This series consists of a single volume used to register licenses for prospectors of phosphate and phosphate deposits. An Act of the Legislature of the State of Georgia, October 15, 1885 stated: “An Act to encourage search for phosphate and phosphate deposits, by granting to those who find it the right to dig, mine and remove the same in and from the beds and margins of the navigable streams and waters of the State of Georgia; to provide penalties for violations of the provisions of the Act, and for other purposes.” There was a license fee of $100 payable to the state Treasury Dept. The owner/operator also had to pay to the Treasury Dept. $1 for each ton of phosphate removed. The licenses were signed by the secretary of state