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Acts of Alabama, 1847–48: the Fredonia Male and Female Academies, Chambers County, with Eli McKinney a trustee

3 March 1848 · Acts Passed at the Annual Session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, December 1847 through March 1848 (Montgomery, 1848; the title page is missing from the copy used)

Named here: Eli McKinney, Jesse Gunn (president), A. F. Zachary, James M. Gunn, G. F. Hill, James McLendon, G. W. Smart, A. H. Findley and Asa Cox (trustees)

The book at the Internet Archive

Transcription

Read from the page image of p. 160 (scan n159) and the text layer of p. 159 (scan n158); marginal notes ("Name and style," "Trustees") left out.

[No. 104.] AN ACT

To incorporate the Fredonia Male and Female Academies in the County of Chambers.

Section 1. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the State of Alabama, in General Assembly convened, That all the provisions of the act or acts, incorporating the Male Academy of Fredonia, in the county of Chambers, be, and the same are hereby extended to the Male and Female Academies of said town; and that the said Male and Female Academies are hereby incorporated into one, to be known as the "Fredonia Male and Female Academies;" and by that name said corporation is hereby invested with all the rights, powers, liabilities and obligations granted, confirmed or imposed, by any said act or acts, heretofore passed in relation to the Fredonia Male Academy.

Sec. 2. And be it further enacted, That Jesse Gunn is hereby appointed President of said corporation; and A. F. Zachary, James M. Gunn, G. F. Hill, Eli McKinney, James McLendon, G. W. Smart, A. H. Findley and Asa Cox, and their successors, are hereby constituted and appointed trustees of said corporation, with all the rights, powers and duties, heretofore granted and imposed by the above mentioned act or acts.

Approved, March 3, 1848.

Citation: "An Act to incorporate the Fredonia Male and Female Academies in the County of Chambers," No. 104, approved 3 March 1848, in Acts Passed at the Annual Session of the General Assembly of the State of Alabama, December 1847 through March 1848, pp. 159–160; Internet Archive item alabama-acts-1847-1848 (the title page is missing from this copy), scans n158–n159, https://archive.org/details/alabama-acts-1847-1848/page/n159/mode/1up.

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Eli McKinney Office Appointed one of eight trustees of the Fredonia Male and Female Academies, Chambers County, by act of 3 March 1848 — new
Eli McKinney Residence Fredonia, Chambers County (Inference trustees of a town academy are by implication residents of the town) Chambers County 1840, 1850; died there 1857; buried Howell Family Cemetery, Fredonia agrees