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State Library - State Librarian - Publication Record Set Files

Series

Identifier: 039-01-003

Scope and Contents

Collection includes several publications, including 1931 - 1941, Library Progress in Georgia, 1840 - 1940; Georgia Women - A Record of Achievement; 1918, Annual Report of the State Librarian; 1926 - 1935, The Georgia State Library; and 1936 - 1946, Highlights of a Decade.

Dates: Created: 1840-1946

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Literature Commission - Administration - Administrative Files Commission of Ga

Series

Identifier: 266-01-001

Scope and Contents This series consists of original and copied material pertaining to the administration of the State Literature Commission of Georgia. The files include (not an inclusive list): (1) correspondence, (2) newsclippings, (3) pamphlets, (4) newsletters, (5) contracts, (6) book reviews, (7) minutes, (8) expense reports, (9) copies of the Congressional Record, (10) and related items. Created in 1953 by Georgia Law 1953, page 135, Code Section 26-6301a, the purpose of the Commission was "to make such...

Dates: Created: 1953-1974

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Literature Commission - Administration - Exhibits

Series

Identifier: 266-01-003

Dates: Created: 1940-1970

Found in: Georgia Archives

State of Georgia's Printer's account book, 1870

Collection

Identifier: 0000-0214M-i

Scope and Contents

Records printing jobs of the state printer including many accounts with the Western and Atlantic Railroad Company. Cites dates, name of account, type of work, and cost.

Dates: no date

Found in: Georgia Archives Manuscript Collections

State Property Control Commission - State Properties Commission - Minutes

Series

Identifier: 085-02-009

Scope and Contents This series consists of material relating to the meetings of the State Properties Commission. These records document the meetings held by the Commission in order to fulfill its responsibility for the acquisition and disposition of certain categories of state property: the Western and Atlantic Railroad and all associated property, including that in Tennessee; the property in Atlanta on which the Governor's Mansion once stood; any state-owned real property which the General Assembly has...

Dates: Created: 1972

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - State Properties Commission - Misc. Records

Series

Identifier: 085-02-012

Scope and Contents Miscellaneous records, including: 1955 - 1972, State Mineral Leasing Commission Files; 1968 - 1971, Mineral Leasing Files; 1969 - 1974, Leases/Sales of State Owned Property, Albany - Southern Enterprises; 1965 - 1972, Mineral Leasing Commission Files; 1954 - 1977, Reports, Appraisals, Proposals of Properties Owned in Tennessee; 1954 - 1977, Project Files, Specifications, Proposals Architect Drawings, Inspection Reports on Railroads, Omni and Henry Grady Hotel Site; Architect Drawings of...

Dates: Created: 1954-1977

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - State Properties Commission - Proposed Land Acquisitions Files

Series

Identifier: 085-02-014

Dates: Created: 1968-1974

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - State Properties Commission - Real Property Records

Series

Identifier: 085-02-011

Scope and Contents This series consists primarily of warranty deeds documenting property conveyed to and from the State. Included also are other documents concerning the State's use or lease of real property. This series comprises the State's official record of real property transactions. Excluded are most highway right of way deeds (see RGSGSERIES 27-9-51) and most Western & Atlantic Railroad deeds (see RGSGSERIES 85-1-4). The documents of this series include original or certified copies of various types...

Dates: Created: 1828 - 2023

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - State Properties Commission - Subject Files

Series

Identifier: 085-02-008

Scope and Contents This series consists of documents relating to all areas of responsibility of the State Properties Commission, the central state agency accountable for the acquisition and disposition of state property. This property contains the following categories: 1) the Western and Atlantic Railroad and all associated property, including that in Tennessee 2) the property in Atlanta on which the Governor's Mansion once stood 3) any state-owned real property which the General Assembly has transferred to...

Dates: Created: 1963-1972

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - Western and Atlantic Railroad - Commission Minutes

Series

Identifier: 085-01-007

Scope and Contents This series consists of a single bound volume containing the minutes created by the Western & Atlantic Railroad Commission during the period of December 9, 1915 to June 30, 1920. Beginning in the middle of the volume, the typewritten pages chronicle the work of the Commission during this five year span. Created by an Act of the Legislature on November 12, 1889, the Commission's prime function was to oversee the re-leasing of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. Some examples of business...

Dates: Created: 1915-1920

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - Western and Atlantic Railroad - Condition and Inventory Reports

Series

Identifier: 085-01-001

Scope and Contents This series consists of two post binders containing condition reports, updates and related documents to same on the property of the Western & Atlantic Railroad. The earliest and most complete inventory was compiled at the request of the Hon. C.M. Candler, Western & Atlantic Railroad Commission Chairman, and completed in March 1917. It resulted from a careful inspection of all state property connected with the railroad by three men, Mr. J. Houstoun Johnston, Special Engineer, Mr. J....

Dates: Created: 1917-1940

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - Western and Atlantic Railroad - Ncs Lease Contract and Amendment

Series

Identifier: 085-01-006

Scope and Contents This series consists of the original bound lease agreement and subsequent amendments to the agreement between the Western & Atlantic Railroad Commission and the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway. The original lease called for a fifty year period beginning December 27, 1919 to December 27, 1969. By an Act of the General Assembly on November 30, 1915, the Western & Atlantic Railroad was leased to the Nashville, Chattanooga & St. Louis Railway for complex political and...

Dates: Created: 1917-1986

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - Western and Atlantic Railroad - Rights of Way Property Lease Dee

Series

Identifier: 085-01-004

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound and unbound original and copied deed records to the right of way and property on the right of way leased to the Western & Atlantic Railroad. The bound records consist of two volumes, one volume containing the copied abstracts of property belonging to the State of Georgia in Chattanooga, Tennessee. This volume is in no particular arrangement. At the end of the volume is a direct and reverse index to several of the abstracts contained within. The other volume...

Dates: Created: 1841-1972

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - Western and Atlantic Railroad - Subject Files

Series

Identifier: 085-01-010

Scope and Contents This series consists of documents relating to the State Properties Commission's responsibility for the disposition of the Western and Atlantic Railroad and all associated property, including that in Tennessee. The Commission engages in the following activities in fulfillment of its mission: leasing property by receiving bids and by submitting proposals to the General Assembly for approval and managing property by inspecting it, insuring it against loss, and paying any taxes legally levied by...

Dates: Created: 1963-1968

Found in: Georgia Archives

State Property Control Commission - Western & Atlantic Railroad - Lease Maps, Nashville, Chattanooga

Series

Identifier: 085-01-005

Scope and Contents This series consists of bound and unbound original blueprints, measuring approximately 22" X 46" in dimension, along with photocopies and negatives, of the official lease maps and supplemental maps of the Western & Atlantic Railroad right-of-way and side track facilities as operated by the Nashville, Chattanooga and St. Louis Railway. The original blueprints, with certain portions in color for notation, show the entire span of the Western & Atlantic Railroad property beginning at...

Dates: Created: 1893-1986 and 2018

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Commissioner's Office - Road Commissioner's Minutes Book

Series

Identifier: 228-05-020

Dates: Created: 1877-1889

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Justice Court - Misc. Records

Series

Identifier: 228-04-005

Scope and Contents

This series contains unbound miscellaneous records involving subpoenas, warrants and case files.

Dates: Created: 1876-1935

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Misc. County Offices - Misc. Records

Series

Identifier: 228-12-008

Scope and Contents This series contains unbound original papers involving, but not limited to: (1) Affidavits (2) Agreements (3) Bounty land grants (4) Confederate matters (5) County officers (6) Court matters (7) Elections (8) Estrays (9) Homesteads (10) Indentures (11) Inquests (12) Jails (13) Jurors (14) Lunacy petitions. Although some of these records rightfully belong in already existing subgroups, a special subgroup was created due to the fact that most of these records are minuscule in number or are...

Dates: Created: 1833-1938

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Probate Court - Estate Records and Wills

Series

Identifier: 228-02-001

Scope and Contents This series contains unbound county estate records and wills which involve, but are not limited to: (1) Estate returns (2) Estate inventories (3) Estate appraisals (4) Guardian bonds (5) Annual returns (6) Petitions for support (7) Petitions for dismissal (8) Expenditure vouchers (9) Petitions for sale (10) Returns on sale of property (11) Final estate returns (12) Orders for division of property (13) Heir's receipts (14) Perishable property listing. There is no consistency to the type of...

Dates: Created: 1829-1899

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Probate Court - Inferior Court Execution Docket Book

Series

Identifier: 228-02-018

Dates: Created: 1843-1854

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Probate Court - Inferior Court Newspaper Clippings

Series

Identifier: 228-02-004

Scope and Contents

This series contains unbound newspaper clippings from the early 1800's. As the law reads, the court of Ordinary of each county is required to procure and preserve, for public inspection, a complete file of all newspapers in which their advertisements appear. These clippings are in general decay, in fragmented pieces and have been placed together in groups inside folders.

Dates: Created: 1840-1870

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Probate Court - Marriage Records

Series

Identifier: 228-02-002

Scope and Contents This series contains original marriage licenses of the Inferior Court, now Probate Court, of Stewart County. Information on these licenses includes: (1) name of groom (2) name of bride (3) date license was issued (4) date of marriage (5) name of Ordinary (6) name of person performing the wedding ceremony. On the back of most licenses is the book and page where the licenses are recorded although no effort has been made to compare the completeness of this file with the recorded copies of the...

Dates: Created: 1825-1961

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Probate Court - Pauper & Petition Records

Series

Identifier: 228-02-003

Scope and Contents

This series contains unbound records concerning paupers of Stewart County. The specific documents include (1) lists of paupers eligible for county funds, (2) funeral expenses for paupers paid by the county, (3) petitions for welfare and (4) receipts for payments to paupers.

Dates: Created: 1871-1935

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Superior Court - County & Lumpkin Town Council Ordinances & Minutes

Series

Identifier: 228-01-021

Dates: Created: 1869-1874

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Superior Court - Tax Fi Fa and Tax Receipts

Series

Identifier: 228-01-017

Dates: Created: 1867-1893

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Superior Court - Writs and Grand Jury Minutes List

Series

Identifier: 228-01-019

Dates: Created: 1839-1872

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Tax Collector's Office - Misc. Records

Series

Identifier: 228-07-006

Scope and Contents

This series contains original unbound miscellaneous records of the Tax Collector's Office of Stewart County. The papers include (1) tax expenses, (2) tax fi fas, (3) tax collector's report and (4) tax receipts.

Dates: Created: 1843-1935

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stewart County - Treasurer's Office - Misc. Records

Series

Identifier: 228-10-007

Dates: Created: 1842-1941

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stone Mountain Memorial Association - General Manager - Publications

Series

Identifier: 076-02-004

Scope and Contents

This series contains the publicity and most of the publications produced by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. An exception is the newsletter 'Round the Mountain, described in RG 76-1-7.

Dates: Other: unknown and 1968 - 1979

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stone Mountain Memorial Association - General Manager - 'Round the Mountain (Publication)

Series

Identifier: 076-02-007

Scope and Contents This series contains the monthly newsletter published by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association. Edited by the general manager and aimed primarily at the employees of the association, a typical issue might include very brief articles on (1) news from the general manager; (2) personal notes on employees; (3) information on flora and fauna in the park; (4) featured units of the staff; (5) public relations news and hints; (6) dates of special events; (7) carillon schedules, and (8) items or...

Dates: Created: 1968-1973

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stone Mountain Memorial Association Register

Collection

Identifier: 0000-0122M

Scope and Contents

Listing of visitors' names, addresses, cities, and states. Arrangement by date, beginning at back of book.

Dates: 1923

Found in: Georgia Archives Manuscript Collections

Stone Mountain Memorial Association - the Association - Minutes

Series

Identifier: 076-01-011

Scope and Contents This series consists of unbound copies of minutes of regular and special meetings held by the Stone Mountain Memorial Association from March 5, 1958 to December 13, 1965. In 1958, the Georgia General Assembly passed an Act creating the Stone Mountain Memorial Association for the purpose of planning, constructing, maintaining, operating and managing Stone Mountain and adjacent property as a memorial to the Confederacy. Topics discussed and dealt with in the minutes include (a random...

Dates: Created: 1958-1965

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stone Mountain Memorial Association - the Association - Misc. Records

Series

Identifier: 076-01-001

Dates: Created: 1978-1979

Found in: Georgia Archives

Stone Mountain Memorial Association - the Association - Subject Files

Series

Identifier: 076-01-012

Scope and Contents In 1958, the Georgia General Assembly passed an Act creating the Stone Mountain Memorial Association for the purpose of planning, constructing, maintaining, operating and managing Stone Mountain and adjacent property as a memorial to the Confederacy. The subject files of this series, 1958 to 1965, consist of (not an inclusive list): (1) memoranda (2) proposals (3) correspondence (4) by-laws (5) reports (6) contracts (7) prose (8) speeches (9) leases (10) legislation (11) blueprints (12)...

Dates: Created: 1958-1978

Found in: Georgia Archives

Sumter County - Probate Court - Misc. Inferior Court Records

Series

Identifier: 229-02-014

Dates: Created: 1837-1922

Found in: Georgia Archives

Sumter County - Superior Court - Misc. Records (Microfilm)

Series

Identifier: 229-01-013

Scope and Contents

Deed books 184 - 212; Minutes 1983 - 1986; Writs 1983 - 1984; Uniform commercial code 1983

Dates: Created: 1983-1986

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Attorney's Case Brief Files

Series

Identifier: 092-01-002

Dates: Created: 1962-1968

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Capital Offenses Case Files (Paper)

Series

Identifier: 092-01-003-1

Scope and Contents

After 1979, the Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Capital Offenses Case Files were filed with the Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Criminal Appeal Case Files (see Record Group 92/1/3).

Dates: Created: 1974-1979

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Criminal Appeal Case Files

Series

Identifier: 092-01-003

Scope and Contents This series contains all documents relating to individual cases heard by the Georgia Supreme Court from 1917 to 1990. A typical file might include any or all of the following documents: (1) bills of exception, (2) writs of certiorari or error, (3) summons and (4) lower court documents presented to the Supreme Court as evidence. Those documents include full or partial transcripts of proceedings, complaints, judgments and other related documents.Case files after 1990 are available...

Dates: Created: 1917 - 1990

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Criminal Appeals Case Files

Series

Identifier: 092-01-001

Scope and Contents This series contains all documents relating to individual cases heard by the Georgia Supreme Court from its creation in 1846 to 1917. A typical file might include any or all the following documents: (1) bills of exception, (2) writs of certiorari or error, (3) summons and (4) lower court documents presented to the Supreme Court as evidence. Those documents include full or partial transcripts of proceedings, complaints, judgments and other related documents. There are very few...

Dates: Created: 1846-1917

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Docket Books

Series

Identifier: 092-01-008

Dates: Created: 1857-1992

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Evidence Files

Series

Identifier: 092-01-009

Scope and Contents

This group of records forms a portion of the regular case files which because of its size or physical form could not be boxed with the case files. The numbers correspond with the case numbers in Series 3, Supreme Court Case files. The case numbers in this series are not consecutive.

Dates: Created: 1914-1980

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Formal Advisory Opinion Books

Series

Identifier: 092-01-004

Dates: Created: 1855-1899

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Habeas Corpus Writs, Death Penalty Cases

Series

Identifier: 092-01-010

Scope and Contents This series formerly consisted of Applications to Appeal until they were purged of the writs of habeas corpus in 1994. The writs are for death penalty cases only and are those that were indirectly appealed to the Court. Before 1974, cases were directly appealed to the Supreme Court and are part of the appeal case. After 1974, cases were indirectly appealed or separated out into Applications to Appeal. For real information into a death case appeal, one must see the case as it is filed in...

Dates: Created: 1974-1991

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Minute Books

Series

Identifier: 092-01-007

Dates: Created: 1846-1967

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Proceeding Books

Series

Identifier: 092-01-005

Scope and Contents The Georgia Supreme Court was created by an amendment to the 1798 state constitution but enabling legislation was not passed until 1845. This series contains volumes which document both proceedings and opinions of the Georgia Supreme Court on cases brought before it. The cases rendered are titled by both plaintiff and defendant. Proceedings are similar to the Minute Books of the Georgia Supreme Court in that they specify what action either the higher court or lower court took regarding the...

Dates: Created: 1846-1859

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Clerk of Court - Stenographers Resignations and Appointments

Series

Identifier: 092-01-011

Dates: Created: 1910-1920

Found in: Georgia Archives

Supreme Court - Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias - Let Justice Be Done (Publication)

Series

Identifier: 092-02-013

Scope and Contents This series consists of the final report generated by the Georgia Supreme Court Commission on Racial and Ethnic Bias in the Court System. The Commission, created in 1993 by the Georgia Supreme Court, was established to: (1) Ascertain the perception of the public and the courts on the treatment of minorities and ethnic groups, as well as examine courtroom treatment and the extent to which minorities and ethnic groups voluntarily use the court system, (2) Study the administration and personal...

Dates: Created: 1995

Found in: Georgia Archives

Surveyor General - County Map File - County Maps

Series

Identifier: 003-09-066

Dates: Majority of material found within 1866 - 2018

Found in: Georgia Archives

Surveyor General - Fiscal Records - 1820 Land Lottery Fees

Series

Identifier: 003-02-044

Scope and Contents

This volume contains information on fees recorded for whole lots and reverted whole lots for the 1820 Lottery. Information includes the date of transaction, name of grantee, lot number, district number, county in which the lot was located, and fee paid.

Dates: Created: 1821-1850

Found in: Georgia Archives

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