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001/02. Public Officials' Commissions

 Record Group Term
Identifier: 001/02
Creator: Governor

Found in 24 Collections and/or Records:

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Bonds

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-021
Scope and Contents Also included are registers of escheator fidelity bonds posted by Georgia county "escheators" as security. These bound registers were created in the Office of the Governor. They relate to the posting of performance bonds by county escheators. The clerk of the Inferior Court of each county was the administrator for the estates of persons who died intestate. This was in the tradition and meaning of escheat which was the reversion of property back to the Crown when no blood heirs survived....
Dates: Created: 1793-1948

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Bonds and Resignations of County Officials

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-032
Scope and Contents

These records are concerned with the functions of informing the Governor of the appointment or election of county officials, commissioning these officials, making certain that the officials are properly bonded and resignations of these officials.

Dates: Created: 1780-1959

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Commissions of Officials Lists

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-066
Scope and Contents This series contains unbound papers relating to the commissioning of state officials by the Governor's Office prior to 1948. After this date the functions of the Governor's Office were transferred to the Secretary of State. Specific documents include: (1) dedimus potestatems, (2) certifications of elected state officials, (3) oaths, (4) bonds. The state offices included in these records are: (1) State superintendent of banks, (2) Railroad commissioner, (3) Health Board members, (4) Medical...
Dates: Created: 1838-1928

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Contested Elections for Commissioned Officials

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-063
Scope and Contents All contested elections for officers commissioned by the Governor are referred to the Governor's office. Each contestant must notify the Governor immediately of his decision to contest the election. Then within twenty days of this announcement the contestant must forward to the Governor his charges against the contestee stating the grounds for the contest, the time and place of taking testimony for the case and the name of the officer before whom the testimony is to be taken. The...
Dates: Created: 1832-1964

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - County and State Officials Performance Bonds

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-034
Scope and Contents This series contains two basic forms. The most common is the state form which indicated that the official, either state or county, as principal had secured at least two and not more than ten solvent individuals who were permanent Georgia residents as sureties who bound the principal to the Governor of Georgia. A specific sum was indicated and the term of the bond corresponded to a specific term in office. The second form is a notarized legal document drawn up by a bonding company and...
Dates: Created: 1815-1920

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - County Officers Lists

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-064
Scope and Contents

This series consists of lists furnished the Governor's office by the various county ordinaries of the county officers not included in the regular list of county officers elected. All offices are included either arranged on an individual county form or a state‑wide sheet. In the latter case, when changes in offices were made, the old names were struck out and the new typed in. Not all counties are represented for all offices.

Dates: Created: 1933-1936

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - County Officials Commissions Registers

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-035-1
Scope and Contents This series consists of registers that record the commissions issued by the Governor to the County Ordinary to acknowledge and verify duly elected county officials. A commission was sent with a dedimus potestatem from the Governor to the county ordinary who conferred the oath of office and returned a portion of the dedimus potestatem as a verification of qualification to the Secretary of State, to confirm the candidate for office. The county officers confirmed in this series include: (1) ...
Dates: Created: 1799-1956

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - County/City/Criminal Judges Commissions

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-035-5
Scope and Contents

The governor of the state was empowered by the Georgia Constitution of 1789 to grant commissions to military and civil officers. These commissions were filed in the Office of the Secretary of State. This series includes: 1) name of person commissioned and for what office; 2) date of commission; 3) when qualified, and 4) remarks.

Dates: Created: 1872-1957

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Executive Appointees Logs

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-101
Scope and Contents This series consists of logs indicating the names and other pertinent data concerning individuals appointed by the Governor to positions on boards, commissions and other bodies created both by Executive Order and constitutional or statutory fiat. The contents and format vary considerably from volume to volume. Unit 2 is a box which contains a log only for boards established by Executive Order and is much more informal in format. A copy of each Executive Order is included with key words...
Dates: Created: 1952-1982

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Executive Appointees Recommendations Files

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-093
Scope and Contents This series contains documentation related to the selection and appointment of members to various executive boards, commissions, and committees. Most documentation consists of letters of recommendation to the Governor from the general public, government officials and the Governor's political supporters. Also included are lists of prospective appointees compiled by the office staff and intra-office memoranda relating to the selecting and appointing of candidates. Some letters, memoranda...
Dates: Created: 1971-2003, 2011-2018

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Inferior Court Justices Commission Books

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-035-4
Scope and Contents

The Governor of the state was empowered by the Constitution of 1789 to grant commissions to military and civil officers. These commissions were filed by the Office of the Secretary of State. This series includes: (1) name of person commissioned, (2) date of commission, and (3) county.

Dates: Created: 1799-1869

Governor - Public Officials' Commissions - Official Oath Books

 Series
Identifier: 001-02-014
Scope and Contents

This series consists of volumes recording the official oaths to appointed executive officials and elected state officials. Each oath includes the official's name, office, effective date of appointment, term of office and the signatures of the official and the Governor.

Dates: Created: 1834-2019