The Marietta journal. [volume] (Marietta, Ga.) 1866-1909, 1879-10-23
BILLS PASSED BY THE LEGISLA
TURF

We did not publish all tho stuff
introduced while the Georgia Legis>
ture was in session, but that body
having adjourned, we will publish
weekly the captions of acts passed
until the number is exhausted:
To amend section All of the
code relative to larceny from the
person.
To prescribe the manner of allow
ing insolvent lists to tax collectors.
To provide for filling vacancies that
may occur in the office of governor.
To prescribe tho jurisdiction of
Justices of The peace and notaries
who are OK -oflicio Justices and to re-
quiro thom to hold monthly courts.
To authorize police courts to i'm
pose sentences in the alternative.
To permit parties defendant in all
cases where a plea of recouplno nt
has been filed to recover there
IN any damages proven In excess OF
the claim of the plaintiff.
To fix fees Of county officers in
cases OF lunacy.
TO require constsbles and bailins
to sell only on regular days and in
legal hours of sale.
To amend section 3645 Of the code
relative to pay of States witnesses
from other counties.
10 authorize city of West Point to
organize a system of public schools.
To protect liberty of citizens in
cases for the recovery of personal
property where bail is required.
To amend section 1910 of the
code relative to punishment for mis-
dcmeanors.
70 appropriate $4,000 and use
of the walls of the old penitentiary
to the trustees of the Iunatic asylum
to enlarge buildings for colored pa
tients.
To cede to the United States cer-
tain lands in the Savannah river.
To provide for the acceptance by
the State Of the proposal Of the city
Of Atlanta to convey to the State a
site for a capitol.
To change the time of holding the
superior courts of Lumpkin and
Dawson counties.
To confer additional powers on
tax collectors and to make them ex>
ofIicio she.ffs, otc.
To establish tho line between
Georgia and North Carolina.
To remove from the capitol the
odious sign Kimball Opera House
To fix the fees Of justices Of the
peace in appeal cases.
To prevent forfeitures of recogni
zances in criminal eases, except
when the state ready for trial.
TO authorize the comptroller>gen.
eral to administer oaths,
To prescribe tho manner OF letting
the public printing.
To amend section 1876 of the
code relative to creation of private
corporations by the courts.
70 prevent driving or grazing of
diseased cattle in places where cattle
are not diseased.
To prevent sale Of liquor in Nc
Dufiie county.
To repeal act consolidating Offices
of clerk Of court aud treasurer of
Pauldirg county.
To amend section 2070 of the
code.
To authorize each county to es-
tablish and maintain a system Of
drainage.
10 amend sections 9jl, 952 and
953 Of the code as to lost bonds so
as TO make it apply to lost coupons.
To prescribe manner Of creating
corporation by the courts.
70 amend an act carrying into ef-
feet paragraph 2, section Is, article
g Of TIE constitution.
To provide for organizing chain
gangs for misdemeanor convicts.
TO authorize the sale or lease of
the Macon and Brunswick railroad
TO amend section rs of the school
Law of 1872.
To repeal sections 4367-S of the
code, and to amend section 1886 Of
the revised code, and to prescribe