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State Treasurer to pay a sum of forty thousand dollars, on the ground that the
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State legislature (Johnson government) had not made any such appropriation. For this refusal Meade removed him and the
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State Treasurer and Controller General, and appointed military men in their places. These new officers seized the
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State buildings, but Jenkins succeeded in getting away with the money in the treasury. He went to Washington and undertook to institute a proceeding in the Supreme Court of the United States against Generals Grant and {156} Meade to restrain the officers appointed by Meade from levying taxes upon the people of Georgia, and from collecting the same and the other income of the
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State, as well as from exercising other functions. The Court gave its permission to the filing of the bill, but put off the hearing of the argument until the next term, and before this arrived, the new constitution had been ratified, and new
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State