GEORGIA  LAND LOT DISTRIBUTION 1831  (Gold Lottery)

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ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgía, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1831. 
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1831 Vol. 1 -- Page: 164

Sequential Number: 130 

Full Title: AN ACT to lay out the gold region in the lands
at present in the occupancy of the Cherokee Indians, into
small lots, and dispose of the same by separate lottery.

Sec. 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 districts number one, two, three, four, five, eleven,
twelve, thirteen, fourteen, and fifteen, in the first
section; districts number one, two, three, fifteen, sixteen,
seventeen, eighteen, nineteen, and twenty-one, in the second
section; districts number one, two, three, four, seventeen,
eighteen, nineteen, twenty, and twenty-one, in the third
section; and districts number one, two, three, sixteen, and
seventeen, in the fourth section; shall, by the surveyors
heretofore pointed out by law, be subdived into lots of
forty acres each, by lines running parallel with the
district lines, at the distance of twenty chains apart, and
crossed by other lines, at right angles, and of the like
distance from each other, marked and numbered according to
the plan prescribed by the Surveyor General.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That the following shall
be the description and qualification of persons entitled to
a draw under this act, to wit: every white male person of
the age of eighteen years and upwards, being a citizen of
the United States and an inhabitant within the organized
limits of this State three years, immediately preceding the
first day of January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two,
including such as shall be absent on lawful business, shall
be entitled to one draw; but no person shall be entitled to
a draw under this act who has a family residing out of this
State, or whose family has not resided in this State for
three years as aforesaid, except officers in the army or
navy of the United States, provided said person has had a
family so long.

All widows with like residence shall be entitled to one
draw.

All families of orphans of like residence except such as may
be entitled in their own right shall have one draw.

And all heads of families one additional draw in
consideration of their families.

Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That separate lists of
persons entitled to a draw under this act, shall be made out
and returned by the same persons authorised to take in names
of persons entitled to draws by an act entitled "an act to
authorise the survey and distribution of the lands within
the limits of Georgia, in the occupancy of Cherokee tribe of
Indians, and all other unlocated lands within the limits of
said State, claimed as Creek land, and to authorise the
Governor to call out a military force to protect surveyors
in the discharge of their duties, and to provide for the
punishment of persons who may prevent, or attempt to
prevent, any surveyor from performing his duties as pointed
out in this act, or who shall wilfully cut down and deface
any marked trees, or remove any land mark which may be made
in pursuance of this act, and to protect the Indians in the
peaceable possession of their improvements, and of the lots
on which the same may be situate," approved the twenty-first
of December, one thousand eight hundred and thirty. And the
person or persons taking in names as aforesaid, shall
administer to all applicants for draws under this act, other
than widows, guardians or next friend of orphans, the
following oath: viz. "I do solemnly swear, (or affirm) that
I am a citizen of the United States and have resided in this
State three years immediately preceding the first day of
January, eighteen hundred and thirty-two, except absent on
lawful

business, and am an inhabitant of the same, that I am
eighteen years of age, that I have not given in my name for
any draw in the present contemplated land lottery of the
Gold region, in any other part of the State, and that I did
not directly or indirectly, evade the service of this State
or the United States in the revolutionary war, or in the
late wars against Great Britain or the Indians, so help me
God." And the following oath shall be administered to all
widows: "I do solemnly swear, (or affirm,) that I am a
widow, that I have resided in this State three years,
immediately preceding the first day of January, eighteen
hundred and thirty-two, except absent on lawful business,
and am now a resident of this district, that I have not
given in my name for any draw in the present contemplated
land lottory of the Gold region, in any other part of the
State, so help me God." And all guardians, or next friends
of orphans, shall take the following oath: "I do solemnly
swear, (or affirm) that the orphan or family of orphans,
whom I return, is or are entitled to a draw under this act
to the best of my knowledge, so help me God;" and the
persons authorised to take in the names of those who are
entitled to a draw under this act, shall receive twenty-five
cents from such applicant for each draw; and the following
oath shall be administered to all heads of families: "I. A.
B. do solemnly swear that I am a married man, with a family,
so help me God."

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That as soon as said
lists are made out and returned as aforesaid, his Excellency
the Governor, for the purpose of carrying the lottery into
effect, shall cause the names of persons entitled to draws,
together with other designatory remarks of residence, &c. to
be placed on tickets as nearly similar as possible, which
shall be deposited in one wheel, and the prizes on tickets
of the like description, shall be deposited in another
wheel, which prizes shall consist of all square lots of
forty acres each, lying in the above named districts, and
from each wheel as nearly at the same time as may be, a
ticket shall be drawn, and delivered to the superintending
managers, and so on, until the whole number of prizes are
drawn out in manner prescribed by the above recited act.

Sec. 5. And be it further enacted, That the land pointed out
in this act, shall be drawn by a separate lottery, from the
one contemplated in the above recited act, and shall be
conducted by the same commissioners and under the same rules
and regulations, as pointed out in said act, and other
services required to be done by this act not particucarly
spesified, shall be done by the same officers, and in the
same manner as said act prescribes, that all persons who may
draw land by authority of this act, shall in like manner
receive a grant for the same, on payment of the ten dollars,
and also that fraudulent [Illegible Text] shall be subject
to the same forfeitures, and prosecuted in the same manner
as pointed out in the above recited act.

Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That nothing in this act
contained, shall be so construed, as to authorise the survey
or lottery of the land pointed out in this act, until the
time that the above recited act is authorised to be carried
into effect, by authority of the State.

Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all laws militating
against this act, shall be and are hereby repealed.

ASBURY HULL,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS STOCKS,

President of the Senate.

WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor.

Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 24, 1831.

SOURCE: GALILEO