A. M. D. King, B. H. Rutherford, and J. H. Gordon, and their successors in office be, and the same are hereby declared to be a body politic and corporate, by the name and style of the Trustees of the Forsyth Female Academy," and as such body politic and corporate, shall be capable of doing all acts which may be necessary for the complete execution of the trust confided to them. That they shall be invested with all manner of property, both real and personal, which shall be acquired by gift, grant, purchase, or otherwise, for the use and benefit of said Academy: shall be capable of suing and being sued, of having and using a common seal; and they, the said Trustees, and their successors in office, or a majority of them, shall have the privilege of making their own by-laws; Provided they contain nothing repugnant to the Constitution or laws of this State; and of filling all vacancies in their own board which may be occasioned by death, resignation, or otherwise.

SEC. 2. And be it further enacted by the authority aforesaid, That Mickleburg Merrit, Asa Smith, Hiram Phinizy, Cullen Thornton, and M. T. Caldwell be, and they are hereby constituted and appointed Trustees of Chapel Hill Academy, in the county of Monroe, and by that name and style shall be called and known; and as such, and by that name, are hereby invested with all the rights, privileges and immunities conferred on the Trustees of the Female Academy at Forsyth, in the county of Monroe.

JOSEPH DAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ROBERT M. ECHOLS.

President of the Senate.

Assented to, 24th Dec. 1835.

WILLIAM SCHLEY, President.

AN ACT to be entitled an act tó authorize his Excellency the Governor to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favour of the Trustees of Franklin County Academy, for such dividends as may be due said Institution.

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 his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favour of the Trustees of Franklin County Academy, for such dividends as may be due said Institution, on the application of any one of the Trustees-any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

JOSEPH DAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ROBERT M. ECHOLS,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, 21st Dec. 1885.

WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor.

AN ACT to authorize the payment to the Trustees of Laurens County Academies, of all dividends that may be due the said Institutions at the time of the next distribution.

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 his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby

required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favour of the Trustees of the Dublin Academy, for one half of the amount that may be found due the said Institution, and the other half to the Trustees of the Buckeye Academy-any law to the contrary notwithstanding.

JOSEPH DAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ROBERT M. ECHOLS,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, 22d Dec. 1835.

WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor.

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AN ACT to amend an act entitled an act to distribute certain funds among the several counties in this State for the use of Academies, and to provide a more equitable method for the distribution of said funds, so far as said act authorizes the several Academies to draw a share of said funds, in proportion to the number of Students taught in the several Academies during the past year, agreeably to the returns made in the Executive office, on an order of a majority of the Trustees of such Academy, so far as the same relates to the Academies of Lincoln County, now incorporated, or that may hereafter be incorporated in said county, and for other purposes.

SEC. 1. 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 from and after the passage of this act, all sums of money that are now set apart, and not yet distributed, or that may be hereafter set apart for the use of the incorporated Academies in Lincoln county, shall be drawn and divided equally between the said Academies, as has been done previous to the passage of this act; and that an order

from the Treasurer of either of said Academies, and if no Treasurer, then from a majority of the Trustees of such Academy, directed to his Excellency the Governor, shall be sufficient to draw their dividend of such fund.

And whereas the Treasurer of the Bulloch County Academy failed to make a formal report, as required by law, of the amount and condition of the Academie fund of said county for 1834;.

SEC. 2. Be it therefore enacted by the authority aforesaid, That his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby authorized and required to pay over to the Treasurer of the Bulloch County Academy, or to the order of the Academy Commissioners, the dividend apportioned to said county Academy for the year 1834, on receiving a satisfactory return from said Commissioners for the year aforesaid.

AN ACT to authorize the payment to the Trustees of the Laurens County Academies of all dividends that may be due the said institutions at the time of the next distribution.

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 his Excellency the Governor be, and he is hereby required to draw his warrant on the Treasurer in favour

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of the Trustees of the Dublin Academy, for one half of the amount that may be due the said institution, and the other half to the Trustees of the Buckeye Academy-any laws to the contrary notwithstanding.

JOSEPH DAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ROBERT M. ECHOLS,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, 22d Dec. 1835.

WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor.

AN ACT to be entitled an act to authorize the payment of one hundred and twelve dollars and thirty cents to the Trustees of Monaghan Academy, out of the next Academic dividend due Warren County from the State, besides a distributive share of the balance of said dividend.

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 aforesaid, That his Excellency the Governor of Georgia be, and he is hereby authorized to pay to the Trustees of Monaghan Academy, in Warren county, the sum of one hundred and twelve dollars and thirty cents, out of the next Academic dividend due said county of Warren, besides a distributive share of the balance of said dividend, which distributive share of the balance to be made according to the act of Assembly.

JOSEPH DAY,

Speaker of the House of Representatives.

ROBERT M. ECHOLS,

President of the Senate.

Assented to, 24th Dec. 1835.

WILLIAM SCHLEY, Governor.