Appointment to Create Lottery to Build Courthouse & Academy - John S. Rieves

ACTS OF THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY OF THE State of Georgia. PASSED IN MILLEDGEVILLE AT AN ANNUAL SESSION IN OCTOBER, NOVEMBER AND DECEMBER. 1830.

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1830 Vol. 1 — Page: 221
Sequential Number: 163

Full Title: AN ACT, to authorise certain Commissioners therein named, to raise by lottery the sum of six thousand dollars, for the building a court house and Academy in the county [Illegible Text] Scriven.

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 it shall, and may be lawful for the Commissioners hereinafter named, to establish a lottery within four years after the passing of this act, to raise the sum of six thousand dollars, under such scheme or schemes, and regulations as they or a majority of them, may deem necessary and proper, for the purpose of building a court house and Academy in the county of Scriven.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Augustus S. Jones, Peyton L. Wade, Robert McWilliamson, Jun. Isaac Bryan, Hardy Scarborough, Willis Young, Solomon Bryan, Culling Williamson, John S. Rieves, Moses N. McCall, & Theophilus Williams, be, and they are hereby appointed Commissioners to carry the aforesaid lottery into full effect.

Sec. 3. And be it enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when any vacancy may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, of the aforesaid Commissioners, the surviving or remaining Commissioners shall fill the same in such manner as they or a majority of them, may deem proper.

Sec. 4. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That when the said lottery shall be completed, the said Commissioners shall pay over to the order of the Justices of the Inferior Court of Seriven county, the sum of four thousand dollars and to the order of the Trustees of Scriven county Academy, the sum of two thousand dollars or in like proportion to be appointed, as contemplated by this act.

ASBURY HULL,
Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS STOCKS,
President of the Senate.

GEORGE R. GILMER, Governor.

Approval Date: Assented to, Dec. 22, 1830.

Source: Georgia Legislative Documents, Galileo Digital Initiative Database, presented in the Digital Library of Georgia, http://metis.galib.uga.edu/ssp/cgi-bin/legis-idx.pl?sessionid=b7f4dfc7-57ee7e4679-7913&type=law&byte=10748303.