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Legislation Concerning Jackson Academy
[Georgia Legislative Documents],
[Georgia Department of Archives and History],
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ACTS OF
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia, PASSED IN
MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER,
1832.
1832 Vol. 1 -- Page: 3
Sequential
Number: 001
Full Title: AN ACT to incorporate
certain academies therein mentioned, and to appoint trustees
for the same, and to appoint trustees for others therein
named, and for other purposes.
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 Ebenezer Torrance. Davis Cox,
Steven Kervin, Willis P. Baker, and Samuel W. Langston,
and their successors, be, and they are hereby appointed
trustees of Upatoy academy, in the county of Muscogee.
That Jesse H. Garrett, Stephen D. Heard, and Joseph
Sturgess, be, and they are hereby appointed trustees to
the Thomaston academy, in the county of Upson, in addition
to those already appointed.
That John W. Cooper,
William Griggs, Charles D. Kennon, James Smith and Jeremiah
Hullum, and their successors, be appointed trustees of Union
academy, in the county of Harris.
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That Thomas Feagan, William M. Jordan, James M. Williams,
Alexander B. Taylor and James McMurray, and their successors,
be appointed trustees for Mount Carmel academy, in the county
of Crawford.
That Cornelius Atkinson, Jno. M. Pearson,
Thomas Moore, Jason Greer, and Francis Douglass, and their
successors, be appointed trustees of the Cool Spring academy,
in the county of Butts.
That Green Talbot, W. C.
Cleveland, Bennett Lawrence and Asahel Gaston and their
successors, be appointed trustees for Fellowship academy,
in the county of Merriwether.
That J. J. Slaughter,
Julius M. Mitchell, Wm. Mitchel, J. Hubbard and V. H. Walker,
and their successors, be appointed trustees for Jackson
Academy, in the county of Harris.
That Archibald
Gray, Joseph Riley, James B Hooten, Dennis Sheridan and
Samuel Cox, and their successors, be appointed trustees
of Mount Pleasant academy, in the county of Talbot.
That R. G. Crittenden, Daniel Owens, Peter F. Mahone,
John Robinson and John Allums, and their successors, be
appointed trustees for Jackson academy, in the county of
Talbot.
That Joseph Reese, Jesse George, Thomas Wood,
George W. Turrentine and W. B. McKenney, and their successors,
be appointed trustees for Corinth academy, in the county
of Heard: Provided, That said trustees shall not draw any
part of the academic funds of the county of Heard.
That T. J. Warthen, Eli Cummins, John Wicker, Thomas
Wicker and Richard Warthen, and their successors, be appointed
trustees for Bethlehem academy, in the county of Washington;
to be entitled to all the benefits, and under the same provisions
of the other academies of said county.
That Joseph
Washburn, Isaac Harvey, Edward W. Wright, Christopher B.
Strong and Charles J. McDonald, and their successors, be
appointed trustees for the Bibb county academy.
That
Robert McGough, Alexander Russell, Reddick B. Perry, William
Turner and Robert Winn, and their successors in office,
be appointed trustees of the Pine Grove Grammer school,
in the county of Monroe.
That Samuel M. Devereux,
James L. Daniel, Thomas J. Sanders, Joseph McCulloch, and
Thomas W. Barton, and their successors in office, be appointed
trustees of the Farmers' academy, in the county of Hancock.
That Alexander Dennard, George Walker, Henry W. Fenn,
Nathan Hodges and Thomas McGriff, and their successors
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in office, be appointed trustees of the Walnut
Branch academy, in the county of Pulaski.
Sec. 2.
And be ii further enacted, That Jefferson academy in Newton
county, be entitled to receive one half of the nett proceeds
of the academic fund of the county of Newton, and that Wm.
Patrick, Jas. Bellah, Jas. McLaughlin, [Illegible Text]
[Illegible Text], Robert Rakestraw, Joseph Livingston, Barzilla
Graves, John Russel and John Chisolm, be added to the board
of trustees to said academy.
That George Osborn,
James McGehee, Taliaferro Wells, Springer Gibson, Thomas
Whitehead, John Pasmore and Absalom Biddle, be appointed
trustees for Jenkins academy, in the county of Harris, and
they are hereby authorised to remove said academy buildings
from lot number three, in the twenty-second district, to
lot number two hundred and seventy-two, in the seventeenth
district, formerly Muscogee, now Harris county.
That J. J. Slaughter, William Mitchell, Julius M. Mitchell,
J. Hubbard and N. H. Walher, and their successors in office,
be appointed trustees to the Jackson academy, in Henry county.
That David C. Rose, John Slayton, Abraham Hill,
and Alfred Wilbourn, and their successors in office, be
appointed trustees of the Warm Spring academy, in the county
of Merriwether.
That Thomas Frayan, William W. Jordan,
James M. Williams, Alexander B. Taylor and James McMurray,
and their successors, be appointed trustees of the Mount
Carmel academy, in the county of Crawford.
Sec. 3.
And be it further enacted, That Abner Wimberly, Reddick
Bryan, Thomas Gilbert, Henry Conyers, and James O'Bryan,
be, and are hereby appointed trustees for the Houston county
Ocmulgee academy. And be it further enacted, That said trustees
may locate said academy building at any place in the eleventh
or tenth districts of said county, that a majority of them
may agree upon.
Sec. 4. And be it further enacted,
That the trustees of the poor school fund of said county,
be authorised to pay to said commissioners of the Houston
county Ocmulgee academies, one fourth of the academy fund
of said county, for the ensuing two years.
And that
Ralph Howard, Demsey Justice, Nathan Raines, James W. Alston,
Jesse Moran, and [Illegible Text] successors in office,
be and they are hereby declared to be trustees of the Union
academy, in the county of Bibb.
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Sec.
5. And be it further enacted, That William A. Sharp, Elisha
Davis, Jeremiah A. Sharp, William Davis and Thomas S. Chappel,
and their successors in office, be, and they are hereby
declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name
and style of the trustees of Stone Creek academy, in the
county of Twiggs; and that Joseph M. Evans, Thomas S. Bonner,
James Evans, John G. Colbut and John Swann, Sr. and their
successors in office, be, and they are hereby declared to
be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of
the commissioners of the Evansville academy, of Morgan county.
Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the aforesaid
commissioners of the Evansville academy, and their successors
in office, be, and they are hereby declared to be, capable
of using a common seal, of suing and being sued, pleading
and being impleaded in the several courts of law and equity
in this State; of receiving and holding for the use of said
academy, all donations, gifts, grants and bequests; of executing
and receiving titles to property and of executing and receiving
acquittances; and of making by the vote of a majority, all
necessary bye-laws for the government of said academy, and
filling all vacancies that may occur in the board of commissioners.
Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That David Smith,
Jas. T. Wafer, James S. Curray and William Wood, be, and
they are hereby appointed additional trustees of the Heard
county academy, and that Eli Brewer, Harris Johnson, John
Griffin, Greenberry Ottery and A. F. Temples, be, and they
are hereby appointed trustees of Bluff Spring academy, in
the county of Marion.
Sec. 8. And be it further enacted,
That James Polhill and Burwell W. Bracewell, be and they
are hereby appointed trustees of the Hawkinsville academy,
in addition to those heretofore appointed.
Sec. 9.
And be it further enacted, That all rights and immunities
herein extended to the Evansville academy, in the county
of Morgan, be, and they are hereby extended to the [Illegible
Text] hereby incorporated.
ASBURY HULL,
Speaker
of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the Senate.
WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.
Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 22, 1832.
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