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Clerk of the Superior Court, for the time being, shall act as
Clerk of said Court of Ordinary.
Approved, February 23, 1850.

AN ACT to alter and amend the twelfth section of the second article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia. WHEREAS the twelfth section of the second article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia, reads in the following words, to wit:"There shall be a Secretary of State, a Treasurer and Surveyor General appointed in the same manner and at the same session of the Legislature, and they shall hold their office for the like period as the Governor, and shall have a competent salary, including such emoluments as may be established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during the period for which they shall have been elected."

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 aforesaid, That as 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: There shall be a Secretary of State, a Treasurer and Surveyor General, who shall be elected by the persons entitled to vote for Governor of this State, and at the same time that the Governor of this State is now elected, and under the same rules and regulations as are now pointed out in the second section of the second article of the Constitution of this State for the election of Governor; and no person shall be eligible to the said offices, who shall not have been a citizen of the United States ten years, and a resident inhabitant of this State six years previous to his election; and they shall hold their offices for the like period as the Governor, and shall have a competent salary, including such emoluments as may be established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during the period for which they shall have been elected; and when any of the said offices shall become vacant by death, resig nation or otherwise, the Governor shall have power to fill such vacancy, and persons so appointed shall continue in office until a successor is elected and qualified agreeably to the mode hereinafter pointed out; and when a vacancy shall happen in any of said offices, the Governor shall within ten days thereafter, give notice of the same in at least five of the public gazettes of this State, and order an election to be had and held as hereinbefore directed to fill such vacancy, and the Governor shall have the same published at least

thirty days before the day on which the election shall be had and held; and any of the said officers shall by sentence of impeachment, or upon the address of two-thirds of each branch of the General Assembly, be removed by the Gov

ernor.

Approved, February 1, 1850.

AN ACT to alter and amend the Twelfth section of the Second article of the Constitution of this State.

WHEREAS the twelfth section of the second article of the Constitution of this State reads in the following words, to wit: "There shall be a Secretary of State, a Treasurer and Surveyor General, appointed in the same manner and at the same session of the Legislature, and they shall hold their offices for the like period as the Governor, and shall have a competent salary, including such emoluments as may be established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during the period for which they shall have been elected." And whereas, the amendment of the second section of the second article of the Constitution, by which the power of electing a Governor of the State is conferred upon the people, renders the above recited section ambiguous and obscure in its meaning. And whereas there exists no provision in law for the election of a Comptroller General, for remedy whereof,

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 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: "There shall be a Secretary of State, a Treasurer, a Comptroller General" and a Surveyor General elected at the same time and in the same manner as the Governor, who shall hold their offices during the time for which he is elected, and shall have a competent salary, including such emoluments as may be established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished. during their term of office; and the returns of said election shall be made to the General Assembly in the same manner as the returns for Governor, and shall be disposed of according to the provisions of the second section of this article. Approved, February 22, 1850.

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AN ACT to alter and amend the third section of the first article of the Constitution 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 as soon as this bill shall be passed agreeably to the requirements of the Constitution, the following shall be adopted in lieu of so much of the third section of the first article of the Constitution as relates to the Senate: The Senate shall be composed of one Senator from each county, chosen biennially by the electors thereof on the first Monday in October, until the day of election is altered by law.

Approved, February 11, 1850.

AN ACT to alter and amend the third section of the third article of the Constitution of the State of Georgia.

WHEREAS the third section of the third article of the Constitution of this State reads in the following words, to wit: There shall be a States Attorney and Solicitors appointed by the Legislature and commissioned by the Governor, who shall hold their offices for the term of four years, unless removed by sentence or impeachment, or by the Governor on the address of two-thirds of each branch of the General Assembly; they shall have salaries adequate to their services established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during their continuance in office :

SECTION 1. Be it therefore 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 as 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: There shall be a State's Attorney and Solicitor elected by the persons entitled to vote for members of the Legislature, in such number and at such time as the Legislature may direct, who shall be commissioned by the Governor, and hold their offices for the term of four years, unless removed by sentence. or impeachment, or by the Governor on the address of twothirds of each branch of the General Assembly; they shall have salaries adequate to their services established by law, which shall not be increased or diminished during their continuance in office: and when any vacancy shall happen by death, resignation or otherwise, the Governor shall have power to fill such vacancy, and persons so appointed shall continue in office until a successor is appointed and qualified in such manner as the Legislature may direct; and noperson shall be eligible to said office who shall not have been a citizen of the United States ten years, and a citizen

of this State five years, and a resident inhabitant of the circuit or district for which he may be elected at least one year before he is elected to said office.

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AN ACT to alter and amend the first paragraph of the seventh section of the first article of the Constitution of this State. WHEREAS the first paragraph of the seventh section of the first article of the Constitution of this State, as amended in 1842 and 1843, provides that the House of Representatives shall be composed of one hundred and thirty members; each county shall have one representative, and no county shall have more than two representatives; thirty-seven counties, having the greatest population, counting all free white persons and three-fifths of the people of color, shall have two representatives, &c.:

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 so soon as this bill shall have passed in accordance with the . requirements of the Constitution, the following shall be adopted in lieu of the first paragraph of the seventh section of the first article of the Constitution, to wit: The House of Representatives shall be as follows-Each county shall have one representative, and no county shall have more than two representatives; thirty-seven counties, having the greatest population, counting all free white persons and threefifths of the people of colour, shall have two representatives; the said apportionment shall be made by the General Assembly at the session next after each future enumeration of the inhabitants of this State made under the Constitution and laws thereof, but at no other time. Approved, February 23, 1850.

AN ACT to add an additional section to the first article of the Constitution.

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 aforesaid, That so soon as this act shall have passed agreeably to the provisions of the Constitution for altering the same, the following shall be an additional section of the first article thereof:

The Legislature shall have no power by bill, ordinance, or resolution, to incorporate any church, academy, school, literary, religious, or benevolent society or association, or any other society or association, manufacturing company, military company, ice company, fire company, theatre company, hotel company, bridge or ferry company, nor to change the names of any persons, nor to legitimate illegitimate children, nor to change the places of holding precinct elections in the several counties, nor to incorporate towns, cities or villages, other than seaport towns and ports of entry, nor to compensate grand or petit jurors; but the powers herein before enumerated shall be exercised by the Superior or Inferior Courts, or both, as the Legislature may provide, after this act shall have passed agreeably to the provisions of the Constitution; and it shall be the duty of the Legislature to pass such act or acts as may be necessary to carry into effect this provision of the Constitution, prescribing the manner in which such powers shall be exercised and the corporate powers to be exercised under charters which may be granted by said Courts.

Approved, February 22, 1850.

AN ACT to authorize and require the Governor of the State of Georgia to call a Convention of the people of this State, and to appropriate money for the same.

WHEREAS the non-slaveholding States have for a series of years perseveringly interfered most wrongfully with the institution of slavery at the South, by such aggressive measures of intolerance as to render it no longer a question of doubt that the Federal Legislature will soon adopt such restrictive measures against the institution of slavery as to trammel, fetter, and confine it within certain geographical limits never contemplated by the original parties to the constitutional compact and whereas Georgia, in her sovereign capacity as a State, has delegated no other power to the Federal Government than those found in the Constitution of the United States, and believing that her best interests, and her honor as a sovereign and independent government, require that she should meet all encroachments in a calm and manly spirit of resistance:

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 should the Congress of the United States pass any law prohibiting slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory of the United States, or any law abolishing slavery in the District of Columbia, or any law prohibiting the slave trade between the States where slavery may exist, or admit into the

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