- Collection:
- The Southern Homefront, 1861-1865
- Title:
- Journal of the Senate of the state of Georgia, at the annual session of the General Assembly : begun and held in Milledgeville, the seat of government, in 1861
- Creator:
- Georgia. General Assembly. Senate
- Contributor to Resource:
- Georgia. Governor (1857-1865 : Brown)
- Publisher:
- Transcribed from: Journal of the Senate of the state of Georgia, at the annual session of the General Assembly : begun and held in Milledgeville, the seat of government, in 1861. Milledgeville, GA. : Boughton, Nisbet & Barnes, state printers, 1861. 351 p. Includes index.
Pages 193-208 were missing from the original. - Date of Original:
- 1861
- Subject:
- Legislation--Georgia
Legislative journals--Georgia
Georgia--Politics and government--1861-1865
Georgia--History--Civil War, 1861-1865--Law and legislation - Location:
- United States, Georgia, 32.75042, -83.50018
- Medium:
- legislative records
- Type:
- Text
- Description:
- Journal of the Senate of Georgia and includes a letter from Joseph E. Brown, Governor of Georgia concerning issues to be addressed by the body which were state rights, unconstitutional legislation dangerous to state rights, defence of the state, military fund of 1861, sale of state bonds, treasury notes, relief to the people, stay law, unpatriotic speculation, our troops in the field, hospital for the sick, manufacture of arms, powder material, penitentiary, asylum and other institutions, state university, Georgia Military Institute, education, the new constitution, our militia system, Western and Atlantic railroad, Florida boundary line, the Confederate war tax, commercial independence and our competency for self government. The Senate also dealt with a variety of other governmental business.
Title from electronic title page.
This electronic edition is part of the UNC-CH digitization project's database, Documenting the American South. It is part of the collection The Southern homefront, 1861-1865.
Text transcribed by Apex Data Services, Inc. Images scanned by Joby Topper. Text encoded by Lee Ann Morawski and Natalia Smith.
Text in both HTML and SGML formats.
Funding from the Institute of Museum and Library Services supported the electronic publication of this title. - Metadata URL:
- http://docsouth.unc.edu/imls/gasen61/menu.html
- Holding Institution:
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library
- Rights:
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