Resolution, August 1870
Hinesville, GA., August 16, 1870. Editors Constitution: At a meeting of the citizens of Liberty county, held here this day for the purpose of taking into consideration the bill recently introduced in the Georgia Legislature by Mr. O'Neal, of Lowndes County, authorizing the Ordinary of Liberty County to keep his office at his house, Thomas Q. Cassels, Esq., was called to the chair and J.A. Girardeau, Esq., requested to act as secretary. On motion, the following named gentlemen were appointed a committee to present business for the meeting, viz: J.W. Farmer, J.A. Girardeau, and W.A. Fleming. The committee reported the following preamble and resolutions, which were unanimously adopted: Whereas, it is contrary to the interest, whiches and desires of the citizens of Liberty County for the records and business of the Court of Ordinary of Liberty county to be removed from the Court-house in Hinesville, the county site and centre of the said county of Liberty; and Whereas, If the said bill becomes law, the most important records belonging to the Ordinary's office of Liberty county may be removed to the private house of some careless person, ten or twenty miles from the county site of said county, thereby causing great inconvenience and loss to the citizens and tax-payers of the said county of Liberty; therefore be it Resolved, That we, the citizens and tax-payers of the said county of Liberty, in meeting assembled, respectfully protest against the passage of any bill by the General Assembly of Georgia authorizing the Ordinary of Liberty county to keep his office at his house. Resolved, That the proceedings of this meeting be forwarded by the secretary to the General Assembly of Georgia. Resolved that we hereby request the Constitution and True Georgian, of Atlanta, and the Morning News and Republican, of Savannah, to publish the proceedings of this meeting. After which the meeting adjourned sine die.
T.Q. Cassels, Chairman Source:
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