Your committee would further report, that they have had under their consideration, the communication of his Excellency the Governer, on the insecure state of the arsenal and magazine at this place, and on examination of the buildings find that the doors and windows of the arsenal are very weak and uader considerable decay, and that the roof and door of the magazine are also much decayed and insecure: your committee therefore recommend the following resolution : Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and required to employ some fit and proper person, to make new doors to the arsenal in this. place, out of sound oak plank, confined on the inside with iron bolts and bars, and one of the outer doors secured with two good stock locks, and all of the windows of the lower story to be secured with good iron grates and substantial wood shutters, and the windows of the upper stories to be also covered with substantial wood shutters, and confined with iron bolts on the inside. And be it further resolved, That his Excellency do also employ some fit and proper person to re-cover the magazine, with good heart pine shingles, and pitch or paint the same, and have such other repairs made on the door or any other part of the building as he may deem proper: and your committee would further recommend, that there be an additional number of guard added to the guard already in the State House, so that there may always be one sentinel posted in full view of the arsenal and magazine, or [passing] from and to the other in the night time, and that the expense for the work and guard be paid out of the contingent fund. Your committe further report that they have had a resolution from the House of Representatives, requesting them to take under their consideration the repeal of so much of the militia law, as authorises the appointment of sutlers by the commanding officers of companies: your committee deem the repeal of the same unnecessary. Your committee further report, that they have had under their consideration a communication from his Excellency the Governor, accompanied by a letter from Major General W. W. Montgomery, commanding the second division Georgia Militia, and report, that they consider the application for remuneration for expenses incurred in furnishing the Mayor of Augusta with arms, accoutrements, and ammunition, from the United States' arsenal, during the late excitement in the city of Augusta, relative to our slave population, and deem the same just and reasonable; but your comittee having no data before them, from which to estimate the amount of expenses iscurred, your committee are unable to recommend any specific appropriation, they therefore recommend the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised to pay Major Gen. W. W. Montgomery, or his order, out of the contingent fund, such sum as his Excellency may deem reasonable and just, for cleaning, returning, and boxing up of the arms thus furnished. Resolved, further, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised to pay out of the contingent fund for all similar expenses, such sums as he may deem reasonable and just. Your committee would further report, on the same correspondence between his Excellency and Major General W. W. Montgomery, which relates to the propriety of erecting an arsenal in the city of Augusta: your committee are of opinion that it would be expedient to have an arsenal built in that place, as the arsenal of the United States is at least three miles from the centre of the city, and in case of an insurrection, great injury might be sustained [before arms could be obtained] from the United States arsenal: your committee therefore recommend the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and requested to open a correspondence with such gentlemen in the city of Augusta, and with General Montgomery, to ascertain what should be the dimension of the building, and the probable expense, and that he lay the same before the next Legislature. Your committee further report, that they have carefully examined the arms, accoutrements and munitions of war, in the arsenal and magazine in this place, consisting of Two six pounders, well mounted, in good order, 195 boxes muskets, 20 each, do do do .do Cartouch boxes and bayonets for the same, 15 boxes rifles, 20 each, and implements, in good order, 5 do sabres, number not known, 108 kegs of powder, in good order, 5540 lbs. lead, 12 kegs oz. balls, 39 boxes ball cartridges, in good order, Also, various other implements of war. One hundred muskets, returned by volunteer companies, not fit for service; also a considerable number of horsemen's pistols, unfit for service; also a quantity of old sabres, unfit for service. Your committee further report, that they have carefully examined the schedule of the arms and munitions of war deposited in the arsenal in the city of Savannah, under the charge of F. M. Stone, military store keeper, all of which is arranged in excellent order. Your committee would further report, that it is with considerable reluctance that they are constrained to observe, that from the inertness of the commanding officers of regiments, battalions, and companies, that our militia system has so much degenerated from what should be the pride of our common country. Your committee would recommend the attention of the commanding officers of regiments, battallions and companies, have strict adherence to that part of the militia law which requires that all non-commissioned officers and privates, to appear at all parades, by the hour of eleven o'clock, armed with a good firelock of some description, and on their failing to comply with this provision of the law, it should be the indispensable duty of the officers, in all such ́ cases to enforce the law, unless satisfactory excuse can be rendered for remedy whereof, Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorised and requested to forward to the respective Colonels or commanding officers of regiments in this State, a copy of this resolution, with the foregoing preamble, so that a copy of the same may be presented to the respective commanding officers of battallions, and companies, by the Colonels of the several regiments of the State. Read and agreed to. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Attest, W. C. DAWSON, Clerk. In Senate, [concurred in, Dec. 24, 1831.] Attest, I. L. HARRIS, Secretary. Approved, Dec. 24, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. t HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES, Dec. 21, 1831. The committee, to whom was referred sundry resolutions from the State of Delaware, in relation to the Tariff of 1828, have given to those resolutious their careful attention, and beg leave to recommend the adoption of the following resolutions : Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met. That the Tariff of 1828, does not accord with the spirit of the Constitution of the United States, but (when the object and effect of the act is considered,) is a palpable violation of it.. That it is inexpedient, oppressive, unequal, and destructive to the great leading interests of the South, pecuniary and political. That each State in the confederacy, is in the full exercise of all rights of sovereignty, except such rights as have been granted to the United States in the Federal Constitution. That the right to impose duties upon articles of trade, for the protection of Domestic industry, has not heen granted to the Federal Government, by the States, in the Federal Constitution. Nor will such right be yielded so far as the people of Georgia are concerned. ASBURY HULL, Speaker. Read and agreed to.` Attest, WILLIAM C. DAWSON, Clerk. In Senate, concurred in, Dec. 24, 1831. Attest, IVERSON L. HARRIS, Secretary. Approved, Dec. 27, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. The committee to whom was referred the communication of his Excellency the Governor, with its accompanying documents, in relation to the claim' against the State, of N. L. Hutchins and Hines Holt, jun. for professional services, have had the same under consideration, and beg leave to make the following report: It appears to the committee from the facts submitted, that there was great difficulty experienced by the State's agent, for that part of the Cherokee nation attached to the several counties bordering on it, to enforce the laws against offenders on that territory, and to enable him more effectually to execute his duty in that regard, he employed the said Hutchins and Holt to render legal assistance, for that purpose, promising they should receive such reasonable compensation as the State would allow. It further appears to your committee, that they [did] render important professional services in bringing to trial and punishment many offenders against the laws of the State, and in a manner entirely satisfactory to the State's agent. The charges madę are, in the opinon of your committee reasonable and just, and ought to be paid: your committee therefore recommend the adoptiou of the following resolution: Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That the sum of two hundred dollars be allowed Nathan L. Hutchins and Hines Holt, jun. in full satisfaction for their claim against the State, for professional services, and that the said be paid out of any money not otherwise appropriated. Read and agreed to, in House of Rep. Dec. 22, 1831, 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, Dec. 22, 1831. Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby requested to purchase and forward with the Laws and Journals of the present session, to the county of Walton, eight copies of the late edition of the Georgia Justice, by Lamar, and six copies of Prince's Digest, to be directed |