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PUBLIC LAWS.
(No. 1.)
An Act to prevent the unnecessary consumption of grain by distil¬
lers and manufacturers of spirituous liquors in Georgia.
Section I. The General Assembly do enact, That from and
after the expiration of ten days from the publication of the
Governor's proclamation hereinafter provided for, it shall
jiot be lawful for any person or persons to make, or cause
to be made within this State, any whiskey, alcohol, or oth¬
er spirituous or malt liquors, out of any corn, wheat, rye,
or other grain, except for medicinal, hospital, chemical or
mechanical purposes, as hereinafter allowed ; and any per¬
son so offending, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor,
and, on conviction thereof, shall be fined for every such of¬
fense, not less than two thousand dollars, nor more than five
thousand dollars ; and be also subject to imprisonment in
the county jail, not exceeding twelve months, in the dis¬
cretion of the Court.
Sec. II. Every day's or part of a day's distillation, con¬
trary to the provisions of this Act, shall be deemed a sep¬
arate and distinct offense.
Sric. III. Any person or persons, who shall, by any
means of transportation whatever, take or send, or cause
to be taken or sent out of the limits of this State, any
article of grain, ground or unground, with the intent that
s$id article, or any portion of it, is to be distilled into spir¬
ituous liquors of any kind, shall be deemed guilty of a mis¬
demeanor, and be subject to the penalties hereinbefore
provided.
Sec. IV. The fines to be imposed by the Court under
the provisions of this Act, shall be paid one half to the
informer, and the other half to the Justices of the Inferior
Court of the county wherein the conviction is had, to be
by said Justices applied to the support of the wives, wid¬
ows and families of such soldiers of this State as have been,
now are, or hereafter may be in the military service of th*
Canfederate States, or of the State of Georgia.
/Sec. V. That the Governor may, in his discretion, gran!
Mcepses in writing to citizens of this State only, for
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manufacturing of such an amount of alcohol or bther spir¬
ituous liquors, as may in his judgment, be needed byHh®-
Government of the Confederate States, or for chemical*
mechanical or medical purposes generally ; Provided His
Excellency is. hereby directed to grant licenses to the offi¬
cers and agents »of, ahd contractors with the Confederate
Goyernf^ent for th& distillation ol whisky to an amount not
exceeding ■'one million of galldnst, for the use of said Con¬
federate Government; arid Provided further, That the same
shall be distilled at $he distance of at least twenty milca
from any Railrdbd or stream usually navigated by steam
boats. Bu^; no person distilling under any license aforesaid,
shall sell any whisky or any other spiritous liquors, for more*-
than one dollar and fifty cents per gallon, nor alcohol at
more than two dollars and fifty cents per gallon, under the
penalties aforesaid. Any license granted under this Act,
shall be revocable at the pleasure of the G oyeuior ; and it
shal^ be liis duty to revoke the aahie, whenever le phall
have reason to believe that \t l« abused, or perverted from
the uses intended by this Act.
Sec. VI. In granting the licences hcirinhf fore provided
for, the Governor shall give the preference to those M'ptiona
of the State where grain may be most ahuLdurit, and at
joints most remote Trom Railroad or water transportation.
Sec. VII. That each persoh applying to the Governor
for a license to distill any grain us provided for in this Aot>
shall, before obtaining such license, make and subscribe his
written affidavit before some Justice of the Feace, Justice
of the Inferior Coiirt, or Notary Public, of this State, and
file the same in the Executive office of this State; in which
affidavit, he shall swear that he will not make, or cause to
be made, more 'whisky cr other spirituous liquors out of
grain, than the number of gallons specified in said license;,
and any person ^violating said oath, by making a larger
amount than the amount which he is authorized by said
license to make, shall be guilty of false swearing, and, 017
conviction thereof, shall be punished in such manner, as in
provided by the laws of this State l'or tl e punishment of
offenders guilty of false swearing.
Sec. VIII. It shall be the duty Of the Governor, imme¬
diately after the passage of this Act, to issue his proclama¬
tion announcing this law, aud calling upon all officers of this
State, and it shall be the duty of all such officers, civil and
military, to see to the faithful enforcement of this Act.
Sec. IX. It shall be the duty of tlje Judges of the Su--
perior Courts to give this Act in special charge to the-
Grand Juries at each term.
Sec. X. This Act shall continue in force only during th@*
existing war.
Approved November 22d, 1862.
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(No. 2.)
An Act supplementary to An Act entitled Am Act to prevent the
Unnecessary consumption of grain by di&tilters and manufac¬
turers of spirituous liquors in Georgia, assented to 22d day
of November, 1862.
Whereas, The above recited Act, in the 5th Section
thereof, provides that the Governor may, ifl liis discretion,
grant licenses to citizens of this State, only for the manu¬
facture of such an amount of alcohol $nd other spirituous
liquors as may, in his judgment, be needed by ih$ Govern¬
ment of the Confederate States, or for chemical, mechan¬
ical or medical purposes generally ; Provided, his Excellen¬
cy is hereby directed to graut licenses to the officers and,,
agents of, and contractox*s with the Confederate Govern¬
ment, for the distillation of whisky to an amount not fcx-
<seeding one million of gallons, for the use of said Confed¬
erate Government; A^d provided further, that the same shall
he distilled at the distance of at least twenty miles from
any railroad or stream usually navigated by steamboats.
And whereas, by the operation of the said 5th Section, per-1
«ons who, previous to the 22d day of November, 1S62,
made contracts with the Confederate Government for the
distillation of alcohol or whisky, and located their distil¬
leries within twenty mites of a railroad or stream usually
navigated by steamboats, will, it they continue to distill
within such distance of railroads or navigable streams, sub¬
ject themselves to the penalties prescribed by said act
against persons so distilling as aforesaid; and thus manifest
injustice will be done to such persons, either by inflicting
the penalties aforesaid upon them, if they Continue to dis¬
till within the aforesaid distance of a railroad or navigable
stream, or by compelling them to discontinue their works
or remove them. For remedy whereof,
Section I. Be it enacted by the ^General Assembly of Geor¬
gia, That any and all persons in this State who have made
bona fide contracts with the Confederate Government or its
authorized agents, previous to said 22d day1 of November#
1862, (and) located their works and distilleries within twenty
miles of a railroad or navigable stream, shall he exempt
from the penalties prescribed by said act against persons
violating the same, until they shall have fulfilled the con¬
tracts aforesaid ; but if, after fulfilling such contracts, they,
or any of them, shall continue to distill alcohol or whisky
within twenty miles of a railroad or navigable stream, ev-
■erj one so offending shall be subject to the pains and pen¬
alties in said act prescribed ; Provided, that no distiller shall
buy or consume any grain grown within twenty miles of any
railroad or navigable stream ; nor shall any grain be used
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under the provisions of the former Act, so grown1, except
that they may consume the grain they now have on hand.
SeC. II. Be if further enaeted, That the persons or com¬
pany who have made contracts with the Confederate gov¬
ernment, before they shall have the privileges conferred
under this Act, sl^all be required to take a license from the
Governor, which he is hereby required to issue upon such
party exhibiting satisfactory evidence of such contract; and
in no eVent shall licenses be granted for the manufacturing
of a greater amount than is authorized to be made for *fche
Confederate Government in said original Act; Provided,
further, that when any distilleries are already located, such
owner shall not be required to remove the same ; but upon
such person making an affidavit that no corn will be pur¬
chased at a point less than twenty miles from a railroad or
navigable stream, the Governor may, by his license, permit
the distillation at the point where the distillery is located-
Sec. III. Be it further enacted, That conflicting laws bti
and the same are hereby repealed.
Assented to December 11, 1862.
(No. 3.
An Act to appropriate money for obstructing the navigable streams
of this State, and to authorize His Excellency the Governor
to expend the same, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
SECTiok I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia
do enact, That the sum of fiv6 hundred thousand dollars, or
bq much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is
hereby placed at the disposal of his Excellency the Gov¬
ernor, to be expanded in obstructing the navigable streams
in this State against the incursions of the enemy; and that
he be authorized to contract for negro labor, if possible, or
impress the same, if tiecessary, for carrying out the afore¬
said purpose; said impressment to commence in those
counties in which the obstructions are made; Provided t
that the authority to impress negro labor shall be under¬
stood to include both free negroes and slaves, and that just
compensation therefor shall be made.
Sec. II. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to November 28, 1862.
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(No. 4.)
An Act to grant relief to the. Banks and People of this State.
Section I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That
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lapon the several Banks in this State and their officers, by
any previous legislation of the General Assembly of the
same, for the failure or tefusal of said Banks to redeem
their liabilities in gold and silver, be, and the same are
hereby suspended until the 1st day of December, 18C3;
Provided, such Banks shall at all times give the Treasury
notes of this State or of the Confederate States at par, in
exchange for their own bank notes, when demanded in sums
of one hundred dollars; And provided also, that each of the
chartered Banks of this State, claiming the provisions of
this Act, shall be and they are hereby required to issue and
keep in circulation, during their suspension, small bills of the"
denomination of five, ten, twenty-five, fifty, and seventy-five
cents, to the extent of five per centum upon their capital stock;
and that the said banks are authorized to issue said small bills
to the extent of ten per centum on their capital stock ; and
which said small bills shall be redeemed in Confederate Treas¬
ury notes, when presented in sums of five dollars and up¬
wards; and the said Banks are also authorized to issue, in ad¬
dition to their heretofore issued bills of the denomination of
one, two, and three dollars, not exceeding ten per centum on
their capital stock; Provided, the benefit and provisions of
this bill shall not extend to any Bank or other corporation
which does not!, at its principal Bank or place of business,
and also at its Branches and Agencies, receive the Treasury
notes of the State of Georgia and of the Confederate States,
and bills of all solvent Bauks jn this State, such solvency
to be determined by the judgment of the Bank with which
the deposit is sought to be made, in payment of all dues,
and also upon deposit at par value j Provided further, That
all such deposits may be paid in State or Confederate States
Treasury notes, current bank notes, or specie; Provided fur¬
ther,, that each Bank and Bank Agency which shall receive
deposits as aforesaid, shall be entitled to •charge one-eighth
of one per cent, for receiving and paying out the same.
Sec. II. Be it fuither enacted, That all laws and parts of
Jaws militating against this Act, be and the same are hereby
repealed.
Assented to November 29, 1862.
(No. 5.)
An Act to appropriate money to procure and furnish clothing,
shoes, caps or hats, and blankets for the soldiers from Georgia,
and to provide for raising the same.
Section I- Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the
&iate of Georgia, That the sum of one million five hundred
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thousand dollars, so much thereof as may be necessary,
he and the same is hereby appropriated for the purpose of
purchasing and procuring clothing, shoes, caps or hats, and
blankets, for all the privates and non-commissioned officers
•who are now, or may hereafter be in the army of the Con¬
federate States from this State during the present war.
Sec* II. And be it further enacted, That the Governor of
this State be, and he i^1 hereby required, if necessary, to
issue State treasury notes, on the same basis as heretofore
issued, to the amount aforesaid, to purchase and procure
said clothing, shoes, caps or hats, and blankets.
Sec. III. And be it further enacted, That his Excellency the
Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and required to
issues, or cause to be issued, clothing, shoes, caps oiJ hats,
and blankets, upon such requisition as may be riiade by the
Regimental Quartermasters of the Regiments, Battalions, or
Captains of independent companies, in the service from the
State of Georgia, said requisitions being approved by the
commanders of the Regiments, Battalions, or independent
companies; Provided, The Governor shall not eomply with
any requisition which may be made, unless accompanied
with the certificate of the officers making the same, of the
number of men present in the Regiment, Battalion or com¬
pany, and the number destitute of the articles required.
Sec. IV. And be it further enacted, That the Governor be,
and he is hereby required to appoint such officerrand use
snch means as shall be necessary to carry out the provisions
of this act, acting through the instrumentality of the Geor¬
gia Hospital and Relief Association, at his discretion, and
using the agency of all such persons as may be sent or des¬
ignated from any Regiment, Battalion, or company to re¬
ceive articles the Governor is Rereby authorized to transmit
and distribute; and the Governor is hereby required in_all
such arrangements as he may make for the transmission of
any of the said articles to the Georgia troopr, to enforce a
regulation requiring tEe return to the Executive office of
proper vouchers and receipts in each case, showing that the
same have been received and 'appropriated to th - purposes
intended by this Act; and in all cases where tht Governor
chooses to make the distribution through persons in the Con¬
federate service, if the Quartermaster or other person to
whom said clothing has been furnished, shall not in a rea¬
sonable time, return to the Governor, or to such person as
he may appoint to receive such returns* a full receipt from
the captain or captains of companies, or the commanders of
Battalions or Regiments, for said clothing, shoes, caps or
hats, ,and blankets, the Governor shall inform the Secretary
of War of such delinquency ; Provided y Said officers so ap¬
pointed are over t|ie age of forty-five years, or are such as
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are not subject to the provisions of the Conscript Acts pass¬
ed by the Confederate Congress.
Sec. V. And be it further enacted, That all appointees by
his Excellency under the provisions of thig Act, shall be re¬
quired to take and subscribe an oath faithfully to discharge
the duties required of him as such appointee, and to give
such bond and security as shall be approved by his Excel¬
lency the Governor.
Assented to December 2d, 18G2.
(No. 6.)
An Act to provide for the supply of the people of Georgia with
sally and to appropriate money for the accomplishment of that
object.
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Section I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That
the sum of live hundred thousand dollars be, and the same
is hereby appropriated, to be used for the purpose of sup¬
plying the people of Georgia with salt, as hereinafter direc-
Sec. II. For the purpose of supply for the present pack¬
ing season, the Governor is hereby authorized to invest the
feam above appropriated, or such part or parts thereof as in
Lis discretion may seem best, either in the purchase or man¬
ufacture and transportation of salt on State account, or in
giving encouragement and substantial aid to any responsible
individual or association who may be engaged, or who may
hereafter engage, in the purchase or manufacture of salt for
distribution without speculation, in Georgia, by advancing
to them funds, upon proper security, for the purchase, man¬
ufacture, or transportation to such convenient place or pla¬
ces in Georgia as the Governor may designate, of such salt
as they may make or otherwise obtain for the aforesaid pur¬
poses ; Provided, That in all such arrangements as he may
wake with individuals or associations, he shall preserve such
lieu upon the salt as to secure its early distribption, and
to secure in that distribution, that a sufficient sum is paid
by the consumer to cover all costs, including charges of
transportation and storage, &c., to the end that the expen¬
ditures of said fund may be reimbursed to the treasury.
Sec. III. The Governor is hereby authorized and empow¬
ered to draw his warrant or warrants upon the treasurer, to
be paid out of the funds above appropriated, for all such
expenses as may be incurred, not exceeding fifty thousand
dollars, in sending trains to Saltville, Virginia, and else¬
where, to aid in the transportation to Georgia of salt which,
i^ay have been made or purchased, or which may hereafter
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be made or purchased, by individuals, associations, or corpo¬
rations for supply to the people of Georgia, or any portion
thereof, withou.it speculation; Provided, That in each and
every instance the money so drawn and expended shall be
promptly refunded to the treasury of the State by the indi¬
viduals, associations, or corporations for whose benefit, or
at whose instance the expenditure may have been made.
Sec. IV. For further supply of salt to the people of Geor¬
gia, the Governor is authorized to cause salt to be manufa«~
tured on State account, at such place or places as he may
deem best, or by making advancements to individuals, associ¬
ations or corporations, on proper security, on such time, and
upon such terms as he may deefri best, or to purchase salt,
if deemed by Mm the most economical method. For this
purpose, the sum of five hundred thousand dollars is here¬
by appropriated, to be raised out of such sums as will be
refunded under the preceding provisions of this law, or such
other funds as may remain in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated. The Governor is hereby authorized to draw
his warrant or warrants upon the treasurer, for so much of
said fund as he may, from time to time, deem necessary for
the purposes aforesaid.
Sec. V. All distributions of salt that may be manufac¬
tured or purchased under this Act, shall be made so soon as
practicable after the manufacture or purchase, t© the people
of Georgia, at such convenient places as the Governorshall
designate; and in all distributions of salt, whether obtained
through purchase, manufacture on State account, or the
action of individual associations or corporations, under the
encouragement and approval of the Governor, a sufficient
price shall be required and received to refund to the treasu¬
ry the money expanded for the salt so distributed.
Sec. VI. The Governor is hereby authorized to employ
all such agents as he may deem necessary to carry out the
provisions of this law, and to provide by contract what sum
is to be paid to such person or persons as hb may thus em¬
ploy for his or their services; and he shall pay for the same,
as well as for all expenses incurred in the premises, out of
the funds hereinbefore appropriated.
Assented to December 2, 1SG2.
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(No. 7.)
An Act to continue in force the fourth section of an act passed
over the Governor's veto ^oti the 60th day of November, 1860,
entitled an act to provide against the forfeiture of the several
bank charters of this State on account of non-specie payments
for a given time, and for other purposes, passed in the year
1857, and to suspend the pains and penalties imposed, upon the
several banks and their officers in this State for non-payment of
specie, and for other purposes ; an^ahoan act to add a provi¬
so to the A.th section rf an act entitled an act for the rdief of the
people and banks of this State, and for other purposet, passed
on the 30 th of November, 1860, and to add, a a additional sec¬
tion to said act, assented to December 20th, 1800.
Section I. Be. it. enacted, That the before recited part of
of an act, and also the before recited act, be and the same
are hereby re-enacted and continued in force until the first
day of January, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Assented to November 29th, 1862.
(No. 8.)
An Act to change, the second Section of an Act entitled an Act
to alter and amend the Road laws of this State approved De¬
cember, 19th, 1818, so as to extend and define the ages to which
persons shall be liable to work upon public Roads.
Section I. Be it enacted, fyc., That from and after the
passage of this Act, the second Section of the above reci¬
ted Act be so altered and amended as to make all persons
therein named, between the ages of sixteen and sixty, liable
to perform Road duty.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That all male persons
are and shall be considered as able bodied hands who are
able to do ordinary field work.
Sec. III. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid,
That all laws and parts of laws militating against this Act
l>e, and the same are hereby repealed.
Assented to December 4th, 1862.
(No. 9.)
An Act to authorize the Treasurer and Comptroller General of
this State, to issue change bills for the State of Georgia, under
the supervision of His Excellency the Governor.
Section I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia
do enact, That the Treasurer and Comptroller General are
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hereby authorized and required* under the supervision of the
Governor, to have prepared, issued, and put in circulation*
change bills of this State, of the denominations of four,
three, two and one dollars, seventy-five cents, fifty cents,
twenty-five cents, twenty cents, fifteen cents, ten cents ana
five cents; the aggregate amount of which shall not exceed,
one million of dollars.
Sec. II. The change bills authorized and required under
the provisions of this Act, shall be stamped (it practicable)
by the Treasurer, and sfcall be signed by the Treasurer and
Comptroller General, or persons for them, or the signatures
of the said officers shall be engraved or lithographed, as
may be best for the speedy issue of said change bills.
Sec. III. Be it further enacted, That the said change bills
shall be redeemable at thfe Treasurer's office in Milledge-
ville, in Confederate Treasury notes, when presented in
sums of five dollars or upwards; and that this provision
shall be expressed on the face of the change bills.
Sec. IV. Be it further enacted, That the change bills so
issued shall be printed or engraved upon the best paper
that can be obtained.
Sec. V. Be it further enactedi That if any person or per¬
sons shall alter or counterfeit any change bills or bills issued
under the provisions of this Act, or shall knowingly J)ass
any change bill so altered or counterfeited, he she or
they so offending, shall be guilty of a felony, and on convic¬
tion shall be punished by confinement at hard labor in the
Penitentiary, for a peripd of not less than two years, or more
than ten years.
Sec. VI. Be it further enacted, That the Comptroller Gen¬
eral shall have registered and numbered, in a well bound
book to be kept in his office for that purpose, the number
and amount of all change bills issued under this act, sub¬
ject to the inspection of the Governor or any committee of
either branch of the General Assembly.
Sec. VII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the Comptroller General to turn over said change bills
to the Treasurer of this State, when they have been regis¬
tered and numbered as required by this Act, and take hi*
receipt for the same.
Sec. VIII. Be it further enacted, That it shall be the'duty
of the Treasurer of this State to furnish counties, towns,
and villages, as also private parties, change bills for current
bank, Confederate or State Treasury notes, when desired for
change, in such a manner as to distribute the same as nearly
as possible all over the State.
feec. IX. Be it further enacted, That the authority to issue
change bills under the provision^ of this Act, shall cease
and determine whenever the Banks of this State shall re-
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Sec. X. The Treasurer is hereby authorized to use said ,
change bills in the payment of any claims against this State.
Sec. XI. Be it further enacted, That the Governor be and
he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant upon the
Treasury of this State, for such sums of money as will be
sufficient to defray the expenses of issuing the change bills
authorized to be issued under the provisions of this Act;
and that the Comptroller General shall have power to em¬
ploy such number of clerks, not exceeding two, as may be
necessary to issue said bills at an early day; and that the
said clerk or clerks, shall have such compensation for his or
their services as the Governor may deem just, not to exceed
twelve hundred dollars per annum.
Assented to December 5tli, 1862.
(No. 10.)
An Act to appropriate money for the manufacture of wool and
cotton cards, and card clothing for Factories, and to'jtrovide
for the raising and disbursement of the same.
Whereas, the supply of wool and cotton cards, and of
card clothing for Factories, in consequence of the existing
war, is very limited in Georgia and in the Confederate
States of America, and whereas, these articles are necessa¬
ry to the clothing of our soldiers in the field and their fam¬
ilies at home, and of the people generally, as also of our
slaves.
Section I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That
the sum of one hundred thousand dollars, or so much there¬
of as may be necessary, be and the same is hereby appro¬
priated out of any funds not otherwise appropriated in the
Treasury, for the purpose of procuring the necessary ma¬
chinery and materials and the erection of necessary build¬
ings and appurtenances and carrying on the work of man¬
ufacturing wool and cotton cards, and card clothing for Fac¬
tories, and to encourage the manufacture of either or all ot
the aforesaid articles by individuals within this State. The
Governor is hereby authorized to put all such machinery
as he may purchase or cause to be made for the purposes
aforesaid, into operation in the Penitentiary of the State in
or near the armory, and to employ such convicts therein*
confined, as may be needed in the manufacture, under'the
direction of the State Armorer or other Superintendent to
be appointed by the Governor, together with as many mas¬
ter workmen and other operatives as may be necessary.
He is also hereby empowered, in the event he thinks best to
do so, to locate such machinery, tools, implements and ma¬
terials at such other place or places in the State, as he may
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in his discretion prefer, and to etnploy all such superinten¬
dents, workmen and operatives as he may deem necessary
to the active and efficient performance of the work.
Sec. II. His Excellency the Governor is hereby author¬
ized and empowered to contract with Messrs. Divine, Jonea
and Lee, for one half interest in their machines for rnanu-'
-facturing wool, and cotton cards, and the manufacture of
card clothing for Factories, together with all their stock on
hand and purchased, consisting of wire, sheepskins, leather
and wood suitable for backs and handles, and other articles
used in the business, with the privilege of duplicating the
machines as often as necessary, and increasing the works as
may be desirable to the State, and also of locating the works
at such place or places as may be desirable to the Governor,
or the agent appointed on the part of the State to conduct
the same ; for all which he is authorized to pay out of the
fund hereinbefore appropriated, a sum not exceeding sixty
thousand dollars. In any such contract as he may make
with the parties aforesaid, the Governor is hereby author¬
ized to so adjust the terms, as in his judgment, will be best
calculated to carry into effect, the object of this Act.
Sec. III. If, at any time, there should be a defficieney of
money in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, neces¬
sary to meet in whole, or in part, as it may be needed, the
appropriation hereinbefore made, the Governor is hereby
authorized to raise the required sum by issuing Treasury
notes of the State in such denominations as he thinks best,
redeemable six months after a treaty of Peace between the
Confederate States and the United States, in six per cent
bonds, or in gold and silver coin.
Sec. IV. The Governor is hereby authorized to make
all such arrangements as he may think necessary for the
sale of the articles to be manufactured under this law; and
so soon as any considerable number of wool and cotton
cards shall have been manufactured, it shall be his duty to
cause the same to be sold at such places in the State as he
may designate, and at sucli prices as will reimburse to the
State, the cost and expenses incurred in the necessary pre¬
parations for, and in the manufacture and disposal of the
same. He is also empowered, in such disposals of cards a*
he may make within this State, to equitably apportion to
the Inferior Courts of the respective counties of the State,
a reasonable number of cotton and wool cards, to be judged
of by him, to be distributed amongst the poor, by said In¬
ferior Courts.
Assented to December 6th^ 1862.
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(No. 11.
An Act to suspend temporarily the computation of compound in¬
terest against Executors, Administrators, Guardians, and other
Trustees.
Section* I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of Georgia,
That from and after the first day of January next, all laws
and parts of laws which justify the computation of com¬
pound interest against Executors, Administrators, Guardi¬
ans, and other Trustees, be and they are hereby suspended
during the operation of an Act generally known as the
'Stay Law.
Assented to December 6, 1862.
(No. 12.
An Act to relieve the Banking Corporations of this State from
any penalty for and, on account of the manner in which tht
Change Bills now issued, or which may hereafter be issued by
them, by authority of Act of the General Assembly, assented to
30zA November, 1861, are signed, and to legalize the same.
Whereas, The charters o( many of the Banking Corpo¬
rations of this State require the bills issued by them to be
signed by both the President and Cashier; And whereas, the
Change Bills issued by them by authority of the Act of the
General Assembly, assented to November 30th, 1861, are
generally signed by but one of these officers, and the cor¬
porations which have issued them may thereby have sub¬
jected themselves to the penalties in their respective char¬
ters and the Penal Code of this State, pres^ibed. For
remedy whereof, therefore,
Section I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia
do enact, That all Banking Corporations of this State which
have issued or may hereafter issue Change Bills by author¬
ity of the said Act of the General Assembly of this State,
assented to 30th November, 1861, and which have been or
may be signed by either the President or Cashier, or other1
persons by them authorized, be and they are hereby re¬
lieved and released from any and all penalty or liability
they may have incurred thereby, by reason of any clause
in their respective charters, or any section of the Penal
Code of this State ; Provided, that nothing in this Act shall
be so construed as to relieve said corporations from any lia¬
bility to which they are by law subject for and on account
of the non-redemption of said Change Bills which now are,
or which may hereafter be issued; nevertheless the said
corporations or Banks shall be liable as though said Chang#
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Bills Jhad been signed by the President and Cashier, under
their charter.
Sec. H. And be it further enacftd, fyc., That all laws an !
parts of laws liiilitatingifegainst* this Abt be, and the same
are hereby repealed.
Assented to December 6, 1862.
(No. 13.)
An Act to prevent soldiers in the service of the Confederate States,
or the State of Georgia, Jrorn being double taxed, and for tkj
relief of such soldias as have been double taxed.
Section I. Be it enacted, §'c.} That from and after the
passage of this Act, no soldier iu the service of the Con¬
federate States, or of the State of Georgia, shall be double
taxed by reason of his failure to give in his tax. '
Sec. II. Be it further enacted, That when it shall be mad®
to appear that any soldier has been double taxed as afore¬
said, upon application, to the Inferior Court of the county
where said tax has been levied, the amount for wThich said
soldier has been double taxed shall be refunded, the amount
of the double tax for the county shall be remitted by the
Justices of the Inferior Court; and upou the facts being
made known to the Comptroller Geireral, he shall remit the
State's portion of said double tax.
Assented to Pecember 8, 1862.
(No. 14.)
An Act to secure the State against loss by defaulting Tax Col¬
lectors.
Whereas, The Comptroller General complains in his
Report, that in very many counties of this State, the Tax
Collectors have failed to return to his office any money
arising from defaulters whose names do not appear on the
Receiver's digest; And whereas, the Comptroller cannot
reach such defaulting Tax Collector^ under the law as it
now stands,
Section I. Therefore be it exacted, That from and after
the passage of this Act, the Comptroller General be em¬
powered, and that it shall be his duty, to issue execution
against such defaulting Tax Collectors and their securities,
in the sum of double ^he amount that they may be found
to be in default, to be sent to the Sheriffs of said counties
to be collected, with alt costs accruing thereon.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That each Tax Col¬
lector shall be required to make oath on his final settle¬
ment with the Comptroller, ^s to the amount of such col¬
lections by him.
Sec. Ill-, And ba it fanner enacted, Tfoat such Tax Col¬
lectors shall he fined in the sum of five hundred dollars for
every one hundred dollars that they may be fouhd to be in
default, to be collected by the Sheriffs of their respective
counties—one-half to go to the Treasury, and the other to
the informer.
Sec. IV. All laws and parts of laws militating against
this Act are hereby repealed.
Approved December 8, 1862.
(tfoT 15.)
An Act for the relief of Executors, Administrators and Guar-
dians.
Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That
Executors, Administrators and Guardians, shall not, during
the continuance of the present war, forfeit their commis¬
sions for a failure to make their annual returns to the Or¬
dinary in the time now required by law; Provided, they
shall, in the first returns made after such "failure, make oath
that they could not, by reason of their absence in the ser¬
vice of the State or Confederate States, make their returns
in due time.
Assented to December 8, 1862.
(No. 16.)
Aft Act to compel all tax-payers of this State who are the owners:
of any Railroad or Bank Stocks, to pay county tax on the-
same in the respective counties that they are residents thereof.
Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of lh>
State of Georgia, That all tax-payers in and for the several
counties in this State, who are the owners, either in their
own right, or in the right of any other person or persons,
of any Railroad or Bank stock, shall be compelled to give
in annually the number of shares of stock so owned, and
the value of such shares so owned; and the Inferior Courts,
of the several counties in this State shall levy a per c<?nt.,
for county-purposes, on said Railroad or Bank stock, in pro¬
portion to the per cent, made and levied upon all other-
property or properties of tax-payers for county purposes;-
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Provided, nothing in this Act shall be so construed as to in¬
terfere with the previous vested rights of any Railroad or
Bank in this jState under their charters. T1
Sec. II. Be it further enacted, That no Railroad stock shall
be taxeel when said Railroad is not in running -condition.
Sec. Hi;. Be it further enacted, That all conflicting laws
be, and they are hereby repealed.
Assented to December 9, 1862.
(No. 17.)
An Act to amend the Patrol Laws of this State.
Section I. The General Assembly do enact, That from and
after the passage of this Act, the Patrol Laws of this
State be so amended as to make all free white male citizens
of this State, between the ages of eighteen and sixty years,
liable to do and perform patrol duty, notwithstanding any
law or custom of this State to the contrary.
Assented to December 9, 1S62.
(No. 18.)
An Act to require the incorporated Cotpn and Wool Factories
in this State to 'publish list» of their stockholders.
Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State
of Georgia, That all companies chartered under the laws of
this State for the manufacture of cotton or woolen goods,
or cotton yarn or thread, shall be required to have published
twice during each year, in a public gazette nearest to their
respective places of business, a list containing the names of
each and every stockholder, with the amount of stock own¬
ed by him or her. »
Sec. II. Any such corporation failing to have such publi¬
cation made, shall forfeit, for each failure to have published,
the sum of five thousand dollars, to be recovered by action
in the Superior Court of the county in which the business
of such company or companies may be located, one-half to
go to the informer, and the other half to go to the county
where the suit may be instituted.
Sec. III. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to December 9th, 1862.
(No. 19.)
An Act to alter the sixth section of an act to amend the Patrol Laws
of this State, u-pprovtd February 20th, 1854.
Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That the
provisions of the sixth Section of an act to amend the Pat-
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toI Laws of this State, approved February 20th, 18-54, be
altered so as not to include the county of Rabun, and that
"the provisions of said act extend to the county of Rabun.
Sec. II. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to December 9th, 1862.
(No. 20.)
An Act to provide compensation for stills seized by the Governor
of this State.
Whereas, Stills owned by individuals of this State have
been seized in accordance tvith the proclamation of the Gov¬
ernor of this State, issued in February last, and for which
no compensation has been provided or paid; for remedy
whereof,
Section I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia
do enact, That in all cases where a still or stills have been
-seized and taken away from the owners thereof by order of
the Governor of this State, or by any person acting under
the authority of the Governor's proclamation, dated in the
month of February last, and for which just compensation
has not been paid, it shall be the duty of the Justices of
the Inferior Court, or a niajority thereof, of the county
where such seizure may have been made, upon complaint
of any person whose still has been seized,, to assess a just
compensation for said seized still or stills j the rule of com¬
pensation to be, the value of the still at the time it was
seized, with interest from that time up to the time of pay¬
ment, in casesjwhere the still itself cannot be returned ; but
when the still can be so returned, the amount shall be "a re¬
turn of the still, with interest on its value at the time of
seizure, from that time up to the time of its return. All
awards made under this act shall be transmitted by the Jus¬
tices of the Inferior Court, or Justices of the Peace, to the
Governor of this State, who shall draw his warrant upon
the treasury in favor of the owner, for the money compen¬
sation, and also cause the stills to be returned in cases where
the award so directs; Provided, they shall be returned in
4ia good conditioii as when seized-
Sec. II. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to December 9th, 18G2,
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(No. 21.)
Ar\ Act to authorise mid instruct the Governor to pay -the freight*
on, salt, it! the cased tKfrthi mentioned*
Section I. The General Assembly of the State, oj (Georgia
do enact) That hi& Excellency the Governor 1)6, and he is
hereby authorized and instructed, to pay oqt of any money
in the Treasury, not otherwise appropriated, the tffcst of
freight for the transportation of all the salt from the Rail¬
roads, which he has Or may hereafter have sent to the dif¬
ferent counties in this State, for distribution among the fam¬
ilies of soldiers.
Sec. II. And be it further $?tactcdr That the Justices of the
Inferior Courts of the several counties be required to ascer¬
tain and certify to the Governor the amount of freight paid
or due for the transportation of such salt to their respective
counties j upon which certificate alone the same shall he-
paid, as provided in the first section of this act
Sec. III. .Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to December 9th, i862.
(No. 22,)
Aa Act to prevent the poisoning of fisTi in any qf the counties of
this State, and to. provide certain penalties against the same.
Section I. Be it enacted, by the General Assembly, That anjr
persbn or persons, hereafter, who shall poisou any lake*
river, stream, or pond, in any of the counties of this State,
or either of them, with a view of poisoning fish therein,
shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, on conviction thereof*
shall be fined in a sum not exceeding fifty dollars, at the
discretion of the court.
Assented to December 9th, 1SG2.
(No. 23.)
An Act to amend An Act entitbd "An Act to point out the mode
of ascertaining the relief and support to which widows and or¬
phans are entitled out -of the estates of their deceased husbands
and parents, where letters tfstbmentary or of administration
ahull hare been granted, and for other jmrposrs," approved 19th
of February, 1856, anil to repeal the fifth section of said Acft
and to render administration vnnecessary in certain cases.
Section I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia
do enact, That the before recited Act be so amended that,,
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in all teases hereafter, when widows and orphans of any
deceased husbands or parents shall apply for the allowance
for a twelve months support, as provided by said Act;, such,
application shall be made to the Ordinary having jurisdic¬
tion of the case; whose duty it shall be to appoint the ap¬
praisers, whether letters of administration had been grant¬
ed or not ; and it shall "be the duty of said appraisers
appointed in pursuance of said Act, it it shall appear upon
a just appraisement of such estate that it does not exceed
in value the sum of five hundred dollars, to set apart the
whole of such estate for the support and maintenance of
such widow and child, or children ; or if there be no sur¬
viving widow, then to the lawful guardian of such child of
children, lor the purposes aforesaid.
Sec. II. B° it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, The
property and effects so set apart shall come under the pro¬
visions of said Act, and bo vevsted in such widow and child,
or children, and shall jiot be administered as the estate of
yuch deceased.
Sec. III» Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaidy
That the^ widow may pay so much and such parts of the
debts of her deceased husband as she may think proper,
consistently with her means, with the advice and consent of
the Ordinary.
Sec. IV. Be it further enacted, That the fifth section of
the before recited Act be, and the same is hereby repealed.
Sec. Y. Repeals conflicting laws:
Assented to December 9, 1862.
(No. 24.)
An Act to prevent and punish the planting and cultivating, in the
State of Georgia, over a, certain quantity of land in Cotton,
during the war with the Abolitionists.
Section I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact,
That it shall not be lawful for any person or persons,
whether residing in this State or not, to plant and cultivate
in any county in this State, by themselves, their agents or
employees, or allow the same to be done, a greater number
of acres of land in cotton than three (3) acres for each hand
owned or employed by their^ between the ages of fifteen
and fifty-five ; and when sai!i person or persons may own
or employ hands over fifty-five years of age and under six¬
ty-five, or over twelve years of age and under fifteen, two
of said hands shall be counted as one hand j and therefore,
said person or persons may plant and cultivate three acres
of land in cotton, and no more, for every two of said handa
eo owned or employed by them.
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Sec. II. That every violator of this law shall be
of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof, shall be
fined,, for every acre so planted more than three to the hand,
or hatids, or six to the two hands or hands, orpine* acres to
three hands or hands, and So on in proportion to the Hum*
ber of hands employed, the sum of five hundred dollars for
each an<5 every ?icre so planted above the number specified;
one-half of which sum shall *be, in cases 'where there is a-
'prosecutor or informer, paid to said prosecutor or informer,
and, the other half paid, to the Inferior Court of the county
where the conviction takes place, for the benefit of indigent
soldiers5 families in said county.
Sec. III. That any person or persons who may intend or
desire to prosecute any person or persons for the violation
of this Act, may, upon application to any Justice of the
Inferior Court of stiid county, supported by affidavit that
he has good reason to believe tfyat said law has been vio¬
lated, obtain an order requiring the County Surveyor, or
his lawful deputy, to enter the premises of said person, and
make a Survey of all the lands so planted and cultivated in
cotton ; and said person shall pay said Surveyor for making
said survey, his usual fees, which shall be taxed in the bill
of costs on the final adjudication of the same.
£ec. IV. That all owners of slaves or employees shall
give in, to the Tax Receiver, the number of hands owned
or employed by them, between the ages of twelve and fit-
teen, and fifteen and fifty-five, and fifty-five and sixty-five,
each year during said war.
Sec. V. That the Judges of the Superior Courts be re¬
quired to give this law specially in charge to the Grand
Juries, at each term of their courts, during said war with
the Abolitionists.
Assented to December II, 1862.
(No. 25.)
An, Act for the benefit of Guardians, Administrators, Executors
and Minors
Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State
of Georgia, That for and during the continuance of the
present war, all Guardians, Administrators, and Exec¬
utors be, and they are hereby authorized to appoint agents
to represent them ; and that all agents so appointed, shall
have the pow;er to make annual returns, &c., the same as
could be done by the principal in person.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That said agents so
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appointed, shall be allowed to ifiake returns for the year
1861, without loss of commissions on said returns.
Sec. III. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to December 11, 1862.
{No. 26.)
An Act to alter and amend, the first section of An Act entitled an
Act to alter and umend the several Judiciary Acts now in
force in this State, as far as relates to Justices' Courts, ap¬
proved Dec. lUhy 1811.
Section I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State
of Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act,
the first section of the above recited Act be so altered and
changed as to give to any Justice of the Peace in this State,
being a clerk, full power to exercise all the functions of a
Justice of the Peace, as if he were not clerk.
Sec. II. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to December 12, 1862.
(NO. 27.)
An Act to appropriate funds to the uses of the Georgia Relief
and Hospital Association.
Section i* The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do
enact, That the sum of four hundred thousand dollars be,
and the same is hereby appropriated and set apart to the
uses and purposes of the Georgia Relief and Hospital Asso¬
ciation, to be expended by them in providing medical at¬
tendance, hospital rooms, stores, supplies, accommodation
and transportation for the sick and wounded, the suffering
and destitute soldiers of tbe State of Georgia that may need
relief; and in establishing wayside homes at Richmond, or
elsewhere, in the discretion of the Executive Committee of
said Association ; and in establishing an agency at Rich¬
mond for the collection of the claims of Georgia soldiers,
and the representatives of deceased Georgia soldiers, against
the Confederate States Government; and further, in estab¬
lishing the necessary agency or agencies for the forwarding
and transportation of supplies intended for Georgia troops;
Provided, that all soldiers wfyo may become sick or wound¬
ed within the limits of the! State of Georgia, and in her
defense, shall be included in the benefits of this appropria¬
tion, in the discretion of the managers of the Georgia Re-*
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lief and Hospital Association, which said Association shall
be located at Augusta, Georgia; and the managers snail
have full power to establish branch hospitals at Dalton,
Rome, Knoxville, Kingston, Athens, Atlanta, Savannah,
Chattanooga, and U"nion Point, and such other places as
they, in their discretion, may think necessary. The said
Association, in the establishment of branch hospitals, shall
so locate them as will be most convenient and acceptable
to the troops intended to be benefitted thereby ; Provided,
that the benefits of the Georgia Rfelief and Hospital Asso¬
ciation shall extend to all the Georgia Ifroops, without re¬
gard to their location.
Sec. II. And le it further enacted, That the said fund shall
be drawn from the Treasury only in such sums, and at such
times, as they may be needed, to carry out the purposes of
the Association ; and when any amount is needed, it shall
be ordered by the*!Executive Committee to be drawn; and
their order to that effect sfcall be feigned by their chairman,
or, in his absence, by the vice-chairman, and countersigned
by the recording or corresponding Secretary; and upon
said order being submitted to his Excellency the Governor,
and approved by him, he shall draw an Executive warrant
on the Treasury of this State for the amount expressed in
said order; and then the Treasurer shall pay the same out
of the sum appropriated by this Act.
Sec. III. That, on the last Monday in October in each
year during the war, or while any part of the funds hereby
appropriated shall remain unexpended, the Board of Super¬
intendents shall meet in Augusta—a majority of said Board
constituting a quorum—and at each such meeting the Board
shall elect a President and Secretary, to serve for the term,
of one year thereafter; and shall prepare an annual report
of the condition of the Association, and receive the annual
report of the Executive Committee of its expenditures, to
be submitted to the General Assembly of Georgia.
Sec. IV. That, at the first regular meeting in January of
each year during the war, or while any of the funds hereby
appropriated shall! remain unexpended, the Executive Com¬
mittee shall elect a chairman and a vice chairman to serve
the year next ensuing ; and it shall be the further duty of
the Executive Committee to make an annhal report of their
actings and doings to the Board of Superintendents at the
annual meeting of said board, on the last Wednesday of
October of each year; and in case of the failure of the
Board to hold such meeting, then the Executive Committee
shall make their annual report direct to the Governor and
General Assembly of Georgia*
Sec. V. The General Assembly do further enacts That the
Executive Committee shall submit to his Excellency the
Governor a monthly statement of the expenditures of said
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Association, giving the specific items and details of such,
expenditures ; Provided further, that upon failure of said
Committee to make the monthly exhibit to his Excellency
the Governor, as required, by this Act, then the Governor
shall withhold any fuither warrant upon said fund until
said Committee shall have duly filed in the Executive De¬
partment said exhibit, which shall show a full, complete
and plain statement of all receipts and disbursements by
naid Committee. And be it further provided, that if the Gov¬
ernor shall be of the opinion., fropi the said statement, that
the disbursements have been extravagant or wasteful, he
shall be authorized to 'withhold said fund until a satis!acto-
ry explanation shall be rn^dea
Sec. VI. And the General Assembly do further enacts That
the balance 6f the sum appropriated by the Legislature at
its last session, and remaining unexpended by the said As¬
sociation, be added to and merged in the sum hereby ap¬
propriated, subject to the same uses and limitations.
Sec. VII. And the General Assembly do further enact, That
if no money in ^he Treasury, not otherwise appropriated,
sljall be available for said appropriation, then his Excellen-
ey the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to issue
Treasury notes, in. such sums as may be needed from time
to time, to effect the object of said appropriation ^ said
Treasury notes to be redeemable in six per cent, bonds or
specie, six months after a treaty of peace, or when the
Banks of Savannah and Augusta resume specie payment, if
before that time.
Sec. VIII. And he it further enacted, That the Board of
Superintendents be, and they are hereby authorized to al¬
low and pay the several agents appointed by them to carry
out the provisions of this Act, such compensation as, in
their judgment, may be reasonable and just.
Sec. IX. Repeals conflicting' laws.
Assented to December 12, 18G2.
(No. 28.)
An Act to authorize Deputy Sheriffs in this State to make titles
to land and, other property sold by them, in certain cases.
Whereas, Many of the Sheriffs of this State are, or may
be absent from'their respective counties, in the military ser¬
vice of the Confederate States ; And whereas, the law- of this
State does not authorize Deputy Sheriffs to make titles to
land sold by them as such officers ; for remedy whereof,
Section I. The General Assembly do enact, That the Dep¬
uty Sheriffs are hereby authorized and empowered to make
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and execute as good and sufficient titles to all land and oth¬
er property sold by them, (while their principal Sherins
respectively are in said, military service), as the Sheriffs
could do, jf sold by them as Sheriffs.
Seo. II. Repeals conflicting Jaws.
Assented to December 12, 1862.
(No. 29*.)
An Act for the support of indigent widow* and orphans of sol¬
diers who have died or been kitted in the serJce of this State,
or of the Confederate States ; for the support of the indigent
families of soldiers who may be in the public service, and for
the support of indigent soldiers whomdy be disabled bo wounds
or disease in the service of this St(ite or the of the Confederate
Statesy for and during the year 1863; to provide for rais¬
ing Junds to carry into -effect said appropriation, and to provide
for the application of the same to the purpose* aforesa id.
Section I. The "General Assembly do qnact, That the sum
of two millions five hundred thousand dollars, or so much
thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same is hereby ap¬
propriated out of any money in the treasury not otherwise
appropriated, for the support of indigent widows and or¬
phans of soldiers who have died or heen killed in the ser¬
vice of this State or the Confederate States ; for the sup-
port of indigent families of soldiers who may be in thq
public Service, .and for the support of indigent soldiers who
may have been, or may hereafter be disabled by wounds or
disease in the service of this State* or the Confederate States,
for and during the year 1863; Provided, the word families,
whenever used in this Act, shall be taken and held to mean
all persons who were dependent for support on any such per¬
son who has gone, or may go into the military service
from Georgia.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty
of the Governor^ immediately after the passage of this Act,
to cause a copy thereof to be furnished to the Inferior Court
of each county in this State, with such instructions, if any,
as he may think proper to give them ; and upon the receipt
thereof by said Inferior Court, it shall be their duty forth¬
with to proceed, under the rules hereinafter prescribed, to
make out a schedule of the persons within their respective
counties, who may be entitled to the benefits of this act,
and file the same in their respective offices; and to forward
to the Comptroller General, before the first day of February
in the year 1863, astatement from said schedule, of the num¬
ber of widows residing within their respective counties, of
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soldiers who have died or been killed in the military service
of the State, or of the Confederate States, during the exist¬
ing war, or have died after being discharged, of sickness
contracted, or wounds received in the service, and who are
unable to support themselves, and have not the means of
support; the number of soldiers who have been discharged
and who are residing within the county, disabled by sick¬
ness or wounds in the service, and Who are not able to sup¬
port themselves, and have not the means of support; the
number of women, whether they are the wives of soldiers
in service, or disabled discharged soldiers, or whose son or
other person upon whpm they have usually depended for
support heretofore, has died, beenliilled, disabled, oris then
absent in ther military service, and who are indigent and
have not the meaas Of support; also, the number of orphans
under the age of twelve years, of soldiers hereinbefore des¬
cribed ; and also, the number pf children of other women,
not widows, as hereinbefore set forth, who are under the
age of twelve years; and children of indigent disabled sol¬
diers who have been discharged, aud who are under said
age, and which said orphans and other children aie indigent
and have not the means of support; and also including in
said schedule and statement, all children and other indigent
persons usually dependent on the Soldier for support, over
said age, who, from bodily infirmity or other like cause, are
usable to support and maintain themselves; which said state¬
ment to the Governor shall be accompanied by the affidavit
of the Justices making out the schedule, that the same is of
file in their office„and is just and true and impartial, to the
best of their knowledge and belief. So s6on as the said
first day of February A. D. 1863 shall have expired, the
Comptroller General shall consolidate the digests into one
general digest; and he, together with the Governor, shall,
upon the basis thus formed, apportion to each county the
amount of funds to be disbursed for the purposes aforesaid,
to each county.
Sec. III. In the event of there being a deficiency of funds
in the treasury to meet said appropriation, then and in that
case, his Excellency the Governor is hereby authorized to
issue treasury notes to an amount sufficient to meet^ such
deficiency, redeemable in six per cent, bonds or specie, six
months after a treaty of peace between the United S,tates
and the Confederate States ; Provided, in that event, that
the payment to the several Inferior Courts shall be made in
treasury notes, whenever practicable.
Sec. IV. For the purpose of affording immediate relief
to the beneficiaries of this Act, whose necessities will admit
of no delay, his Excellency the Governor is hereby author¬
ized and directed to distribute the sum of four hundred thou¬
sand dollars to the Justices of the Inferior Courts of the
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several counties in this State, and to apportion the amount
aityong the counties kpplyitig fpr relief, yi such amounts as
in his discretion, may be deemed necessary to effect the ob¬
ject herein contemplated; ^Provided, that no county shall
receive, as an advance J)aymeht, exceeding five thousand dol¬
lars i p,nd the amountj, so advanced to each county shall be
deducted from the amounts apportioned to them respective¬
ly in the final distributionf
Sec. Y. The funds to be disbursed itf each county shall
be delivered to the Inferior Court of the county, or to their
order,, under the seal of the Court, and shall, by said Court,
be appropriated to the purposes aforesaid, in such manner
as they shall deem most efficient, and in substantial compli¬
ance us to the application of the ^unds, wjth the act assented
to November 29th, A. D. 1861; or in cases when special
acts have been passed for any of the coiinties, then, in suck
county or counties, in substantial-compliance? with the local
act i"n force in such county or counties.
Sec. VI. The Inferior Courts respectively of the several,
counties of the State, are hereby authorized to make all such,
arrangements and regulations as they may deem necessary,
to secure the custody and application of the fund they may
severally receive ; and they shkll have power to appoint one
or more fit atid discreet person, in each militia district, to
receive the fynd from .{hem, and appropriate it for the use
of the beneficiaries oi this law, by purchasing articles of
prime necessity for tliei;n, or otherwise, as may be found
most to the adv&ntage of the persons interested, and to re¬
ceive and appropriate all such articles as may be delivered
to them in lieu of money, under any provision of this law.
Sec. VII. It shall be the duty of the Inferior Courts ot
the several counties of this State, and all such agents and
other persons as they sliall employ or appoint to aid in
carrying out any of the provisions of this act, or the act of
1861, to make diligent enquiries and to teee that no person
shall receive any aid or assistance under either act* who has
sufficient property, or jneans of support, or income, or who
might have a sufficiency, by using proper industry and labor.
Sec. VIIL If anjr agent appointed to receive and pay out
and appropriate this fund, or such articles as may be deliv¬
ered to ^him in lieu of money, for the purposes aforesaid,
shall apply the same, or any part thereof, to any other use
or uses than those set forth in this law, or shall trade or
speculate on the same, or any part thereof, or shall fail or
refuse to come to a full and fair account, on demand, with
the Inferior Court of the county in which he may have
been appointed, or to such agent as the Inferior Court may
appoint to demand and make such settlement, he shall be
deemed guilty of larceny after trust delegated and confi¬
dence reposed, and on conviction thereof, shall be punished
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by imprisonment in the Penitentiary for a term not less
than two, nor more than seven years ; Provided, that this
Act shall not in any manner repeal or affect an Act assented
to 29th day of November, 1861, or any local acts now in
force for the relief of the widows and children of indigent
soldiers.
Sec. IX. Be it further enacted, That in all distributions
subsequent to the $400,000 required td be first distributed,
the Governor shall make distribution of the fund herer
in appropriated, to the several Inferior Courts of the respec¬
tive counties of the "State, in quarterly instalments, or at
such other stated intervals of time as he inay think best;
and if at any time he shall receive information, or be other¬
wise induced to an opinion, that the fund, or any part
thereof, has been misapplied in any way in any county of
the States he is hereby authorized, before making any "fur¬
ther distribution of the fund to the county in relation to
which he may have received such information or fcome to
suoh conclusion, to require a full explanation and report
from, the Justices of the Inferior Court of such county* re¬
quiring in said report, that the said Justices phall state,
' on oath, to the best and utmost of their information and
belief, the amount and nature of the property held by any
an$ all persons who have been allowed to become benefi¬
ciaries of this Act, ill their particular county.
Sec. "X. Be it further enacted, That it is hereby made the
duty of the Grand Jury in each county, to make diligent
enquiry into the returns,'accounts and disbursements of the
Inferior Courts, quel such agents as may be appointed by
said Courts under this Act, and to make report thereon in
their general presentments, and to make special present¬
ments in case they can obtain information and evidence of
the violation of this Act by any person or persons charged
with its execution in their county.
Assented to December 13th, 1862.
(No. 30.)
An Act to levy and collect a tax for the political year 1863,
and for other purposes.
Section I. The General Assembly do enact as follows, That
His Excellency the Governor of this State, with the assis¬
tance of the Comptroller General, shall assess on the entire
amount of taxable property, (including bonds of this State,
and of the Confederate States) in this State, such a rate per
cent as will raise an amount of revenue, not exceeding one
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and,a half millions of dollars, for the support of the gov¬
ernment of this State, for the political year|1863, any law
to the contrary notwithstanding.
Assented to Deci. 13th, 1862.
(No. 31.)
An Act to prevent the spread of Small Pox in this State*
Whereas, The Small Pox lias bfeen introduced and is
likely to spread into every county in this State, by the re¬
turn of our soldiers, thereby causing great expense.
Section I. Therefore be it enacted by. the General Assembly
of the State of Georgia, That the Justices of the Inferior
Cotirt of each county, or the Corporate authorities of any
town or city in this State, within the limits of which, any
case or cases of Small Pox may appear, or has appeared,
are hereby authorized and empowered to provide a
suitable Hospital for those so afflicted, and to furnish
them with medical, and any Other attention, that in $heir
judgment, those so afflicted may requir6; also to proVide
proper quarantine regulations, to prevent the spread of said
disease, Provided, that no person or persons shall be forced
to leave his or her hor^e, to go to said Hospital when they
are properly provided for and guarded at their own expense;
said Court shall not pay any expense of any case^o situa¬
ted.
SBC. II. And be it further enacted, That said Courts or
corporate authorities shall make or cause to be made, a prop¬
er and just account of all expenses accruing from such
quarantine, and other attention, either medical or nursing,
of all whom they have under their control, and who sub¬
mit to the regulations of said Court or corporate authori¬
ties.
Sec. III. And be it farther enacted, That said Courts or
Corporate authorities have all accounts properly audited, and
forward them to His Excellency the Governor,' who shall
draw his \Varrant on the Treasury for the amount set forth
in sai 1 account or accounts.
Sec. IY. Be it further enacted, That His Excellency the
Governor be, and he is hereby requested and required to pro¬
cure the necessary quantity of genuine vaccine matter,
either by purchase or manufacture, at such reasonable com¬
pensation as he may contract for, and have the same trans¬
mitted to the Justices of the Inferior Courts of each coun¬
ty in this State, for immediate use.
Sec. V. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts
of laws militating against this Act, be and the same are
hereby repealed.^"
Assented to Dec. 13th, 1%2.
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(No. 32.)
An Act to authorize~the Governor to increase the salaries, and
dally or monthly wages of the several officers and employees of
the Western and Atlantic Rail Road of this State.
Whereas, From the present high prices of all provisions
and clothing, many of the hard working, honest and indus¬
trious employees of said Rail Road, whose families are de¬
pendent on their labor for food and raiment, it is almost
impossible for them to procure the most common necessa¬
ries of life, by the salaries or wages they now receive, and
justice requires that they should receive a reasonable com¬
pensation for their services.
Section I. The General, Assembly of the State of Georgia d(f
timet, That from and after the passage of this act, His Ex¬
cellency the Qovernor of this State, be and he is hereby
authorized to increase the salaries and daily or monthly
wages of the Several officers and employees of the Wes¬
tern and Atlantic Rail Road of* this State, to suqh an amount
as he may think reasonable and just in the present condi¬
tion of the country. Provided, that said increase of salaries
or daily wages shall not exceed fifty per centum, on the
amount of salary said officers and employees now receive;
Provided further, that said increase of salary and daily wa¬
ges, shall cease and determine within six months after a
ratification of a treaty of peace between the Confederate
States and the! United States ; and provided further, that
no increase of the pay of any subordinate officer or employee
of said Rail Road, be made by the Governor unless upon
the recommendation of the Superintendent.
Sec. II. And he it further enacted, That should the price
of provisions or clothing be so reduced hereafter as to make
the expense of living cheaper, it shall be the duty of His
Excellency to reduce said salaries and daily or monthly
wages in accordance with the reduced cost of living.
Sec. III. And he it further enacted, That said increased
salaries and daily wages, if any, shall be paid as the salaries
and wages are now paid, out of the earnings of said Rail
Road.
Sec. IV. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts
of laws militating against this Act, be and the same are
hereby repealed.
Assented to Dec. 12th, 1862.
(No. 33.)
An Act to make legal and valid sales made by Sheriffs, and their
Deputies, in certain cases therein mentioned.
Section I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia, do
m ict, That all public sales of property, which have been
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heretofore made by any Sheriff of this State, or liis Depu¬
ty, which has been legally advertised, and sold as the law
directs, shall be legal and valid ; although the Constable
who made the levy and„returned the same to the said Sher¬
iff or his deputy, may not have taken the oath, and given
the bond, and obtained the certificate now required by law.
Sec. II. All laws conflicting yrith this law are hereby
repealed.
Assented io Dec. 12th, 1862.
(No, &4.)
An Act to compensate Clerics and Sheriffs, hi certain cases there¬
in mentioned.
SeCtio'n I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia, do
enact, That from and after the passage of this Act, the sev¬
eral Judges of the Superior Courts of this State, be aud
they are hereby authorized to allow extra compensation to
the Clerks of said Courts fof issuing tvra/m," furnishing sta¬
tionery^ etc., and also, to the Sheriffs, for summoning Grand
and Petit Jurors; for other extra services in attending upon
the Courts, as in their judgment, shall be reasonable and
just? which said allowance, by an order f»hall be enterel
upon the minutes of said Court; and upon presentation of'
a certified copy of the same to the county Treasurer, the
said Treasurer is hereby authorized and required to pay the
same, out of any money in the county Treasury not other¬
wise appropriated.
Sec. II. And be it further enacted b\j the authority aforesaid,
That the Justices of the Inferior Courts, be and they are
hereby authorized and required, when sitting at any session
of said Inferior Courts, to allow the Clerks of said Courts,
euch compensation as shall be reasonable and just, for extra
services, in keeping the records of the Courts for county
purposes, and at the regular sessions for making out venires,
furnishing stationery, &c., and also, to the Sheriffs for sum¬
moning juries, and attending upon the Courts; which shall
be placed upon the minutes of said Courts; and upon pre¬
sentation of a certified copy of such order to the County
Treasurer, he shall pay the same, out of any money in his
hands not otherwise appropriated.
Sec. III. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of
this Act, shall not apply to any county in this State, where
the same matters are regulated by local laws.
Sec. IV. Be it further enacted, That all conflicting laws
be and the same are hereby repealed.
Assented to Dec. 12th, 1862.
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(No. 35.)
An Act to secure the tax upon certain articles of merchandise in
this State.
Whereas, From the Report of th6 Comptroller General,
at is believed that a large amoctnt of revenue has been lost
to the State, on cotton and other produce sold in this State,
in consequence of the misconstruction of that portion of
the Act of 1852 exempting from taxation the annual crops
and provisions of tlie citizens of tliis State} for remedy
whereof,
•Section I. Bn it enacted by the General Awcmhhj of (he State
of Georgia, That aty qotton ahd grain, or other produce, irr
this State, held for barter or sale, on the first day of April
in each and every year4, land not belonging to thtf original
producer, ara hereby declared to be merchandise, and there¬
fore taxable as other property.
Sec. II. Be it farther enactedx That all warehouse-men,,
commissioa merchants, or oilier merchants and agents, be
required to keep a register of all cotton or other produce
received by them, or stored with them ; afrd that, on the
first day ot' April in each aud every year, thfiy shall, under
oath, make a return to the Tax Receiver and Collector, or
Receiver of Tax feeturns, of all cotton or other produce in,
their possession belonging to persons who are not the orig
mal producers, swearing bath as to th$ ownership and val¬
ue of said property, to the best of their knowledge and
belief.
Sec. III. And be itfurthir enacted, That on or immediately
after the first day of April, in each and every year, it shall
be the duty of the Tax-Receiver aud Collector, or Receiver
of Tax Returns, t6 call upon all warehouse-men, commis¬
sion or other merchants, or agents, suspected or believed
by him to have any of the above specified property in pos¬
session, for a schedule aud valuation, under oath, of said
.property; and in th« event thatsai,d warehouse-men, com¬
mission ot other merchants, or agents, fail or refuse to make
a return under oath, within five days after "being thus call¬
ed upm by the Tax Receiver and Collector, or Receiver of
Tax Returns, the said" warehouse-men, couimu&ion mer¬
chants and agents, shall" be deemed and held as defaulters
for said property, and be taxed as such—the sum of one
thousand dollars, in every cas6 of failure or refusal as afore¬
said, to "be collected by the Tax Collector,' Provided, said
warehouse-men, commission merchants 6r agents, shall say
it is out of his power to state who is the owner or owners;
in that event, he shall state who consigned the same to
him.
Sec. IV. And be it further enacted, That when said return
is made to the Tax heceiver and Collector, or Receiver of
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Tax Returns, it shall be*his duty id enter the same on his
digest against the respective owners or consignor of said
cotton or other produce; and, to secure the payment of said
tax, he shall immediately notify the warehouse-man, Com¬
mission merchant o^ other agent, of the amount pf tax due
from each owner or c6nsignor of such cotton or other pro-*
duce^who shall retain in. his or their possession it sufficient
amount of such cotton or other produce, to pay said tax
when due. and upon failure tp do so, shall be personally lia¬
ble for the same j and the Ta* Collector shall issue execu¬
tions therefor Against the warefiquSe-man, commission mer¬
chant, or other agent, as in ot^er case? of defaulting tax¬
payers.
Sec. v. Be it further enacted, That all the warehouse-men
ih the State shqll also he required tp return to the Receiver
of the Tax Returns in this State, all this property Stored with
them by parties resident and jrton-resideut of this State,
on the first day of April liept, and annually thereafter, to¬
gether with the va"lue thereof, for the purpose o( having the
same taxed under the provisions pf this bill; and that all
such warehouse-men shall be required to retain in their
hands a Sufficient amount of said goods to pay the* taxes
that may be assessed upon them by this State.
Sue. VI. Be it further enadttd, That all cotton held by any
merchant, or other parties in this §tate, on the first day of
ApHl "next, and annually thereafter, shall be required to
give in and pay taxes thereqn as for other property, unless
said owners are the producers Qf the same.
Assepted to Decembef 12, 1862.
(No. 36.)
An Act t& exonerate securi'ses on recognizances in c< rtain cases
therein mentioned.
Section I. Thtt General Axemhhj of Georgia do enact,
That, in any and all cases where the principal or principals
to any recognizances requiring him oiitbem to appear and
answer to a charge of riot, or any other offense less than a
felony, has or have heretofore entered, or shall hereafter
enter the military service of the Confederate States, or of
the State of Georgia, during the existing war between the
United States and the Confederate States, and this fact
shall be found by a jury, in any case where the principal
shall fail to appear, the Judge before whom the fact is
found may, in his discretion, enter an exonerator on sucli
recognizance, as to the surety or sureties thereto ; and the
surety or sureties shall pay the costs of the proceeding.
Assented to December 15, 1862.
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(No. 37.)
Att Act- to provide for the better defense of the State, by the re¬
moval and support of all indigent white non-combatants of this
State, in Certain cases.
Section I. The General Assembly of Georgia do enact, That
the sum of three hundred thousand dollars be, and the same
is hereby appropriated from the Treasury of this State, foi1
the purpose of removing from any part of this State threat¬
ened with invasion or attack by the enemy, to a place of
better security therein, all indigent white non-com batants-
of the same^ where it may be Ordered or thought necessary
i>y the military authorities of the Confederate States in
•command in this State, for the bettejr defense of paid State*
•and for the support of all such non-combatants who may
have been, or may hereafter be, removed in the manner or
by the authority aforesaid) sind the GpveriW is hereby
authorized to draw his warr&rtt ott the Treasury in faVor of
the pensjns hereinafter designated to disburse the same, for
said sum or so. muoh thereof as may bts neeessapy for the
purposes aforesaid.
Sec# II. B.' it further (nacted, That wheja such removal
shall be of the inhibitanls of a city or town, th3 arrange-?
ments for such removal and support, and the disUuruemenfc'
therefor, shall, be made by the Mayor and Aldermen, or
Council, or Mayor, Aldohnen, or Council of said city or
town ; and when said removal shall be of ther inhabitants of
•any county at large, then said arrangements for such re¬
moval and support and disbursements shall be made by the
Inferior Court of said county*from whence the removal is
made, provided, there is an Inferior Cou^t acting in said
county; and if not, then thQ same shall be done by the
Mayor of any city in said county ; and all such persons
■chargeable with such disbursements, shall make a full and
complete statement of the Same to the Governor,, when he
.shall require them to do so.
Assented to December 15, 18G2,
(No. 38.)
An Act to settle the conflicts between the Code of Georgia and the
legislation of this General Assembly.
Section I. The General Assembly of Georgia do en net,
That wherever the provisions of the Code of Georgia shall
conflict with the Acts passed by the General Assembly in
the years 186 L and 1S62, the latter shall be the law of this
;State, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.
Assented to December 13, 1S62.
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(No. 39.)
An Act tb change the time of holding elections for Members of
Congress.
Section I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia-
do enact, That the election of Representatives to the Con¬
gress of tlie Confederate States, sliajl be held in tlie respect¬
ive Congressional Districts in this State, at thfe same time
and places as are now prescribed by law for the election or
Governor and ry embers of the Legislature, and the returns
thereof made as heretofore prescribed by law.
Sec. II. Repeals conflicting lawsu
Assented to 13th December, 1S02.
(No. 40.)
An Act to increase Jailors' fees in this State.
Section I. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia
enacts, That the Jailors' fees in this State shall be increased
fifty per cent, on the fees now allowed by law.
Sec. IT. Repeals conflicting lavys.
Assented to December f3, 1862.
(No. 41.)
An Act to enforce the payment, of taxes due by free persons of
color.
Section I. The General. Assembly of Georgia. do enact, That
in all cases where free persons of color shall fail or refuse
to pay their taxes charged against them, and shall have no
property on which to levy, it shall be the duty of any con¬
stable or sheriff', upon written application of the Tax Re¬
ceiver and Collector, to arrest and place in the county jail,
«uch defaulting free person of color, until the next regular
county sale day, when the Tax Receiver and Collector shall
hire out said free person of color, ror such price as will pro¬
duce the amount due the State, and all cost that may have
been incurred.
Sec. II. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to December 13th, 18(32.
(No. 42.)
An Act to exempt from their professional tar all physicians, law¬
yers, and all other persons liable to pay a professional tax, now
enlisted as privates in the armies of the Confederate State, or of
the State of Georgia, during their continuance in, service.
Section I. The Gennal Assembly of Georgia, do enact
That during the continuance of the present war, all phyi
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«icians, lawyers, and all other persons liable to pay a pro-
essional tax, who are, or shall be> enlisted as privates in the
S^rnI(if ° ^on^erate States, or the State of Georgia,
s a be exempted from the payment of the professional tax
now imposed by law.
Sec. J I. Repeals all, conflicting laws.
Assented to Dec. 15th, 1S62.
'■i <ii . in
^No. 43.)
A/i A to alu r and amend the. Rrywnup Law* of this State, and
to yrdYld '. a penalty for the violation, thereof.
Section J. m (rmefal A>s> mljhj oj, Georgia do enact,
That so mucl^ of the- first Section of an Act assented to the
11th flay of December. 1S53, as relates to allowing Tax Re¬
ceivers and Collector's doubly commissions for returning the
property and collecting the tax thereon,, of persons not on
the first, or Receiver's digest, be, and the same is hereby
repealed; and hereafter Tax Receivers Jmd Collectors shall
only be allowed single ^commissions, 6n the tax thus collec¬
ted.
Sec. II. Be it further enacted, That on or before the 15th
day of December in each arjd every year, the Tax Receiv¬
ers and Collectors shall make ©at,, under oath, their returns
of property not on the first, or Receiver's digest, as provided
for under the first Section of the Act of the 11th day of
December, 1S-5S, and forward the same on the 20th day of
December, in each and every year, or such other day as
may be designated by law as a day of final settlement by
Tax Collectors; and if up to the l5th day of December,
said officers have not been ablu to find any property in the
county OTiv'tfVfl on the finfc or Rr^ivr'i (Jig'ist, they shall
swear that they have not been able to find any of said pro¬
perty, and send their affidavits t© the Comptroller General's
office ; and any Tax Receiver and Collector who shall have
collected money from tax-payers not on the first, or Receiv¬
er's digest* and who shall fail or refuse to make his returns,
and pay said money into the Treasury by the 20th day of
December in each and every year, or at such time as may
be designated by law for tbt? final settlement by Tax Col¬
lectors, said officers shall be deemed and field in default,
and shall be liable to a penalty or tax of five hundred dol¬
lars ; said penalty or tax, in addition to the amount of mo¬
ney belonging to the State, retained by said Collectors, to
be collected by an execution against said defaulting Receiv¬
er and Collector, and his securities, to be issued upon infor¬
mation by the Comptroller General J one half of the five
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hundred dollars to go to the informed who will produce to
the Comptroller General any receipt of the Collector, or
other paper showing that the Collector has sufch m<^ney in
his hands, belonging to the State ; Trovid<d% that bo
of this (section as relates to rewarding iriformelrs shall not
go into effect Until after the first day of Apt il next' ■
SEti. III. B& zf further InacteJ, That fell foreign Insurance
Companies, Vrgauized, controlled,, or managed by persons
without the limits of th^s State, be, and tjiey are hereby
required to mafce their returns, under path, and their
tax to the State Treasurer, on the thirty-fir&t day of December
in each end every yeai;; said companies shall pay a "tax of
one per cent, upon the premiums they receive in this State
for the year closing the ^ 1st December; p.ml each and eyery
agent of stftd company who shall fail oC tefuse to make
their returns and pay their tdX as so directed, within ten
days after the. thirty-first of December* shall jb© deemed and
held as a defaulter ; and upon the information, th"e Comp¬
troller Oreneral is hereby directed to issue execution against
■said .defaulting agent, for a default tax of five, hundred dol-
lais; and if said execution shall not be paid ^within ninety
day$*afler the date tfiereofrany persoh or persons vHio, as
agent on otherwise, shall issue a*, policy of said Company
wTithin the fctateot Georgia, shall bt^ deemed ?md held guilty
of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof, shall be sub¬
ject to be fined in the sum of "not less thail five hundred dol¬
lars, nor more than one thousand dollars, and shall also be
confined in the county jail for a period of not less than three
mouths nor more than six months.
Sec. IV. Be it further enacted, That it shall not be lawful
for any Tax Receiver and Collector, or Receiver of Tax Re-
tuns, to appoint anageni or deputy, unless from providen¬
tial cause or disability that occurs after his election ; and in
case any Tax Receiver and Collector, or Receiver of Tax
Returns, shall violate the provisions of this Act, upon satis¬
factory evidence being funished ^o thti Inferior Court, or a
majority of the sauje, it shall be their duty to dismiss from
office said offending officer, and appoint another person to
fill the vacancy, and take from said j>ersoii so appointed the
usual bond required by law of said officers,
Sec- V. Be it further epiacted, That whenever, from prov¬
idential cause, or disability incurred after election, any Tax
Receiver and Collector, or Receiver of Tax Returns, or Tax
Collector, finds it necessary to appoint an agent or depty to
discharge his duties within the time prescribed by law, ifc
may be lawful for said officer to appoint an agent or depty*
by first obtaining the written consent of his securities, and
obtaining also the sanction of a majority of the Justices of
the Inferior Court as to the appointment he may make •
said agent or deputy must take the same oaths as his princi-
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pal ? and lie is hereby authorized to administer the usual
oaths to tax-'payers and others, that the Tax Receivers and
Collectors are now authorized to administer, buf the
principal (together with his securities) shall be responsible
on his bond for the acts of the agent or deputy. Any Tax
Receivers and Collectors, or Receiver of Tax Returns, or
Tax Collector, violating the provisions of this Act, shall suf¬
fer the penalty named in the preceding section of this Act.
Nothing in this or the preceding Sectfon shall be so con¬
strued, as to prohibit a Tax Receiver and Collector, or a Re¬
ceiver of Tax Returns, from employing some one to assist
him in faiaking out and adding up his books, after the tai
returns have been received.
Sec. VI. Be it further enacted* That no bank or other
corporation shall be required to pay tax on any bonds, either
of this State or the Confederate States,in any casein which
said bonds are already taxed as part of their capital stock,
but shall pay on the whole of their capital stock, and on all
such bonds held by such* bank, or other corporation, over
and above their capital stock.
SeC. VII. Repeals conflicting laws.
Assented to Dec. 15th, 1862.
(No. 44.)
An, Act, to repeal An Act and the Acts of which it is amendatory,
entitled An Act to provide for the. indigent deaf and dumb cit¬
izens of this State; and a/so to piovide for the appointment of
a Commissioner, to regulate his duties, affix his salary. and ap¬
propriate money therefor, by increasing the annual appropri¬
ation, and fur other purposes, approved January loth, 1852.
Section I. Be it enacted, Sfc., That the above recited Act,
together with all Acts of which it is amendatory, be, and
the same are hereby repealed.
Sec. II. Repeals conflictinglaws.
Assented to December 15th, 1862.
IMPORTANT RESOLUTIONS.
(No. 1.)
W&e^eas, reliable infotmatjou is in possession of the
General Assembly, tlint the Georgia ijroops in thtf Confed¬
erate service, most pf whom are in comparatively frozen
latitude, aije destitute, many of them, of that clothing nec¬
essary to reuder therrt comfortable, and, hi many intances,
even ttf preserve life itself:
And whereas, the Georgia Relief and Hospital Association,
much a$ it has don© and is still doing, is entirely inadequate
to the emergency*:
And whereas, our soldiers, being not only composed of
tho^e endeared to us by the ties of bloody but also our great
tulwark of defense should, fr6m considerations of gratitude
towards, and affection for them, as well as safety to our¬
selves as a people, be rendered as comfortable as possible,
find thereby strengthened for the deadly conflict :
And whereas, the dreadful alternative now forces itself
upon us as legislators, humanitarians and kindred, in all its
startling import, whether our brave boys shall be clothed
by extraordinary energy, unusual effort, and resorting to
means apparently harsh, but really necessary, or whether
they shall be suffered to shiver and die, away from home and
kindred, in inhospitable climes, for1 the want of shoes and
clothing which are in our midst, but cannot he obtained
without the measure hereinafter recommended:
Then/or?, Resolved by the Senate and lionet: <>f Reprcschtatives,
1st. That His Excellency,the Governor of Georgia, bo, and
he is hereby authorized and requested, if satisfactory ar¬
rangements cannot be made with the proprietors otherwise,
to seize all the factories, and tanneries, and manufactured
articles in this State^ or so many of them as he may find
necessary, and to appropriate their whole products 10 the
use hereinbefore indicated, till a good pair of shoes, and a
good suit of clothes are furnished to every Georgia soldier
in service, who needs such assistance ; Provided, That he
seize no factory now in the possession of the Confederate
Government; And provided further, That he interfere with
no bona fide contract or contracts, which have been made
with the Confederate Government, or its authorized agents,
for any of said articles. '
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2nd, That, the following prices shall be paid by His Ex-*
cellency for the artices herein set forth, viz :
For leather, per pound, one dollar; for shoes, such as are
suitable for soldiers, per pair, three dollars 5 for each block
or bunch of cotton yarn, (5 lbs ) two and one half dollars j
for cotton osnaburgs, per yard, twenty-five cents; for
woolen jeans, per yard, two dollars ; for cotton shirting
f yard wide, per yard, twenty cents, and in the same
proportion for shirting 6f any other width ; for Georgia
cassimere, peryard, two and one half dollars—or such other
prices as will afford a reasonable profit upon the prime cost
•of said.•articles.
,3d, That, should any other article made, raised, imported
into, or manufactured in this State, which is not embraced
in the foregoing schedule, be found necessary for the comfort
of our soldiers, in such case, Ilts Excellency (the Governor
js authorized to pursue the course hereinbefore1 pointed out
in reference "to the articles specified, and pay just compen-r
sation therefor.
4th. That, in the event of His Excellency the Governor
seizing any factories, tanneries and shoe shops, he be
authorized to employ operatives to work therein, and pay
just compensation for their services.
5th. That the Governor of this State, be, and he is here¬
by authorized, if necessary, to extend the limit of these
resolutions, for and during the year 1863, so as to insure
clothing and shoes for our necessitous Georgia troops, for
said year.
Approved November 25th, 1862.
(No. 2.)
Resolutions declaring the sanction of the State upon the contracts
made for the manufacture -of Salt in Washington and Smythe
counties, Virginia, and authorizing the Governor to make till
necessary arrangemtints to secure the prompt transportation of
S ilt obtained there a.ni elsewhere for supply* to Georgia.
Wheesas, we are? informed that a large quantity of Salt
has been manufactured $t Saltville, in the counties of Wash¬
ington and Smythe in the State of Virginia, and is now in
store at that place awaiting transportation to Georgia:
And whereas, We are further informed, that owing to the
greatly increased requirements for transportation over the
several railroads leading from that place to Georgia,
the transportation of Salt to Georgia has already been
greatly delayed, and without some action of the State, will
probably continue subject to delays:
And whereas, considerable expenditures of money and la¬
bor have been made by Georgians at that place, and the
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manufacture of Salt is expected to be continued there-du¬
ring; such time as the1 necessities of our people require it,
under a contract heretofore made by .His Excellency Joseph
E. JBrown, GovernoGof Georgia, and under a contract made
by4 the Planters' Salt Manufacturing Company, the work,
ander the former contract being conducted by the govern¬
ment qf theSt&te directly, through its appointed agent and
the1 work*, un<W the latter contract, being conducted under
the Sanction bf State government, fn part by the Planters*
Salt Manufacturing Company, and in patfc b^ the Georgia
Salt Manufacturing Company : 4
And whereas, other complies are engaged jrl the-work at
and nea,r Saltville, for supply.in Georgia, and without any
elemelit of speculation or gain, in the organization or oper¬
ation of sai(J works:
And whereAs* other enterprises have been organized with
private capital, and are now being prganized for the pur¬
pose of manufacturing, or otherwise obtaining Salt for dis-
tributiofy wfthout speculation, in Georgia: Therefore,
Rcsotve4 1st. That this General Assembly cheerfully ac¬
cords to each of the enterprises above mentioned and re¬
ferred to, the fu^t sanction of our commendation and appro¬
val; anct that to each of said enterprises, and to all such
enterprises as may noW1 be organizipg, or may hereafter be
organized, for the supply of Salt, without.speculation, to
the people of Georgia, or any portion of them, the Gener¬
al Assembly pledges every reasonable encouragement and
assistance, within the scope of our Constitutional power as
Representatives of the people of the State.
2nd Resolved, That His Excellency the Governor, be, and
he is hereby authorized and requested, to send trains of
cars to Saltville, Virginia, from the Western and Atlantic
Rail Road, so early as practicable, atad of sufficient capacity
for the transportation of all the Salt heretofore manufac¬
tured tinder the contracts above referred to, and provided
that, if th(^ Governor finds the Road unable to spare a suffi¬
ciency" of engines and cars for this purpose, and at the
same time, keep up its necessary rolling stock, he is hereby
empowered to make or cause to be made, all necessary ar¬
rangements to secure the requisite rolling stock from any
corporation in the f^nfederacy, or from any other source.
He is hereby further authorized and eippowered to adopt all
such measures, as in his discretion ijiay be necessary,to secure
not only the prompt transportation to Georgia ot all such
Salt as may have been made, but of all that may hereafter be
made or obtained at Saltville, or elsewhere, for the purpo¬
ses of distribution as above declared. To that end, the Gov¬
ernor is empowered to make all such arrangements and to
employ such agent or agents as he may deem appropriate.
And the Governor is hereby authorized to draw his warrant
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*ipon the Treasury, for such amounts as may be found nec¬
essary, in the performance of the duties herein created; pro¬
vided such drafts shall not exc.W in amount, the sum
hereafter to be appropriated for the purpose aforesaid; aud
provided further, that for such facilities as may be afforded
under these resolutions, to any individual or association,
the full amount that may be expended, or incurred by the
State, to obtain the same, shall be promptly refunded to the
State Treasury, by the individual or association, at whose
instance the expenditure was madei
3rd Resolved, Thai} His Excellency, the Gqveruor is here¬
by re^itested and empowered, tb certify the sanction of the
State, Government, upon any arrangement for the transpor¬
tation, manufacture, or otherwise obtaining Salt, for distri¬
bution in Georgia, without speculation, which may hereaf¬
ter be made by* any association or individual, to the end^*
that such encouragement and protection may be extended
to every such enterprise, which the fact that they act un¬
der the approval of the government of Geprgia, will insure
them.
Assented to November 28th, 1S62.
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(No. 3.)
A Resolution to facilitate the transportation of Salt to Georgia.
Whereas, it is highly important to the people of Geor¬
gia, that every facility shall be rendered to the manufacture
and transportation of salt; And whereas, we are informed
that the Secretary of War has given assurances to some
parties engaged in the manufacture of salt, that the salt
made by them for distribution in Georgia, should be facili¬
tated in its transit to Georgia, in every reasonable way con¬
sistent with other requirements of the public service.
Therefore, ,
1, llesoloed. That we do most cordially approve this pol¬
icy of the Confederate Government, not only so far as it
concerns the State of Georgia, but as to every State in the
Confederate States ; and that the Governor be requested to
notify the Confederate authorities at Richmond of all such
arrangements as may hereafter be made by him, or with
Ibis sanction, for the transportation of salt t^ Georgia, and
respectfully invite the co-operation of the Confederate Gov¬
ernment in such measures as will secure its safe, uninter¬
rupted and speedy transit to the State.
Assented to November 13, 1862.
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(No. 4.)
JResolved by the General Assembly, That his Excellency the
Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and requested to
seize so many cars and locomotives of the different rail¬
roads of this State, provided, he cannot obtain them other^
wise on reasonable terms, a^ may be necessary to transport
the salt belonging to this State, now in Virginia^ to conve¬
nient; ahd suitable depots ; and that he be required to pay
said railroad companies just compensation for the use of
said rolling stock—said compensation to be provided for in
the general appropriation frill.
Provided, nothing contained in the foregoing resolution
shall authorize the Ooyeruor to interfere with any requisi¬
tion made upon sa}d roads by the ^Confederate military au¬
thorities.
Assented to November 25,1862.
(No. 5.)
Resolved by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia,
That his ^Excellency the Governor is authorized and re¬
quested to have all salt belonging to citizens of this State
brought frorh Saltville, and other places in Virginia,
Tennessee and Alabama, so soon as the same can be done;
and that he continue so to do, so long as salt may accumu¬
late at Saltville, or other places, belonging to citizens of
Georgia.
2. Resolved, That, in case he shall not be able otherwise
to obtain transportation for such salt, he js authorized and
empowered to impress a sufficient number of engines and
cars belonging to any one or more of the- railroads of this
State, to furnish sych transport!)tion, pitying therefor such
compensation as shall be reasonable and just j Provided, that
the poisons for^tbe transportation of whose salt any cars
may be seized and used, shall pay the expenses incurred by
such use; Provided further, that said cars shall not be used
for the transportation of sale belonging to speculators.
Assented to December-4, 1862. *
(No. 6.)
.Resolutions to provide ambulance cars for sick and wounded sol¬
diers on the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
Resolved by the General Assembly, That the Superintendent
of the Western and Atlantic Railroad be instructed, and the
Presidents and Superintendents of other railroads in this
<fci>
State be requested, to attach to each passenger train, one
or more ambulance cars, with bunks, upon which can be
placed bed sacks filled with cotton, hay, or straw, for the *
(purpose of transporting sick and wounded soldiers.
Resolved further, That transportation be furnished to Sur¬
geons 011 the Western and Atlantic Railroad, while attend-
ang or* sick and wounded soldiers on, said Western and At¬
lantic Railroad.
Assented, to December 9, 1862.
(No. 7.)
Resolution relative to soldiers in the military service.
Resolved, That the Legislature of the State of Georgia
-request all persons holding claims against any person in the
military service of the State or Confederate States, to with¬
hold suing said claims during the present war.
Assented to December 12, 1862.
(No. 8.)
Resolved by the General 'Assembly of the State of Georgia,
That his Excellency the Governor, be requested to instruct
the Superintendent of the Western & Atlantic Railroad to
furnish all the passenger cars ii#iiis power, for the transpor¬
tation of sick and wounded soldiers ; and in case the pas¬
senger cars cannot be furnished, he be instructed to fix up
box cars with comfortable seats.
Assented to November 2Sth, 1862. .
(No. 9.)
A Resolution as to shipment of com for destitute persons, at me¬
dium, rates.
Whereas?, By reason of a very short crop of corn in
Northern Georgia, many families of soldiers will, suffer for
(bread during the corning year, unless it can be brought at
reasonable rates from Southwestern Georgia. Therefore,
' Resolved, That the General Assembly request the various
Railroad Companies in this State to ship corn at half rates,
which is purchased for'destitute persons, and not for sale
or speculation ; and that the Governor be requested to ship
the same over the Western & Atlantic Railroad, free of
charge.
Assented to December 4th, 1862.
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(No. 10.)
Resolved, That the Governor be, and he is hereby author¬
ized, to appoint a commissioner, or commissioners, to audit
the claims for guns furnished by its citizens for State de¬
fence j and that the amount due each claimant be paid out
of the military fund for State defense.
Assented to November 25th, 1862.
(No. 11.)
Resolutions to authorize the impressment of free negroes, as well
as slaves.
Resolced by the General Assembly of Georgia That the res-*
olutions passed at this sessiob, authorizing the Governor,
when necessary to impress negroes to work on the de¬
fences around Savannahj and to qbstruct the rivers, were
intended to embrace as well free negroes us slaves^ and that
the Governor is authorized, when necessary, to impress all
free negroes for the purposes aforesaid, on tl^e samf1 terms
and conditions as slaves are authorized to be impressed.
Arid be it further resolved, That the free persons of color
so impressed, shall be kept and worked separately from {he
slaves impressed into the service of this State.
Assented to December 6th, ]S62.
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(No. 12.)
Rcwlved by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia,
Tharthe Tax Receivers of this St&te shall require all tax¬
payers, when they give in their annual returns, to State the
number, age and sex of all blind, and deaf*and dumb child¬
ren in his or her family; which shall he entered in columns
in the tax b<!>oks of the Receivers, to be prepared for that
purpose^
Assented to November 28th, 1862.
(No. 13.)
Whereas, there are several persons, refugees from the
coast of this State, and who have had a portion of their
slaves seized and carried off by the Abolitionists; and whereas,
eaid persons have purchased lands in the interior, and are
now clearing and enclosing lands for the future support of
themselves and families; and whereas, the slaves of such
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persons are now subject to impressment for public de¬
fense. To remedy this wrong, be it
Resolved, That the Governor be requested to relieve the
said citizens from sucli impressment of their slaves.
Assented to December 10th, 1862.
(No. 14.)
Resolved by the General ^Assembly, That the Governor be,
and he is hereby authorized to call into the service of th6
State, two JlegiiVients of Militia, to consist of companies
not exceeding one hundred men, rank and hie, including
Ahe tfro companies now in service on the Western and At¬
lantic Hail Road; such amount of said force to be employed
for guarding and protecting ^he Rail Road bridges of this
State; as hti paay deem necessary \ and the remainder of
said force, tb be used for such purposes, and at such points
in this State, as to His Excellency ghall Seem advisable.
Resolved further, That His Excellency the Governor, be,
and he is hereby authorized, in raising said Regiments, to
ad^rtise and call for volunteers from all the militia, except
+ i^SpiiH-.in actual service of the Confederacy, and from
?*ucli able lao'die^l piti/ens of this State, not subject to mili
taryduty, as will volunteer; stating where each Regiment
will be located or expected ta perfomj service ; and the
same shall be organized by tl#®Adjyitant4 General of this
State, pursuant to the laws now of force in said State, and
such rules and regulations, consistent therewith, as he may
prescribe therefor. *> f
Resolved further, That the Regiments so <^gamz£<i'j%all
be governed by, and subject to, the rulesj&nd artt|fP> of
war of the Confederate States, the military* laws of the
Confederate States, and the Confederate regulations for the
army, so far as consistent with the Constitution of Georgia,
Resolved further, That the pay and allowances of the offi¬
cers, non-commissioned officers, musicians and privates,
shall be the same as in the Confederate army ; and drawn
from the military fund provided for the year 1863, accord¬
ing to the usage now obtaining.
Assented 4;o Dec. 13th, 1862.
INDEX.
Act Wo. 1. Distillation of spirituous liquors and alcohol, in Georgia.
2, Supplementary to the above Act.
3, As ta obstructing navigabie streams in Georgia.
4, Relitf to the Banks and people.
5- Act to provide ■clothing, &.C., to Georgia troops in Bervico.
6. To provide salt to the people.
7. Stay Law re-enacted.
8. Road Laws.
9. Change bills to be issued by State.
10. Manufacture of Wool and Cotton Cards,
11. Computation of interest, in certain cases,
IS}. Manner of issuing change bills by banks, legalized.
13. To prevent soldiers in service from being double taxed.
14* Defaulting Tax Collectors.
15. Relief of Executors, Administrators and Guardians.
16. County tax on Railroad and Bank Stock.
17. Patrol Laws.
18. Incorporated Factories to publish lists of stockholders.
19. Prtrol Laws.
20. Compensation for stills seized.
21. Governor to pay freights oil tjalt, in certain cases.
22. Poisoning fish.
23. Support ot widows and orphans out of estates of deceased persons.
24. Act rcguiating the cultivation of Cotton.
25. Guardians, Administrators, Executors and Minors.
2(L Justices of the Peace being Cleiks of Courts.
27: Georgia Relief and Hospital Association.
2f$. Deeds made by Deputy Sheriffs, legalized.
29. Act for support of soldiers' families
3). Tax for ye ir 1SG3. S"
31. To prevent aiMjad ftf SmallEA.
3:2. Increase of pay of pffirers,ff<p, on W. & A. Railroad,
33. Certajn wales by Sherms and Deputy Sheriffs, legalized.
34. Compensation to Clerks and Sheriffs.
'3.') Tax on inerchandisein warehouses, fee.
-To exonwfitjj sureties on recognizances of soldiers, in certain cases.
^t7.#Ueinvvaltiflfnon combatants.
Jfc.VjjftitttctB between Code and Acts of 18G1-2.
• % bVc&jiim %' members ot Congress*
^jE«Jsiilors.' ffeil J' ,
Tl. Collecjiuft ^>ffax on free negroes.
42. ProtV.\-;iftiJil"ax of soldiers in service.
43. Amendments to revenue laws.
44. llepenl of all Acts making appropriations on account of Deaf and Dumb
Asylum.
RESOLUTIONS.
No. 1. Clothing for Soldiers—seizures, &c.
2. Approving contracts made by Governor for Salt from Virginia.
3. Transportation of Salt to Georgia.
4. Transportation of Salt—seizure of Cars and Locomotives, &c.
5. do do do do do
6. Ambulances for sick and wounded soldiers.
7. Recommending creditors not to sue soldiers while iuservice.
8. Accommodations for sick and wounded soldiers passing ovtir the W. & A.
Railroad.
9. Shipment of corn for destitute persons.
10. Claims for gnns taken for use in State service.
11. impressment of free negroes.
12. Blind, and deaf and dumb children to be given in by tax-payers
13. Slaves of certain persons exeirpt, from inipicssment.
14. Two Regiments of Militia for State service.
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