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shall appoint election managers Io1 SUI
precincts as may be located in Macon
county at the time of the adoption OF
this proposed amendment: ON the gay
succeeding the holding of said election
council chamber of the mayor and city
council of the City of Fort valley ana
consolidate the vote for the officers nam
ed; and the general laws OF TINS State
now in force as to elections, consolloa-
ton of the votes the return of the cleo,
ton and the commission of ofhcers Shali
be applicable to the officers elected at
the election herein provided for the ON
GERS elected at said election and the
REPRESENTATIVE in the House of Repre-
sentatives shall not hold their ofnces
until the next general election Tor such
officers throughout the State, ana until
their successors are elected ana quail
| fed The General Assembly is hereby
given power to create any addltonal
tutory courts therein, and to provide for
filling said offices Any vacancies that
may occur before the next general cleo
ton after the election as herein provld-
ed may be filled in the same manner as
such vacancies are now filled under the
| law The justices of the peace and the
constables residing in the territory in
cluded within the limits of such County
of Peach shall exercise the duties and
powers of their offices until new militia
districts are laid out in said County
of Peach and constables thereof elected;
THAT the Superior Courts of said
Peach county shall be held on the first
Monday in March and the first Monday
in September of each year.
That the congressional and senatorial
districts, the judicial circuit to which
said Peach county is attached, the times
| of holding the terms of the Superior
Court, and the limits of the county shall
be as designated above until changed
by law.
provided, that the laws applicable to
! the organization of new counties as found
in section S29 to S4S inclusive of the Code
IDf Of rpin md n
Acts or sections having applicability, are
hereby made applicable to said County of
| Peach, whenever the same may be Great
! ed by the proposed amendment to the
Constitution, and that said county, when
created, shall become a statutory county
and shall be subject at all times to all
laws applicable to all other counties OF
| this State.
THAT the property of all tax payers
included within the limits of said Peach
county as herein above designated is
! hereby made ratably chargeable with any
debt that may have been incurred by
either of the counties from which the
territory included in the new County of
| Peach is taken by the legally constituted
authorities of the counties for the pur-
pose 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 said counties The value
Jof the taxable property included within
the limits of said County of Peach at
the time of the adoption of this amend
ment to the Constitution in proportion
to the value of the property in the
counties from which the said County of
Peach is taken shall determine the pro-
which shall be borne by the property
of the tax payers located within the
limits of said proposed new county
Authority is hereby given to the
! ordinary of said County of Peach and to
the officers of the counties from which
said territory is taken who are charged
with the management of the business
of said counties to settle and agree upon
an amount of the said indebtedness that
shall be assessed against and paid by
the said County of Peach; and it is here
by made the duty of the ordinary of the
said County of Peach when the amount
of said Indebtedness with which the said
| County of Peach is chargeable is so as
certained to cause tax to be levied upon
all the property within the limits of the
said County of Peach sufficient to pay
off and discharge the proportionate part
of the Indebtedness due by said Peach
county.
I'm the event of the failure or refusal
of the ordinary of Peach county to levy
such a tax, it shall be the duty of the
judge of the Superior Court of the cir
cult to which the said County of Peach is
attached to compel the ordinary of the
said Peach County to perform the duty
herein required of him. In the event of
the failure of the authorities of the
counties from which the said Peach
county is created and the ordinary of the
said Peach county to ascertain and agree
upon the amount of said Indebtedness,
then either of said counties may bring
a suit against the said County of Peach
in the Superior Court of said County of
Peach for the purpose of having the
proportion of said debt so assumed by
the said County of Peach ascertained;
and the said Superior Court is hereby
given power to enforce whatever judg-
ment may be had as the result of such
trial by compelling the ordinary of said
Peach county to levy a tax sufficient
for the payment of the Indebtedness
found to be due by the County of Peach
cause the same to be collected and paid
to the constituted authorities of the
county or counties from which said
Peach County is created entitled to re-
ceive the same
Ivalorem and special taxes and all other
revenues realized for the year in which
this amendment is adopted or ratified
by the qualified voters of this State shall
bonded Indebtedness due and owning by
either of the counties from which the
said Peach county is created; it being the
purpose of this provision to fix the basis
of settlement between the counties in
volved upon their financial condition on
the 31st day of December next following
the ratification of this amendment"
Sec 2 Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid. and it is hereby
enacted by authority of same, That
Whenever " the above proposed amend
upon by two-thirds of the members
elected to each of the two Houses of the
General Assembly, and the same has
been entered on their journals, with the
yeas and nays taken thereon the Gov
ernor shall be, and he is, hereby author
lied and instructed to cause the above
proposed amendment to be published in
lat least two newspapers in each con-
gressional district of this State, for the
period of two months next preceding
the time of holding the next general
election, and the Governor is further
authorized and directed to provide for
the submission of the amendment pro-
posed for ratification or rejection to the
electors of this State at the next gen
leral election to be held after such pub
Ilication at which election every person
shall be qualified to vote who is entitled
to vote for members of the General As
lsembly. All persons voting at said cleo
ton in favor of adopting the said pro-
posed amendment shall have written or
printed on their ballots the words For
amendment to the Constitution Great
ling the County of PEACH" and all per-
sons voting at said election against the
adoption of said proposed amendment
shall have written or printed on their
ballots the words Against the amend
ment to the Constitution creating the
County of Peach"
If a majority of the electors qualified
to vote for members of the General AS