The Brunswick news. [volume] (Brunswick, Ga.) 1906-2016, 1914-10-31
PROCLAMATION

Submitting proposed amendment
to the colstitution of the state of
Georgia, to be voted on at the gener-
al state electi9n TO be held on Tues
day, Nov 1914, said amendment
providing for salary of the judge of
the superior court of Bibb county.
BY His Excellency,
John M. Slaton, Governor
State of Georgia,
Executive Department,
August 3, 1914.
Whereas, the General Assembly at
its session in 1918 proposed an
amendment to the constitution of thia
state, as set forth in an act appro led
August 16, 1913, to-wit:
An Act to amend Paragraph 1. of
Section 10, of Article 6 of the Consti-
tuition of the State of Georgia, regu-
lating the salaries of the judges of
the Supreme and Superior Courts by
providing for the payment from the
county treasury of Bibb County to the
Judge OF the superior court of the cir
cult of which the said county is a
part of additional compensation.
Section j. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Georgia,
That Paragraph 1, of Section 10, of
Article 6, CT the Constitution of the
tate Of Georgia, as amended by the
Act of the General Assembly, approx
ed August 9, 1910, and duly ratified
by the people according to law, be and
the same is hereby amended by m
sorting the word "Bibb" in the nroriso
contained in said amendment between
the words the counties Of and the
word Chatham" so that said pro
viso so amended by this amendment,
shall read as follows:
Provided, however, That the Coun-
ties of Bibb, Chatham, Fulton and
Richmond, shall pay from their re-
spective county treasures to the SUI
perior Court judges of the circuit of
which they are part, anG the
County of Fulton to the Judge
Of the Stone Mountain circuit.
Or the judge of such other circuit as
may hereafter be required to regr-
larly preside therein for additional
rendered in the Superior
Court of Fulton County, such sums
IS will with the salaries paid each
Judge from the State Treasury,
make salary OF $1,000 per annum
10 each judge; and said payments
are declared to be part of the
court expenses of such counties,
such payments to be made to the
Judges now in office as we'll as thei;
uccessors.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted That
L this constitutional amendment
snail be agreed to by two-thirds of
me members of the General Assem-.
ply of each house, the same shall
De entered on each Journal, with the
ayes and nays taken thereon, and
The governor shall cause the amend
ment to be published in one or more
Of the newspapers in each Congress
5lonal District for two months, i'm
nediately preceding the next gener-
a. election, and the voters thereat
shah have written or printed on
.heit ticket For ratification of
to Paragraph /, Section
10, Article 6, of the Constitution"
providing for additional compensa-
ion of the Superior Court Judge in
BlDb Superior Court or Against |
'atlflcation of Amendment to Para
graph 1, Section 10, Article S, OF
ne Constitution" against providing
additional compensation for the SUI
oer1or Court Judge in Bibb Superior
JouTD as they may choose, and e 2
of the electors qualified to
vote for members of the next Gener-
81 Assembly voting, shall vote in ia
'or OF ratification, then said amend
nent shall become a part Of Article |
}. Section 10 Paragraph /, of the
Constitution Of this State, and the
Governor shall make proclamation
hereof
Be it further enacted, that all |
avs and parts of laws in conflict
With this Act, be, and the same are
'epealed.