Second de Sale of Drugged Liquors,-Oyster Beds, &c. and to be provided, said Inspector shall make the second demand in the presmade in the ence of a competent witness and prove the same, by said witness on witness. the trial. presence of fees paid by Inspector to eate to own barrels, &c. Inspector to Inspector's 5. SEC. V. Said Inspector shall receive from the owner of said owner of liquors, spirits or wines, for every ten gallons so inspected, five cents; quors. for twenty gallons, ten cents; for forty gallons, fifteen cents; for sive certifi- eighty gallons, twenty cents; for one hundred and sixty gallons, and brand twenty-five cents; and at the same rate and proportion, upwards, for any and every gallon he may so inspect, and shall, if required, receive half give a receipt and certificate therefor and brand said barrels, kegs or pipes, when the means is or may be provided therefor, by the lected. owner or owners thereof, and shall also receive one half of all fine Not to dis- moneys arising under convictions for violating the third and fourth qualify him sections of this act, which shall by no means disqualify him from from being being a witness for the State, in all cases of Indictment for violations State. of this Act, or the section or sections hereof. of the fine monies col Witness for ing drugged misdemean Manufactur- 6. SEC. VI. If any person or persons shall manufacture any drug, er poisonous poisonous or other deleterious and offensive liquors, wines, or spirits, liquors, a other than from grapes, corn, rye, wheat, barley, peaches, apples, and like commodities, such person so offending, shall and may be indicted in the Superior Courts of the county where the offence was Panishment committed in this State, or [for?] a misdemeanor and on conviction prisonment thereof, shall be fined and imprisoned in the common jail of the county, at the discretion of the Court. 7. SEC. VII. (Repeals conflicting laws,) Assented to, December 22d, 1857. and co. jail. Repealing clause. 2nd sec. of Act, 18th, of 1 Feb. 1856, amended. fishing ves (No. 5.) An Act to alter and amend an Act entitled an Act to protect the planters of oyster beds, and give exclusive right to usufruct of natural beds of oysters, in certain cases, and to prevent the taking of terrapins and turtles, in certain seasons, approved February 18th, 1856. 8. SEC. I. That said second section of said Act be so amended as to read one hundred and twenty yards, instead of one hundred and twenty feet, in width. Dorfeiture of 9. SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That if any person shall mel, &c., violate the provisions of this Act, in addition to the fine * imposed by Half to in- said Act, he shall forfeit his fishing vessel or boat, seines and impleformer. ments, and that one-half of said forfeiture be given to the informer, Bounty, &c. and the other half to the county where the infringement of the provisions of this Act was committed. Half to the dents not to Non-resi- 10. SEC. III. And be it further enacted, That no person being a nee seine or non-resident of this State, shall, in any of the sounds, inlets, rivers, Bounds, in- or creeks, or in any of the tidal waters of the State of Georgia, use net, in the lets, rivers, creeks, or ti dal waters of *REF. NOTE-By Act of 1856, (Acts 1855-56, p. 14,) persons violating that Act, were the State, for subject to a penalty of not less than fifty nor more than five hundred dollars. Oyster beds--Terrapins-Rice buyers-Tare on Cotton, &c. pins. penalties of any description of seine, or net for the purpose of capturing terrapins, taking terraand that any violation of this section of this Act, shall come Under the under the full penalties of the Act, of which this is an amendatory this, and the Act, and also the additional penalties attached to this Act. 11. SEC. IV. (Repeals conflicting laws.) Assented to December 17th, 1857. (No. 6.) An Act for the protection in certain cases of Planters and Rice Sellers within the State of Georgia, and for other purposes. Act it is intended to amend. rice title not paid for. 12. SEC. I. Be it enacted, That from and after the passage of Upon sale of this Act, rice sold by planters and commission merchants on cash to pass till sale shall not be considered as the property of the buyer, or the ownership given up until the same shall be fully paid for, although it may have been delivered into the possession of the buyer, any law usage or custom to the contrary notwithstanding. Person buy it before p'd felony. 13. SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That any person engaged in the business of buying rice, either on his own account or for ing rice and others, who shall buy, or engage to buy rice on sale from a planter disposing of or commission merchant, and shall fail or refuse to pay for the for, guilty of same, and shall make way with or dispose thereof before he shall have paid for the same, shall be deemed guilty of fraud and em- Punishm ́nt, bezzlement, and shall be liable, on conviction, to be imprisoned in imprisonm the Penitentiary not less than one nor more than five years, at the ary from 1 to discretion of the Judge trying the case.* 14. SEC. III. (Repeals conflicting laws.) ASSENTED to December 22d, 1857. REF. NOTE.-A similar Act relating to sale of Cotton was passed in 1854. (Acts 1853-54, p. 56.) Pen-tenth 5 years. (No. 7.) An Act to amend a portion of an Act assented to December 30th, 1847, entitled an Act to abolish the allowance of tare or gross weight on bales of unmanufactured cotton. Proviso of clared null 15. SEc. I. Le it cnacted, That the proviso in the second section Act of Dec. of the above recited Act* be, and the same is hereby declared to be 30, 1847, de null and void, and that the above mentioned Act be re-enacted and and void. remain in full force, with the proviso in said act stricken out. 16. SEC. II. (Repeals conflicting laws.) ASSENTED to December 21st, 1857. For the Act above referred to, See Cobb's Dig. p. 68. (No. 8.) An Act to prohibit non-residents from hunting, ducking and fishing within the limits of the State of Georgia. WHEREAS: Much inconvenience arises to planters and landhold- Preamble. Non-resi den to hunt State. Non-residents of the State forbidden to hunt. ers, whose lands lie on or near the navigable rivers and waters of this State, by reason of the unauthorized intrusion upon the same of non-resident fishermen, hunters and duckers, who destroy the game as well as hold illegal and improper conversation and intercourse with the slaves thereon; for-remedy whereof. 17. SEC. I. Be it enacted, That from and after the passage of this dents forbid Act, it shall not be lawful for any non-resident of this State to use esh in this a gun, set a trap, or decoy, or to employ any other device for killing or taking deer, turkeys, ducks, or any other game; nor to set a trap or sein, or net, or draw or use the same, or any other contrivance for taking or killing fish within the territorial limits of this State. 18. SEC. II. That every person who shall offend against the promisdemean- visions of this Act, shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and on conviction thereof shall be punished by fine not exceeding two $200. hundred dollars, nor less than one hundred dollars, and imprisonfrom 1153 ment not exceeding three months nor less than one month, in the common Jail of the county wherein such offence may have been committed. Violation a Five from Imprisonm't months in com. jail of county. Non-resid'ts Geiled. 19. SEC. III. That all persons shall be deemed and taken as non-residents within the meaning of this Act, who shall not have had their actual domicil in this State for two years next preceeding their use of any of the implements of the chase or fishery, forbidden by this Act. But nothing herein contained shall be construed Landholders as prohibiting any landholder from authorizing any person to hunt or shoot ducks or other game, or to fish, within the boundaries of on is own his own land. 20. Sec. IV. (Repeals conflicting laws.) (No. 9.) 23. Additional to Messengers and 24. S. G. Williams and others, com- 25. To Joseph A. Shewmake and An Act to appropriate money for the support of the Government for the political year of eighteen hundred and fifty-eight, and for other purposes therein named. 1. SECTION Be it enacted &c., That the following sums of money be and the same are hereby appropriated to the respective Appropriapersons and objects hereafter named, viz: The sum of three thou- tion. sand dollars to his Excellency, the Governor, as his salary; and the Governor's sum of sixteen hundred dollars each to the Comptroller General, the salary. Secretary of State, the Treasurer and Surveyor General for the year sal. of State 1858, and the sum of twelve hundred and fifty dollars each to the House offi'rs Secretaries (not exceeding three) employed in the Executive De- Gov.'s Secpartment; the sum of eighteen hundred dollars to each of the Judges of the Superior Courts for the several Judicial Circuits within perior Court. this State, and such as may be created by the General Assembly for the year 1858; the sum of twenty-five hundred dollars to each of Judges Suthe Judges of the Supreme Court for the correction of errors, and the sum of two hundred and twenty-five dollars to each [of?] the Attorney Solicitors Generals and Solicitors General for the year 1858. retaries. Judges Su preme C't. General *For appropriations to the Lunatic Asylum. Atlanta Medical College and to the Savannah Medical College, see those titles respectively. For appropriations to individyds by way of relief, see titles "Appropriations" and $14,000 fund for 1858 warrant for Contingent Fund, Printing Fund, certain officers. 2. SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fourteen Contingent thousand dollars be appropriated as a contingent fund for the year $15,000 for 1858; that the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be appropriated for a printing fund printing fund for the current year, and that in case of deficiency in Gov. to draw this appropriation the Governor is hereby authorized to draw his deficiency. warrant upon the Treasury for the deficit, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, and that after Gov. to draw the passage of this Act the Governor be authorized to draw his war$5,000. rant upon the Treasury in favor of the State Printer, for the sum of five thousand dollars, as an advance on the State printing; and the sum of three hundred dollars for the pay of the Military Store Store Keeper Keeper at Savannah, for 1858; and the sum of one hundred and $150 for Mil. fifty dollars for the pay of the Military Store Keeper at Milledgeville, Store keeper for the year 1858. warrant for $300 for Mil. at Sav. at Mill'e. Sup. of Lun. $1800 for y'r 1858. other othic'rs &c. for y'r 1858. per day. 3. SEC. III. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eighPhys, and teen hundred dollars be appropriated to pay the salary of the SuperAsylum. intendent and resident physician of the Lunatic Asylum for the year 1858; the sum of ten thousand dollars for the payment of the $10,000 for Trustees, Attendants, servants' hire, Treasurer and subordinate officers for the year 1858; and the sum of fifteen thousand dollars for the support of pauper patients in the Asylum for the year 1858. per patients 4. SEC. IV. And be it further enacted, That the sum of seven Presid't and dollars each, per day, be paid to the President of the Senate and the Speaker $7 Speaker of the House of Representatives during the present session Traveling of the General Assembly, and the sum of four dollars for every every 20 twenty miles of travel going to and returning from the seat of Govgoing and re- ernment, the distance to be compnted by the nearest route usually Members 86 traveled, not including railroad or steamboat travel; the sum of six per day. dollars each, per day, to the members of the General Assembly, du$ for every ring the present session, and four dollars each, for every twenty and return miles travel, going to and returning from the capitol, under the same rules which apply to the President of the Senate and the Speaker of No pay for the House, provided that no member shall receive pay for time he less for sick- may have been absent without leave, except on account of sickness ness, &c. of himself or family. exp's $1 for every 20 m. turning. absence un $500 provi their duty, &c. Sec'y Sen. 5. SEC. V. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the and Cik H. Senate and the Clerk of the House of Representatives each, be paid ded they do the sum of five hundred dollars for the pear 1858; Provided, That no warrant shall issue for the first quarter's salary of either until his Excellency, the Governor, shall have satisfactory evidence that they have respectively made, or caused to be made and attached to the Journals of their respective Houses, a good and sufficient index, and have carefully marked and filed away all reports of standing committees, and all other papers of importance connected with either $7 per day to house; the sum of seven dollars per day each, to the Secretary and Ass4, and Assistant Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk and Assistant Clerk of Gas the House of Representatives; the sum of seven dollars per day to per day one Journalizing and two Recording Clerks of each House, and the sum of six dollars per day each, to all other Clerks of either House for the time they have been actually employed, which shall only be Clerk and Ass't and $6 their clerks. |