The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1914-09-29

! 1914, said amendment providing for
| the creation of the County of 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
II, 1914, tO-wit:
An Act to propose to the qualified
electors of the State of Georgia an
amendment to Paragraph 2, of Sec
ton l, 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 IAN Act to lay out and create
a 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 ratiti-
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 a
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 a point known as john
sons Old Ferry on the CaroOchee riv-
er and running thence in a 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 a 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
tn 70 Copnnchnn rjUnr' thnnpn in a
southerly direction down the CARGO
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 Glenville Railroad;
thence in an easterly direction along
the old Dublin Road to the right-of-
way of the old Dublin Railroad bed;
thence in a southeasterly direction
down said right-of-way to Scott's
Creek; thence in the same direction
down SCOTS Creek to its mouth in
Lofts Greek; thence in a southerly
direction down Lofts Creek to its
mouth into Caroochee River, and
from thence down Caroochee River
in a 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 COMPRESSION
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,
clerk of the Superior Court, a sheriff,
coroner, a tax collector, a tax re-
ceiver, a county treasurer, 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; |
proyided that the laws applieable to