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EXECUTIVE ArrOlXTMENTK*The Executive appointments tnadc since your last o»-pom blase and proper for your action, are those of the Hon, W. C. Dawson as Judge of the Superion Courts of the Ocmalgee District, on the resignatio^c!® bmftirede-cessorin office; of James L. Pierce, Soliciior-Generai of the Chattahoochee District^ lt;n the Death ofitl. Williams, Esq., the duW elected officer; ’and of Simuel Ilall, E*q • as Solicitor-General of tbWrlint .District on the resignation of the prior incumbent.WESTERN AND ATLANTIC RAlLTm'il).In the execution of the law of the last legislature relative to the Western and Atlantic Railroad, I have not been enabled to sell or complete it. The proposition to sell was met by no corresponding offer to buy. The terms, which were in some respects limited to Executive discretions were published in several gazettes of the State, and intended to secure equal privileges to the two branch railroad-connecting whhthe Slate mad. It i» the part of honorable duty, if at any period the Slate should sell this road, that those brandy roads should he placed on a basis of perfect equality. But wh^ligfrsokLor retained, hastened or delayed in its pro*ri s, it shcmldTnTregnffljcd as tho fixed policy of the Srntf, that its ultimate completion must he effected towardube termini ‘originally design ted. The necessity and wfstlorij^bTjtlus work, notwithstanding themon£y upon it wi*l he iUted—andd—byaheviatmg dis-tificial causes,which, in its ex-wasteful outlayare nowin proceftf of being ill1 tress which may ni and developing new soufpci ot w pansion, will mitigate taxation. ^The Report of the Chief Engineer is 'herewith submitted, which shows that fihy two-nrriWs of the road are now j ir, successful operation and that the income from it for thefirst mouth, and at a distance of twenty miles onlv, has• • *been $1,200 Other and important facts arc stated in the report, which will doubtless commend themselves to your consideration.rtit.•t
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Athens Southern Whig
Athens, Georgia, US
Thu, Nov 13, 1845
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