The finding of this body is then entered as the definitive judgment of the court.[169] [168] Act of Dec. 1, 1802: in _Compilation of Laws of Ga._ (1812), 98-100. [169] _Compilation of Laws of Ga._ (1812), 312-14. Thus the law remained until 1833, except that a form of oath was prescribed in 1810.[170] In the meantime an ever-increasing number of divorce acts appears in the session laws.[171] Between 1798 and 1835 at least two hundred and ninety-one decrees for absolute dissolution of marriage were granted by the legislature. In the beginning of the period the average annual output was but four; at the close it had risen to not less than twenty-eight.[172] In one instance the previous finding of a jury seems to have been thought superfluous. John Cormick, having fled from Ireland to Georgia in 1798, before the constitution went into effect, and his family refusing to accompany him, the legislature, without a verdict, declared his person and property exempt from the claims of Eliza his wife as if they were never married, and John was fully authorized to do all things as if he had never entered into the matrimonial state.[173] Another case shows the Georgia lawmaker a close second in legal economics to his brother of Kentucky. On December 13, 1816, twenty-one pairs were set free and the offenders forbidden to remarry in thirteen lines of print, excluding the names.[174] In 1833 a remedy was therefore sought through an amendment to the constitution. "Whereas," explains the preamble, whose redundant adjectives may well be a sign of serious distress, "the frequent, numerous, and repeated, applications to the legislature to grant divorces has (_sic_) become a great annoyance to that body, and is (_sic_) well worth their attention," both on account of the expense and the unnecessary "swelling" of the laws and journals, and "believing that the public good would be much promoted, and that the parties would receive full and complete justice;" therefore it is enacted as a part of the organic law that "divorces shall be final and conclusive when the parties shall have obtained the concurrent verdicts of two special juries authorizing a divorce upon legal principles."[175] [170] PRINCE, _Digest_ (1837), 190; Head _v._ Head, 2 _Georgia_, 193. [171] In the _Compilation of Laws_ (1812), 61, 83, 113, 202-4, 264, 385, 408, 508, 509, 512, 569, are eighteen divorce acts; many appear in _Laws of Ga., 1810-19_ (1821), 193-96, 252-63; and eighty-six cases, in DAWSON, _Compilation, 1819-29_ (1831), 141-53.