CRAWFORD COUNTY, GA - HISTORY Early Ferry ***************** Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm *********************** This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: GALILEO ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE, AT A BIENNIAL SESSION, IN NOVEMBER, DECEMBER, JANUARY, AND FEBRUARY. 1853-4. COMPILED, AND NOTES ADDED, By JOHN RUTHERFORD. PART II.--PRIVATE AND LOCAL LAWS. ROADS, BRIDGES AND FERRIES.* * See No. 348, for Habersham and Union Turnpike Company. 1853 Vol. 1 -- Page: 563 Sequential Number: 597 Law Number: (No. 507.) Full Title: An Act to authorize Gracy Hicks, of Crawford County, to establish a Ferry on Flint River, in said County, on her own land; and also to authorize Seaborn Wynn to keep up the Ferry heretofore established across Little River, on his own lands. SECTION I. 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 Gracy Hicks, of the County of Crawford, be and she is hereby authorized to establish a Ferry across Flint River, on her own land, in said County, and that she be allowed to charge the rates of toll for crossing at said Ferry, that may be established by the Inferior Court of said County. [Sidenote: [Illegible Text] Hicks to establish ferry, &c.] SEC. II. And be it further enacted, That Seaborn Wynn, the present owner of the land, on both sides of Little River, and his assigns, be and he and they are hereby authorized to keep up the Ferry heretofore established across said river, by Nathan Bussey and Nicholas Ware, under an Act of the General Assembly assented to on the 18th December, 1820, with full authority to collect the rates of ferriage authorized by said Act, and subject to all the liabilities therein specified. [Sidenote: Seaborn Wynn to establish ferry, &c.] Approval Date: Approved, February 18th, 1854.