This series consists of bound volumes which document the petitions to the court for the creation of commissions of lunacy to hold hearings to determine the sanity of persons reputed to be lunatics and who were subject to be committed to the Georgia State Sanitarium (now Central State Hospital). Information presented in these petitions includes the (1) name of petitioner, (2) name of reputed lunatic, (3) names of three nearest adult relatives, (4) date of filing of petition in probate court, (5) names of physicians and County Attorney and others serving on the commission of lunacy, 6) writ from the court to the Sheriff to assemble the commission of lunacy, (7) findings of the commission and date thereof and (8) order from the Probate Court committing such lunatic to the Georgia State Sanitarium for treatment. Both volumes contain indexes in which the convicted lunatics are listed in alphabetical order by the initial letter of their surname.