I guess I will be showing my ignorance, but I have seen the term "fi fa" frequently. Is this a tax lein or something similar? Harris ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1832. RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. 1832 Vol. 1 -- Page: 274 Sequential Number: 216 HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. The committee on Finance, to whom was referred the report of the Comptroller General, beg leave to submit the following report: That they have carefully examined the books and entries in that Departmentment and find that they are correctly and neatly kept. That the entries therein, correspond with his annual report, and that so far as your committee are able to judge, every effort has been made on the part of the Comptroller General, to collect the [Illegible Text] due by defaulting tax collectors, but notwithstanding all his diligence, a large amount yet remains uncollected. It appears from the report of John W. Hooper, Esq. Solicitor General of the Chattahoochee circuit, that he has collected on the following fi fas, the sum of $407 96 viz: One fi fa against Wm. Brooks collector of Marion, $21 36 One fi fa against Tho's. Smith collector of [Illegible Text], 327 95 One fi fa against Gerard Burch collector of Muscogee, 58 65 $407 96 Your committee would recommend the Comptroller General to use every mean in his power to collect the several amounts due the State by tax collectors yet in default. Your committee would recommend that the list of tax collectors in arrears, he published in the journals of both branches of [the] General Assembly. Your committee beg leave further to report that they have examined the Treasurer's report and abstract and a list of warrants drawn by the Governor for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, and after a full, free and strict examination of the Treasury Department, find the money in the Treasury, and all the payments made by the [Illegible Text] for the year aforesaid, supported by proper vouchers, and agreeing with his report and abstract, except the price of two grants, which seems to be charged on his books, one for eight dollars entered twenty-first December, eighteen hundred and thirty-one, for lot number eighty-six, in the twentieth district of Lee, drawn by James Tinsley's orphans; the other for five [Illegible Text], entered the eleventh January, eighteen