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Newspaper
Augusta Evening Dispatch
Location
Augusta, Georgia, United States of America
Date
Jan 12, 1859
Page
2
The dispatches report a gubernatorial proclamation on bank defaults, local news from Calhoun and Wadesboro, and a letter from Birds-eye of Georgia. Notable items include hog weights, a drowning, and civic praise for Sheriff Crutchfield. The text notes political shifts, abolitionist critique, and a possible congressional bill nullifying slave law penalties.
The record compiles several Acts passed by the Georgia General Assembly in December 1858. Included are laws on taxing returns and property valuation, appointing tax receivers, and allowing peer review for assessments. measures to protect religious services. permission for executors and guardians to sell scattered lands. and the continued liability of stockholders in banks after charter expiration.
The document outlines an Act changing the penalty for voluntary manslaughter to imprisonment from one to twenty years. It also re-enacts and details Georgia’s 1852 Census law for 1859, setting duties for justices of the inferior court, census takers, clerks, oath requirements, returns deadlines, penalties for noncompliance, and compensation for census workers. It links census duties to state constitutional requirements and specifies reporting timelines to the Governor.
The section states that violations are punishable on conviction by fine and imprisonment at the court's discretion. It emphasizes conformity with the act and outlines potential penalties for noncompliance.
The Moses Taylor arrives from Aspinwall with California and Central American mail and 1.4 million dollars in treasure. Other dispatches report the Alps signaling for European news, Arizona colonization talks, slave trade case dismissals, the Augusta arriving at Savannah, and Congress actions on Cuba and Mexico. Cotton, flour, wheat, spirits, rosin, and rice market notes from Savannah Charleston New York are included.
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