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GEORGIA. 



victed, and punished therefor, by the Circuit or Dis- 

 trict Court of the United States for the District of 

 Georgia, in which district said offence shall be com- 

 initteti, and shall be punished therefor by imprison- 

 ment at hard labor for not less than two nor moro 

 than ten years, in the discretion of the court, and the 

 jurisdiction of said courts shall be sole and exclusive 

 for the purpose aforesaid. 



SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That it is here- 

 by declared that the exclusion of any person or per- 

 sons elected as aforesaid, and being otherwise quali- 

 fied, from participation in the proceedings of said 

 Senate or House of Representatives, upon the ground 

 of race, color, or previous condition of servitude, 

 would be illegal and revolutionary, and is hereby 

 prohibited. 



SEC. 7. And be U further enacted, That, upon the 

 application of the Governor of Georgia, the President 

 of the United States shall employ such military or 

 naval forces of the United States as may be necessary 

 to enforce and execute the preceding provisions of 

 this act. 



SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That the Legis- 

 lature shall ratify the fifteenth amendment proposed, 

 to the Constitution of the United States, before Sen- 

 ators and Representatives from Georgia are admitted 

 to seats in Congress. 



On the same day on which this measure re- 

 ceived the approval of the President, Governor 

 Bullock issued his proclamation at Atlanta, 

 which, after reciting the action of Congress, 

 continued as follows : 



I hereby issue this, my proclamation, to summon 

 all persons, elected to the General Assembly of the 

 State of Georgia, as appears by the proclamation of 

 George G. Meade, the general commanding the mili- 

 tary district including' the State of Georgia, dated 

 June 25, 1868, who are qualified, to appear at Atlanta, 

 in said State, on Monday, 10th day of January next, 

 whereupon such of the said persons as are qualified 

 to hold office, in accordance with the provisions of 

 the act of Congress in such cases made and pro- 

 vided, will be organized in the Senate and House of 

 Representatives respectively, as the Provisional Le- 

 gislature of the State of Georgia, for the purpose of 

 promoting the reconstruction of civil government in 

 said State, in accordance with the laws of the United 

 States. 



RUFUS B. BULLOCK, Provisional Governor. 



Two days later the following general order 

 was issued at Washington : 



General Orders, No. 83. 

 HEADQUARTERS OF THE ARMY, ) 



AD JCTANT -GENERAL'S OFFICE, > 

 WASHINGTON, December 24, 1869. ) 

 Brevet Major-General A. H. Terry, in addition to 

 his duties as Department Commander of the South, 

 is, by order of the President of the United States, ap- 

 pointed to exercise the duties of Commanding Gen- 

 eral of the District of Georgia, as defined by the act 

 of Congress approved December 22, 1869. 



By command of General SHERMAN. 



E. D. TOWNSEND, Adjutant-General. 



Thus the State of Georgia was found at tho 

 close of another year under the military au- 

 thority of the United States, awaiting the as- 

 sembling of tho Legislature in January, 1870. 



Aside from the sad confusion and embarrass- 

 ment which have prevailed in her political 

 affairs, Georgia has made very fair progress 

 during the year. The negroes appear to have 

 worked, on the whole, industriously, and to 

 have been on cordial terms with their white 

 employers. Preparations were made on a large 



GERMANY. 



scale for the production of cotton, and a fair 

 crop was obtained. The following are some 

 of the latest statistics connected with the 

 wealth and resources of the State : number of 

 acres of land, 30,616,025 ; aggregate value of 

 lands, $87,117,616; value of town and city 

 property, $38,473,905 ; amount of money and 

 solvent debts of all kinds, $32,110,534; mer- 

 chandise, $10,934,152. Capital invested in 

 shipping, $208,650; capital in cotton manu- 

 factures, $1,461,753; iron-works, founderies, 

 etc., $552,150 ; capital invested in mining, 

 $126,689; aggregate value of all property in 

 the State, $207,963,696. Several new rail- 

 roads are in course of construction in the 

 State, including the JMacon and Brunswick, 

 185 miles in length; the South Georgia and 

 Florida Eoad, from Albany to Thomasville, 

 55 miles ; the Macon and Augusta, 125 miles ; 

 the Air Line Koad from Atlanta to Anderson, 

 in South Carolina, 120 miles; the Selma, 

 Rome, and Dalton Road; and the Savannah, 

 Griffin, and North Alabama. The Western 

 and Atlantic Railroad, stretching from Atlanta 

 in this State, to Chattanooga in Tennessee, is 

 the property of the State, and yields an annual 

 revenue of about $25,000. The State also 

 owns 10,000 shares in the Atlantic and Gulf 

 Railroad, which are worth about $350,000. 

 No report of the financial affairs of the State, 

 covering the year 1869, has been made. 



GERMANY. No notable progress was made 

 in the course of the year 1869 toward a satis- 

 factory solution of the German nationality 

 question and the establishment of German unity. 

 In Baden the Government and the great ma- 

 jority of the legislature agree in desiring an 

 entrance into the North-German Confederation, 

 while Bavaria and Wurtemberg remain opposed 

 to such a policy. The population of the North- 

 German Confederation (according to the cen- 

 sus of 1867) amounted to 29,906,092 ; .of the 

 South-German States (Bavaria, Baden, Wur- 

 temberg, Hesse-Darmstadt) to 8,603,446, of 

 Lichtenstein to 8,310. (As to the Germans of 

 Austria, see AUSTEIA.) 



The religious statistics of the North-German 

 Confederation, in 1867, were as follows: 

 Evangelicals, 21,314,000; Roman Catholics, 

 8,131,000; Greek Catholics, 2,500; Christian 

 sects, 96,000; Jews, 350,000; all others, 5,200. 



The North-German Parliament was opened 

 on March 4th, by the King of Prussia. In the 

 course of his speech he expressed his satisfac- 

 tion that the prospect of peace had not proved 

 illusory. After referring to various domestic 

 subjects, he alluded to the friendly relations- 

 existing between the North-German" Confed- 

 eration and all the foreign powers, fresh 

 evidence of which had been afforded by the 

 peaceful solution of the late dispute between 

 Turkey and Greece. The result of the Paris 

 Conference had proved the estimation in which 

 the European powers held the blessings of 

 peace ; and a nation which had shown itself 

 willing and able to respect the independence 



