Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1902-11-23
GEORGIA. LEGISLATURE
House Passes a Number Of Important
General Bills.

General Bills.
Atlanta, Nov. 22.-The house did
more practical work yesterday than
it has done on any day of the pres
ent session. Twenty-four bills were
passed, nine of them being of gen
eral application and the others local
This work was done In the last two
hours of the session, the first part Of
it being taken up with the introduc'
ton of new bills and matters of mi
nor Importance.
Among the important measures
passed by the house was one by Mr.,
Fielder, of Bibb, providing that co
caine shall be sold only on a doc
tors prescription. If this bill be-
comes a law it will do away with the
indiscriminate sale of cocaine to ha
bitual takers of the drug. The bill
puts cocaine on the same basis with
other poisons, and throws the same
safeguards around it's sale.
Mr.. Slaton's bill providing that the
suits of debts due to nonresidents for
the purpose of attachment, shall be
within this state, was passed without
opposition. This makes it possible
to sue non-residents by attachment
in the courts of this state.
Another general measure by Mr..
Fielder, of Bibb, which was passed,
requires that in all claim cases tho
claimant shall set out in his affidavit
all the grounds relating to his claim,
so as to put the opposition on notica
of all the points he will have to meet
on the trial of the case.
Two other general bills by Mr.. Sla'
ton were passed. One of these applies
the law against cheating and swiRd'
ling to those who cheat or swfndld
corporations, as we'll as those who
defraud individuals or the public
simply correcting defect in the pres
ent Jaw The other amends section
5113 Of the code 80 as to permit
clerks of courts to amend executions
to make them conform to AM ended
judgments issued by their courts.
A bill by Mr.. Flynt, of Spalding
to amend the act providing fol
appointment Of inspectors of roads
and bridges in counties of more than
$4,000 inhabitants, so as to make II
apply to counties OF $4,000 or moro
inhabitants, provided 1t is first reconr
mended by the grand jury, was passed
with slight opposition. The object OF
the bill is to provide county police
in all counties which desire them
The fact that the grand jury has first
to recommend the law before it can
become effective in a county makes
it largely local in it's application.
The house voted to reconsider its
action in defeating the anti-free pass
bill by Mr. Hall, Of Bibb, by rs to 46.
There were more votes for reconsider
alton than there was for the bill when
it was put on its passage, it having
been lost by vote Of 68 to 70.
In the Senate.
The senate yesterday held short
session, and transacted but little gem
eral business, owing to the absence
of a number Of the members who were
away on committee work visiting va
rious state institutions.
Three new bills were introduced,
one of the most important being thai
by Senator Park, of the thirty-sev
enth district, to require the testing
of the Illuminating quality of iliumi
mating oils. The measure was refer
red to the committee on agriculture
The bill by Senator Christie, of tbs
eleventh, to make 1t lawful to make
insurance companies and other per
sons who may be indemnifying the de
fendant party Jointly liable, was lost
the adverse report Of the general ju
dietary committee being agreed to.
The bill by Senator Duncan, Of the
tenth. to establish county deposito
ries in each county of the state re-
ceived an adverse report of the com
mittee, the report being agreed to by
the senate.