Jasper County Democrat, Volume 3, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 February 1901 — Georgia Honesty. [ARTICLE]

Georgia Honesty.

A peculiar bill for services lias recently come before the Georgia legislature for allowance. A criminal lu Imprisonment hud been pardoned by the Governor of the State. Ity some eonfusion la th<> official papers the pardon did not reach him for several mouths after It was issued. Upon this he petitioned (lie Legislature to be remunerated for the work he had done for tlie State in the time tlint lie had continued in confinement through tlie mistake tlint bad been made. The legislature passed the net awarding the man the money. Whether it did this because of the value of ills lnlior to the State or contributed it as a compensation for being unnecessarily deprived of liberty 1* not stilted. It was liberal action In either point of view.