66 66 66 66 II. TAXES. III.-CONSTITUTION. IV.-CODE. V.-COUNTY OFFICERS. VI.-BONDS. VII.-DEPOSITORIES. VIII.-EDUCATION. IX.-HOMESTEADS. X.-MILITARY. XI.-MACON AND BRUNSWICK RAILROAD. XIII. STATUTES OF GEORGIA PASSED BY THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF 1878-9. Part I.-Public Laws. TITLE I. APPROPRIATIONS. ACTS. For Support of Government-1879-80. For Owen Smith. Salary of Physician to Penitentiary-1879-80. For Special Committee to Investigate Treasury. For Survey of State Line between Georgia and North Carolina. For Special Committee to Investigate Comptroller General's Office. For Committee to Investigate Office of Principal Keeper Penitentiary. For Contingent Expenses of General Assembly, etc.-1879. For Lunatic Asylum. For Joint Wild Land Committee. FOR SUPPORT OF GOVERNMENT-YEARS 1879-80. No. 21. An Act making appropriations for the Executive, Legislative and Judicial expenses of the Government, and for other purposes herein mentioned, per annum, for the years eighteen hundred and seventynine and eighteen hundred and eighty. Appropria SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State tions for of Georgia, That the following sums of money be, and the same 1879-80. the years Legislative Department-Salaries. are hereby, appropriated, per annum, for the years 1879 and 1880, to the persons and for the purposes respectively, hereinafter mentioned: For compensation of the Governor of the State, four thousand Governor. dollars. Salaries Secretary of Comptroller State Treasurer. For compensation of the Secretary of State, two thousand dol lars. For compensation of the Comptroller-General, two thousand dollars. For compensation: of the State Treasurer, two thousand dollars. Attorney- lars. Librarian. Secretaries, For compensation of State Librarian, one thousand dollars. For total compensation of the Secretaries, Messenger and Clerietc., Execu- cal force in the Executive Department, six thousand dollars. For Compensation of the Clerk of the Secretary of State, one tary State. thousand dollars. tive Dept. Clerk Secre Clerical.... For the clerical expenses of the Comptroller-General's Depart Clerk State For compensation of the Clerk of the State Treasurer, sixteen Treasurer. hundred dollars. President of SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That for Per Diem compensation of the President of the Senate, and the Speaker of and Mileage the House of Representatives, seven dollars per diem, each, durSenate and ing the session of the General Assembly, and mileage at ten cents House. per mile, by the nearest practicable way, in going to and returning from the capital. Speaker of Per Diem and Mileage For compensation of the members of the General Assembly, during the session, four dollars per diem, each, and the same mileMembers of age as allowed the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the Assembly. House of Representatives. General For compensation of the Secretary of the Senate, the sum of Secretary sixty dollars per diem, for this session, out of which sum he shall of Senate. pay the entire clerical expenses of the Senate for the session, includ ing the Clerks (if any) of the standing committees of the Senate. Clerk of For compensation of the Clerk of the House of Representa-tives the sum of seventy dollars per diem for this session, out of which he shall pay the entire clerical expenses of the House of Representatives, including the Clerk of the Judiciary Committee to whom he shall pay five dollars per diem, and the Clerk of the Enrolling Committee to whom he shall pay four dollars per diem for the days actually employed, the number of days they may be so employed to be reported to the House by the said Committees, respectively. For compensation of the Stenographic Clerk of the Committee Expenses to investigate the conduct and motives of the Governor in endors to Investi ing the bonds of the North-Eastern Railroad Company, such sum Committee Judicial Department-Salaries. dorsement as may be necessary to pay him at the rate of twenty cents for gate in every one hundred words of the testimony taken down and writ- N. E. R. R. ten out by him. For compensation of the Sergeant-at-Arms of said Investigating Committee, the sum of four dollars per day, for each day of actual service rendered by him. For payment of the incidental expenses of said Committee, including cost of stationery, telegraphing and necessary traveling expenses of witnesses, the sum of one hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. bonds. tion of off ployes of For compensation of the Door-keeper of the Senate, Door Compensa keeper of the House, and Messenger of the Senate, and Messen- cers and emger of the House, each, four dollars per diem, and the same the Legisla mileage as that received by members of the General Assembly. ture. For compensation of the Assistant Door and Gallery keepers of the Senate, and of the House of Representatives, each, four dollars per diem. For compensation of two porters for the Senate, and three for the House of Representatives, for sweeping and cleaning hall and galleries of the Senate and of the House of Representatives, and attendance on Committees, two dollars per diem, each. For compensation of one page of the Senate, and three pages of the House of Representatives, one and a half dollars per diem, each. For compensation of William Gaines and Henry Smith, for services in keeping the water closets at the capitol, one and a half dollars each per diem; provided they pay John Brown for the thirteen days he served out of their pay. Chaplain For compensation of the Chaplain of the House of Representa- of House. tives, one hundred dollars. Appropria Judicial SEC. III. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the tion for appropriation for the Judicial Department shall be as follows: Department For compensation of the Judges of the Supreme Court, thirty- Judges five hundred dollars each, unless one or more of said Judges shall Supreme be elected by the General Assembly, or be hereafter appointed by the Governor, then the Judge or Judges so elected or appointed shall receive three thousand dollars, each, per annum. Court. Superior For compensation of the Judges of the Superior Courts, whose Judges terms do not expire until 1880, twenty-five hundred dollars, each, Courts. per annuin, and of those elected by the General Assembly, or appointed by the Governor, since the adoption of the present Constitution, two thousand dollars, each, per annum. For compensation of Solicitors General of the several circuits, Solicitors two hundred and fifty dollars, each. For compensation of the Reporter of the decisions of the Su- Reporter preme Court, one thousand dollars. and Clerk Supreme For compensation of the Clerk of the Supreme Court for print- Court. ing, stationery, purchasing record books, and binding the opinions |