Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-10-01
SUMTER COUNTY LEGAL.
ADVERTISEMENTS
AID No. Z3S.
State of Georgia,
Executive Department.
nn0CT ANATUnAY


voted on at the general election, to
be held in November, 1920, to amend
Paragraph /, Section 10, of Article
relative to increase in salaries of
Judges of the Supreme Court, Court
of Appeals, and Superior Courts.
By His Excellency,
HUGH NJ. DORSEY,
Governor.
WHEREAS, the General Assembly
at its session in 1920 proposed an
amendment to the Constitution of
this state, as set forth in an act
approved August II, 1920, to-wit
SALARIES OF JUSTICES OF SU-
PREME COURT AND JUDGES
OF COURT OF APPEALS.
No. 773.
An Act to amend Paragraph l, Sec
ton 10, of Article 6, of the Con-
stitution of Georgia insofar as the
same relates to salaries of Justices
of the Supreme Court, and of Judg-
es of the Court of Appeals, and of
Judges of the Superior Courts, so
as to increase the salaries of the
Justices of the Supreme Court, the
Judges of the Court of Appeals,
the Judges of the Superior Courts,
and for other purposes.
Section /. Be it enacted by the
General Assembly of the State of
Georgia, and it is hereby enacted by|
authority of the same, That Para
graph /, of Section Is, of Article 6,
of the Constitution of the State of
Georgia, relating to salaries of the
justices of the Supreme Court, and
of the Judges of the Court of APP
peals, and of the Judges of the Su-
perior Courts, be and the same isl
hereby amended so as to provide that
the Justices of the Supreme Court
each shall have out of the Treasury
of the State salaries of 100000 per
annum; the Judges of the Court of
Appeals each shall have out of the
Treasury of the State salaries OF
100000 per annum; the Judges OF
the Superior Court each shall have
out of the Treasury of the State sal
aries of 100000 per annum; pro-
vided' that the County of Chatham
shall, from its treasury, pay to the
Judge of the Superior Courts of the !
Eastern Circuit 100000 per annum
said payments are hereby declared
to be a part of the court expenses OF
said county, and shall be made to the
Judge now in office, as well as his
successors. Provided further. Ihat
the Board of County Commission
ers of Fulton County, or such other
board of persons as may from time
to time exercise the administrative
powers of Fulton County, shall have
power and authority to pay tnel
Judges of the Superior Court OF tul-
ton County such sums, IN addition
to the salaries paid by the State, as
said administrative authority or au.
thorities may deem advisable. and
the amounts so paid are declared o. /
he a part of the court expenses OF
said county. Provided further, That
the Board of County Commissioners
of the Counties of Clarke, FLOYD,
Sumter. Bibb and Richmond, or such
other board or person as may from
time to time exercise the admins
+rative mowers of said several coun-
ties. may supplement from their re-
snective county's treasures the sal
aries of the Judges of the circuits OF
which they are a part by such sum
as NAV be necessary with salaries
Maid each of said judges from the
State Treasury to make salary OF
az O0O.OO each per annum OF sucn
iudqes: and such payments are de-
cIared To he part of the court ex-
Tnepeee of said counties, and such
povyoents shall be made to the judges
now in office as well as to their sue
cessors. Provided further, Ihat Che
County of Fulton may supplement-
the salary of the Judges OF the stone
Mountain Circuit, or the judges Oh
such other circuit as may be mere
after required to regularly presloe
therein for additional services rem
dered in the Superior Court OF SAID
comfy. such sums as will, with the
salary paid such judge from the State
Treasury. make salary of $6,OO0.OO
ner annum; said payments are de-
clared to be a part of the court ex-
nanses of Fulton County, such pay
nents to made to the judge now IN
office. as well as to his success or. }
Tho provisions of this amendment
shall take effect and the salaries
h ,a provided for shall be-
oin from the ratification OF
This amendment, as provided in the
second sec section hereof, and
shall apply to the incumbents IN the
several offices, as well as their sue
cessors. -, AL
if this amendment shall be agreed
to bv two-thirds of the members OF
the General Assembly of each House,
the same shall be entered on their
Journals, with the Ayes and Nays
taken thereon, and the Governor
shall cause the amendment to be pub
Iisbed in one or more of the, news
papers in each Congressional Dis
tr;ct for at least two months i'm,
mediately preceding the next general
election, and the same shall be SUBJ
mitted to the people at the next gen
eral election, and all persons voting
at said election in favor OF adopting
the proposed amendment to the Con-
stitution shall have written or PRINT,
ed in their ballots the words: IF
or ratification of amendment to
Paragraph of Section 10, Of Article
g. of the Constitution fixing the sal
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