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This series contains loose original administrator's bonds of the Probate Court of Walton County. These records show the people named to be administrator of a deceased person's estate and the oath and amount of money each was required to pay the court before administrating a probated will.

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This series contains original correspondence of the Court of Ordinary of Walton County. Of questionable historical value, the majority of this fragmented correspondence, comprised of notes and letters, was written by constituents with various requests such as (1) dismissal as administrator of an estate, (2) dismissal as administrator of an estate, (3) various requests by attorneys in regard to their client's cases and (4) correspondence relating to pensions.

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This series contains a bound cost or Fi Fa docket of civil cases of the Inferior court of Walton County. This volume contains in ledger form an accounting of the (1) court term, (2) attorneys for both plaintiff and defendant, (3) case number, (4) parties in litigation, (5) cost of the fine plus interest, (6) court costs, (7) date the Fi Fa was issued, (8) date Fi Fa was handed to the sheriff and (9) date and final disposition of Fi Fa.

Scope and Contents This series contains original birth, death and marriage returns of the Court of Ordinary of Walton county. Generally speaking, the contents of the records have the (1) person's name, (2) date of birth, (3) place of birth, (4) residence, either state or country; (5) race, (6) occupation, (7) marital status, (8) father's name and (9) mother's maiden name. More specifically, the birth certificates ask for such facts as the (1) utero gestation period if there was a miscarriage, (2) cause of the...

Scope and Contents This series contains unbound original election returns and lists of registered voters filed with the Court of ordinary of Walton County. The returns are for elections held to elect (1) constable, (2) convention delegates, (3) judge of court of ordinary, (4) senator, (5) representative, (6) comptroller general, (7) attorney general, (8) county treasurer and (9) justice of the peace. These records include precinct returns, tally sheets and some few lists of voters. The lists of voters contain...

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This series contains a bound volume the second half of which contains lists grand jury revisions made by the Inferior Court of Walton County. The lists give the names of the grand jurors liable to sit in the jury box in the Inferior Court for each term. At the end of the lists is a paragraph certifying the foregoing list and signed by the judges of the Inferior Court.

Scope and Contents This series contains homestead exemption records of the Court of Ordinary, now Probate Court, of Walton County. Also called statutory or "short" homestead exemptions, these records show the property exempted from levy or sale of a debtor's personal property under Section 2040 and 2013 of the Code of Georgia, Act of 1822. The code stated that certain property of every debtor, who was head of a family, would be exempted from levy and sale by virtue of any process whatsoever. This property...

Scope and Contents This series contains a bound volume of a liquor retailers oath book of the Inferior Court of Walton County. The book contains the oaths taken by merchants who were licensed to sell liquor and distilled spirits in which they swore not to sell intoxicating beverages to any slaves or free persons of color without the written or verbal consent of the owner, overseer or employer of such slaves or free persons of color. After the Civil War in 1865 the oath was changed to exclude the sale to minors...

Scope and Contents The applications are very few and date from the late 1920's and early 1930's. Whenever there was a loose application, it was filed with its respective license. Carbon copies of some of the applications appear in two small volumes which are filed at the end of the unbound records. The applications have not been filled out very neatly, nor are they always very complete. Many are very faint and can be read only with difficulty, if at all. Information on the licenses includes the name of the...

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This series contains unbound records the first half of which relates to individual paupers being helped by the Court of Ordinary of Walton County. The few specific documents include petitions to and orders from the Court giving aid to certain destitute individuals. The money for the aid came from the County Treasurer's Office.

Scope and Contents This series contains records of the Poor School Fund of the Court of Ordinary of Walton County. These records include: (1) audit reports of the county school commissioner (2) teacher's certificates (3) teacher's accounts for wages (4) lists of indigent children eligible for participation in the Poor School Fund. The majority of these papers consists of the Poor School tuition vouchers which contain: (1) the names of the indigent children (2) the subjects they were taught (3) the number of...

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This series contains a bound volume of a receipts and disbursements journal of the Inferior Court of Walton County. This volume contains in ledger form the amount of money received and paid out by the Inferior Court. Before 1868, the Inferior Court of the various counties had the job of county treasurer The amounts of money shown in this ledger, therefore, are actually monies received and paid out by the county for county purposes. In some cases the two amounts were balanced out.

Scope and Contents This series contains records pertaining to the building and maintenance of roads and bridges of the Inferior Court of Walton County. Today these functions are handled by the County Commissioner's Office. These papers are generally -- ad hoc committee records that the Inferior Court made in dealing with the problems of public road and bridge building. Included are (1) road petitions, (2) road orders, (3) road reports, (4) bridge petitions, (5) bridge reports, (6) road bond funds and (7)...

Scope and Contents This series contains unbound returns of the Court of Ordinary relating to the proceessioning of land districts in Walton County. the Act of 1799 gave every owner of land, regardless of district, the right to have the lines around his entire tract resurveyed and marked anew simply by applying to the processioners of said district to appoint a day a majority of them, with the county surveyor, could trace and mark the said lines. The records within this series, filed with the Court of Ordinary...