[Congressional Bills 109th Congress]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office]
[H.R. 4115 Introduced in House (IH)]







109th CONGRESS
  1st Session
                                H. R. 4115

 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
 at 118 East Hancock Street in Milledgeville, Georgia, as the ``Boddie 
                 Davis Simmons Post Office Building''.


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                    IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES

                            October 20, 2005

 Mr. Marshall introduced the following bill; which was referred to the 
                     Committee on Government Reform

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                                 A BILL


 
 To designate the facility of the United States Postal Service located 
 at 118 East Hancock Street in Milledgeville, Georgia, as the ``Boddie 
                 Davis Simmons Post Office Building''.

    Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the 
United States of America in Congress assembled,

SECTION 1. CONGRESSIONAL FINDINGS.

    Congress finds that--
            (1) Dr. J.F. Boddie, the first and, for many years, only 
        African American physician in Baldwin County, Georgia, was 
        revered for the medical care he provided even the neediest 
        African American families;
            (2) Sallie Ellis Davis, a Georgia Woman of Achievement, 
        taught and inspired African American children in Baldwin County 
        during a celebrated career as an educator lasting more than 50 
        years; and
            (3) Oscar Davis, Sr. and Clarence ``Smokey'' Simmons made 
        history in Baldwin County as the first African Americans 
        elected to the Board of County Commissioners.

SEC. 2. BODDIE DAVIS SIMMONS POST OFFICE BUILDING.

    (a) Designation.--The facility of the United States Postal Service 
located at 118 East Hancock Street in Milledgeville, Georgia, shall be 
known and designated as the ``Boddie Davis Simmons Post Office 
Building''.
    (b) References.--Any reference in a law, map, regulation, document, 
paper, or other record of the United States to the facility referred to 
in subsection (a) shall be deemed to be a reference to the ``Boddie 
Davis Simmons Post Office Building''.
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