The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1877-07-20

citiZens enIitieu 10 tie Deuentc VI 1uo
homestead.
Resolutions have been introduced
to submit the election Of Judges Of
the Supreme court to people, serve
four years, saIary $4,000 a year F;
others Supreme Court to appoint
others the Legislature elect, and
others the Governor to appoints M
Gus Wright and josh Hill had q
lengthy debate upon q motion to APP
point chaplain. Hill don't believe
in the efficacy Of prayer, and Wright
does.
A. G.. Mcintosh, of Cobb, intro.
ducsd resolution that the per diem
Of delegates shall be 81 per day and
s cents mileage.
James Polk, OF DeKalb, wants
jury trials in Justices courts when
desired and Inferior courts restored.
Mr.. Fontaine wants to reduce and
fix per centage OF tax collectors.
Mr.. Underwood wants the State
school commissioners office abolish
ed and the Governor to do his work.
H, r. Casey, of Columbia, wants
$4,000 homestead vested in wife and
children and no waiver.
Weir Boyd wants present homes
stead abolished and restore the old
system of appeal as practiced pre-
vious to 1868. d e
Porter Ingram wants $4,000
homestead, with waiver. gae.a
l.. J, Winn wants no imprison-
,nent for debt except where q man
attempts to conceal his property.
Mynatt wants five judges Of Su-
peme court. 8i a !.
Donaldson wants to abolish COINS
ty courts and boards of commissions
ers.
Creeoh wants petit jury of six
and grand jury OF thir.ean members.
Mobley wants TO reduce the num
Der of State officials and limit the
gardening power of the Governor,
who is to be elected every two years
with salary Of SO, 500 and no emolu-
ments.
Underwood wants the Supreme
Court of Georgia abolished. m
Wells, of Lee county, wants dogs
taxed not less than tive dollars nor
more than ten dollars each.
Judge Harrell wants to preserve
the present Senatorial districts, and
give each two representatives in the
Legislature, with biennial sessions.
Senators and Legislators to have
three dollars per day, specie basis.
General Gartrell wants the Legis-
lature to prevent railroads from dis,
originating in rates.
Matthews wants to make sinks
ing fund of the income Of the w, a
Atlantic and Macon and Brunswick
railroads and to use proceeds of sale
OF RAILROADS to reduce bonds. i
Wallace wants . Legislature Of ~
members, With biennial sessions, 7
clerks 10 the house and 10 in the
senate, salary Of Vi60 year each
and FIVE cents mileage.
Guerrard wants public officers to
receive no extra compensation ont.
side of shsir salary. @ so 81
Grace wants all persons seagiGss
ed of crime involving moral tupi-
tuds DISTINGUISHED. s4 sass
Raclatt wants Jurors in counties to.
serve for one dollar per day, 80
Mershon wants twenty Judicial
circuits, election after 0ctohsr 1850.
and every four years thereafter, one
Judge from each district, elected by
ell the districts, judges alternating in
holding courts, salary $4,000 each.
Donaldson wants 40 asS soantias
and one representative from each
county, and no State aid granted to
any enterprise. a 1se
Perry wants the wife's property
inherited by her at marriage, ss.l
quirsd after by.labor or gift, net to-
be subject to her husbasd'a debts. I
Hamilton wants the public schools
to have no money but the poll tax.
Hudson wants TO change the name
of Court of OldiaGsy to Court Of
Probate comforting the title of judge.
Willis wants - judicial circuits
10 the State,
Dismnks wanta 20 prohibit certain
tritling local Legislation.
Hill wants 5000 worth of personal
property exempted from taxation.
johnson wants the circuit judges
to report annually the defects in the
Jaws to the Supreme Court Judges,
thsy to report to the Governor and
be 10 recommend The Legislature to
remedy.
Gen. Wofford wants no one pro-
hibited from voting on account OF
non. payment of poll tax, that dis
shall only be after COM
victiOn for crime.
By A. c. Mcintosh, of Cobb: BE
!, ordained that the homestead pro-
vided for in the Constitution of 1865
be now and forever abolished, and