Clarkesville Academy
ACTS OF
THE General [Illegible Text], OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, [Illegible
Text] IN [Illegible Text] AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOV. AND DEC.
1826.
Resolutions WHICH ORIGINATED IN SENATE.
1826 Vol. 1 -- Page: 205
Sequential Number: 212
IN SENATE, 16th Nov. 1826.
Resolved, That James R. Wylie and Thomas J. Rusk be, and they are
hereby appointed trustees of Clarkesville Academy, in the county of
Habersham, in addition to those already appointed.
Approval Date: Approved 4th Dec. 1826.
ACTS OF
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN
MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1835.
RESOLUTIONS WHICH ORIGINATED IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
1835 Vol. 1 -- Page: 328
Sequential Number: 192
HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.
Whereas, the
seventh section of an act passed December, one thousand eight
hundred and twenty-eight, for the better distribution and
application of the poor school fund, and to point out the mode of
accounting for the disbursement of the academy and poor school
funds, requires that the trustees of the several academies in this
State shall make to his excellency the Governor a full and fair
statement of the receipts and expenditures of their several
academies, drawn by them for such county or academy; also, showing
in what manner moneys received by them have been applied and
expended; that then and in that case his excellency the
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Governor shall be, and he is authorized to issue his warrant on the
treasurer in favour of the different academies.
And whereas, Thomas J. Rush, late one of the trustees of the
Clarkesville academy in the county of Habersham, while one of the
trustees of the same, drew the funds or dividend set apart for said
Clarkesville academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-four, and has left this State without paying over to the
treasurer of the board of trustees the dividend so drawn by him, or
accounting to the said board of trustees for the same or any part
thereof, which leaves the present trustees wholly unable to make a
report of the application of the said dividend, so drawn for said
academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and thirty-four,
agreeable to law above referred to: for remedy whereof --
Be it resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives in General
Assembly met, and it is hereby resolved by the authority of the
same, That his excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby
authorized and required to issue his warrant on the treasurer in
favour of the Clarkesville academy, for the dividend set apart and
allowed for said academy for the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-five, in like manner as if the proper legal report had been
made by said trustees of the application of the said dividend so
drawn as aforesaid for the year one thousand eight hundred and
thirty-four.
Agreed to, 5th Dec. 1835.
JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
Attest -- Joseph Sturgis, Clerk.
In Senate,
Concurred in, Dec. 14th, 1835.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,
President of the Senate.
Attest -- Arthur A. Morgan, Secretary.
WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor.
Approval Date: Approved, 17th Dec. 1835.
ACTS OF THE GENERAL
ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN
ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1836.
ACTS of the General Assembly of the STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN
NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1836.
ACADEMIES.
1836 Vol. 1 -- Page: 10
Sequential Number: 008
Type: AN ACT,
Full Title: To incorporate the Trustees of the following Academies,
to wit: -- The Trustees of Valley Grove Academy; of Planters'
Academy; of Prattsburg Academy and Union Academy, in the county of
Talbot; of Chatooga Academy; of Pleasant Green Academy, in the
county of Walker; the Trustees of Union Hill, High Hill, Turkey
Creek, Liberty Hill and Black Creek Academies, in the county of
Wilkinson; the Trustees of Clayton, Hopewell and Union Academies, in
the county of Crawford; the Trustees of Troup and Dublin Academies,
in the county of Laurens; the Trustees of Rehoboth Academy, in the
county of Morgan; the Trustees of Blairsville Academy, in the county
of Union; the Trustees of Little River and Harmony Academy, in the
county of Newton; the Trustees of Summerville Academy, in the county
of Dekalb; the Trustees of Vineville Academy, in the county of Bibb;
the Trustees of the Female Academy, in the county of Pike; the
Trustees of Centreville Academy, in the county of Walton; the
Trustees of
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Pleasant Grove Academy, in the county of Decatur; the Trustees of
Pleasant Hill and Flat Creek Academies, in the county of Merriwether;
the Trustees of Rosseau Academy, in the county of Columbia; the
Trustees of Summerville Female Institute, in the county of Richmond;
the Trustees of Fort Valley and Houston County Academies, in the
county of Houston -- and to appropriate a part of the Poor School
and Academic fund, set apart for the county of Houston, to repairing
or rebuilding the Houston County Academy edifice, the Trustees of
Gum Spring Academy, in the county of Washington, and the Trustees of
Philadelphia Academy, in the county of Baldwin; and to appoint the
Trustees of Hall County Academy; Trustees of the Hall County Female
Academy; also, to confer certain powers, rights and privileges upon
the same.
Sec. 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of
the State of Georgia in General Assembly met, and it is hereby
enacted by the authority of the same, That Alexander Buchanan, John
Cook, John Russell, John Ellison and James Bonner, and their
successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be a body
corporate, by the style of the Trustees of Valley Grove Academy, in
Talbot county.
That William T. Burke, John McMichael, William P. Edwards, Isaiah C.
Fitten, Richard B. Rucker, Howel Short and Robert Horton and their
successors in office, be declared a body corporate, by the style of
the Trustees of Planters' Academy, in the county of Talbot.
That John Tomplin, John T. Booth, Simeon Parker, Hiram Drane, and
Mason McLenden and their successors in office, be declared a body
corporate, by the style of the Trustees of the Prattsburg Academy,
in the county of Talbot.
That Michael Dixon, William Henry, Benjamin N. Wheeler, Daniel
Gortman and John Caldwell, and their sucessors in office, be
declared a body corporate, by the style of the Chaitooga Academy in
the county of Walker.
That Charles Latimer, John M. Boon, James Phillips, James R. George
and James Diamond, and their successors in office, be, and they are
hereby appointed a body corporate, by the style of the Trustees of
Summerville Academy in the county of Dekalb.
That Richard Lewis, James Gibson, Samuel Bragg, Joel Rivers
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and Archibald Smith, and their successors in office, be declared a
body corporate, by the style of the Union Hill Academy, in the
county of Wilkinson.
That T. D. Hammock, Mansel Hammock, Allen G. Simmons, William C.
Cleveland and John T. Masket, and their successors in office, be
declared a body corporate, by the style of the Trustees of Clayton
Academy in the county of Crawford.
That Isaac Hall, James Ross, William Carswell, Joel Hardie and
William Herndon and their successors in office, be, and they are
hereby appointed a body corporate, by the style of High Hill
Academy, in High Hill district, in Wilkinson county, with the same
rights, privileges and immunities of other Academies in Wilkinson
county.
That John T. Harrison, Timothy Sears, Anderson Ingram, William Payne
and Joel Butler be, and they are hereby appointed a body corporate,
by the style of the Trustees of Turkey Creek Academy, in the Turkey
Creek district in Wilkinson county, with the same powers as
aforesaid.
That Robert Rozar, William B. Smith, Elisha Hall, William Cawley and
Daniel Hall be, and they are hereby appointed a body corporate, by
the style of the Trustees of the Griffins' District Academy, in
Wilkinson county, with the same powers as aforesaid.
That Joel Dees, William Lord, Wiley Miller, Hansford Davis and
Jethro Dean, be, and they are hereby appointed a body corporate, by
the style of the Trustees of Mount Pleasant Academy, in Currie's
district, in Wilkinson county, with the powers and privileges of
other Academies in Wilkinson county.
That James Hatcher, Lewis Clay, Ratliff Boon, John Meredith and
Daniel S. Pierce, be, and they are hereby appointed a body
corporate, by the style of the Trustees of Liberty Hill Academy, in
the Fork distrist, in Wilkinson county, with the same privileges as
are given to the other Academies in Wilkinson county.
That John Hall, George Shinholser, Bryant Obanion, Oathneel McCook
and Thomas Underwood, be, and they are, hereby appointed a body
corporate, by the style of the Trustees of Black Creek Academy, in
Bond's district, in Wilkinson county, with the like privileges of
other Academies in said county.
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That Barlow Bennett Whitehead, Benjamin Dorsey, Kindred Partain,
Sugar Forest, A. Y. Hampton and J. M. Hampton, and their successors
in office, be declared a body corporate, by the style of the
Trustees of Troup Academy, in the county of Laurens.
That Charles B. Guyton, Francis Thomas, John Lowther, John G.
Forderin and Jeremiah H. Yopp, be, and they are hereby appointed
five additional Trustees to the Dublin Academy, in Laurens county,
together with Eli Warren and Robert Robertson, heretofore appointed.
That John C. Wright, Littleberry Bostwick, Guy Smith, Micajah
Hillsman, Wiley Robertson, William Varner, Francis H. Oliver, Asa
Smith and John Radford, and their successors, be declared a body
corporate, by the style of the Trustees of Rehoboth Academy, in the
county of Morgan.
That A. Duncan, Joseph Lowther, Thompson Collins John Bryson and
John Butt, Junior, and their successors in office, be declared a
body corporate, by the style of the Trustees of the Blairsville
Academy, in the county of Union.
That Alexander Pharr, Abraham Hill, Eli Hill, Isaac Snell and
Christopher A. Carter, and their successors in office, be declared a
body corporate, by the style of the Trustees of Little River Academy
in Newton county.
That Benjamin Lester, John S. Stephens, James McCrary, Shadrach
Bivins and William Lewis, be, and they are hereby appointed a body
corporate, by the style of the Trustees of the Philadelphia Academy,
in the county of Baldwin.
That Jared Wood, Joseph Daniel, John Glenn, George R. Wood and
Metcalf Fisher, and their successors in office, be declared a body
corporate, by the style of the Trustees of the Gum Spring Academy,
of Washington county.
That John Moore, Samuel J. Davis, Henry H. Cumming, John W. Wilde,
James W. Davis, Samuel Clarke, Edward Thomas, Pleasant Stovall, John
Milledge, Robert Campbell, David F. Halsey and John McKinne, be, and
they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Summerville Female
Institute, in the county of Richmond.
That Abram Hill, James Stinson, A. Roberson, Robert N. Parham, and
Bishop Clemmons, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and
their successors in office are hereby declared to be a body
corporate, under the title of the Trustees of Pleasant Hill Academy
in the county of Merriwether.
That Isaac Barnes, Bailey Hogue, Samuel Gates, John Owens
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and Ziba Fletcher, be, and they are hereby appointed, a body
corporate, under the title of the Trustees of Flat Creek Academy, in
the county of Merriwether.
That James Everett, Allen Wiggins, James P. Allep, Hugh Allen, Hardy
Hunter, Henry Kaigler and John Humphries, and their successors in
office, be, and they are hereby appointed a body corporate, by the
style of the Trustees of Fort Valley Academy, in Houston county.
That William Searcy, James Mason, John Adams, Joel Measles,
Alexander G. Nixon and William Green, be, and they are hereby
appointed a body corporate, by the style of the Trustees of Marion
Academy in the county of Talbot.
That S. Cason, L. Davis, E. Simonton, R. Lockett and E. Sawyers, be,
and they are hereby appointed a body corporate, by the name and
style of the Trustees of Hopewell Academy, in the county of
Crawford.
That Robert Ronsaville, Robert Boyle, Robert McCane, John Lamar,
John T. Story and Joseph Pitts, be, and they are hereby appointed a
body corporate, by the style of the Trustees of Pleasant Green
Academy, in the county of Walker.
That John L. Gresham, John Scott, Robert Echols, Daniel Mobley,
Jesse H. Dismukes, John Jones, Reuben Weaver, Thomas Giles and John
Pool, be, and they are hereby appointed a body corporate, by the
style of the Trustees of Centreville Academy, in the county of
Walton.
That John W. Keith, William McElvy, Sen. James Nicholson, James
Griffin and William Chester, be, and they are hereby appointed a
body corporate, by the style of the Trustees of Pleasant Grove
Academy, in the county of Decatur.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the
several persons hereby declared to be bodies corporate, under the
several styles herein designated, may each, as a corporate body,
have a common seal; may sue and be sued; plead and be impleaded in
the several courts of law and equity in this State; make all
necessary by-laws, not repagnant to the laws and Constitution of
this State; fill all vacancies in their bodies; hold all kinds of
property; make, or receive conveyances; be invested with all gifts,
donations, grants, rights, privileges and immunities, whatsoever,
which are essential or necessary to the well-being of said corporate
bodies; and generally to do all things in reference to the interests
of education, which are usual to be done, by Trustees of Academies.
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Sec. 3. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the
Boards of Trustees of the Academies in Wilkineon county, hereby
incorporated, shall, each be entitled to receive an equal share or
portion of the Academie fund set apart for the said county of
Wilkinson, with the other incorporated Academies in said county.
Sec. 4. Be it further enacted, That Charles H. Rine, Thomas
Williams, Joshua Pattishall, Samuel Fielder and Francis W. Jobson,
be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Houston County
Academy, and that they and their successors in office, as a body
politic and corporate, under the name and style of the Trustees of
Houston County Academy, shall be entitled to all the rights and
privileges, and shall have the same powers, and be subject to the
same restrictions, as belong to, and are imposed on the other
Academies, incorporated by this act; and that the several Acts
heretofore passed, relative to said Academy, so far as they do not
militate against this Act, be, and they are hereby declared to be in
full force.
Sec. 5. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the
Trustees of the Houston County Academy, shall have power and
authority to sell and dispose of the present Academy edifice and
lot, at public sale, and to contract for the building of a new
edifice for said Academy, in the town of Perry, and apply the
proceeds of the sale to the building of such new edifice.
Sec. 6. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the
sum of three hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated
out of the Academic and Poor School fund set apart for the county of
Houston, to be applied, with the proceeds of the sale of the present
Academy edifice aforesaid, to the building of such new Academy
edifice; and that the commissioners appointed to lay out the commons
attached to the town of Perry, into lots and dispose of said lots,
be, and they are hereby authorized and required to convey to the
Trustees of Houston County Academy, any lot or lots laid out on said
commons, which the said Trustees shall select, for the location of
the said new Academy edifice.
Sec. 7. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That his
Excellency the Governor, cause to be paid to the Trustees of the
Houston County Academy, or their order, from the funds aforesaid,
the money hereby appropriated.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the
Trustees of Centreville Academy, in the county of
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Walton, shall be entitled to an equal share of all moneys
heretofore, or which may hereafter be appropriated to the Academies
of said county, by the laws of this State, appropriating funds for
the benefit of Academies.
Sec. 9. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That his
Excellency the Governor, is hereby authorized and required to cause
the Academical fund, set apart for the county of Decatur, annually,
(including the fund for the year 1836) to be equally divided amongst
the incorporated Academies of said county, and he is hereby
authorized and required to pay to each of said Academies, an equal
share of said fund, whenever asked by any one of the Trustees
thereof, or to their order.
Sec. 10. And be it further enacted, That Wm. A. L. Collins, Green L.
Dozier, James M. Darsey, John Collins, Patrick Dougherty and John A.
Stapler, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Rosseau
Spring Academy, in the county of Columbia.
Sec. 11. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That
William J, Underwood, Stephen G. Paxton, John R. Rollins, be, and
they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Murray County Academy, in
addition to those already appointed.
Sec. 12. And be it further enacted, That Shelby Dawns, Alfred
Livingston, Z. B. Middlebrooks, Leroy Mercer and William Spear, be,
and they are hereby declared a body corporate, by the name and style
of Harmony Academy, in the county of Newton.
Sec. 13. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That
the Trustees of Vineville Female Academy, in the county of Bibb,
shall have power to negotiate loans, as they may deem right, for the
promotion of said Academy.
Sec. 14. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees of
Clarkesville Academy be, and they are hereby authorised to sell, or
otherwise dispose of the present Academy lot and building, and
invest the proceeds thereof, in erecting another on a more suitable
and advantageous site in the immediate neighborhood of Clarksville.
Sec. 15. And be it further enacted, That George D. Phillips, George
W. Owens, Richard W. Habersham and John H. Matthews, be, and they
are hereby appointed Trustees of said Academy, in addition to the
present Trustees, with like powers and privileges.
Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees of
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Hall County Academy, be appointed Trustees of the Hall County Female
Academy.
And that Martha Jenkins, Jeremiah Lampkin, David Jones, James
Powell, George Knowles, Daniel S. Harrison and Miles H. Harmon and
their successors in office, be, and they are hereby appointed
Trustees of the Rest Academy, in the county of Dooly.
And that Seaborn J. Johnson, Alexander Shorter, Colley Denson, James
Hemphill, and James Ellis, and their successors in office, be, and
they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Vann's Valley Academy.
And that James Willis, Joseph Crook, James Price, Francis Kelly,
William H. Cleghorn and their successors in office, be, and they are
hereby appointed Trustees of the Chattooga Academy, in the county of
Floyd.
And that James H. H. Montgomery, Richard F. Harrell, Newton Pitt and
John W. Pitts, and their successors in office, be, and they are
hereby appointed Trustees of Palmyra Academy, in the county of
Jasper.
And that Josiah H. Holmes, Charles Turner, Sherrod B. Shehee, Gideon
Burns and Allen McDonald, and their successors in office, be, and
they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Barnesville Academy, in
the county of Pike.
And that Joel W. Perry, James G. Collier, Richard Grist, George T.
Spouse and John Floyd, and their successors in office, be, and they
are hereby appointed Trustees of the Blakely Academy, in the county
of Early.
And that Benson Roberts, and Thomas Kirkpatrick, be, and they are
hereby appointed additional Trustees for the Cobb County Academy.
And that Charles Latimer, John M. Brown, James R. George, James
Phillips, James Diamond and their successors in office, be, and they
are hereby appointed Trustees of the Summerville Academy, in the
county of Dekalb, and they and their successors in office, are
entitled to all the privileges pointed out by the first and second
sections of this Act.
Sec. 17. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws,
militating against this Act, be, and the same are hereby repealed:
Provided, nothing herein contained, shall be so construed as to
entitle the said Little River Academy, to any portion of the
Academic fund of Newton county, nor to any part of the Poor School
fund, for any poor children, not residents of the said county of
Newton.
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Sec. 18. And be it further enacted, That Peter Kimble, William
Slocumb, John Meadows, William Wallace and Allen Summers, be a body
corporate, by the name of the Trustees of Hightower Trail Academy,
in Newton county, with power to fill all vacancies that may occur in
their said board, and with all powers usually conferred on
institutions of the like kind.
Sec. 19. And be it further enacted, That Stephen G. Paxon, John R.
Rollins and Wm. J. Underwood, be appointed Trustees of Murray County
Academy, in addition to those now acting.
Sec. 20. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That
Joseph James, Joshua James, Forsyth E. W. Mathews and Joseph
McBrayer, be, and the same are hereby appointed Trustees of the
Racoon Creek Academy, in the county of Paulding.
Sec. 21. And be it further enacted, That James Perdue, Frederick
Rieves, Dolphin Floyd, S. W. Langston, Henry Gunn, Lelds Granberry,
be, and they are hereby incorporated as Trustees, and known by the
name and style of the Trustees of Bluff Spring Academy, in the
county of Monroe, and they are hereby invested with all corporate
powers, as are hereinbefore provided for other Academies, in the
foregoing sections.
Sec. 22. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That
Samuel Andrews, Hugh F. Rose, Josiah H. Keen, Elisha Vinson, John S.
Randall, James Parroth, John D. Eaton, James Jourdan, A. L. Evans,
and Robert Ralb, be, and they, and their successors in office, are
hereby appointed and declared to be, a body corporate, by the name
and under the style of the Trustees of the Pataulla Male and Female
Academy, in the 19th district of Stewart county, and as such, shall
sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded at law or in equity -- that
said Trustees shall be able and capable in law, of holding real or
personal estate -- all gifts, grants, and immunities, which may now
belong to said Institution, or which may hereafter be conveyed or
delivered to them, or their successors in office, for the benefit of
said Institution; and that the said Trustees, or a majority of them,
shall have power to make all necessary contracts, and to do and
perform all necessary acts and things appertaining to the said
Institution, and to make all such by-laws as may be necessary for
the government of said Academy, that be not repugnant to the
Constitution and laws of this State, and to fill any vacancy that
may happen in the board of Trustees; in which case, the serving
Trustees shall fill such vacancy
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Sec. 23. And be it further enacted, That John D. Pitts, Lewis
Dupree, Jourdan Hodges, Mark M. Fleming, Thomas C. Currie, Jesse
Chett and Neele Roberson, and their successors in office, be, and
they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Hickory Grove Academy, in
Stewart county.
Sec. 24. Be it further enacted, That Hugh Craft, William Scott,
Thomas Hardeman and William Hamilton, and their successors in
office, be, and they are hereby declared a body corporate, by the
style of the Vineville Academy, in the county of Bibb.
JOSEPH DAY,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
ROBERT M. ECHOLS,
President of the Senate.
WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor.
Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 24 1836.
ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF
GEORGIA, PASSED AT THE REGULAR JANUARY SESSION, 1875.
PART II.--LOCAL AND PRIVATE LAWS.
MISCELLANEOUS LAWS.
CHAPTER I. ACADEMIES AND SCHOOLS.
1875 Vol. 1 -- Page: 320
Sequential Number: 329
Law Number: No. CCCXXIX.
Origin: (O. No. 232.)
Full Title: An act to authorize the Trustees of the Clarkesville
Academy of Habersham county to transfer and convey by deed, the
building and lot known as the Clarkesville Academy to the Board of
Education of said county and their successors in office.
SECTION I. Be it enacted by the General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, That the Trustees of the Clarkesville Academy of Habersham
county be, and the same are hereby, authorized and empowered to
convey by deed to the Board of Education of said county, and their
successors in office, the building and lot whereon the same stands.
SEC. II. Repeals conflicting laws.
Approval Date: Approved March 2, 1875.
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