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Saturday, January, 1789*
GEORGIA STATE GAZETTE
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INDEPENDENT REGISTER.
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GEORGIA.
By His Honor GEORGE WAL
TON, E/quire, Captain Gene
ral Governor and Commander
in Chief in and over the fa id
State .
A Proclamation.
WHEREAS the Legis
lature, in its prelent
Seflion, having pas
fed an Ad: lor ap
pointing the time, manner and
places, for holding eltdions for
Keprefentatives in Congress, I
Lave, there!ore, thought fit, by
and with the advice of the
Honorable the Executive Coun
cil, to iflue this my Proclama
tion, notifying to all peffcns qua
lified to vote for members ol the
, Legislature, that they are required
to assemble at the usual places of
holding the annual elections for
members of the General Aflem:
bly in the refpedive counties,
on the second Monday in, Februa
ry next, and to vote for three
persons, to be of three years
/landing residence in the three
Brigade Diftrids, refpedively.
And it is commanded, that twp i
or more of the Senior Afliftant
Justices in each county, or, in
case of their sickness, or other
disability, two or more other of
the Justices of the Peace, to be
by them appointed, /hall prelide
at, and superintend, the said ejec r
tions s and /hall, within fifteen
days next thereafter, make re
turn to the Executive, feaiedup,
of the number of persons voting,
and voted for. And it is alio fur
ther commanded, that the re
fpeftive Sheriffs do give their
punctual attendance to pre/erve
good order and decorum thereat.
Given under my Hand\ and the Great
Seal of the Jaid State, in the Council
Chamber , at Augufa f tbit fwenty-fe
wentb day of January , in the Tear of
our Lord, one thonjand, /even hundred
and eighty-nine \ und of our Sovereignly
» and Independence the thirteenth.
GEORGE WALTON.
By hit Honedt Command,
JOHN MILTON, Secretary.
GOD S AYE THU' STATE. 1
An Aft
For appointing the time , manner,
a?id places Jor holding elections
for Repre/entatives in Congre/s.
IN order on the part of this
state to carry into effeft the
Conftitutiort for the United
States of America, Be it enabled
by the Freemen of the State of
Georgia in General AJJembly met ,
and it is hereby enabled by the au
thority of the fame , That the elec
tions in this state for members in
the House of Reprdentatives in
Congress of the United States
(hall be had and held in the man
ner following, that is to fay, This
state (hall be and is hereby’de
clared to be divided into three d*-
ftrifts, in the fame divifiohs tlie
brigades of this state are now laid
out; and the eleftions within the
laid diftrids (hall be held in their
refpeftive counties on the second
Monday in February next, at such
places and in the lame manner as
the annual eledions for the Le
gislature now are; excepting that
the Senior or Afliftant Justices of
the refpeftive counties, or any
two oh them, (hall preside at and
fuperinjtend such fteftions, or in
case of their (icknefs or other dif-'
ability, the said Affiant Justices,
or any two or more of them, dial!,
and they are hereby required to
nominate and appoint two or
more fit and discreet persons (be
ing Magistrates) to (uperintend
the fame. And the Sheriffs of
such counties (hall attend for the
express purpoleof prefervinggood
order and decency thereat, and
excepting also, that the manner
of elefting the three members for
Repreientatives of this state (hall
be, that every voter (hall ballot
for three persons, one only of
which (hall be a resident of three
years (landing in the diftrift such
constituent reftdes in, and the
other two persons so to be ballot*
ted for by such voter (hall be rc
fidcnts of like (landing of the
the
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other two separate diftrifts; th ,t
is to favs there (hall be one can
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didate ballotted for by every votei*
who is an inhabitant of each ft*
parate diftrift, so that each diftrift
in the state may be properly, inv*
partially, and effeftua ly lepre
fented. The Magistrates holuirg
the eleftions in each county (hall
within fifteen days make a le
turn of the number of persons
voting and the persons voted for,
healed up, to the Executive, who
lhall within two days thereafter
count the number of votes, and
certify the pcrlon having, the
hlgheft number of votes in the
dittrifts qualified as before laid
down, and having the high est
poll or number of votes through
out the state, to be and they are
hereby declared the Representa
tives of this state in the Cor.gre s
of the United States; w> ich his
Honor the Governor (ha)l notify
by Proclamation and information
to the persons elefted. And in
case of refufal tp serve or negleft
of notification of acceptance to
his Honor the Governor within
ten days after due notice given,
his Honor the Governor (hall or
der a new eieftion to be held in
like manner as pointed out in this
Aft.
And, be it further enabled , That
if any oh the counties within the
relpeftive diftrifts of this state,
Jhftl negleft or refufe to hold the
.eieftion tor the H epreleotatives
ss heretofore pointed out, that
then and in such case the coun
ties ' so proceeding to eleft and
tran/mitting their returns, (hall
be considered as having complet
ed the eieftion, and the persons
so chosen sty fuoh counties hav
ing the highest number of votes,
that is to lay, one candidate being
an inhabitant or resident in such
diftrift (hall be deemed and ac
cepted as the Reprdentatives for
the state in the Congrds of tho
United States,
And be it further enabled, That