History: Lottery for Fayette County Acadamy, 1828: 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 Georgia

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT 
AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1828. 
[missing title] 
Academies. 

1828 Vol. 1 -- Page: 10

Sequential Number: 006 

Full Title: AN ACT to authorise certain Commissioners therein named, to raise by lottery the sum of ten 
thousand dollars for the benefit of the Fayette county academy.

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 Morton N. Burch, L. Goodwin, Nathaniel 
[Illegible Text] and Jesse J. Robinson, Esqrs. together with the present trustees of the Fayette county 
Academy, and their [Illegible Text] in office, be and they are hereby authorised to raise by lottery, a sum 
not exceeding ten thousand dollars, for the benefit of said academy.

Sec. 2 And be it further enacted, That said Commissioners are hereby authorised to divide said lottery into 
as many separate schemes or drawings as in their judgment shall best suit the interest of said academy; and 
any sum or sums of money which may be raised by said commissioners under and by virtue of this act, 
after deducting the necessary expenses of said lottery, shall be by them paid into the hands of the trustees of 
said academy, for the benefit thereof.

IRBY HUDSON,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS STOCKS,

President of the Senate.

JOHN FORSYTH, Governor.

Approval Date: Assented to Dec. 8, 1828.