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Resolutions to send Delegates to the Nashville Convention. 1849-1850 418 (1849)

handle is hein.slavery/ssactsga0372 and id is 1 raw text is: Resolution relative to the election of the Judges of the Su- perior Courts. Be it resolved by the Senate and House of R epresentatives of tie State of Georgia in General Assembly convened, That at the next general election for Governor and Members of the Legislature, the people of' this State be requested to express their wishes as to the manner in which the Judges of the Superior Courts shall thereallter he elected, by endorsing on on their tickets, By the Legisliture, or By the People. Assented to, December 12th, 1849. Resolutions to send Delegates to the Nashville Convention. The Joint Committee on the State of the Republic, to whom were referred certain resolutions of the members of the Legislature of the State of South Carolina, and other re- solutions introduced in the House of Representatives of this General Assembly, relative to a proposed Convention of the people of the slaveholding States, reconnend the adoptioni of the following resolutions: Resolred, 1st. That this General Assembly regard most favorably the recommendation emanating from the people of Mississippi, that the people of the slaveholding States meet in Convention at Nashville on the first Monday in June next, as eminently conducive to harionions and clficient action among them in defence of the institution of slavery, and all the rights incident thereto, guaranteed by the letter and by the spirit of the Constitution. Resolved, 2d. That both branches of the General Assem- bly will meet in the Representative Hall, on Thursday next at 11 o'clock, for the purpose of sending fbur delegates from the State at large to the Nashville Convention. Resolved, 3d. That we recommend to the people of this State to send two delegates from each of their Congression- al Districts of this State to said Nashville Convention, to be elected on the first Tuesday in April next, by the peoole of said Districts: and thathis Excellency the Governor, by his proclamation to the peoplc of' this State, make known the day of election herein designated, to be held as elections are for members of the Legislature, and that the returns of the election so held by the people, shall be made to the Gover- nor as elections for members of Congress by the people are; and upon the returns so made his Excellency the Governor shall, by his proclamation, make known the persons so elected; and in the event any of the delegates so elected shall refuse to accept the appointment by the 15th of May, or if any vacancy shall in any manner occur, then the Gov- ernor shall be and he is hereby requested to fill such vacan- cy by appointment from whichever party the vacancy shall happen. 418 . RESOLUTIONS.

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