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sons convicted of misdemeanor who are serving their 

 time on chain-gangs. 



To amend the garnishment laws of the State by 

 providing in what way garnishments may be dis- 

 solved. 



To define the duties of masters in chancery and 

 Auditors, and of the judges of the Superior Court 

 upon exceptions to their reports. 



To define where corporations, mining or joints-slock 

 companies may be sued and served. 



Defining voluntary assignments, and providing that 

 a sworn schedule of creditors shall be filed with the 

 deed of assignment, and also providing that fraud 

 shall avoid the assignment. 



To authorize the Governor to issue bonds of the 

 State to the amount of $3,455,135, and negotiate the 

 same for the purpose of raising money to pay that 

 portion of the public debt which falls due in 1885 and 

 1886, and to provide for the exchange of new bonds 

 of the State for the bonded indebtedness now out- 

 standing and falling due in those years, such bonds 

 to have thirty years to run and bear not exceeding 

 5 per cent, interest. 



To require railroad companies, when passenger- 

 trains are more than half an hour behind the schedule- 

 time, to keep posted at every telegraph-station along 

 their line the time such train is behind its regular 

 time. 



To regulate the registration of deeds and bills of 

 sale given as security for debt, requiring that they 

 shall be recorded within thirty days from their date. 



To declare and establish the grade of turnpikes in 

 the State. 



To encourage search for phosphate rock and phos- 

 phate deposits by granting to those who find it the 

 right to dig, mine, and remove the same in and from 

 the beds and margins of the navigable streams and 

 waters of the State ; gives exclusive license for ten 

 years upon certain payments. 



To prevent the importation and sale of second-hand 

 or cast-off clothing. 



Regulating assessment life-insurance. 



The law relating to sales of certain products was 

 amended, so that now it is provided that "cotton, 

 corn, rice, crude turpentine, spirits turpentine, rosin, 

 pitch, tar, or other products sold by planters and com- 

 mission merchants on cash sale, shall not be consid- 

 ered as the property of the buyer, or the ownership 

 given up, until the same shall be fully paid for, al- 

 though it may have been delivered into the possession 

 of the buyer : Provided, That in cases where the whole 

 or any part of the property has been delivered into 

 the possession of the buyer, the right of the seller to 

 collect the purchase-money shall not be affected by 

 its subsequent loss or destruction." 



An act to establish a technological school as a 

 branch of the State University provides that it shall 

 be located in such eligible place as offers the best in- 

 ducements, and that its course shall be modeled upon 

 that of the Institute of Industrial Science at Worcester, 

 Mass. The sum of $65,000 is appropriated for its es- 

 tablishment. 



Another act provides "that in all cases in this 

 State, where landlords shall rent lands to tenants, and 

 t is agreed that the tenant shall pay the landlord a 

 part of the crop or crops produced on the lands so 

 rented for the use of the same, and the tenant shall in 

 good faith turn over and deliver to his landlord, in 

 discharge of said rent, the part of the crop or crops 

 agreed on as aforesaid, said articles so turned over 

 and delivered shall be discharged from the lien of any 

 judgment, decree, or other process whatsoever against 

 said tenant." 



An act was passed providing that no judgment here- 

 after obtained in the courts of the State shal^ be en- 

 forced after the expiration of seven years from its ren- 

 dition, when no execution has been issued upon it, 

 nor, when execution has been issued, after seven 

 years from record of the last action under it. 



Perhaps the most important act of the session was 



a general local-option law. This law provides " that 

 upon application by petition, signed by one tenth of 

 the voters who are qualified to vote for members of 

 the General Assembly, in any county in this State, 

 the ordinary shall order an election to be held at the 

 places of holding elections for members of the Gen- 

 eral Assembly, to take place within forty days after 

 the reception of such petition, to determine whether 

 or not such spirituous liquors as are mentioned in the 

 sixth section of this act shall be sold within the limits 

 of such designated places: Provided, That no election 

 held under this act shall be held in any month in 

 which general elections are held, so that such elec- 

 tions as are held under this act shall be separate and 

 distinct from any other election whatever." The 

 sixth section declares " that if a majority of the votes 

 cast at any election, held as by this act provided, shall 

 be ' against the sale,' it shall not be lawful for any 

 person within the limits of such county to sell or bar- 

 ter for valuable consideration, either directly or indi- 

 rectly, or give away to induce trade at any place of 

 business, or furnish at other public places any al- 

 coholic, spirituous, malt, or intoxicating liquors, or 

 intoxicating bitters, or other drinks which, if drank 

 to excess, will produce intoxication, under penalties 

 hereinafter prescribed." It is, however, provided 

 " that nothing in this act shall be so construed as to 

 prevent the manufacture, sale, or use of domestic wines 

 or cider, or the sale of wines for sacramental pur- 

 poses : Provided, such wines or cider shall not be sold 

 m bar-rooms by retail, nor shall anything herein con- 

 tained prevent licensed druggists from selling or fur- 

 nishing pure alcohol for medicinal, art, scientific, and 

 mechanical purposes." If the vote is " against thesale," 

 the act takes effect after four weeks' publication of the 

 result. When the question has once been determined 

 in a county, it can not again be put to a vote therein 

 in less, than two years thereafter, and then only upon 

 petition as above provided. 



Two amendments to the Constitution of the State 

 were proposed, which are to be submitted to the peo- 

 ple at the next general election. The first amend- 

 ment proposes to strike out the following section: 

 " All special or local bills shall originate in the 

 House of Representatives. The Speaker of the House 

 of Representatives shall, within five days from the 

 organization of the General Assembly, appoint a 

 committee, consisting of one from each congressional 

 district, whose duty it shall be to consider and con- 

 solidate all special and local bills on the same sub- 

 ject, and report the same to the House ; and no spe- 

 cial bill shall be read or considered by the House 

 until the same has been reported by the committee, 

 unless by a two-third vote ; and no bill shall be con- 

 sidered or reported to the House by said committee 

 unless the same shall have been laid before it within 

 fifteen days after the organization of the General As- 

 sembly except by a two-third vote." 



The second proposition amends the last sentence of 

 Article VII, section 1, paragraph l,by adding thereto 

 at the end of said sentence the following words, " and 

 to make suitable provision for such Confederate sol- 

 diers as may have been permanently injured in such, 

 service," so that said sentence when so amended shall 

 read as follows : " To supply the soldiers, who lost a 

 limb or limbs in the military service of the Confed- 

 erate States, with suitable artificial limbs during life, 

 and to make suitable provision for such Confederate 

 soldiers as may have been permanently injured in such 

 service." 



Local Option. The first election under the 

 general local-option law occurred in Fulton 

 County, which contains the city of Atlanta, 

 on Nov. 25, and resulted in a majority of 225 

 for prohibition, in a total vote of about 7,000. 

 The campaign that preceded the vote was re- 

 markable for its activity and for the breaking 

 down of party and color lines. Democrats and 



