The Leader, enterprise and press. (Fitzgerald, Ga.) 1915-1921, 1918-09-16


in any Of said offices shall be filled as
now provided by law. That said new
county when treated, shall becomeaa
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 isl
hereby expressly given the power to
change the terms OF said court and to
increase the number thereof; that the
Iusticee 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 a 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 all tax payers included within the
limits as herein defined of the said
proposed County of Treutlen is here
by made changea5ie 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
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
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 CT the superior court of the cir
cult of which the ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
cui- OF which the said County of
Tfcutien forms a part, to compel rhe
ordinary of the County of Treutlen
to perform the duty herein required OF
h',l H. ths cen OF the ;:,,,i:rc 1t
the authorities CT he said !. any cr
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 suit against the said
County of Treutlen in the Superior
Court of said county for the purpose
OF havlg 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
polling the ordinary of said county
to levy a tax for the payment of said
debt.
SECTION 2. That Section $40
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 g. 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
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