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Resolution to authorize the Legislature to take a recess, etc. 1849-1850 417 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0371 and id is 1 raw text is: RESOLUTIONS. manent home and is greatly desired by him, and vould be a proper reward: Be it therefore resolved by the Senate and House of Repre- sentatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly nrt, That the Chief Engineer of the Western and Atlantic Railroad be authorized to purchase the negro man Ransom for the use of said road: Provided, it can be done upon reasonable terms. Assented to, December 5, 1849. Resolutions in relation to the Committees on the State of the Republic. Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives, That the Committees on the State of the Republic, appointed by those bodies respectively, be andi they are hereby instructed to act juintly on qluestions and measures relrred from either branch of the General Assembly relating to the action of the Federal Government or the Government of any confederate State upon the subject of slavery. Resolved, That all bills, rcsolutions, memorials, and other papers upon the subject aforesaid, introduced into either House, or received from any sister State, be referred to said Joint Conmttee, and that they have leave to report by bill or otherwise. Assentd to, December 5, 1849. Resolution to autherize the Legislature to take a recess, &c. WIHEtEAS theve is an immense accumulation of business before the present Legislature; and whereas the closing of the present session thereof at the usual time would ne- cessarily bring about hasty and inconsiderate legislation, which would be wrong in itself and unjust to the people and wvhercas the interesting position of the South in re- gard to the slavery question, rendered more so by the re- cent exciting scenes at Washington, makes it highly ex- pedient that the Legislature of this State should be in session at and fbr somie time after the reception by Con- gress of the President's Message: Be it thertfore resolved, That the Senate and House of Repres -natives of the State of Georgia in General Assem- bly now Inet, do take a recess from and after the twentieth in stant, and meet again on the second Monday in January next Provided, no member shall be permitted to draw any perdirm allowance during said recess. Assented to, December 20, 1849. 27# 417

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