UPSON COUNTY, GA - HISTORY the Union Academy, and Oakchumpna Academy, in the county of Upson 1833 Copyright. All rights reserved. http://www.usgwarchives.net/copyright.htm This file was contributed for use in the USGenWeb Archives by: Virginia Crilley varcsix@hot.rr.com Georgia Table of Contents: http://www.usgwarchives.net/ga/gafiles.htm ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE, AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1833. [missing title] ACADEMIES. 1833 Vol. 1 -- Page: 17 Sequential Number: 011 Full Title: AN ACT to incorporate Etowah Academy, in the county of Cherokee; the Cobb Academy, in the county of Cobb; the Livingston Academy, in the county of Floyd; the Forsyth Academy, in the county of Forsyth; the Gilmer Academy, in the county of Gilmer; the Telonica Academy, in the county of Lumpkin; the Murray Academy, in the county of Murray; the Pleasant Grove Academy, in the county of Paulding; the Academy, in the county of Union; the Shady Dale Academy, in the county of Jasper; the Taylor's Creek Union Academy, in the county of Liberty; the Bethesda Academy, in the county of Warren; the Buckeye Academy, in the county of Laurens; the South Liberty Academy, in the county of Wilkes; the Union Academy, in the county of Upson, and the Oakchumpna Academy, in the county of Upson; the Pond Town Academy, in the county of Sumpter, and the Franklin Academy in the county of Putnam, and the Tessentee Academy, in the county of Lumpkin; and to appoint Trustees for the several Academies, and to appoint additional Trustees for the Houston Okmulgee Academy, in the county of Houston, and for other purposes. 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 Howell Cobb, William Gresham, James Burns, William Lay, and Philip Kroft, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Etowah Academy, in Cherokee county; and that George W. Winters, William B. Malone, Lemma Kirtley, William Morris, and Jacob R. Brooks, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Cobb Academy, in Cobb county;" and that Edwin G. Rogers, Joseph Johnston, Seaborn J. Johnston, John Caldwell, and Benjamin R. M`Cutchin, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Livingston Academy, in Floyd county;" and that Jacob M. Scudder, Isaac Wharton, William Hammond, Richard Hays, and Oliver Strickland, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Forsyth Academy, in Forsyth county;" and that -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page: 18 Benjamin Griffith, James Kell, James B. Henson, Clem Quillian, and William P. King, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Gilmer Academy, in Gilmer county;" and that Hines Holt, John H. Ware, John Choice, N. B. Harbin, and John A. Bracken, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Telonica Academy, in Lumpkin county;" and that William N. Bishop, Nelson Dickerson, William Oats, James C. Barnett, and John J. Humphries, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Murray Academy, in Murray county;" and that Strothers F. Burgess, William Box, Hiram Wright, Joel Dyer, and John Rollins, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Pleasant Grove Academy, in the county of Paulding;" and that John Walker, Lewis Metts, Benjamin Jenkins, John Dupree, Neal Urquhart, Isham Glover, Eli F. Walker, William Hall, L. B. Smith, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Pond Town Academy, in Sumpter county;" and that Benjamin Bussey, James Clark, Skelton Napier, Michael Dennis, and Isaac R. Waller, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name, and under the title of "the Trustees of Franklin Academy, in the county of Putnam;" and that Moses Anderson, John Butt, sen'r., John Sanders, Thompson Collins, and John Hendrick, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Blairsville Academy, in the county of Union;" and that Leroy M. Wilson, Harman H. Gieger, James Buland, Thomas M. Darnall, and Aris Newton, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Shady Dale Academy, in Jasper county;" and that Eli Bradly, Enoch Daniel, Robert Hendry, James Lang, and William H. Martin, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Taylor's -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page: 19 Creek Union Academy, in Liberty county;" and that Daniel Demsis, Fulden Hill, Joseph Wright, Peter Cody, George W. Hardaway, and Samuel Newman, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Bethesda Academy, in the county of Warren;" and that Joshua Morgan, Aaron W. Grier, Owen Holladay, Moses Alexander, and James Morgan, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the South Liberty Academy, in Wilkes county;" and that David Kindall, Shepherd B. Saunders, Robert Jackson, Reuben White, Joseph Baldwin, D. A. Allen, and Mark Jackson, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Union Academy, in the county of Upson;" and that William Robinson, William Worthey, Edmund Steward, Dixon Harp, James Halsey, William Trotter, and Samuel Wright, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Oakchumpna Academy, in the county of Upson;" and that Winfield Wright, Alexander Merriwether, Echols Hightower, William Bridges, and Russell Kellum, be, and they are hereby appointed, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Buckeye Academy, in the county of Laurens;" and that John D. Field, Augustus Holt, John Martin, John D. Glover, and Berry Turner, be, and they are hereby appointed Trustees to the Tessentee Academy, in the county of Lumpkin, and they and their successors in office, are hereby declared to be a body corporate, by the name and under the title of "the Trustees of the Tessentee Academy, in Lumpkin county." Each of said corporations shall have the power of using a common seal. SEC. 2. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the said several Trustees in their corporate capacities be, and they are hereby declared to be vested with the several rights and immunities, and subject to the same regulations as are set forth and embodied in an act of the general assembly, passed on the ninth day of December, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-four, entitled "an act to incorporate the Laurenceville Academy, in the county of Gwinnett, and to appoint trustees for the same." -------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Page: 20 SEC. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That his excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and required to cause one-half of the Academic Fund, due to county of Laurens, to be paid to the Buckeye Academy, in said county. SEC. 4. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Meredith Joiner, and Daniel Dupree, be, and they are hereby constituted additional trusteees of Houston Okmulgee academy, in the county of Houston. SEC. 5. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws militating against the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby repealed. THOMAS GLASCOCK, Speaker of the House of Representatives. JACOB WOOD, President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. Approval Date: Assented to, 23d Dec. 1833.