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SECTION 1. Be it therefore 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 his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasury for the said sum of twenty-two and a half dollars, in favor of said James King.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the sum of four hundred and fifty dollars be, and is hereby appropriated to the Rev. George White in payment for one hundred and fifty copies of "White's Statistics," which his Excellency the Governor was authorized to subscribe by a resolution passed the last General Assembly.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That James Alford, of Fayette county, be, and he is hereby relieved from the payment of the residue of a judgment against him in favor of the Central Bank of Georgia, which judgment was and is founded upon his endorsement of the note of James Sudduth, the principal according to the face of the said note together with the interest thereon having already been paid off and discharged.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of forty dollars and twenty-six cents be paid to Deleware Morris, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated; it being the principal and interest of the amount paid the State for the purchase of lot number one hundred and ten in the ninth district of Hall county, sold by the Commissioners of the State in conformity with the act of the General Assembly passed December 22d, 1827, entitled an act to dispose of the residue of lands heretofore reserved for the use of the State, at which sale Charles F. Betton became the purchaser, and the certificate of purchase has been for a valuable consideration transferred to Deleware Morris, but to which land the said Betton or Morris have never been able to obtain a grant, it having been previously granted by the State to one Edward Horne, of Campbell's district, Morgan county, and evidently sold by mistake; and that the Governor issue his warrant for said amount.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That the Governor draw his warrant on the Treasury, in favor of James M. Wayne, President of the Georgia Historical Society, for the sum of six hundred dollars, to defray the expense of procuring transcripts of certain colonial records which they tender to the State.

Approved, February 8th, 1850.

AN ACT for the relief of Edward D. Huguenin and others herein named, and to authorize the Governor to draw his

warrant on the Treasury in behalf of the several persons herein named, and for the amounts stated.

SECTION 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, that forasmuch as Edward D. Huguenin, during the year 1847, gave in all his real and personal property in the county of Chatham, of which he was then a citizen, to wit, thirteen tracts of land and seven fractions lying in Sumter county; also one hundred slaves, the tax upon which was eighty-two dollars and thirty-eight cents, and which he paid, as appears by the certificate of John E. Davis, Tax Collector for Chatham county, for the year 1847, was illegally assessed for tax in Sumter county, for the same year, on the same property, in which assessment they moreover assumed him to own more land and negroes than he did own, and that he gave in as aforesaid in Chatham county, his rightful residence-upon which assessment an execution was issued against said Huguenin by Jefferson Wright, the Tax Collector of Sumter, for the sum of one hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents, as State tax, and which sum, so illegally assessed and exacted, was paid by said Huguenin to G. M. Wheeler, D. Sheriff of Sumter county, that with a view to correct so flagrant a wrong, the Governor be directed to draw his warrant on the Treasury in favor of said Huguenin for the sum of one hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy-nine cents, so paid in Sumter county, for State tax of 1847; and that he also draw his warrant in favor of Iverson L. Harris for eight dollars and twenty cents, it being an amount paid by him as tax of 1849 upon negro slaves, the property of Mrs. Harriet E. Hall, of whom he was trustee, she having also given in said negroes, and paid tax on them for the same year.

Approved, February 5th, 1850.

AN ACT for the relief of David Dobbs of the county of

Cobb.

WHEREAS David Dobbs hired to the Western and Atlantic Railroad of the State of Georgia, for the year 1848, a negro man by the name of Tom, to be engaged exclusively as a depot hand only, and not to perform any of the duties or to be exposed to any of the risks of a train hand, and the said negro man Tom having been ordered by one of the conductors on a freight train on said road, to assist in making up a train on said road, received an injury of which he died:

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SECTION 1. Be it therefore 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 his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer of said State, in favor of the said David Dobbs, for the sum of eight hundred dollars, in full compensation for the loss of said negro man.

Approved, December 20th, 1849.

AN ACT for the relief of Emory College, for taxes illegally assessed against the Trustees of said College.

WHEREAS it appears from an exhibit from the Comptroller General's Office, that the Trustees of Emory College have paid as such Trustees tax money for the years 1842, 1843, 1844, 1845 and 1846, amounting in all to two hundred and ten dollars and one cent and four mills, upon the property of said College, and for which it is represented and alleged that the said property of the said College was not liable by the laws of this Ŝtate, but paid upon a misapprehension of the exemption of said property from taxation:

It is therefore enacted, That his Excellency the Governor draw his warrant in favor of the Trustees of Emory College upon the Treasury of this State for such sum as may have been paid by the Trustees aforesaid, for which the College property was not liable.

Approved, February 21, 1850.

AN ACT to authorize his Excellency George W. Towns to draw his warrant on the Treasury in favor of Thomas J. Worthen for four hundred and forty-six dollars and thirtytwo cents, with interest from the first day of November,

1846.

WHEREAS by the first day of November, eighteen hundred and forty-six, Thomas J. Worthen, by contract and at the instance and special request of his then Excellency, George W. Crawford, delivered a large amount of lumber and shingles for the completion of the State Lunatic Asylum, to wit, three hundred and thirty-nine thousand feet of lumber, and seventeen thousand pine shingles, making the aggregate value, under a special agreement, of four hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-two cents: therefore,

SECTION 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, his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to draw his warrant upon the Treasury for four hundred and forty-six dollars and thirty-two cents, of any monies not otherwise appropriated, to be paid to the said Thomas J. Worthen, or his order, or legal representative: Provided, That the said Thomas J. Worthen shall apply the said amount of money to the payment of a debt due by him to the Central Bank, and that his Excellency the Governor to withhold his warrant for said amount until said Worthen shall make payment to the Bank-any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Approved, February 22, 1850.

AN ACT for the relief of Sarah A. Stephens. WHEREAS Sarah A. Stephens of the county of Wilkes has paid to the Tax Collector of said county the State tax of 1848 upon certain property, and has also paid to the Tax Collector of Taliaferro county the State tax of the same year upon the same property; for remedy whereof, SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the Treasurer of the State be, and hereby is directed to pay to Sarah A. Stephens the sum of ten dollars and seventy cents, the same being the amount of State tax for 1848, so by her as aforesaid doubly paid.

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

Approved, February 5, 1850.

AN ACT for the relief of Joseph Donaldson of the county Cherokee.

WHEREAS Joseph Donaldson of the county of Cherokee has been forced to pay a sum of money by an action brought against him for constructing a portion of the Western and Atlantic Railroad through the farm of one Samuel McDow in the county of Cass: and whereas the said Donaldson was forced under his contract to complete the same within a certain time, and was ordered by the Engineers on said road to proceed with said contract without respect to the objections of the said McDow: for remedy whereof:

SECTION 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, the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and required to draw his warrant in favor of Joseph Donaldson on the Treasurer, for the sum of one hundred and seventy-two dollars and fifty-two cents, and pay the same over to the said Donaldson, or his agent-all laws to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, February 14, 1850.

AN ACT to appropriate money for the purchase of land. and making useful and necessary improvements in connexion with the Lunatic Asylum.

SECTION 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 the sum of three thousand dollars is hereby appropriated to purchase such tract or tracts of land in the vicinity of the Lunatic Asylum as may be deemed important and necessary to the interests of the institution by the Board of Trustees and his Excellency the Governor.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That for the building of a male and female infirmary, the sum of two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That for the purpose of re-covering the present buildings with the most approved fire-proof material, and likewise such other buildings as may be erected, the sum of three thousand dollars, or as much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That for erecting and furnishing a separate building for epileptics, the sum of two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby appropriated.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act are hereby repealed. Approved, February 22, 1850.

AN ACT for the relief of Duncan McDougald of the county of Muscogee, and to appropriate to him a sum of money, and for other purposes therein mentioned.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

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