AN ACT to add that part of the funds heretofore set apart for the support of county Academies to the poor school fund, so far as respects the county of Crawford. 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 from and after the passage of this act, that part of the undrawn funds heretofore set apart for the support of the county Academies, be added to, and become apart of the poor school fund, so far as respects the county of Crawford, subject in every respect to the laws now in force on the subject-Any law to the contrary notwithstanding.. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, President of the Senate. Assented to, Dec. 27, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. AN ACT to remove the undisbursed funds of Smithville Academy in Early county, to the town of Fort Gaines, in said county. Sec. 1. Beit enacted by the Senate & House of Representatives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is here by enacted by the authority of the same, That from and after the passage of this act, all the undisbursed funds of Smithville Academy in the county of Early, be, and the same is hereby withdrawn from said Academy, and to be placed in the hands of trustees, to erect an Academy in the town of Fort Gaines aforesaid. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Samuel Johnson, Thomas B. Peterson, Sen'r. Leon ard P. McColloch, Ira Cushman, and James Buchannan, be, and they are hereby appointed trustees of the Academy to be erected in the town of Fort Gaines, as aforesaid, with full power and authority to call on the trustees of the Smithville Academy aforesaid, for all the undisbursed funds of said Academy, and in case of refusal of the trustees of Smithville Academy, to pay over all the undisbursed funds of said Academy, to the trustees of the Academy to be erected in the town of Fort Gaines, aforesaid, they shall have full power and authority to recover the same in any court having jurisdiction of the same-Any law to the contrary notwithstanding. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, AN ACT to authorise the payment to the trustees of Laurens county Academy, or any one of them, of all arrears or dividends now due, or to which the said institution may be entitled, at the next division of the funds set apart by law, for Academical purposes, and also to authorise the payment of the poor school fund now due the county of Laurens, or which may fall due said county of Laurens, on the next division of the same, set apart by law for the purposes of education; to be paid over to the Inferior Court of Laurens county, or to the trustee of the poor school fund of said county; and to transfer the funds of Union Academy of Putnam county, to the management of certain persons herein named. Be it therefore enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Georgin, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That his Excellency the Governor, be, and he is hereby required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of the Laurens county Academy, for all arrears or dividends that may now be due or to which the said Academy may be entitled, at the next dividend or distribution of the sum of money heretofore set apart by law for Academical purposes; and to pay the same over to the trustees of said Academy, or any one of them→→ Any law to the contrary notwithstanding.. Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That his Excellency the Governor, is hereby authorised and required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favor of the Inferior Court of Laurens county, or the trustee of the poor school fund of said county, for any money which is now due or which at the next dividend or distribution of the poor school fund of this State, may be found to be due said county as her proportionate part of said fund, and that the same be paid over to the said Inferior Court or their order, or to the trustees of the poor school fund-Any law to the contrary notwithstanding. Sec. 3. And be it further enacted, That the funds remaining on hand of Union Academy, (of Putnam county) be, and is hereby placed under the control of William Turner, James M. Chambers, and William E. Adams, to be by them employed in erecting an Academy or maintaining a school in the vicinity of said Academy.. Sec. 4. Be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That all laws and parts of laws that militate against this act, be, and the same are hereby repealed. ASBURY HULL, Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS, Assented to, Dec. 26, 1831. President of the Senate. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. APPORTIONMENT. AN ACT to apportion the Representatives among the several counties in this State, according to the sixth enumeration, in conformity to the seventh section of the first article of the Constitution. 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 authority of the same, That in future the representative [representation] of the respective counties, shall be apportioned in the following manner, to-wit: Speaker of the House of Representatives. THOMAS STOCKS,. President of the Senate. Assented to, Dec. 26, 1831. WILSON LUMPKIN, Governor. APPROPRIATIONS. AN ACT to appropriate monies for the support of Government, for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty two. 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 the following sums of money be, and they are hereby appropriated for the political year eighteen hundred and thirty-two, yiz: The salary of his Excellency the Governor, shall be thres thousand dollars per annum. |