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Pat Davis =============================================== Server S | A GALILEO Digital Initiative Database While in this database, use the Search and Help buttons below. ____________________________________ Georgia Legislative Documents _Search_ (http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/ftaccess.cgi?location=fhtml/legis/simple.html&sessionid=cdbc7449-1184143906-8354) _Help_ (http://neptune3.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/ftaccess.cgi?hfrom=fhtml/legis/simple.html&locati on=fhtml/legis/help.html&sessionid=cdbc7449-1184143906-8354) Content of Act/Resolution ____________________________________ ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY, OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE, AT AN ANNUAL SESSION, IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. 1840. ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE STATE OF GEORGIA, PASSED IN NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER, 1840. EDUCATION. 1840 Vol. 1 -- Page: 56 Sequential Number: 057 Full Title: AN ACT to create and establish a free system of Education in the county of Bulloch, by common schools; to appoint commissioners to carry the same into effect; to consolidate the Academy fund, the poor school fund, as a fund for Education; and to authorize said commissioners to loan out any surplus funds at interest, and to receive any bequest given for the purposes of Education. Section 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 aforesaid, That from and immediately after the passage of this act, the funds heretofore known as the Academy Fund and the Poor School Fund of the county of Bulloch, be, and the same are hereby consolidated, and shall in future be known as the Common School Fund of the county of Bulloch, under the direction and control of fifteen commissioners, or a majority of said Board, who are hereby authorized and empowered to appropriate the said Fund to the purposes of Education; and the said commissioners are hereby authorized to loan out any surplus funds in their hands not wanted for immediate use. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Henry Hodges, Jeptha Hagin, Joshua F. Hodges, James Wilkinson, John Anderson, John G. Williams, Erastus Waters, Peter Strickland, Thomas Knight, Jesse Moore, senior, James Hendrix, Lewis Lanier, senior, John Olliff, Absalom Parrish, senior, and William Holloway, be, and their successors in office shall be known as a body corporate, capable of suing and being sued, of pleading and being impleaded, and shall be known as the commissioners of common schools, for the county of Bulloch; and the said commissioners are hereby authorized and required to appoint a treasurer, who shall act as secretary, shall record all the proceedings of the said board of commissioners, shall keep a book in which shall be recorded the amount of funds in hand, the name of those indebted, and their security, &c., the amount paid out, and to whom, and for the use of what person. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That when a vacancy in the said board of commissioners occurs, the said vacancy shall be filled by the Grand Jury of said county; the resignation of commissioners shall be made in writing to the ____________________________________ Page: 57 secretary, who shall report the same to the board at their next meeting thereafter; the resignation of the treasurer shall be made to a majority of the commissioners, who shall not accept of the same until a successor is chosen and qualified, agreeable to the requisition of this act -- The treasurer shall take and subscribe an oath faithfully to discharge all and singular the duty of treasurer and secretary, which said oath so taken and subscribed, shall be deposited in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court of said county; he shall also give bond and security in a sum double the sum in his hands, with such security as shall be approved by a majority of said board of commissioners, which bond shall be made payable to the commissioners of common schools for the county of Bulloch, and their successors in office, and shall be recorded in the office of the clerk of the Superior Court. Sec. 4. And be it further enacted, That no person shall at any time be allowed to owe the institution more than five hundred dollars; and in case any individual, now or at any other time, shall owe an amount over five hundred dollars, and shall refuse or neglect to reduce the same by payment, it shall be the duty of the board of commissioners to commence suit against such delinquent debtor for the whole amount of his, her or their indebtedness; and it shall be the duty of said commissioners and treasurer in all cases to take small notes with good and sufficient security, and make said notes payable to the commissioners of common schools for the county of Bulloch or bearer. Sec. 5. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That the treasurer of common schools shall not be authorized to pay any teacher without the accounts of said teacher be sworn and subscribed to before a justice of the peace of said county of Bulloch, or a justice of the Inferior Court, and shall show in said account the name, age and sex of said student, together with the number of days taught -- which said account shall be approved and signed by one of the commissioners of the district where said school was located. Sec. 6. And be it further enacted, That the provisions of this act shall not be so construed as to authorize the said commissioners to pay for more than six months' tuition of any one student in one year, nor at a higher rate than three dollars per quarter. Sec. 7. And be it further enacted, That all free white persons, between the age of seven and eighteen years, shall be entitled to the benefits of education, as provided for in this act. Sec. 8. And be it further enacted, That it shall be the duty of the commissioners to assemble at Statesboro', Bulloch county, at least twice in each year, to take down and return to the treasurer the name and age of those entitled to be ____________________________________ Page: 58 educated at public expense; and it shall be the duty of the said treasurer to transmit said returns of persons to the Executive Department, and it shall be the duty of his Excellency to make the annual dividends agreeable to said returns. CHARLES J. JENKINS, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. CHARLES J. McDONALD, Governor. Approval Date: Assented to, 19th December, 1840.