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Proclamation
i
Submitting a proposed amendment
to the Constitution of the State of Geor
gia, to be voted on at the General State
election to be held on Tuesday, Nov-,
ember 3, 1914, said amendment provid
ing for the creation ot the County of
Candler.
By His Excellency,
John M. Slaton, Governor.
State of Georgia,
Executive Department.
August 3, 1914.
Whereas, the General Assembly at
its session in 1914 proposed an amend
ment to the Constitution of this State
as set forth in an Act approved July
17, 1914, to-wit:
An Act to amend Paragraph 2, Sec
tion 1, Article 11, of the Constitution
of this State.
The follow ing amendment is propos
ed by the House of Representatives and
ihe Senate of Georgia to Paragraph 2,
Section 1, Article 11, of the Constitu
tion of this State.
Section 1. The General Assembly of
ohe State of Georgia hereby proposes to
;he people of Georgia an amendment to
Paragraph 2, Section 1, Article 11, of
.heConstitutionof this State, asfollows:
That, in addition to the counties
teretofore existing in this State, crea
ftd by the General Assembly, and those
treated by amendments to the above
i>d foregoing paragraph, section and
fticle of the Constitution of this State,
here is hereby created an additional
iunty, which county when created
lall be known as Candler County,
he territory for the formation of said
ou. ty of Candler shall be taken from
me . rnnties of Emanuel, Bulloch and
Tatt) all, and the said territory so taken
for tl ; formation of said new County
of Oa dler shall be included within the
folio' ing boundaries, to-wit:
Starting at the south of Ten-Mile
Cheek where it empties into Canoochee
River, running in a northerly direction
ipsaid river to Excelsior Bridge; thence
i a northerly direction straight course
> Lott’s Creek to a point one-quarter
fa mile above New Bridge; thence
long the line of Lott’s Creek to De
joach’s Pond, leaving DeLoach’s Pond
unning in a northwesterly direction,
rossing the Bulloch and Emanuel
ounty lines, intersecting with the
>wainsboro and Statesboro public road
,t D. B. Johnson’s place; thence in a
;outhwesterly direction to UnionSchool
douse: thence in a southwesterly di
rection to Cowart’s Mill Pond; thence
n direct line to the Leo Collins cross
ing on the Central of Georgia Railroad;
thence in a southwesterly course to
Griffin’s Ferry Bridge on the Ohoopee
River (crossing line of Emanuel and
Tattnall counties), a southerly course
to the point where the counties of
Emanuel and Tattnall meet on tho
Ohoopee River; thence a direct line
east to Kennedy’s Bridge on the Ca
noochee River. That when said county
is erected the county-seat of the same
shall be the town of Metter, now in the
county of Bulloch; that if the above
and foregoing amendment should be
ratified by the people when the same
is submitted to them for their ratifica
tion at the next general election after
the adoption of this proposal to amend
the Constitution, there shall be, on the
. first Wednesday in December after the
i proposed amendment to the Constitu-
I tion is adopted, an election for the
I county officers herein named in and for
ft said new county, to be held at the sev
k eral election precincts existing within
■ he limits of said new county at the
B time of the adoption of the proposed
■ amendment, during the usual hours of
* holding elections, and all legally qual
ified voters residing in said territory
shall be qualified to vote at said elec
tion and the ordinaries of the sever
al counties in which said election pre
cinctsare located at the time of the
adoptiou of this amendment shall each
appoint the election managers : tor the
precincts in the counties in which he
mrHsriip.tion of ordinary
shall exercise jurisdiction of ordinary
and the managers of the election shall
on the day succeeding the election meet
at the 6 town of Metier, the place desig
nated as the county-seat of the new
pnnntv and consolidate the \ote ior
limits ot sam i the con .
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“aid Jfflcer, shall tecomn,^
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said general elect j election
ce Si ,ra A r ll e fTilrably l !“ hereby glv-
•ws£S3Ssar*
en power to create a J nt or stalu .
utory othcers m sai “ i(]e * by law for
tory courts, arn 0 1 vacancies that
filling sald ®s®^' th fnext general elec
may occur before th. ces cr f ated by said
S>°u n nS a may filled as provide
bylaw. nf Candler shall be
The said County nf[resslonal
attached to the Judicial Circuit
District, the Middle J udic a
and the Seventeenth feena h Gen .
but it Shall be in the Pro'
- rn i Assembly at any time to chang
which said coun
ty of Candler is attached, and the Gen
eral Assembly of Georgia is hereby giv
en power to change said county of Can
dler in arranging congressional and
senatorial districts as is now provided
by law. That the Superior Court in
said county of Candler shall be held on
the third Monday in February and Au
gust months of each year, but it shall
be within the power of the General
Assembly at any time by law T to change
the time of holding the courts and the
number of terms thereof. That the jus
tices of the peace and constables resid
ing in the territory included within the
new county of Candler shall exercise
the duties and powers of their office
until new militia districts are laid out
in said county of Candler as now pro
vided by law; and that all of the pro
visions of the law as contained inChap
ter 13 of the Code of 1910 are hereby
made applicable to the said county of
Candler whenever same is created; that
all of the general laws in this State, in
addition to the above, having applica
tion to the statutory counties of this
State are hereby made applicable to the
said county of Candler, especially the
law in reference to holding elections
for the purpose of creating a debt for
said county; that when this amend
ment is adopted, the said county of
Candler so created by the adoption of
this amendment, shall become in all re
spects a statutory county and shall be
governed by all laws now in force in
this State regulating counties and
county officers.
Section 2. The Governor is hereby
required and directed that when this
proposed amendment shall be agreed
to by two-thirds of the members elected
by the two houses of this General As
sembly, and shall be entered on the
journal of each house with the ayes and
nays taken thereon, the Governor is
hereby directed to cause the said pro
posed amendment to be advertised in
at least two papers in each congression
al district at least two months berore
the next general election, to be held on
the first Tuesday in November, 1914,
and he shall also provide for a submis
sion of the proposed amendment to the
qualified voters of the State at said gen
eral election. And if a majority of the
electors voting at said election shall
ratify this proposed amendment to the
Constitution of this State by a majority
of the electors qualified to vote for
members of the General Assembly and
voting at such election, said amend
ment shall become a part of the Con
stitution of Georgia when the fact is
certified to the Governor by the Secre
tary of State, that a majority of the
qualified voters voting at said general
election have voted in favor of the adop
tion of said amendment to the Consti
tution of the State, and the Governor
shall issue his proclamation to such
effect.
Section 3. It shall be the duty of
the Governor to submit said proposed
amendment in the following form:
That those voting in favor of said pro
posed amendment shall have written
or printed on their tickets, “In favor
of the ratification of the amendment to
Paragraph 2, Section 1, Article 11 of
the Constitution of Georgia, creating
the County of Candler,” and those op
posed to the ratification of the amend
ment shall have written or printed on
their tickets, “Opposed to the ratifica
tion of the amendment to Paragraph
2, Section 1, Article 11 of the Constitu
tion of the State of Georgia creating
the County of Candler.”
Now, therefore, I, John M. Slaton,
Governor of said State, do issue this
my proclamation hereby declaring that
the foregoing proposed amendment to
the Constitution is submitted for rati
fication or rejection to the voters of the
State qualified to vote for members of
the General Assembly at the General
Election to be held on Tuesday,
November 3, 1914.
John M. Slaton,
Governor.
By the Governor:
Philip Cook,
Secretary of State.
Proclamation
Submitting a proposed amendment
to the Constitution of Georgia, to b* vo
ted on at the General Election to beheld
on Tuesday, November 3, 1914, said
amendment providing for representa
tion the House of Representatives
for counties not now provided for, and
for other purposes:
Bv His Excellency,
John M. Slaton, Governor.
State of Georgia,
Executive Department,
August I*2, 1914.
Whereas, the General Assembly at
session in 1914, proposed an amend
ment to the Constitution of this- State
jj wt forth in an Act approved August
6 ’ An 4 Act to 1 amend Paragraph 1, of
BecUon 3, of Article 3, of the Constitu
of the State of Georgia by striking
thp ficures 184 therefrom and inserting
; n SvidfSm reprSmion in°the j
sie : f pStSM* |
striking from said paragraph the names j
sssa^^-yijsf^sr.
said paragraph will
Stfi -ld re-apporlioment and
for other P ur P9® e ?* enaC t e d by the Gen- ]
action h He and y
2S SKSt £&. srS'S
of the KafUCi that .f
‘“8 ‘h St'by “riking therefrom the
SiS of Si countie, therein .pectfled,
and inserting in place of six counties
therein named as being entitled
to three representatives each
the following: “Fulton, Chatham,
Richmond, Bibb. Floyd aid Mus
cogee” and inserting in place of
the twenty-six counties therein speci
fied as being entitled to two represen
tatives each the following: “Laurens,
Carroll, Jackson, Sumter, Thomas, De
catur, Gwinnett, Coweta, Cobb, Wash
ington, Delvalb, Burke, Bulloch, Troup,
Hall, Walton, Bartow, Meriwether,
Emanuel, Lowndes, Elbert, Brooks,
Houston, Wilkes, Ciarke and Ware,”
and further by adding at end of said
paragraph after the words, “and to the
remaining counties one representative
each,” the following: “and in the event
of the ratification of this amendment
to the Constitution, the counties of
Bleckley and Wheeler shall be entitled
to representation in the General Assem
bly of Georgia for the session 1915-16;
and in the event this amendment and
the amendments creating the coun
ties of Barrow', Candler and Bacon shall
be ratified, then the three said last
named counties shall also be entitled
to representation in the sessions of the
General Assembly for the years 1915-16;
and elections in said counties shall be
held on the first Tuesday in January,
1915, under the law now’governing sim
ilar elections for the election
of members of the General As
sembly to serve during the ses
sion 1915-16 in accordance with this
amendment,” so that when said Para
graph is so amendment it will read as
follows:
Paragraph 1. Number of Represen
tatives. The House of Representatives
shall consist of not more than 189 rep
resentatives apportioned among the
several counties as follows, to-wit: To
the six counties having the largest pop
ulation, viz. : Fulton, Chatham, Rich
mond, Bibb, Floyd and Muscogee, three
representatives each; to the tw r enty-six
counties having the next largest popu
lation, viz. : Laurens, Carroll, Jackson,
Sumter, Thomas, Decatur, Gwinnett,
Coweta, Cobb, Washington, DeKalb,
Burke, Bulloch, Troup, Hall, Walton,
Bartow, Meriwether, Emanuel, Ejbert,
Lowndes, Brooks, Houston, Wilkes,
Clarke and Ware, two representatives
each; and to the remaining counties
one representative each; and in the
event of the ratification of this amend
ment to the Constitution, the counties
of Bleckley and Wheeler shall be enti
tled to representation in the General
Assembly of Georgia for the session of
1915-16; and in the event this amend
ment and the amendment creating the
counties of Barrow, Candler and Bacon
shall be ratified, then the three said
last named counties shall also be enti
tled to representation in the sessions of
the General Assembly for the years
1915-16; and elections in said counties
shall be held on the first Tuesday in
January, 1915, under the law now gov
erning similar election for the election
of members of the General Assembly
to serve during the session of 1915-16 in
accordance with this amendment.
Section 2. Be it further enacted by
the authority aforesaid, That when said
proposed amendment shall be agreed
to by two thirds of the members elected
to each House of the General Assem
bly, it shall be entered upon the Jour
nal of each House with the yeas and
nays thereon and published in one or
more newspapers in each Congressional
District in said State for two months
previous to the time for holding the
next general election in said State; and
shall at said next general election be
submitted to the people for ratification
in the following form, to-r.it: ror
ratification of an amendment to l ara
graph 1, of Section 3, of Article 3, of
the Constitution (for providing for rep
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resentatives in the House of Represen
tatives of the State of Georgia for coun
ties not now provided for),” or “Against
ratification of an amendment to Para
graph 1, Section 3, of Article 5, of the
Constitution (or against providing for
representatives in the House of Repre
sentatives of the State of Georgia for
counties not now provided for),” and
if the majority of the electors qualified
to vote for members of the General As
sembly voting thereon shall vote for
ratification, having written or printed
on their ballots the preceding forms,
which votes cast at said election shall
be consolidated as now required by law
in elections for members of the General
Assembly and return thereof made to
the Governor, then he shall declare
said amendment adopted and make
proclamation thereof in the manner
now provided by law.
Sec. 8. Be it further enacted that all
laws and parts of laws in conflict with
this Act be, and they are, hereby re
pealed.
Now, therefore, I, John M. Slaton,
Governor of said State, do issue this
my proclamation hereby declaring that
the foregoing proposed amendment to
the Constitution is submitted for rati
fication or rejection to the voters of the
State qualified to vote for members of
the General Assembly at the General
Kelection to be held on Tuesday, No
vember 3, 1914.
John M. Slaton,
Governor.
By the Governor:
Philip Cook,
Secretary of State.
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