agreeable to an act passed the 29th December, 1832, each precinct shall only elect one Commissioner, who shall perform all and every duty assigned to the three; and that the amount of tax paid, as prescribed by the aforerecited act, shall be reduced from five dollars down to two dollars.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws or parts of laws militating with this act be, and the same is hereby repealed.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JACOB WOOD,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, 20th December, 1834.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

AN ACT to legalize the acts of the late Senatus Academicus at their session in November, 1834, and to make certain grants mentioned therein valid and receivable in evidence in the several Courts of Justice in this State.

Whereas a majority of the Trustees of the University of Georgia did not attend, on the second Monday in November at Milledgeville, the meeting of the Senatus Academicus; in consequence of which the Senatus Academicus was not organized, and no meeting of that body was held; but in order that the business connected with the college should be transacted, and that the University should not be embarrassed by the non-attendance of a quorum of the Board of Trust, the Board of Visiters, together with such of the Trustees of the University as were in attendance, did organize themselves into a body and informally transact the business connected with the College, the County Academies,

and Poor Schools, ordinarily devolving upon the Senatus Academicus; and whereas the acts of said body have not the force and effect of law, 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 same, That all acts done, and proceedings had, by the Senate of the State of Georgia as a Board of Visiters, together with a minority of the Board of Trustees of the University of Georgia, on the second Monday in November, 1834, at Milledgeville, in relation to the interests and affairs of the University of Georgia and the Poor Schools and Academies of this State be, and they are hereby declared to be valid, and of as full force and effect in law as if said acts and proceedings were had by the Senatus Academicus, regularly organized and in session according to law.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passing of this act all grants held by any person or persons, which grants were signed and registered under the signature of Hamilton B. Gaither as Deputy-secretary of State, or Hamilton B. Gaither for William A. Tennille, Secretary of State, shall be good and valid in law and equity, and receivable in evidence in the several courts of justice in this State.

SEC. 3. And that all laws militating against this act be, and the same are hereby repealed.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives,

JACOB WOOD,

President of the Senate,

Assented to, 20th December, 1834.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

APPROPRIATIONS.

AN ACT to appropriate money for the support of Government for the political year eighteen hundred and thirtyfive.

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 following sums of money be, and the same are hereby appropriated for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-five, viz.-

The salary of his Excellency the Governor shall be three thousand dollars per annum.

The Secretaries of the Governor, not exceeding three, one thousand dollars each per annum.

The Secretary of State, two thousand dollars.

The Treasurer, two thousand dollars.

The Comptroller, two thousand dollars.

The Surveyor General, two thousand dollars.

The Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate, six hundred dollars each per annum; Provided, no warrant shall issue for the first quarter salary of the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives, until the Executive shall have satisfactory evidence that the said Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives have respectively made or caused to be made and attached to the Journals of the present session good and sufficient indices.

The Judges of the Superior Courts, each twenty-one hundred dollars.

The Attorney General, and nine Solicitors General, two hundred and twenty-five dollars each per annum.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the printing-fund not exceeding twenty thousand dollars, and the further sum of twenty thousand dollars be, and the same are hereby appropriated and set apart as a contingent fund, subject to the order of the Governor, during the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-five.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for the compensation of the Members of the Legislature, four dollars each per day, during their attendance; Provided, that nothing herein shall be so construed as to authorize any member of either branch of the General Assembly to receive said four dollars after they have left the Legislature for the remainder of the session-be appropriated, and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles in coming to and returning from the seat of Government; the sum of six dollars each per day to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives during their attendance; and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles in coming to and returning from the seat of Government.

To the Clerk of the House of Representatives and Secretary of the Senate, during the session of the Legislature, six dollars each per day, and the sum of sixty dollars each for contingent expenses,

To two engrossing Clerks, assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives, and two engrossing and one enrolling Clerk of the Senate, six dollars each per day.

To the Clerk of the Committee on Finance, one hundred dollars.

To the Clerk of the Committee on the State of the Republic, one hundred dollars.

To the Clerk of the Committee on Agriculture and Internal Improvement, one hundred dollars.

To the Clerk of the Judiciary Committee, one hundred dollars.

To the Clerk of the Committee on Public Education and Free-schools, one hundred and fifty dollars.

To the Clerk of the Committee on the Penitentiary, one hundred dollars.

To the Messengers and Door-keepers of the Legislature, four dollars each per day during the present session.

To Peter Fair the sum of one hundred dollars, for airing, scouring, and taking care of the Senate and Representative Chambers, and making fires on wet days.

To Peter Fair the sum of one hundred dollars, for winding up the clock, and keeping clean the staircases, &c.; and for sweeping out the gutters to the State House, twenty-five dollars.

To the Inspectors of the Penitentiary, not exceeding three, two hundred and twenty-four dollars each per annum.

And the sum of four hundred dollars to the Secretary of State to defray the expense of a clerk in his office.

Also, the sum of fifteen hundred and eleven dollars and sixteen cents to the Corporation of Savannah, to reimburse the

expenditures made by that Corporation in the enforcement of the Quarantine Laws for the past year; and the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the erection of a Lazarretto in or near the city of Savannah, to be paid to the Mayor and Aldermen of said city,-by them to be applied to said purpose, agreeable to a concurred resolution.

To Thomas Haynes, Esq. Treasurer, the sum of three hundred dollars, as compensation for extra services in arranging the papers of his office, they having been deranged in consequence of the fire last winter.

And the sum of two thousand four hundred and fifteen dollars and fifty four cents for extra work done on the State House, it having cost that amount above the appropriation made by the last Legislature.

And the sum of four hundred dollars to the Surveyor General, to defray the expense of Clerk hire.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eight thousand two hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated to complete the cell building in the Penitentiary, for enlarging work-shops, and procuring wagon and carriage timber for said institution.

For building an addition to the south end of the State House, to correspond with that on the north, so as to render the building uniform; and for covering said addition with copper, as recommended in the annual Message of his Excellency the Governor, the sum of twelve thousand five hundred dollars.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the sum of thirty dollars be appropriated to pay the court cost of a suit against John H. Broadnax, in favour of the State, in Troup Superior Court.

To Abraham Stephens, tax collector of Wilkinson county, the sum of fourteen dollars and fourteen cents for his insolvent list for 1833.

And the sum of five hundred dollars to Willam G. Springer, agreeably to a concurred resolution.

The sum of three thousand dollars for the education of the deaf and dumb, agreeably to a concurred resolution.

And three thousand dollars for such compilations of the laws of Georgia as may be requisite to furnish the newly acquired Territory, and such other deficiencies as may occur in the old counties of the State.

And the sum of one hundred dollars for William Grant, agreeably to a concurred resolution.

To a slave by the name of Peter, the property of Peter J.