Pike County Georgia History: Legislation: Appropriations: Fayette Co: GA Contributed for use in USGenWeb Archives by Linda Blum-Barton lab@boone. ************************************************************************ USGENWEB ARCHIVES NOTICE: These electronic pages may NOT be reproduced in any format for profit or presentation by any other organization or persons. Persons or organizations desiring to use this material, must obtain the written consent of the contributor, or the legal representative of the submitter, and contact the listed USGenWeb archivist with proof of this consent. The submitter has given permission to the USGenWeb Archives to store the file permanently for free access. http://www.usgwarchives.net *********************************************************************** Source: [Title - See Below], [Georgia Legislative Documents], [Georgia Department of Archives and History], presented in the Digital Library of Georgia ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE, AT A BIENNIAL SESSION, IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY, AND FEBRUARY. 1853-4. COMPILED, AND NOTES ADDED, By JOHN RUTHERFORD. PART I -- PUBLIC LAWS. APPROPRIATIONS.* 1853 Vol. 1 -- Page: 9 Sequential Number: 006 Law Number: (No. 3.) Full Title: An Act to appropriate money for the support of Government during the political years 1854 and 1855. 1. SECTION I. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the following sums of money be and the same are hereby appropriated and set apart for the support of Government for the political years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five, to wit: For the payment of the salary of his Excellency the Governor, three thousand dollars per annum for each year. For the payment of the salaries of the Secretary of State, Treasurer, Comptroller General, and Surveyor General, sixteen hundred dollars each, per annum, for each year. For the payment of the salaries of the Secretaries of the Executive Department, not exceeding three in number, twelve hundred and fifty dollars each per annum. For the payment of the Solicitors and Attorney General Page: 10 two hundred and twenty-five dollars each per annum. For the payment of the salaries of the Judges of the Supreme Court of the State of Georgia. twenty-five hundred dollars each per annum. For the payment of the salaries of the Judges of the Superior Courts of the several Judicial Circuits of the State, the sum of eighteen hundred dollars each per annum, for each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Sidenote: Appropriation.] [Sidenote: Governor's Salary.] [Sidenote: Salary State House officers.] [Sidenote: Governor's Secretaries.] [Sidenote: Solicitor General] [Sidenote: Judges of the [Illegible Text] Court.] [Sidenote: For 1854 and [Illegible Text].] 2. SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That the sum of nine hundred dollars be appropriated as a military fund, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four and one thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Sidenote: Military Fund $900 for [Illegible Text] and $1000 for [Illegible Text].] 3. SEC. III. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twelve thousand dollars be appropriated as a Printing Fund, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and five thousand dollars for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Sidenote: [Illegible Text] for Printing Fund for 1854 $5,000 for [Illegible Text].] 4. SEC. IV. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eighteen hundred dollars be appropriated for the payment of the salary of the Physician and Superintendent of the Lunatic Asylum for the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five, each, the sum of seven thousand six hundred and forty-five dollars, for the payment of the trustees, attendants and servants' hire, treasurer and subordinate officers for each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty- five; and for the support of pauper patients in the Asylum, the sum of ten thousand dollars per annum for each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Sidenote: Physician and Superintendent Lunate [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] $1,800 for each year.] [Sidenote: [Illegible Text].] [Sidenote: [Illegible Text]] 5. SEC. V. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifty dollars [for?] each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five be and the same is hereby appropriated to pay some fit and proper person, to be selected by his Excellency the Governor, for winding up and keeping in repair the State House Clock; Provided, The person so selected shall keep the same in good repair during the said two years. [Sidenote: [Illegible Text] year for State House] 6. SEC. VI. And be it further enacted, That the sum of six dollars, each, per day, be paid to the President of the Senate and Speaker of the House of Representatives during the present session of the General Assembly, and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles' travel in going to and returning from the Seat of Government; the sum of five dollars, each, per day, to the members of the General Assembly during the present session, and four dollars, each, for every twenty miles of travel going to and returning from the Seat of Government; Provided, No member shall receive pay for any time he may have been absent without leave, except [on account of?] sickness of himself or family. [Sidenote: President, Speaker and Members' pay [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text].] [Sidenote: Travelling expenses.] [Sidenote: No pay for absence, unless sickness, &c.] 7. SEC. VII. And be it further enacted, That the Secretary of the Senate and Clerk of the House of Representatives be paid, each, the sum of five hundred dollars for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-four; Provided, That no warrant shall issue for the first quarter's salary of either until his Excellency the Governor shall have satisfactory evidence that they have respectively made or caused to be made and attached to the Journals of their respective Houses, a good and sufficient Index, and have carefully marked and filed away all the reports of standing committees, and all other papers Page: 11 of importance connected with either House; the sum of seven dollars, each, per day, to the Secretary and Assistant Secretary of the Senate, the Clerk and Assistant Clerk of the House of Representatives; and the sam of six dollars per day to the Journalizing Clerk of each branch of the General Assembly during the present session; and the sum of fifty dollars, each, to the Secretary of the Senate and House of Representatives for contingent expenses of their respective offices; the sum of six dollars, each, per day, to the Enrolling and Engrossing Clerks of the Senate and House of Representatives during the time they may be actually employed in their respective offices, which shall only be allowed them upon the certificate of the Secretary of Clerk stating that he required their services, and that they were performed as charged for. [Sidenote: Secretary of Senate, and Clerk of House, $500 for [Illegible Text], provided they do their duty, [Illegible Text].] [Sidenote: [Illegible Text]] [Sidenote: [Illegible Text].] [Sidenote: Subordinate Clerks to be paid only on certificate of Secretary or Clerk, &c.] 8. SEC. VIII. And be it further enacted, That six dollars, each, [per day?], to the Messengers and Door- keepers of the Senate and House of Representatives during the present session. [Sidenote: $6 each to Messenger and Door-keepers.] 9. SEC. IX. And be it further enacted, That the Inspector of the Penitentiary shall be paid the sum of five hundred dollars per annum for each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and that the sum of eleven hundred dollars for the payment of the State House Guard for each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five; and the sum of five hundred dollars per annum for the pay of Messenger to the Executive Department for each of the aforesaid years; and the sum of one thousand dollars be paid to David Cramer or some proper person to be engaged by his Excellency the Governor, for cleaning out the State House, sunning and dusting carpets and airing the rooms during the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Sidenote: $500 per year to Inspectors of Penitentiary.] [Sidenote: State House Guard, $1,100 per year.] [Sidenote: $500 per year for Governor's [Illegible Text].] [Sidenote: $100 for cleaning [Illegible Text] State House, airing carpets, &c.] 10. SEC. X. And be it further enacted, That the Treasurer be authorized to pay from time to time the officers of the Government, whose salaries are appropriated by this Act, seventy-five per cent. of the amounts for which services have been actually rendered at the date of such payment, taking receipts from said officers for the same, which receipts shall be his vouchers, and are hereby declared as offsets to the extent of said payments to the Executive warrants drawn at the end of the quarter for said officers salaries, and that the Treasurer be authorized to pay committee appointed to visit the Deaf and Dumb Asylum, the actual expenses incurred by them, they rendering an account of the same. [Sidenote: Treasurer to pay 75 per cent of salary due, from time to time.] [Sidenote: And to pay committee to visit Deaf & Dumb [Illegible Text] and their actual expenses.] 11. SEC. XI. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred and eighty dollars be appropriated to pay the expenses incurred by the committee appointed under a resolution of the House to examine the Western and Atlantic Rail Road, and that the same be drawn by warrant of the Governor. [Sidenote: $180 to pay committee, who visited State Road.] 12. SEC. XII. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three hundred dollars be appropriated annually to pay the Military Store Keeper at Savannah, for each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Sidenote: $300 per year for Military Store keeper, at Savannah.] 13. SEC. XIII. And be it further enacted, That the mileage and per diem pay of W. W. Arnold, deceased, late a member of the House of Representatives for the whole of the present session, be paid to the widow of said deceased, and that Thomas C. Trice, a Page: 12 Representative from the county of Pike be and he is hereby authorized to receive and pay over the same. [Sidenote: Pay of W.W. Arnold, deceased, to go to his widow.] 14. SEC. XIV. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred and fifty dollars be appropriated to pay the Military Store Keeper at Milledgeville for each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Sidenote: $150 to Millitary Store-keeper at [Illegible Text] ville.] 15. SEC. XV. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one thousand dollars be and the same is hereby annually appropriated and set apart to be used by his Excellency the Governor, at his discretion, in supplying and enlarging the Library with such books as may be required for the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five. [Sidenote: $1,000 to increase the State Library.] 16. SEC. 16. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three hundred dollars be appropriated for the salary of State Librarian for each of the years eighteen hundred and fifty-four and eighteen hundred and fifty-five, and that it shall be his duty to take charge of and keep in good order the books in the Library, and that he make out and keep on hand a schedule of all the books in the same, and report the same to his Excellency the Governor, and that he shall be further required to receive from the State Printer the Laws and Journals of each session of the Legislature, and that the distribution of the same to the various committees [counties?] shall be under his direction and discretion, and all receipts of Clerks of Courts shall be given to the said Librarian for such Laws and [Illegible Text] as well as all other books distributed, and that he be required to file said receipts. [Sidenote: $300 for Librarian] [Sidenote: [Illegible Text] duty.] [Sidenote: Clerk of Courts to receipt to him for books, and he to file the receipts.] 17. SEC. XVII. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifty dollars annually be appropriated to pay for Stationery, &c., for the office of the Clerk of the Supreme Court of this State. [Sidenote: $50 [Illegible Text] Clerk [Illegible Text] Court per year.] 18. SEC. XVIII. And be it further enacted, That the sum of eighty dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to refund a double tax paid into the Treasury by James T. Sansom, executor of Thomas [Illegible Text] deceased, and that the Governor issue his warrant in favor of said Sansom for that amount, and that the same be paid over to Hon. Asbury Hull, of Clarke county. [Sidenote: $80 to pay back [Illegible Text] to J.T. [Illegible Text], [Illegible Text]] 19. SEC. XIX. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one hundred and sixty-three dollars and forty- seven cents be and the same is hereby appropriated to pay the Hon. J. W. H. Underwood, for professional services rendered the State. [Sidenote: $163 [Illegible Text] J. W. H. Underwood.] 20. SEC. XX. And be it further enacted, That the sum of six dollars per day be paid to each of the Clerks authorized by resolution and allowed to various committees for the time they are in actual service, and that their accounts be audited and paid in the same manner as accounts of members of the Legislature. [Sidenote: $6 per day for Clerks to committees.] 21. SEC. XXI. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one [Illegible Text] hundred dollars be paid James Dinan, of Bibb county, for capturing a negro charged with [the?] crime of murder, and that his Excellency the Governor be required to draw his warrant for the same in favor of Thomas Hardeman, one of the Representatives of said county. [Sidenote: $100 to J. Dinan.] 22. SEC. XXII. And be it further enacted, That the sum of three hundred and forty-eight dollars and ninety- eight cents be paid William S. Jones for printing done for the State, and that his Excellency Page: 13 the Governor draw his warrant on the Treasury for the same. [Sidenote: [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] to W. S. Jones.] 23. SEC. XXIII. And be it further enacted, That the sum of one thousand dollars be and the same is hereby appropriated to Joseph Sturgis, the State's Agent, for collecting the claims of the State against the United States, the same being for the amounte due him under his contract with Governor Towns for his expenses for two sessions of Congress, viz: the session of eighteen hundred and fifty-one and eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and the sessions of eighteen hundred and fifty-two and eighteen hundred and fifty-three. [Sidenote: $1,000 to J. [Illegible Text]] 24. SEC. XXIV. And be it further enacted, That the sum of seventy-six dollars and fifty cents be and is hereby appropriated to S. W. Minor, being an amount due him for printing done in the years eighteen hundred and forty-nine and eighteen hundred and fifty, and that D. D. Denham, Representative from the county of Fayette, be authorized to receive and receipt for the same. [Sidenote: $76 50 to S. W. Minor.] 25. SEC. XXV. And be it further enacted, That the sum of twenty-nine dollars and eighty-eight cents be [and the same?] is [Illegible Text] appropriated to make up a deficit in the commissions due [Illegible Text] Thornton, late receiver of tax returns for the county of Fayette, for the year eighteen hundred and fifty-two, and that D. D. Denham, Representative from the county of Fayette, be authorized to receive and receipt for the same; and that the sum of thirty-five dollars be appropriated to pay A. Porter for a lost coupon of bond No. 139, upon his giving a bond to the Treasurer to pay the original conpon, should it ever be presented to the Treasury, and that the said sum be paid to the Senator from Chatham, John W. Anderson; and that the sum of eighteen dollars and ten cents be paid to J. R. [Illegible Text] tax collector of Pike county for eighteen hundred and fifty-two, for amount of tax of said county paid by him to the State over and above the amount on the Digest furnished him to collect by, and that the sum be paid to T. C. Trice, Representative from said county; the further sum of twenty-three dollars and fifty [Illegible Text] to Robert C. Wilson, assignee of A. Chase, for sundry printing done the State and Penitentiary, as per bill rendered, and that the same be paid to A. Hull. [Sidenote: $29 86 to H. [Illegible Text]] [Sidenote: [Illegible Text] to A. Porter.] [Sidenote: $18 10 to J. R. Culpeper.] [Sidenote: $23 50 to R. C. Wilson.] 26. SEC. XXVI. And be it further enacted, That the sum of fifty dollars, with interest at the rate of six per cent. per annum, from the first of June, eighteen hundred and forty, be appropriated to pay a certificate of work done on the Western and Atlantic Rail [Illegible Text] issued in favor of H. L. Currier, and now owned by James S. Simms, and that the Governor be authorized to draw his warrant in favor of Willis Willingham, Senator from the county of Oglethorpe. [Sidenote: $50 for State Road Certificate.] 27. SEC. XXVII. And be it further enacted, That the witnesses who have attended in obedience to subp[oelig]nas before the Special Committee of the House to whom was referred the memorial of James J. Scarborough, containing charges against Abner P. Powers, as Judge of the Superior Court of the Macon Circuit, be paid the [Illegible Text] of five dollars, each, per diem, during the time they may have been in attendance, and the sum of four dollars for every twenty miles they may have traveled coming to and returning Page: 14 from the Capitol, and the Auditing Committee of the House do ardit the accounts of said witnesses; that John A. Breedlove, Sheriff of the county of Baldwin, be paid the sum of five dollars per day for services rendered in serving subp[oelig]nas, &c., in the matter of the memorial of James J. Scarborough; and that the sum of one hundred and twenty dollars be allowed to W. B. Terhune for his services as Clerk of said Committee, and that the Auditing Committee of the House do audit the accounts of said Sheriff and Clerk. * [Sidenote: $5 per day to witnesses in the case of Judge Powers.] [Sidenote: $4 for each 20 miles.] [Sidenote: $5 per day to J. A. Breedlove, Sheriff in said case.] [Sidenote: $120 to the Clerk of said committee.] Approval Date: Assented to, December 21st, 1858. -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Footnotes from this page * [Illegible Text] NOTE -- The objects and amounts of appropriations vary too much to specify, if useful -- for last General Appropriation Act, see Acts 1851-'52, page, 11 -- all previous Acts under this head in Acts 1849-'50, in Cobb's Dig., Prince, &c. [return]