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1st. In the name and behalf of the whole people of Georgia, and especially of the destitute and suffering, I tender most hearty thanks to the dispensers of this munificent boon, whom I would designate by a borrowed
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appellation, which blends in touching association the ideas of a tender womanly relation and of a divine attri- bute, "SISTERS OF MERCY." Such, indeed, are these noble women of Baltimore. Heaven's blessings wait upon them.
2d. Messrs. Crane and Graybill, of Savannah, the consignees, are requested to divide the consignment into seven parts as nearly equal as possible, reference being had to the kinds and qualities of the articles composing it. And delivering one portion in Savannah, as herein- after provided, will ship one of the remaining six to each of the following points, viz .: To Oglethorpe, consigned to the Hon. Philip Cook; to Newnan, consigned to the Hon. Hugh Buchanan; to Macon, consigned to the Hon. Thomas Hardeman, Jr .; to Augusta, consigned to Porter Fleming, Esq .; to Athens, consigned to the Hon. J. A. Christie; to Atlanta, consigned to A. K. Seago, Esq.
3d. The following gentlemen, (the first named in each case acting as chairman) are requested to take charge of the several consignments for their respective Congressional Districts and act as committees of distri- bution therein, viz .: For the 1st district-Messrs. Solo- mon Cohen, John Sereven and James L. Seward. For the 2nd-Messrs. Philip Cook, A. S. Cutts and D. A. Vason. For the 3d-Messrs. Hugh Buchanan, R. A. T. Ridley and J. F. Johnson. For the 4th-Messrs. E. G. Cabiness, Thos. Hardeman, Jr., and Jeremiah Beall. For the 5th-Messrs. J. D. Mathews, Samuel Barnet and Porter Fleming. For the 6th-Messrs. J. H. Christie, J. S. Gholston and Thomas Morris. For the 7th-Messrs. William T. Wofford, J. A. W. Johnson and A. K. Seago.
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The consignee in each district will notify the other
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members of his committee so soon as he may receive the consignment, and appoint a day for their meeting at the place of delivery.
Each committee is authorized to appoint necessary assistants and sub-agents, and will act with special refer- ence to the declared wishes of the donors.
Bills of expenses unavoidably incurred will be pre- sented at this office for payment.
4th. Editors, throughout the State, willing to con- nect themselves with this laudable charity are requested to give this order a few insertions.
5th. Let a copy of this order be forwarded to Wil- liam Crighton, Esq., Baltimore, who is requested to pre- sent it to the managers of the Ladies' Southern Relief Fair as a truthful though imperfect expression of Geor- gia's gratitude.
Let copies be forwarded also to Messrs. Crane and Graybill, Savannah, to each member of the several com- mittees appointed, and to each President of a railroad in Georgia.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
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FRIDAY, APRIL 27th, 1866.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, .
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA,
April 27, 1866.
By virtue of authority in me vested by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia to borrow money on the credit of the State, and to issue and negotiate bonds of the State; and to appoint an agent or agents to visit such place or places as he may direct, and to empower such agent to make negotiations upon such terms as the Governor of said State may direct.
Now, therefore, know all whom it may concern, that I, Charles J. Jenkins, Governor of the said State of Georgia, have nominated and appointed, and hereby do nominate and appoint, Thomas W. Chichester, of the city of Augusta, in said State, the agent and attorney in fact of the State of Georgia to visit the city of New York, and other cities of the United States, and there to negotiate for the State a loan, or loans, to the amount, in the aggregate, of half a million of dollars, to run four months, or any less time, on such terms as may be agreed upon, and as evidence of the indebtedness so in- curred, to make, sign and deliver to any body corpo- rate, partnership or individual, a note, or notes of the State of Georgia, or such other instrument of writing as may be usual in like cases, and to sign the same in my name as Governor of said State, and to hypothecate bonds of the State of Georgia, issued by authority of law, and deliver to him as collateral security for such loan or loans.
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I further hereby authorize and empower the said Thomas W. Chichester to have engraved and printed bonds of the said the State of Georgia, and a mortgage on the Western and Atlantic Road as security therefor, agreeably to instructions furnished and to be furnished him, and when said bonds shall have been executed and secured, to negotiate and sell the same as he may from time to time be instructed to do.
And I hereby, as Governor as aforesaid, ratify and confirm whatsoever the said Thomas W. Chichester may do in the legitimate and proper execution of said agency.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Execu- tive Department, the day and year above men- tioned.
CHARLES J. JENKINS, Governor.
THURSDAY, MAY 17th, 1866.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA,
May 17, 1866.
by virtue of authority vested in me by the eleventh Section of an Act of the General Assembly, approved 13th March, 1866, I, Charles J. Jenkins, Governor of the State of Georgia, have nominated and appointed, and by
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these presents do nominate and appoint, Robert F. Mad- dox of the County of Fulton, in this State, agent of said State for the purchase of corn in such market in the United States as he may find most eligible, to be dis- posed of as in said Section directed, and to ship and su- pervise the transportation of said corn on such land or water lines of carriage as he may select, to Chattanooga, in the State of Tennessee; and for the purpose of making such purchase, to draw by his check, as agent of said State, the whole or any part of such money as may be deposited to his credit as such agent as aforesaid, in any bank in the United States of America; and to do all other acts necessary and proper to effect the purchase and transportation as aforesaid of so much corn as he may, from time to time, be by me directed to make. Hereby ratifying and confirming all things whatsoever the said agent may do in pursuance of these premises.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Execu- tive Department, the day and year above men- tioned.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
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Governor.
By the Governor,
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MONDAY, MAY 21st, 1866.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA,
May 21, 1866.
By virtue of authority in me vested by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, to borrow money on the credit of the State, and to issue and negotiate bonds of the State, and to appoint an agent or agents to visit such place or places as he may direct, and to empower such agent to make negotiations upon such terms as the Governor of the State may direct.
Now, therefore, Know all whom it may concern, that I, Charles J. Jenkins, Governor of the said State of Georgia, have nominated and appointed, and hereby do nominate and appoint, Thomas W. Chichester, of the city of Augusta, in said State, the agent and attorney in fact of the State of Georgia, to visit the city of New York, and other cities of the United States, and there to nego- tiate for the State, a loan or loans to the amount in the aggregate of half a million of dollars, to run four months, or any less time, on such terms as may be agreed upon; and as evidence of the indebtedness so incurred, to make, sign, and deliver to any body corporate, partnership or individual, a note, or notes, of the State of Georgia, or such other instrument of writing as may be usual in like cases, and to sign the same in my name as Governor of said State, and to hypothecate bonds of the State of Georgia, issued by authority of law, and delivered to him as collateral security for such loan or loans.
And I hereby, as Governor as aforesaid, ratify and
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confirm whatsoever the said Thomas W. Chichester may do in the legitimate and proper execution of said agency.
Given under my hand and the seal of the Exec- utive Department, the day and year above writ- ten.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
Governor.
By the Governor,
H. J. G. WILLIAMS, . Sec'y. Ex. Dept.
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MONDAY, MAY 28th, 1866. EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA,
May 28, 1866.
In conformity with instructions of the General As- sembly in Resolution No. 48, pg. 328, Acts of 1865 and 1866, I hereby appoint General Howell Cobb, of Macon, Major Mark A. Cooper, of Athens, and John H. Fitten, Esq., of Adairsville, "Commissioners to examine and report upon the propriety of removing the present peni- tentiary and locating it elsewhere, or of establishing an additional one," and for other purposes, in said resolu- tion set forth-to which the attention of said commission- ers is specially directed. . CHARLES J. JENKINS,
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MONDAY, MAY 28th, 1866.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, .
May 28, 1866.
In conformity with an Act of the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, entitled "An Act to organize and establish an Orphan Home in this State," approved 17th March, 1866, (No. 232, pg. 228, of the Acts of 1865 and 1866,) I hereby appoint Messrs. William B. Johnson of Macon, Richard Peters of Atlanta and Henry Hull, Jr., of Athens, under the second Section thereof.
And I further appoint, as Trustees of "The Georgia State Orphan Home," under the third Section of said Act, the Rev. H. H. Tucker of Atlanta, Rev. Wm. H. Potter of Augusta, Rev. William Flinn of Milledgeville, Rev. Wm. C. Williams of Rome and Messrs. Warren Aiken of Bartow County, James Gardner of Richmond County, James M. Chambers of Muscogee County, John W. Anderson of Savannah and Junius Wingfield of Eatonton.
Said appointees will govern themselves by the pro- visions of said Act, the first named of each board acting as chairman, with authority to convene his body until their first meeting and organization.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
Governor.
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 15th, 1866.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, :
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, August 15, 1866.
Ordered, That William H. Scott and Peter Fair be, and they are hereby appointed a committee under the thirty-sixth Section (36th) of the General Appropriation Act to witness and superintend the burning of Confed- erate Treasury Notes, State Treasury Notes and Change Bills and other un-current notes that may be in the Treasury at the time of said burning.
CHARLES J. JENKINS, Governor.
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MONDAY, SEPTEMBER 17th, 1866.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, September 17, 1866.
The contingency upon which the Governor was au- thorized by an Act of the General Assembly, approved 12th March, 1866, "to arrest the collection of so much of the State tax as is levied on lands in the State," viz. : the enforcement by the United States' Government of the land tax against the people of Georgia, not having
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occurred by reason of the suspension of the latter tax, and the property returned this year for taxation "ad valorem," being about one hundred and sixty millions of dollars less than that returned in 1860, (exclusive of slaves) it is
Ordered, in pursuance of the first Section of an Act entitled, "An Act to levy and collect a tax for the sup- port of the government for the year 1866, and for other purposes," (approved 3d March, 1866,) that a tax of one-sixth of one per cent. be assessed and collected on the property returned, exclusive of specific taxes.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
Governor.
THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 20th, 1866.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, September 20th, 1866.
The report of the Committee of Scientific Surgeons appointed to examine samples of artificial limbs sub- mitted to their inspection by different manufacturers having been received, the contract is awarded to Dr. Douglass Bly for his army and navy leg and for his Keoller arm as the lowest bidder, "taking into consider- ation quality as well as price," in the language of the Act. And the said Douglass Bly having executed a con- tract, which is of file in this office, to manufacture said
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limbs in the city of Macon, parties having procured the necessary certificate as provided in Sections second and third of said Act, (which may be seen by calling on the Ordinary,) may apply to the contractor and be supplied. Parties applying are enjoined to strict compliance with the Act. Dr. Bly requests that the Ordinaries communi- cate to him, at Macon, the name and address of each person to whom they may issue a certificate.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
Governor.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA,
Memorandum of an agreement entered into between Douglass Bly, M. D., manufacturer of artificial limbs, and Charles J. Jenkins, Governor of the State of Geor- gia.
Whereas, by Act of the General Assembly, approved 12th March, 1866, entitled, "An Act for the relief of maimed indigent soldiers and officers, citizens of this State, who belonged to military organizations of this State in the State or Confederate Armies," the Governor of this State was authorized to call for proposals for the manufacture of artificial limbs for the purpose above recited: And Whereas, the said Douglass Bly, M. D., is the lowest bidder "taking into consideration as well qual- ity as price."
Now, therefore, it is covenanted and agreed, by and between the parties aforesaid, as follows:
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The said Douglass Bly on his part agrees and cove- nants to manufacture and deliver at Macon, in said State, within twelve months from the date of these presents, artificial legs or arms, as the case may be, for such dis- abled or maimed citizens of this State as may present to him the order of the Comptroller-General, John T. Burns, as provided in Section 3d of said Act, and in the order of the presentation, and to fit and adjust said limbs to said applicants, the arms to be of the Koeller patent, and the legs to be of the description known as Bly's Army and Navy leg, and each corresponding with the samples exhibited to Drs. Dugas, Steiner and Ford, the examining committee, and now deposited in the Execu- tive Office, and to be made of the best materials and in the most skillful and workmanlike manner. And the said Douglass Bly further covenants and agrees and guarantees that every limb manufactured under this con- tract shall be serviceable, and that he will repair, free of charge, all injuries to any limb resulting from defective material or workmanship, of which an inspector, to be appointed as the Legislature may direct, shall be the judge, and will furnish a new socket for each limb when- ever it may become necessary from a shrinking of the mutilated limb on which it is worn, for the sum of twen- ty-five dollars, and will, in all respects, conform to the provisions and requirements of said Act; and further that should the Legislature deem it proper to appoint an inspector of limbs, each limb shall be submitted to and approved by him before delivery.
And the said Douglass Bly further covenants and agrees, that he will receive as a consideration for each leg so furnished, the sum of seventy dollars ($70.00) for each arm, where the amputation is above the elbow, the
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sum of seventy dollars ($70.00), and for each arm where the amputation is below the elbow, the sum of forty dol- lars ($40.00), to be paid as provided in the fourth Sec- tion of the Act aforesaid: And further, that when he shall have furnished limbs of both kinds the aggregate cost of which, at the prices above mentioned, is twenty thousand dollars ($20,000.00) he will so report to the said Charles J. Jenkins, Governor, or his successor, and proceed no further without express order from said Governor or his successor. And the said Charles J. Jenkins, Governor as aforesaid, on the part and behalf of the State of Georgia, agrees and covenants hat for each limb so furnished and delivered in conformity with this contract and with the Act aforesaid, the said Doug- lass Bly shall receive, at the treasury, the consideration above stipulated, as provided in the fourth Section of said Act.
In testimony whereof, the said Douglass Bly hath hereunto set his hand and seal, and the said Charles J. Jenkins his official signature and the seal of the Execu- tive Department, in duplicate, this 20th day of Septem- ber, 1866.
(Signed) DOUGLASS BLY, (Seal) (Signed) CHARLES J. JENKINS,
Governor.
By order of the Governor,
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TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 25th, 1866.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
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Ordered, That all maimed soldiers entitled to arti- ficial limbs under the Act of the General Assembly, be allowed to travel free of charge over the Western and Atlantic Railroad in going to and returning from the place of manufacture on that business, upon procuring the certificate of the Ordinaries that they are so en- titled.
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Governor.
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 28th, 1866.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, September 28, 1866.
Ordered, That Bushrod W. Frobel, engineer in the service of the State of Georgia be, and he is hereby au- thorized and empowered to contract in behalf of said State, with the Justices of the Inferior Court of Baldwin County for the building of a bridge across the Oconee River at Milledgeville on terms already approved by me,
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for the purpose of giving employment to freedmen sen- tenced to work in chain gang and delivered to me by the Justices of the Inferior Court of divers counties.
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CHARLES J. JENKINS,
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MONDAY, OCTOBER 1st, 1866.
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EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, October 1st, 1866.
In the matter of internal revenue tax heretofore de- manded and collected by the collector for the 4th district of Georgia from the Superintendent of the Western and Atlantic Railroad upon the gross monthly receipts of said road, the judge of the United States District Court for the Northern District of Georgia having decided that said tax was illegally assessed and collected, and having enjoined the collection of the same, it is
Ordered, that Campbell Wallace, Superintendent of said railroad, forthwith petition the Secretary of the Treasury to refund said tax so illegally collected.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
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SATURDAY, OCTOBER 13th, 1866.
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT,
MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA,
October 13th, 1866.
In conformity with an Act of the General Assembly, approved March 12th, 1866, numbered 10, it is ordered:
1st. That all bonds and coupons of the State of Geor- gia now due, and which were not issued in aid of the late war, wheresoever made payable, may be funded on presentation at the treasury of the State in mortgage bonds of the State bearing 7 per cent. interest from the 1st day of July, 1866, that being the day of their date.
2d. That all coupons payable in New York or in London, now due, and embraced in descriptive list fur- nished the agency by the Treasurer, may be funded in bonds described above on presentation at the National Bank of the Republic, New York.
3d. That all coupons funded in New York be marked "Paid", and returned to the treasury with a descriptive list of bonds issued in funding them.
4th. That the Treasurer endorse, or cause to be en- dorsed, on each bond refunded, the name of the person presenting it, and that a registry of all bonds issued in the funding process be kept in the Treasurer's office.
5th. No interest is allowed on bonds or coupons after maturity.
CHARLES J. JENKINS,
Governor.
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THURSDAY, NOVEMBER 1st, 1866.
The following Annual Message of His Excellency, Charles J. Jenkins, was this day transmitted to the Gen- eral Assembly, to-wit:
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT, MILLEDGEVILLE, GEORGIA, November 1st, 1866.
Senators and Representatives: Although, during the year now drawing to a close, the seasons have been un- propitious to the husbandman, trade disappointing to the merchant, and the signs of the times discouraging to the patriot, blessings, not wholly "in disguise," have come to all. The true believer recognizes the hand of an over- ruling Providence as well in seeming evil as in positive good.
It becomes all men, of every age and clime, to accept adversity as merited chastisement, and to propitiate of- fended Deity by repentance and reform.
FEDERAL RELATIONS.
Since your last adjournment, little progress has been made either in the reconstruction of a dismembered gov- ernment, or in the restoration of material prosperity to that portion of the country desolated by recent Civil War. However produced, the fact is indisputable, that the government of the United States this day stands before the civilized world in the lamentable condition of dismemberment. Four of the thirteen States that originally took part in the formation of the Union, and
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six that have been added in the progress of a marvelous development, are now totally excluded from participation in its legislative and administrative functions. It is true that the now excluded States did voluntarily abandon such participation, by what was designed as a peaceful and permanent withdrawal; but the right so to do was denied to them, and upon that question of right the war ensued. The party denying the existence of the right, maintained that the Union was indissoluble by such means, that it still existed in full force, and nothing more was necessary than the suppression of irregular resist- ance to its authority. That resistance having been sup- pressed, after a struggle of five years' continuance-the resistants having grounded their arms-submitted in word and act to the authorities of the United States- rescinded all Constitutions, ordinances, laws and resolu- tions asserting independence of, or antagonism to that government-declared its constitution their supreme law, and elected Senators and Representatives to the Federal Congress-the logical conclusion from the premises of the victors is, and the practical result should be, that the attempt has failed and that the Union stands unshaken. All that the resistants may have done towards dismem- berment, they have undone. The temporary breach they made, they have repaired. Why, then, are they not in the Union as formerly? The answer is, that the domi- nant States, through their representatives in Congress, positively refuse their admission to the national coun- cils, and the conclusion is inevitable, that from this re- fusal the present dismemberment results. Reasoning upon their own theory, if the Southern States be not now within the pale of the Union, they have been ejected by this Congress. If they be, their Constitutional right of representation is denied them by the same authority.
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The President of the United States, second to none in devotion to the Union, though placed during the war, by the intensity of that feeling, in opposition to his native section, consistently illustrates it in restored peace. He distinctly affirms the right of the Southern States to rep- resentation in Congress; and, for this adherence to prin- ciple, has been abandoned and denounced by those who placed him in power. The Legislative and executive de- partments of the government are thus brought into con- flict, seemingly irreconcilable and daily increasing in bit- terness.
The people, too, of the dominant States now wielding the whole power of the government, are themselves di- vided; and we, the excluded, against whom they recently presented the unbroken front of relentless war, though now passive and unresisting, have suddenly become to them an apple of discord. In this contest, our position, our motives, and our purposes are severely scrutinized. These are all flagrantly misrepresented by unscrupulous demagogues, and many, very many, well meaning per- sons are undoubtedly deceived by them.
The pending issue may not find a very early solution. Meantime, we pass through an ordeal thoroughly adapted "to try men's souls." But we must be true to ourselves, to those, who, though not of us, are fighting our battles, and to the country ; we must steadily and calmly pursue the course upon which we have started, neither betrayed into error by false representations of the malignant and consequent injurious suspicions of the credulous; nor yielding to humiliating demands, against which justice exclaims and manhood revolts. Pursuing this course, we shall, in time, live down both detraction and delusion,
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and achieve a moral victory far more enduring and en- nobling than any triumph of mere physical force.
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