- Collection:
- Ad Hoc Collection
- Title:
- First Flag of Georgia, Report of the Officers of Volunteers to the Georgia House of Representatives
- Date of Original:
- 1878-11-09
- Subject:
- Flags--Georgia--History--18th century
- Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- documents
- Type:
- Text
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- In February 1876, the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution authorizing the governor to appoint a board of officers from Georgia's voluntary military organizations to make recommendations for revising the Georgia Code's sections on "The Volunteers" (Part I, Title XII, Chapter 2, Article 3, 1873 Code). On November 9, 1878, the board submmitted copies of their report to both the House and Senate. One of the recommendations was that Georgia adopt a state flag. Both reports include a color design and the wording of an act for adopting the flag. On October 16, 1879, the legislature passed a bill on Organization of Volunteer Troops (Law No. 276). The next day, the legislature approved "An act to declare and establish the flag of the State of Georgia" (Law No. 317).
Although the law on Organization of Volunteer Troops incorporated little of the committee's report, the act passed to establish Georgia's first flag uses language almost identical to that suggested in this report. - Metadata URL:
- https://vault.georgiaarchives.org/digital/collection/adhoc/id/610
- Rights Holder:
- Users may download the images for personal or educational use
- Original Collection:
- Ad Hoc Collection
Reports and Investigations, Commissions and Committees, General Assembly, RG 37-8-4, Georgia Archives - Holding Institution:
- Georgia Archives
- Rights:
-
