Prisons - State Prison Commission - Registers of Convicts Received, Etc.
Scope and Contents
The first volume in this series indicates: (1) the name of the convict; (2) the date of pardon, discharge, death or escape; (3) the name of the camp to which each was assigned; (4) the convict's crime (occasionally). The second volume contains only registers of deaths and discharges showing the convict's: (1) name; (2) race (3) age; (4) county of conviction; (5) date received; (6) date of death or discharge; (7) height, weight and health when received, and (8) the name of the camp to which the convict was assigned. The first volume also contains some extraneous material in the form of the Principal Keeper's copies of approximately fifty Executive Orders granting pardons from the year 1877. These pardons are identical to those found in RGSGSERIES 21-1-15. Likewise, one volume to be found in Series 15 contains some pages recording information rightfully belonging to this series.
Dates
- Created: 1871-1886
Creator
- Prisons (Organization)
Conditions Governing Access
Unrestricted
Extent
0.90 Cubic Feet
Language of Materials
English
Arrangement Note
Neither of the volumes in this series are indexed.
- Title
- Prisons - State Prison Commission - Registers of Convicts Received, Etc.
- Author
- Georgia Archives
- Description rules
- Local
- Language of description
- English
- Script of description
- Latin
Repository Details
Part of the Georgia Archives Repository
5800 Jonesboro Rd
Morrow GA 30260 United States