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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, 1827.
[missing title]
Lotteries.
1827 Vol. 1 -- Page: 134
Sequential Number: 095

Full Title: AN ACT to authorise certain
Commissioners therein named, to establish a lottery
for the purpose of raising th sum of fifteen
thousand dollars, to be appropriated to the building
of a Masonic Hall in the town of Macon.

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 it may and shall be
lawful for the Commissioners hereinafter named, to
establish a lottery within one year after the
passage of this act, to raise the sum of fifteen
thousand dollars, under such scheme and regulations
as they or a majority of them may deem necessary and
proper, for the purpose of building a Masonic Hall
within the Town of Macon.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That John T.
Rowland, Henry G. Lamar, William J. Dannelly, David
Ralston, Thomas King, Asahel R. Freeman, Summer
Stone, Edward Wright, and Robert Birdsong, be and
they are hereby appointed Commissioners to carry the
aforesaid Lottery into effect.

IRBY HUDSON,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.
THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the Senate.
JOHN FORSYTH, Governor.
Approval Date: Assented to Dec. 22, 1827