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Habersham County GaArchives History - Schools .....Academy Commissioners 1821
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Book Title:

1821 Vol. 2 -- Page: 125

Sequential Number: 124
Type: AN ACT

Full Title: To appoint Commissioners for the County Academies of Walton,
Gwinnett, Hall, Habersham, Rabun, Warren, and Pulaski, and to incorporate the
same.

HALL
Stephen Reed, David [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] William Cobb, John
M'Connell, Sen. and Bartimas Reynolds, for [Illegible Text] county Academy of
Hall;

and that the commissioners as aforesaid named, are [Illegible Text] [Illegible
Text] to be bodies politic and corporate, by the name and style of the
Commissioners of the County Academies as [Illegible Text] and such bodies
politic shal be capable of suing and being sued, and buying such number of
acres of land as they or a majority of them may deem expedient for the erection
and convenience of such county Academies, and of doing all other acts which may
be necessary to the [Illegible Text] of the trust [Illegible Text] to them, and
for that purpose may have and use a [Illegible Text] seal, and appoint such
officers as they may [Illegible Text] [Illegible Text] and [Illegible Text] the
same at pleasure.

§ 2. And be it further enacted by the [Illegible Text] aforesaid, That the said
commissioners shall be [Illegible Text] of accepting all [Illegible Text]
gifts, and donations, which may hereafter be bestowed upon them, and shall hold
the same according to the conditions contained in such donation or [Illegible
Text] and for collecting and laying out, or disposing of any monies or debts
which may become due the said institutions either for tuition or otherwise, and
also to fill all vacancies that may happen in their respective bodies.

§ 3. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all fines and
forfeitures arising from prosecutions on the criminal side of the courts of
said counties; and also all other penalties and forfeitures, whether arising
from bonds to prosecute, or bonds for the appearance of any offender, or any
other violation of the penal statute of this state, within the said counties of
Walton, Gwinnett, Hall, Habersham, Rabun, Warren, and Pulaski, be, and the same
is hereby vested in the commissioners as aforesaid of the county Academies as
aforesaid named, in relation to their respective appointments; and any monies
arising from any forfeitures as aforesaid, the officer or person holding the
same, is directed to pay over the same within [Illegible Text] month after the
collection thereof to the commissioners' of his respective county Academy, and
that all cost arising from such prosecutions be first paid; any law to the
contrary notwithstanding.

DAVID ADAMS,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

MATTHEW TALBOT,

President of the Senate.

JOHN CLARK, Governor.

Approval Date: Assented to 25th December, 1821.

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