The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1918-09-10

I by law for holding elections for coun-
ty officers, and said county officers
shall qualify and enter upon the dis
charge of their respective duties on
the first day of January following
their election, and shall hold their
offices for a term of two years or
/ until their successors shall be duly
elected and qualified. That the su-
| periOr courts of said Atkinson coun-
ty shall be held on the fourth Mon
! days in January and June of each
year. That the congressional and
senatorial districts, the judicial cir
cult to which said county of Akin
| son is attached, the time of holding
the terms of the superior courts and
the limits of the county, shall remain
as designated above until the same
shall be law, Provided, That the laws
shall be charged by law, Pro-
vided, That the laws applicable
to the organization of new coun-
ties, found in sections 500 to
848 inclusive, code of 1911, are
hereby made applicable to the county
OF Atkinson whenever the same may
be created by the proposed amend
ment to the constitution, and that
said county, when created, shall be-
come statutory county," and shall
be at all times subject to all laws ap-
plicable to all the other counties in
this state.
SECTION 2. Be it further enacted
by the authority aforesaid, That,
whenever the proposed amendment to
the constitution shall be agreed to by
two-thlrds of the members elected to
each of the two houses of the gener-
al assembly, and the same has been
entered on their journals, with the
yeas and nays taken thereon the gov
ernor shall and he is hereby author
lied and instructed to cause the pro-
posed amendment to be published in
at least two newspapers in each con-
gresslonal district in this state for the
period of two months next preceding
the time Of holding the next general
election, and the governor is further
authorized and instructed to provide
Tor the submission of the amendment
proposed for ratification or rejection
to the electors of the state at the
next general election to be held after
said publication, at which election ev-
cry person shall be qualified to vote
who is entitled to vote for members
of the general assembly. All persons
voting at said election in favor of
adopting the proposed amendment
shall have written or printed on their
ballots the words: "For the amend
ment to the constitution creating the
county of Atkinson" and all persons
opposed to the adoption of the pro-
posed amendment shall have written
or printed on their ballots the words
Against the amendment to the con-
stitution creating the county of At
kinson." If majority of the cleo
tors qualified to vote for members of
the general assembly voting thereon
shall vote for the ratification of the
proposed amendment, then the gov
ernor shall, when he ascertains the
same from the secretary of state, to
whom the returns from said election
shall be referred in the manner as in
cases of election for members of the
general assembly, to count and ascer-
tain the result, and issue his procla-
nation, for one insertion in one daily
! paper of the state, announcing such
result and declaring the amendment
ratified.
! NOW, 1nEREr OhE, L, dugn vi.
Dorsey, governor of said state, do is
sue this proclamation hereby declar-
ing that the foregoing proposed
amendment to the constitution is
submitted for ratification or rejec-
ton to the voters of the state, quail
fed to vote for members of the gen.
eral assembly at the general election
to be held on Tuesday, November 5,
1918.
! HUGH M. DORSEY, Governor.
By the Governor:
! H. B. STRANGE, Sec'Y of State.