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Oglethorpe's dream: A Colony of Georgia quest

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May to November, 1781 results
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    • Elections go off without a hitch:
    Elections for the Advisory Committee go ahead with no problems but this election has also brought political parties into the General Assembly as many people running under the label of Tory or Whig. Of course the two grouping were not the same as in the Britain as due to Georgia's liberal leaning political sphere. The Tories are more like the Whigs back in Britain and the Whigs would get banned for subversive activity back in Britain.

    Public Sanitation:
    The workers at the D.P.H get black out drunk and burn the sanitation papers in a big bonfire they had at Government Avenue in Maryburg.

    Clinic System Reformed:
    Medicine is now imported from experts in London and you have to be medically certified to write a prescription.

    New Venice open for business:
    The ships ordered by the Naval Ministry have started construction. We have also received our next request. The Province of Virginia has a smuggling problem and is wondering if we could build them a Green Water navy capable of operating in rivers and littoral zones but also being capable of operating in the Chesapeake bay. They would of course pay us for our trouble.

    Bonfire Trouble at D.P.H:
    The firefighters roaring drunk join in on the D.P.H's bonfire party and eventually everyone is arrested due to creating a fire hazard and being intoxicated in public. Obviously after almost starting a fire these men cant be trusted to put one out or so is the thinking of the City of New Inverness who puts the organization out of it's misery by practically abolishing their section department by refusing to give it any more money making them rely on the shoestring budget assigned by the Provincial government.

     
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    • November, 1781 to May, 1782 Results
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    • Virginia gets their ships:
    The Province of Virginia has been provided with ten river boats that are sturdy enough to patrol the Virginia coast and the Chesapeake Bay.

    Nothing survived the fire:
    Nothing survived the fire. All of Georgia's treasures are destroyed including a one of a kind painting of King George iii and James Oglethorpe.

    Red Light district continues on as usual:
    The status of the Red Light districts are the same as the last time we collected data on them.

    Florida update:
    Florida continues to be a backwater swamp that no one cares about.

    Local Laws codified:
    After a long discussion that happened due to their being nothing to do the General Assembly has codified the powers of Local Government.

    1: Police Forces: The Local Governments of Georgia are allowed to have their own police force that is solely under the command of the Local Government. Local Governments are also allowed to have an armed Gendarmerie to keep order in their county and to persecute dangerous individuals outside the law. Though if a state of emergency is declared or a county is declared to be in rebellion against the Province of Georgia then the Gendarmerie is placed under Provincial command.
    The Province of Georgia also has a Provincial wide police force with jurisdiction throughout Georgia.

    2: Fire Department: The Fire Department has been removed from the Ministry of Internal Affairs and placed under the purview Local Governments considering they provide most of the funding for the firefighters.

    3: Healthcare: Healthcare shall remain a Provincial responsibility under the Department of Public Health.

    4:Essential Services: All essential services needed to provide a county's population with a basic living standard such as housing and water access will be the responsibility of Local Government to provide.

    5: All other powers: All other powers will rest with the Provincial Government.
     
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    • June to November, 1782 planning
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    • The spell of calm that encompasses Georgia has finally broken due to the Advisory Committee. Now as the Colonial Congress assembles they wonder why they ever agreed to create a lower house. Their is one mandatory issue to deal with.

    Advisory Committee wants equality:
    The sleepy pace of politics in the Province of Georgia has been broken due to a resolution passed by the Advisory Committee that asks for the restrictions on their part of the General Assembly to be removed. If any newcomers to the General Assembly are unaware, when the Advisory Committee was founded in 1753 they were meant to be just what there name implies an advisory body. But the Colonial Congress gave them the power to introduce bills to the Congress and veto bills if 60 percent of the Committee voted to veto a bill.

    The Advisory Committee quickly found itself acting as the General Assembly's lower house. (Also making Georgia one of the few places in the world to have an upper house larger than their lower house.) This was all fine and good when the Advisory Committee was a small fifteen man affair.

    But now the Advisory Committee has fifty-six members and is divided between political parties. The Tories currently hold the majority in the Committee with thirty-five seats with the Whigs holding the remaining twenty-one seats.

    While this would ensure the complete dominance of any political party in a normal legislature due to the sixty percent rule this mean that in actuality the Tories only have a razor thin majority of two seats.

    So the Tories and the Whigs have gotten together (the Whigs don't want to be burdened with this same rule when they get into power) and unanimously passed a bill removing the sixty percent rule. It now falls on the Colonial Congress to decide whether to pass the bill.

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    • June to November, 1782 results
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    • New General Assembly worked out:
    The new General Assembly has officially come into existence but modified from the original plan. The threshold to pass, repeal or amend laws is set at fifty percent. Their are no term limits imposed on Assemblymen and political parties are allowed. These amendments were added by the ex-Committeemen after weeks of haggling. Additionally in the tradition of British Parliamentary democracy Governor Wright King George the third's representative in Georgia delivers a speech from the throne every six months outlining the governments policy. The previous committee speaker Michael Williams a Tory has been elected Prime Minister by the General Assembly and has been summoned to the Governor's mansion (called Forks Palace) and asked to form a government by Governor Wright.


    Prostitutes Unionize:
    The first bill introduced by the Williams government, The Act to Legalize Prostitution and Other Sexual Careers passes the General Assembly by a large margin. And subsequently the Union of Georgia Sex Workers is formed and quickly becomes the largest sex provider in the Province with the union cracking down on the abusive pimp system.

    No Postal Work done:
    Blame the D.P.H

    Department of Public Health has an Alcohol addiction:
    The D.P.H workers get blackout drunk again and throw a giant party and burn the sanitation plans in a bonfire. All the plans for the Postal System and Racism plans go up in flames when the Internal Ministry joins the party.

    No Racism Plans:
    Blame the D.P.H
     
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    • December, 1782 to May, 1783 results
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    • D.P.H burns down pubs:
    The D.P.H ignore the government pubs and get drunk in their offices as usual. When it comes time to light the nightly bonfire they assume the pubs are their for the bonfire and set them on fire. It was at this point that the other departments and ministries join the Department of Health in getting blackout drunk and dancing around the burning pub.
    (The traumatized pub employees were huddled in a corner)

    People's pub fire burns down Prime Minister's house:
    The fire started by the D.P.H at the public pubs spreads to the Prime Minister's house. Prime Minister Williams and his family just barely escaped the house before the residence collapsed under the weight of the fire.

    People ignore public drinking campaign:
    The people of Georgia ignores the government's public relations campaign.

    Davenport libraries opened up:
    The libraries built to look like the Davenport House have been built across Georgia. This has led to an interesting situation with the original Davenport House though.

    Jobs:
    The paperwork needed to implement the jobs program was lost to the pub fire.



     
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    • Elections of 1783
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    • Georgia heads to the polls three years after the Advisory Committee's special election.

    1-50 Tories
    51-100 Whigs

    The Tories increase their majority to seventy percent of the General Assembly and Mr. Williams is returned as the Prime Minister.


    Second Williams Government:
    Prime Minister: Michael Williams (Rep. for Chatham County)
    Secretary of Health: Patrick Collins (Rep. for Toombs County)
    Minister of the Interior: George Turner (Rep. for Camden County)
    Bureau of Land Affairs: Harry Day (Rep. for Long County)
    Minister of Imperial Relations: Hamish Stewart (Rep. for McIntosh County)
    Speaker of the General Assembly: Elis Evans (Rep. for Richmond County)
    Attorney-General of Georgia: Luke Jones (Rep. for Laurens County)




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    • June to November, 1783 planing
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    • The second Williams government convenes to plan the next six months and are presented with an intriguing opportunity in Savannah.

    Davenport Museum:
    In Savannah the burnt out ruin of the Davenport house has been sitting there for years. But recently a group of citizens purchased the property with one goal in mind, turn the house into a historical museum. The group of citizens want to recreate the Davenport House as it was before it burned down and open it as a museum. To open this historical museum the citizens have asked the General Assembly's help. It would not be to hard to help the people out as most of the Representatives served in the Davenport House and remember what it looks like. But does the General Assembly even want this project to succeed?

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    • Drunk witchcraft and the D.P.H
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    • DPH headquarters, 1783

    The fire casts flickering shadows that dance on the walls. Around the flames, robed figures cavort and cackle. They wear the faces of devils, grinning and horned. In the cauldron, hot and bitter smoke rises from the bubbles of their wyrd brew. The leader, a gaunt man in robes wearing a shining silver ankh around his neck and sporting a headdress of raven feathers, raises his arms:
    "Hail, brothers of the Dionysian Pantheists of Hecate! We gather today under the light of the full moon of Wisdom, to drink of the font of power, and transpose our minds into the heavenly realm. Tho the fool Williams names us deviants and outlaws, he cannot bar the gates of the Supernal! As Lord High Magus, I bid thee, drink! Sup on the ambrosia of Thoth, and -
    "Oy! What are you lot doing here? We told you to clear out last week!"
    "We are discovered! Hurry my brothers, we must alight! And someone grab the booze!"

    The warlocks scatter in all directions. One, a short, fat man with an owls beak strapped over his nose reaches for the cauldron, but jumps as he burns his hand and sends the iron pot tumbling. The steaming dark liquid, black as sin, spills over the fire. Steam billows out from the drowned pyre, like the last puff of brimstone as the door to hell closes. The militia officer stoops down to the fallen vessel, and tastes the witches brew.
    "Oooh, blueberry wine. Nice."
    "Shouldn't we chase them, captain?"
    "No need, private. These reprobates will give up soon now that the governor has banned them from buying liquor. Besides, I think that satyr is my dentist. I'll have a word with him; the man just needs an outlet, I think."

    And so, Maryburg can sleep easy tonight. But what what other horrors lurk in the dark Georgian night?
     
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