Americus times-recorder. [volume] (Americus, Ga.) 1891-current, 1920-09-24
A PROCLAMATION.

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Executive Department.
A PROCLAMATION.
Submitting a proposed amendment
to the Constitution of Georgia to be
voted on at the general election, to
be held in November, 1920, to amend
Paragraph /, Section 10, of Article
6, of the Constitution of Georgia,
relative to increase in salaries of
Judges of the Supreme Court, Court
of Appeals, and Superior Courts.
By His Excellency,
HUGH M. 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-wlt
SALARIES OF JUSTICES OF SU-
PREME COURT AND JUDGES
OF COURT OF APPEALS.
No. 773.
An Act to amend Paragraph /, Sec
ton IS, 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 10, of Article E,
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 Is
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 it's treasury, pay to the
Judge of the Superior Courts of the
Eastern Circuit 100000 per annum:
said payments are hereby declared
to be 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, That
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
nower and authority to pay the
Judges of the Superior Court of Full
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 to
be a part of the court expenses of
said county. Provided further, That
the Board of County Commissioners
of the Counties of Clarke, Floyd,
Sumter, Bib and Richmond, or such
other board or person as may from
time to time exercise the admins
trative powers of said several coun-
ties, may supplement from their re-
spective county's treasures the sal
aries of the Judges of the circuits of
which they are a part by such sum
as may be necessary with salaries
paid each of said judges from the
State Treasury to make salary of
S6,000.00 each per annum of such
judges; and such payments are de-
clared to be part of the court ex-