trators and guardians to sell real estate or make contracts; to grant divorces; to authorize the holding of markets, making of dams and embankments; to appoint trustees to hold the property of certain persons; and for other purposes.

GEORGIA.

At the session of the general assembly of Georgia, at Milledgeville, in 1829, one hundred and sixty-six acts were passed, and seventy-nine resolutions were adopted.

Academies. Ten acts relate to the distribution of the school fund, the incorporation of academies,' &c.

Appropriations. The act providing for the support of government for the year 1830, appropriates the following sums; for the salary of the Governor, $3000; Secretaries of the Governor, $1000 each; Secretary, $2000; Treasurer, $2000; Judges of the Superior Courts, 82100 each; Attorney General and seven Solicitor Generals, $225 each; for the printing fund, not exceeding $20,000; for a contingent fund, $20,000; for the members of the Legislature, $4 each per day, and $4 for every twenty miles travel.

Attachments. This act is an amendment of attachment laws, so as to permit persons whose property is insured in insurance offices, the business of which is carried on by agents in Georgia, whenever a dispute shall arise between the insured and the insurer, to issue an attachment against the property of the insurance company, and to garnishee its agents.

Courts. The Inferior Courts, when sitting for ordinary purposes, are authorized to order the sale of any slave, belonging to the estate of any testator or intestate or ward, on the application of the executor, administrator, or guardian, when it appears that the sale is for the benefit of the heirs and creditors of the estate, or of the ward.

Another act provides for the admission of attorneys and solicitors from adjoining states to practise in this state.

Deeds. The Governor is authorized to appoint commissioners in each of the other states of the Union, to take acknowledgments of deeds, letters of attorney, &c., to be used or recorded in this state; such commissioners to continue in office during the pleasure of the governor.

Divorces. Twenty-seven divorce acts were passed.

Execution. An act was passed authorizing the assignment of judgments and executions.

Evidence. An act was passed enabling parties, in an action to compel the production of deeds, or other writing in the posses sion of persons not parties, who reside within the county where the action is pending.

Another act provides, that when the testimony of any female is required in the courts, except in criminal cases, either party may obtain a commission for the examination of such witness, on interrogatories exhibited by the parties: and the result of such examination may be read at the trial.

Guardians. Free persons of color are authorized to exercise the right heretofore secured to them of suing and being sued by the aid of a next friend as well as by a guardian. Guardians of such persons of color may with the consent of the inferior courts resign when they may wish so to do.

Indians. An act was passed annexing the territory lying within the chartered limits of Georgia and now in the occupancy of the Cherokee Indians,' to the adjacent counties of the state. The civil and criminal laws of the state are extended over the territory. All laws enacted by the Cherokees are declared void, and the courts of the state are not to permit them to be given in evidence on the trial of any suit. Nor shall it be lawful for any persons by arbitrary power or by virtue of any pretended law of the Cherokee nation to prevent, by threats or other means, to endeavor to prevent,' any Cherokee from enrolling his name as an emigrant or actually emigrating, or to punish any Cherokee for so enrolling as an emigrant or for emigrating. Persons so offending are subject to be punished by confinement in the common jail, or by confinement at hard labor in the penitentiary for a term not exceeding four years. If any person by arbitrary power, or under color of any pretended law of the Cherokee nation, prevent or offer to prevent any such Indian head-man or chief from ceding to the United States for the use of Georgia any part of their territory, or from meeting in council any commissioner of the United States, such person is subject to be punished by confinement to hard labor in the penitentiary for not less than four, nor longer than six years. If any person by arbitrary power or under color of any Cherokee law take the life of any Cherokee, for attempting to emigrate or ceding or attempting to cede any part of their territory, or meeting or attempting to meet any commissioner as aforesaid, he is guilty of murder. If any of these offences are committed under color of any Cherokee law, all persons acting therein either as individuals or as pretended executive, ministerial, or judicial officers, are to be considered principals. If any officer

is resisted in the execution of any process in such territory, issued by any court or magistrate, he is authorized to call out the militia to aid him. No Indian or descendant of any Indian residing within the Creek or Cherokee nation of Indians, shall be deemed a competent witness in any court of this state to which a white person may be a party, except such white person resided within the said nation.'

Mines. The act passed in 1825, reserving to the state all valuable ore and mines which have been or may be discovered upon lands which are or may be the property of the state, is repealed; and all persons who have obtained grants issuing under that act, are to be entitled to the benefit of such ore and mines.

Penitentiary. If any person for his gain keep a gaming house, or in any house occupied by him, permit persons to play for money, 'at any game of faro, loo, brag, bluff, or any other game played with cards, or keep a faro table, E O table, or A B C table, or other table of like character,' or use such table for playing or betting, he is subject to punishment by confinement in the penitentiary at hard labor for not less than one year or longer than five. Persons playing and betting at such games are subjected to a fine of not less than $20, nor more than $100. On the trial of such person, any person who may have played and betted at the same time, is a competent witness, and may be compelled to give evidence ; but nothing said by such witness shall be received in evidence in any prosecution against him.

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Convicts in the penitentiary are to be so arranged at labor, they may be under the inspection of some keeper, who is to prevent them from holding any intercourse with each other; and they are to be punished by solitary confinement at all times excepting during the hours of labor and meal-times.

Relief Laws. Several acts were passed for extending the time for the fortunate drawers in land lotteries to take out grants for the land drawn.

Acts were passed to change the names of certain persons, and to legitimatise them.

An act was passed to admit certain persons to practise law in the courts of the state, and such persons are to be responsible for their acts and contracts as if they were of full age.

Roads and Rivers. Several acts relate to these subjects. They provide for the improvement of roads and rivers, and the removal of obstructions, prescribe the mode of fishing, &c.

Slaves. All vessels, coming to this state from any other state or country, having on board any free negro, or person of color,

is subjected to quarantine for forty days; if any negro or person of color residing in this state have communication with any such colored person on board the vessel while in quarantine, he is to be whipped. If the negro, &c. so coming in the vessel, while in quarantine have communication with any person of color in this state, he shall be confined in a common jail until the vessel departs. If the captain of such vessel neglect to carry him away and pay the expenses of detention, he is subjected to a fine of $500, and to imprisonment for a term.not exceeding three months; but the act does not extend to negroes, &c. employed in steam boats and national ships of war. If the negro, in case of the captain's neglecting to carry him away, shall not leave the state in ten days, he is to be whipped. This act is not to apply in case of shipwreck or other unavoidable accident, but its requisitions are to be complied with, within one month after such accident; nor does it extend to any free American Indian, free Moors, Lascars, or colored subjects of countries beyond the Cape of Good Hope, arriving in any merchant vessel. If a negro, or any other person circulate in this state, or is 'in any manner concerned in,' any pamphlet or paper, for the purpose of exciting an insurrection among the slaves or free persons of color, he is to be punished with death. If any person teach a slave, negro, or free person of color, to read or write, if a free person of color or slave, he is to be punished by fine and whipping, or either; if a white person, he is to be punished by fine not exceeding $500 and imprisonment.

If any slave or free person of color is employed in the setting of types in any printing office, the owner of the printing press forfeits $10 for every slave, &c. so employed on any day or part of a day, to be recovered by any person who shall prosecute for the same.

Taxes for the year 1830. Brokers, private bankers, or exchange merchants, 'note shavers,' are to return on oath the maximum capital employed by them, and to pay a tax of 314 cents for every $100 of capital so returned. If they do not so make return, they shall pay a tax for this year of $5000. All persons issuing any change bills, or bills of any kind without a charter,' shall pay a tax of fifty per cent. on the amount issued.

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Among the Resolutions we observe the following.

A resolution discharging the committee, to whom was referred the case of the abduction of Rowland Stephenson, from the further consideration of the question.

A report on the subject of the Savannah, Ogeechee, and Altamaha Canal. The canal from the Ogeechee to the Savannah river is nearly finished.

Resolutions relating to the boundary line between Georgia and Florida.

A resolution authorizing the governor to appoint one or more persons to arrange a system for the free schools, to be submitted to the next legislature.

Resolutions nonconcurring with the General Assembly of Louisiana in the proposal to amend the constitution of the United States, so as to extend the term of office of the President and Vice President to six years, and to render the President ineligible; and concurring with the General Assembly of Missouri in a proposal to amend the constitution so as to provide a uniform mode of electing those officers by the people without the intervention of electors.

A resolution that it would be desirable that the election of those officers, should, in no case, be submitted to the decision of the House of Representatives.

A resolution relating to the tariff, instructing the senators and representatives to use their efforts to obtain a repeal of the tariff act of 1828.

A report and resolution relating to the militia, arsenals, &c. In the report the committee state that the militia has become nearly nominal.'

A resolution approving of the policy of the General Government towards the Indians, so far as it is calculated to induce them to remove beyond the operation of those causes which tend to retard their improvement, and to extend to them, in a favorable position, the fostering protection and assistance of the country.'

A resolution, for the purpose of ascertaining the sense of the people on the subject of the reduction of the number of the members of the General Assembly.

The laws are arranged according to the alphabetical order of the subjects to which they relate.

TENNESSEE.

At the session of the General Assembly in 1829-30, one hundred and seven public acts, and three hundred and seven private acts were passed, and thirty-two resolutions were adopted. They are published in a volume containing 565 pages. The public acts are separate from the private.

This act establishes the rate of

Ch. 14.-Bills of Exchange. damages and interest upon protested bills of exchange. The holder of such bill is entitled to recover for damages' over and