Seventy-fifth Anniversary Report of the Georgia Historical Society, Containing Annual Reports of Officers, Anniversary Addresses, Bibliography of the Society, List of Officers and Members, Constitution and By-law, Acts of Incorporation, Miss Telfair's Trust Deed, Extract from the Telfar Will, Etc |
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... Heathcote Ward , the same having been for many years past the residence of
my family , together with all my books , papers , documents , pictures , statuary
and works of art , or having relation to art or science , and all the furniture of every
...
... Heathcote Ward , the same having been for many years past the residence of
my family , together with all my books , papers , documents , pictures , statuary
and works of art , or having relation to art or science , and all the furniture of every
...
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... casting vote , preserve order and be ex - officio Chairman of the Board of
Curators . It shall be the further duty of the President , at the annual meeting , to
present a report reviewing the work and progress of the Society during the year
past ...
... casting vote , preserve order and be ex - officio Chairman of the Board of
Curators . It shall be the further duty of the President , at the annual meeting , to
present a report reviewing the work and progress of the Society during the year
past ...
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We are here celebrating anything because those whose blood flows in our veins
cared neither for wounds or death if Georgia might live and if with this majestic
past behind us we pass our days throwing to right and left the priceless heritage ...
We are here celebrating anything because those whose blood flows in our veins
cared neither for wounds or death if Georgia might live and if with this majestic
past behind us we pass our days throwing to right and left the priceless heritage ...
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Only by surveying the slow development of human nature , the slow
transformations of human institutions , through long periods of past time , can we
gather wisdom as to their development through the long ages of the future , or
shape ...
Only by surveying the slow development of human nature , the slow
transformations of human institutions , through long periods of past time , can we
gather wisdom as to their development through the long ages of the future , or
shape ...
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Almost our only means of knowing what men will do , is our knowledge of what
men have done ; almost our only means of judging what measures it is expedient
for our fellow citizens to adopt lies in our sense , based on the history of the past ...
Almost our only means of knowing what men will do , is our knowledge of what
men have done ; almost our only means of judging what measures it is expedient
for our fellow citizens to adopt lies in our sense , based on the history of the past ...
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Page 50 - These all died in Faith, not having received the promises, but having seen them afar off, and were persuaded of them, and embraced them, and confessed that they were strangers and pilgrims on the earth.
Page 50 - By faith he sojourned in the land of promise, as in a strange country, dwelling in tabernacles with Isaac and Jacob, the heirs with him of the same promise : for he looked for a city which hath foundations, whose builder and maker is GOD.
Page 88 - A state of the province of Georgia, attested upon oath in the court of Savannah, November 10, 1740 [by W.
Page 5 - Philadelphia, be, and shall be, for ever hereafter, persons able and capable in law, to sue and be sued, plead and be impleaded, answer and be answered unto, defend and be defended...
Page 6 - AND BE IT FURTHER ENACTED, That this act shall be and is hereby declared to be a public act, and shall be construed...
Page 73 - The Georgia Historical Society was incorporated by a statute of the 19th of December, 1839, the preamble of which recites that "the members of a society instituted in the City of Savannah for the purpose of collecting, preserving, and diffusing information relating to the history of the State of Georgia in particular, and of American history generally, have applied for an act of incorporation.
Page 10 - ... trust to keep and preserve the same, with the collection therein, and other books and works of art to be purchased by the officers of the society out of the income of a fund bequeathed by the devisor for the purpose, " as a public edifice for a library and academy of arts and sciences...
Page 20 - Librarian shall keep a record of their proceedings — and be entrusted, in general, with the custody, care and increase, of whatever comes within the province of their appointed duty. 8. The Committee on Printing and Publishing, shall prepare for publication whatever documents or collections shall be ordered, by the Society — shall contract for, and supervise the printing of the same, and shall furnish the Recording Secretary and Librarian, with such blank notices, summonses, labels, &c.
Page 6 - ... thousand dollars in value, but the clear annual income of such real and personal estate shall not exceed the sum of ten thousand dollars...
Page 6 - Provided, however, that the funds of the said corporation shall be used and appropriated to the promotion of the objects stated in the preamble to this Act, and those only.
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| Title | Seventy-fifth Anniversary Report of the Georgia Historical Society, Containing Annual Reports of Officers, Anniversary Addresses, Bibliography of the Society, List of Officers and Members, Constitution and By-law, Acts of Incorporation, Miss Telfair's Trust Deed, Extract from the Telfar Will, Etc Wymberley Jones De Renne Georgia Library collection |
| Author | Georgia Historical Society |
| Publisher | Morning news, 1914 |
| Original from | the University of Michigan |
| Digitized | 20 Feb 2008 |
| Length | 108 pages |
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