That they have had the petition and accompanying documents under consideration, and beg leave to report that they believe the prayer of the petitioner to be reasonable and just, and ought to be granted; and therefore recommend the adoption ofthe following resolution :

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That the sum of one hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropri ated to William Grant for his services and expenses in arresting and bringing to justice James Graves, who was convicted at the last term of Murray county Superior Court for the murder of Bates; and that the said sum be placed in the appropriation bill for the present year.

Agreed to, Dec. 17th, 1834.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest-JOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

The Committee to whom were referred the claims of John H. Lowe, administrator on the estate of John Sillman make the following report:

It appears to your Committee, that on the 9th day of August, 1821, John Sillman became the purchaser of traction No. 18, in pursuance of an act of the Legislature, passed the 22d of December, 1820, for the sum of $84; one-fourth of said purchase-money was paid in cash at the time of purchase, in accordance with the provisions of said act; the balance was to have been paid in three annual instalments of $21 each. It appears to your Committee, by the accounts of George R. Clayton, treasurer, endorsed upon the back of said bond, that the two first instalments, together with the interest thereon, were paid at the time they became due, leaving the last instalment on said bond due the State, viz.$21 on the 9th day of August, 1824.

And it further appears to your Committee, that on the 11th day of August, in the year 1821, under and by virtue of an act, the said John Sillman became the purchaser of fractions No. 170, 286, 288, for the sum of $699; one-fourth of which being paid in cash, left due three instalments of $174 75. It appears to your Committee, by the receipts of George R. Clayton, treasurer, endorsed upon the back of said bond, that the two first instalments, with interest thereon, were paid when they fell due. It also appears by the receipt of William Triplett, comptroller-general, that on the 18th day of April, 1825, the interest of the last instalment was paid up to that date, and $110 63 principal, which left a balance due upon last-mentioned bond at that date $64 12; which, together with the last instalment, with interest up to the lastmentioned date, due upon the first-mentioned bond, makes the sum of $86 24 due by the said John Sillman to the State of Georgia on said bonds. It appears further to your Committee, that the executions issued upon said bonds for more than was due thereon, and appears by the receipts of Ethon Melton, sheriff of Walton county, that on the 2d day of May, 1825, the said John Sillman paid said sheriff on said executions the sum of $205 93; which, amount overpaid the State

of Georgia, as appears upon said bonds, in the sum of $119 69. This last-mentioned sum your Committee believe to be justly due the heirs of the said John Sillman, with interest from the 2d day of May, in year 1825; which makes the sum of $211 69. Your Committee therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution :

Resolved, That John H. Lowe, administrator of John Sillman, deceased, be paid out of the treasury of the State of Georgia the sum of two hundred and eleven dollars sixtynine cents; and that the same be inserted in the appropriation bill.

Read and agreed to, 13th Dec. 1834.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest-JOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk.

In Senate,

Concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834.

JACOB WOOD,

President of the Senate.

Attest-JOHN A. CUTHBERT, Secretary.

Approved, 22d Dec. 1834.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the proceedings had against Jeremiah S. Chastain, on a note given by him for the rent of an Indian improvement, be stayed and as he could not get possession of the said

improvement, he be released from all liability and responsibility on said note, or the judgment obtained thereon.

Agreed to, 20th Dec. 1834.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest-JOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk.

Whereas, it appears that for the interest of the State' many town-lots have been sold a second time by mistake, by which the second purchasers have been injured to the amount by them paid in to the State; for remedy whereof

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to issue a warrant on the treasury for the amount or amounts of money which have been improperly raised by exposing to sale a second time town-lots for the benefit of the State, when the same had not been forfeited to the State, in favour of

said second purchasers or their agents, upon their exhibiting satisfactory evidence of the amount so paid.

Read and agreed to, 6th Dec. 1834.

THOMAS GLASCOCK,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

Attest-JOSEPH STURGIS, Clerk.

In Senate, concurred in, 20th Dec. 1834.

Whereas the Legislature by a resolution in 1825 vested in Samuel Gibson the right of fraction number one hundred and sixty-seven in the twelfth district of Habersham county, during his life, and after his death until his youngest child should marry or arrive of lawful age; and whereas the said Samuel Gibson has departed this life, and whereas his youngest child has arrived at lawful age

Resolved therefore by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That it shall be the duty of the sheriff of Habersham county, as early as practicable, to give notice by advertisement as in cases of land sales under execution, and proceed to sell the said fraction on a sale-day during the usual hours of sale at Clarksville. in Habersham county.