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          <titlePart type="main">LAWS OF GEORGIA,<lb/>
PASSED IN
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NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1863,
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AND
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MARCH, 1864.</titlePart>
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            <docTitle>
              <titlePart type="main">ACTS<lb/>
OF THE
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY
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OF THE
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STATE OF GEORGIA
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PASSED IN
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MILLEDGEVILLE,
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AT AN
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ANNUAL SESSION
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IN
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NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1863;
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ALSO,
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EXTRA SESSION OF 1864.</titlePart>
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            <docImprint>PUBLISHED BY AUTHORITY
<pubPlace>MILLEDGEVILLE</pubPlace>
<publisher>BOUGHTON, NISBET, BARNES &amp; MOORE, STATE PRINTERS.</publisher>
<docDate>1864.</docDate></docImprint>
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            <head>TABLE OF TITLES, DIVISIONS, &amp;c.</head>
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              <head>PART I.<lb/><emph rend="bold">PUBLIC LAWS</emph></head>
              <item>TITLE I.—APPROPRIATIONS.</item>
              <item>TITLE II.—ASYLUMS.</item>
              <item>TITLE III.—BANKS AND BANKING<corr sic=".">.</corr></item>
              <item>TITLE IV.—COUNTY OFFICERS.</item>
              <item>TITLE V.—DISTILLATION.</item>
              <item>TITLE VI.—EDUCATION.</item>
              <item>TITLE VII.—ELECTIONS.</item>
              <item>TITLE VIII.—EX'RS, ADM'RS, GUARDIANS AND TRUSTEES.</item>
              <item>TITLE IX.—GENERAL ASSEMBLY.</item>
              <item>TITLE X.—INSURANCE COMPANIES.</item>
              <item>TITLE XI.—JUDICIARY—AMENDMENTS TO CODE.</item>
              <item>TITLE XII.—MILITIA.</item>
              <item>TITLE XIII.—OATHS.</item>
              <item>TITLE XIV.—PAUPERS.</item>
              <item>TITLE XV.—PENAL CODE.</item>
              <item>TITLE VI.—RAILROADS.</item>
              <item>TITLE XVII.—RELIEF.</item>
              <item>TITLE XVIII.—SOLDIERS AND SOLDIERS' FAMILIES.</item>
              <item>TITLE XIX.—STATE HOUSE OFFICERS—CLERKS, SALARIES, &amp;c.</item>
              <item>TITLE XX.—TAXES AND REVENUE.</item>
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              <head>PART II<lb/>
<emph rend="bold">PRIVATE AND LOCAL LAWS.</emph></head>
              <item>TITLE I.—CITIES AND TOWNS.</item>
              <item>TITLE II.—CITY COURTS.</item>
              <item>TITLE III.—CORPORATIONS.</item>
              <item>TITLE IV.—COUNTY LINES.</item>
              <item>TITLE V.—COUNTY REGULATIONS.</item>
              <item>TITLE VI.—EDUCATION.</item>
              <item>TITLE VII.—RELIEF.</item>
              <item>TITLE VIII.—TAXES.</item>
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            <head>STATUTES OF GEORGIA<lb/>
PASSED BY THE
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GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1863.</head>
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              <head>PART I.—PUBLIC LAWS</head>
              <div3 type="title">
                <head>TITLE I. <lb/>APPROPRIATIONS.</head>
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                  <p>Sec. 1. Salaries of Governor, Secretary of 
State, Treasurer, Comptroller General,
Secretaries of Executive Department,
Messenger, Librarian, Attorney and
Solicitors General, and Reporter of
Supreme Court. Extra pay to Clerk
of Supreme Court for stationery and
advertising. Salaries of Judges of
the Supreme Court and of the Superior
Courts.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 2. Contingent Fund. Printing Fund— 
Pay for cleaning and airing Rep. Hall
and Senate Chamber. State House
Clock.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 3. Pay of President of Senate and Speaker
of House. <hi rend="italics">Per diem</hi> and mileage
of members of General Assembly.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 4. Pay of Secretary of Senate and Clerk of
House of Representatives. Contingent
expenses of same officers. Pay
Clerks of standing committees in each
branch.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 5. Pay of Doorkeepers and Messengers.
Attending to chandeliers.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 6. Authorizing payment for services and
labor directed by General Assembly,
and no appropriations made.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 7. Appropriations for salaries to continue,
till salaries changed by law.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 8. Advances to salaried officers.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 9. Georgia Relief and Hospital Association.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 10. Purchase of clothing, shoes, &amp;c., of
soldiers from Ga.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 11. Support of indigent widows and orphans
of soldiers, and ludigent soldiers themselves,
and mode of providing means.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 12. Salt supply, &amp;c. For purchase and
manufacture of cards.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 13. Payment of public debt, &amp;c.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 14. Salary Superintendent Ga. Military Institute.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 15. Military Fund.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 16. Pay of guard at State Magazine and
Military Storekeeper.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 17. Pay Recording Clerk Ex. Dep't.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 18. Pay Page House Reps. <hi rend="italics">Per diem</hi> and
mileage to Wm. Herrington, deceased,
Rep. from Terrell county.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 19. To reimburse Messrs. Warren and Graham
for expenses in accompanying
remains of Mr. Herrington.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 20. Advance to Public Printer.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 21. Henningsen Hospital, Richmond, Va.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 22. Gov. authorized to import military supplies,
export cotton, purchase steamer,
&amp;c.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 23. Stationery for Ex. Dep't.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 24. Extra allowance to Doorkeepers House
and Senate.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 25. To Hon. Richard Clark for services in
preparing Code.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 26. Expenses of Committee to Academy for
Blind.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 27. To Rev. Sam'l Higgins for Fast Day
sermon. Secretary of State for fuel,
lights and other contingencies.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 28. Support of State Lunatic Asylum.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 29. To Rev. Jos. J. Ridley, for services as
chaplain.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 30. For purchase of forges, hammers and
gudeons.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 31. To J. S. Walker and R. B. Knight, for
services to Conference Committee on
Militia Bill.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 32. Pay of Compiler of laws. To committee
for preparing Great Seal.</p>
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                  <head>(No 1.)</head>
                  <head><hi rend="italics">An Act to provide for raising a revenue for the political year</hi> 1864,
<hi rend="italics">and to appropriate money for the support of the Government during
said year, and to make certain special appropriations, and for other
purposes therein mentioned</hi>.</head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Salary of Governor.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Secretary of State, Treasurer and Comptroller General.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Secretaries of Executive Department, not exceeding two.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Messenger.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">State Librarian.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Attorney and Solicitors General.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Reporter of Supreme C't.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Clerk of the Supreme C't for stationery and advertising.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Judges of Supreme Court.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Judges of Superior Court.</note>
                  <p>1. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia</hi>,
That the following sums of money be, and the same are hereby
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appropriated to the respective persons and objects hereinafter
named, viz: The sum of four thousand dollars to his Excellency
the Governor as his salary for the year 1864; and the further sum
of three thousand dollars, each, to the Secretary of State and
Treasurer, and the sum of three thousand dollars to the Comptroller
General, for the year 1864; and the sum of two thousand five
hundred dollars, each, to the Secretaries (not exceeding two) employed
in the Executive Department, for the year 1864; and the
sum of six hundred dollars to pay the Messenger of the Executive
Department for the year 1864; and the sum of one thousand dollars
to the State Librarian, as his salary for the year 1864; . and
the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars to each, the State's
Attorney and the Solicitors General, for the year 1864; and the
sum of one thousand dollars to the Reporter of the decisions of
the Supreme Court, as his salary for the year 1864; and the further
sum of six hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated
to pay the Clerk of the Supreme Court for the Correction
of Errors, for stationery and advertising notices of the meeting of
said Court in the year 1864; and the sum of thirty-five hundred
dollars to each Judge of the Supreme Court, as his salary for the
year 1864; and the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars to each
Judge of the Superior Court, as his salary for the year 1864.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Contingent fund.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Printing fund for current year.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Cleaning and airing Rep. Hall and Senate Chamber.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">State House clock.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay for State House guard.</note>
                  <p>2. SEC. II. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of fifty thousand
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated as a contingent
fund for the year 1864; and the sum of thirty thousand dollars be
appropriated for a printing fund for the current year, and in case
of a deficiency in this appropriation, the Governor is hereby authorized
to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the deficit, to be
paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated;
and the sum of seventy-five dollars to the person selected by the
Governor to keep, clean, scour, air the chambers, &amp;c., of the Senate
Chamber and Representative Hall, for the year 1864; and the
sum of fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to
pay for repairing and keeping in order the State House clock, for
the year 1864; and the sum of twenty-four hundred dollars to pay
the State House Guard for the year 1864.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay of President of the Senate and Speaker of the House.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Mileage.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Per diem of members.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Mileage.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <p>3. SEC. III. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of ten dollars,
each, per day, be paid to the President of the Senate and Speaker
of the House of Representatives, during the present session of the
General Assembly, and the sum of five dollars for every twenty
miles of travel, going to and returning from the seat of Government,
the distance to be computed by the nearest route usually
traveled; and that the sum of six dollars, each, per day be paid
to the members of the General Assembly, during the present session,
and five dollars for every twenty miles of travel, going to
and returning from the Capitol, under the same rules which apply
to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives;
<hi rend="italics">provided</hi>, that no member of the General Assembly
shall receive pay for the time he may be absent, unless his absence
<pb id="gener7" n="7"/>
was caused by the sickness of himself or family, or he had
leave of absence granted by the Senate or House for satisfactory
reasons.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay of Secretary of Senate.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Clerk of the House.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Contingent expenses of the Secretary of <sic corr="Senate">Sonate</sic> and Clerk of the House.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay of Clerks of standing committees in each branch.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <p>4. SEC. IV. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the Secretary of the
Senate be paid the sum of eighty-seven <sic corr="dollars">dollaas</sic> and fifty cents per
day for the present session, and the Clerk of the House of Representatives
be paid one hundred dollars per day for the present session,
out of which sums they shall pay all their assistants and
sub-clerks; <hi rend="italics">provided</hi>, that no warrant shall issue in favor of either
until his Excellency the Governor shall have satisfactory evidence
that they have carefully marked and filed away all reports of
standing committees and all papers of importance connected with
either house; and the sum of seventy-five dollars, or so much
thereof, as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated, each, to the
Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives,
to defray the contingent expenses of their respective offices,
at the present session of the General Assembly; and that the sum
of ten dollars <hi rend="italics">per diem</hi> be appropriated to pay the Clerks of the
standing committees of the Senate and House of Representatives;
<hi rend="italics">provided</hi>, that the Auditing Committee of either the Senate or
House shall not be authorized to audit said Clerks' accounts for
any greater number of days than shall be certified to by the Chairman
of the Committee to which he was clerk.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay of Doorkeepers and Messengers.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Mileage.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Cleaning and lighting <sic corr="chandeliers">chandaliers</sic>.</note>
                  <p>5. SEC. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of six dollars per
day be paid to each of the Doorkeepers and Messengers of the
Senate and House of Representatives, at the present session of the
General Assembly, and the same mileage to each of said Doorkeepers
and Messengers as is paid to the members of the General
Assembly; and that the sum of fifty dollars, or so much thereof
as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for cleaning, lighting
and keeping in order the <sic corr="chandeliers">chandaliers</sic> of the Senate Chamber and
Representative Hall, during the present session of the General Assembly.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay provided for all cases where labor or service is directed and no compensation provided.</note>
                  <p>6. SEC. VI.<hi rend="italics"> Be it further enacted</hi>, That in all cases where the
General Assembly directs the performance of any service or labor
for which no provision is made for compensation, the Governor is
hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasury for such
sum or sums as in his judgment may be a just compensation.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Appropriations for salaries continued till changed by law.</note>
                  <p>7. SEC. VII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the various sums of the
annul salaries of all the officers of this State whose salaries are
fixed by law, be, and the same are hereby appropriated annually,
to pay said salaries, until they are otherwise altered by law.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Advances by Treasurer to salaried officers.</note>
                  <p>8. SEC. VIII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the Treasurer be authorized
to pay from time to time to the officers of the Government
whose salaries are appropriated by this act, seventy-five per cent of
the amount for which service has been actually rendered, at the
date of such payment, taking receipts from said officers for the
same, which receipts shall be his vouchers, and are hereby declared
<pb id="gener8" n="8"/>
offsets to the extent of said payment, to executive warrants,
drawn at the end of the quarter for said officer's salary.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Appropriation for Georgia Relief &amp; Hospital Association.</note>
                  <p>9. SEC. IX. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of five hundred
thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the
“Georgia Relief and Hospital Association”, to be drawn and expended
according to an Act, entitled “An Act to appropriate
funds to the uses of the Georgia Relief and Hospital Association”,
assented to Dec'r 12th, 1862.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Appropriation for <sic corr="purchase">purchae</sic><sic corr="of">ef</sic> clothing, shoes, &amp;c for soldiers from Ga.</note>
                  <p>10. SEC. X. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of two millions
five hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
be, and the same is hereby appropriated for the purchasing
and procuring clothing, shoes, caps or hats, for all the privates and
non-commissioned officers, who are now or may hereafter be in the
army of the Confederate States, from this State, during the present
war.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">For support of indigent widows and orphans of soldiers in service, as well as <sic corr="for">foi</sic> indigent<sic corr="families"> fami ies</sic> of soldiers and indigent soldiers themselves, if disabled in service.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Gov. Authorized to borrow money or issue six per c'nt bonds under certain conditions.</note>
                  <p>11. SEC. XI. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of six millions
of dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the
same is hereby appropriated for the support of indigent widows
and orphans of soldiers, and indigent families of soldiers, who
may be in the public service, and for the support of indigent
soldiers, Who may be disabled by wounds or disease,
in the service of this State or the Confederate States, for
and during the year 1864, and if necessary, His Excellency the
Governor, is hereby authorized to borrow the money or to issue
State bonds bearing no greater interest than six per cent, which
bonds shall be sold in the market to the highest bidder, in an
amount sufficient for said purpose, and in such sums as may be
needed from time to time to effect the object of said appropriation.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Procuring supply of salt.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">For the purchase &amp; manufacture of cards and clothing for factories.</note>
                  <p>12. SEC. XII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of five hundred
thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be,
and the same is hereby appropriated, to be used for the purpose of
supplying the people of Georgia with salt, as directed by an act
entitled an act to provide for the supply of the people of Georgia
with salt, and to appropriate money for the accomplishment of
that object, assented to Dec 6th, 1862; and that the sum of two
hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary,
be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any funds in the
Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of purchasing
cards, and procuring the necessary materials for carrying on
the work of manufacturing wool and cotton cards, and card clothing
for factories.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">For payment of public debt, &amp;c.</note>
                  <p>13. SEC. XIII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of one million
seven thousand and ninety-five dollars, or so much thereof as may
be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to pay any
portion of the public debt, which may become due within the present
political year, and to pay the interest on State bonds, as may
be issued by authority of any law, passed during the present session
of the General Assembly, the same to be paid out of any money in
the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Salary of Sup. Ga. Mil. Institute</note>
                  <p>14. SEC. XIV. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of three thousand
<pb id="gener9" n="9"/>
dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the salary of the Superintendent
of the Georgia Military Institute, at Marietta.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Military fund for 1864.</note>
                  <p>15. SEC. XV. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of three millions
of dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and
the same is hereby appropriated as a Military fund for the year
1864, to be drawn from the Treasury on warrants of the Governor,
from time to time as the same may be required, to defray the expenses
for Military purposes.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay of guard at State Magazine at Milledgeville.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Military Storekeeper.</note>
                  <p>16. SEC. XVI. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of eight hundred
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated,
to pay for the guard at the State Magazine, at Milledgeville,
for the year 1864; and the sum of nine hundred dollars
to pay the Military store keeper in the city of Milledgeville.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay for Recording Clerk Ex. Dep't for 1864.</note>
                  <p>17. SEC. XVII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of twenty-five
hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to pay the
recording Clerk of the Executive Department, for the year 1864.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Page for House of Reps.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To Hon. Wm Herrington, Rep. From Terrell Co., for per diem and mileage.</note>
                  <p>18. SEC. XVIII. <hi rend="italics">And be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of one
hundred and fifty dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated
to pay. Iverson L. Hunter for his services as page of this House for
the present session of the General Assembly. And that the sum
of three hundred and seven dollars and fifty cents be appropriated
to pay the per <hi rend="italics">diem</hi> and mileage of the Hon. William Herrington
<sic corr="deceased">deeceased</sic>, Representative from Terrell county, and that K. J. Warren
be authorized to receive the same and pay it over to his representatives.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To reimburse Mr. Warren and Graham for expenses in accompanying home remains of Hon. Wm. Herrington.</note>
                  <p>19. SEC. XIX. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That <sic corr="the sum">thesum</sic> of thirty-five
dollars each, be appropriated to reimburse Hons. Mr. Warren of
Lee, and Mr. Graham of Clay, for expenses incurred in accompanying
the remains of the Hon. Mr. Herrington to his residence.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Advance to Public Printer.</note>
                  <p>20. SEC. XX. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of three thousand
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated as an advance
to Messrs. Boughton, Nisbet and Barnes, on the State printing for
the year 1863, and that the Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized
to pay the same to said State Printers, on the warrant of his
Excellency the Governor, of this State.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">For Henningsen Hospital in Richmond, Va., to be drawn by Mrs. W. A. Henningsen.</note>
                  <p>21. SEC. XXI.<hi rend="italics"> Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of five thousand
dollars be appropriated for the use and benefit of the Henningsen
Hospital, at Richmond Va.; and the Governor is authorized
and required to draw his warrant on the Treasury in favor of Mrs.
W. A. Henningsen for said sum of five thousand dollars.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Governor authorized to import military supplies.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Also, to export cotton &amp; other commodities for purpose of exchange and to purchase a steamer if necessary.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Gov. authorized to purchase and sell or hypothecate cotton or 6 per cent. bonds to purchase steamer.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <p>22. SEC XXII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the Governor be and
he is hereby authorized to import any of the Military supplies necessary
to be purchased for the use of our troops, under any of the provisions
of this Act; and to use all the means and take all the
risks necessary to accomplish this object, and if necessary, in his
opinion, he is authorized to purchase one good swift steamer, to be
used in running the blockade, for the purposes aforesaid, to export
cotton or other commodities, to be used in place of exchange, in
the purchase of the necessary supplies. For the purpose of purchasing
<pb id="gener10" n="10"/>
such steamer the Governor is authorized to purchase and
sell or <sic corr="hypothecate">hypothicate</sic> cotton, or to issue and sell or hypothicate bonds
of this State, bearing six percent interest, payable semi-annually,
the principal payable twenty years after this date; Provided, that
the sum expended for each purchase shall not exceed seven hundred
and fifty thousand dollars, which sum is hereby appropriated
for that purpose.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">For the purchase of stationery for Ex. Dept.</note>
                  <p>23. SEC. XXIII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of eighteen
thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, for the
purchase of stationery for the use of the Executive Department.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Extra allowance to Doorkeepers and House and Senate.</note>
                  <p>24 SEC. XXIV. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of one hundred
dollars be appropriated to each, the Door Keeper of the House
of Representatives, and the Door Keeper of the Senate, to pay for
negro hire necessary to discharge the duties of their respective offices,
the present session of the General Assembly.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To Hon. Richard Clark for services in superintending printing and preparing index for Code.</note>
                  <p>25. SEC. XXV. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of three
hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to Richard
Clark for his services in superintending the printing of the Code of
Georgia, and preparing an index to the same.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To defray expenses of Committee visiting Academy for the Blind.</note>
                  <p>26. SEC. XXVI. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of two hundred
and thirty-one dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated
to defray the expenses incurred by the Committee who visited
the Asylum for the Blind, at Macon, during the present session of
the General Assembly.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To Rev. Samuel Higgins for sermon on Fast Day.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To Sec'y of State for fuel, lights and other contingencies provided by him for General Assembly.</note>
                  <p>27. SEC. XXVII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of two hundred
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to Dr. Samuel
Higgins, for his services, and payment of expenses in attending
and preaching a sermon, by invitation of the General Assembly, on
the late Fast Day, and the Governor is authorized to draw his
warrant for the same on the Treasury, in favor of said Dr. Samuel
Higgins; and the farther sum of four thousand eight hundred and
twenty-five dollars and twenty-five cents be, and the same is hereby
appropriated to the Secretary of State, to pay for fuel, lights,
and other contingencies provided by him for the General Assembly,
as per account tendered the Finance committee, to be drawn
on the warrants of the Governor, and paid out of any money in the
Treasury, not otherwise appropriated.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">For support of State Lunatic Asylum for 1864.</note>
                  <p>28. SEC. XXVIII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of one
and forty-two thousand five hundred dollars be, and the
same is hereby appropriated to and for the support of the State Lunatic
Asylum, for the year 1864, according to the provisions of an
Act passed at the present session of the General Assembly, to appropriate
money for the support of the State Lunatic Asylum for
the year 1864.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">For services of Rev. Jos. J. Ridley as Chaplain of Senate.</note>
                  <p>29. SEC. XXIX. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of two hundred
dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to pay the
Rev. Dr. Joseph J. Ridley for his services as Chaplain to the Senate
during its present session, to be paid out of the contingent fund.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To purchase forge hammers and gudgeons.</note>
                  <p>30. SEC. XXX. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of twenty-five
<pb id="gener11" n="11"/>
thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is
hereby appropriated, to have cast twenty sets of forge hammers
and gudgeons, which may be sold to persons at cost.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay to J.S. Walker and R.B. Knight, for services to conference committee on militia bill.</note>
                  <p>31. SEC. XXXI. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of fifty dollars
each, be paid to James S. Walker and R. B. Knight, for services
rendered the conference committee upon the bill to reorganize the Militia, in
copying said bill, and making out two reports for
the committee.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Pay to Compiler of the laws of session of 1863.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To Hon. G. N. Lester and others for services in preparing new Great Seal for the State.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Gov. to audit the accounts for preparing seal.</note>
                  <p>32. SEC. XXXII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the sum of five hundred
dollars is hereby appropriated to pay the Compiler of the laws
of this session of the Legislature; and that the sum of two thousand
dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the
same is hereby appropriated, to pay George N. Lester, B. H. Bigham,
N. C. Barnett, and S. S. Stafford, commissioners to prepare a
new great seal for the State of Georgia, for services, and to reimburse
them such funds as they, or either of them may have paid out
for the accomplishment of the said work. The Governor is hereby
authorized to audit the accounts therefor, and to pay so much of
said accounts as he may find just, from any fund in the Treasury, not
otherwise appropriated.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec'r 14th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
              </div3>
              <div3 type="title">
                <head>TITLE II.<lb/>ASYLUMS.</head>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 2.)</head>
                  <argument>
                    <p>Sec. 1. Salary of Superintendent Lunatic Asylum </p>
                    <p>Sec. 2. Salaries of Trustees, other officers, and
hire of Servants.</p>
                    <p>Sec. 3. Support of pauper patients.</p>
                    <p>Sec. 4. Purchase of provisions.</p>
                    <p>Sec. 5. Contingent appropriation.</p>
                    <p>Sec. 6. Appropriations, how raised and disbursed.</p>
                    <p>Sec. 7. $12,000, appropriated to Georgia Academy for the Blind.</p>
                  </argument>
                  <head><hi rend="italics">An Act to appropriate money for the support of the State Lunatic Asylum
for the year</hi> 1864, <hi rend="italics">and for other purposes</hi>.</head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Salary of Superintendent.</note>
                  <p>1. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do
enact</hi>, That the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars be, and
the same is hereby appropriated, to pay the salary of the Superintendent
and resident Physician of the State Lunatic Asylum for
the year 1864.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Salaries of Trustees, Treasurer, sub-officers, &amp;c.</note>
                  <p>2. SEC. II. <hi rend="italics">And the General Assembly do further enact</hi>, That from
and immediately after the passage of this act, the sum of twenty
thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to pay
the salaries of Trustees, Treasurer, sub-officers, attendants, and
servant's hire, for the said Asylum for the year 1864; <hi rend="italics">Provided</hi>,
such; amount be found necessary for said purposes.</p>
                  <pb id="gener12" n="12"/>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">For support of pauper patients.</note>
                  <p>3. SEC. III. <hi rend="italics">And the General Assembly do further enact</hi>, That the
sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof, as may be necessary,
is hereby appropriated, for the support of pauper patients in
said Asylum, for the year 1864.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Appropriation to purchase provisions for ensuing year.</note>
                  <p>4. SEC. IV. <hi rend="italics">And the General Assembly do further enact</hi>, That the
sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated
to supply the means of purchasing provisions in the fall of
the year 1864, for the ensuing year.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Contingent appropriation for case of necessity.</note>
                  <p>5. SEC. V. <hi rend="italics">And the General Assembly do further enact</hi>, That the
sum of fifty thousand dollars, be and the same is hereby set apart
and appropriated, as a contingent fund, upon which His Excellency
the Governor is authorized to draw his warrant upon the Treasury,
if the amount above appropriated for procuring supplies,
should become exhausted, and his Excellency be satisfied of the necessity
for <sic corr="further">farther</sic> aid.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">How raised and disbursed.</note>
                  <p>6. SEC. VI. <hi rend="italics">And the General Assembly do further enact</hi>, That the
moneys hereinbefore appropriated, shall be raised and disbursed, in
the manner and under the same limitations and restrictions as are
prescribed in the fourth and fifth sections of an Act, entitled “An
act to appropriate money for the support of the State Lunatic Asylum,
for the year 1863, and for other purposes, assented to December
15th, 1862”.</p>
                  <p>7. SEC. VII. All conflicting laws are hereby repealed.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec'r 12th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 3.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act for the support of the Georgia Academy for the Blind.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">$12,000 appropriated for Academy for Blind.</note>
                  <p>7. SECTION 1. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of the State of Georgia, do
enact</hi>, That the sum of twelve thousand dollars is hereby appropriated
for the support of the Georgia Academy for the Blind, during
the current political year, and that His Excellency the Governor is
authorized to draw his warrant for the same, in favor of the Trustees
of said Academy.</p>
                  <p>8. SEC. II. All conflicting laws are hereby repealed.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec'r 7th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
              </div3>
              <div3 type="title">
                <pb id="gener13" n="13"/>
                <head>TITLE III. <lb/>BANKS AND BANKING.</head>
                <argument>
                  <p>Sec. 1. Stay Law continued in force.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 2. When goes into effect.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 3. Georgia Treasury Notes may be cancelled
on certain conditions, and in
lieu certificates may issue.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 4. Comptroller General shall register and
countersign certificates.</p>
                  <p>Sec.5. How Treasury Notes when cancelled
to be disposed of. Treasurer and
Comptroller General shall state in
their reports amount of notes cancelled
and certificates issued.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 6. Treasurer and Comptroller General
authorized to issue change bills.
Under what restrictions.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 7. Authorized to employ Clerks. How
Clerks compensated.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 8. For what purpose change bills to be
paid out.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 9. Location of Bank of Whitfield changed
on certain conditions.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 10. Name of Traders' and Importers' Bank
in Augusta changed.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 11. The President and Directors of the
North Western Bank of the State of
Georgia authorized to carry on their
banking operations at Atlanta.</p>
                </argument>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 4.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to continue in force the fourth section of an act passed over the
Governor's veto on the 30th day of November, 1860, entitled an act
to provide against the forfeiture of the several bank charters of this
State on account of non-specie payments for a given time, and for
other purposes, passed in the year 1857, and to suspend the pains and
penalties imposed upon the several banks and their officers in this State
for non-payment of specie, and for other purposes; and also an act to
add a proviso to the 4th section of an act entitled an act for the relief of
the people and banks of this State, and for other purposes, passed on
the 30th of November, 1860, and to add an additional section to said
act, assented to December 20th, 1860.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Stay law continued in force.</note>
                  <p>1. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of Georgia do enact</hi>, That the
before recited part of an act, and also the before recited act, be,
and the same are hereby re-enacted and continued in force until
the first day of January, 1865.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">When goes into effect.</note>
                  <p>2. Sec. II. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That this act shall go into effect
and be in force on and after the first day of December, 1863.</p>
                  <p>SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 1, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 5.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to cancel certain portions of the Georgia Treasury Notes lately issued,
by issuing Treasury Certificates of Deposite, and for other purposes.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Preamble.</note>
                  <p>WHEREAS, His Excellency the Governor, in his late annual message,
represents that Bankers, Capitalists, and others holding
Georgia Treasury Notes, desire to have the same cancelled by receiving
<pb id="gener14" n="14"/>
in lieu of said notes, Treasury Certificates of Deposite, for
larger amounts, binding the State to the same obligations contained
in the face of said notes;</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Georgia Treasury notes in sums not less than $5,000 may be cancelled and Treasury certificates <sic corr="issued">issuen</sic> therefor.</note>
                  <p>3. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia</hi>, That
upon the presentation to the State Treasurer, of five thousand
dollars, or any larger amount, of Georgia Treasury Notes, by any
holder, who may desire the same to be cancelled by the issue of
Treasury Certificates of Deposite, it shall be the duty of the Treasurer
to receive, and give Certificates of Deposite, in sums of not
less than five thousand dollars for the same; said Treasury Certificates
to be made payable in the same manner as is expressed on
the face of the Treasury Notes thus cancelled.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Comptroller General shall register and countersign certificates.</note>
                  <p>4. SEC. II. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That upon the issue of said
Treasury Certificates, they shall be taken to the Comptroller General,
who shall register and countersign the same; the registry
shall contain the date of issue, the number and amount of each
certificate issued.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">How cancelled Treasury notes to be disposed of.</note>
                  <p>5. SEC. III. <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Be it further enacted</note>, That upon said Treasury Notes
being thus taken up, each number shall be marked redeemed “by
Certificate” in the Registry Book in the Comptroller General's office,
and once in every two months the Treasurer and Comptroller
General shall in the presence of the Governor burn said notes thus
cancelled, and his Excellency will cause the proceedings to be entered
upon the minutes of the Executive Department, and the
Treasurer and Comptroller General are hereby directed in their
general reports to give the amount of Treasury Notes thus cancelled,
and the amount of Treasury Certificates thus issued:</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Provisoes.</note>
                  <p><hi rend="italics">Provided</hi>, That the cancelling of these notes shall not be reported
among the receipts and disbursements at the Treasury: <hi rend="italics">Provided
further</hi>, That the parties who hold said Treasury Notes shall
pay all expenses of printing and carrying into effect the provisions
of this Act.</p>
                  <p>SEC. IV. All conflicting laws are hereby repealed.</p>
                  <p>Assented to 14 Dec. 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 6.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to authorize the Treasurer and Comptroller General to issue
one million of dollars of change bills.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Treasurer and Comp. Gen'l to issue change bills of this State.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Of what denomination.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">For what amount.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Under what restrictions.</note>
                  <p>6. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly do enact</hi>, That the Treasurer
and Comptroller General are hereby authorized and required, under
the supervision of the Governor, to have prepared, issued, and
put in circulation, change bills of this State, of the denomination
of four three, two and one dollars, and of fifty cents, the aggregate
amount of which shall not exceed one million of dollars; the said
change bills to be issued in the terms of, and under the restrictions
of the Act assented to Dec. 5th, 1862, entitled, “An Act to
<pb id="gener15" n="15"/>
authorize the Treasurer and Comptroller General of this State, to
issue change bills for the State of Georgia, under the supervision
of His Excellency the Governor.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Tre-surer and Comp. Gen'l authorized to employ clerks<corr>.</corr></note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Compensation for clerks<corr sic=".">.</corr></note>
                  <p>7. SEC. II. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the Treasurer and Comptroller
General, under the approval of the Governor, shall have
power to employ such number of clerks or assistants as may be
necessary, to issue said change bills at an early day, and that said
clerks or assistants shall have such compensation for his or their
services, as the Governor may deem just.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Change bills for what purposes paid out<corr>.</corr></note>
                  <p>8. SEC. III. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the Treasurer be authorized
to pay out said change bills from the Treasury, in payment
of appropriations made by the General <sic corr="Assembly">Asssembly</sic>.</p>
                  <p>SEC. IV. All conflicting laws are hereby repealed.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 14th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 7.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An act to amend the Charter of the Bank of Whitfield Dalton Ga.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Location of the Bank of Whitfield changed.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <p>9. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted &amp;c., </hi>That the location of the Bank of Whitfield,
be, and the same is hereby changed from Dalton Ga., to Atlanta
Ga. <hi rend="italics">Provided</hi>, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed,
as to effect, alter, or impair any contract or contracts made
with said Bank, or any liability incurred by said Bank.</p>
                  <p>SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 11th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 8)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to amend an Act to charter and incorporate a Bank in the city of
Augusta by the name and style of the Traders and Importers Bank.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Name of the Traders' and Importers' Bank of Augusta changed.</note>
                  <p>10. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact</hi>, That
the name of the Bank incorporated by the above recited
Act, shall be from and after the passage of this Act, The Importers
and Traders Bank.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 1st, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 9.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act for the relief of the President and Directors of the North Western
bank.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Preamble.</note>
                  <p>11. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">Whereas</hi>, the invasion of the State of Georgia, by
the Federal army renders it necessary that the assets of the North
Western Bank of Georgia, should be removed from Ringgold,</p>
                  <pb id="gener16" n="16"/>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">President and Directors of the N.W. Bank of the State of Ga. invested with banking privileges in Atlanta.</note>
                  <p><hi rend="italics">Therefore Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted
by the authority of the same</hi>, That from and after the passage of this
Act, the President and Directors of the “North Western Bank of
the State of Georgia,” shall be invested with all the powers, rights
and privileges of banking in the city of Atlanta Georgia, that it
is secured to them in the charter granted on the fourth day of
March eighteen hundred and fifty six, for the North Western Bank
of the State of Georgia, located at Ringgold, in the county of
Catoosa.</p>
                  <p>SEC.II. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Nov. 23rd, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
              </div3>
              <div3 type="title">
                <head>TITLE IV. <lb/>COUNTY OFFICERS.</head>
                <argument>
                  <p>Sec. 1. Repeals Act of 30th November 1861,
consolidating offices of Tax Receiver
and Collector. Proviso.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 2. Tax Collector of Walker and other
counties similarly situated allowed
until the 1st day of March 1864, to
make final settlement with Comptroller
General.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 3. When necessary, Governor authorized
to detail a Guard from any forces in
the service of Georgia for protection
of Tax Collectors in discharge of
their duty. In certain cases allowed
to summons Guard. Guard to receive
pay for their services. Amount
of pay.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 4. Ordinaries allowed to charge and receive
certain fees in addition to those
now allowed by law. Fees. In certain
cases same fees as allowed
Clerks of the Superior Courts for
similar services.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 5. When fees are increased by any act of
present General Assembly, the rate
of per centage of increase to obtain
on the fees allowed by this Act.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 6. County Treasurers to hold their offices
for two years after Jan. 1st 1864.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 7. Preamble. Act separating offices of
Receivers of Tax Returns and Tax
Collectors to go into operation 1st
day of January 1864.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 8. Act to take effect and be of force from
the day of its passage.</p>
                </argument>
                <div4 rend="italics">
                  <head>(No. 10.)</head>
                  <head><hi rend="italics">An Act to repeal the Act assented to the</hi> 30<hi rend="italics">th day of November</hi>, 1861,
<hi rend="italics">consolidating the offices of Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector
in this State</hi>.</head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Repeals act of 30th Nov. '61, consolidating offices of Tax Receiver and Collector.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <p>1. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia</hi>, That
the Act to consolidate the offices of Receiver of Tax Returns and
of Tax Collector in this State, and to require the duties thereof
to be discharged by one officer, to be styled “Tax Receiver and
Collector,” assented to on the 30th day of November, 1861, be,
and the same is hereby repealed: <hi rend="italics">Provided</hi>, that no Receiver of
Tax Returns or Tax Collector shall receive more than fifteen hundred
dollars commissions on the general State Tax.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Nov. 30th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <pb id="gener17" n="17"/>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 11)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to extend the time for the collection of Taxes in the county of
Walker, and to provide a guard for the Tax-Collector in said county,
and all other counties similarly situated.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Tax Collector of Walker and other counties allowed to 1st March, 1864, to make final settlement with Comp. Gen'l.</note>
                  <p>2. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of Georgia do enact</hi>, That
the time for the Tax-Collector of Walker county, and all other
counties similarly situated, to make his collections and final settlements
with the Comptroller General, be, and the same is hereby extended
to the 1st day of March, A. D. 1864.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">When necessary, Gov. authorized to detail a guard for protection of Tax Collector in discharge of duty<corr>.</corr> In certain cases allowed to summons guard.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Shall receive pay for services.</note>
                  <p>3. SEC. II. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid</hi>, That
whenever it shall appear necessary for the protection of the Tax
Collector of said county, in the discharge of his duty, the Governor
be, and he is hereby authorized to detail all such officers and
men from any forces in the service of Georgia, as may be necessary,
to act as a guard for said officer, and in all such cases as may appear
eminently necessary to the said Tax-Collector, shall be authorized
to summons one or more men to act as guards during the continuance
of the danger. In which event, the parties, so acting,
shall receive the same pay as if in service in either of the Georgia
Regiments, to be paid upon warrant of His Excellency the Governor,
out of the Military fund of this State.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec'r 14, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 12.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to allow the Ordinaries of this State to charge and receive certain
fees.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Ordinaries allowed to charge and receive certain fees.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Fees.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Allowed same fees as Clerks Sup. Courts, when not specified.</note>
                  <p>4. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of Georgia do enact</hi>, That the
Ordinaries of this State be, and are hereby allowed to charge and
receive the following fees, in addition to the fees now allowed them
by law, to-wit:
<list type="simple"><item>For signing probate of will or codicil, .....$1 25</item><item>For copying of Records per hundred words, .....12</item><item>For Each certificate or seal, .....60</item><item>For Process against any Executor, Administrator or Guardian
charged with mismanagement, .....50</item><item>For Each search, .....15</item><item>For Each case litigated before the Ordinary, .....3 00</item><item>For Issuing commission to examine witness, .....1 25</item><item>For Issuing commission to examine any person alleged to be
idiot, lunatic, insane, &amp;c., .....2 50</item><item>For Decision or judgment on hearing such case, 2 00</item><item>For Commission to have one year's support set apart to widow
or minor, .....1 25</item><item>For Recording return of commission in such case, if under
$500, .....1 00</item><item>For If over $500, .....1 25</item><pb id="gener18" n="18"/><item>For Examining books where Ordinary's aid is required, .....25</item><item>For Examining book and giving extract, .....1 00</item><item>For Appointing Guardian to each free negro, whole service, .....2 50</item><item>For Every order passed, (including any fee heretofore
allowed for an order,) the whole fee to be, .....1 00</item><item>For Every copy of such order (including any fee heretofore
allowed for copying any order), the whole fee to be, .....50</item><item>For Every service required and performed for which no fees
are specified by law, the same fees as are allowed
Clerks of the Superior Courts for similar services, or
for a like amount of labor.</item></list></p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">When fees are increased, the rate to obtain on fees allowed by this act.</note>
                  <p>5. SEC. II. That in case the fees of Ordinaries (are?) increased by
any Act of this General Assembly, the rate of per centage of increase
shall obtain on the fees allowed in this Act.</p>
                  <p>SEC. IV. All conflicting laws are hereby repealed.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 14th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 13.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to define the time, that County Treasurers in the several counties
of this State shall hold their offices.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">County Treasurers to hold office for two years after Jan. 1st, 1864.</note>
                  <p>6. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of
Georgia</hi>, That from and after the first day of January next, the
county Treasurers of the several counties in this State shall hold
their offices for two years, whether said Treasurers are elected by
the people, or appointed by the Inferior Courts.</p>
                  <p>SECTION II. All conflicting laws are hereby repealed.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 14th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 14.)</head>
                  <head><hi rend="italics">An Act, to amend the </hi>3<hi rend="italics">rd section of the Code, and to carry into effect
on., the first duly of January</hi> 1864, <hi rend="italics">an Act passed by the present
General Assembly, relative to separating the offices of Receiver of
Tax Returns and Tax Collectors of this State.</hi></head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">
                    <sic corr="Preamble"> r amble</sic>
                  </note>
                  <p><hi rend="italics">Whereas</hi> the 3rd section of the Code provides, That. “All Acts
hereafter passed by the General Assembly, unless specially provided
otherwise in the Act,” shall take effect and be obligatory only
from the first day of July next succeeding the date of this passage;”
<hi rend="italics">and whereas</hi> the present General Assembly passed an “Act to repeal
an Act assented to the 30th day of November 1861, consolidating
the offices of Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector
of this State,” which was approved by the Governor Nov. 30th,
1863.  And the said Act does not state when it shall go into effect,
for remedy whereof,</p>
                  <pb id="gener19" n="19"/>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To go into operation 1st Jan., 1864.</note>
                  <p>7. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of
Georgia</hi>, That the above recited Act, separating the offices of Receiver
of Tax Returns and Tax Collectors shall go into operation
on the first day of January, 1864.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To be of force from its passage.</note>
                  <p>8. SECTION II. This Act shall take effect and be of force from
the day of its passage, and that all conflicting laws are hereby repealed.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 14th 1863.</p>
                </div4>
              </div3>
              <div3 type="title">
                <head>TITLE V. <lb/>DISTILLATION.</head>
                <argument>
                  <p>Sec. 1. Distilleries run contrary to law declared 
public nuisances.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 2. Justices of the Peace and Justices of
Inferior Court to investigate and suppress.
Proceedings in such cases.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 3. Officers liable for failure of duty.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 4. Warrant may be transmitted to Governor
in certain cases.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 5 Proceeding by Governor and his officers,
when warrant is sent to him.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 6  Distilleries seized, paid by valuation of
Inferior Court.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 7 Repeals 5th section of Act 22nd Nov
1862, and allows Government to contract
on certain terms.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 8 Amount restricted.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 9 Violations punished.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 10 Takes effect immediately.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 11 Licenses to distill alcohol granted under certain restrictions.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 12 To be good article. How long license.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 13 Oath and bond of persons licensed.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 14 Violations indictable.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 15 Bonds may be sued on.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 16 Licenses may be withdrawn. Inferior
Courts may contract for medicinal
use.</p>
                </argument>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 15.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to further provide for the suppression of unlawful distillation
of grain and other commodities in this State.<corr sic=" ">.</corr></hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Distilleries run contrary to law public nuisances.</note>
                  <p>1. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of Georgia do enact</hi>, That
each and every distillery which may be run or worked in this
State contrary to any or either of the provisions of the laws heretofore
passed, to prevent unlawful distillation, is hereby declared
to be a public nuisance, and in addition to the remedies heretofore
provided, may be abated as follows:</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Justices of Peace and Justices Inf. Ct. to <sic corr="investigate">iuvestigate</sic> and suppress.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proceedings <sic corr="in">n</sic> such cases.</note>
                  <p>2. SECTION II. It shall be the duty of each and every Justice
of the Peace, in the several Militia Districts of this State, and Justices
of the Inferior Courts, to diligently enquire about every such
still as may be either publicly or clandestinely run in his District,
or County, and upon being informed on oath, or being otherwise
induced to the opinion, that such still or stills are running unlawfully,
or that unlawful sales of spirituous liquors are made from
the proceeds of such stills, by the owner of said stills or his agent,
he shall issue his warrant against the party or parties owning and
operating said still, and the still itself, including both, which said
<pb id="gener20" n="20"/>
warrant shall forthwith be delivered to the Sheriff of the county,
who, thereupon, shall arrest the party and seize the still. The
writ shall be returnable twenty days after it shall thus be issued,
and at that time the Magistrate shall summarily try the question
with the assistance of twelve free holders of the county, and one
or more Magistrates, as to whether or not such still so seized, is a
public nuisance. The effect of a verdict of no nuisance, shall be,
to discharge the party or parties, and release the still. The effect
of a verdict of nuisance, shall be to retain both in custody, but the
party or parties shall have the right of appeal or certiorari to the
Superior Court of the county, pending which, however, the still
or stills shall be retained in the custody of the officers of the law,
and not to be run during the pendency of the suit, but the party
or parties shall be at liberty to go at large upon giving bond with
good and sufficient security in a sum to be judged of by the Court.
This however, shall in no wise exempt such party or parties from
indictment under other provisions of law, to prevent unlawful
distillation, and it shall be the duty of the presiding Magistrates
to investigate fully, whether or not such party or parties have
violated any of the provisions of the law, and in each case, and for
each day, to bind such party or parties over in bonds for their appearance
to the next Superior Court for trial, or else commit
them to jail. The Magistrates shall return their proceedings to
the next term of the Superior Court.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Officers liable for failure in duty.</note>
                  <p>3. SECTION III. For non-compliance with the provisions of this
Act each officer failing promptly and fully to do his duty, shall be
guilty of malpractice in office, and it shall be the duty of the
Grand Jury to make presentments thereof.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Warrant transmitted to Gov. in certain cases.</note>
                  <p>4. SECTION IV. In all cases when in the discretion of the Magistrate
or Magistrates, it shall be deemed best, the warrant shall,
in the first instance, be transmitted to His Excellency the Governor,
who is hereby empowered to have the same executed by any
officer of the State, Civil or Military, he may deem the peculiar
exigencies of the case require. In which event, the subsequent
proceedings shall be as hereinbefore provided.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proceedings by Gov. and his officers when warrant is sent to him.</note>
                  <p>5. SECTION V. In all cases where the Governor shall be informed,
that any still or stills are run in any county of this State
in violation of law, or that any unlawful sale or sales are made
from any such still or stills, and the Justices and other county officers
have failed to act, he shall forthwith send an officer or person
to be designated by him to the vicinage, who shall investigate
facts, and upon being satisfied that there exists probable cause
for the charge against any one or more persons in the county,
such officer or person shalt make complaint thereof on oath to any
Justice of the Peace or Justice of the Inferior Court of the county,
or to the Judge of the Superior Court of the circuit of which such
county is a part, or in case of his absence, to any Judge of the
Superior Courts of is this State. The officers thus applied to, shall
thereupon issue a warrant for the seizure of the still or stills, as a
<pb id="gener21" n="21"/>
nuisance, and the arrest of the person or persons owning or engaged
in running the same, including all who either own or are
engaged in running the same, so far as they may be set forth in
the affidavit, or can be ascertained, which said warrant shall be
directed to any lawful officer to execute and return. The Governor
shall thereupon cause the same forthwith to be executed by
any officer of the State, Civil or Military, he may deem the exigencies
of the case require; all further proceedings shall be as
provided in the preceding sections, only, that in the event the warrant
shall be issued by any Judge of the Superior Courts (it?) shall be
made returnable before him on a day to be named therein, at the
Court house of the county in which it is charged that the nuisance
exists; and it shall be the duty of the Judge to attend on
the day mentioned, and assisted by a Jury of twelve free holders
make the summary investigation in the preceding sections provided.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Distilleries seized to be paid by valuation of Inf'r Court.</note>
                  <p>6. SECTION VI. The parties owning such distilleries as may be
so taken and held by the Government, shall be entitled to payment
for the same, the value to be fixed by the Inferior Court in
accordance with the statutes now in force, providing compensation
to owners for stills seized by the Government.<ref targOrder="U" id="ref1-1" n="1-1" rend="sc" target="note1-1">∗</ref></p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 3, 1863</p>
                  <note id="note1-1" n="1-1" rend="sc" place="foot" anchored="yes" target="ref1-1">∗For providing compensation, see Act Dec. 9, 1862, page 28.</note>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 16.)</head>
                  <head><hi rend="italics">An Act to alter and amend an act entitled an act to prevent the unnecessary
consumption of grain by distillers and manufacturers of spirituous
liquors in Georgia, approved  Nov. </hi>22<hi rend="italics">d</hi>, 1862; <hi rend="italics">also, to alter and amend
an act supplementary to the said recited <sic corr="act">aet</sic>, assented to December </hi>11th,
1862, <hi rend="italics">and for other purposes</hi>.<ref targOrder="U" id="ref1-2" n="1-2" rend="sc" target="note1-2">∗</ref></head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Preamble.</note>
                  <p>WHEREAS, In the fifth section of the above first recited act, it is
provided, that no person distilling under any license authorized by
that act, shall sell any whiskey or any other spirituous liquors for
more than one dollar and fifty cents per gallon, nor alcohol at more
than two dollars and fifty cents per gallon, under the penalties recited
in said act; <hi rend="italics">and whereas</hi>, since the passage of said act, from
the greatly increased and increasing value of grain and labor, of all
implements, machinery and articles used in distilling, as well as on
account of the heavy taxes imposed by both the Confederate and
State governments upon distillers, the above named prices have
become wholly inadequate and unremunerative to persons who
have heretofore contracted, or may hereafter contract, to distill
whiskey or alcohol, for the Confederate government; therefore, for
remedy whereof,</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Repeals 5th sec. of act 22d Nov. 1862 and allows <sic corr="Government">Governmeet</sic> to procure whisky and alcohol by contract, not exceeding prices fixed by state commissioners.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <p>7. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted, &amp;c.</hi>, That all that part of the said
fifth section of said act of the 22d, November, 1862. which restricts
the price of whiskey to one dollar and fifty cents, and the price of
<note id="note1-2" n="1-2" rend="sc" place="foot" anchored="yes" target="ref1-2">∗ See Pam. Act, Nov. 22, 1862, pages 25 and 26. Also, Act Dec. 11, 1862, pages 27 and 28.</note>
<pb id="gener22" n="22"/>
alcohol to two dollars and fifty cents per gallon, be, and the same
is hereby repealed; and that the Confederate government may, by
its officers or agents, contract for the distillation in this State of
whiskey and alcohol for the use of the Confederate government, at
such price or prices as may be agreed upon by the contracting
parties; and the said government may, by its officers or agents, increase
the price to be paid for whiskey and alcohol under contracts
heretofore made, or hereafter to be made, to distill whiskey or alcohol
for said government, to any extent which may be agreed upon;
<hi rend="italics">provided</hi>, such contract price shall not exceed the prices for
whiskey and alcohol respectively fixed from time to time in the
schedule of prices established by the commissioners for Georgia, appointed
under the impressment act of Congress.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Amount restricted.</note>
                  <p>8. SEC. II. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That, hereafter in issuing licenses
for the distillation of whiskey or alcohol for the use of the
Confederate government, authorized to be issued by the above recited
acts as altered and amended by this act, his Excellency the
Governor may issue the same, regardless of the price or prices to
be received by the party or parties applying for such license or licenses;
<hi rend="italics">Provided</hi>, such price or prices does not exceed those fixed
by the commissioners under the impressment act of Congress, as
set forth in the first section of this act; <hi rend="italics">And provided further</hi>, that
nothing in this act shall be so construed as to authorize or require
the Governor of this State to issue licenses for the distillation in
Georgia, for the use of the Confederate government, of more than
one million of gallons of spirituous liquors of all kinds, including
alcohol.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Violations punished.</note>
                  <p>9. SEC. III. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That all and any such person
or persons who may be at any time distilling under any contract
with the Confederate government, who shall at any time make or
sell or otherwise dispose of any whiskey, brandy, or other spirituous
liquors, the product of his or their still or stills, on private account,
or to any other person or corporation or partnership, or who
may ship from his or their distillery any such product thereof, other
than to the government or its authorized agent, he, or they so offending
shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction
thereof, shall be punished, in the discretion of the Court, by
fine not less than one thousand dollars for each and every such offense
so committed, or imprisonment in the common jail of the
county, or both; and any and all officers and agents of the Confederate
government who shall consent to any such sale, disposal or shipment,
shall be held and deemed a principal in the first degree, and
upon conviction thereof, shall be punished by like fine and imprisonment.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Takes effect immediately.</note>
                  <p>10. SEC. IV. <hi rend="italics">And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid</hi>,
That this act shall go into operation and take effect from and immediately
after its passage.</p>
                  <p>SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 14th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <pb id="gener23" n="23"/>
                  <head>(No. 17.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to authorize the Governor of this State to grant a license for the
manufacture of Alcohol for medicinal and mechanical purposes.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Licenses to <sic corr="distill">distil</sic> alcohol to be granted under certain restrictions.</note>
                  <p>11. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly do enact</hi>, That from and after
the passage of this Act, the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized
to grant a license for the manufacture of Alcohol for medicinal
and mechanical purposes, under the restrictions hereinafter
specified, to any person who shall make application for the same,
and comply with all the provisions of this Act; <hi rend="italics">provided</hi>, that the
alcohol so authorized to be distilled, shall not be sold for an amount
exceeding seventy-five per cent profit upon the actual cost of the
same.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To be good article. How long license.</note>
                  <p>12. SEC. II. <hi rend="italics">And be, it further enacted</hi>, That in no case shall a
license be granted for the purpose aforesaid, until the applicant has
made it satisfactorily appear to the Governor, that he is prepared
to produce alcohol of good quality; which license shall not be
granted for a longer time than twelve months, and may be renewed
at the discretion of the Governor.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Oath &amp; bond of person licensed.</note>
                  <p>13. SEC. III, <hi rend="italics">And be it further enacted</hi>, That before a license shall
be granted, the applicant shall take and subscribe an oath, that he
will not make spirits other than alcohol by himself, his agent or
servants; that he will not make more than the number of gallons
allowed by the terms of the license, that he will not make it for
sale to speculators, and that he will not abuse the privileges granted
under this Act, or violate any of its provisions in any respect
whatever, and shall give bond and security to the Governor, in the
sum of one hundred thousand dollars, that he will faithfully observe
the requirements of this Act.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Violation indictable.</note>
                  <p>14. SEC. IV. <hi rend="italics">And be it further enacted</hi>, That for a violation of
any of the provisions of this Act, the person so violating may be
indicted and tried for false swearing, and on conviction, be punished
in the same manner.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Bonds may be sued on.</note>
                  <p>15. SEC. V. <hi rend="italics">And be it further enacted</hi>, That for any violation of
the provisions of this Act, the Governor may institute suit on said
bond, for the recovery of the full amount of said bond; and
should recovery be had, the sum to be applied to the fund for
the relief of soldiers' families.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Licenses may be withdrawn. Inf. Courts allowed to contract for medicinal purposes.</note>
                  <p>16. SEC. VI. <hi rend="italics">And be it further enacted</hi>, That the Governor be,
and he is hereby authorized, whenever it is made appear to him
that the privileges of this Act are abused to withdraw from the
person abusing the terms of this Act, said license, which withdrawal
shall not prevent prosecution for false swearing , or suit on the
bond as before provided for; <hi rend="italics">provided further</hi>, that the Inferior
Court of any of the counties in this State may, with the consent of
the Governor, contract for such quantity for medicinal use in the
county, as the Governor may deem necessary, and all quantities
made for the Confederate government shall be estimated as part
of the one million of gallons allowed by law.</p>
                  <p>SEC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 12, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
              </div3>
              <div3 type="title">
                <pb id="gener24" n="24"/>
                <head>TITLE VI. <lb/>EDUCATION.</head>
                <argument>
                  <p>Sec. 1. Educational Board authorized to allow
same <hi rend="italics">per diem</hi> for teaching poor as
other children. Proviso</p>
                  <p>Sec. 2. Time extended to 1st January 1864, to
make return of beneficiaries.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 3. When Ordinary has removed or is in
service, fund may be drawn on certified
return of the Clerk of Superior
or Inferior Court.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 4. How estimated and drawn, when no return
is made on account of presence
of the enemy<sic corr=".">,</sic></p>
                  <p>Sec. 5. Surplus of Educational Fund may be
turned over to Inf'r Court for support
of indigent families of soldiers.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 6. Clerks of Courts of Ordinary may draw
common School Fund for 1862 and
1863, when Ordinaries have resigned
without drawing.</p>
                </argument>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 18.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to increase the per diem pay of school teachers for children entitled
to the benefit of the poor school fund of this State.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no"><sic corr="Educational">Educotional</sic> Board authorized to allow same per diem for teaching poor as other children in same studies.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <p>1. SECTION. I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted &amp;c.</hi>, That from and after the passage
of this Act, the Educational Board of the several counties in
this State, be, and they are hereby authorized to allow the teachers
of children entitled to the benefit of the poor school fund, the same
<hi rend="italics">per diem</hi> pay for teaching said children, as is charged by the same
teachers for other children pursuing similar branches of study.
<hi rend="italics">Provided</hi>, said charge shall not exceed sixteen cents per day.</p>
                  <p>SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 14, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 19.)</head>
                  <head><hi rend="italics">An Act to extend the time of making returns of the children entitled to the
benefit of the Educational fund of Georgia for the year </hi>1863.</head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Preamble.</note>
                  <p>WHEREAS, The Ordinary of each county in this State is now required
by law, to report to the Governor, under hand and seal, annually,
by the 3d Monday in November, the whole number of children
in his county, entitled to the benefits of the educational fund;
<hi rend="italics">and whereas</hi>, it is further provided that if any County neglects
to present a proper return to the Governor, by the
time prescribed, it loses its share; <hi rend="italics">and whereas</hi>, it appears,
that a number of counties have forwarded their returns
for 1863, which however, failed to arrive before the 3d
Monday in November 1863, whilst no returns have as yet been
received from numerous other counties of the State. <hi rend="italics">And whereas,</hi>
the apportionment directed to be made by the Governor, has not yet
been completed, and it is manifestly improper, that the children of
these several counties should thus be deprived of the benefits of
this fund in the present condition of the country, if practicable to
prevent it. Therefore for remedy thereof:</p>
                  <pb id="gener25" n="25"/>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Time extended to 1st Jan. 1864, to make returns of beneficiaries.</note>
                  <p>2. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of Georgia do enact</hi>, That the
time for making the returns required by the law for the year 1863,
be extended to the first day of January 1864, and that the Governor
shall on that day make the estimate and apportionment of the
Educational fund for 1863.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">When Ordinary is in service or has removed, funds may be drawn on certified return of the Clerk of the Supr. or Inf. Court.</note>
                  <p>3. SEC. 2. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That in all cases when the Ordinary
of any county may have removed from the county, or be in
the Military service of the country, or from any cause be unable
or fail to act, it shall and may be lawful for the apportionment and
distribution of the educational fund to be made upon the certified
return of either the Clerk of Superior Court or Clerk of the Inferior
Court of such county.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">How estimated and drawn when no return is made because of presence of the enemy.</note>
                  <p>4. SEC. 3. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That in all cases, when the enemy
shall have been in any county of the State, and said county
shall have thus failed to make return within the time prescribed,
it shall be the duty of the Governor to pay over to the Ordinary,
or upon his failure to act, to the Inferior Court of such county,
such sum as he may deem equitable and just, at least equal in
amount to the sum drawn the next preceding year by such county.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 11, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 20.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to authorize and empower the Ordinaries of the several counties
in this State to pay over to the Inferior Courts, any surplus of funds in
their hands belonging to the Educational fund, for the benefit of the indigent
families of soldiers now in the military service, or who may have
died in the service.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Surplus Educational Fund <sic corr="may">mao</sic> be turned over to Inf. Court and disbursed for relief of indigent families of soldiers.</note>
                  <p>5. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact</hi>,
That it shall be lawful for the Ordinaries of the several counties
in this State to pay over to the Inferior Courts of their respective
counties any surplus of funds in their hands belonging to  
the Educational fund, not appropriated for the benefit of the poor
children of the county, and that said surplus when paid over, shall
be subject to disbursement by the Inferior Courts for the relief of
the indigent families of soldiers now in service, or who may have
died in the service.</p>
                  <p>SECTION II. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 12, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 21.)</head>
                  <head><hi rend="italics">An Act to allow the Clerks of the Courts of Ordinary of this State to
draw Compton School funds due their respective counties for the years</hi>
1862 <hi rend="italics">and</hi> 1863, <hi rend="italics">when the Ordinaries have resigned without drawing
the same</hi>.</head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Clerks of C'ts of Ordinary may draw common school funds for 1862 and 1863, when Ordinaries have resigned without drawing.</note>
                  <p>6. SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted, &amp;c.</hi>, That the Clerks of Courts of
<pb id="gener26" n="26"/>
Ordinary of the several counties in this State, be, and they are
hereby authorized to draw from the Treasury of this State, the
portion of Common School Funds going to and belonging to their
respective counties for the years 1862 and 1863, where the same
has not been drawn, in the same manner and under the same provisions
as the Ordinaries themselves would have been entitled to
draw, had they not resigned.</p>
                  <p>SEC.II. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Nov. 28, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
              </div3>
              <div3 type="title">
                <head>TITLE VII. <lb/>ELECTIONS.</head>
                <argument>
                  <p>Sec. 1. Citizens in State or Confederate service
allowed to vote in municipal elections,
at any place where stationed.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 2 . Two resident commissioned officers of
the State to preside and hold the
election. Under what regulations.
Returns to be made. Copy of talley
sheet and list of voters to be sent.
To whom sent. Elections thus held
to be accounted good and valid.
Proviso.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 3. Registry laws not to apply to those thus 
voting.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 4. Commissioned officers to subscribe a
statement. Requisites of statement.
Copy of statement talley sheet and
list of voters to be taken in lieu of
oath now required by law.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 5. Act of December 14th, 1862 amended.
Section added. Commissioned officers
to subscribe statement in writing.
Statement.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 6. Superintendents to journal copies of
statement. Talley sheets and list of
voters. When forwarded to be taken
in lieu of oath now required by
law.</p>
                </argument>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 22.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to authorize all persons in the military service of this State or
Confederate States, including those in hospitals, and detailed service to
vote at municipal elections.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Citizens in State or Confederate service allowed to vote in municipal elections.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">At any place where stationed.</note>
                  <p>1. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia</hi>, That
all persons in the military service of this State, and the Confederate
States, including those in hospitals, and detailed men for any
purpose by the military authority, citizens of this State, who are
now by law entitled to vote, or who may at the time of such election,
be entitled to vote at any municipal election in this State, be
and they are hereby authorized to assemble at such place as they
may be stationed at, and cast their votes, as though they were in
the town or city where they reside.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Two resident commissioned officers of this State to preside.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Under what regulations.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Returns to be made.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">List of voters and tally <sic corr="sheet">seeet</sic> to be sent.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <p>2. SEC. II. That at said elections it shall be lawful for any two
commissioned officers, residents of the State, to preside and hold
said elections under the same rules and regulations that are now
<pb id="gener27" n="27"/>
prescribed by law for holding such elections, and make returns of
the same, as though the said election had been held in the town or
city of the residence of the voters respectively, sending a copy of
the list of voters, and a copy of the tally sheet to either the Mayor,
Intendant, Alderman, Councilmen or Wardens of the town or
city, where the soldiers voting reside; and all elections thus held
shall be accounted good and valid; <hi rend="italics">provided</hi>, the returns thereof,
shall reach the proper municipal authority, within fifteen days after
the day of said election.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Registry laws not to apply to those thus voting.</note>
                  <p>3. SEC. III. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the registry laws in force
for all cities and towns in this State, shall not apply to absent soldiers
and detailed men, voting under the provisions of this Act.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Com. officers to subscribe a statement.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Requisites of statement.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Copy of statement, tally sheet and list of voters to be taken in lieu of oath now required by law.</note>
                  <p>4. SEC. IV. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That said commissioned officers
authorized to hold the several elections provided for by this
Act, shall, before they proceed to hold said elections, subscribe the
following statement in writing; (first state the regiment, Battalion
or company of which they are members, station and date);
each and both of us declare on honor, that we will faithfully superintend
this day's election; that we are commissioned officers in
the Confederate, or State service, (state the regiment, Battalion or
company,) that we will make a just and true return thereof, that
we will not knowingly permit any one to vote, unless we believe
he is entitled to do so, according to the laws of Georgia, nor knowingly
prohibit any one from voting, who is entitled by law to vote,
and we will not divulge for whom any vote was cast, unless called
on under the law to do so; and it shall be the duty of said Superintendents
to forward a copy of said statement, with the copies of
the tally sheet and list of voters, and the same shall be taken in
lieu of the oath now required by law to be taken by Superintendents
of such elections.</p>
                  <p>SEC. V. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 1st, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 23.)</head>
                  <head><hi rend="italics">An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize all volunteers and
other troops in the service from this State, to vote at all elections without
reference to the place where they may be in service at the time of such
elections and for other purposes, assented to December</hi> 14<hi rend="italics">th</hi>, 1862.</head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Act of Dec. 14th, 1862, amended.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Sec. added.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Com. officers to subscribe statement in writing.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Statement.</note>
                  <p>5. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of Georgia do enact</hi>, That from
and after the passage of this Act the above recited Act be amended
by adding the following section thereto, That said commissioned
officers so entitled to hold said elections, shall before they proceed
to hold the same, subscribe the following statement in writing:
(first state the regiment; Battalion or company,) each and both of
us do declare upon honor, that we will faithfully superintend this
day's election, that we are commissioned officers of the State or
Confederate government, (state the regiment, Battalion or company)
<pb id="gener28" n="28"/>
that we will make a just and true return thereof; that we will
not knowingly permit any one to vote unless we believe him entitled
to do so according to the laws of Georgia; nor knowingly prohibit
any one from voting who is entitled by law to vote, and we
will not divulge for whom any vote was cast unless called on under
the law to do so.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To be forwarded with talley sheet, to be taken in lieu of oath.</note>
                  <p>6. SEC. II. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That it shall be the duty of
said Superintendents to forward a copy of said statement with the
copies of the tally sheet and list of voters, and the same shall be
taken in lieu of the oath now required by law to be taken by Superintendent
of such elections.</p>
                  <p>SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 14th, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
              </div3>
              <div3 type="title">
                <pb id="gener29" n="29"/>
                <head>TITLE VIII. <lb/>EXECUTORS, ADMINISTRATORS, GUARDIANS AND TRUSTEES.</head>
                <argument>
                  <p>Sec. 1. Guardians, Executors, Administrators,
and Trustees allowed to invest funds,
in Confederate interest bearing notes
or in State or Confederate Bonds.
Proviso. Must first make application
to Judge of Superior Court.
Within 12 months after investment
full and specific returns to be made.
Same as to investment in land and
negroes.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 2. Preamble. Executors, Administrators,
and <sic corr="Guardians">Gurrdians</sic> may publish notice of
sales in newspapers having largest
circulation in counties where property
is sold.</p>
                </argument>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 24.)</head>
                  <head><hi rend="italics">An Act to amend an Act entitled an Act to authorize Guardians, Trustees,
Executors and Administrators to invest in Confederate bonds and
in land and negroes, assented to December 16</hi><hi rend="italics">th</hi>, 1861.</head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Guardians, executors, administrators, &amp;c., allowed to invest their funds in interest bearing notes of Confed. States &amp; in any bonds of Government or the State, already issued or to be issued.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Must first make applica- to Judge of Sup'r Court.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Within 12 months after investment full and specific returns to be made.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Same as to investment in land and negroes.</note>
                  <p>1. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">The General Assembly of Georgia do enact</hi>, That the
Act to authorize Guardians, Trustees, Executors and Administrators
to invest in Confederate bonds and in lands, and negroes, assented
to December 16th, 1861, is hereby amended as follows: in
addition to the investment in said Act authorized, Guardians, Executors,
Administrators and Trustees are hereby authorized to invest
in interest-bearing Treasury notes of the Confederate States,
and all such bonds as may have been and may hereafter be issued
by the Confederate States and by the State of Georgia; <hi rend="italics">provided</hi>
that before making any such investment as in said Act allowed, and
as in this Act is allowed, the Exe'r., Adm'r., Guar'n or Trustee, so desiring
to invest, shall first make application to the Judge of the Superior
Court of the circuit in which he resides, or in case of the absence
of such Judge from the State, the Judge of any adjoining circuit
for leave to do so, whereupon the Judge is hereby authorized to
hear testimony and argument either at term time or at chambers in
vacation, as to which of the investments authorized is the best for
the interest of the wards, heirs, legatees or <hi rend="italics">cestui qui trust</hi>; and
shall in his order direct in what securities or property the proposed
investment shall be made; and whenever such investment shall be
made in bonds or interest-bearing notes of the Confederate States
of America, or bonds of the State of Georgia, the Executor, Administrator,
Guardian or Trustee so investing, shall within twelve
months thereafter, make a legal return thereof, in which be shall
set forth the prices paid, the time of the purchase and the name
of the seller; and whenever the investment shall have been made
in land and negroes or other property, he shall set forth a particular
description thereof, stating price, and from whom and when
purchased, all which shall be entered on record by the Ordinary
subject to like scrutiny and exceptions, with other returns of persons
acting in any of the above mentioned capacities.</p>
                  <p>SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 14, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <pb id="gener30" n="30"/>
                  <head>(No. 25.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act regulating the advertising of sales by Administrators, Executors
and Guardians, and for other purposes.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Preamble.</note>
                  <p>WHEREAS, the Code of Georgia requires Administrators, Executors
and Guardians to publish the notice of the sales they are
authorized to make in the gazette in which the county advertisements
are published; and whereas, this means of advertising not
unfrequently fails to accomplish the object of giving publicity to
those sales, for the reason, that the property to be sold may be located
in some county remote from the one in which the gazette
aforesaid is published, and where it has little or no circulation;</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Administrators, executors and guardians may publish notice of sales in any newspaper or gazette having largest circulation in the counties where property is located.</note>
                  <p>2. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">Therefore, be it enacted, &amp;c.</hi>, That after the passage of
this Act it shall be lawful for Administrators, Executors and Guardians,
to publish the notice of sales they may be authorized to
make for the time prescribed by law, in any newspaper or gazette
having a general circulation in the county where the property to
be sold is located, and this shall be deemed a full and sufficient notice
of such sales,</p>
                  <p>SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Dec. 11, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
              </div3>
              <div3 type="title">
                <head>TITLE IX. <lb/>GENERAL ASSEMBLY.</head>
                <argument>
                  <p>Sec. 1. Changing the hour of meeting of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia. From what hour. To what hour.</p>
                </argument>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 26)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to alter and change the hour for the meeting of the General Assembly
of the State of Georgia.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Change the hour of meeting.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">From what &amp; to what hour changed.</note>
                  <p>SECTION I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of
Georgia</hi>, That the hour for the meeting of the General Assembly
of the State of Georgia, be and the same is hereby altered and
changed from noon, to the hour of ten o'clock in the forenoon;
any law or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Nov. 23d, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
              </div3>
              <div3 type="title">
                <pb id="gener31" n="31"/>
                <head>TITLE X. <lb/>INSURANCE COMPANIES.</head>
                <argument>
                  <p>Sec. 1. Empire State Insurance Company.
Capital stock and size of shares.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 2. Company incorporated. Name. General
powers.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 3. Election of Directors and other officers<corr>.</corr>
Vacancies how filled.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 4. Powers of President and Directors.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 5. May take fire, marine and inland risks
of insurance and upon lives. When
contracts of company binding. May
receive deposits, loan money, discount notes, &amp;c.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 6. Liability of company—of Stockholders.
How payable.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 7. When losses to be paid.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 8. Legal effect of notes, &amp;c. Payable at
office of Company.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 9. Duration of charter.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 10. Oglethorpe Insurance Company of
Savannah. Corporators. Name.
Subscriptions may be received to
amount not exceeding one million of
dollars; in shares of $100. Twenty
per cent to be paid in at time of subscription,
subscriptions to be sealed.
How publication for opening books
to be made.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 11. When corporate powers attach. Powers
granted. Proviso as to real estate.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 12. Notice of time and place to organize
to be given when $100,000 cash paid
in. Notice how given. How many<corr>.</corr>
Directors and mode of election.
Stockholders allowed to vote according
to shares held. Regulations for
voting. Duties of commissioners as
to issuing certificates of elections
and turning over money and books
to Directors.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 13. Term of office of Directors. President
how elected. Vacancies in office of
President and Directors how filled.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 14. Number of Directors may be increased
by convention of Stockholders. Directors
may pass necessary By-Laws.
Proviso.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 15. Directors may receive subscriptions of
stock until made up—certificates of
stock to be issued. Transfers of stock
allowed on conditions.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 16. Directors may enforce by suit all assessments
by summary process.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 17. By whom and how convention of stockholders
may be called.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 18. When organized may insure against
risks by fire, &amp;c., also vessels,
freights, profits, &amp;c. May be reinsured.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 19. Officers and Stockholders personally
liable for any insurance until $100,000
be paid in.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 20. May borrow and invest its money in
profits. Liable to suit.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 21. Duration of franchise. Liable to taxation.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 22. Individual property liable to amount
of stock.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 23. Charter for thirty years.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 24. “Home Insurance Company” incorporated.
Capital Stock and size of
shares.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 25. Corporators. Name. General powers.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 26. Election of Directors and other officers.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 27. Powers of President and Directors.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 28. May take fire, marine and inland risks
of insurance and upon lives. When
contracts binding. May receive deposits,
loan money, discount notes,
&amp;c.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 29. Life department may be separated
from general business. Married women
may insure lives of husbands.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 30. Liability of Company and stockholders
to creditors.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 31. Losses against Company, how obtained.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 32. Bills, bonds and notes payable at office
of Company governed by Bank
rules.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 33. Charter for 30 years.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 34. Charter “Stonewall Insurance Company”
amended, 5th, 7th and 8th Secs.
of Act April 16, 1862, repealed.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 35. Directors may give notice to doubtful
Stockholders to strengthen stock, or
in default order sale. Purchaser
substituted. Defaulters liable to suit.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 36. Directors may call in stock notes and
assessments on 30 day's notice. Proviso.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 37. Conditions of purchasing stock.</p>
                  <p>Sec. 38. Name of Southern Insurance Company
changed.</p>
                </argument>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <head>(No. 27.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to incorporate an Insurance Company in the city of Macon, to
be called the “Empire State Insurance Company.”</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Capital stock and size of shares.</note>
                  <p>1. SEC. I. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted General Assembly of Georgia</hi>, That
there shall be established in the city of Macon, an Insurance company,
the capital stock of which shall be three hundred thousand
dollars, but which may be increased to a further sum of one million
<pb id="gener32" n="32"/>
of dollars should the interest of the company require it, to be
divided into shares of one hundred dollars each, but said company
may organize and proceed to business when one hundred thousand
dollars shall have been subscribed, and twenty per cent paid thereon.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Company incorporated.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Name.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">General Powers.</note>
                  <p>2. SEC. II. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That for the purpose of organizing
said corporation, J. E. Jones, J. W. Fears, James J. Snider,
P. Loud, and Geo. S. Obear or a majority of them, citizens of Macon,
their associates and successors, are hereby created a body corporate
under the name and style of the “Empire State Insurance
Company,” by which name they may have, purchase, receive, possess,
enjoy and retain, and sell property of all kinds, sue and be
sued, have and use a common seal, which they may break, alter
and renew at pleasure, elect its own officers, and make such By-Laws,
rules and regulations as may be deemed necessary to carry
into effect the objects of this corporation.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Election of Directors and their officers.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Vacancies how filled.</note>
                  <p>3. SEC. III. The said corporation shall be managed by not less
than five Directors, a majority of whom may constitute a quorum
for the transaction of business, each of which directors shall be a
stockholder to an amount not less than ten shares, who shall be
elected at such time and place as the corporators or their successors
may designate, and hold their offices for one year, or until their
successors are elected; the directors aforesaid shall out of their
number elect a President, who shall serve for twelve months, or
until a successor is elected, and fill any vacancy occasioned by
death or otherwise in the office of the President, and with the advice
and consent of the President, elect a Secretary, Actuary, or any
other officers or Agents whose services may be needed in carrying
out the objects of this corporation; a vacancy in the Board of
Directors occurring during the period of their election may be filled
by the remaining Directors until the next annual election by the
Stockholders; at all elections by the Stockholders a Stockholder
may vote by proxy, none but a Stockholder acting as such proxy.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Powers of President and Directors.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To appoint agents and local offices.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To sell stock of delinquent stockholders.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">To regulate dividends and transfer of stock.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Stockholder indebted to Co., his stock nor transferable or liable.</note>
                  <p>4. SEC. IV. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That the President and Directors
shall have power to appoint and remove at pleasure all officers
or agents of said corporation; They shall have power to appoint
agents and locate offices in such places and at such times as they
shall deem best for the interests of said company; to prescribe the
duties of agents and officers, to take from them bonds for the faithful
performance thereof, to appoint a President <hi rend="italics">pro tem</hi>, in the absence
of the President; and further, the said President and Directors
shall have power and authority from time to time to call for
the payment of the unpaid stock in such sums as they may deem
proper, and said stock shall be considered and held as personal
property; and upon the neglect or refusal of any Stockholder to
pay the <sic corr="installment">instalment</sic> as called for by the President and Directors
therefor, thirty days' notice being given in any one or more of the
city papers, said Board may sell such stock at public outcry, and
said delinquent Stockholders shall be liable for any balance due,
<pb id="gener33" n="33"/>
or which may become due by him or them to said corporation, and
may be sued for in any Court having jurisdiction; and the said
President and Directors shall have further power to make dividends
and fix the place, and define the manner of paying the dividends,
paying interest and transferring stock, and no stockholder shall
have power to transfer his stock in said corporation while indebted
to the same, and said stock shall not be liable for any other obligation,
so long as he is a debtor to said corporation for money
borrowed, or premiums due, or installments unpaid.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">May take fire, marine and inland risks of insurance, and upon lives.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">When contracts of Co. binding.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Power to receive deposits, loan money, discount notes, &amp;c.</note>
                  <p>5. SEC. V. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That said corporation shall
have authority to insure against losses by fire in all kinds of property,
real, personal, or mixed; also against all the hazards of ocean
or inland navigation, and transportation of every kind; also to
make insurance on lives, and all and every insurance appertaining
to the duration of human life, for such <sic corr="net">nett</sic> premiums as they may
determine; and said company shall be liable to make good, and
pay to the several persons who may insure in said company, for the
losses they may sustain, or for life insurance, in accordance with
the terms of the contract or policy issued by said company; and
no policy or other contract of said company shall be binding, except
it be signed by the President or Vice President, Secretary or
Actuary of said company; and said company shall have power to
receive money on deposite, to loan and borrow money, to take and
give such securities therefor as may be considered best, to invest
its moneys upon such terms as may be best, and transfer its property
at pleasure; to purchase and discount notes and bills of exchange,
and to do all other acts it may deem advisable for the safe
keeping and secure investments of its funds; and said company
shall have power and authority to make re-insurances of any risks
that may be taken by them.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Liability of Co.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Stockholders.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">How payable.</note>
                  <p>6. SEC. VI. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That said company shall be
responsible to its creditors to the extent of its property; and the
Stockholders shall be liable to the extent of double the amount of
their respective stocks, payable in currency, for the debts of the
company, in proportion to the number of shares held by each.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">When losses to be paid.</note>
                  <p>7. SEC. VII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That all claims for losses
against said company shall be due and payable in sixty days after
proof of the loss has been furnished at the office of said company;
and in disputed cases, in ten days after final decision of the proper
tribunal; and in each case named, the sum ascertained to be due
shall bear interest from the time made due and payable.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Legal effect of notes, &amp;., payable at office of Co.</note>
                  <p>8. SEC. VIII. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That all bills, bonds, and
promissory notes made payable at the office of said company, shall
have the same legal effect, and may be subject to all legal remedies,
the same as if they were made payable at any bank in this State.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Duration of charter.</note>
                  <p>9. SEC. IX. <hi rend="italics">Be it further enacted</hi>, That this charter shall be in
full force and effect for the term of thirty years.</p>
                  <p>SEC. X. Repeals conflicting laws.</p>
                  <p>Assented to Nov. 24, 1863.</p>
                </div4>
                <div4 type="act">
                  <pb id="gener34" n="34"/>
                  <head>(No. 28.)</head>
                  <head>
                    <hi rend="italics">An Act to incorporate the Oglethorpe Insurance Company of Savannah.</hi>
                  </head>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Corporators.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Name.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Subscriptions may be rec'd to an am't not exceeding $1,000,000 in shares <sic corr="off">oi</sic> $100<corr sic=".">.</corr></note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">20 per cent to be paid in at time of subscription.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Subscriptions to be scaled, if making over a million capital.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">How publication for opening books to be made.</note>
                  <p>10. SECTION 1. <hi rend="italics">Be it enacted &amp;c.</hi>, That Robert Habersham, Edward
Padelford, Andrew Low, John L. Villalonga, James W.
Lathrop, James McHenry and Noble A. Hardee, be and are hereby
constituted and appointed commissioners to open books of
subscription to the capital stock of the company by this act to be
incorporated, and to be located in the city of Savannah, in this
State, to be called, “The Oglethorpe Insurance Company of Savannah;”
said commissioners, or any three of them, shall have power,
and are hereby authorized to keep open said Books for such time
as they may think proper in the city of Savannah, and at other places
if they deem it proper so to do, and receive all subscriptions that
may be offered to an amount not exceeding in the whole one million
of dollars, in shares of one hundred dollars each, whereof
twenty per cent shall be paid to said commissioners at the time
of subscription, but should it so happen, that subscriptions to an
amount exceeding one million of dollars, which shall be the extent
of the capital stock of said company, be received by the acting
commissioners, while the books are open, it will be their duty
to scale down the subscriptions for the greatest number of shares,
so as to reduce the whole subscription to one million of Dollars,
and said commissioners shall give notice of the time and place or
times or places of opening such books by publication in at least
one newspaper published in the city of Savannah, and in such
other papers as they may deem best, at least twenty days before
the time appointed for opening the books. All subscriptions
which may be made in pursuance of this act shall, with the exception
of the payment herein before required to be made at the
time of subscribing, be binding on the subscribers respectively,
their heirs and legal representatives, and be payable in such instalments
and at such times as the President and directors, to be
constituted under this act may prescribe in conformity with the
provisions of this Act.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">When corporate powers attach.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Powers granted.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Proviso as to real estate.</note>
                  <p>2. SECTION II. <hi rend="italics">And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid</hi>, That
when the subscription, authorized in the first section of this Act
shall amount to one million of dollars, or when one hundred
thousand dollars in cash shall have been received by said commissioners,
on account of said subscriptions, then said subscribers shall
be and become a body corporate politic, with continued succession,
under the name of the Oglethorpe Insurance Company of
Savannah, and by that name shall exercise corporate powers and
be competent to contract and be contracted with, sue and be
sued, plead and be impleaded, in any court having Jurisdiction in
the subject matter involved; and shall be capable of receiving,
purchasing, holding, owning and using property of all descriptions,
<pb id="gener35" n="35"/>
of aliening, conveying, leasing, mortgaging or otherwise disposing
of the same in any manner that a natural person lawfully might
dispose of similar property, <hi rend="italics">Provided</hi>, that said company shall
not have, or hold, or own more real estate than may be considered
necessary for offices, and other buildings, wherein to carry on its
business, except for the purpose of collecting some debt, or due,
or demand of the company; said company shall have power to
make and use, renew and alter at pleasure a corporate seal, and to
do all acts and things necessary or proper to carry into effect the
objects and purposes of this Act, and the business of said corporations,
not inconsistent with the laws of this State or of the Confederate States.</p>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Notice of time and place to organize shall be given when $100,000 cash is paid in.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Notice how given.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">How many Directors, and mode of election.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Stockholders allowed to vote according to shares held.</note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Regulations for voting<corr>.</corr></note>
                  <note rend="sc" place="margin" anchored="no">Du