The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-11-01

now provided by law. That said new
county when created, shall become a
part of the twelfth Congressional Dis
trict and sixteenth Senatorial District
and shall be included in the Oconee
Judicial Circuit, and a Superior Court
for said county is hereby created,
which court shall have the same iuris-
diction as now provided by law for the
Superior Courts of this state; that the
said court until otherwise changed by
law shall be held on the third Mon
days of February and August of each
year but. the General Assembly is
hereby expressly given the power to
change the terms of said court and to
increase the number thereof; that the
justice. of the peace and constables
residing within the territory included
within the new county OF Treut!en
shall exercise the duties and powers
their Offices until new militia districts
are laid out for said County of Treut-
len as now provided by law That
the provision. of Chapter Is of the
Code Of 1910 are hereby made appli-
cable to said proposed County
OF Treutlen. and that ali the general
laws of this state in reference to hold
ing elections for the purpose OF Gre
ating debt, and that the said proposed
county of Treutlen shall, when creat-
ed, become in all respects statutory
county, and shall be governed by all
laws now i'll force in this state relat-
ing to counties and county affairs and
shall be subject to the Legislative con-
troll of Thu state, and the Legislature
of this State is hereby given power to
enact laws in reference to said county
III the same manner and the same cx-
tent that they have the power to leg
islate as to the other counties now ex-
listing in this state; that the property
OF all tax payers included within the
limits as herein defined OF the said
proposed County Of Treutlen is here
by made changea5:e with any debt that
may have been incurred by any Of the
counties from which the territory in
ciudcd in the new county is taken by
the legally constituted authorizes of
the county for the purpose of raising
revenues for the benefit of either of
said counties. whether the said debt is
a bonded debt or one which has been
incurred for the benefit in any way of
either of the counties. The value of
the taxable properly included in the
said County of Treutlen at the time OF
the adoption of this amendment to the
Constitution, in proportion to value
of the property left in the counties
from which the said County OF Treut-
len is taken shall determine the pro-
portinate amount of the debt which
shall be put upon the property OF the
tax payers located in said proposed
new county Authority is hereby Civ
ell to the ordinary of the said County
OF Treutlen and to the officers of the
counties from which said territory is
taken who are charged with the man
agement OF the business OF the said
| counties to settle and agree upon an
amount of the said Indebtedness that
shall be assumed. and paid by the said
| County of Treutlen; and it is hereby
made the duty of the ordinary of said
| County of Treutlen when the amount
| OF said debt is SO ascertained to cause
a tax to be levied upon all the property
within the limits of the said County OF
| Ireutlen of such per cent as will be
sufficient to discharge said debt; and