The Atlanta constitution. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1885-19??, 1893-03-28
THAT AGREEMENT
Between tho City of Macon aud State Az
riCultural Society.


to the rotation of the state fair. The fol-
lowing is the modified agreement:
Georgia, Bibb county-This agreement made
and entered into this the 22d day Of March,
1S%', between the mayor and council or the
city or Macon corporation duly lhcorpo-
rated under the laws Of said state. and the
Georgia State Agricultural Society. Il corpora
ton duly Incorporated under the laws OF said
state:
Witnosseth. that whereas at the regular
meeting Of said mayor and council held on the
9TH day Of March, 1893 the following resolu-
ton, amending the contract made and entered
into on the 4th day of April. 1887, by and be-
tween the said mayor and council, of the city
or Macon, and the Georgia State Agricultural
Society was passed:
Whereas, The Georgia State Agricultural
Society. through Its president and committee
have expressed a desire TO modify the contract
with the city to allow the society to hold
their annual fair in other cities by the system
Of rotation and,
Whereas. 1t IS the purpose and wish of the
city or Macon to aid the society in its object;
Resolved, That the present contract be-
tween the city and the society he so amended
rs TO permit the society 20 hold their fairs
in cities other than Macon that is to say the
society shall bind themselves to hold their fair
IN Macon each alternate year, beginning with
1913 and that the society shall also bind them
selves not TO hold their fairs in any city
that will not agree to not hold fair of any
Kind in the year in which the state fair is be
ing 1ag held In Macon; Further, that the fair of
1893 may be held in any city selected by the
society, but the fair of 1894 shall be held in
Macon. and in each alternate year thereafter
untl the contract with the cit terminates.
III pursuance of the aforesaid resolution
ana IN testimony whereof, the mayor OF the
city or Macon and the president of said sori-
ely hereby agree to the terms expressed there
In affixed their official signatures the day and
year first above mentioned
Mayor City of Macon
JOHN O. WADDELL.
President Georgia State Agricultural SO.
Attest BRIDEGES SMITH.
Clerk City Of Macon
~ notary 'e Public vi Bib 81 b. county mnnS'h Ca
PRESIDENT Waddell is very enthusiastic
about the future Of the society and the
or rotating plan will arouse spirit of ri
VARY among the cities to get the fair aud
see which can have the finest exhibition
fresidont Waddell further says that he has
received numerous letters from the execu-
i've committee and members of the society
praiSln@ Macon $ magnanmous and liberal
acuon IN conSenting to the modified CON
tract. The contest for the next fair seems
TO lie between Augusta and Atlanta.
HEAD RIGHT GRANTS.
Secretary of State Cook furnishes Informa
ton of Interest to Many People,
Atlanta, Ga, March 1S.--Editor Constitu-
non; have such constant application for in
formation In regard TO certain old head right
grants purpOrting to have been issued by the
state or Georgia, and SO manycrroueous state
ments have been made by parties in this
state ana some of the papers, who seem TO
De entirely Ignorant OF The facts, that 1
ask the publication of this letter In order to
protect innocent people from designing ana
INSCRIPTIONS land sharks who are offering
them Tor sale all over the United States by
showing the utter worthlessness of all such
fraudulent grants which not worth the
paper upon which they are written.
On the I'D day of February, 1888, the legiS-
latgre of this state passed an act giving to
each citizen 1000 acres of land as head
mr. a.
scribed oath that he had not by himself, nor
had any person for him, In his name
inns laud was to be actually surveyed ana
settled upon within eighteen months and three
acres 10 each hundred cleared and cultivated
ana the tax due the state and county upon
the same regularly paid and III default thereof
TRIBE lax paid Under the provisions OF
this law there are what purpofts TO be
grants issued in seventeen counties for more
than eighteen millions OF acres of land to
few hundred persons, which was a very large
proportion of the acreage of the land or
this state ut that time. These grants are
for 1000 acres each and cover from 5000 to
over one million acres to person.
l ind among the old records Of this Office a
letter from Thomas Mccall, surveyor general
dated May, IT'S, calling the attention of the
governor ana executive council to the viola
ton Of the law by the land court. which
consisted OF three magistrates, in issuing war
rants for survey III excess OF the 1000 acres
find on the 18th OF June, 17SS when the
letter of McCa!ls was referred to the exec
utivc council, the following action taken:
ordered, that the surveyor general do not
pass through his Office any warrant or war
rants for land exceeding 1000 acres to any
one person, and to stop all abuses against
the law that may come to his knowledge"
| lind also many protests from the citizens
OF several counties to the governor against
the action OF the land court i'll violation or
the law. These protests were all endorsed
by the governor to the surveyor general with
orders To issue no grants In excess of the
law.
Montgomery county was created ty an act
~ hu ynI NV No
" officers Oh the third MONDAY III January
following. Inc RECORDS IN IhIS "llce con-
tanning these pretended and fraudulent grants
show that the land court on the 4th day OF
August 1924, issued warrants 70 about friy
persons for 100000 acres, when the entire
100000 acres. So great and gross was TINS
violation of the law that the legislature on
the 2sth of December, 1874, passed the iii
lowing act:
Whereas, many persons have surveyed
land contrary to the laws and welfare or
this state, be il enacted that Ill Sich sur
Tey or surveys, and all grants founded there
on, be, and the same and each and every or
In addition TO this legislation, these lands
have been granted subsequently to actual
bona tide citizens. who have lived upon thcm
for the past forty and fifty years, nd in
mfny instances much longer, and have ral1
the tax due the county and state. A few of
these grants bear date in 1875, but they are
all founded on warrants and pretended sur
veys made in 1874. Most Of these grants pur
port to have been signed by Governor
as well us the several orders to the surveyor
general to pass no grant 10 any one person
for more than 1000 acres, as well as his APP
prevail Of the act of 1894, all show his action
to be honest and his purpose to obey the
law.
My attention has been ca lei t. TN article
which appeared some while back i'll one of the
Savannah papers stating that the supreme
court OF the United States III the famous
Dodge land had decided these grants
good No such decision WAS ever made The
Dodge lands involved in the litigation were
lottery lands, cOntradistinguiShed from head
right lands
[ regret to learn that there are A few per
SOUS in this state who either lyuorantly or
otherwise advise some Of the hoders OF these
old grants that they are good and valid.
These Old grants the market in
almost soyery city, certainly IN every northern
and western STATE. have icceiyGd more
than one hundred letters in regard TO them
and have been visited by Il number OF gentle
men from different states. some II whom have
invested in them. and others who desired to
investigate the titles.
The law required that actual survey
should be made OF all the lands granted in
mis- state. Such surveys were never made
OF any of the lands referred 10 IN this letter
Thousands and hundreds of Thousands or
acres are purported TO have deem surveyed
in single day. This was simply Impossible
ms the distance around each oue-f1o,ls al nd
acre track is about Ave miles. Several hum
dred thousand acres are reported to nave
been surveyed dates that fell on Snrdsr
Very respectfully, PHILIP CUUk,
Secretary of State