AN ACT regulating and making valid the election for members of council for the city of St Marys, held on the third, instead of the second Monday in April, 1839, as required by the act of incorporation, passed on the 10th December, 1807.

WHEREAS from some neglect on the part of the Council in authority, no notice was published within the time required by said incorporating act, for the said election to be held on the day prescribed, but was subsequently notified, and an election held on the third instead of the second Monday in April last passed, by which proceeding doubts exist with regard to the legality of the same, and whether through the negligence aforesaid of the body politic, it has or has not broken the condition upon which it was incorporated; to remedy which

SECTION 1. 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 all and any act and acts done, performed and committed, and all ordinances passed by the present Council, or that' may be hereafter passed during their continuance in office, and until the next annual election, be and the same is hereby declared good and valid, effectually binding and obligatory within the incorporating limits, as though no default had taken place in holding the annual election, as directed by the charter.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the next election for members of Council shall take place on the third Monday in April, 1840, and annually thereafter.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all act or acts militating against this act, be, and the same is repealed.

JOSEPH DAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, December 10th, 1839.

CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor.

AN ACT to authorize the commissioners of the town of Springfield, in the county of Effingham, to sell the vacant lots in the town of Springfield, and to make valid their titles.

SECTION 1. 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 from and after the passage of this act, it shall and may be lawful for the commissioners of the town of Springfield, in the county of Effingham, to sell at public outcry, before the court-house of said county, on a Sheriff's sale day, between the hours of ten and three o'clock, all the vacant lots which are now within the limits of said town, or any part thereof,first giving thirty day's notice of such sale, at two or more of the most public places in each Captain's District, and the money arising from such sale shall be vested in the hands of said commissioners, for the benefit of the incorporation thereof, and the titles given by said commissioners, or by a majority of them for all lots sold by them, shall be valid to all intents and purposes.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act shall be, and the same are hereby repealed.

JOSEPH DAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, December 21st, 1839.

CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor.

WEIGHTS AND MEASURES.

AN ACT to amend an act passed 10th December, 1803, entitled an act to make uniform a standard of Weights and Measures, in this State.

SECTION 1. 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 standard of Weights and Measures adopted by the Congress of the United States, shall be, and the same are hereby adopted and considered a standard of Weights and Measures for this State.

SEC. 2. And be it enacted, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, it shall be the duty of his Excellency the Governor of this State, to cause to be procured in some cheap and economical way, one hundred standards of each, to correspond in weight and measures, with those now in the Executive office, in Milledgeville.

SEC. 3. And be acted, That so soon as the said standards shall have been procured, as contemplated in this act, his Excellency the Governor is hereby or authorized to issue his proclaination, giving publicity to the same, calling upon all the citizens of this State, and others within the jurisdiction of the same, to conform thereto, and abide the same.

SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That when his Excellency the Governor shall have made his proclamation, in pursuance of this act, it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior Courts of the several counties of this State, or a majority of them, and they are hereby required to obtain from the Executive office, by their clerk, or some other person by them appointed for that purpose, one of each of the stan lards of Weights and Measures, to be kept in the clerks office of said Inferior Court of said county, for the benefit of all the citizens thereof.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the Justices of the Inferior Courts aforesaid, or a majority of them, upon the receipt of such standard of weights and measures, to give sixty days notice, at the CourtHouse of the county, and three of the most public places in the same, in order that all may be informed thereof.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That if any person or persons within the limits of this State, shall use or cause to be used, or in any wise sanction the use of any weights and measures, for their own use and benefit, either for themselves, or any other person with whom they may be connected, of less dimension than those adopted by this act, as standards, after six months shall have expired from the proclamation of his Excellency, shall be, upon proof and conviction thereof, be subject to all the pains and penalties, both civil and criminal, improved [imposed] by the penal code of this State, and in the act to which this is amendatory; and if he, she, or they shall be the proprietor, superintendant, weight clerk or assistant, in ware-houses, or places where cotton or other produce are weighed or sold, he, she or they shall be liable to a penalty, civil or criminal, in a fourfold amount.

SEC. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed.

JOSEPH DAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ROBERT M. ECHOLS,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, December 23d, 1839.

CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor.

RESOLUTIONS

WHICH

ORIGINATED IN SENATE.

IN SENATE.

WHEREAS the Western and Atlantic Railroad has in a great measure destroyed the public highways in the several counties through which it passes, and the grading on said road is now much injured by the crossing of said highway, and in many places it will remain a permanent injury to the Railroad when constructed: Be it therefore

Resolved, That it shall be the duty of the Commissioners of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, to cause to be laid out and opened, a public highway, on such grounds as will interfere the least with the interest of travel on said highway, and to prevent its crossing the railroad, only at such points as the situation of the ground and the interest of travel may require.

ROBERT M. ECHOLS,

Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, That His