History: An Act Authorizing Certain Persons to Practice Law, 1843: Fayette Co: GA


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Source:   [Title, See Below], [Georgia Legislative Documents], [Georgia Department of Archives and History],
 presented in the Digital Library of GeorgiaACTS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, 1843. 
[missing title] 

1843 Vol. 1 -- Page: 120

Sequential Number: 137 

Full Title: AN ACT to authorise certain persons therein named to plead and practice law, in the several 
courts of law and equity in this State, on certain conditions therein prescribed.

SECTION 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 from and after the passage of this 
act, William D. Whitehead, of the county of Laurens, Samuel D. Killens, of the county of Houston, 
Archibald T. Burke and Newton Coleman, of the county of Walker, John C. Hately and Jonathan Phillips, 
of the county of Cass, and Benjamin Clark, Sanders Johnson, and Mark Blandford, of Jones county, 
Pleasant G. Arrington, of Jefferson county, May Horne (an alien) of Jones county, and James A. Russell 
and William Edwards, of the county of Meriwether, and John B. Summers of Newton county, and James J. 
Stell of Fayette county, and William H. Gordon of Gwinnett county, and John H. Powers of


Page: 121
Bibb county, George T. Bartlett and Jackson Varner of Jasper county, and Durell S. Gregory of Cobb 
county, and [Illegible Text] B. Davis of Baldwin county, be and they are hereby severally authorized and 
admitted to plead and practice law in the several courts of law and equity in this State: Provided, the said 
several persons shall undergo an approved examination before some Superior Court of the State of Georgia, 
according to the law and rules prescribed in such cases, and on their admission they shall be liable for all 
their acts and contracts in the same manner and to the same extent as if they were of full age.

Approval Date: Assented to, 22d December, 1843.