Legislation Concerning Jackson Academy

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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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