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they as Trustees for educational purposes, may proceed to organize themselves and appoint all necessary officers to carry into effect the objects of their incorporation, and shall hold their office of Trustees as aforesaid, till successors shall be elected as hereinafter provided for.

SECTION 2, And be it further enacted, That the Trustees and their successors in office, under the name and style aforesaid, may use a common seal, and shall be capable of sueing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded; also, to have, take, possess and acquire by gift, grant or purchase, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and other estates, and the same to use, have, improve and convey in fee simple.

SECTION 3. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees aforesaid and their successors in office, be empowered to receive all gifts, grants, legacies, privileges and immunities which may be made or bequeathed to it, the said Madison Collegiate Institute; and that no misnomer of the corporation or other technical error, shall prevent its rights from vesting when it may appear, or shall be ascertained that it was the intention of the party or parties to give, grant or bequeath any property, real or personal, or any rights or interests to the corporation.

SECTION 4. And be it further enacted, That said Collegiate Institute being the property of a number of persons upon the joint stock principle, they the said persons owning stock as aforesaid, (the said fact of their being stockholders to be evidenced by scrip, to be issued in the name of the corpo ration as aforesaid, in shares of twenty-five dollars each share) shall convene annually at Madison in Morgan county, in said State, on such day as may be designated, and proceed to the election of not less than seven, nor more than twenty-one Trustees, a majority of whom shall be members. of the Baptist Church in good standing, in which said election each stockholder shall be entitled to one vote for each share of twenty-five dollars, of which he or she may be the owner, and may cast such vote or votes by proxy, under such rules and regulations as may be provided for that purpose; that said Collegiate Institute shall be under the management and control of the Trustees as aforesaid, who shall annually make a full report of its condition to the stockholders, said Trustees having the power from time to time, to fix the number of their body necessary to constitute a quorum for business, provided the same shall never be less than one third the number elect for the time being.

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SECTION 5. And be it further enacted, That said Trustees and their successors in office shall have power and authority to make all such laws, rules and regulations for the government of said Collegiate Institute as they may deem fit and proper; Provided, Nothing in said by-laws, rules and regu

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SECTION 6. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees aforesaid, and their successors in office, in their corporate character and name, shall have perpetual succession, and where any vacancy shall occur in their number by death, resignation or otherwise, intermediate the annual election as aforesaid, the remaining Trustees, or a majority of them, may fill such vacancy till the next ensuing annual meeting of the stockholders.

SECTION 7. And be it further enacted, That the President or Principal of said Collegiate Institute as the case may be, by and with the consent of the Trustees, shall have power to confer all such honors, degrees and license, as are usually conferred in Colleges or Universities, and shall preside at all ..the public exercises of the said Collegiate Institute. Approved, January 17, 1850.

AN ACT to incorporate the Southern Central Baptist University of Georgia, at Dalton.

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 Joseph S. Baker, John Crawford, E. U. Galt, D. A. Walker, J. W. Cates, D. S. Anderson, A. E. Vandiver, Duff Green, G. W. Selvedge, Z. H. Gordon, C. C. Hammond, J. H. B. Shackelford, J. C. Green, E. Dyer, B. F. Porter, R. U. Aycock, U. A. Cooper, A. R. Wright, A. Webb, R. Fleming, J. W. Lewis, and W. U. Crawford, and their successors in office, shall be and they are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate by the name and style of "The Southern Central Baptist University of Georgia," and as such shall be capable and liable in law to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, and shall be authorized to use a common seal, and to make by-laws and regulations for the government of said University, not inconsistent with the Constitution and laws of this State or of the United States.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees, or any nine of them, who shall constitute a quorum, shall be authorized to appoint such officers as they may think proper for their own body and for the government and management of the said University: Provided, The Chairman and Managers of the Southern Education Society shall have power to confirm or annul such appointment.

SECTION 3. The said Trustees shall have authority to confer literary degrees.

SECTION 4. The said Trustees shall continue in office for

one year, and until their successors be elected and qualified.

SECTION 5. That the Chairman and Managers of the Southern Education Society, and they only, are qualified to vote for Trustees of the said University, and they may hold an election on the first Monday of July of each year, or at such time thereafter as they may determine.

SECTION 6. The said Board of Trustees shall be capable of holding all manner of property, real and personal, with all the rights, powers and privileges that are necessary and proper to enable them to use the same, or to make it available for the proper use, and benefit of said University. Approved, February 14, 1850.

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AN ACT to make valid all commissions which have heretofore been or may hereafter be issued in blank for the purpose of taking testimony in any case arising or which may have arisen in the Courts of Law and Equity of this State.

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 from and after the passage of this act, all commissions which have heretofore been, or may hereafter be issued in blank for the purpose of taking testimony in any case pending, or arising in the Courts of Law and Equity in this State, shall be valid and as effectual as if the names of the Commissioners had been inserted by the officer issuing the same.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, February 13, 1850.

AN ACT to alter and amend an act entitled an act to lay off and divide the State into eight Congressional Districts, and to point out the mode of electing members to Congress in each District, and to provide against illegal voting, assented to December 23d, 1843.

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 from and after the passage of this act, the county of Scriven shall be added to and compose a part of the First Congressional District, that the counties of Butts Jasper, Jones and Wilkinson shall be added to and compose a part of

the Third Congressional District, that the counties of Harris and DeKalb shall be added to and compose a part of the Fourth Congressional District, that the counties of Union and Lumpkin shall be added to and compose a part of the Fifth Congressional District, that the county of Newton shall be added to and compose a part of the Sixth Congressional District, that the counties of Hancock, Washington and Laurens shall be added to and compose a part of the Seventh Congressional District, and that the county. of Elbert shall be added to and compose a part of the Eighth Congressional District.

SECTION 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be and the same are hereby repealed.

Approved, February 22, 1850.

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AN ACT to regulate the mode of election of Constables in the city of Savannah, and to repeal so much of an act assented to 23d of December, 1831, as relates to the election of Constables in said city.

SEC. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in Ge neral Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That so much of the act entitled an act to repeal the first section of an act to make Constables elective by the people and the mode of taking their bonds, and to point out their duties in certain cases, passed twenty-second of December, 1829, so far as the said act regulates the mode of electing said Constables in the county of Chatham, assented to December, 1831, as authorizes the Justices of the Inferior Court to elect Constables for the first, second, third and fourth districts, G. M., which compose the city of Savannah, be and the same is hereby repealed.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the expiration of the term of the Constables now in office, on the third Monday in February next, and every three years thereafter, that each Justice of the Peace for the first, second, third and fourth districts, G. M., composing the oity of Savannah, shall nominate and appoint one person who must be a resident of said city, to the office of Constable for the term of three years then next ensuing, which person so nominated shall give bond and security to be approved by the Justices of the Inferior Court, as now provided by law.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That in case a vacancy in the office of Constable, by death, resignation or otherwise, that the Magistrate by whom he was appointed, or his successor in office, shall appoint some fit and

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Approved, December 8, 1849.

AN ACT to alter and amend the sixth section and third article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia. WHEREAS the sixth section of the third article of the Constitution of this State reads in the following words, to wit: The powers of a Court of Ordinary or register of probates shall be vested in the Inferior Courts of each county, from whose decision there may be an appeal to the Superior Court under such restrictions and regulations as the General Assembly may by law direct. But the Inferior Court shall have power to vest the care of the records and other proceedings therein in the Clerk or such other person as they may appoint, and any one or more Justices of the said Court, with such Clerk or other person, may issue citations and grant temporary letters in time of vacation to hold until the next meeting of the said Court, and such Clerk or other person may grant marriage licenses.

SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Rep resentatives 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 agreeably to the requirements of the Constitution the following shall be adopted in lieu of the section above recited, to wit: The powers of a Court of Ordinary or register of probates shall be vested in. an Ordinary for each county, from whose decisions there may be an appeal to the Superior Court under such restrictions and regulations as may be or may have been prescribed by law. The said Ordinary shall be ex officio Clerk of said Court and may appoint a deputy clerk. The Ordinary as Clerk, or his deputy, may issue citations and grant temporary letters of administration to hold until permanent letters are granted, and said Ordinary as Clerk, or his deputy may grant marriage licenses. The Ordinaries in and for the respective counties, shall be elected as other county officers are, on the first Monday in January, eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and every fourth year thereafter, and shall be commissioned by the Governor for the term of four years. In case of a vacancy in said office of Ordinary, from any cause, the same shall be filled by election as is provided in relation to other county officers, and until the same is filled, the

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