GEORGIA CONSTITUTIONAL CONVENTION ITEMS: 1788

Now know ye, that we, the delegates of the people of the state of Georgia, in Convention met, pursuant to the resolutions of the legislature aforesaid, having taken into our serious consideration the said Constitution, have assented to, ratified, and adopted, and by these presents do, in virtue of the powers and authority to us given by the people of the said state for that purpose, for and in behalf of ourselves and our constituents, fully and entirely assent to, ratify, and adopt, the said Constitution.

Done in Convention, at Augusta, in the said state, on the 2d day of January, in the year of our Lord 1788, and of the independence of the United States the 12th.

In witness whereof, we have hereunto subscribed our names…


Liberty County

James Powell,
John Elliot,
James Maxwell.

Source:
The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution [Elliot's Debates, Volume 1] 6. STATE OF GEORGIA; Page 324: The Law Library of Congress

Submitted by Bob Franks