AN ACT to authorize the Inferior Court of the county of Cass to levy an additional tax for county purposes.

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 authority of the same, That the Inferior Court of the county of Cass be and the same is hereby authorized to levy an additional tax for the present and following years on the citizens of said county for county purposes; Provided, that said additional tax shall not exceed an increase of more than fifty per cent. upon the tax author; ized to be imposed upon the citizens of said county for the year eighteen hundred and forty-nine.

Approved, February 14, 1850.

AN ACT to consolidate the office of Tax Collector and Receiver in the county of Lumpkin.

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 sume, That from and after the year 1850, the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of the county of Lumpkin be and the same are hereby consolidated into the office of Tax Collector.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Tax Collecior shall be entitled to the same fees that the Receiver and Collector, or both, are now allowed by law, and he shall pay over to the county Treasurer of said county of Lumpkin twenty-five per cent. on the amount of his commission, which sum shall be considered as a county fund for the payment of jurors.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.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 extend the time of completing and returning the tax digest for the county of Lowndes until the first of October in each and every year, and to allow the Collector to make his settlement by the last day of December. 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 fron, and after the passage of this act, that the time for re- turn igihe tax digest of the county of Lowndes is extended to the first day of October in each and every year, and that

the time for the Collector to make his returns is extended to the last day of December in each and every year.

SECTION 2. 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 23, 1850.

AN ACT to separate the offices of Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector of the county of Carroll.

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 from and after the passage of this act, it shall not be lawful for the offices of Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector for the county of Carroll to be held by the same person-any law, usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding.

Approved, February 23, 1850.

AN ACT to repeal so much of an act assented to 19th of December, 1840, as relates to the consolidation of the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns of the county of Montgomery.

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, so much of the above recited act as relates to the consolidation of the offices of Tax Collector and the Receiver of Tax Returns of the county of Montgomery, be and the same is hereby repealed. Approved, December 20, 1849.

AN ACT to repeal an act entitled an act to consolidate the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns in the counties of Rabun, Camden, Irwin, Floyd, Scriven, Paulding, Wayne, Murray, Cherokee, Glynn, Telfair, and Laurens, so far as relates to the county of Murray, assented to 25th December, 1837.

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

from and after the passage of this act, so much of the above recited act as relates to the county of Murray be and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved, December 14, 1849.

AN ACT to repeal an act consolidating the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns of the counties of Baldwin, Chattooga, Franklin, Gwinnett, Heard, Upson, Wilkes, McIntosh, Thomas, Jefferson, Cobb, Hancock, Dooly, and Marion, passed on the 9th December, 1839, so far as respects the counties of Franklin and Heard.

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 so much of an act passed on the 9th day of December, 1839, consolidating the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns of the above named counties, be and the same is hereby repealed, so far as respects the counties of Franklin and Heard.

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, December 14, 1849.

AN ACT to consolidate the offices of Receiver of Tax ReReturns and Tax Collector in the county of Cherokee, and to make provision for paying Grand and Petit Juries in said county.

WHEREAS under existing laws the Receiver of Tax Returns and the Tax Collector of Cherokee county are each entitled to ten per cent. on the general tax of said county, and are also entitled to their per cent. for the in-. solvent list, making it cost near twenty-five cents on the dollar to collect the tax for said county, which said tax may be collected for a much smaller per cent.; and whereas there exists no provision of law for paying the Grand and Petit Juries of said county; and whereas the difference between the per cent. now paid for collecting the tax in said county and the per cent. for which it may be collected will amount to a sum sufficient, or nearly so, to pay said jurors :

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 first day of January eighteen hundred and fifty-one, the offices of Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector for the county of Cherokee shall be consolldated and united, and shall thereafter be filled by one and the same person annually, who shall perform the duties of a Receiver of the Returns of taxable property and Tax Collector of said county of Cherokee respectively as required by law: Provided, That he shall only be bound to attend in each militia district on two different days for the purpose of receiving tax returns, and on two different days for the purpose of collecting, and not on three different days as now required by law, and it shall further be his duty to attend at the Court-house in said county on the two sale days preceding the time of returning his digest to the office of the Comptroller General, and on the two sale days previous to the time of closing his books as Collector, and he shall give bond and security in double the amount now required of the Tax Collector of said county.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the compensation for the services of said Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector shall be one-half of the amount at present allowed to the officers of Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector of said county.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all court fees to which jurors are now entitled, all fines hereafter imposed on and collected from jurors, and the remaining half of the compensation at present allowed to the Receiver of Tax Returns and Tax Collector of said Cherokee county shall be paid into the county Treasury, and the same is hereby set apart as a permanent jury fund for said county, and it shall he applied to that object and no other.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That the county Treasurer shall pay out of said fund to each Petit Juror who shall serve in the Inferior Court, and to each Grand and Petit Juror who shall serve in the Superior Court of said county, the sum of one dollar per day for bis services, on said Juror presenting to said Treasurer a certificate from the Clerk of the Court in which he has rendered the service, certifying to the number of days which said Juror has served.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That in case the said jury fund set apart by this act shall be insufficient to pay each Juror one dollar per day, then it shall be the duty of said Treasurer to pay to each Juror such sum per day as the money to be raised under the provisions of this act will enable him to do: Provided, That no Juror shall be entitled to receive any money from the Treasury for any service rendered previous to the time when the first year's per cent. shall be paid into the Treasury: Provided further, That the

Jurors serving previous to the time when the per cent. on the tax of eighteen hundred and fifty-one is paid into the Treasury, shall be entitled to their usual Court fees.

SECTION 6. And be it further enacted, 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 repeal an act to consolidate the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns in the counties of Rabun, Camden, Irwin, Floyd, Scriven, Paulding, Wayne, Murray, Cherokee, Glynn, Telfair and Laurens, assented to 25th December, 1837, so far as respects the county of Laurens; also, to repeal an act consolidating the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns for certain counties in this State, assented to on the 9th December, 1839, so far as relates to the county of Marion. 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 so much of the above recited act as relates to the consolidation of the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns in the said county of Laurens, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That so much of an act entitled an act to consolidate the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver of Tax Returns, so far as respects the counties of Baldwin, Chattooga, Franklin, Gwinnett, Heard, Upson, Wilkes, McIntosh, Thomas, Jefferson, Cobb, Hancock, Dooly and Marion, assented to on the 9th day of December, 1839, as relates to the county of Marion, be and the same is hereby repealed.

Approved, December 21, 1849.

AN ACT to repeal an act consolidating the offices of Tax Collector and Receiver in the counties of Baldwin, Chattooga, Franklin, Gwinnett, Heard, Upson, Wilkes, McIntosh, Thomas, Jefferson, Cobb, Hancock, Dooly and Marion, passed December 9th, 1839, so far as respects the county of Thomas.

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 act passed.