AN ACT to alter and amend an act [entitled "an act] to incorporate the Savannah, Ogechee and Alatamaha Canal Company," passed on the twenty-sixth December, eighteen hundred and twenty-six, to authorize the said.company to extend the proposed canal to the waters of the Flint and Chattahoochie rivers, and an increase of the capital of the Company; and to vest the debt now due by the Company to the State in the stock of the said Company.

Sec. 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' the capital stock of the Savannah, Ogechee and Alatamaha Canal Company, may be extended [increased] to a sum not exceeding two millions of dollars, whenever such increase is deemed expedient by a majority of the board of directors of the said company, for the time being, which additional stock may be disposed of in the same manner as is prescribed by the act of which this is amendatory.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said Corporation, be, and they are hereby authorised and empowered, whenever the board of directors may deem it expedient so to do, to extend, construct and maintain a canal or slack water navigation, of suitable weadth, depth, and dimensions, from such point on the Alatamaha river or its branches, the Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers, to such point on the Flint or Chattahoochie rivers or their waters, as the said board of directors of the said Corporation shall jndge best, under like conditions, provisions, reservations and restrictions, and with the same privileges, rights, emoluments and benefits, as are prescribed and granted to the company in the making, constructing and maintaining the proposed canal from the Ogechee river to the Alatamaha river and its branches, the Oconee and Ocmulgee rivers, by the act of which this is amendatory.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the time allowed to the said corporation by the act of which this is amendatory, to complete and finish the canal, thereby proposed from the Ogechee to the Alatamaha river or its branches, the Oconee or Ocmulgee, shall be, and is hereby extended to eight years, from and after the passage of this act, and the said corporation shall complete and finish the said canal, from the Alatamaha river or its branches, the

Oconee or Ocmulgee, to the Flint or Chattahoochee rivers, within ten years after the passage of this aet, and on failure thereof, shall forfeit all the rights, immunities and privileges herein and hereby given, so far as the same are especially applicable to the canal not completed within the time specified as above.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the debt now duc by the said corporation to the State of Georgia, be vested in,. the stock of the said Corporation, and that upon the board of directors of the said company executing and delivering into the Central Bank of Georgia, certificates of stock in the said Corporation, equal in amount to the said debt, at par, that the directors of the said Bank, be, and they are hereby authorised and required to deliver up the bond of the sail Corporation made to secure the said debt, to the said Corporation to be cancelled.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws, militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

ASBURY HULL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS STOCKS,

Assented to, Dec. 27, 1831.

President of the Senate.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

AN ACT to amend an act, entitled an "act to provide for the improvement of the roads and rivers in this State, passed, eighteenth December, eighteen hundred and twenty

nine.

Sec. 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 it shall be the duty of the Superintendent of the public roads who has charge of the public hands, placed at Savannak, Milledgeville and Augusta, to cause that portion of the public hands which are new working on the road leading from Augusta to Athens,

and Gainesville, to work on said road by way of Jefferson, in the county of Jackson; any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

ASBURY HULL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Assented to, Dec. 24, 1931.

THOMAS STOCKS,

President of the Senate.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

AN ACT to appoint cemmissioners to survey and lay out a public market road from Columbus, on the Chattahoochee, to St. Mary's, in Camden county.

Sec. 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 Isaac Bailey, William G. Henderson, and J. R. McCook, be, and they are hereby appointed commissioners to survey and lay out a public market road, upon the most direct and eligible route, from the town of Columbus, on the Chattahoochee river, to the city of St. Mary's, in Camden county.

Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said commissioners shall furnish to his Excellency the Governor, on or before the first Monday in November next, a map or chart of the said road, representing accurately the water courses, and other obstructions lying in its way, together with a full report, representing what will be the probable expense attending the cutting out and opening of the said road, the benefit that would result from the same to the people of the State, by affording facilities to market, and the general nature of the country, through which it will pass.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the said commissioners, shall take an oath before some judicial officer of the* State, for the faithful performance of their duty, previous to their entering upon the performance of the same.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, ‹ That the said commissioners shall receive (for the perform

ance of the duties hereby required of them) such compensation as the next Legislature may think proper to give; and that all laws and parts of. laws which militato against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed:

AN ACT to authorise John Bailey and Robert Collins, of the county of Bibb, to make and construct a Causeway or Turnpike road on their own land, through the I obesofka Swamp, and to charge and receive toll at the same, and to annul an order of the Inferior Court of the county aforesaid, establishing a toll bridge over the Tobesofka Creek, on the road leading from the town of Macon, to Perry in the county of Houston, with certain privileges.

Sec 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 passing of this act, John Bailey and Robert Collins, of the county of Bibb, their successors and assigns, be, and they are hereby authorised to make and construct a Causeway or Turnpike Road on their own land through the Tobesofka Swamp in the county aforesaid, and to charge and receive the same rates of toll as are received for crossing the Macon Bridge, without the exceptions there allowed: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be construed or interpreted as to authorise the aforesaid John Bailey and Robert Collins, to place any hindrance or obstructions in the road now established by law, leading from the town of Macon to the town of Perry, in the county of Houston, known as the Perry road: And it is also provided, That all persons residing or cultivating land in the five hundred and twentieth militia district, known as Rutland's district, and all persons residing on or within a line four miles distant from, and run

ning seven miles parallel with the aforesaid Tobesofka Swamp, from its intersection with the Ocmulgee Swamp, be, and they are hereby authorised to pass the before mentioned toll gate, at all times, with their waggons, carts, carriages, horses, mules, and stock of all kinds, and footmen, free of all toll, charge or hindrance; any law, o. der,or usage to the con trary notwithstanding.

Sec. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That from and after the passing of this act, the order of the Inferior Court of the county of Bibb, authorising John to erect a toll gate at the bridge across the Tobesofka Creck on the Perry road, and to charge and receive toll at the same, be, and the said order is hereby set aside and annulled: Provided, nothing herein contained shall be so construed or interpreted as to prevent the aforesaid John Bailey from receiving remuneration for the money and labour expended in repairing the Causeway and Bridges, under and by authority of the before recited order, in such sum and manner as the Inferior Court of the county aforesaid, may adjudge and direct; And it is also provided, That in event of the Inferior Court aforesaid, refusing to remunerate the aforesoid John Bailey, he the said John Bailey, be, and he is hereby authorised to charge and receive toll as specified by the order of the Inferior Court of the county aforesaid, granted on the twenty-fifth day of July, one thousand eight hundred and thirty-one, he the aforesaid John Bailey rendering an account on oath of the amount of toll received, to the Clerk of the Inferior Court, until he shall have received an amount equal to the sum expended in money and labor on the Causeway and Bridges in the repairs before recited, the same to be estimated and adjudged by such persons as the Inferior Court may appoint, save and except the Inferior Court aforesaid, shall otherwise order payment to be made or refuse to comply with the provisions in this act, then, and in either case, the order granting the toll gate with all its benefits and privileges, is to be forthwith set aside and annulled; any law, or usage, to the contrary notwithstanding,