The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1870-12-23
70 49,. SHERIFFs, DEPUTY SHERiFFs, MARSHAL
ETC, AND TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.

70 LII SHERIFFs, DEPUTY SHERiFFs, MARsHAIs
Etc, AND TO THE PEOPLE OF GEORGIA.
Your attention is earnestly invited to the following
laws relating to elections II will thus be that
the Legislative Department of the Government has
done its duty in the direction of providing laws
whereby peace and good order NAV be maintained
during the tims of holding the election, and it only
remains for the officers charged with the execution
of these laws to their observance, and to the
arrest of such persons willfuly violate then end
thereby endanger the lives of ctizeps,
Now therefore to the epd that no incentive may
be wanting to induce the rigid execution Of these
laws. hereby issue this, my PROCLAMATION, offering
a reward of One Hundred Dollars for the arrest and
conviction of each and every person who may vio-
late either or both of said laws, The laws are Is
follows
AN ACT TO CARRY INTO EFFECT SECTION !, AR
r1cLE 9, OF THE CONSTITUTION OF THE STATE.
Section l. Be it enacted by the Senate and HOUSE
of Represent tves in General Assembly met. That
from and Immediately after the passage of this act,
if any person shall sell intoxicating liquors on thu
election days at or within one mile from the city,
town precinct Bhars elections may be held, he
shall be guilty Of misdemeanor, and on eo1vctien
thereof, shall be fined in q not exceeding fifty
dollars or Imprisonment in the common jail Of the
county not exceeding ten days OF both. at the dis
erection of the court for each and every Offense.
'Sec. 2. Repeats conflicting laws"
Approved, March 10, 1869.
AN ACT TO PRESERVE THE PEACE AND HARMONY
OF THE PEOPLE OF THIS STATE, AND FOR OTHER
PURPOSES
"Secton /. Be it enacted by .ha Senate aud
House of Representatives Of the State Of Georgia in
General Assembly convened, That from and imme-
diatey after the passage of this act person in said
State of Georgia. be permitted or allowed to carry
about his her person any dirk, Bowie knife, pis-
tel OF revolver or any kind of deadly weapon to any
court of justice any election ground precinct,
or any place of pubic worship, any other public
gathering in this State, except militia muster
grounds.
"Sec 2. Be it further enacted That if any person
or persons shall violate any portion Of the above re-
cit ed section of this act he she they shall be gull
| ty of misdeme3nor, and upon cengictcn shall be
punished by fine of not less than twenty nor more
than fifty dollars for each and every such oense, or
| imprisonment in the common Jail OF the county, not
less than ten more than twenty days, or BOTH at
| the discretion of the Court,
| Sec. 3. Repeal conflicting laws"
| Approved October Is, 1870.
Officers will bear in mind in this connection the
Constitutional restriction in regard to the arrest of
electors during the times of election which 10 as fol-
/ lows:
Article g. Section z. Electors SHALL in all cases
except treason, felony, breach Of the peace, Be
privileged from arrest for five days before an cleo
ton, during the pleetion and two days subsequent
thereto"
Given under my hand and the Great Seal of the
State, at the Capitol in Atlanta this 18th day Of
December, in the year Of our Lord Eighteen
| Hundred and Seventy and Of the Independence
| of the United States Of America the Ninety.
fifth.
RUFUS B. BULLOCK,
Governor,
By the Governor:
DAVID G. CoTTING,
Secretary of State.
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