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An Act to authorize and require the Governor of the State of Georgia to call a Convention of the people of this State, and to appropriate money for the same. 1849-1850 122 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0356 and id is 1 raw text is: CQyNTION. The Legislature shall, have no power .by bill, ordinance, or. resolution, to incorporate any church,,academy, school, lit- erary, religious, or benevolent society or association, or Any lother.society or association, manufacturing company, mili- tarycompany, ice company, fire company, theatre com pany, hotel company, bridge or ferry cQmparty, nor to change the names of any persons, nor to legitimate illegitimate children, nor to change the places of holding precinct elections in the several counties, nor to incorporate towns, cities or villages, other than seaport towns and ports of entry, nor to compen- sate grand or petit jurors; but the powers herein before enumerated shall be exercised by the Superior or Inferior Courts, or both, as the Legislature may provide, after this act shall have passed agreeably to the provisions of the Con- stitution; and it shall be the duty of the Legislature.to pass such act or acts as may be necessary to carry into effect this provision of the Constitution, prescribing the manner in which such powers shall be exercised and the corporate powers to be eiercised under charters which may be grant- ed by said Courts. Approved, February 22, 1850. AN ACT to authorize and require the Governor of the State of Georgia to call a Convention of the people of this State, and to appropriate money for the same. WHEREAS the non-slaveholding States have for a series of years perseveringly interfered most wrongfully with the institution of slavery at the South, by such aggressive measures of intolerance as to render it no longer a ques- tion of doubt that the Federal Legislature will soon adopt such restrictive measures against the institution of slavery as to trammel, fetter, and confine it within certain geo- graphicallimits never contemplated bythe original parties to the constitutional compact: and whereas Georgia, in her sovereign capacity as q State, has delegated no other power to the Federal Government than those found in the Constitution of the United States, and believing that her best interests, and her honor as a sovereign and indepen- dent government, require that she should meet all en- croachments in a calm and manly spirit of resistance: SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House oJ Rep- resentatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That should the Congress of the United States pass any law pro- hibiting slavery or involuntary servitude in any territory of the United States, or any law abolishing slavery in the Dis- trict of Columbia, or any law prohibiting the slave trade be- tween the States where slavery may exist, or admit into the

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