HOUSTON COUNTY, GA - History Academies ***************** 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 AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1832. [missing title] ACADEMIES. 1832 Vol. 1 -- Page: 3 HOUSTON Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That Abner Wimberly, Reddick Bryan, Thomas Gilbert, Henry Conyers, and James O'Bryan, be, and are hereby appointed trustees for the Houston county Ocmulgee academy. And be it further enacted, That said trustees may locate said academy building at any place in the eleventh or tenth districts of said county, that a majority of them may agree upon. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That the trustees of the poor school fund of said county, be authorised to pay to said commissioners of the Houston county Ocmulgee academies, one fourth of the academy fund of said county, for the ensuing two years. 1837 ACTS HOUSTON Sec. 16. And be it further enacted, That John Murray, Thomas Allen, James T. Davis, James Murray, and Elijah E. Crocker be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees of the Poplar Spring Academy, in the ninth district of Houston county. 1851 ACTS HOUSTON - PEACH SEC. V. And be it further enacted, That from and after the passage of this Act, Allen Wiggins, George W. Persons, John J. Hampton, William A. Mathews, Adolphus D. Kendrick, Miles L. Green, William J. Anderson, D. N. Austin, Judson Kendrick, William [Illegible Text]. Hollinshed, Mathew Dawsey, Benjamin Barns, Robert M. Patterson, and James A. Miller, and their successors in office, be and they are hereby constituted a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Fort Valley Female Seminary or High School. [Sidenote: Fort Valley Female Seminary incorporated.] SEC. VI. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees and their successors in office, under the name and style aforesaid, may use a common seal, and shall be capable of sueing and being sued, pleading and being impleaded, also to have, take, possess and acquire, by gift, grant or purchase, lands, tenements, hereditaments, goods, chattels and other estate, and the same to use, have, improve or convey in fee simple. [Sidenote: Powers and liabilities.] SEC. VII. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees as aforesaid, and their successors, be empowered to receive all gifts, grants, legacies, privileges and immunities, which may be made or bequeathed to said corporation, and no misnomer of the corporation or other technical defect shall prevent its right from vesting when it may appear or it shall be ascertained that it was the intention of the party or parties to give, grant, or [Illegible Text] any property, real or personal, or any right or interest to the said corporation. [Sidenote: Gifts, [Illegible Text] &c.] SEC. VIII. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees aforesaid, and their successors in office, shall have power and authority to negotiate loans or enter into any contract or contracts, which they, or a majority of them, shall deem necessary for the use of said Seminary, and to secure said contracts, loans or other negotiations by pledging or mortgaging the property of said Institution, except the buildings of the Institution and the lot or lots on which they may be situated. [Sidenote: Contracts by Trustees.] SEC. IX. And be it further enacted, That the said Trustees and their successors in office, or a majority of them, shall have power and authority to make all such laws, rules and regulations for the government of said Institution, as they may deem fit and proper; Provided, Nothing in said by-laws, or rules and regulations, be repugnant to the Constitution and Laws of the State of Georgia, or the United States. [Sidenote: By Laws &c.] SEC. X. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees aforesaid, in their corporate character and name, shall have perpetual succession, and when any vacancy shall occur in the said Board of Trustees, by death or resignation, or otherwise, the remaining Trustees, or a majority of them, shall have the power of filling such vacancies. [Sidenote: Filling of vacancies.] SEC. XI. And be it further enacted, That the said Board of Trustees shall consist of fifteen members, which number may be reduced to twelve, as vacancies may occur, if the remaining Trustees, or a majority of them, shall so determine. [Sidenote: Fifteen Trustees,] SEC. XII. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees, or a majority of them, shall have power of appointing a President, Professors, Secretary, Treasurer, and all other officers they may think necessary for said Institution, and the same or any of the same, to discontinue or remove when they may think fit; Provided, That a majority of the Board of Trustees concur in such removal. [Sidenote: President, Professors &c.] SEC. XIII. And be it further enacted, That the Trustees shall prescribe the course of studies, (by advice of the President or Principal) of the Institution, to be pursued and taught in said Seminary, and establish the rate of tuition, adjust the expenses and adopt such regulations not otherwise provided for, as the interest of the Seminary may require. [Sidenote: Course of [Illegible Text]] [Sidenote: [Illegible Text]] SEC. XIV. And be it further enacted, That the President or Principal of the Institution, by and with the consent of the Trustees, shall have power to confer all such honors, degrees, and license as are usually conferred in Female Colleges, and shall preside at all the public exercises of the Institution. [Sidenote: Degrees, &c.] SEC. XV. And be it further enacted, That all meetings of the Board of Trustees, shall be held in the village of Fort Valley, in Houston county, and a majority of the Trustees acting, shall at all times be competent to transact any business appertaining to the interest of the Seminary, and to exercise all powers, privileges and duties herein before conferred on the Board of Trustees. [Sidenote: Meetings of Board of Trustees,] SEC. XVI. And be it further enacted, That should the buildings and property of said corporation, cease to be used for educational purposes, for three consecutive years, then the same shall revert and become the property of the subscribers to the Seminary, or their legal heirs, or repreresentatives, in porportion to the amount of their several subscriptions. [Sidenote: Reversion in [Illegible Text] of [Illegible Text].] SEC. XVII. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws, militating against this Act, be and the same are hereby repealed.