^
Update this timeline entry
Trustees rebuke Savannah magistrates for assuming self-appointed powers
Source: An Account shewing the Progress of the Colony of Georgia #176
Project ID
Chapter
No chapter
Timeline title
Start date
End date
Filename received
Filename assigned
Content
Enable editor
Use plain text
Code entry
From 1741 AN ACCOUNT, SHEWING THE PROGRESS OF THE COLONY OF GEORGIA IN AMERICA, FROM IT'S FIRST ESTABLISHMENT. [Edited for readability by Amy] From the 9th June 1738, to the 9th June 1739. Trustees rebuke Savannah magistrates for assuming self-appointed powers Mr. Stephens, Secretary in Georgia, having informed the Trustees, that the Grand-Jury at Savannah claimed a Right of Administring Oaths, and making Enquiry thereon into all such Matters as they should think fit, and the Trustees having perceived that in a Representation of the said Grand-Jury they had pretended to such Right, sent a Letter to Mr. Stephens to acquaint him, That the Trustees were sensible great Mischiefs might be done by ill-designing Men who might procure themselves to be put upon the Panel, if this Claim of the Grand-Jury was allowed of, and therefore the Trustees ordered him to acquaint the People that the Grand-Jury had no such Right, and that their Claim was entirely illegal.
Replace existing data with this data
