the Secretary of State, and
shall not be affixed to any instrument of writing,
but by order of the Governor or General Assem
bly, and that used previously to the year 1861,
shall be the great seal ofthe State.
ARTICLE IV.
- Section 1.
1. The Judicial powers of this State shall be
vested in a Supreme Court for the correction of
errors, a Superior, Inferior, Ordinary, and Jus
tices Courts, and in such other Courts as have
been, or may be established by law.
2. The Supreme Court shall consist of three
Judges, who shall be elected by the General As
sembly, for such term of years—hot less than rix
as shall be prescribed by law, and shall con
tinue in office until their successors shall be elec
ted and qualified; removable by the Governor
on the address of two-thirds of each branch of
the General Assembly, or by impeachment and
conviction thereon.
3. The said Court shall have no original jurifrv
diction, but shall be a Court alone for the trial
and correction of errors in law and equity from
the Superior Courts of the several Circuits, and
from the City Courts of the cities of Savannah
and Augusta, and such other like Courts as may
to hereafter established in other cities; and shall
sit “at the Seat of Government” at such time or
Times iu each year, as the General Assembly
-shall prescrito, for the trial and determination of
writs of error Irom said courts.
4. The said Court sliall dispose of and finally
determine every case on the docket of such
Court, at the first or second term after such trrit
of error brought-; and in case the plaintiff in er
ror shall not be prepared at the first term of such
Court, after error brought, to prosecute the case,
unless precluded by some providential cause
from such prosecutionlit shall be stricken from
the docket anti the judgment below affirmed.—
And in any case that, may occur, the Court may,
in its discretion, withhold its judgment until the
term next .after the argument thereon.
Section 2.
1. The Judges of the Superior Court shall be
elected on the first Wednesday in January, until
the Legislature shall otherwise direct, immedi
ately before the expiration of tlie tennibr which
they or either of them may have toeu appointed
or elected, troui the Circuits in which they are
to serve, by a majority vote of the people of the
Circuit qualified to vote for members of the Gen
eral Assembly, for the: term: of. four yeara^va
cancies to be filled as is provided by the laws--of
force prior to January 1, 1861—and shall con
tinue in office until their successors shall beulec-
ted and qualified; reniovable by'the Governor
on the address of two-third9 of each branch of
the General Assembly, or by impeachment and
conviction thereon.
2. The Superior Court sliall have ;exclusive ju
risdiction in all cases of divorce, both total and
partial; but no total divorce shall to granted ex
cept on the concurrent .verdicts? of two special
juries. In each divorce case the Court shall reg
ulate the rights and disabilities of the parties.
3. The Superior Courts shall also have exclu
sive jurisdiction in all criminal cases—except as
Court, violation of road laws, obstructions of
water courses, and in all other minor offenses
which do not subject the offender or offenders to
loss of life, limb or member, or to confinement
in the Penitentiary; jurisdiction of all such cases
shall be vested in such County or Corporation
Courts, or such other Courts, judicatures or tri
bunals as now exist or may hereafter be-constitu
ted, under such rules and regulations as the Leg
islature may have directed or may hereafter
direct
4. All e riminal cases shall be tried in the comity
where the crime was committed, except in cases
where a jury cannot be obtained.
5. The Superior Courts shall have exclusive
jurisdiction in all cases respecting titles of land,
which shall be tried in the county where the land
lies; and also in all equity causes, which shall be
tried in the county where one or more of the de
fendants reside, against whom substantial relief
is prayed.
6. It shall have appellate jurisdiction in all
such cases as may be provided by law.
7. It shall have power to correct errors in infe
rior judicatories by writ of certiorari, and to
grant new trials in the Superior Court on proper
and legal grounds.
8. It shall have power to issoe writs of mand
amus, prohibition, scire facias, and all other writs
which may be necessary for carrying its powers
fully into effect.
9. The Superior Court shall have jurisdiction
in all other civil cases, and in them the General
Assembly may give concurrent jurisdiction to the
Inferior Court, or such other county courts as
they may hereafter create, which cases shall be
tried in the county where the defendant resides.
10. In cases of joint obligators, or joint prom-
issors or co-partners, or joint trespassers residing
in different counties, the suit may be brought in
either county.
11. Iu ease of a maker and indorser, or indor
sers of promissory notes residing in different
counties in this State, the same may be sued in
the county where the maker resides.
12. The Superior Court shall sit in eacbcounty
not less than twice eveiy year, at such stated
times as have been or may be appointed by the
General Assembly, and the Inferior and County
Court at such times as the General Assembly-
may direct.
Section 3.
1. The judges shall have salaries adequate to
their services fixed by law, which shall not be
diminished nor increased during their continu
ance in office; but shall not receive any other
perquisites or emoluments whatever from parties
or others on account of any duty required of
them.
2. There shall be a State’s Attorney and Soli
citors elected in the same manner as the Judges
of the Superior Court, and commissioned by the
Governor, who shall hold their offices for the
term of four years, or until their successors shall
be appointed and qualified, unless removed by
sentence on impeachment, or by the Governor,
on the address of two-thirds of each branch of
the General Assembly. They shall have salaries
adequate to their services fixed by law, which
shall not be increased or diminished during their
continuance in office.
3. The Justice or Justices of the Inferior Court,
and the Judge of such other County Court, as
may by law be created, shall be elected in each
county by the persons entitled to vote for mem
bers of the General Assembly. •
4. The Justices of the Peace shall be elected
in each district by the persons entitled to vote
for members of the General Assembly.
5. The powera of a Court of Ordinary and of
Probate shall be vested in an Ordinary for each
county, from whose decisions there may be an
appeal to the Superior Court under regulations
prescribed by law. The Ordinary shall be ex
oMcio clerk of said Command may appoint a
deputy clerk. The Ordinaiy as clerk, or his dep
uty, may issue citations and grant temporary let
ters of administration, to hold until permanent
letters are granted; and said Ordinaiy as clerk,
or his deputy, may grant marriage licenses. The
Ordinaries in and for the respective counties shall
be elected, as other county officers are, on the
first Wednesday in Januaiy, 1868, and eveiy
fourth year thereafter, and shall be commissioned
by the Governor for the term of four years. Jn
case of any vacancy of said office of* Ordinary,
from any cause, the same shall be filled by elec
tion, as is provided in relation to other county
officers, and until the same is filled the clerk of
the Superior Court for the time being sliall act as
clerk of said Court of Ordinaiy.
ARTICLE V.
Section 1.
1. The electors of members of the General
Assembly shall be free wj,iite male citizens of this
State, and shall have attuned the age of twenty-
one years and have pfud all taxes which may
have been- required of VKem, and which they
have had an opportunity of paying agreeable to
law, for the year preceding the election, shall be
citizens of the United States, and shall have re
sided six months either in the district or county,
and two years within this State, and no person
who is not qualified to vote for members of the
General Assembly shall hold any office in this
State.
2. All elections by the General Assembly shall
be viva voce and the vote shall always appear on
the journal of the House of Representatives, and
where the Senate and House unite for the pur
pose of electing, they shall meet in the Repre
sentative chamber, and the President of the Sen
ate shall in such Cases preside and declare the
person or persons elected.
3. In all elections by the people the electors
shall vote by ballot until the General Assembly
shall otherwise direct.
4. All civil officers heretofore commissioned by
the Governor, or who have been duly appointed,
or elected, since the first day Of January last, but
who have not received their commission and
who have not resigned, nor been removed from
office, and whose terms of office shall not have
expired, shall continue in the exercise of the du
ties of their respective offices during the periods
for which they were duly appointed or duly
elected ns aforesaid and commissioned, and until
their successors, sliall be appointed under the
provisions of this Constitution; unless removed
from office as herein provided.
5. Laws of general operation now of force, in
this State, are, 1st, as the supreme law, the Con
stitution of the United States; the laws of the
United States in pursuance thereof, and all trea
ties made under the authority of the United
States ; 2d, as next in authority thereto,, this
Constitution; 2d, in subordination to the aforego
ing, all laws declared of force by an act of the
General Assembly of this State, assented to Dec-
cember the 19th, A. D., 1860, entitled “An Act to
approve, adopt, and make ; of force, in the State
ot Georgia a revised code of laws, prepared un
der the direction and by authority of the General
Assembly thereof, and for other purposes there
with connected,” an act of the General Assem
bly aforesaid, assented to December 16th, A. D.
1861, amendatory of the aforegoing, and an act
of the General Assembly aforesaid, assented to
^December 13th. A. D; 1862, entitled “An Act to
settle the conflicts between: the code and the leg-
11! This Constitution shall be altered or amend- ] liberal proposition of Brigadier General Titeon, nrcTafoatirms which shall ascend to heaven from
rl nnltr htr o mmmntinn nf tlio ivmnlh r'allpfl fnr i A ociotont pAmmicainnar flip ITlPTl's Bll- tllC Ul'llFtS Ol tllC DCOpiC.
ed only by a convention of the people, called for j Assistant Commissioner of the Freed men’s Bu
that purpose by act of the General Assembly. reau, to employ certain officers of this State at
islation of this General Assembly;” c^lso, all acta
of the General Assembly aforesaid, passed .since
the date last written, altering, amending, repeal
ing, or adding to any portion of law hereinbe
fore mentioned (the tatteesMCtmeots having pre
ference in caserof conflict,) and so much of the
common and statute law of England, and ofthe
statue law of thi9 Stitte of forte in Geoigia, in
the year eighteen hundred: and sixty, as is not
expressly superceded by, .nor inconsistent with
said codes, though not embodied therein; except
so much of the law aforesaid as .may violate the
supreme law herein recognized, ’or may conflict
with tins constitution, and except somuch there
of as refers to persons held in slavery, which ex
cepted laws shall henceforth to inoperative and
void, and any future General Assembly Of this
State shall be competent to alter, amend, or re
peal any portion o£ the law declared to be nf
force in'this third: apecificatfoa of the fifth clause
of this fifth article. If in any statute law herein
declared of force, the word “Confederate” occurs
before the word States, such law is hereby amend
ed by substituting- the word -“United” for the
word “Confederate.”:
6. Local and private statutes heretofore passed
iuteuded for the benefit of counties, cities, towns,
corporations and private persons not inconsis
tent with the supreme law, nor with this consti
tution, and which have neither expired by their
own limitations nor been repealed, shall have the
force of statute law subject to judicial decision,
as to their validity when enacted, and to any
limitations imposed by their own terms. /:
7. All judgments, decrees, orders, and other
proceedings of the several courts of this State
heretofore made, within the limits of their Juris
dictions, are hereby ratified and affirmed, subject
only to past and future reversal by motion for
new trial, appeal, bill of review, or other proceed
ings, ini conformity with the law of force when
fliey were made!^’ “ ' . •
* 8- All rights, privihges and immunities which
ihay liave vested in, or accrued to any person; or
persons, in his, her, ot their own right, or in any
judiciary capacity, uaderand in virtue of any,
act of tlie General Assembly, or of any judgment
decree, or order, or other proceeding of any
«fiurt of competent!
since the first day
n In this_ State,
hundred and sixty-om/sbalHSe held invioiat^by
alT courts before whth 'they may be brought in
question, unless attacked for fraoct
9. The inaniage rfiation between white per
sons and persons of African descent, is forever
prohibited, and suchqaniage shall be null and
void; and it shall be the duty of the General As
sembly to enact lawftbr the punishment of any
officer who shall knovingly issue a license for the
celebration of such marriage, or any officer or
minister of thegospt who jhall many such per
sons together. ' * " ' "
10. All militia aid county officers shall be
elected by the peopk under such regulations as
Ordinances and Resolutions of a Public
Nature, Passed by the Convention at its
Session in 1865.
An Ordinance making it the duty of the .Gen
eral Assembly of the State ol* Geoigia, to pro
vide for the support of indigent widows and
orphans of deceased soldiers of this State, and
for other purposes therein named:
Be it ordained by the people of the State of Geor
gia in Convention assembled, That tlie General
Assembly of this Stale, is respectfully requested,
at its first session under this Constitution, and
annually thereafter, to make such appropriations
and provisions as mayin their judgment be ne
cessary for the support and maintenance of the
indigent widows and orphans of deceased soldiers
of this State.
Be it further ordained^ That disabled soldiers
who are without the meansof supportand whose
disability is such as to render them incompetent
or unable to earn a living by their own exertions,
shall be entitled to the benefits of the provisions
of the foregoing ordinance.
An Gtidinance to ratify certain acts, judgments,
and other proceedings therein mentioned :
Be it ordained by the people of Georgia in Con
vention assembled. That all the acts and sales of
executors, administrators, trustees, and guardians,
and of judicial and ministerial officers, had done,
and performed, and made bona fide, and in pur
suance of, and under color of law since the 19tli
day of January 1861, which are not in conflict
with the constitution of the United States, and of
tlie constitution of this State, to and tlie same
are hereby ratified and confirmed, subject how
ever, to the right of appeal and supercedures ac
cording to law; Provided, that in cases in which
judgment or decrees have been rendered in all
courts of record in this State, since the 19tli day
of January, 1861, and prior to this date, the party
against whom such judgment has been rendered
shall to entitled to a new trial or appeal, on affi
davit that he was unavoidaby absent from
the court at the time ol* the redention of the
judgment; Provided, the court shall be satisfied
from all the facts which may be submitted by
affidavit by both parties that such good and
meritorious defense exists, and that such appli
cation for a new trial or appeal shall be made
within twelve months after the adoption of this
ordinance.
An Ordinance to legalize the contracts made
by guardians, administrators, executors and
trustees, with the Freedmen for the benefit of
tbeir wards and estates, and to authorize said
guardians, administrators, executors and trus
tees, to make such contracts until provided for
bv the legislature:
lie it ordained by the people of the State of Geor
gia in Convention assembled, That all contracts
made by guardians, administrators, executors
and trustees, with the Freedmen and Freedwo-
men for tlie benefit of their wards and estates
be and the same are hereby legalized : and that
they be authorized to make such contracts until
provided for by tlie legislature.
WnEREAS, Two telegrams, one from the Pres
ident of the United States, and tlie other from bis
Secretary of State, have been received and read
to the Convention, indicating in rather plain
terms what course should be pursued by this
Convention in relation to tlie State debt of Geor
gia contracted to carry on the war, which tele
grams both refer to communications received
from the Provisional Governor of this State; it
is therefore
Resolved, That a committee of three he ap
pointed from this body by the Chair, and required
to call upon the Provisional Governor, James
Johnson, for a copy of the telegrams sent by him
to Washington, and all communications between
him and the department in Washington, relating
thereto.
Resolved, That the special Committee of seven
appointed to take into consideration the subject
of the cotton hitherto belonging to the State,
while in session shall have power to send for
persons and papers.
The Commit tee of Seven to whom was referred
the Message of liis Excellency James John
son, and the documents accompanying it on
the subject of cotton and tobacco purchased
by the State, desiring further information on
the subject, it is
Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor be
requested to communicate to this Committee, if
within his power to do so, how much money has
been drawn from the Treasury of this State with
which to purchase cotton for the State, and how
much with which to purchase tobacco, when, by
whom, by what and by whose authority it was
drawn, whether State or Confederate States
money, bills of bonds, or what, and of different
kinds of money, bills or bonds, how’ much of
each kind, and how much cotton and tobacco
w r as purchased with the money, of .the State so
drawn from the Treasury, the number of bales
and their weight, and when and from whom it
was purchased, and at what place, arid whether
it was paid for in the same kind ; of currency,
money or bonds that was so drawn from the
Treasury with which to purchase those articles?,
How many agents were employed by the State,
and by whom employed, to purchase the cotton
and tobacco herein referred to, and who they
werq, and where they now reside, arid then re
sided, and what compensation, anil how T and in
what it was paid them and each of them, and by
whom, for their services; and also.What portion
of the cotton so purchased by the State has been
sold, arid by whom, and to whom sold, when, at
what price, and for what currency it w as sold,
and what amount of State money issued since
the war has been placed in the State Treasury,
and when, aud by whom placed there, and what
amount of such State money lias been exchanged
for Confederate Stales bills or bonds, before and
since it went-into the Treasury, and when,--and
by whom, and with whom, and especially what
State officers or officials have made such ex
change, and when and with whonl, and to what
amount each State officer or agent has thus ex
changed, and what use has been made by all such
officials or agents with tlie ^Confederate money
they thus acquired by such exchanges? ..
An Ordinance, To establish Congressional Dis
tricts, and to provide for certain elections.
The people of Georgia, in Convention assembled,
do ordain, That, conforming to the last appor
tionment of members of the House of Represen
tatives of .the United States Congress, there shall
be in the State of Georgia seven Congressional
Districts, constituted as follow’s, until changed by
an act of the General Assembly, viz:
The first Distriet shall include tlie counties of
Chatham, Bryan, Liberty, McIntosh, Wayne,
Glynn, Camden, Charlton, Ware, Pierce, Appling,
Tatnall, Bulloch, Effingham, Striven, Emanuel,
Montgomery, Telfair, Coffee,' Clinch, Echols,
Lowndes, Berrien, Irwin, Laurens, Johnson,
Brooks, Colquitt and Thomas. r
The second : district shall include'the counties
| __ employ .. „ _
agents of said* Bureau to adjust difficulties be
tween the white and colored people of this State,
and to maintain the police of the country, be and
the same is hereby accepted; and it is hereby or
dained by this Convention that the Justices of
the Peace, Ordinaries, and all other civil officers,
or unofficial citizens of tins State, are hereby au
thorized to perform such service as may be des
ignated by said sgent, in adjusting difficulties
totween the white and colored, population of
this State, in maintaining the police of the coun
try and ot her similar matters whenever requested
so to act by said superintendent.
Chairman.
An Ordinance to request and authorize the
Provisional Governor of Georgia to borrow' .sfiacts.pf his_nature, the principles of his party
on the credit of this State a sufficient sum of antFthe solicitations of Ins section, became the
money to pav wliat may 1)© due on tli©‘ ‘CiYil 1ic«h1 ftud front -of -our offending, sliall not l)e
- . J *■ • - -----— ^~—— until brujsQii for our/inkijiities or punished for our
transgressions. Mr. Davis was not the leader of
a feeble and temporary insurrection; he was the
representative of great ideas and tlie exponent of
principles which stirred and consolidated a nu
merous and intelligent people. This people was
not his dupe; thoy pursued the course which
.they adopted of -their own free will, and he did
not draw’ them on but followed after them. It is
for these reasons that we invoke the executive
clemency iu his behalf. His frame is feeble; his
health is delicate—all broken by the storms of
State, he languishes out in captivity a vicarious
punishment for tlie acts of his people. Thou
sands of hearts are touched with liis distress;
thousands of prayers ascend to heaven for his
relief. We invoke in his behalf tlie generous ex
ercise of the prerogative to pardon which the
form and principles of the constitution offer as a
benificient instrument to a merciful Executive.
W e ask the continuance of that career of clem
ency which your Excellency has begun, and
which alone, we earnestly believe, can secure the
true unity aud lasting greatness of this nation.
Dispensing that mercy which is inculcated by
the example of our great Master on high, your
name w ill be transmitted to your countrymen as
one of the benefactors ot mankind.
The constitution of our country, renewed and
fortified by your measures, will once more extend
its protection over a contented and happy people,
founded as it will be, upon consent and affection
and rest ing like the great arch of heaven equally
upon all.
Resolved, That the foregoing memorial signed
by the President, and attested by the Secretary
ot the Convention, be transmitted to the Presi
dent of the United States.
of Decatur, Early, Miller, Baker, Mitchell, Worth,
Dooly, Wilcox, Pulaski, Houston, Macon, Ma
rion, Chattahoochee, Sumter-, Webster, Stewart,
Quitman, Clay, Calhoun, Randolph, Terrell, Lee
and Dougherty.
The third District shall include the counties of
Muscogee, Schley, Taylor, Talbot, Harris, Troup
Meriwether, Heard, Coweta, -Fayette, Clayton
Carroll, Campbell, Haralson and Paulding.
The fourth District shall include, the; counties
of Upson, Pike, Spalding, Hemy, Newton, Butts
Monroe, Crawford, Bibb, Twiggs, Wilkinson
Baldwin, Jones, Jasper and Putnam.
The fifth District shall include the counties of
Washington,; Jefferson, Burke, Richmond, Glas
cock, Hancock, Warren, ' Columbia, Lincoln,
Wilkes, TatiaferrrvGreene, Morgan, Oglethorpe
and Elbert.
The sixth District 9hall include the counties of
Milton, Gwinnett, Walton, Clark, Jackson, Mad
ison, Hartj Franklin, Banks, Hall, Forsyth, Pick
ens, Dawson Lumpkin, White, Habersham, Ra
bun, Towns, Union, Fannin and.Gilmer.
The seventh District shall include the counties
of DeKalb, Fulton, Cobb, Polk, Floyd, Bartow,
Cherokee, Gordon, Chattooga, Walker, Whitfield,
Murray, Catoosa and Dade.
Sec. 2. There shall be hold ori the fifteenth day
of November next a general election in the sev
eral counties and election districts of this State
for Governor, Senators (by Senatorial Districts)
and Representatives (by eounties) to the General
Assembly, in conformity to the Constitution
which this Convention may adopt, and of mem
bers of the House of Representatives of the
United States Congress, by Districts as herein be
fore arranged, one member for each District.
Sec. 3. The elections herein ordered shall be
conducted, and returns thereof made, as is now
by the Code of Georgia provided.
Sec. 4 And the Convention, do farther ordain,
That the election' for Mayor and Aldermen of
-thcOity of* Savannahrihall be held-on the first
Wednesday in December, in tlie present .year,
and that at such election all laws appertaining
thereto shall to in force, except the law requir
ing the registry of voters.
No. Counties. Rerp. Population.
list, and what may become due thereon,
by the collection of taxes the State may dis
pense with loans, and to extend the power to
the Governor to be elected by tlie people in a
certain contingency: .
The picople of Georgia, by their delegates in
Convention assembled, do hereby declare and ordatn,
That the Provisional Governor of this State be,
and be is hereby respectfully requested and au
thorized upon the faith and credit of the State
of Georgia, to negotiate a loan or loans of money,
or United States currency, sufficient in amount
to repay the temporary loanB made by him as re
ported to the Convention, and to pay whatever
is due on the civil list of the political year 1865,
as also to pay whatever may become due on the
civil list for the political year 1866, inclusive ot
appropriations for the support of tlie Lunatic
Asylum and other government purposes, until
the State of Georgia by the collection of taxes,
to be imposed hereafter by the Legislature, and
other resources of the State, shall be enabled
without embarrassment to dispense with a resort
to temporary loans; the money so borrowed to
be deposited in tlie Treasury and to be paid out
by Executive warrant as is provided by existing
laws.
And be it further ordained by authority afore
said, That should tlie Provisional Governor from
any cause fail to make a sufficient loan or loans
to effectuate the intention of this ordinance, that
then the Governor to be elected by the people as
liis successor to all the Executive powers of the
State government be, and ho is hereby empow
ered to make from time to time such loan or
loans for the service of the State of Georgia as
is herein contemplated, and that the bonds where
on such may be loaned shall be countersigned by
the Governor.
And be it further ordained, That to facilitate
tlie negotiation of such loan, in such sums and
at such times as the wants of the State may re
quire for the purposes aforesaid, the Governor is
authorized and required to sign and issue such
drafts, notes or bonds, countersigned by the
Treasurer and payable at such times, and on
sucli terms, and in such currency, as may be
deemed by trim most conducive to the conveni
ence and interest of the State. Provided that no
obligation shall be contracted by him for a less
time to run than twelve months, or for a longer
time than five years; and provided, also, that on
short securities not longer than twelve months
to run, not exceeding a rate of ten (10) per cent,
per annum shall be allowed; and provided fur
ther, that if said loan or any part of it be raised
on bonds of more than one year to run, said
bonds shall bear interest at the rate of seven (7)
per cent., payable half yearly, which shall not
exceed in the whole the sum of $500,000, and
shall not be sold at a discount on tlie par value
of more than ten per cent. And it is further
provided, that this ordinance sliall not be con
strued to restrict or control the Legislature in the
exorcise of a sound discretion in making any
loan for the foregoing purposes, or any other
want of the State.
An Ordinance to repeal certain ordinances and
resolutions therein mentioned, heretofore passed*
by the people of the State of Georgia in Con
vention.
We, the people of the State of Georgia in Con ven
tion, at our seat of Government, do declare and or
dain, That an ordinance adopted by the same
people, in convention, on the nineteenth day of
January, A. D. eighteen hundred and sixty-one,
entitled “An ordinance to dissolve the union be
tween the State of Georgia and other States
united with lier under a compact of government
entitled ‘the constitution of the United States of
America;’ ” also, an ordinance adopted by the
same on the sixteenth day of March, in the year
last aforesaid, entitled “An ordinance to adopt
and ratify the constitution of tlie Confederate
States of America;” and, also, all ordinances and
resolutions of the same, adopted between the six
teenth day of January and the twenty-fourth day
of March, in the year aforesaid, subversive of, or
antagonistic to the civil and military authority of
the Government of the United States of America
under the constitution thereof, be, and the same
are hereby repealed.
An Ordinance to prevent the levy and sale of
property of debtors under execution, until tlie
adjournment of the first session of the next
Legislature, or until the Legislature slmli oth
erwise direct, if before that time.
Be it ordained by the people of Georgia in Con
vention assembled, That there shall be no levy or
sale of property of defendants in this State uri-
der execution, founded on any judgment, order
or decree, except executions for cost, or rules
against officers for money, and except in cases
where defendants reside without' the State have
absconded, are absconding, or are about to re
move their property without the limits of any
county in this Quite, until the adjdumment of the
first session of the next Legislature, or until the
Legislature shall otherwise direct, if before that
time.
Be it furtoer ordained, Any officer, or other
person violating this ordinance, shall be guilty
of trespass and liable to be sued in any court
of this State having proper jurisdiction, and the
measure of damages sliall be the injury resulting
to the injured party by reason of said trespass.
Be it further ordained, That the statutes and
limitation now of force in this State, be, and the
same is, hereby suspended in all cases affected by
this ordinance until the adjournment of the first
session of the next Legislature, or until tlie Leg
islature shall otherwise direct, if before that
time..
And be it further ordained, That the statute of
limitation in all cases, civil and criminal, be, ami
tlie same is, hereby declared to be, and have
been suspended from the 19th of January, 1861,
aud shall so continue until civil government i9
fully restored, or until the Legislature shall other
wise direet.
Whereas, many portions of this State are un
protected by the immediate presence of any of
the* military forces of the United States, and
there exists an uneasiness in the public mind,
under the apprehension that civil order may be
disturbed - by evil-minded persons associating
themselves together, or otherwise, for purposes of
violence, and that the law may to obstructed in
its execution, for want of adequate police force
to enable the civil officers of the State to enforce
the hearts of the people.
Jefferson DavW was elevated to Ins high posi
tion by our suffrages, and in response to our
wishes. We imposed upon him a responsibility
wliich lie did not seek. Originally opposed to
tlie sectional policy to which public opinion with
irresistible- power'finally drove him, lie became
the exponent of our principles and the leader of
our cause. ’ He simply responded to the united
voice of liis seetiou. If he then is guilty, so are
we; we were the principals—he was our agent.
Let not the retribution ot a mighty nation be vis
ited upon liis head, while we wlio urged him to
his destiny are suffered to escape. The litoral
clemency of the government has been extended
oyer us; we breathe the air and experience the
blessings of freedom; we therefore ask that the
leader wlio, in response to the democratic in-
Be it ordained by the people of Georgia in Con
vention assembled, That the voters of those coun
ties of the State of Georgia, in which from the
short notice given, elections for members of the
General Assembly cannot be held on the 15tli
instant, as provided by the Constitution, be and
they are hereby authorized to hold said elections
on Saturday the 25th instant, and that the mem
bers elected as aforesaid, be allowed to take tbeir
seats at the earliest practicable day after the Gen
eral Assembly shall convene, under the same
rules and regulations as if they were elected on
the day first aforesaid.
And be tl further ordained, That three hundred
copies of this ordinance be printed for tlie use of
the members of this Convention.
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3d District.
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131.522
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125.5311
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relates to fines for neglect of duty, contempts of I have been or may toprescribed by law.
The Committee fo whom was referred the mes
sage-of the Provisional Governor, enclosing a
communication from Brigadier General Tilson,
Assistant Commissioner of the Bureau of
p. Freedmen Refugees and abandoned lands,
*■ have had the same under consideration and
<firect me to' report the following resolution
and ordinance:
Resolved by the Convention, That the wise and
the same; And whereas, this feeling of insecurity
tends greatly to retard the resumption and prose
cution of the various peaceful and industrial pur
suits of the people necessary for their prosperity
and happiness, therefore,
Resolved by tlie people of Georgia in Convention
assembled, That His Excellency the Governor he
and is hereby earnestly requested to provide, by
proclamation to the people of Georgia, to be is
sued as early as practicable, for the formation of
every county in this State of one .or more militia
or volunteer companies to ^act as a police force
to suppress, violence, to preserve order, arid to
aid the civil officers of this State in tlie enforce
ment of the laws thereof* under such regulations
consistent with the Constitution and laws of the
^United States, and of" this State, as he may pie
'scribe; and that such organizations as may be
made under this resolution to subsist until other
wise provided by law.
Resolved secondly, That tlie foregoing preamble
and resolutions to signed by the President and
Secretary of this Convention, and that tlie Presi
dent communicate a copy of the same to his Ex
cellency James Johnson, Provisional Governor
of Georgia, and forthwith transmit, through -the
Provisional Governor, the same by telegraph to
his Excellency Andrew Johnson, President of
the United States, and earnestly solicit his ap
proval thereof.
Milledoevillb, Oct. 30tli, 1865.
To His Excellency Andrew Johnson,
President of the Unitedfitates :
The delegates of the State of Georgia in Con-
irentiqn assembled^ do earnestlyjnvoke tlie Ex
ecutive clemency in behalf of Jefferson Davis
and Alexander H. Stephens, and of-Janie* A.
Seddon of Virginia, A G.. McGrath of. South
Carolina, Allison anil David L. Yulee of- Florida,
and H. W. Mercer of Georgia, now confined as
prisoners in Fort Pulaski, and of all other priso
ners similarly circumstanced.
Ypuf Excellency has been pleased' to restore
Mr. Stephens to his liberty. He returns ~to. the
grateful people of liis State as a solemn pledge
of the magnanimity which rules the public coun
cils, and his great Jiamcland influence wiir be
jotent to_revive the amity of the past and to
alley which.your
Emboldened by
fruct ^
Excellency has inaugurated.
this example, impelled by the purity of, our mo
tives, and stimulated by the prayers of a numer
ous people, we appeal for clemency in behalf of
the distinguished persons we have named. Re
store them to liberty and to the embrace of f heir
families. Translate them from captivity to the
light of freedom and of hope, and the gratitude „ _
ot the prisoners wUl be mingled with the joyful f On the^wayto Chicago.
Fashionable Intelligence.
The Queen of Spain, when visiting Napoleon
and Eugenie at Biarritz lately, appeared in
mourning. She wore a low-bodied dress, with a
Marie Antoinette cape of rich black blonde, fas
tened with diamond ornaments, and a stomacher,
necklace and diadem, also of diamonds, and ex
cessively magnificent. It is said that her most.
Catholic Majesty possesses a stock of jewelry
surpassing that of most of the crowned heads of
Europe, and makes an imposing appearance with
their aid and that of the court dress-makers.—
Tlie Queen of Spain wears a crinoline even more
ample than that of the Empress Eugenie; she
never wears a bonnet, but always drapes in the
graceful mantilla of tlie Spanish women so well
suited to the climate of Spain. The Empress
Eugenie always wears the mantilla on Sundays
when she hears mass in the private chapel of the
Tuileries.
The Grand Duchess Marie of Russia and her
daughter, the Princess Eugenie, have paid a visit
to the villa of Baron Adolplio tie Rothschild,
near Geneva. Her Imperial Highness greatly
admired the works of art contained in the resi
dence, and particularly a collection of cut rock
crystals, which lias no equal. A sumptuous
breakfast was offered to her Highness by the
Baron and Baroness de Rothschild, to wliich, be
sides the persons composing the suite of the
Grand Duchess, there were invited Count de
Neiselrode, Count and Countess Lamsdorff and
M. de Migriue.
The King and royal family of Denmark have
returned to Bernsdorff, after their excursion into
Funen and Jutland. His Majesty only pro
nounced one speech during his journey.
The ex-Queen of the Sandwich Islands has
been the guest of Mr. Tennyson, the poet laure
ate of ^England, at his retreat at Farringford, in
the Isle of Wight.
Two marriages in fashionable life are an
nounced as likely to take place shortly in France
—that of the son of the Duke of Montebello
with Miss O. Fard de la Grange, and the other
between tlie eldest son of Victor Hugo and Mile.
Lehague.
Count Walewski, of France, lias purchased an
estate in Switzerland which runs along the shores
of the Lake of Geneva, and is close to the sources
d’Amphion, which have long been forgotten.—
Prince Napoleon has set tlie tashion of purchas
ing property in Switzerland, as Count Palikso
has gone there to select an estate near that of
Count Walewski. *
Prince Alfred, of England, is expected at Brus
sels on his-return from Egypt. 4
King Louis if, of Bavaria, has left his retreat
at Holienscliwangau to pay a visit to his capital.
He was present at a representation at the thea
tre, and received in audience M. dc Barandarihn,
Minister of Mexico at the courts of Vienna and’
Munich, who presented to his Majesty the insig
nia of* the Order of the Mexican Eagle.
Earl Russell, accompanied by the Countess
ltussell„Lady Agatha Russell and the Duke of
Leinster, have visited tlie Earl’s county Meath
estates^ in Ireland. The party minutely inspec
ted the dwellings of the poor tenants in Navan,
and conversed freely vvitli their occupants, listen
ing to their requests, etc., and giving to the agent
instructions to liave them complied with. Tlie
party afterwards drove through Navan, and pro
ceeded to the Ardsalla estate, which they also
inspected, and returned to Ardsalla House for
luncheon. The Earl and Countess have left for
London.
. -*►
Collision Between two Rivf.k Steamers
—Lobs op the Savannah with a Valuable
Cargo.—The steamer Savannah recently pur
chased of the Government, while making her
first trip for her new owners, between this city
and. Augusta, collided On Sunday afternoon with
the steamer Mayflower and sunk in liftlf an
hour.
The Savannah left here on Saturday morning
flir Augusta, with a freight valued at about $125,-
000, and eighteen passengers. When four miles
above Purysburg at a point about forty miles
from Savannah, and while turning a bend ofthe
river, she was run into by the steamer Mayflower,
bound down, and cut down to the water’s edge.’
She sunk in about thirty minutes. C’apt. Spicer
of the Savannah, made every effort to run his
steamer upon tlie shore, where she now lies sub
merged, her pilot house only showing above the
water. The passengers were immediately landed
and remained on the hanks 'of the river, about
three miles from any habitation until this morn
ing, when they were taken up and brought to this
city by trie steamer Clarion, Capt. Morse. Cant
Spicer, “with the officers of the Savannah, remain
by the wreck, and is endeavoring to save all the
property possible. The cargo was a very large
and valuable one, and was consigned to parties
in the interior. The prospects for savins either
steamer or cargo are thought to be e.Uremdv
slim. .i* J
.The-Savanpah was an iron clad steamer and
vvas built by the Government for a river trans-
.port. She was originally clad with sheet iron
anct pierced with loop holes for sharpshooters
and mounted two howitzers.. This armor hail’
been takeu about three months ago iu order to
lighten hei draft. She was sold at public auction
at toe uite sale of Government vessels here to H
J. Dickerson &.Co.,'for *5,000.
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Great Reconstruction Meeting at TcL-
LA uoiiA. TallaJu/ma, jjfop. 4th, 1865.—The pqb-
lfomeetmp here to-day. was the largest tliafhas
eolkaied at Tidlahbma, emhr:iaiD< p repre
sentatives trom six counties, amt among them
many ol the leading and most^'influential citizens
tff the Stale.
;i Tl.MkiVuastiug was addressed by tlie Hon. A. 'S.
Colvar, m a speech <»r over t wo*lionrs in lenijrtJi
,and by C. S. Cameron, of the Memphis Distnct’
and others. ; ’
Resolutions were adopted heartily endorsing
arid approving the reconstruction policy of Pres”
ulent Andrew Johnson, as enunciated through
hialate address to Southern delegations.
The speeches were eloquent, conservative and
piltaotip, and were listened to with marked at
tention..
The meeting was characterized by the utmost
harmony and good feeling.
^ Burlev..
English- detectives have arrived in New York
f£M^P ap eye upon the Fenians and report to
tlfo'HQtrie'government. One or two of them ale