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An Act, to reform the Penal Code of this State, and to adapt the same to the Penitentiary System. 1816 142 (1816)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0104 and id is 1 raw text is: LAWS OF GEORGIA. $ure, sall at each session, be appointed to visit the Peni, tentiary, and strictly examine the concerns of the said i- stitution, and investigate the conduct of the officers, and the rules and regulations of the Penitentiary, and. espe- cially report thereon. 2 1t. And be itfurther enacted by the authority afore. said, That where any convict confined in the Peniten- tiary, is a witness in any civil cause, depending in any court of this state, and his testimony required, the same shall be tiken by commission, and read at the trial of such civil cause, and in. no civil case shall such convict be removed from the Penitentiary, to give personal atten- dance at court. But before such comnission issues, the party, or his, or her, attorney, requiring such com. inission, shall file an affidavit, with the record of the proceedings, that the convict to be examnied, is a ma, terial witness in the cause. BENJAMIN WHITAKER, Speaker of the House of Representatives. WILLIAM RABUN, President of the Senate. &ssented to, 19th lecember, 181(6. D. B. MITCHELL, Governor,, AN ACT, To foVrm the Penqi Code of this State, and to adapt the same to the Plenitentiary System. WEREAS the liberty of the citizens depends upon the excellence of criminal laws, and the proportion of pun- ishments as nearly as may be, to the differeut degrees of offences:-and Whereas sanguinary and cruel pnishnents, are only suited to despotic and arbritrary governments, and are to. tally incompatible with the principles of leniency and mo- deration which should distinguish the republican, above all other political institutions . nd whereas the adap. tation of the Penal Code, to the Penitentiary system, is

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