The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-10-25

trict, and sixteenth Senatorial District.
and shall be included in the Oconee
Judicial Circuit, and 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 Treutlen
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 all 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 Great
ed, become in all respects statutory
county, and shall be governed by all
laws now in 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
in the same manner and the same ex-
tent that they have the power to leg
islate as to the other counties now ex-
isting in this state; that the property
of ali 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
cluded 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
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
en- 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
Treutlen of such per cent as will be
sufficient to discharge said debt; and
in event of the failure or refusal of
the ordinary of Treutlen County to
levy such tax it shall be the duty the
judge Of the superior court of the cit
cult of which the saidemnxrdqo-tlennc
cui: of which the said County of
TicItien forms part, to compel tne
ordinary of the County of Treutler
to perform the duty herein required of
h,u IL the c,tn' OF the azure of
the authorities Of The said ! ,.lr,y os
Treutlen to ascertain the proportion
ate part of said debt the said County
of Treutlen is hereby required to pay,
or in the event the authorities of the
counties fail to agree upon the amount
of said debt, then either of said coun-
ties may bring a suit against the said
County of Treutlen in the Superior
Court of said county for the purpose
of havig the proportion of said debt
so assumed by the said county of
Treutlen to be ascertained, and the
said court is hereby given power to
enforce whatever judgement may be
had as the result of said trial by COM
pelling the ordinary of said county
to levy tax for the payment of said
debt
SECTION 2. That Section SAC
of the Code of 1910. in reference to
the registration of voters, is hereby
expressly made applicable to said coun
ty, and in addition to the provisions
contained in said section. it is hereby
made the duty of the ordinaries of the
several counties in the territory in
cluded in said county to furnish the
election managers the names of all
persons legally registered and who
reside in the territory included in the
said County of Treutlen and who are
qualified to vote according to the law,
of this state.
SECTION 3. The Governor is
hereby directed and required to sub,
NIT this proposed amendment to the
people of this state for their ratifica-
ton or rejection at the next general
election to be held on Tuesday. after
the first Monday in November, 1918,
and it shall be his duty to cause this
proposed amendment to be advertised
in at least one paper in each Con-
gressional District in the State at least
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