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COPYRIGHT, 1901,

BY HOWARD VAN EPPS.

OCT 1° 1907

PREFACE.

To the Bench and Bar of Georgia:

The Code of Georgia, 1895, has been described by a competent authority to be the best law book ever published. I cordially subscribe to that opinion. It will remain an enduring monument to the ability and wisdom of the distinguished lawyers who codified the same under the authority of the State. That Code embraces the public acts of the Legislature down to and including the session laws of 1895. Many and important changes in the law, however, have been enacted since the adoption of the Code of 1895-that is to say, during the years 1896, 1897, 1898, 1899, and 1900. Some of the public acts or session laws for these years are out of priut, the edition having been exhausted. The purpose of this code supplement is to classify and codify all of the laws of a public and permanent nature which have been enacted since the adoption of the Code of 1895. I have not felt at liberty to change the phraseology of the enacting part of statutes, even where the phraseology was involved or obscure, or manifestly erroneous as printed, but I have set out the statutes in tot verb., simply pruning off the formal words usual to legislative enactments. The new laws will be found. codified in § 6037 to $ 6758 inclusive.

I concluded that to make an index to the supplement by itself would create confusion, there being already three separate indexes, one at the end of each of the three volumes of the code of 1895. I have, therefore, prepared an index to the entire Code of 1895, and of the acts passed subsequently, which are embraced in this Code Supplement. Not being restricted for space, as were the codifiers of the code of 1895, I have made the index exceedingly full, as will be readily seen upon inspection of it, having been careful to preserve rigidly the alphabetical order of arrangement of topics and of catch words under the topics, and also to select such catch words as would indicate at least the substance or germ of the matter attempted to be indexed.

I have not made a separate index to the Political Code and the Civil Code, but have treated both of these Codes as one, as being, taken together, an embodiment of the civil law of force in this State. All of this matter, therefore, which is set out in volumes 1 and 2 of the code of 1895 will be found indexed together under the title "Civil Code," at the end of this volume.

I have made also a new, separate, and very full index of the penal laws of the State, and the same will be found under the title "Penal Code," at the end of this volume.

Lawyers in general practice, and particularly those who handle corporation cases, have frequent occasion to consult the session laws

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in order to find local or private acts, such as laws affecting the various towns and cities of the state, insurance, bank, railroad and other corporations, the charters thereof, and the several amendments thereto, and the like. This of course involves much labor, as it requires the annual session laws to be pulled down and their separate indexes examined, which are often meager, and sometimes imperfect. I have therefore prepared, and now present to the profession, an index to all of such local and private acts of the General Assembly above indicated as are of public interest although of local application for the period of one hundred years, between the years 1800 and 1900. The preparation of this index has been a work of great labor, but I have an abiding faith that it will prove a great labor-saving device to lawyers in active practice, to whom a few hours of time saved are often worth much more than the small cost of this volume.

I have not attempted to set out the general tax acts, general appropriation acts, and the like, for while these laws are of a public and general nature, they are not of a permanent character, but their provisions are ever varying, with each recurring legislature. And so, many other acts which were of a public, but also of a temporary character, and which have now served their purpose, I have not attempted to codify.

Much care and patience has been employed to secure accuracy in the production of this work, and I trust that but few errors will be found as the book submits itself to the crucial test of practical use in the hands of members of one of the most learned professions in the world.

This work having brought down the public laws to the end of the century, arranged in code form, the cost to the State of raising a new code commission and having prepared a recodification of the laws, will probably be saved for many years to come. For this reason, I have seen proper to entitle the work "Supplement to the Code of 1895, Volume 4," and to have the same printed in the same. form and quality as to size, type, paper, binding, etc., as volumes 1, 2, and 3 of the code of 1895.

Since the Code of 1895 was adopted, the Constitution of the State has been changed, by the increase of the number of judges of the Supreme Court, resulting in a complete reorganization of that court. I have accordingly set out herein in full the reorganization act, and the various acts, rules, and orders passed in reference to this subject. Important changes and modifications in the rules of the supreme court have also resulted, and I have republished a full copy of the "Rules of the Supreme Court," as corrected and amended to date, and also the several rules, orders and statutes relating to the subject of "Admission to the Bar."

I commit this work to the indulgent consideration of thoughtful and generous minds. HOWARD VAN EPPS.

ATLANTA, GA., May 25, 1901.

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