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Series includes various petitions to the General Assembly regarding matters of state and local government.

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Series includes miscellaneous publications, Constitution booklets, handbooks for legislators, and Georgia legislative manuals.

Scope and Contents This series contains original volumes of records of the Senate of the Georgia General Assembly. The legislative power of the State is vested in the General Assembly which consists of the Senate and the House of Representatives. Within these important volumes are the bills and resolutions that eventually may become the laws of the State. Both houses of the legislature produce legislation in the form of bills and resolutions and these volumes trace their movement from one house to the other....

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Series contains journals of Senate executive sessions.

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This series is composed of photographic prints, negatives, contact sheets, and slides, most of which were taken by the Senate photographer. Some biographical information, news clippings and a very few audio recordings are also included. Photographs show Senators at work in the chamber, Senator portraits, and groups posed with Senators. Also included are images of Joe Frank Harris, Jimmy Carter, Lester Maddox, Zell Miller, Capitol employees, Senate staff, interns and pages.

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This series consists of the daily record of proceedings of the Georgia Senate. Kept by the Clerk of the Senate, the journals have entered into them the appointments and actions of committees, introduction of bills and resolutions, motions, votes, etc. in order of their occurrence. Unlike bound journals, these records generally consist of unbound oversized legal paper onto which the proceedings have either been typed and/or had other documents attached (generally with staples).

Scope and Contents This series consists of correspondence and other records which vividly document the manner in which the Speaker of the House of Representatives and his staff work with other members of the General Assembly, other government officials and citizens of the State in preparing legislation and offering same to the House for its deliberation. Much of the Speaker's correspondence with other House members is of an informal and miscellaneous nature dealing with committee assignments, committee...

Scope and Contents One of the provisions of the Georgia Constitution of 1798 was that the local officials of each county in the state would take a census of their respective counties every seven years beginning in 1799. Each justice of each county inferior court was to appoint persons to take the census in every militia district in the county. The collected figures would be turned over to the various clerks of the superior court who would in turn transmit them to the Governor. The Governor would next lay the...

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These published booklets contain summaries of almost all the general bills of Statewide application which were enacted by the General Assembly at each and every session. The act number of each is indicated as is its page citation in the published law books. The analysis (changed to Summary in the titles in 1969) consists of a short summary of the subject of the act and should not be construed as constituting an opinion on the act's constitutionality.

Scope and Contents This series consists of brief synopses of all the local amendments to the Georgia Constitutions of 1877, 1945, and 1976 which were officially proclaimed by the Governor as having been duly ratified. As one of a variety of reference, counseling, and legislative drafting services provided to members of the General Assembly, the Office of the Legislative Counsel compiled these summaries. The Counsel's staff obtained the information from an examination of each of the Governor's executive...

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This series consists of the plans adopted by the Georgia General Assembly for drawing the geographic boundaries of each election district. They are related to the decennial reapportionment of state senate and house and U.S. congressional districts. Included are the final legal descriptions, geographic maps and population statistics for each district.

Scope and Contents This series contains the photocopies of clippings from a large collection of Georgia newspapers documenting, at least in part, the legislative, judicial and press controversies that arise in redrawing the geographic boundaries of Georgia's congressional, house (of representatives) and senate election districts. As for the very early newsclippings, one cannot be certain that an entire set of clippings is present due to the fact that there appears to be an inordinate number of clippings from...

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Series consists of plans and maps related to legislative reapportionment.

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This series consists of records created in establishing the geographical boundaries of each Georgia congressional, house and senate election district after each decennial census. Included are conference committee reports; draft plans; maps; census population statistics; legal descriptions for proposed districts; and other documents used in developing redistricting proposals to submit to the legislature for approval.

Scope and Contents This series contains reference materials used by the committee in These materials are divided into the following topics: their studies. enrollment statistics which show the county of residence of Freshmen within schools of the University System, 1956-57; summaries of proposed financial needs of the University System, 1959-1963, fiscal years; miscellaneous reports and articles on junior college expansion; out of state materials and reports; population studies; and materials and reports on...

Scope and Contents These general administrative records include: copies of bills and resolutions referred to the committee; transcripts of hearings before the committee; correspondence; reports; studies prepared by the committee and others; charts and other statistical data; newspaper clippings; reference materials including some publications. Of particular interest are the in-depth analysis of county statutes in Georgia and the wealth of material on the committee review of Governor Jimmy Carter's...

Scope and Contents The State Programs Study Committee was created by the 1955 Session of the Georgia General Assembly. The purpose of the committee was to study the operation of state government and its fiscal structure and condition to make recommendations to the Governor and General Assembly of a program for meeting the fiscal needs of the state on a long-range basis. The tapes consist of open hearings investigating all the departments of state government to assure that funds were being utilized prudently...

Scope and Contents This series contains correspondence between the State Chairman, Zack D. Cravey, and the county and district chairmen. Most letters relate to the function of soliciting contributions. Also included are lists of contributors for each county showing the name, address and amount donated by each. Some letters discuss the political climate of the State, particularly from the standpoint of the Talmadge faction and of Governor Herman E. Talmadge who was engaged in a gubernatorial campaign during the...