Land Legislation in GeorgiaUniversity of Wisconsin--Madison, 1908 - 206 pages |
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19th Congress acres of land Altamaha American Historical Association American Land Company Assembly Atlanta Augusta Beech Hill Brahm charter Cherokee claims Colonial Records colonists confiscated Congress cultivation dispute district dollars per hundred England fee simple fifty acres five hundred acres Five thousand acres Grunts History of Georgia History of Virginia immigration Indian issued Jones land grants LAND LEGISLATION LAND LOTTERY SYSTEM land policy LEGISLATION IN GEORGIA legislature lots lund lying ment Milledgeville North American Land Oconee Ogeechee paid persons petitions Pine Barren pounds sterling province Province of Georgia provincial governors provincial period Public Lands purchase question quit rent rants Records of Georgia revert Revolution river royal governors Savannah settled settlers soil sold South Carolina southern boundary statute Stevens Stute survey surveyors tion tracts treaty trustees United western lands western territory white mulberry Wisconsin Yazoo Act Yazoo land
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Page 6 - ... all those lands, countries and territories situate, lying and being in that part of South Carolina, in America, which lies from the most northern part of a stream or river there, commonly called the Savannah, all along the sea coast to the southward, unto the most southern stream of a certain other great water or river called the Alatamaha, and westerly from the heads of the said rivers respectively, in direct lines to the South Seas...
Page 21 - Common-Council of the Trustees, upon Application made to them for that Purpose, mortgage or alien ; and further, without Application, have it absolutely in their Power, on Failure of Issue in Tail, to dispose thereof by their last Will. By an Account received from the Secretary in the Province, it appears, That on the First of August 1740. about Seventy Freeholders of the Northern Part of the Province, delivered in the...
Page 21 - ... cultivating the Quantities required. Under these Circumstances it is presumed, That no Complaint can now with Reason be made against the Tenure by which the Inhabitants at this Time hold their Lands ; since they have more Power than is generally given by Marriage Settlements, in which the Grantees are only Tenants for Life, incapable of mortgaging, or aliening, or making any Disposition by their last Will ; whereas the Freeholders in Georgia are now become Tenants in Tail General, and may, with...
Page 18 - Yet must your enemies, if you have any, be reduced to confess that no ordinary statesman could have digested in the like manner, so capacious a scheme, such a copious jumble of power and politics.
Page 19 - ... be regranted for keeping up a Number of Men ; yet the Trustees, as Guardians of the People, when any such Failure happened, resolved, that the Value of the Improvements upon the Lands of the late Occupiers, should be settled and paid to or for the Benefit of the Female Issue, or next Relation : And the First Instance of such a Failure being on the Death of one Mr. De Ferron, the Value of the Improvements he had made on his Estate, was, on the 5th of February 1734. ordered and paid for the Use...
Page 6 - a part of the former province which was described as "all those lands, countries, and territories situate, lying, and being in that part of South Carolina in America which lies from the most northern part of a stream or river then commonly called the...
Page 96 - The guard v/ao authorised to arrest any persons gut'lty of the violation of tho la;, s of the State in the Cherokee territory. It consisted of forty men...
Page 30 - Ъо a part of his royul enpiro which he was bound to protect as any other of his dominions...