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114 JOURNAL OF THE Whereupon the President signed, and the same were deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.

Mr. Wofford offered the following resolution, which was taken up, read, and adopted.

"Resolved, That the Pension Agent of the United States for the State of Georgia be requested to exercise the usual functions of his agency, until further instructed by this Convention."

Mr. Johnson, from the Committee on Enrolment, made the following report:

Mr. President: — I am instructed by the Committee on Enrolment to report as duly enrolled —

An ordinance in relation to oaths.

An ordinance to make provisional postal arrangements in Georgia, and

An ordinance in reference to lands heretofore ceded to the late United States of America.

Whereupon the President signed, and the same were deposited in the office of the Secretary of State.

Mr. Rice, from the Committee on the Constitution of the State and the Constitution and Laws of the United States, to whom was referred an ordinance in relation to the Circuit and District Courts of the United States, reported the following :

AN ORDINANCE

To abolish the Circuit and District Courts of the United States for the District of Georgia, and to establish other Courts in lieu thereof, and to continue in force certain judgements and executions.

The people of Georgia in Convention assembled, hereby declare and ordain,

That the Circuit and District Courts of the late United States for the State of Georgia be, and the same are hereby abolished as Courts of the said United States, and the District Courts of the United States for the Northern and