Georgia State Assembly

mentioning Marion County

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~~1828~~

1828:....appointed commissioners to select a site for public buildings in Marion County:  Samuel Brewer, William Wells, William Williams Sr, John J Kaigler, William Underwood, William Gilmore, David Johnston, James Newberry, Joseph C Brooks. Dec 20, 1828. 

~~1829~~

Dec 19, 1829: An act to establish and regulate district elections in Marion County: at the following places in the county:

Samuel Brewers house in Capt Walkers Dist

Clark Sanders house in Capt Blockers Dist

Robert Green's house at Capt Underwoods Dist

and at the place holding Superior Court in the County.

~~1836~~

Election Precincts: That an additional election precinct be established at Samson Busby's Spring, in the county of Marion, and that the election precinct heretofore established at the house of Thomas Taylor, in the County of Marion,  be removed to the store of Brown Peacock, in said County; also that the election precinct heretofore established at McIver and Davis' store in the County of Marion be removed to the house of Henry McKensey, in said County.

House of Representatives: The Select Committee to whom was referred the petition of Wiley Williams. Report:  That upon a careful examination of the facts of the claim, they find that the State has inadvertently conveyed its interest in a certain lot of land: to wit Lot 219, in the fourth district originally Muscogee, currently Marion County, to the said Wiley Williams and one to George Ray, that the former acquired land by purchase from the State, paying therefore the sum of 602 dollars; and the former, by grant from the State, in consequence of a fortunate draw in a land lottery, had under the authority of the State.  That said Wiley Williams, after having improved his lot at considerable expense, was sued in ejectment, by an individual claiming under the states grant, to the said George Ray, had a verdict against him, appealed, and pending appeal, the said lot of land from the plaintiff in ejectment, for a considerable, very nearly double the sum he originally paid for the same.

Your committee believes that had the same lot of land been recovered from the said Williams, by a verdict and a judgment of the court, as a last resort, he would have been entitled to reimbursement from the State, upon every principal and law and equity.  They do not perceive that the validity of the claim upon the State is at all impaired by the compromise  pending the appeal, for had he successfully resisted the suit in ejectment, the unsuccessful plaintiff in that suit having been debarred the chance of drawing another lot by placing of the lot in question, in the wheel, and having received from the state a grant for a tract of land to which the State had no title, would have been entitle to some renumeration.  They believe that the merits of the claim are substantially the same, whether the number of the said lot of land  was placed in the wheel by improvident legislation or by a mistake of the commissioners, who were the agents of state, they therefore recommend the adoption of the following resolution:

Resolved by the State and House of Representatives of the State of Georgia in General Assembly met....That the sum of  $828.67, being the amount paid by the said Wiley Williams and interest on the several installments, from the time of payment, to the first of January next, by paid to the said Wiley Williams, in satisfaction of his claim, and that a clause providing therefore be inserted in the General Appropriation act.  In the House of Representatives read and agreed to 7 Dec 1836.  

~~1837~~

 Page 21-22:

"An Act, to repeal the laws, appointing trustees of the Marion County Academy", and to appoint the same.

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 A F Temple, James Newberry, Andrew Burnes, Burton W Dowd, Whitfield Williams, and William Maddox be, and the same are hereby appointed Trustees of the Marion County Academy.  Assented to Dec 23, 1833.

Page 36:

Condition of Poor School:  Marion County: Solomon Wall, Trustee. English.  $109.00 in receipts.  $118.04 expenditures.

~~1854~~

Page 157:

An Act to appropriate money to Morgan Kemp, former Sheriff of Marion County, for services rendered by him in and about the sale of certain fractional lots of land, for the State, for the relief of William Hubbard, Tax Collector of Polk County and John Gainey, of Wilkinson County.  Approved Feb 15, 1854.

Page 213:

An act to make permanent the public buildings for the County of Marion at Buena Vista.

Page 272:

An act to incorporate the town of Tazewell.  Commissioners appointed for that town: James L Wiggins, Reuben W Lockett, Nathaniel M Holton, Anson Goldsby, and William G Booth.  Approved Feb 20, 1854.

Page 320:

An Act to add lots of land 152 and 122 in the 11th Dist of what was Muscogee Co and is now Marion County to Talbot County.

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