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88 Also, an act for the relief of Mary Louisa Pritchard. Also, a bill to be entitled an act to appropriate money for purposes therein designated. Also, a bill for the relief of James Lanier of Decatur county, and to extend to him certain privileges therein named. Also, a bill to be entitled an act to authorize and require the Judge of the Superior Courts of the Coweta Circuit to hold court two weeks at each term of said Court, in DeKalb county, and to provide for the same. Also, a bill to be entitled an act to incorporate the Northeastern Plank or Railroad Company of the State of Georgia, and to punish persons for violating the same. Also, an act to repeal an act consolidating the offices of the Clerk of the Superior and Inferior Courts of Emanuel county. Also, a bill to be entitled an act to exempt Giles Newton, of the county of Forsj'th, an aged, honest and infirm man, from the provisions of the acts of the General Assembly concerning peddling, and to authorize him to engage in that business without license. Also, a bill to be entitled an act to repeal the 4th, 5th, 6th and 7th sections of an act entitled an act to authorize further progress upon the works of the Western & Atlantic Railroad and for other purposes therein specified, and to provide for a sale of said road, and for the employment of certain convicts therein, assented to 22d December, 1843. The following bills of the Senate were taken up and severally read the first time:

A bill to quiet and confirm the title of Peter Poullet, a naturalized citizen, to a lot of land in the city of Augusta, conveyed to him before his naturalization. Also, a bill to be entitled an act to authorize Clerks of the Courts of Ordinary to grant marriage licenses to Jewish ministers. Also, an act to reduce the official sheriff's bond in the county of Dade. Also, an act to regulate the election of Constables in the city of Savannah. Also, an act to reduce the official bond of the sheriffs of Cherokee county and Murray county. Also, an act to change the name of Elizabeth Kelley to that of Amanda Elizabeth Cooper. Also, a bill to incorporate St. Thomas Lodge No. 49 of Free and Accepted Masons, in the county of Thomas. Also, a bill to authorize the Justices of the Peace elected for the 1st, 2d, 3d and 4th dist. G.M., composing the city of Savannah, to reside and hold their respective offices and courts at any place within the corporate limits of said city.