This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/BVJ.2ACIB/1292 Message Board Post: I'm researching Cokers in Georgia and found the following information that may be of use to someone. It is from the Secretary of State, Historical Records, Legislative Archives. I am currently sifting through 229 documents referencing Cokers. If you'd like to sift, too, you can online at http://www.sos.state.ga.us/archives/ Click on Virtual Vault and work your way to the databases which guests are allowed to search. ACTS OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA 1847. [missing title] 1847 Vol. 1 -- Page: 227 Sequential Number: 190 Full Title: AN ACT having for its object to change the names and legitimatize individuals herein named. Page: 230 SEC. 23. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the name of Leonidas Barrentine, of the county of Upson, be changed to that of Leonidas Coker, and he is hereby declared to be fully legitimatized, as the child of Abner Coker, of the county of Fayette, his reputed father, and that he be and is hereby fully capable of taking and inheriting and receiving all manner of property, by virtue of the statutes of distribution of this State, so far as relates to the property of said Abner Coker, to all intents and purposes. ****************************************** ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1836. ACTS of the General Assembly of the STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1836. ACADEMIES. 1836 Vol. 1 -- Page: 7 Sequential Number: 005 Type: AN ACT, Full Title: To incorporate the Fayette County Academy, and appoint Trustees for the same. 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 Young Mann, William Herring, Tandy D. King, Thomas Byrne and William W. Coker, 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 Fayette County Academy. ****************************************** 1869 Vol. 1 -- Page: 96 Sequential Number: 085 Law Number: (No. 85.) Full Title: An act to incorporate the town of Trion, in the county of Chattooga, and for other purposes. Section 1. Be it enacted, That the town of Trion, in the county of Chattooga, be incorporated, and that the limits of said town embrace an area of one mile, including only the lands of the Trion Manufacturing Company, in every direction, and that the factory building be considered the center. [Sidenote: Town of Trion incorporated -- limits of.] Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That Andrew P. Allgood, N. G. Worthing, G. P. Close, N. Coker and G. B. Moyers, be, and the same are hereby, appointed Commissioners for said town, who, as well as their successors in office, shall have power to make such by-laws and ordinances, for the government and good order of said town, as may be necessary; Provided, Such by-laws and ordinances are not repugnant to the Constitution of the United States nor of the State of Georgia; and that said Commissioners shall hold their office until the third Saturday in December, 1869, and have power to fill vacancies in their body by appointment. They shall also appoint a Marshal, who shall give bond and security to the said Commissioners, and their successors in office, for the faithful performance of his duty, and shall take and subscribe the following oath: I, A B, do swear that I will faithfully perform every duty required of me by law as Marshal of the town of Trion. ******************************************* ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN ATLANTA, GEORGIA, AT THE SESSION OF 1870. PART I.--PUBLIC LAWS. TITLE XI. INCORPORATIONS. I.—BANKS AND BANKING COMPANIES. 1870 Vol. 1 -- Page: 79 Sequential Number: 066 Law Number: (No. 66.) Full Title: An Act to incorporate the Bank of Americus, in the city of Americus, Georgia. Section 1. The General Assembly of the State of Georgia do enact, That W. W. Barlow, William Hooks, W. T. Davenport, Samuel H. Hawkins, Thomas G. Bryan, F. M. Coker, and Moses Speer, with their associates and successors be, and they are hereby, constituted and made a body corporate and politic, under the name and style of the Bank of Americus, and by this name they shall have power to sue and be sued, to hold and possess any species of property, real, personal, or mixed, and to sell and dispose of the Page: 80 same at pleasure; to discount notes and drafts; to buy and sell bills of exchange; to receive deposits upon terms agreed upon by the parties; (Provided, the rate of interest shall not exceed that allowed by law,) to make advances and loans upon property, both real and personal, to corporate bodies, to merchants, to farmers on growing crops, or to other parties to deal in the precious metals, bonds, stocks, or choses in action, claims and rents; to acquire any franchise by purchase or otherwise; to do a general banking business, and to perform all such acts to enforce the payment or fulfilment of any contract made to or with it. --------- Sec. 8. The board of directors shall elect from their midst a president, who must always be a stockholder, and no person shall be eligible to the office of president of this company who shall not own in his right at least one hundred shares ($10,000) of the capital stock of this company; failing in which, he shall be disqualified for this office. The said W. W. Barlow, Wm. Hooks, W. T. Davenport, Samuel H. Hawkins, Thomas G. Bryant, F. M. Coker and Moses Speer, shall be directors of this company from the organization until the first annual meeting of stockholders, the said meeting to be held as hereinbefore prescribed. *********************************** ACTS AND RESOLUTIONS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia, 1890-'91. Part VI.--Local Laws. TITLE I. MUNICIPAL CORPORATIONS. 1890 Vol. 2 -- Page: 865 Sequential Number: 293 Short Title: INCORPORATING THE TOWN OF CEMENT. Law Number: No. 603. Full Title: An Act to incorporate the town of Cement, in the county of Bartow, to appoint commissioners for the same, declare their powers, and for other purposes. SEC. II. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the corporate limits of said town shall be all that portion of land lots numbers one hundred and eighty-eight (188) and one hundred and seventy-three (173) and one hundred and seventy-two (172), lying on the east side of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, and seven (7) acres of land lot number one hundred and fifty-nine (159), being in the southwest corner of said land lot number one hundred and fifty-nine (159), lying on the east side of the Western and Atlantic Railroad, bounded on the north and east by the land of John Coker, and on the west by the Western and Atlantic Railroad, thereby forming the corporate boundary of said town. [Sidenote: Corporate limits.] ****************************************