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Proclamation
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 8, 1914, said amendment provid
ing for the creation of 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 following amendment is propos
ed by the House of Representatives and
the Senate of Georgia to Paragraph 2,
Section 1, Article 11, of the Constitu
tion of this State.
Section 1. The General Assembly of
the State of Georgia hereby proposes to
the people of Georgia an amendment to
Paragraph 2, Section 1, Article 11, of
the Constitution of this State, as follows:
That, in addition to the counties
heretofore existing in this State, crea
ted by the General Assembly, and those
created by amendments to the above
and foregoing paragraph, section and
article of the Constitution of this State,
there is hereby created an additional
county, which county when created
shall be known as Candler County.
The territory for the formation of said
County of Candler shall be taken from
the Counties of Emanuel, Bulloch and
Tattnall, and the said territory so taken
for the formation of said new County
of Candler shall be included within the
following boundaries, to-wit:
Starting at the south of Ten-Mile
Creek where it empties into Canoochee
River, running in a northerly direction
upsaid river to Excelsior Bridge; thence
in a northerly direction straight course
to Lott’s Creek to a point one-quarter
of a mile above New Bridge; thence
along the line of Lott’s Creek to De-
Loach’s Pond, leaving DeLoach’s Pond
running in a northwesterly direction,
crossing the Bulloch and Emanuel
county lines, intersecting with the
Swainsboro and Statesboro public road
at D. B. Johnson’s place; thence in a
southwesterly direction to UnionSchool
House: thence in a southwesterly di
rection to'Cowart’s Mill Pond; thence
in 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 oi
Emanuel and Tattnall meet on Ilia
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
proposed amendment to the Constitu
tion is adopted, an election for the
county officers herein named in and for
said new county, to be held at the sev
eral election precincts existing within
the limits of said new county at the
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
cincts are located at the time of the
adoptiou of this amendment shall each
appoint the election managers for the
precincts in the counties in which he
shall exercise jurisdiction of ordinary
and the managers of the election shall
on the day succeeding the election meet
at the town of Metter, the place desig
nated as the county-seat of the new
county, and consolidate the vote for
the county offices, at such place w ithin
the limits of the town of Metter as
shall be designated by the judge of the
Superior Court of the Middle Circuit,
whose duty it is hereby made to de
signate the place of meeting of said
election managers within the corporate
limits of said town of Metter, and the
treneral laws now in force as to the con
solidation of the votes, the return of
the election and the commission of of
ficers shall be applicable to officers
elected at such special election herein
provided for: that the officers to ire
elected at said special electmn herein
provided for shall be an ordinary, a
clerk of the Superior Court, a sherifl, a
fax collector, a tax receiver, a coroner,
•i county surveyor and a county treas
;S??Sat said officers shall be commis
sioned as now required by law, and all
1 a ws no w in force in t his State to com mis
sion officers and for bonds required of
them shall be applicable to the officers
sn elected- that the officers elected at
said gerferal election shall hold their
until the next general election
for county offices and until their suc
cessors are elected and qualified.
The General Assembly is hereby gn
en power to create any additional stat
frto?v'officers in said county or statu-
Sfy couTts, and to provide by law for
L.i- . -oiH nttirps Any vacancies that
miv occur before''the next general elec
. r tv,** crested by ssid
comi 1 ty a may be filler! as now provided
b The said County of Candler shall lie
attached to the First Congressional
DiMrict, the Middle Judicial Circuit
and the Seventeenth Senatorial District
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 bylaw to change
the time of holding the courts and the
number of terms thereof. That thejus
tices of the peace and constables resid
ing in the territory included within the
new county of Candler shall exercise
the duties and pow-ers 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 in Chap
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 duly 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 be vo
ted on at the General Election to be held
on Tuesday, November .5, 1914, said
amendment providing for representa
tion in the House of Representatives
for counties not now provided for, ana
for other purposes:
By His Excellency,
John M. Slaton, Governor.
State of Georgia,
Executive Department,
August 12, 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 August
6. 1914, to-wit:
An \ct to amend Paragraph 1, of
Section 3, of Article 3, of the Constitu
tion of the ritate of Georgia by striking
the figures 184 therefrom and inserting
in place thereof the figuaes 189, so as
to provide for representation in the
House of Representatives for counties
not now provided for, and further by
striking from said paragraph the names
of the counties therein set out and in
serting in place thereof the names of
the counties mentioned in the re-ap
portionment act of the General Assem
bly of 1911, so that said paragraph \ul
conform to said re-apportioment and
'“sSSX'KS enacted <*-
eral Assembly of the State of Georgia,
and it is hereby enacted by authority
o the same, that Paragraph 1, of sec
tion 3, of Article 3, of the Constitution
be and the same is hereby amended >y
striking from the second line of said
paragraph the figures “184” and insert;
jTn in lieu thereof the figures “189,
and further by striking therefrom the
names of all counties therein specified,
and inserting in place of six counties
therein named as being entitled
to three representatives each
the following: “Fulton, Chatham,
Richmond, Bibb, Floyd and 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, DeKalb, Burke, Bulloch, Troup,
Hall, Walton, Bartow, Meriwether,
Emanuel, Lowndes, Elbert, Brooks,
Houston, Wilkes, Clarke and Ware,”
and further by adding at end of said
paragraph after the words, “and to the
remaining counties one representative
each,” thefollowing: “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 t. 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 twenty-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, Elbert,
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-wit: “For
ratification of an amendment to I ara
grapli 1, of Section 3, of Article ■>, oi
the Constitution (for providing for rep
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 l
graph 1, Section 3, of Article 3, 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. 3. Be it further enacted that all
laws and parts of laws in conflict with
this Act be, and they are, hereby re-
I>C \ow, therefore, I, John M. Slaton,
Governor of said State, do issue this
mv 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
Eelection to be held on Tuesday, No
vember 3, 1914.
John M. Bi.aton,
Governor.
By the Governor:
Philip Cook,
Secretary of State.
LEGAL ADVERTISE
MENTS
FOR ADMINISTRATION
Georgia —Butts County.
To Whom it may Concern:
J. C. and W. C. Redman, having made
application to me in due form to be ai>-
pointed permanent administrators up
on the estate of W. T. C. Redman, of
said county who died 28th day of May
1887. Notice is hereby given that said
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morning trains and our city delivery
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application will be heard at the regu
lar term of the court of Ordinary for
said county, to be held on the first
Monday in November, 1914.
Witness my hand and official signa
ture, this sth day of Oct. 1914.
J. H. Ham, Ordinary.
NOTICE OF SALE.
Georgia—Butts County
By virrue of an order from the Court
of ordinary of said County, will be sold
at public outcry on the first Tuesday
in November, 1914, at the Court house
door in said county, lietween the legal
hours of sale, the following real estate,
to-wit: That tract or parcel of land
lying and being in 010th district, G.
M., Butts County, Ga., bounded north
by lands of Mrs. I. B. Carmichael, east
by lands of J. L. Carmichael, south by
lands of Mrs. Ada Lou Spencer and
Towaliga river, west by Towaliga river
containing fifty acres more or less.
Also one acre of land in the 010th dis
trict, G. M., bounded north and east
by Mrs. Sallie A. Darkness, south by
S. J. Foster, west by Mrs. Ada Lou
Spencer. Terms Cash. This sth day
of October, 1914.
B. G. Cakmic'H A HI.,
Adrnr. of Estate of I. B. Carmichael.
Notice of Tax Levy 1914
County Commissioners Office,
September Term 1914.
It is hereby ordered by the Commis
sioner of Roads and Revenues of Butts
county that there lie levied and there
is hereby levied an advalorern tax on
all the real and personal property with
in the county of Butts for the sup
port and maintenance of the coun
ty’s business for the year 1914 in the to
tal sum of 13 mills ori the dollar, the
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rihone 8.
MISS EUNICE MOSS
PASSED AWAY FRIDAY
Miss Eunice Moss, aged 15,
died at the home of her brother,
Mr. H. E. Moss, near Cork, last
Friday. She had been an invalid
for many years and death resulted
from a complication of diseases.
The funeral took place Satur
day afternoon at Sandy Creek,
with short services at the grave.
Miss Moss is survived by her
brothers, a sister and other rela
tives.
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For the best flour try a sack of
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you will have it. Kinard’s,
phone 8.
several purposes for which levied being
as follows, to-wit:
1. For public road fund $ 4.00
2. For pauper fund 1.25
3. For bridges and public build
ing fund . - 5.50
4. For coroners fund DO
o. For sheriffs anti other officers,
etc., 1-00
For jurors fund 75
7. For litigation fund.. .20
8. For other lawful charges
against county. -25
$13.00
J. O. Gaston.
Commissioner Roads and Revenues,
Butts County, Georgia.