The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1912-09-20
A PROCLAMATION.


al State election to be held on We'd
nesday, October 2, 1912, said amend
ment providing for the creation OF
the County of Bleckley. By His Ex-
cellency, Joseph M. Brown. Governor.
STATE OF GEORGIA, Executive
Department, Atlanta, July 80, 1912.
Whereas, the General Asser' bly, at
its session in 1912 proposed an
amendment to the Constitution of
this State as set forth in an Act ap-
proved July 80, 1912, to-wit: An
Act to propose to the qualified elect
ors of this State an amendment to
Paragraph 2, Section L, Article IL,
Of the Constitution of the State of
Georgia, as amended by the ratifica-
ton by the qualified voters of this
State Of the Act approved July 10,
1904, and by the Act approved July
81, 1906, and for other purposes:
Section /. 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 paragraphs the
following language: Provided,
however, that in addition to the
counties now provided tor by this
there shall be a new
county laid out and created from the
territory now composing Pulaski
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
a 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. 1872
and 149, 121 and $50, in the goth
land district; and Nos. 800 and 3O1,
299 and 302, 298 and 303, 297 and
3O4, 296 and 305, 295 and sos, 294
and 3O7, 293 and 308, 292 and 800,
291 and 80, 200 and 81, 289 and
312, 288 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 $50
and $50, between 358 and 357 in the
oath land district, to the Ocmulgee
river and to the line of Houston
county.
That the said new county shall be
known as the County of Bleckley,
and the City of Cochran shall be the
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
district as those to which
the County of Pulaski Is attached at
he date of the ratification of this
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 this proposed amendment elect an
Ordinary, a Clerk of the Superior
Court, a Sheriff, a Coroner, a 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
county shall be held on the
second Monday in January and the
first Monday in July of each year.
That the Congressional and Sena-
,Orial Districts, the Judicial Circuit
10 which said county is attached and
he 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 applicable
o. the organization of new counties
Is found in Section 829 to 848 in
elusive Of the Code Of 1911 are here
1y made applicable to said County
If Bleckley, whenever the same may
De created by the proposed amend
nent to the Constitution and that
aid county, when created, shall be-
,ome a statutory CO oty and shall be
1t all times subject to all laws appli-
,able to all other counties in this
tate.
Section 2. Be it Turner enacted,
That whenever the above proposed
to the Constitution shall
1e. agreed by two-thirds of the
members elected to each of the two
houses of the General Assembly and
he same has been entered on their
Journals, with the yeas and nays
aiken thereon, the Governor shall,
Ind he is hereby authorized and in
;tructed to, cause the above proposed
to be published in at
east two newspapers in each Con-
gEessional District IN this State for
he period of two months next pre-
,eding the time Of holding the next
general election, and the Governor is
rurther authorized and directed to
provide for the submission of the
proposed for ratification
)r rejection to the electors of this
State at the next general election to
be held after said publication, at
which election every person shall be
Qualified to vote who is entitled to
vote for members of the General As
,embly. All persons voting at said
election in favor Of adopting the said
amendment shall have writ
ten or printed on their ballots the
words: For Amendment to the
creating the County of