of this State for the attention of the State of New-York, and a disposition on our part, cordially to reciprocate on all similar occasions. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby requested to cause to be constructed, under the superintendence of the Secretary of Senate, at the Penitentiary, such cases for the records and papers of the office of the Secretary, and also such tables as may be necessary for the eonvenience thereof. RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. HOUSE OE REPRESENTATIVES, Nov. 12, 1831. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the Treasurer of this State transmit immediately, to the officers of the Central Bank, all bonds and notes which may now be in his office, given for the rent of the improvements in the Cherokee nation of Indians, by authority of an act passed the twenty-second December, 1830. Read and agreed to. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In Senate, [concurred in, Nov. 16, 1831.] Attest, I. L. HARRIS, Secretary. Approved, Dec. 26, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governer. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Nov. 15, 1831. 1 Resolved, That the Comptroller General be requested to make out a list, shewing the amount of taxes paid by each county in this State, and that the same be attached to the HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Nov. 22, 1831. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and requested to furnish stationary to the officers of both branches of the Legislature, for the use of the General Assembly. Read and agreed to. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, Dec. 23, 1831. Attest, I. L. HARRIS, Secretary. Approved, Dec. 24, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Nov. 23, 1831. The select committee, to whom was referred the memorial of Dr. Alexander Jones, after maturely considering the same, beg leave to make the following report: They believe a correct history of the State, from its earliest habitation to the present time, both important and. desirable. Although Georgia has been settled near one hundred years, yet no full and connected history of her diversified events has ever appeared. It is true, an imperfect history has been published by a Mr. McCall; but from his want of access to the records, respecting our colonial history, and which are only te be found in the Board of Trade in London, his work presents us with few materials for a long period of years anterior to our revolutionary war. All of our historical annals of the tine, intervening between the first landing of General Oglethorpe, in Georgia, in 1733, and the declaration of Independence, (a space of near half a century,) are yet locked up in the Colonial Offices of London: and unless the Legislature takes some steps to have them transcribed, for the use of the State, these interesting records, may, by fire or mutilation, or by political 7746 revolutions in Europe, be finally lost to the State, and our long colonial history become a blank. If the State ever designs that these records should be transcribed, it can never be done on better terms than is proffered by Dr. Jones. Other states have discovered the important necessity of a similar course, and during the past year, the Governor of South Carolina directed a Mr. Cruger, (who went to London on private business,) to inspect the various Colonial Offices, and ascertain the amount of records to be transcribed, relative to the colonial history of that state. The information obtained by Mr. Cruger, was forwarded to the Governor, and tansmitted by him to the Legislature, with a recommendation for them to employ an agent to procure copies of the same. Some of the New-England states, have supplied the same defect, in their histories, by a similar proceeding. Impressed with these views, and with a sense of the importance of the subject, your committee, in conclusion, recommend the adoption of the following resolutions : Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, and it is hereby resolved by the authority of the same, That the sum of fifteen hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated, to pay the expenses of Dr. Alexander Jones to London, for the purpose of transcribing the records, now in the Board of Trade and other Colonial Offices "of that city, which relate to our early Colonial history: Provided, the said Jones first gives security in a bond of an equal amount, to the Governor of this State, for a faithful discharge of his duty, and for the safe return of the money to the Treasury, in the event the records are not procured. And be it further resolved, That the said Alexander Jones shall be required to keep a correct account of all his expenditures, while engaged in the above mission, and when he returns, he shall present a copy of the Colonial records obtained, with a list of his expenses, during his absence, to a future committee on Finance of the Legislature, who shall estimate the necessary time required to transcribe the records presented, for the use of the State, and only pay for the necessary time employed in doing the same, and travelling to and from London. Should that estimate require less than fifteen hundred dollars, the said Jones, or his security, shall be held bound to the state for the surplus amount; and should the time estimated require more than the above sum, the same shall be allowed out of any money not otherwise appropriated Provided, neversheless, That the said Alexan der Jones, first deposites in the Executive Office, a copy of all the historical records obtained from the foreign Colonial offices. The committee to whom was referred the petition of Joseph W. Jackson, Solicitor of the Eastern District, praying compensation for professional services rendered the State, report the following resolution : Resolved, That the sum of three hundred and forty-two dollars and seventy-three cents, be, and is hereby appropriated for the payment of Joseph W. Jackson, Esq. Solicitor of the Eastern District, the said amount being five per cent. on six thousand eight hundred and fifty four dollars twentythree cents, collected and paid into the treasury of the State by him, and that the said amount of three hundred end fortytwo dollars, twenty-three cents, be placed in the appropriation bill. Read and agreed to, in the House of Representatives. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, Dec. 23, 1831. Attest, I. L. HARRIS, Secretary. Approved, Dec. 24, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. |