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42. SEC. I. Be it enacted, &c., That D. B. Sanford is hereby au- D. B. Sanford thorized to continue the work of bringing up the unfinished busi-unfinished ness of the late Clerk of the Supreme Court of this State, until the late Clerk of same is finished, and that he be allowed to retain possession of all Court. papers necessary for the completion of said work, and that he be essary papers. paid therefor, out of any moneys not otherwise appropriated, the same fees for recording, which were allowed by law, to the Clerk Fees for of the Supreme Court, before the adoption of the Code.

recording.

inspect

43. SEC. II. That it shall be the duty of His Excellency, the Governor to Governor, to inspect said work, before the same is paid for. SEC. III. Repeals conflicting laws.

Approved 6th March, 1866.

(No. 7.)

An Act to appropriate money to repair and wind up the State-House
Clock.

and keeping

State House

44. SEC. I. Be it enacted, &c., That the sum of one hundred dol Appropriat❜n. lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be appropriated to for repairing pay some fit and proper person, to be selected by His Excellency in order the the Governor, for repairing the State House Clock, and that said Clock. person selected, shall put in thorough repair said Clock, in all its parts, at as early a day as practicable, and keep it in running order during the year 1866.

45. SEC. II. That the sum of fifty dollars be appropriated to pay such person as His Excellency the Governor may select, for wind-For winding ing up said clock, for the year eighteen hundred and sixty-six.

Approved 28th February, 1866.

SEC. 3. Repeals conflicting laws.

(No. 8.)

An Act to authorize an advance of payment to be made to the Public
Printer, of the present session of the Legislature.

up.

State Printers

46. SEC. I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That the State Treasurer be, and he is hereby authorized and required, to $4000 to be advance to Boughton, Nisbet, Barnes & Moore, State Printers of advanced to the present session of the Legislature, four thousand dollars, upon the warrant of His Excellency the Provisional Governor, or his successor in office.

Approved 21st December, 1866.

(No. 9.)

An Act to authorize and require the Treasurer of this State to make certain advances, and for other purposes.

Advances au

47. SEC. I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That the Treasurer of this State be, and he is hereby authorized and requir-thorized to ed, to make advances to any member of the General Assembly, to officers of the Secretary of the Senate, and Messenger and Doorkeeper, and Limit of

State Bonds.

the Clerk of the House, Messenger and Doorkeper; and in no case to exceed the probable per diem pay and mileage of any member, and the probable per diem of the Secretary of the Senate, Messenger and Doorkeeper, and Clerk of the House, Messenger and Doorkeeper.

SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws.

Approved 5th February, 1866.

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(No. 10.)

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7. Governor may issue bonds for pay.

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8. And in renewal of bonds now due and for interest thereon.

An Act to authorize his Excellency the Governor of this State to issue and negotiate the Bonds of this State, whereby to raise money to meet appropriations made and to be made by the General Assembly, and to provide for the repairs and better equipment of the Western & Atlantic Rail Road, and to relieve the People of this State from the United States Land Tax, and to provide a security for the indebtedness to be created by this Act, and for other purposes therein named.

1. SECTION I. Be it enacted, &c., That for the purpose of raisGovernor an-ing funds to meet appropriations made, and to be made, and for the repairs and equipment of the Western & Atlantic Rail Road, his Excellency, the Governor, is hereby authorized to issue and negotiate Bonds of this State for an aggregate amount of one and a half millions of dollars. Said bonds to bear interest at a rate Mation of inter not exceeding seven per cent. per annum, payable semi-annually, at such place or places as he may choose to designate. The said andoomable. bonds shall run for a period of not longer than thirty years, and may be, if the Governor so directs, redeemable in not less than five nor longer than twenty years, at the option of the State, and known as "Five Twenties," or of such other form as he may deem most desirable.

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2. SEC. II. The said Bonds shall be signed by his Excellency the Bid and Governor, and countersigned by the Comptroller General, and by him to be registered in a Book to be kept for that purpose. If Coupons are attached, they shall be signed by the Treasurer, or some one appointed by the Governor to perform that service.

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said Bonds, the Governor is authorized to employ an Agent, or Ante tone Agents, to visit such place or places as he may direct, and to empower such Agent to make the negotiation upon such terms, and with such limitations, as the Governor may instruct, not inconsistent with the provisions of this Act.

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4. SEC. IV. For the payment of the interest on said Bonds, and for the creation of a sinking fand to discharge the principal of the same, there shall be annually set apart and pledged, so much of Income of w the income of the Western & Atlantic Rail Road, as will amount for payment of interest, & to the annual interest, and three per cent upon the principal debt, creation of which pledge shall be incorporated in the Bonds aforesaid; and the said sinking fund shall be invested, from time to time, in the purchase and cancellation of said Bonds, or in such securities as the Legislature may direct. But should his Excellency the Governor find it impolitic, or not desirable, to provide such sinking fund, or pledge the income of the said Road, or he prefer to give other or additional security, then the Superintendent and Auditor of the Western & Atlantic Rail Road shall, on request of the Governor, make and execute to three Trustees, to be appointed by him, mortgage upon said Road, its appurtenances and franchises, R may be which said mortgage shall be a lien upon the same for the secu-security of ty and benefit of the Boud holders, and may be enforced against the said Western & Atlantic Rail Road as a corporation. On failure of the State to redeem said Bonds, or to pay the interest as it falls due, said Trustees shall proceed to foreclose and enforce said mortgage. mortgage lien whenever requested to do so by any holder of said Bonds, where the same are over due, or the interest is unpaid.

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5. SEC. V. That the limitation heretofore placed by an Ordi- Limitation on nance of the Convention limiting the discount of certain Bonds discount of authorized by said Convention to be issued, is hereby removed, removed. and said Bonds shall, or may be, negotiated upon like terms and conditions, as the Bonds authorized by this Act, to be issued.

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6. SEC. VI. That all laws heretofore passed appropriating the Laws approincome of the Western & Atlantic Rail Road for other purposes, come of W& be and the same are hereby repealed, except in such cases where pealed the repeal of the same would operate as a violation of contract; Provided, That nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to And Proviso. repeal an act to provide for the education of the children of this State between certain ages, and to provide an annual sinking fund for the extinguishment of the public debt, assented to December 11th, 1858, but the nett income appropriated by said act shall not be paid until the interest on State Bonds, and the three per cent. sinking fund, shall be first set aside.

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7. SEC. VII. That his Excellency, the Governor, is hereby authorized to issue and negotiate Bonds, to the amount of six hundred Bonds author thousand dollars, at such time and rate of interest, not exceeding sued for pay seven per cent., as he may find necessary and proper, for the pur. Land tax. pose of paying to the Government of the United States, the Land Tax about to be levied on the People of the State of Georgia,

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in behalf of the Government of the United States, said tax amounting to five hundred and eighty-four thousand, three hundred and sixty-seven dollars and thirty-three cents, and interest which may be due thereon.

8. SEC. VIII. That his Excellency, the Governor, is hereby authorized to issue bonds in renewal of Bonds now due, and interest thereon, amounting, in the aggregate, principal and interest, to the sum of eight hundred and thirty thousand, five hundred and fifty dollars; the Bonds so issued by virtue of this Seetion, to bear the same rate of interest, to be payable at the same time, and to be covered by the same security, as the Bonds authorized to be issued in the first Section of this Act.

SEC. IX. Repeals conflicting laws.
Approved 12th March, 1866.

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Section 1. General Assembly-Repeals Sec. Section 26. Acts void against creditors. Assign

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16. Section 1350 amended.

17. Wood, timber, &e. Inspector or measurer when guilty of misdemeanor. Penalty.

18. Weights and measures. See. 1528 suspended in counties having no standards of weights, &c.

19. Drains and ditches. Owner of land may extend drain or ditch through adjoining land. Compensation to be made. Award of.

20. Corporations, creation of, "Inferior Court" stricken out, term may be twenty years.

21. Ten per cent of capital stock must be paid in; corporators must exercise powers granted in two years; liability of stockholders. 22. Declaration to be made by appli cant, specifying objects, &c., to be filed, record and publication of. 23. Sections 1630 and 1631 repealed. 24. Marriage. Part of Section 1655 repealed.

25. Guardians. Maintenance and education of wards, binding out orphans.

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ment in trust by insolvent debtor27. Property exempt from sale. Exemptions, &c., extended to intestate insolvent estates.

28. Section 2021 amended, as to wife or widow and children of debtor. 29. Executors. Section 2416 amended as to resigning trusts.

30. Administrators, &c. Unrepresentad estates; when Ordinary to vest administration in Clerk or other proper person, bond, proviso. 31. Rules in Section 2461 to govern Ordinary, proviso.

32. Preference when good security offered.

33. Administrator to appraise all real estate in the county.

34. To return real estate lying without the county.

Where estate to be kept together, appraisers appointed to set apart year's support may act for subsequent years, or Ordinary may appoint others.

36. Aliens. May hold lands, conditions, failing to improve, tax, how collected, overplus from sale of lands. Proviso.

37. Bail, &c. Defendant removing or about to remove.

38. Garnishment. Or exeeutors and administrators.

39. Fees of Sheriffs. For arresting under warrant from the Executive, and delivering fugitives from justice. 40. Mortgages. Publication of rule ni si for foreclosure of, on real estate in Chatham county.

41, Proceedings against tenants. Possessory warrants, how directed. 42. Tenant must give bond in double the rent, to arrest proceedings, or make oath of poverty.

43. Bond required.

44. Section 4792 amended.

45. Proceedings on ground that rent is due and unpaid.

46. Verdict and judgment.

47. Certain provisions to apply to all rentals of real estate in the State of Georgia.

48. Forcible Entry and Detainer. When Justice of the Peace may draw Jury from adjoining district.

(No. 11.)

An Act to repeal Paragraph 183 of Part 1st, Title 4th, Chapter 1st of the Code of Georgia.

1. SECTION I. Be it enacted, &c., That Paragraph 183 of Part 1st,

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