The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-09-15

| Lne Cr6aJlOn OF CQ0 county OIL EVANS.
BY His Excellency,
JOHN NJ. SLATON, Governor.
State of Georgia, Executive De-
partment, August II, 1914.-Where-
as, the General Assembly at its ses-
sion in 1914 proposed an amendment
to the Constitution of this State as
set forth in an Act approved August
IL, 1914, to-wit
An Act to propose to the qualified
electors of the State of Georgia an
amendment to Paragraph 2, of Sec
ton /, of Article II, of the COnstitu-
ton of this State, as amended by the
ratification by the qualified voters of
this State of the Acts approved July
10, 1904; July 81, 1906; July 80,
1912; and August IA, 1912, same
being AN Act to lay out and create
new county from portions of Bull
loch and Tattnall counties, to be
named and be known as Evans coun-
ty, with the city OF Claxton as the
county site, 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, of Section 1,
of Article II, of the Constitution of
this State, as amended by the ratifi-
cation by the qualified voters of this
State of the Acts approved July 10,
1904, and July 81, 1906; July 80,
1912, and August IA, 1912, to-wit;
by adding to said paragraph
the following language to-wit:
provided, however, that in addition
to the counties now provided for by
this Constitution there shall be
new county laid out and created from
portions of the Counties of Bulloch
and Tattnall and embraced within
the following boundary lines, COM
mencing at point known as john
sons Old Ferry on the Caroochee riV-
er and running thence in south
westerly direction along the bound
airy line between Liberty and TAFT
nall Counties to a point known as
the Ford, or Caroochee creek; thence
in westerly direction, straight line
to Jennie; thence a westerly direc-
ton a straight line to Rogers Cross
ing, at the intersection of the Bell
Vile and Reidsville roads; thence in
a nOrtherly direction in a straight
line to a point on the Seaboard Air
Line Railway, half way between the
towns of Bellville and Manassas;
thence northerly in the same direc-
ton in a straight line until it inter
sects the line of the proposed Coun-
ty of Gambler; thence along said line
to the Caroochee river; thence in a |
1u
chez river to Kennedy's Bridge; |
thence in an easterly direction along
the public road leading from Ken
nedy's Bridge to Ada Belle on the
Register and Chenille Railroad; |
thence in an easterly direction along
the old Dublin Road to the right-Of- |
way of the old Dublin Railroad bed; |
thence in sOutheasterly direction |
down said right-of-way to Scott S |
Greek; thence in the same direction |
down SCOTS Greek to its mouth in
Lofts Greek; thence in a southerly |
direction down Lofts Greek to its |
mouth into Caroochee River, and |
from thence down CarOochee River |
in southeasterly direction to the
starting point at JohnsOn's Ferry.
That the territory embraced in |
the foregoing boundary lines shall be
known as and be named Evans Coun- |
ty and the city of Claxton shall be
the county site of same.
THAT said proposed county shall |
be attached to the First COngression- |
al District, to the Atlantic Judicial |
Circuit and to the Second Senatorial |
District. That all legal voters resid-
ing within the limits of said proposed |
County of Evans, entitled under the |
laws of Georgia to vote for members |
of the General Assembly, SHALL on !
the first Wednesday in January fol- |
lowing the ratification by the people |
of this proposed amendment, elect |
the following officers for the said |
county of Evans: An Ordinary, a |
clerk of the Superior Court, sheriff, |
a coroner, a tax collector, a tax re-
ceiver, county treasurer, a county |
surveyor a county superintendent of
public schools and three commission |
ers of roads and revenues, said cleo |
ton to be held at ClaxtOn, the coun- |
ty site, according to law. That the /
superior courts of said county of Ev- |
ans shall be held on the fourth Mon |
days of January, March, June and |
October, of each year, and that the |
grand jury for said county of Evans |
shall serve at the January and June |
terms of said court, each year, pro- |
vided, however, that the Judge of |
the Superior Court may, in his dis |
erection, cause the grand jury of said |
county to be summoned at any term |
of said Superior Court. That the |
limit of said county of Evans, the |
Congressional and State Senatorial |
Districts, the Judicial Circuit to |
which said county of Evans is hereby |
attached, the terms of the Superior |
Court of the same shall be so desig- |
mated herein until changed by law; |
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