SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the above-named trustees shall continue in office until the third Saturday in October next, when the male members of the said Church shall, at their usual place of worship, proceed to the election of seven trustees for the year thence ensuing; and on the Saturday preceding the third Sabbath in October in each and every year thereafter, or as soon thereafter as shall be convenient, an election shall be held in like manner; any member of the board shall be re-eligible, written notice being put up at the door of the Church by any one or more of the members of the board, at least ten days previous to the day fixed on for such election; the trustees to continue in office until their successors shall be elected.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That any vacancies which may occur in said board by death, resignation, or removal, or otherwise, may be filled by a majority of the remaining members of said board.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the said trustees of the above-said Church shall also be the trustees of the Male and Female Academy, erected on the said lot on which the above Church is established, and they, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to appoint such officers and to make and ordain such by-laws and regulations as they may deem necessary and proper for carrying into effect the provisions of this act, and for the management of the temporal affairs of said Church, and for the pecuniary and literary interest of said Academy, with the privilege of using separate and distinct seals as trustees of the said Church and Academy; Provided, always, that such by-laws and regulations be not repugnant to the constitution and laws of this State.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That Francis S. Martin, Joseph R. Martin, Wiley F. Martin, Charles Johns, and John Aikins, Jun., and their successors in office be, and they are hereby declared to be a body corporate by the name and style of the Trustees of the United Baptist Church at Zebulon, in the county of Pike, with power to hold any property, either real or personal, which may now belong to or be hereafter acquired by the said Church, whether by purchase, gift, or bequest, with all the privileges and immunities thereunto belonging, for the use and benefit of the said Church: they are hereby declared capable of suing and being sued, and of using all legal means for defending and recovering any prop

be prescribed by law, and shall continue in office until their successors shall be elected and qualified; removable by the Governor on the address of two-thirds of both branches of the General Assembly for that purpose, or by impeachment and conviction thereon. The said Court shall have no original jurisdiction, but shall be a Court alone for the trial and correction of errors in law and equity from the Superior Courts of the several circuits; and shall sit at least once a year, at a time to be prescribed by law, in each of five Judicial Districts to be hereafter laid off and designated by the Legislature for that purpose, at the most central point in each Judicial District, or at such other point in each district as shall by the General Assembly be ordained for the trial and determination of writs of error from the several Superior Courts included in such Judicial Districts. And the said Court shall at each session in each district dispose of and finally determine each and every case on the docket of such Court at the first term after such writ of error brought; and in case the plaintiff in error in any such case shall not be prepared at such first term of said Court after error brought to prosecute the same, unless precluded by some providential cause from such prosecution, it shall be stricken from the docket, and the judgment below shall stand affirmed. The Judges of the Superior Courts shall be elected for the term of four years, and shall continue in office until their successors shall be elected and qualified; removable by the Governor on the address of two-thirds of both branches of the General Assembly for that purpose, or by impeachment and conviction thereon. The Superior Courts shall have exclusive jurisdiction in all criminal cases (except as relates to people of colour, and fines for neglect of duty, and for contempt of court, for violations against road-laws, and for obstructing water-courses, which shall be vested in such judicature or tribunal as shall be or may have been pointed out by law; and except in all other minor offences committed by free white persons, and which do not subject the offender or offenders to loss of life, limb, or member, or to confinement in the penitentiary: in all such cases, Corporation Courts, such as now exist or may hereafter be constituted in any incorporated city, being a seaport-town and port of entry, may be vested with jurisdiction under such rules and regulations as the Legislature may hereafter by law direct), which shall be tried in the county where the crime was committed, and in all cases respecting titles to land, which shall be tried in the county where the land lies; and also concurrent jurisdiction in all other civil cases; and shall have power to correct errors in Inferior Judicatories.by

writ of certiorari, and to grant new trials in said Superior Courts on proper and legal grounds; and in all cases where a new trial shall be so allowed, the Judge allowing the same shall enter on the minutes of said Court his reasons for the same. And the said Superior Courts shall have appellatu jurisdiction in such other cases as may be pointed out by law in cases arising in Inferior Judicatories, which shall in no case tend to remove the cause from the county in which the action originated.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JACOB 'WOOD,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, December, 1834.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

AN ACT to alter and amend the fourth and eighth sections of the first article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.

Whereas, the fourth section of the first article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia reads in the following words, viz.-No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and have been nine years a citizen of the United States, and three years an inhabitant of this State, and shall have usually resided within the county for which he shall be returned at least one year immediately preceding his election, (except persons who may have been absent on public business of this State or of the United States), and is and shall have been possessed in his own right of a settled freehold estate of the value of five hundred dollars, or of taxable property to the amount of one thousand dollars within the county for one year preceding his election, and whose estate shall, on a reasonable estimation, be fully competent to the discharge of his just debts, over and above that sum.

And whereas the 8th section reads in the following words, viz.-No person shall be a representative who shall not have

attained to the age of twenty-one years and have been seven years a citizen of the United States, three years an inhabitant of this State, and have usually resided in the county in which he shall be chosen one year immediately preceding his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of this State or of the United States, and shall be possessed in his own right of a settled freehold estate of the value of two hundred and fifty dollars, or of taxable property to the amount of five hundred dollars within the county for one year preceding his election, and whose estate shall, on a reasonable estimation, be competent to the discharge of his debts over and above that sum.

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 soon as this act shall have passed agreeable to the Constitution of this State, the following shall be adopted in lieu of the said fourth and eighth sections :

The fourth section shall read as follows, viz.-No person shall be a Senator who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-five years, and have been nine years a citizen of the United States, and three years an inhabitant of this. State, and shall have usually resided within the county for which he shall be returned at least one year immediately preceding his election, except persons who may have been absent on lawful business of this State or of the United States.

And the 8th section shall be as follows:--No person shall be a Representative who shall not have attained to the age of twenty-one years, and have been a citizen of the United States seven years, and three years an inhabitant of this State, and have usually, resided in the county in which he shall be chosen one year immediately preceding his election, unless he shall have been absent on the public business of this State or of the United States.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

JACOB WOOD,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, Dec. 1834.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

COUNTIES.

AN ACT to add one hundred and one in the Seventh District of originally Baldwin, now Jones county, to the county of Bibb.

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 immediately after the passing of this act the said fraction number one hundred and one, in the said Seventh District of originally Baldwin, now Jones county, be added to and become a part of the county of Bibb.

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 add a part of the county of Murray to the county of Cass.

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 por