Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1906-09-23

sy j. NJ. Terrell, Governor of Said
State,
EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENT
STATE OF GEORGIA.


WHEREAS, The General Assembly,
amendment to the Constitution of this
State; as set forth in an Act approved
July 81, 1906, to-wit:
A bill to be entitled an Act to propose
to the qualified electors of this State,
an amendment to paragraph of sec
ton of article II of the Constitution
of this State as amended by the rati-
fication by the qualified voters of this
State of the Act approved July 10,
1904, and for other purposes.
SECTION 1. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of Georgia, That the
following amendment is hereby pro.
posed to paragraph 2, section I, article
II of the Constitution of this State, as
amended by the ratification by the
qualified voters of this State of the Act
of July 10, 1904, to-wit, by adding to
said paragraph the following language:
provided, however, that in addition
to the counties now proposed for by
this Constitution, there shall be new
county laid out from the counties of
Irwin and Wilcox. bounded as follows:
Beginning at the point where the
south line of land lot No. 167 in the
third district of Wilcox county crosses
the Alapaha river, and running due
east along the said south line to the
northeast corner of land lot 159 in the
third district of Irwin county; thence
north to the northeast corner Of land
lot No. 172 in the third district of Will
cox county; thence east to the north
east corner of land lot No. TIA in the
third district of Irwin county; thence
south to the northeast corner of land
lot No. 157 in the third district of lr-
win county, and thence east to the
northeast corner of land lot 1856 in the
third district of Irwin county, and
| thence south to the northeast corner of
| land lot No. 66 in the third district of
Irwin county, thence east to the north
east corner of land lot 62 in the third
district of Irwin county, and thence
south to the northeast corner of land
lot No. 80 in the third district of Irwin
county; thence east to the southeast
corner of land lot No. 233 in the fourth
| district of Irwin county, and thence
north to the southwest corner of land
| lot No. 206 in the fourth district of Ir
win county, and thence east to the
| southeast cerner of land lot No. 80 in
| the fourth district of Irwin county, and
thence north along the east line of land
| lot No. 80 to the Ocmulgee river, and
thence in a westerly direction along the
| Ocmulgee river to the point where
House creek in Wilcox county empties
into the Ocmulgee river, and thence in
westerly direction along the said
| House creek to the point where the
said House creek crosses the north line
of land lot No. 255 in the third district
of Wilcox county, and thence west
along the north line of said land lot 255
and the district lines between the first
and third districts in the said county of
| Wilcox to the Alapaha river, and thence
in southerly direction along the said
Alapaha river to the starting point.
''That Fitzgerald shall be the county
site of said county.
'Said county shall be attached to the
Third Congressional District, and to the
Oconee judicial circuit until another
circuit shall be established embracing
the present county Of Irwin, in which
case it shall belong to the said new
circuit, and shall be- attached to the
Fifteenth State Senatorial district.
"That all legal voters residing in the
limits of said county of Ben Hill emit
tied to vote for members of the Gen
eral Assembly under the laws of Geor-
gia shall on the first Tuesday in Jan
uary, 1907, elect an ordinary, a clerk OF
the supuriOr court, a sheriff, coroner
tax collector, tax receiver, a cOun-
ty surveyor, a county treasurer, and
three commissioners of roads and reve-
nues for said county, said election to be
held at Fitzgerald, the county site of
said county.
''That the superior courts of said
county shall be held on the first Mon
days in April and October of each year.
''The limits of the said county, the
congressional and senatorial districts
and the judicial circuit to which it is
attached, the time of holding the terms
| of the superior courts shall be as desig-
mated above until changed by law.
'SEC. 2. Be it further enacted, That
when this proposal amendment shall be
agreed to by two-thirds 60 of the mem
bers elected to the two Houses and
shall have been entered on the Journal
of each House with the ayes and nays
| taken thereon, the Governor is hereby
directed to cause the said proposed
amendment to be advertised in at least
two papers in each congressional dis
trict at least two months before the
next general election, to be held on the
| first Wednesday in October, 1906, and
he shall also provide for submission
of the proposed amendment at said gen
eral election. And if majority of the
electors shall ratify such proposed
amendment by a majority of the cleo
tors qualified to vote for members of
the General Assembly, such amend
ment shall become part of the Con-
stitution of Georgia.
'SEC. 3. Be it further enacted,
That it shall be the duty of the Gov
ernor to submit said amendment to the
people at said election in the following
form: That those voting in favor of
said proposed amendment shall have
written or printed on their tickets, In
favor of the Ratification of the Amend
ment to the Constitution Creating the
County of Ben Hill, with Fitzgerald as
the County Site, and those opposed to
the ratification of said amendment
| shall have written or printed on their
tickets, Opposed to the Ratification of
Amendment to the Constitution Great
ing the County of Ben Hill with Fitz-
gerald as the County Site.
Now, therefore, |, Joseph M. Terrell,
Governor of said State, do issue this
nv proclamation hereby declaring that
the foregoing proposed amendment to
the Constitution is submitted for ratifi-
cation or rejection to the voters of the
State, qualified to vote for members of
| the General Assembly, at the general
election to be held on Wednesday, Oc-
tober 3, 1906.
JOSEPH M. TERRELL,
Governor.