Excerpt from A Digest of the Laws of the State of Georgia: Containing All Statutes and the Substance of All Resolutions of a General and Public Nature, and Now in Force, Which Have Been Passed in the State, Previous to the Session of the General Assembly of December, 1820 The statutes of this state have so accumulated as' to be some what formidable from their number alone; but they have become so perplexed with amendments, repeals, revivals, and supplea ments; and by frequent modifications of the amending or sup plementary acts, that the law on most subjects is utterly be yond the reach of the people at large, and is not attainable without some difficulty eren hy'the profession. The obvious remedy for this evil was that provided by the Act of 1819, directing the compilation of a digest unincumbered with private or local acts, and presenting to the public in a portable and convenient volume, such laws only as are public in, their nature, and still in force; and these so arranged and indexed as to be readily found. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.