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Important Proposition in the Georgia Legislature.

The Committee of Finance of the Georgia Legislature to whom was referred that portion of Governor Brown's message relating to the furnishing of for the troops of that State, impressed with the importance of the subject, have submitted a form of resolutions, the adoption of which they recommend. These resolutions authorize in Governor, if satisfactory arrangements cannot be made with the proprietors otherwise, to and tanneries, and manufactured article in the State, and to appropriate their whole pro a good pair of shoes and a good suit of are furnished to every Georgia soldier in service who needs such assistance; with the provi that he interfere with no bone fide contracts which have been made with the Confederate Government or its authorized agents in my article required for the comfort of the sol

The resolutions also fix a scale of prices to be by the Governor for the following artillery.

For leather, per pound, one dollar; for shoes, are suitable for soldiers) per pair, three for each block or bunch of cotton yarn, two and a half dollars; for cotton per yard, twenty-five cents; for woollen jeans, two dollars per yard; for cotton shirting, wide, twenty cents, and in the same for shirting of other widths; for Georgia per yard, two and a half dollars; or prices us will afford a reasonable pro the prime cost of said articles.

The resolutions further authorize the Governor necessary, to extend the limits of these resolutions for and during the year 1863, so as to insure and shoes for necessitous Georgia troops year.

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