Pelham pointed out that Georgia voters last November rejected a constitutional amendment to allow legislators to vote on pay raises for future Legislature sessions.

The Georgia Constitution gives the Legislature the power to exempt colleges from property taxation if, among other criteria, `` all endowments to institutions established for white people shall be limited to white people, and all endowments to institutions established for colored people shall be limited to colored people ''.

Captain William Butler, native of Virginia, previous member of Georgia Legislature and captain of Georgia militia, came to Butler County in search of adventure, but was soon killed by native Americans near Butler Springs on the morning of 20 March 1818.

In 2001 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution, to designate the Earl T. Shinhoster Interchange at the junction with Martin Luther King, Jr. Boulevard in Savannah in honor of Earl Shinhoster, who was a Black civil rights activist.

In 2003 the Georgia Legislature passed a resolution to designate Interstate 16 in honor of James L. Gillis, Sr., a Democrat who served as a State Representative, State Senator and Director of the Georgia Department of Transportation, as the Jim Gillis Historic Savannah Parkway.

Taliaferro County was formed by an act of the Georgia Legislature meeting in Milledgeville on December 24, 1825.

Henry County, Georgia was created by the Georgia State Legislature in 1821 from land acquired from the Creek Indian Nation by the First Treaty of Indian Springs.

A historic marker in front of the Harris County Courthouse erected in 1954 by the Georgia Historical Commission reads as follows: " This county, created by Acts of the Legislature December 14, 1827, is named for Charles Harris, eminent Savannah jurist.

Columbia County, the 12th county formed in Georgia, was created by an act of the Legislature of Georgia on December 10, 1790 from Richmond County.

In February 1776, the Georgia Legislature created a county from St. Phillip's parish.

Bibb County was created by act of the Georgia Legislature on December 9, 1822, with Macon to be incorporated in December 1823 ; designated the county seat.

Colquitt County became the 115th county in Georgia by an act of the Legislature on February 25, 1856.

The City of Grovetown was chartered by the Georgia Legislature and officially incorporated in 1881.

The town was rebuilt after the war and in 1881 the city of Millen was incorporated by an act of the Georgia State Legislature, becoming the county seat of the newly-created Jenkins County in 1905.

Colquitt is the county seat of Miller County, a role it has held since just after Miller County was created by the Georgia Legislature in 1856.

Founded in 1828 by an act of the Georgia Legislature, Columbus was situated at the beginning of the navigable portion of the Chattahoochee River and on the last stretch of the Federal Road before entering Alabama.

SNCC, under the local leadership of Bill Ware, engaged in a voter drive to promote the candidacy of Julian Bond for the Georgia State Legislature in an Atlanta district.

On March 16, 1864, Stephens delivered a speech to the Georgia Legislature that was widely reported in both the North and the South.

Douglas and Black also disagreed in Fortson v. Morris, the 1967 decision which cleared the path for the Georgia State Legislature to choose the governor in the deadlocked 1966 race between Democrat Lester Maddox and Republican Howard Callaway.

The Legislature designated Louisville the " permanent seat " of Georgia government.

Then a full-time planning office will be established in Rome to work with a five-member Georgia Tech research staff for development of an area planning and industrial development program.

It is good to know that Georgia will continue to have sufficient electrical power not only to meet the demands of normal growth but to encourage a more rapid rate of industrialization.

Even with the increase in funds for the next fiscal year, Georgia will be spending only around $3.15 per day per patient.

A veteran Jackson County legislator will ask the Georgia House Monday to back federal aid to education, something it has consistently opposed in the past.

Their entry will crack the total segregation of all public education, from kindergarten through graduate school, in Georgia -- and in Alabama, Mississippi and South Carolina as well.

In December 2009 the company announced that it will close its three Columbus, Georgia manufacturing facilities between June 2010 and December 2011.

These closures will result in total job losses of 600 in Georgia.

The town has more than twelve murals completed, and will host the Conference along with Dothan, Alabama, and Blakely, Georgia.

Mount Katahdin is both the northern terminus of the Appalachian Trail, which extends southerly to Springer Mountain, Georgia, and the southern terminus of the new International Appalachian Trail which, when complete, will run to Belle Isle, Newfoundland and Labrador.

* May 22 – The SS Savannah leaves port at Savannah, Georgia on a voyage to become the first steamship to cross the Atlantic Ocean, although only a fraction of the trip will be made under steam.

* A large and highly efficient Mongol army, dispatched under Subutai by Genghis Khan to Georgia, defeats two Georgian armies around Tbilisi, but lacks the will or equipment to besiege the city.

Finally, Brodess and " the Georgia man " came toward the slave quarters to seize the child, where Rit told them, " You are after my son ; but the first man that comes into my house, I will split his head open.

The new claim will add to the existing of commercial shelf already managed by Argentina and includes the disputed British overseas territories of the Falklands, South Georgia and the South Sandwich Islands and parts of Antarctica disputed with Chile and the United Kingdom.

The national tour kicked off June 27, 2008 at the Georgia Theatre in Athens, Georgia and will benefit Gulf Coast musicians, dancers, and singers affected by Hurricane Katrina.

Milledgeville is along the route of the under-construction Fall Line Freeway, which will link Milledgeville with Augusta, Macon, Columbus, and other Fall Line cities with long histories from Colonial Georgia.

Though the University's traditional students are transitioning to West Point, Georgia in Fall 2012, the East Point location will remain active for the school's adult studies program.

Boys will typically continue to learn their fathers ' trade and girls will begin learning to sew and cook and are generally married by 18 to 20 years of age with parental consent per Georgia law.

Preaching to Native Americans and establishing missions, Ettwein will travel as far south as Georgia.

* Georgia Gibbs leaves Coral to sign with Mercury, where she will experience all of her biggest hits.

Robert Toombs was quoted as saying, " I hope to God he will never get back to Georgia.

In October 2005, Baltimore resigned the office of the president, saying, " This is not a decision that I have made easily, but I am convinced that the interests of the Institute will be best served by a presidential transition at this particular time in its history ..." Former Georgia Tech Provost Jean-Lou Chameau succeeded Baltimore as president of Caltech.