ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE, ᎪᎢ Ꭺ BIENNIAL SESSION, IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY, AND FEBRUARY, PREFACE. THE present mode of compiling the Laws with various "notes," is under the third Section of a Law of 1852, which is in these words: "SEC. III. And be it further enacted, &c., That it shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor to procure some fit and proper person, to prepare the several Acts for publication, whose duty it shall be to distinguish the Public Laws from those that are private and local; to arrange the Public Laws under appropriate titles; to prepare for publication, side notes and head notes, for convenience of reference; to add notes referring back to such previous legislation as may be modified or repealed; and notes giving the decisions of the Supreme Court upon that subject matter, since the last publication of the Laws, together with a copious Index." [Acts of 1851-2, p. 253.] The short time allowed for the compilation and notes, has prevented me from making the notes as full and perfect as I might have done. I trust, however, that they will in some good degree subserve the end proposed, and prove useful. 1st. I felt that all Laws of general interest ought to occupy separate and clear ground, and not be buried under the numerous Rail Road and other Charters, many of which are either quite local or will never be put into operation. Hence I have embraced under Public Laws, none but what are strictly public, with a few partial and necessary exceptions. I therefore exclude and put under Private Laws, Rail Road and Bank Charters, Joint Stock Companies, &c., retaining all Laws relating to the State Road, and the Central Bank; and also, an Act as to the creditors of the Darien Bank, for reason in my note to the Act. 2d. As to the Judiciary, my principle being that all Laws relating directly to the pursuit of remedies before the Courts, (except Justices' Courts,) belong properly to the Judiciary; I have carried forward Attachments, &c., and brought back Rent Laws and others within and under this head. |