Robert Hazlehurst and James Hamilton Cooper be and they are hereby appointed commissioners of the Glynn' county academy in addition to those already in office, and they are hereby authorised to appropriate all or any part of money de which may be in hand belonging to said academy to the establishing of two free schools-one in the twenty-sixth et district. at or about William Hughston's, and one in the ees twenty-seventh district at any place the commissioners may afthink proper. and they are authorised to employ one teacher for each school.

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1. SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That no child or the children shall receive their tuition gratuitously whose parents pay two dollars on their state tax, and any monies which may arise from the tuition of children sent to these dchools shall go to the support of said schools.

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SFC. 3. And be it further enacted, That the operation of Glynn county Academy shall cease after the time exortires for which the present teacher may be employed, ungail the funds of said institution shall so increase as to enale the commissioners to carry into effect the above named ree schools.

ntati SEC. 4. And be it further enacted, That the commisloners of said Academy shall have full power to adopt KS, ach rules and regulations as may be by them thought to See most conducive to the interest of said schools.

SEC. 5. And be it further enacted, That the commisorioners shall meet at Brunswick on the first Monday in March next, or any other day that they may appoint to carry into effect the intent of act, and one or more of said commissioners shall visit the schools once in two months and report the condition of the schools and situation of the children to the general board.

SEC. 6. And be it further enacted, That the commisal sioners shall call on the treasurer of the Academy who shall as soon as possible lay before the said board a statement of the amount of all monies belonging to said institution so as to enable the commissioners to carry into effect the provision of this act.

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SEC. T. And be it further enacted, That the commis sioners shall purchase such books and paper as the children may want while at school and to pay for the same out of the money belonging to said institution.

SEC. 8. And be it further enacted, That all laws or parts of laws militating against this act be and the same are hereby repealed.

To appoint Trustees of the Telfair county Academy, aud to incorporate the same.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That Nathaniel Ashley, John L. Lamkin, John Paramore, Lewis L. Lamkin, John Wilcox, Redding Wooter, and Duncan McRae, be and they are hereby appointed trus tees of the Telfair county Academy, and constituted a body politic and corporate, having perpetual succession under the name and title of the Trustees of the Telfair county Academy, and by that name and style are hereby made able and capable in law to have, purchase, receive, possess, enjoy and retain, to them and their successors, lands, rents, tenements, goods, chattels, and effects, of what kind nature or quality soever, and the same to sell, alien, demise or dispose of for the benefit of the institution entrusted to

their care, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded answer and be answered in courts of record or other places, and also to make, have and use a common seal, and the same to break, alter, and revoke at pleasure, and also to ordain, establish and execute such bye-laws, ordinances. and regulations as may by them be deemed necessary not inconsistent with the constitution and laws of this state.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That the said trus tees or a majority of them, shall have power to appoint a secretary and treasurer, under such restrictions, obligations and regulations as may to them appear suitable and proper.

SEC. 3. And be it further enacted, That when any vacan cy shall or may happen by death, resignation, or otherwise, such vacancy may be filled by the said trustees in such manner as they may deem proper, any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

DAVID ADAMS, Speaker of the House of Representatives.

THOMAS STOCKS,

Assented to, Dec. 20, 1823.

President of the Senate.

G. M. TROUP, Governor.

AN ACT

To authorise the commissioners of McIntosh county Acad emy to establish one or more schools for the education of poor children.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives 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 passing of this act, the commissioners

of McIntosh county Academy, be and they are hereby authorised to establish one or more free schools in the county, as appendages of said Academy, and the said free schools to discontinue and renew as they or a majority of them from time to time think proper.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws militating against this act be and the same are repealed.

DAVID ADAMS, .

Speaker of the House of Representatives..

THOMAS STOCKS,

President of the Senate,

Assented to, Dec. 20, 1823.

G. M. TROUP, Governor

AN ACT

To entitle the incorporated Academies of Hancock county to their full dividend of the funds set apart for the county Academies.

Whereas, by an act passed the twenty-third day of December, eighteen hundred and twenty-two," to distribute certain funds among the several counties in this state for the use of Academies, and to provide a method of obtaining further information concerning endowments heretofore grant ed," it is provided "that each county shall have an equal part of the sum to be distributed, until each shall have re-. ceived two thousand dollars, including the amount already received in cash or in confiscated property."

And whereas, it appears by the book deposited in the Treasury Office containing an account of the sales of reverted confiscated property in the year seventeen hundred and ninety-four, that Roberts Thomas purchased for the Han

cock county Academy the after mentioned tracts of land, viz: 150 acres, bounded on all sides by vacant land at the time of survey, sold as the property of Arthur Corney, at 261. 58.-100 acres, bounded north-westerly by the river Alatamaha, and on all other sides vacant land at the time of survey, sold as the property of Arthur Corney, at 2801making in the whole, 3061. 5s.

And whereas, it appears that the aforesaid tracts of land could never be found, and from all the information your committee have been able to obtain, never were conveyed to the aforesaid agent, and the county of Hancock has not, nor never will realize one cent from said land.- Wherefore,

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representa tives of the State of Georgia, in General Assembly met, and it is hereby enacted by the authority of the same, That the incorporated Academies in the county of Hancock, be and they are hereby declared to be entitled to their full dividend of the fund set apart for county Academies, in the same manner as though no confiscated land had been purhased by their agent Roberts Thomas, for the use of the ounty.

DAVID ADAMS,
Speaker of the House of Representatives,

THOMAS STOCKS,

Assented to, Dec. 22, 1823.

President of the Senate.

G. M. TROUP, Governor.

AN ACT

To change the name of Farmer's Academy in Jones county.

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