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Rh Also, a bill to be entitled an act to incorporate the Washington Fire Company in the city of Savannah. Also, a bill to regulate Justices Courts in Chatham count Also, a bill to amend the road laws and open a new road in Camden county, and for other purposes. On motion of Mr. McDougald, The House adjourned until ten o'clock to-morrow morning.

WEDNESDAY, 21, 1849. Upon motion of Mr. Worrell, the order of the House was suspended, and the following resolution of the Senate was taken up, read, and concurred in, to wit: Resolved, That there shall be added to the standing committees of both houses of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, one to be denominated the Committee of State Statistics, which shall be appointed respectively by the Senate and House of Representatives as their other standing committees are; that the Committee on the part of the Senate shall consist of five, and the Committee on the part of the House of Representatives ot one member of it from each Judicial Circuit; that the said Committees, when appointed, shall constitute a Joint Committee of both houses of the General Assembly, the first named member of the Senate's Committee being the Chairman of the Joint Committee; that it shall be the business of the Joint Committee to report to their houses respectively during the present session of the Legislature, in a tabular form, with such remarks as the Committee may think proper by a majority of its members to make, all the information it may obtain relating to the topography, agriculture, manufactures, commerce, internal improvements, population, crime and health of the State, distinguishing in these particulars the counties from each other, and embracing under each head whatever the Committee may deem belonging to each, in such a classification of the whole as the Committee may think best, to give biennially to the people, the best, the most compendious view of its resources and condition. The Speaker, in accordance with the requisitions of the resolution, appointed the following Committee on the part of the House, to wit: Messrs. Kenan, Hodges of Houston, Perkins, Wiggins, McDougald, McAllister, Lane, Harris, Thomasson, Jones and Gresham; and the Clerk was ordered to carry the same to the Senate forthwith. Upon motion of Mr. Howard, the order was further suspended, in order that he might introduce a resolution. Mr. Howard moved that 150 copies of the Correspondence