Lobbying

Lobbying is defined to be any personui selicitation of a member of a legislative body during a session thereof, by private interview or letter or message or other means and appliances not addressed solely to the judgment, to favor or oppose or to vote for or against, any bili, resolution, report or claim pending or to be introduced by either branch thereof, by any person who misrepresents the nature of his interest in the matter to such member or who is employed for a consideration by a person or corporation interested in the passage or defeat of such bili, resolution, report or claim, for the purpose of procuring the passage or defeat thereof. But this does not include such services as drafting petitions, bills or resolutions, attending to the taking of testimony, collecting facts, preparing arguments and memorials, and submitting them orally or in writing in a committee -or member of the legislature, and other services of like character, intended to reach the reason of legislators.

Code Ga. 1882, § 4486. And see Co.lusa County v. Welch, 122 Cal. 428, 55 Pac. 248; Trist v. Child, 21 Wall. 448, 22 L. Ed. 623; Dunham v. Hastings Pavement Co., 56 App. Dir. 244, 67 N. Y. Supp. 632; Houlton v. Nichol, 93 Win 393, 67 N. W. 715, 33 In R. A. 166, 57 Am. St. Rep. 928.