The Savannah morning news., 1904-08-14
GENERAL LAWS
PASSED IN 1904
BY GEORGIA LEGISLATURE
OVER TWO HUNDRED LOCAL BILLS
WERE PASSED.

Tax Assessors Bill Among the
Most Important Work of the Ses-
.iou-List of the Acts Which VIII
Go to the Governor for His Sigma
turR.
Atlanta, Aug. 13.-The most impor-
tant acts of the Legislature just adj
1ourned, include the increase in the
common schools appropriation from
sSO0.OO to S1OOO,OOO. and the defeat of
the Australian ballot bill and the Hall
tax assessors bill.
The Legislature of 1904 did not pass
a large number of important general
laws. There were something more
than 200 local bills passed, however.
The following is a complete list of all
the general laws enacted at the session
lust closed and which go to the Gov
ernor for his signature:
To amend section S21, volume 1 of the
Code of 1895, so as to allow the tax col
lector instead of the tax receiver to is
sue f. fas. against any unreturned
wild lands.
To amend subsection H. of section
4GS2 of volume 2 of the Code of 1895,
relative to the duties of justices of the
peace.
To fix and regulate the fees of no.
taries public so as to prescribe a uni
form fee of $1.50 in each case for pro-
testing notes and other commercial
paper.
To appropriate $4,000 for a recitation
building for the State Normal School
at Athens on condition that a like
amount is raised by donations.
To recognize, foster and aid the
Georgia Industrial Home at Macon,
and like institutions for caring for or
phans by providing that homeless waits
may be committed to such institutions
by ordinaries and Superior Court
judges.
To amend Section 1872 of the code of
1895. so as TO provide for the issuing
of alias fl. fas. for taxes, in place of
f. fas. lost or destroyed, by cities,
towns and villages.
To authorize the Governor to pay to
the heirs of any deceased veteran or
widow of Confederate veteran, the PEN
sion accrued and due at the time of
his or her death.
To authorize the Pension Commits
sioner to pay over to the ordinaries of
their respective counties the pension
hereafter accrue to any pensioner who
may die before the same can be paid.
To amend Para graph /, Section 3,
Article 8, of the constitution relative
to the number of members of the
House of Representatives, so as to pro-
vide for members for any new coun-
ties that may be created.
To amend Paragraph 2, Section l.
Article 9. of the constitution, so as to
provide for the creation of eight new
counties, making the limit 143.
To direct the trustees for the Geor-
gia Academy for the Blind at Macon
to sell or exchange the present prop
erty of the academy for a more suit
able and more commodious location.
To increase the salary of the Judge
of the Superior Court of Chatham
county to $4,000, the difference to be
paid out of the county treasury.
To increase the salary of the Judge
of the City Court of Savannah to So
600, to be paid out of the county treas
ury.
To make appropriations for the sup
port of the state government and it's
institutions for the year 1905-the gen
eral appropriations bill.
To levy and collect a tax for the
support of the state government and
its institutions-the general tax act.
To vest in ordinaries or county COM
nnissioners the right to construct
bridges over navigaible streams.
To amend the law relative to the
protection of fish, so as to prevent
seining from March 1 to July 1, dur
ing the spawning season.
To pay off and retire the valid bonds
of the state as they mature, by pro-
viding a sinking fund of 100000 for
1905
To amend Section $780, Vol. 1, of
the code, so as to increase the salary
of the assistant state librarian from
$500 to 1.20O.
To make an appropriation of $4,000
to the State Department of Entomology
and to enact laws looking to keeping
the Mexican cotton boil weevil out
of Georgia.
To provide for a board of trustees of
one from each Congressional district,
two from the city of Athens, and two
from the state at large for the State
Normal School at Athens.
To appropriate 1000 additional to
pay rewards for the capture of crimi-
nails in 1904
To increase the salary of the Govern
or OF Georgia from $4,000 to $4,000 a
year.
To repeal an amended act of 1895
relative to defendants in city courts
having a right to demand indictment
ny grand jury
To appropriate $4,000 to rebuild
Science Hall at the State University at
Athens
To appropriate $1,000 to repair build
lhgs at the State Normal and Indus
tfidl College at Miledgevile
10 amend an act amending Section
o'' OF the code relative to foreign
corporations exercising the right of
etc e0--
10 appropriate $3.50 to repair build
lIss at the school for the deaf at Cave
SIrIng Floyd county
o amend the act of 1901 relative to
puolc libraries, so that cities which
Contribute to such libraries may select
'lelr own boards of trustees, instead
o. having boards of education act in
mat capacity.
the Senate. -
=, amend Section 1.541, Of Vol. 1, OF
W. Code OF 1895, so as to require the
lHIHes or one-third Of the total num-
Ter OF qualified voters in a county to
~ signed to a petition for a local op-
Ton election.
"a provide that all insane convicts
e'll De kept and cared for at the
SO Prson Farm, instead Of at the
Nlate Sanitarium.
o.. increase the salaries of judges of
supreme and Superior Courts to
'y ana $4,000 year, respectively,