The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-10-01
A PROCLAMATION.


Submitting a proposed amendment
to the Constitution of the State OF
Georgia, to be voted on at the gen.
eral election to be held Cd Tuesday,
November 5th, 1912, said amend
ment providing for the creation of
the county of Joe Wheeler. BY His
Excellency, Joseph NJ. Brown, Gov
ernor.
State or Georgia, Executive De"
partment, August "a, 1912.-Where-
as, the General Assembly at its ses-
sion in 1912 proposed an amendment
to the Constitution of this State as
set forth in an Act approved August
14th, 1912, towit:
An Act to propose to the qualified
electors of this State an amendment
to Paragraph of Section l of Ar
ticle II of the Constitution of this
State as amended by the ratification
by the qualified voters of this State
of the Act approved July 10Th, 1912,
and as further amended by the rati-
fication of the qualified voters of this
State of the Act approved July 31st,
1905, and for other purposes.
Section / Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by
authority of the same, that the fol-
lowing amendment is hereby propos-
ed to Paragraph 2, Section l, Ar
ticle IL, of the Constitution of this
State as amended by the ratification
by the qualified voters of this State
of the Act approved July S1st, 1905,
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 cut from the county OF
Montgomery and bounded as follows:
Commencing at a point on the west
ern bank of the Oconee river where
the Laurens county line intersects
with said river, thence down the
western bank of the said river to the
mouth of the said river, thence up
to the northern bank of the Ocmul-
gee river to the mouth If the Little
Ocmulgee river, thence up the said
Little Ocmulgee river to the line OF
Dodge county, thence east along said
line of Dodge county and Laurens
county to the western bank of the
Oconee river to the starting point.
That said new county, the bounda-
ries of which are described herein,
shall be called and known by the
name of Wheeler, and shall be at
tached to and become part OF the
Twelfth Congressional District, the
Fifteenth State Senatorial District,
and the Oconee Judicial Circuit, and
the county site of the said new coun-
ty shall be the town of Alamo. That
all legal voters residing in the limits
as herein described of said proposed
new county of Wheeler entitled to
vote for members of the General AS
sembly under the laws of Georgia
shall on the first Tuesday in Janu-
airy, 1913, elect an Ordinary, Clerk
of Superior Court, a S1eriff, a COro-
ner, a Tax Collector, Tax Receiver,
a County Surveyor, a County Treas
urer and three Commissioners Of
Roads md Revenues for said county,
said election to be held at town of
Alamo, the county site of said new
county. That the Superior Court of
said county shall be held on the first
Mondays in March and on the first
Mondays in September of each year.
The limits of the said county, the
Congressional and the Senatorial dis
tricts Ind the judicial circuit to
which it is attached, and the time of
holding the terms of the Superior
Courts rhall be as designated above
until changed by law, provided that
the laws applicable to the organiza-
ton of new counties as found in Sec
tons S29 to 848 inclusive of the
Code of 1911 are hereby made appli-
cable to said county of Wheeler
whenever he same may be created
by the proposed amendment to the
Constitution and that said county
when created shall become a statutory
county and shall be at all times SUBJ
ject to all laws applicable to all 9th
er counties in this State.
Section 2. Be it further enacted
that when this proposed amendment
shall be agreed to by two-thirds OF
thC members elected to each of the
tive houses composing the Legisla
ture of the State Of Georgia such
proposed amendment shall be enter
ed on the Journal of each house with
the yeas and nays thereon; and the
Governor is hereby directed to cause
the said proposed amendment to be
published in one or more newspapers
in each Congressional district at
least two months before the time of
holding the next general election to
be held on Tuesday after the first
Monday in November of the year
1912, and he shall also provide for
submission of the proposed amend
ment at said general election. And
if the people shall ratify such amend
ment by a majority of the electors
qualified to vote for members of the
General Assembly voting thereon,
such amendment shall ecome part
of the Constitution of Georgia.
Section 8. Be it further enacted
that it shall become the duty of the
Governor to submit such amendment
to the people at said election in the
following form:
That those voting in favor of said
proposed amendment shall have writ
ten or printed on their tickets, I'm
favor of the ratification of the
amendment to the Constitution Gre
ating the county of Wheeler, with
the town of Alamo as the county
site" And those opposed to the rati-
fieation of said amendment shall
have written or printed on their tick
cts, Opposed to the ratification Of
the amendment to the Constitution
creating the county of Wheeler, with
the town of Alamo as the county
site;" which votes cast at said cleo
ton shall be consolidated as now
required by law in elections for mem