AN ACT to authorise the Justices of the Inferior Court of Wilkes county, or a majority of them, to hire or purchase negroes, for the improvement of the Roads and Bridges in said county; also, to authorise said Court to levy an extra tax for the purpose of carrying the same into effect.

Sec. I. 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, the Justices of the Inferior court, or a majority of them, shall be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, to purchase or hire negroes, and all necessary horses, mules, tools, and implements, and the same to employ, at their discretion, in the improvement of the public Roads and Bridges of said county, or such parts, or portions thereof, as said court may deem proper, to make any and all contracts, necessary or conducive to the improvement of said roads and bridges in said county, and to employ such person or persons to oversee or superintend the same as in their judgment may seem best.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said court shall have the same power to alter, lay out, and to construct roads in said county, as is given to superintendents of roads and rivers of this State.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That said court as aforesaid, shall have power, and they are hereby authorised to levy an extra tax (provided the county funds shall not be sufficient) on the citizens of said county liable to be taxed, not to exceed seventy-five per centum, should they deem it necessary to carry said object into effect, which tax shall be collected by the collector of said county, in the same manner as other taxes are collected, first giving bond and security for the faithful performance and payment of said taxes to the Inferior court of said county.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same is hereby repealed.

ASBURY HULL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS STOCKS,

Assented to, Dec. 26, 1831.

President of the Senate.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

AN ACT to add a certain lot of land in Randolph county to the county of Stewart.

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 immediately after the passing of this act, that lot number eighteen in the twentieth district of originally Lee but now Randolph county, is hereby added to and become a part of the county of Stewart any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

ASBURY HULL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS STOCKS,

Assented to, Dec. 26, 1831..

President of the Senate.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

AN ACT to add a part of Carroll county to Heard county.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives in General Assembly met, and it is enacted by the authority of the same, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, that so much of the county of Carroll, known by fraction number one, one hundred and sixty-two, and one hundred and sixty-three, in the fourth district, be, and the same are hereby added to, and shall form a part of Heard county; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

AN ACT to make permanent ths site of public buildings in the town of Lumpkin, Stewart county, and to incorporate the same.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate & House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is here by enacted by the authority of the same, That the public buildings in the town of Lumpkin, in the county of Stewart, be, and the same is hereby declared the permanent'scat of Justice for said county.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in February, eighteen hundred and thirty two, and on the first Saturday in every year thereafter, all free white male persons in the corporate limits of said town Lumpkin, as hereafter prescribed, who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall assemble at the court house in said town, and by ballot elect five Commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, or until their successors are elected, at which election one or more magistrates shall preside, and in case of resignation, removal or death of any of said Commissioners, the remaining Commissioners shall have power to fill such vacancy for the time being.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the corporate authority and jurisdiction of said Commissioners shall be extended to and exercised over all lots which now are, or which may hereafter be laid out within said town.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said Commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to pass all by laws and ordinances which they or a majority of them may deem necessary and expedient for the well government and good order of said town, to lay and collect a tax for the support of said town, and do all other things as body corporate which may not be repugnant to the constitution of this State, or of the United States or the laws thereof.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That if said elections for Commissioners on the first Saturday in February next, or on the first Saturday in every subsequent year thereafter, should not take place as prescribed by this act, it shall be lawful for said election to be held on any other day, ten days

notice of the same being given by a Justice of the Peace or one of the Commissioners.

AN ACT to lay out and organize a new county, to be comprised of all the lands lying west of the Chattahoochee river and north of Carroll county line, within the limits of Georgia, and to attach the same to the Western Circuit.

Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Serate 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 all the territory lying west of the Chattahoochee River and north of Carroll county, within the limits of Georgia, and which is now attached to and forms part of the several counties of Carroll, DeKalb, Gwinnett, Hall, and Habersham, shall form one county, to be called Cherokee. That on the first Monday of February next, the persons who may be in said county, and who may be entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, may meet together at the house of Ambrose Harnage, and under the authority and superintendance of three Justices of the Peace, elect five Justices of the Inferior Court for said county, a Clerk of the Superior Court, a Clerk of the Inferior Court, a Sheriff, a Coroner, a Receiver of Tax Returns, a Tax Collector, and a county Surveyor.

Sec 2. And be it further enacted, That said Justices shall certify, under their hands, to the Governor, the persons so elected, who shall thereupon be commissioned to hold their respective offices until the next election for like offices throughout the State; Provided, that nothing in this act contained shall be so construed as to affect any commission heretofore issued to any officer now residing in said Territory.

Sec. 3. Be it further enacted, That the said Justices of the Inferior Court, as soon as practicable, shall fix on a site for the necessary public buildings, and shall have erected thereat such temporary public buildings as in their judgment may be for the public interest, and such as the public interest may require. And said Justices shall, as soon as practicable, lay off said county into Captains' districts; not more than two to be formed of each section-and when the same shall be defined, they shall give fifteen days notice of the time and place, in each district, for holding an election for Justices of the Peace, [and Constables, and one of said Justices or a Justice of the Peace,] and two other persons resident in the district, shall superintend said election, and certify the result of said election to his Excellency the Governor, who shall proceed to cause commissions to issue to the Justices elect, which said commissions shall continue until the. time of election for Justices throughout the State.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Peace in each district, after they. shall have been commissioned as aforesaid, to advertise in their respective districts the election for captains and subaltern officers, according to the Militia Laws of this State, and the captains after they are so elected and commissioned, shall as early as practicable, make out a complete roll of all persons in their respective districts liable to do militia duty, and return the same to the Inferior Court of said county, and the captains and justices shall proceed to advertise and superintend elections for field officers, according to the militia laws now of force in this State.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the Justices of the Inferior Court, shall proceed to draw grand and petit jurors, as directed by the laws now of force.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the time of holding the Superior Court of said county, shall be on the fourth Monday in March and September, and the time of holding the Inferior Court shall be on the fourth Monday in Jnne and December.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That the place of holding the Superior and Inferior Courts, shall be at the house of Ambrose Harnage

Sec. 8. And be it further enacted. That said county be added to and made part of the Western Judicial Circuit, and