suid, That the principal officer of the Institution shall be the Superintendent, who shall be a regular Physician, reside constantly upon the premises and devote his professional services exclusively to the use of the Asylum, and who shall receive for his services a salary of fifteen hundred dollars per annum, payable quarterly out of the State Treasury, and the use of a suitable residence, and who as Superintendant of the Asylum, shall, under the Trustees, take charge of and exercise control over every department of the establishment, and have positive control over all resident officers, attendants and servants employed in the Institution, and employ all attendants and servants necessary, and as physician he shall discharge all duties any way connected with the restoration to health or sanity of the inmates.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the other officers of the Institution shall consist of an Assistant Physician, a Treasurer, a Steward, Assistant Steward, Matron and Assistant Matron, whose salaries shall be fixed by the board of Trustees, and paid quarterly out of such appropriation as may be made by the Legislature.— And the Trustees may by the regulations prescribed by themselves, constitute such other offices and select the incumbents of them as in their judgment may be necessary to an efficient administration of the affairs of the Institution, and in their by-laws determine the salaries and tenure of the office of their officers.

SECTION 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all officers and attendants of the Asylum, resident upon the premises be, and they are hereby exempted from the performance of all jury, patrol, road and militia duty, and from all pains and penalties from the neglect thereof; and no servant employed in the Asylum shall be held liable to work upon the public roads.

SECTION 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That it shall be the duty of the board of Trustees to remove from office and cause to be prosecuted, any person employed in the Asylum who shall assault any inmate of said Institution, or use toward such inmate any other or greater violence than may be necessary for his or her government, restraint or care.

SECTION 7. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Trustees may receive and hold in trust for the Asylum, any grant or devise of land, or any bequest or donation of money, or other personal property to be applied to the maintenance of insane persons, and the general use of the Institution.

SECTION 8. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That there shall be thorough monthly visitations by one of the board of Trustees, semi-annually by a majority of them, and annually by the whole board.

SECTION 9. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the fiscal year of the Institution shall regularly terminate on the first day of October of each and every year, up to which time a full and detailed report shall be made by the Trustees, Superintendent and Treasurer, to be laid before the Governor and Legislature during the first week of the ensuing month, exhibiting a particular statement of the condition of the Asylum, and of all its concerns, with such other matter as in their judgment may be conducive of the interest of the Institution.

SECTION 10. And be it further enacted by the authority afore said, That the Trustees of the Inferior Courts in the several counties in this State, or a majority of them, agreeably to the provisions hereinafter specified, may, upon the application of any citizen, commit to the Asylum any individual whose lunacy, idiocy or epilepsy is satisfactorily established, (except in the cases of idiots who are not known to be in any way dangerous and whose friends have the means to provide for them); and in all cases when a certificate of pauperism is furnished by the Court, such individual shall be supported in the Asylum at the charge of the State, but no individual shall be certified a pauper who is not in whole or in part, supported by the county in which he or she resides; and in the cases of limited means, persons of very and who cannot be certified paupers, but in relation to whom the certificate of the Court is obtained, that their friends are unable to pay the usual charge of board, &c., of pay patients in the Institution, the Trustees shall be authorized to receive and retain him or her upon the regular and punctual payment of such proportion as it is satisfactorily attested they can pay; any necessary balance being drawn from the fund appropriated for the support of pauper patients to the amount of the allowance made for the support of each pauper; and on all occasions when the case of any lunatic, idiot or epileptic is under consideration before the said Justices, it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Inferior Court to attend such investigation and keep a book in which all matter relating to the enquiry or trial shall be recorded.

SECTION 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That any person who may desire the commitment of any lunatic, idiot or epileptic, shall make application in writing to the Justices of the Inferior Court of the county where such lunatic, idiot or epileptic resides, for such commitment, whereupon the said Justices or a majority of them shall appoint a day for the hearing and determining upon such application, and the applicant shall notify the relations or nearest of kin to such lunatic, idiot or epileptic, resident in the county, of the day set apart, at least ten days before the period thus designated.

SECTION 12. And be it further enacted by the authority afore

said, That whenever any application shall be made to the Justices of the Inferior Court or a majority of them in any county of the State, for the commitment of any lunatic, idiot or epileptic to the Asylum, they shall issue a warrant to the Sheriff or the Deputy of the Sheriff in said county, directing him to summon a jury of seven men, one of whom shall be a regular physician to be and appear at the Court House in said county, on a day specified in said warrant, to hear and determine the question of lunacy, idiocy or epilepsy, and the Justices or a majority of them shall preside at such trial and administer an oath to such jurors faithfully and impartially to try said issue of lunacy, idiocy or epilepsy, and the verdict of the jury shall be final on such complaint; and the Clerk of the Court shall make out a full and fair exemplification from the records of all proceedings had in the case, to be sent with such lunatic, idiot or epileptic, if committed to the Asylum, and the Justices of the Inferior Court shall have the same authority as the Inferior Court has by law to enforce the attendance of jurors and witnesses, and to inflict fines for non-attendance, and to fine or send to jail any person who may be disposed to create disorder or disturb the Court during its session for the trial of such cases.

SECTION 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in the cases of all citizens of this State, who have been regularly received as patients in the Asylum, but have been absent from it for the period of three months, either through discharge, elopement or removal by friends, such person cannot be returned to the Institution unless regularly recommitted according to the form prescribed in this act.

SECTION 14. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That nolunatic, idiot or epileptic not having a residence in this State, shall be received into the Asylum, unless satisfactory arrangements shall have been made with the Trustees to provide for and secure the prompt payment of his or her board, and all other expenses liable to be incurred.

SECTION 15. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the Trustees or a majority of them, upon an application to them in writing, shall discharge from confinement any lunatic or epileptic, upon being satisfied that the cause of such confinement has ceased to exist, and no pauper lunatic or epileptic, who shall have recovered, shall be discharged from the Institution without suitable clothing, and the Trustees may furnish the same at their discretion, together with a sum of money not exceeding ten dollars.

SECTION 16. 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 21, 1850.

AN ACT to incorporate a Bank in the city of Savannah to be called the "Bank of Savannah."

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 Solomon Cohen, Lewis F. Harris, Allen A. Denslow, Isaac W. Morrell, Hiram Roberts, W. W. Starke, Asa Holt, and Henry Lathrop, and their associates and successors, shall be and are hereby incorporated and made a body politic by the name and style of the "Bank of Savannah," to be located at Savannah, in the county of Chatham, and shall continue until the first day of February, 1870, and by that name shall be and are hereby made able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain, to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, hereditaments, so far as may be necessary for the erection of necessary banking houses, and such as have been bona fide mortgaged to it as security, or conveyed to it in satisfaction of debts previously contracted in the course of its dealings, or purchased at sales upon judgments which shall have been obtained for such debts, and the same to sell, grant, demise, alien, or dispose of; to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended in any Court of law or equity in this State or elsewhere, having competent jurisdiction; to make, have, and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and renew at their pleasure; and to make and ordain such by-laws, rules and regulations as they may deem expedient and necessary to carry out the objects of the institution: Provided, Such by-laws, rules and regulations be not repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State, or of the United States.

SECTION 2. The aforesaid Solomon Cohen, Lewis F. Harris, Allen A. Denslow, Isaac W. Morrell, Hiram Roberts, W. W. Starke, Asa Holt, and Henry Lathrop, or any three or more of them, be and they are hereby constituted a Board of Commissioners, whose duty it shall be to open a book of subscription for shares in said company on the fourth day of March, 1850, and shall continue open for three days at such place and for so many hours each day as the said Board of Commissioners may determine on, and any capital stock remaining unsubscribed for at the expiration of said three days, shall be disposed of by said Commissioners, or the Directors to be hereafter chosen, in such manner as they may direct.

SECTION 3. The capital stock of said Bank shall be five hundred thousand dollars, ($500,000) which shall be divided into shares of one hundred dollars, ($100) but the company may commence business as soon as two hundred thousand dollars in specie shall have been paid.

SECTION 4. Upon the expiration of three days hereinbefore allowed for subscribing to the stock of said Bank, it shall be the duty of said Commissioners to convene the stockholders or subscribers by giving ten days' notice in one or more of the public newspapers of Savannah, of the time and place of meeting, who may then or at any time thereaf ter proceed to the election of a Board of seven Directors, under such rules and regulations as they may adopt for that purpose.

SECTION 5. The Directors shall have power to issue to the subscribers their certificates of stock, and no transfer of stock in this company shall be considered as binding upon the company unless entered in a book or books kept for that purpose by the company by personal entry of the stockholder, his legal representative or attorney duly authorized by special power for that purpose: Provided, That no stockholder indebted to the Bank shall transfer his or her stock until all debts due said bank by such stockholder shall be paid.

SECTION 6. The number of votes in electing Directors to which each of the stockholders shall be entitled, shall be according to the number of shares he shall hold, each share to be entitled to one vote, from one to one hundred shares; but no stockholder shall be entitled to more than one hundred votes, and no share or shares (after the first election) shall confer a right of suffrage which shall not have been holden by the person in whose name it appears at least three calendar months previous to the day of election, and unless it be holden by the person in whose name it appears absolutely and bona fide in his own right or in that of his wife, and for his or her sole use and benefit, or as executor, administrator or guardian, or in the right and use of some copartnership, corporation, or society, of which he or she may be a member, and not trust for or to the use of any other person. Any stockholder being absent may authorize by power of attorney under seal any other stockholder to vote for him, her or them.

SECTION 7. None but a stockholder, entitled in his own right (which he shall swear to, if required,) to ten shares of said stock, and not being a Director of any other Bank, shall be eligible as a Director, and if any one of the Directors of said corporation shall after being elected become a Director of any other Bank, or accept of any appointment or office from any other Bank, or cease to be a stockholder, his seat shall thereupon become vacated, and the remaining Directors, or a majority of them, shall upon their next meeting pass and enter upon their minute book an order declaring him to be no longer a Director.

SECTION 8. The Directors so appointed shall at their first meeting thereafter proceed to the appointment of a President from their own body, and the said President and