calculated to promote the general interest and prosperity of our country, and the harmony of the Union. Read and agreed to. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby requested to send with the Laws and Journals of the present session, six copies of Prince's Digest, and six copies of the Georgia Justice, to the county of Telfair, for the use and benefit of the Justices of the Inferior Court, and Justices of the Peace, of said county. Read and agreed to. THOMAS STOCKS, President. Attest, I. L. HARRIS, Secretary. In the House of Representatives, Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. Approved, Dec. 26, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. IN SENATE, November 30, 1831. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the sum of five thousand dollars, be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to be paid to any person or persons who shall arrest, bring to trial and prosecute to conviction under the laws of this State; the editor or publisher of a certain paper called the Liberator, published in the town of Boston, and State of Massachusetts; or who shall arrest, bring to trial & prosecute to conviction under the laws of this State, any other person or persons who shall utter, publish or circulate within the limits of this State, said paper called the Liberator, or any other paper, circular, pamphlet, letter or address of a seditious character. And that his Excellency the Governor is hereby authorised and requested, to issue his warrant upon the Treasurer, for said sum of five thousand dollars, in favor of any person or persons, who shall have arrested and brought to trial and prosecuted to conviction, under the laws of this State, the editor or publisher of the Liberator, or who shall have arrested and brought to trial or prosecute to conviction, under the laws of this State; any other person or persons, who shall utter, publish or circulate, within the limits of this State, said paper called the Liberator, or any other paper, circular, pamphlet, letter or address of a seditious character. And that these resolutions be inserted in the appropriation act. And resolved further, That his Excellency the Governor cause the foregoing resolutions, to be published in the public journals of this State, and such other papers as he may think proper, and pay for the publication thereof, out of the contingent fund. Read and agreed to. THOMAS STOCKS, President. IN SENATE, December 1, 1831. Whereas, it is represented to the General Assembly, by the Commissioners of the Brunswick Rail Road Company, that the improvement of the navigation of a short branch of the Alatamaha river, in Glynn county, called Rail-Road Creek, (which is about one mile in length,) will be indispensably necessary, so as to admit the passing and repassing of Steam Boats, Pole-Boats, &c. &c. as preparatory to the commencement of the work of their Rail-Road, from the head of said Creek to the town of Brunswick; and whereas, the opening of that superior port, to the middle and western counties of this State, is deemed of great importance to a large portion of the people of Georgia, which being the primary object of the said Rail-Road Company And whereas, no Legislative aid having heretofore been bestowed upon the improvement of the navigation, towards opening the port of Brunswick, which is represented as being far superior to any other in Georgia, and at the same time situated centrally upon the sea-coast of this State. Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That ten thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby set apart as a fund, and to be placed in the bill of the general appropriation; to be vested in the purchase of able bodied negro men, between eighteen and twenty-five years of age, and to be added to the present number of public hands employed upon the roads and rivers; the said negro men to be purchased within this State, for, and on account of the State, under the direction and approbation of his Excellency the Governor, in the same manner as pointed out by the act of eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, for the purchase of public hands for the improvement of the roads and rivers of this State. Be it further resolved, That the aforesaid additional public hands, herein directed to be purchased, be placed at, and in the neighborhood of Brunswick, for the term of one year, to open and improve the navigation of Rail-Road Creek, for the purpose aforesaid, and to cut out a road to the Alatamaha Swamp. And be it further resolved, That said hands shall at the expiration of one year, be applied to construct a road from Fort Barrington, on the Alatamaha, through Bull-Town Swanp, [Laws of 1831.] 17 to Samuel Jones' in Liberty county: Provided, they are not employed for a longer term of time than eight weeks. And be it further resolved, That after the term of one year and eight weeks, the said public hands may be transferred to such other 10ads or rivers, as the next Legislature may deem proper to direct. Read and agreed to. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby requested to transmit to the county of Dooly, with the Laws and Journals of the present session, four copies of Prince's Digest, and four of the last edition of Clayton's Georgia Justice. To the counties of Tattnall, Montgomery and Henry, respectively, six copies each, of said books, for the use of the Inferior Courts and Justices of the Peace in said counties, who have not been furnished with them. IN SENATE, Dcc. 5, 1831. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby authorised to deliver to Michael F. Boisclair, and his associates, (under the style and name of the Richmond Light Dragoons,) fifty Cavalry Swords, and fifty pair of Pistols, for the use of said Company of Light Dragoons, provided they comply with the law provided for in such cases. Read and agreed to. Attest, I. L. HARRIS, Secretary. THOMAS STOCKS, President. In the House of Representatives, Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. Approved, Dec. 10, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. IN SENATE, Dec. 9, 1831. The committee to whom was referred the communication of his Excellency the Governor, transmitting to the General Assembly, the copy of a paper purporting to be signed by Henry Baldwin, Esq. one of the Justices of the Supreme Court of the United States, and to be a citation to the State of Georgia, to appear in the Supreme Court, on the second Monday in January next, to shew cause before that tribunal, why two several judgments should not be set aside, which have lately been rendered in the, Superior Court of the county of Gwinnett, against Samuel A. Worcester and Elizur Butler, for a violation of an existing law of the State, committed within its jurisdictional limits; also of a paper, purporting to be a notice, signed by William Wirt and John Sergeant, as counsel for Samuel A. Worcester and Elizur Butler, informing his Excellency the Governor, of an intended application to the Supreme Court for a hearing on writs of error filed by said Worcester and Butler-beg leave to re |