Butts County GaArchives News.....COURT HOUSE May 28, 1897
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Jackson Argus & Jackson Progress May 28, 1897
NOTICE TO CONTRACTORS

Sealed proposals will be received by the Ordinary of Butts County, at his 
office, Jackson, Georgia, until 12 M, June 22, 1897, for furnishing all 
transportation, labor, materials, apparatus, scaffolding, and utensils needful 
for the erection and full completion of a new court house, two stories high, 
with tower, stone foundations, slate roof, hot air furnace in basement, and 
open fire place in each room according to plans and specifications, on the lot 
upon which is situated the old court house.

Plans and specifications can be seen at the office of the undersigned at 
Jackson, Georgia, and a the office of Bruce & Morgan, Atlanta, Ga.

Payments will be made as work progresses, reserving 25 per cent in accordance 
with state law.

Each proposal must be accompanied with a certified check for one thousand 
dollars a guarantee that if the bid is accepted the bidder will execute the 
required bond with two good and solvent securities in double the amount of the 
bid, faithfully to perform his contract, so that the county may be save 
harmless.

In case of acceptance and failure to execute the required bond by the bidder 
within ten days after the contract has been awarded, said one thousand dollar 
check will be kept by the said Ordinary, for the use of the county, as damages.

The Ordinary reserves the right to reject any or all bids.

By order of the Ordinary, sitting for county purposes, 29th day of April, 1897.

Jas. F. Carmichael, Ordinary

Jackson Argus – Week of May 28, 1897

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Farmers’ Union Gets the Old Court House

Mr. J. Matt McMichael, representing the Farmers’ Union, has contracted to move 
the old courthouse.

Ordinary Carmichael made a bargain with Mr. McMichael by which he saved to the 
county $100 in the matter of moving the old courthouse.  This estimate is based 
on the cost of moving the Monroe county court house.  The cost in that case was 
$350.

It is said that the Farmers’ Union will commence at once to build a large brick 
warehouse and as far as the old courthouse material can be used it will be 
worked into the warehouse.  The warehouse will be built either on Covington 
Street or on one of Mr. Plunket’s lots near the depot

The work of tearing down the old courthouse was commenced on yesterday and is 
progressing finely.

Let’er go, Gallagher !

Jackson Progress – Week of May 28, 1897



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