Act of the Georgia General Assembly

August 13, 1909

"GEORGIA DAY," FEBRUARY 12, OBSERVANCE BY PUBLIC SCHOOLS.

NO. 113.

An Act to provide that the twelfth day of February in each year shall be observed in the public schools of this State, under the name "Georgia Day," by appropriate exercises; and for other purposes.

SECTION 1. Be in enacted by the General Assembly of the State of Georgia, That the twelfth day of February in each year shall be observed in the public schools of this State, under the name of "Georgia Day," as the anniversary of the landing of the first colonists in Georgia under Oglethorpe; and it shall be the duty of the State School Commissioner through the County School Commissioners, annually to cause the teachers of the schools under their supervision to conduct on that day exercises in which the pupils shall take part, consisting of written compositions, readings, recitations, addresses, or other exercises, relating to this State and its history and to the lives of distinguished Georgians. When said day falls on Sunday, it shall be observed on the following Monday.

SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That all laws and parts of laws in conflict with this Act be, and the same are, hereby repealed.

Approved August 13, 1909.

Source: Ga. Laws 1909, p. 190.

(c) Carl Vinson Institute of Government, The University of Georgia

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