AN ACT to make permanent the public buildings in the town of Cuthbert in Randolph county, and to incorporate

the same.

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 public buildings in the town of Cuthbert in the county of Randolph be, and the same are hereby declared the permanent seat of justice for said county.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That on the first Saturday in February, eighteen hundred and thirty-five, and on the first Saturday in February in every year thereafter, all free white male persons in the corporate limits of said town of Cuthbert, as hereafter prescribed, who are entitled to vote for members of the General Assembly, shall assemble at the courthouse in said town, and by ballot elect five commissioners, who shall continue in office for one year, or until their successors are elected; at which election one or more magistrates shall preside; and in case of resignation, removal, or death of any of said commissioners, the remaining commissioners shall have power to fill such vacancy for the time being.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the corporate authority and jurisdiction of said commissioners shall be extended to and be exercised over all lots which now are or which may hereafter be laid out within said town.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to pass all by-laws and ordinances which they, or a majority of them, may deem necessary and expedient for the well government and good order of said town, to lay and collect a tax for the support of said town, and do all other things as bodies corporate which may not be repugnant to the constitution of this State, or the United States, or the laws thereof.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That if said election for commissioners on the first Saturday in February next, or on the first Saturday in February in any subsequent year thereafter, should not take place as prescribed by this act, it shall

be lawful for said election to be held on any other day, ten days' notice of the same being given by a Justice of the Peace or one of the commissioners.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JACOB WOOD,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, 18th Dec. 1834.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

RESOLUTIONS

WHICH

ORIGINATED IN THE SENATE..

IN SENATE.

Resolved, That both branches of the Legislature meet in the House of Representatives on Wednesday next, the 19th Nov. at ten o'clock, for the purpose of electing two Senators to represent the State of Georgia in the Senate of the United States; one for the term of six years, commencing the 4th March, 1835; and also one to supply the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of the Hon. John Forsyth.

In Senate, agreed to, 13th Nov. 1834.

JACOB WOOD,

President of the Senate.

Attest--JOHN A. CUTIIBERT, Secretary.

In House of Representatives,

Concurred in, 18th Nov. 1834.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest-JOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk.

Approved, Nov. 19th, 1834.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

IN SENATE.

Resolved, That his Excellency the Governor be requested, and he is hereby authorized to appoint two Attorneys to assist the Attorney General in prosecuting the scire facias which has been instituted, by the order of this State, against the Merchants' and Planters' Bank of the city of Augusta

In Senate, agreed to, 21st Nov. 1834.

JACOB WOOD,

President of the Senate.

Attest-JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary.

In the House of Representatives, read and

Concurred in, 27th Nov. 1834.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest-JOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk.

Approved, Nov. 29th, 1834.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

IN SENATE.

The committee to whom was referred the petition of Benjamin F. Johnson, praying remuneration for injury sustained in receiving bills on the Bank of Macon in payment for services rendered as Surveyor of the twelfth district, in the second section of Cherokee county, have had the same under