and to alter the same at pleasure, and by their corporate name aforesaid to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, in any court of law or equity, and also to ordain, establish, and alter at pleasure, such bylaws, rules and regulations, as may seem necessary and convenient, for the government of said corporation, or the management of the property thereof: Provided, such by-laws, rules and regulations be not contrary to the constitution and laws of this State, or of the United States.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the commissioners of the Milledgeville Masonic Hall Lottery, shall, so soon as the business of said lottery is finally closed, pay over to the persons hereby incorporated, or their successors, the nett proceeds of said lottery remaining in their hands, and the parties so incorporated and their successors, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered to have, hold, use and enjoy, purchase, receive, possess, and alien or dispose of at pleasure, lands, houses, rents, goods and other property, both real and personal.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said persons so incorporated as aforesaid, and their successors in office, shall be required when the intended Masonic Hall shall have been completed, to account annually, on or before the first day of December, in each year, with the several Masonic Institutions now existing in said town of Milledgeville, and known as Benevolent Lodge number six, Temple Chapter number six, and Georgia Council, for all rents and profits received from said Masonic Hall, or other property, belonging to said corporation, and after deducting all necessary expenses for repairs, insurance, taxes, improvements, or other incidental expences, [charges] shall pay over to the respective treasurers of said institutions, such several proportions of the balance of such rents and profits as may be from time to time fixed on by a majority of said institutions.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the parties so incorporated as aforesaid, and their successors, shall be required to appropriate a suitable part of said Hall to the accommodation and use of all the Masonic Institutions now existing in the town of Milledgeville.

Sec. 6 And be it further enacted, That should all or eitheir of said Masonic Institutions become extinct, or 'forfeit their or either of their charter or charters, the interest which they or either of them have in the property, either real or personal, or in the dividends annually to be made; which said property is hereby vested in said Trustees; shall not be for

feited to the Grand Lodge, the Grand Chapter, the Grand Council, or to any person or persons, institution or institutions, incorporation or incorporations, but the same shall remain vested in the said Trustees, to be disposed of as hereinafter enacted.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That in the event of the extinction of one or more of said Masonic Institutions, or of the forfeiture of their or either of their charters; the property, right or interest which said institution or institutions, had to the dividends arising from the rents or profits of sard Masonic Hall, shall be paid over to the Treasurer of the remaining Masonic Institution or Institutions. And should all of said Masonic Institutions become extinct, the property hereby vested in said Trustees, or the rents and profits thereof, shall be disposed of as directed by a majority of the master masons then residing within the county of Baldwin, duly called together for that purpose, and who shall at the time be in regular standing as such: Provided, nevertheless, That the Trustees as aforesaid. shall give ten days notice in one of the public gazettes published in Milledgeville, of the time and place of said intended meeting.

Sec. 8. That whenever any vacancy or vacancies in the board of Trustees created by this act, shall occur, by death, resignation, removal from the State or otherwise, the said board of Trustees after due notice thereof, to each member of said board, shall proceed by ballot to fill the same, and the person or persons having a majority of the votes shall be declared elected, and shall become after his or their acceptance under said-election a member or members of said board of Trustees: Provided, That no person shall be eligible to such election, unless he be a master mason.

Sec. 9. And it is hereby further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled "an act, to amend and consolidate the several acts which have been passed, in relation to the powers and privileges of the corporation of the city of Savannah, and the hamlets thereof, and for the purposes herein mentioned," passed twenty-fourth day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-five, and for other purposes herein mentioned.

Sec. 1. 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, That from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the Mayor and Aldermen of the city of Savannah and hamlets thereof, to pass such laws and ordinances as they may consider fit and proper, for the purposes of carrying fully into effect the plan and system for reducing to and keeping in a state of dry culture the low or swamp lands, situate around and lying about the city of Savannah and the hamlets thereof, and also to remove such nuisances or causes of disease, which may affect the citizens thereof, or in any wise. injure their health: Provided, the said laws and ordinances so passed as aforesaid, be not contrary to or in violation of the constitution of the United States or of this State.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

RESOLUTIONS

WHICH

ORIGINATED IN THE SENATE.

IN SENATE, Nov. 18, 1831.

The Committee appointed to report on so much of the Governor's communication as acknowledges the receipt of the laws of Indiana, report the following resolution :

Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be reques-. ted, and he is hereby authorized to transmit to the Governor of the State of Indiana, copies of the digested and compiled laws of this State, bound in a neat and handsome manner, with a proper acknowledgment of the Legislature, for the manner in which the laws of Indiana have been presented to the Executive Department of this State.

Read and agreed to.
THOMAS STOCKS, President,
Attest, IVERSON L. HARRIS, Secretary.

In the House of Representatives.

Concurred in, Dec. 24, 1831.
ASBURY HULL, Speaker.

Attest, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, Clerk.

Approved, Dec. 26, 1831.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

IN SENATE, 19th Nov. [Dec.] 1831.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the Survey

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or General, be, and he is hereby authorised and required to call on his Excellency the Governor to examine which counties that was provided by an act of the last Legislature, to be entitled to two district surveyors, have returned the smallest number of Repretentative population agreeable to the Census lately taken.

And be it further Resolved, That when said Surveyor General has procured such information, he shall, by publishing the same, make known to the surveyor in each of said counties, who was declared elected and who did receive the lowest number of votes, that his services will not be wanting, there not being as many districts as surveyors elected: Provided, nevertheless, That in any case of vacancy by death, resignation or otherwise, the said three surveyors shall have preference to any other person, on the same principle as heretofore provided.

Read and agreed to.

THOMAS STOCKS, President.

Attest, IVERSON L. HARRIS, Secretary.

In the House of Representatives,
Concurred in, Dec. 24, 1831.

ASBURY HULL, Speaker.

Attest, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, Clerk.

Approved, Dec. 26, 1831.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

IN SENATE, Nov. 24, [Dec. 12,] 1831.

Many of our fellow citizens throughout the United States, either by their Legislatures or by assemblies of the people, having already expressed their views, as regards the Presidential election; and satisfied that we are able to declare the opinions and wishes of the people of Georgia, on this interesting subject.

Resolved, That our confidence in the ability, fidelity and zeal of Andrew Jackson, remains undiminished; and that the people of this State, anxiously look to his re-election, as eminently