The Lee County journal. (Leesburg, Ga.) 1904-19??, 1914-09-17


Submitting q proposed amendment g
the Constitution Of the State Of Georgia,
to be- voted on at the General State elecs
ton 10 be held on Tueaday, November
5rd, 1914, said amendment providing for
abolishing Justice Courts SO as to include
Savannah. By His Excellency,
IA John NJ. Slaton, Governor
State oil Georgia,
Exc Vtive Department,
August 8, 1914.
Whereas, the General Assembly at its
session III 1914, proposed an amendment
10 the Constitution Of this state as set
forth in an Act approved July 20, 1914,
to,wit:
An Act 10 amend Paragraph /, OF sec
ton Z, Of the Constitution Of the State OF
Georgia, providing for one Justice Of tile
Peace in each Militia District Of the Sta
egAana for the General Assembly in its
discretion to abolish Justice Courts and
the office Of Justice Of the Peace and Of
Notary Public and ex-otficio Justice Of
the Peace iii any city of this State having
population Of over 10000, except the
City Of Savannah and TO establish in lieu
thereof such court or courts or SYSTEM OF
courts as the General Assembly may in
its discretion deem necessary, by striking
thereffom the portion of the proviso OF
said paragraph, which excerpts the city
Of Savannah from the privilege of having
the General Assembly abolish Justice
Courts in said City and establish such
Other Court or Courts or system Of Courts
as the Genezal Assembly may in its dis
cretion deem necessary, and for ether
purposes
Section L Be it enacted by the Gene
raj Assembly of the State 81 Georgia, and
it il hereby enacted BY authority Of same
That Paragraph One ~, dissection Sew
en- "a, of Article Six (61, Of the Coneti-
tuition Of the State Of Georgia, asamend-
ded by the Act Of the General Assembly,
approved July 30, 1912, and duly ratified
bgshe people according to Law, be and
thesame is hereby amended by striking
from the proviso contained in said a.
mendmeut the words, except the City
of Savannah, where they Immediately
follow the words having population
Of over twenty thousand, SO that pro-
viso SO ai.aended by this amendment
shall read as follows; Provided, how
ever, that the General Assembly may in
its discretion abolish Justice Courts, and
the office Of Justice Of the Peace and Of
Notary Public and ex4oficio Justice Of
the Peace in any city in this State hay-
population of over twenty thousand,
and establish in lieu thereof such court
or courts or system Of courts as the Cen
eral Assembly may, in its tiiscretiondeenr
necessary comforting upon such court or
courts or system Of courts when so es-
established, the jurisdiction as to subject
matter now exercised by Justice Courts
and by justices of the Peace and Notaries
Public ex-officio Justices of the Peace, to-
gether with such additional jurisdiction,
either as to amount or to subject matter,
az may be provided by law, whereof
some other court has not exclusive juris-
diction under this Constitution; together
also with such provision as to rules and
procedure in such courts and as to new
trials and the correction of errers in and
BY said courts and with such further
provision for the Correction Of error by
the Superior Court, or the Court Of APP
peals, or the Supreme Court, asthc Sen
eral Assembly may from time to time in
its discretion, provide or authorize. ANY
court soestablished shall not be subject
to the rules Of uniformity LAID down in
Paragraph |, dissection 8, of Article 6,
Of the Constitution ofGeorgia.
Sec. 2. Be it further enacted, That if