point Commissioners to lay out and open a new road through a part of Camden county, and to designate the hands who shall be liable to work thereon; also, to establish a ferry across the Great Satilla river, and fix the rates of ferriage at the same, assented to on the twenty-third of December one thousand eight hundred thirty-nine, as relates to that portion of the road therein named, which begins at a point on the Great Satilla river, opposite the town of Jefferson in Camden county, and continues and extends to a cross road running from the ferry commonly called and known as Owen's Ferry, to the plantation of Duncan L. Clinch, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the fourth, fifth, and sixth sections of the said act be and the same are hereby repealed.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the land now occupied by that part of said road, and the ditches and appurtenances thereunto belonging, which begins at a point on the Great Satilla river opposite the town of Jefferson in Camden county, and continues and extends through the tide swamp and high land to the cross road named in the first section of this act, shall return, revert to and become the property of James Mongin Smith, as fully and completely as if the same had never been taken, used and occupied for the purposes of the said road, with all the right, title, privileges and possession thereof with which he was originally and at any time invested.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the Commissioners of the said road now in office and their successors, or a majority of them, be and they are hereby authorized and required to lay out and cause to be made and opened a continuation of the said road from the point of its intersection with the said cross road as directly as may seem to them practicable and proper, (with the assent of the owners of the land through which it shall pass,) to the ferry on the Great Satilla river, commonly called Owen's Ferry, which said continuation shall be regulated, controlled and kept up in the same manner as the rest of said road.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, December 19, 1849.

AN ACT to appropriate certain hands to do road duty on the west side of the old Post road, and north of the Satilla river in Camden county.

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

resentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the hands on the west side of the road known as the old Post road, and north of the Satilla river, in the county of Camden, liable to do road duty in said county, be appropriated and shall, immediately after the passage of this act, be liable and subject to do road duty on the road known as the old Post road, leading from Owen's ferry to Little Satilla river, and all other roads intersecting the same, as far as Little Red Cap branch, and that said hands be hereafter exempt from any other road duty in Camden county.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the hands subject to do road duty, residing in the Satilla Neck, be transferred to the road leading from Honey creek to the road known as the new Post road, leading from Langbury to Owen's ferry.

SECTION 3. 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, January 26, 1850.

AN ACT to designate and appropriate certain hands to do road duty on the north prong of the Floyd road, leading from Springfield to the point where it intersects the main Post road leading to St. Marys in the county of Camden. 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 hands belonging to Barney B. Gowen, James Gowen, and Isaac Lang, jr., of the county of Camden, liable to do road duty in said county, be designated and appropriated and shall, immediately after the passing of this act, be liable and subject to do road duty on the north prong of the road known as the Floyd road in said county, leading from Springfield to the point where it intersects the main Post road leading to St. Marys; and that said hands be hereafter exempt from any other duty in Camden county.

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 January 16, 1850.

AN ACT to appropriate certain road hands in the county of Camden and appoint Commissioners for the same. SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep

resentatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the road hands of John Tompkins, William P. M. Ashley, Joseph Thomas, H. J. Cole, estate of Y. L. Robinson, Christiana Cole, and Susan Hopkins, be and are hereby appropriated and made liable to do road duty on the road leading from Jefferson to Colerane, and that Joseph Thomas, John Tompkins and William P. Ashley be appointed Commissioners for the same.

SECTION 2. Be it further enacted, That in case of vacancies in said Board of Commissioners, by death, removal or resignation, the Inferior Court shall have power to fill said vacancies.

SECTION 3. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, February 23, 1850.

AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to amend the several acts regulating roads in this State, so far as respects the operation of said acts in the counties of Bryan, Liberty, McIntosh, Glynn, Camden and Wayne, approved the 8th day of December, 1806.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgin in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passing of this act, the tenth section of the above recited act, or so much thereof as relates to Liberty county, be so amended as to authorize one Commissioner from each road district in said county, or a majority of that number to be competent to transact all business relating to said Board of Commissioners.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That all acts or parts of acts militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, December 20, 1849.

AN ACT to repeal, so far as relates to the county of Chatham, an act entitled an act to empower the Inferior Courts of the several counties in this State to order the laying out of public roads, and to order the building and keeping in repair of public bridges, approved December the fourth, seventeen hundred and ninety-nine, and further to extend and define the power of said Courts as to the construction

of bridges, approved December twenty-six, eighteen hundred and forty-five; also, to alter and amend the fourth section of an act entitled an act to alter and amend the road laws of this State, approved December the (19th) nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, and to repeal the proviso of said fourth section so far as the same relates to the county of Chatham, and to exempt the Commismissioners of Roads from the performance of patrol duty in the county of Chatham.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is her by enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, the above recited act, approved December the twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and forty-five, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to the county of Chatham.

SECTION 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all executions issued against defaulters by the Commissioners of public Roads of Chatham county, at their annual meetings, shall be under the hand and seal of the Chairman of said Commissioners, and be collected as is now pointed out by law; and the proviso of the aforesaid fourth section of an act entitled an act to alter and amend the road laws of this State, approved December the nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighteen, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as relates to the county of Chatham.

SECTION 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passage of this act, the Commissioners of public Roads in and for the county of Chatham, shall be exempted from any and all patrol duty in said

county.

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

Approved, February 11, 1850.

AN ACT to authorize John D. Watkins to construct a turnpike road on his own land around Anthony's Shoals on Broad River, to fix the tolls on said road, and for other purposes therein named.

WHEREAS Anthony's Shoals obstruct the navigation of Broad river, rendering a portage necessary around the same; and whereas, when the cotton of the good planters of that portion of the State is deposited on the river below said Shoals it is much exposed to injury by the depredations of cattle; now therefore

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 John D. Watkins shall have power to construct a turnpike road around said Shoals to the flat rock landing below, on his own land in Elbert county, and to erect and inclosure for the reception and keeping of cotton safe from the depredations of cattle, and to charge five cents a bale on all cotton passing over said road to be shipped from said landing.

Approved, February 11, 1850.

AN ACT to alter an amend an act entitled an act to carry into effect the alterations and amendments at this session of the General Assembly (to wit, the session of 1843,) in and to the third and seventh sections of the first article of the Constitution of this State, assented to twenty-third December, 1843, so far as relates to the Senatorial Districts.

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 the second Senatorial district of this State shall be composed of the counties of Liberty and Tattnall, the seventh Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Bulloch and Scriven, the eighth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Effingham and Bryan, the ninth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Burke and Jefferson, the thirteenth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Early and Randolph, the fourteenth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Stewart and Muscogee, the fifteenth Senatorial district shall be composed of thh counties of Lee and Baker, the sixteenth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Troup and Harris, the seventeenth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Houston and Pulaski, the eighteenth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Marion and Macon, the nineteenth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Dooly and Sumter, the twentieth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Twiggs and Jones, the twenty-first Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Washington and Emanuel, the twenty-fifth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Putnam and Jasper, the twenty-sixth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Monroe and Bibb, the twenty-eighth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties of Meriwether and Talbot, the twentyninth Senatorial district shall be composed of the counties