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HR 33 - Coweta Co Day; designate 1/28/99; invite certain persons to House

Smith, Lynn R (103rd)	Brown, Jeff (130th)	Westmoreland, Lynn A (104th)
Yates, John Phillip (106th)

Status Summary	HC:	Rules	SC:		FR:	01/14/99	LA:	01/26/99	H - Passed/Adopted

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A RESOLUTION inviting certain citizens and public officials from Coweta County and the City of Newnan, Georgia, to the state capitol and designating January 28, 1999, as Coweta County Day at the Capitol; and for other purposes.

HR 33                                               LC 8 3582 
 
 
 
 
 
 
                             A RESOLUTION 
 
  1- 1  Inviting certain citizens and public officials from Coweta 
  1- 2  County and the City of Newnan, Georgia, to the state capitol 
  1- 3  and designating January 28, 1999, as Coweta County Day at 
  1- 4  the Capitol; and for other purposes. 
 
  1- 5  WHEREAS, Coweta County is situated on land that once was the 
  1- 6  home of the Coweta Indians and was ceded by Chief William 
  1- 7  McIntosh in the Treaty of Indian Springs, signed by 
  1- 8  President James Monroe on March 5, 1825; and 
 
  1- 9  WHEREAS, Coweta County was created by the Georgia General 
  1-10  Assembly by an Act adopted on December 11, 1826, and in 
  1-11  March, 1828, land for a courthouse was purchased and a new 
  1-12  town was named in honor of General Daniel Newnan, a noted 
  1-13  Indian fighter, State Adjutant General, Secretary of State, 
  1-14  and U.S. Congressman; and 
 
  1-15  WHEREAS, Newnan produced two distinguished Georgia 
  1-16  Governors, William Yates Atkinson (1894-1896), who founded 
  1-17  Georgia State College for Women, and Ellis Gibbs Arnall 
  1-18  (1943-1947), who fathered Georgia's Constitution of 1945 and 
  1-19  numerous progressive public administration practices; and 
 
  1-20  WHEREAS, the concerns and views of elected officials from 
  1-21  the counties and cities of the state are always of interest 
  1-22  to members of the General Assembly; and 
 
  1-23  WHEREAS, it is an honor to welcome to the state capitol the 
  1-24  members of the Board of Commissioners of Coweta County, the 
  1-25  mayor and city council of the City of Newnan, and citizens 
  1-26  representing the local Chamber of Commerce and 21st Century 
  1-27  Coweta. 
 
  1-28  NOW, THEREFORE, BE IT RESOLVED BY THE HOUSE OF 
  1-29  REPRESENTATIVES that the members of this body recognize and 
  1-30  welcome citizens and public officials from Coweta County and 
  1-31  the City of Newnan, Georgia, and designate January 28, 1999, 
  1-32  as Coweta County Day at the Capitol. 
 
  1-33  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the citizens and public 
  1-34  officials representing Coweta County and the City of Newnan 
  1-35  on Coweta County Day at the Capitol are invited to appear 
 
 
 
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  2- 1  before the House of Representatives at a date and time to be 
  2- 2  determined by the Speaker of the House of Representatives. 
 
  2- 3  BE IT FURTHER RESOLVED that the Clerk of the House of 
  2- 4  Representatives is authorized and directed to transmit an 
  2- 5  appropriate copy of this resolution to each of the citizens 
  2- 6  and public officials representing Coweta County and the City 
  2- 7  of Newnan on Coweta County Day at the Capitol. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
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