This volume indexes the pre-1851 material contained in a group of poor (public) school and academy records which were submitted to the state of Georgia by local officials as a basis for allocating school funds. The records, after passing through various hands, were ultimately sent to the Governor. The records indexed here include only those which appear on two reels of microfilm (#9-518-519, Georgia Dept. of Archives and History).--Introduction, p. 1.