Tax Paying Tenants to be returned-Fees of Tax Receivers and Collectors. TAX PAYING TENANTS TO BE RETURNED BY THEIR LAND- LORDS. An Act to make it the duty of free-holders, or their agents, to return the SECTION. I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Tenants to Georgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, it shall be by land- the duty of free-holders, or their agents, to make returns to the Tax Receiver of their respective counties, the names of all persons liable to pay taxes residing upon their premises, on the first day of April of each year, said returns to be made within the time SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws. conflicting with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. An Act to reduce and regulate the fees of Tax Receivers and Collec- tors in all the Counties of the State, to repeal all local laws relating thereto, and for other purposes. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Receivers Georgia, That from and after the first day of January 1880, the and Collec commissions to be allowed to each Receiver and Collector of State-commiss and county tax shall be as follows, viz: On all digests for the first $1000........ 46 SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws heretofore enacted by conflicting ed. Fees of Tax Receivers and Collectors. the rates hereinbefore set forth, be, and the same are hereby, repealed. SEC. III. Be it further enacted. That no Tax Collector shall in any Collectors' event, receive any greater or different rate of commisson, or rate of payment for the collection of county taxes, than he receives by this Act for collecting State taxes. mission. Tax Receiver-amount on allowed. SEC. IV. Be it further enacted, That the commission of Tax Receiver, to be paid from county taxes, shall be one-half the amount of commiss- allowed by this Act to Tax Collectors for collecting county taxes. SEC. V. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved September 26, 1879. Mode of Revising Jury Boxes prescribed. TITLE III. CONSTITUTION. ACTS. Mode of Revising Jury Boxes prescribeu. Providing for Judges pro hac vice in certain cases. Sale of Liquor on Election Days Prohibited. Lobbying defined, and Punishment prescribed. Providing for Suspension of Treasurer and Comptroller General, etc. Use of Public Moneys by Public Officers for private gain prohibited. Officers not to Receive Interest on Public Funds. (1) Mode of Selecting Jurors. (2) Mode of Selecting Jurors. Amendatory of Act of December 16, 1878, as to Selecting Jurors. Mode of Letting the Public Printing Prescribed. How Counties and Municipalities, etc., may incur Bonded Debt. To Supply Maimed Soldiers with Artificial Limbs. Mode of Transferring Boundary Lots to another County. Insurance Companies to make semi-annual Reports to Governor. Mode of Changing County Sites prescribed. MODE OF REVISING OF JURY BOXES PRESCRIBED. No. 299, An Act to carry into effect paragraph 2, section 18, article 6 of the Constitution, so far as to provide for the revision of the jury box, and for other purposes. missioners ment of. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly, That from and after the first day of January next, there shall be a board of jury Jury com commissioners, composed of six discreet persons, who are not appointcounty officers, who shall hold their appointment for six years, and who shall be appointed by the Judge of the Superior Court. That on the first appointment two shall be appointed for two years, two Terms of for four years, and two for six years, and their successors shall be office. appointed for six years. Oath, duties SEC. II. That the commissioners shall take the oath now required by law; and on the first Monday in June, 1880, or within thirty etc. days thereafter, and biennially thereafter, at the same time they Clerk of Providing for Judges pro hac vice in certain cases. shall revise the jury lists, as provided in sections first, second and third of an Act approved December 16, 1878, entitled "An Act to carry into effect Paragraph 2, Section 18. Article 6 of the Constitution of 1877," and shall receive two dollars each for every day's service in making such revision, to be paid from the county treasury. SEC. III. That the Clerk of the Superior Court, shall be the clerk of the board of commissioners, and shall perform all the clerical duties now required by law to be performed, for which he shall reclerk board ceive three dollars for each day's service, to be paid from the county as of commis sioners. Jury list revision of, may be or the Judge. dered by treasury. SEC. IV. That on failure of commissioners of any county to revise the jury list as hereinbefore provided, the Judge of the Superior Court of such county, either in term time or at chambers, shall order the revision made at such time as he may direct, SEC. V. That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved October 17, 1879. selection of, to preside in PROVIDING FOR JUDGES PRO HAC VICE IN CERTAIN CASES. No. 277. An Act to carry into effect section 4. paragraph 9, article 6, of the Constitution of the State in relation to the appointment of some person to preside in cases where the presiding Judge is disqualified. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of RepresentaJudge- tives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, That when, by consent, from any cause, the Judge of the Superior or any City Court, is Supr. or city disqualified from presiding in any civil case, and has failed to procourts, the cure the services of a Judge to try said cause, then the parties judge being litigant, by consent, may select any attorney of this State to preside in said case, and the attorney so selected, when the consent is entered on the minutes, shall exercise all the functions of a Judge in that case. presiding disqualifi'd. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That in all cases aforesaid, when Cierk of the the case or cases are reached, in their order on the dockets, with Supr. court to select out an agreement by the parties, then it shall be the duty of the Clerk of the Superior Court to select some competent attorney practicing in that court, who shall likewise have authority and preside in said case as aforesaid. when. SEC. III. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws. militating against this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved October 15, 1879. Sale of Liquor on Election Days prohibited-Lobbying defined, and Punishment prescribed. SALE, ETC., OF LIQUOR ON DAYS OF ELECTION PROHIBITED An Act to carry into effect article 2, section 5, of the Constitu- same. liquors pro election SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Sale or disGeorgia, That from and after the passage of this Act, any person spirituous who shall sell, give or furnish, any spirituous, intoxicating or malt hibited on liquors to any person, in any quantity whatever, within two miles days. of any election precinct in this State, on days of election, either State, County or Municipal, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and Penalty. upon conviction thereof, shall be punished as prescribed in section 4310 of the Revised Code of 1873; provided, that nothing herein contained shall be construed to operate against prescriptions by physicians. SEC. II. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved October 16, 1879. Proviso. LOBBYING DEFINED, AND PUNISHMENT THEREFOR PRE SCRIBED. No. 280. An Act to carry into effect paragraph 5, section 2, article I, of the Constitution, to define the crime of Lobbying, and provide for the punishment of the same. defined. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Lobbying Georgia, That lobbying is defined to be any personal solicitation of a member of the General Assembly of this State, during a session thereof, by private interview, or letter, or message, or other means and appliances not addressed solely to the judgment, to favor or oppose, or to vote for or against any bill, resolution, report, or claim pending, or to be introduced in either branch thereof by any person who misrepresents the nature of his interest in the matter to such member, or who is employed for a consideration by a person or corporation interested in the passage or defeat of such bill, resolution, report, or claim, for the purpose of procuring the passage or defeat thereof. But this does not include such services as drafting petitions, bills or resolutions, attending to the taking of testimony, collecting facts, preparing arguments and |