The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-09-06
A PROCLAMATION.


/ Department, Atlanta, July 80, 1912
Whereas, the General Assem- bly, a
its session in 1912 proposed al
amendment to the Constitution 0
this State as set forth in an Act ap
proved July 80, 1912, tO-wit: Al
Act to propose to the qualified elect
ors of this State an amendment tx
Paragraph 2, Section |, Article IL
of the Constitution of the State 0.
Georgia, as amended by the ratitica
ton by the qualified voters of thi.
State of the Act approved July 10
1904, and by the Act approved July
81. 1906, and for other purposes:
Son /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State OF
Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by
the authority of the same, that the
following amendment is hereby pro-
posed to Paragraph 2, Section l, Ar
ticle II of the Constitution OF the
State of Georgia, as amended by the
ratification by the qualified voters OF
said State of the Act approved July
10, 1904, and of the Act approved
July 81, 1906, to-wit:
By adding to said paragraph the
following language: Provided,
however, that in addition to the
counties now provided for by this
Constitution there shall be new
county laid out and created from the
territory now composing Pulaski
county, to be made up and composed
of all that part of the territory of
Pulaski county lying north and east
of a line extending northwest and
southeast across said county, said
line beginning at the point on the
boundary line of Pulaski and Dodge
counties where land lots Nos. 1913
and 148 in the Twentieth land dis
trict OF Pulaski county meet, and
thence extending from said point in
northwesterly direction along the
line dividing said lots 1913 and 148;
thence continuing in nOrthwesterly
direction along the dividing lines Of
the following land lots: Nos. 122
and 149, 121 and $50, in the goth
land district; and Nos. 800 and 3O1,
299 and 3O2, 29S and 303, 297 and
3O4, 296 and sos, PCS and 300, 294
and 307, 293 and 308, 292 and 800,
POI and 80, 290 and 311, 289 and
312, 2S8 and 313, 287 and 314, 286
and 315, in the 21st land district,
and Nos. 354 and 361, and between
lots $50 and 355, and between 359
and 356, between 35S and 357 in the
oath land district, to the Ocmulgee
river and to the line of Houston
county.
That the said new county snail De
known as the County of Bleckley,
and the City of Cochran shall be the
countryside of the same
That the said County of Bleckley
shall be attached to the same Con-
gressional district and to the same
judicial circuit and to the same State
Senatorial district as those to which
the County of Pulaski is attached at
the date of the ratification of this
amendment.
That all legal voters residing in
the limits of the County Of Bleckley
entitled to vote for members of the
General Assembly under the laws of
Georgia shall on the first Wednesday
in January following the ratification
of Chis proposed amendment elect an
Ordinary, a Clerk of the Superior
Court a Sheriff, a Coroner, Tax
Collector, a Tax Receiver, a County
Surveyor, and a County Treasurer,
and one Commissioner of Roads and
Revenues for said new county and
said election shall be held at Coch-
ran.
That the Superior Court of said
Bleckley county shall be held on the
second Monday in January and the
first Monday in July of each year.
That the Congressional and Sena-
torial Districts, the Judicial Circuit
to which said county is attached and
the time of holding the terms of the
Superior Court, and the limits of the
county, shall be as designated above
until changed by law.
Provided, That the laws applicab
to the organization of new counties
as found in Section 829 to 848 in
elusive of the Code of 1911 are here
by made applicable to said County
of Bleckley, whenever the same may
be created by the proposed amend
ment to the Constitution and that
said county, when created, shall be-
come a statutory county and shall be
at all times subject to all laws appli-
cable to all ether counties in this
stats.
Section .. Be it Turner enacted,
That whenever the above proposed
amendment to the Constitution shall
be agreed by two-thtrds of the
members elected to each of the two
houses of the General Assembly and
the same has been entered on their
journals, with the yeas and nays
taken thereon, the Governor shall,
and he is hereby authorized and in
structad to, cause the above proposed
amendment to be published in at
least two newspapers in each Con-
gressiGnal District in this State for
the period of two months next pre-
ceding the time of holding the next
general election, and the Governor is
further authorized and directed to
provide for the submission of the
amendment proposed for ratification
or rejection tq the electors of this
State at the nsxt general election to
be held afte1 said publication, at
which election every person shall be
qualified to vote who is entitled to
vote for members of the General AS
sembly. All persons voting at said
election in favor of adopting the said
proposed amendment shall have writ
ten or printed on their ballots the
words: For Amendment to the
Constitution creating the County OF
/ Bleckley," and all persons opposed
10 the adoption Of said proposed
amendment shall have written or
printed on their ballots the words:
Against the amendment of the Con
stitution creating the County Of
! Bleckley."